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...talent agent has become perhaps the most powerful figure in Hollywood. -- President Bush and Prime Minister Takeshita try to start off on the right foot...
...they don't hit it off, we're all in the soup," warned Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's former Prime Minister, as his successor prepared to meet President Bush last week. But there was little cause for worry. When Noboru Takeshita became the first foreign leader to hold a face-to-face meeting with the new President, the 2 1/2-hour session was as mild as Washington's 60 degrees F February weather. Gone were the threats of a trade war. Absent too was much of the anger that provided a harsh overtone for recent U.S.-Japanese summits. In their place...
...unlike the meetings between Nakasone and Ronald Reagan, who called each other Ron and Yasu, the Bush-Takeshita encounter produced few signs of rapport that could help defuse a new outbreak of tensions. The two appeared stiff and uncomfortable as they stood side by side in the White House Rose Garden after a lackluster working lunch with senior advisers. Said Bush, who will return the visit later this month when he attends the state funeral for Emperor Hirohito: "Simply put, we respect one another. We need one another." Replied Takeshita: "In your words, the new breeze is blowing, Mr. President...
Thomas A. Scully, spokesperson for the public relations company in Tokyo that handles the Japan Prize, said while in Japan, the two prize winners would probably meet with Emperor Akihito and possible Prime Minister Takeshita...
Bush's plan for the first weeks of his presidency is essentially a holding action. He has invited Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to Washington this week for the first meeting with a foreign leader. Bush will visit Korea and the People's Republic of China after attending the Feb. 24 funeral of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. Before then, the President will pop up to Canada on Feb. 10, the day after he delivers his budget speech on Capitol Hill. Explained a senior official: "We're getting out of town...