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...Once everyone gets to know him, then he seems like a member of the co-op," said Tanaka, "and a pretty upstanding one at that...
...definitely not a bum," adds Atau Tanaka '85. "Although he seems that way to people at first. Tanaka explains, "he's financially quite responsible, he's not freeloading off anyone, he's not begging...
Paine lets co-op members use his van to pick up food orders and helps with the co-op chores. One night this October someone asked Paine to fill in as cook and according to Tanaka, he cooked "the best dinner at the co-op"--"a roaring success of a chicken dinner...
Ever since Tanaka was convicted last month of accepting $2 million in bribes from the Lockheed Corp. a decade ago, more than 200 members of the opposition, dominated by the Socialists, have boycotted parliament, demanding his expulsion. Tanaka is no longer officially a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), but he still controls the largest bloc of the party's deputies in the 511-seat House of Representatives. Indeed Tanaka's influence is so strong in L.D.P. circles that without his support Nakasone would not have been chosen as Prime Minister. Thus Nakasone runs the risk...
...effort to find a solution acceptable to all sides, Nakasone ar ranged a private meeting with his political mentor in a Tokyo hotel suite. As the tearful Prime Minister later told party leaders, he did not ask Tanaka outright to give up his seat in parliament, but "I believe what I meant to say was understood." If so, Tanaka ignored the hint. He has resolutely refused to resign and has vowed to take his case to the supreme court...