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...detentions marked a fresh turn in the Recruit scandal, the spreading stock-for-influence deal that has already claimed three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Shinto stands accused of taking $70,000 in bribes in the form of stock profits from heavily discounted shares of a Recruit Co. subsidiary. In return, the former NTT boss allegedly helped the fast-growing employment-and-communications firm break into the telecommunications business...
...Prime Ministers of countries ranging from France to Saudi Arabia to Singapore. But since he was unprepared to get into matters of substance, many of the meetings lasted only 15 to 25 minutes, including opening pleasantries and time for translation. In a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, Bush refrained from discussing in detail such key topics as trade and sharing the defense burden. In China, where Bush stopped Saturday and Sunday, his visit mostly renewed friendships dating back to his residence there as U.S. envoy in the mid-1970s. The entire basis of the relationship between...
Bush, on his first overseas trip as U.S. chief executive, met for lunch with French President Francois Mitterrand. He also met with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita; King Hussein of Jordan; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak; Chaim Herzog, president of Israel and leaders from from Portugal and Thailand...
...Takeshita consulted with 12 leaders, including Phillippine President Corazon Aquino; President Richard von Weizsaecker of West Germany and Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's prime minister. He plans to meet with nearly 40 heads of state or government before the weekend is over...
...While Takeshita's popularity at home has been weakened by the adoption of a 3% consumption tax that he championed and a stock scandal that forced the resignation of three Cabinet members, he has been successful in expanding Japan's role as a global philanthropist. Among the signs: a planned 7.8% increase in Japan's foreign-aid budget. The growth will lift Japanese overseas assistance to $9.6 billion for fiscal 1989, and should propel Japan past the U.S. as the world's top donor...