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...last week, after he narrowly won a bruising struggle in the Diet to hang on as leader of Japan's majority government. "The Bull," as Ohira is known, might be feeling plenty of new heat soon. Though he fended off a strong challenge from his archrival, former Premier Takeo Fukuda, he now finds himself at the top of not only a shaky regime but also a divided party...
Former Premier Takeo Miki demanded that Ohira step down as Premier and party leader, and his call was soon echoed by Fukuda, whom Ohira had ousted as Premier last December. But the Bull refused to quit, thus triggering a fierce party struggle. At first, says one L.D.P. Diet member, "we thought that it was like any fight between father and mother. It would get serious, but in the end there would be no divorce." Yet as the days went by, all attempts at compromise proved fruitless...
...first two weeks of April had seen a wave of Communist attacks on Cambodian towns and communications. On Tuesday, April 21, Communist forces struck the town of Takeo and cut the road between it and Phnom-Penh. The North Vietnamese were systematically expanding their sanctuaries and merging them into a "liberated zone." If these steps were unopposed, the Communist sanctuaries would be organized into a single large base area. By April 21 the basic issue was whether Vietnamization was to be merely an alibi for an American collapse or a serious strategy designed to achieve an honorable peace...
...Frankly," admitted a stunned Premier Takeo Fukuda, "I was astounded." "It was a surprise to me, too," aid Masayoshi Ohira, secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.). What startled them and their countrymen last week was the result of a four-way race for Fukuda's job as the leader of the L.D.P. and, therefore, of Japan's government. Though the experts had forecast a dull election in which the urbane Fukuda, 73, would easily win a second term, he was thoroughly whipped by Ohira, 68, a deliberate, unassuming technocrat known in Japanese politics...
Ohira replaced Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda as the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in party elections last week...