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...Phnom-Penh, troops were everywhere last week. Tanks and armored cars guarded the Defense Ministry and the main post office. Sandbags were piled around entrances to military installations. In the capital's streets, student volunteers performed military drills. In the countryside, tension remained high. In Takeo, site of a large pro-Sihanouk demonstration, the assistant governor told TIME Correspondent David Greenway how the Viet Cong stir up support for the deposed prince, who is now reported to be in Hanoi conferring with North Vietnamese leaders. "At night the Viet Cong come to the villages and play tape recordings...
...toughest role to cast was that of the top seadog, Admiral Yamamoto, who engineered the Pearl Harbor attack and is still a hero to many Japanese. The part finally went to an ex-army private, Takeo Kagitani, who is now the 56-year-old president of Takachiho Trading Co. (1967 sales: $27.7 million). Kagitani had no trouble getting a leave from his board. He owns some 90% of the stock in his com pany, which imports Burroughs business machines. The executive cropped his hair in the military style and visited Yamamoto's grave near Tokyo to offer his prayers...
Asians, says Japan's Foreign Minister Takeo Miki, must work together on "a blueprint for the construction of peace." Behind that message lies the fact that the Viet Nam war-with its massive in flux of U.S. dollars-has had a major economic impact on non-Communist Asia. With peace a distinct, if still distant possibility, the challenge confronting Asians is to gird their war-swollen economies for a more enduring-and healthier-resurgence...
...Make sure you separate your public and private life," Sato warned each appointee. Among the new faces: State Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 47, an economist who will double as director of the economic planning agency; Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta, 61, a proponent of greater capital investment in industry; Foreign Minister Takeo Miki, 59, an advocate of increased Japanese aid and development projects in the rest of Asia...
...dwindled, Honda began building his own, and the groundwork for the present-day company was completed. Honda incorporated in 1948 with working capital of $2,777 and 34 employees. Cycle sales accelerated, the company grew, but Honda quickly tired of administrative and marketing chores, eventually turned them over to Takeo Fujisawa, an intense sales executive who has since risen to vice president and managing director of the company...