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...AUSTIN POWERS Faux-spy told his second sequel's title, Goldmember, is too close to Goldfinger. Guess it's back to Man With the Golden Groin MIKE TYSON Brawling boxer denied license, is being investigated for rape. We're contemplating giving him a regular slot on this list MAKIKO TANAKA Fiery Foreign Minister gets canned by Koizumi. Taking on the bureaucrats was bad, but questioning her boss's hairstyle was too much...
...five Pakistan-based militants attempting to cross into Indian-held Kashmir in the first major incursion since Pakistan promised a crackdown on such groups. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rejected calls by Pakistan for new talks. JAPAN Cabinet Kerfuffle Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi scrambled to replace Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka after impetuously sacking her and her deputy following parliamentary squabbles. When former unhcr chief Sadako Ogata turned down the post, Koizumi appointed Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi after temporarily holding the portfolio himself. The Prime Minister?s approval rating plummeted during the crisis. MIDDLE EAST New Challenges For Israelis Thousands...
...passed from one generation to the next. So Koizumi's election should have been a slam dunk. Instead, he suffered an embarrassing defeat in Yokosuka, his family's parliamentary district. "His political base was fragile, because a lot of new people were moving into the urban areas," says Naoki Tanaka, an economist who now heads a Prime Ministerial advisory panel. "And at first, his speeches were not very good. He was very...
...involved answering the phone, greeting guests, running errands and even dusting Fukuda's shoes. It was Koizumi's political boot camp. His antiestablishment streak developed under Fukuda, himself a bright, squeaky-clean policy wonk who frequently took on the LDP's most powerful clique, headed by Kakuei Tanaka and filled with politicians with cozy ties to special interest groups like construction bosses, farmers and war veterans. This is the faction most dependent on pork-barrel politics, campaign war chests and the obtaining of government largesse and protectionism in exchange for votes. "Fukuda was insulated from all the pork-barreling...
...MAKIKO TANAKA The fiery Foreign Minister?nicknamed "Troublemaker"?is the last person Koizumi needs to handle the weakest part of his portfolio, foreign policy. She has infuriated career diplomats and bureaucrats and muffed some basic diplomatic forays Koizumi's plan: He can't dump her; she's too popular inside Japan. So he'll send her on more overseas trips and lean on her to tone down the trash talk Outlook: O.K. Nobody in Japan really cares about foreign policy, so Tanaka provides an entertaining, if raucous, diversion...