Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, before the Japanese worker had much of a chance to either save his new-found wealth or spend it on the television sets and tape recorders that he makes, doubts spread as to whether anyone had really won any thing worthwhile. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka warned that the big pay raises could set off a vicious wage-price spiral that would boomerang against consumers and threaten Japan's competitiveness in world markets. The workers themselves, who had gone so far as to stage a two-day transportation strike to press their demands, concede gloomily that most...
...limited to Europe. In Israel, Premier-elect Yitzhak Rabin is struggling to form a coalition government capable of taking his divided and war-disillusioned nation into a new era. In Australia, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was forced to call new elections this week. In Japan, meanwhile, Premier Kakuei Tanaka seems to be slipping steadily in public opinion and within his Liberal Democratic Party...
...inside Soviet territory. Among other things, it would carry Siberian oil to ports for export to Japan. The Chinese are probably worried by the idea of a railroad, which also could be used to carry troops and arms. Japanese relations with China have been improving recently, and Premier Kakuei Tanaka is unlikely to do anything to jeopardize that budding friendship...
...after a prolonged and painful bout with what is suspected to have been multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow). At week's end, nearly 70 of the world's leaders, including Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and the Duke of Edinburgh, flew to Paris to pay him final tribute. There, in the Gothic splendor of Notre Dame Cathedral, Francois Cardinal Marty, Archbishop of Paris, celebrated the memorial Mass. Among the dignitaries was President Nixon, who stayed...
...there been such delirium at Tokyo International Airport. A record crowd of more than 4,000 was on hand to greet the returning hero as he flew home from Manila. Press helicopters hovered outside his Tokyo hospital window, while newspapers devoted full-page spreads to him. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka personally took writing brush in hand to inscribe ten poetic characters. The message: "The air of a heavenly hero will prove awesome through a thousand autumns...