Word: tanaka
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...imposing gates of No. 1-19-12 in Tokyo's exclusive Mejiro district. When the car stopped at a large villa, two men got out, showed their identification at the door and asked to see the master of the house. Within a few hours, bull-necked Kakuei Tanaka, 58, Premier of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and still regarded as the tough, calculating "computerized bulldozer" of his country's dominant political party, had been booked at a police station and signed into a cell at the Tokyo House of Detention. There he was to undergo further questioning...
...Vice President Shiina is well aware that in the public mind, efforts to dump Miki are seen as part of a Lockheed cover-up by a party that only two years ago was jolted by the worst scandal in its history-the resignation of Miki's predecessor Kakuei Tanaka after disclosures of large-scale corruption...
...much Miki tries to take his case to the public, he still has the faction leaders to contend with. After all, he benefited from sealed-room politics in 1974, when the L.D.P. bosses, rocked by scandal, and factionalism, turned to him as a compromise candidate to succeed the disgraced Tanaka. Now, too, compromise could be the key concept. One possible outcome of the entire affair: party leaders would agree to let Miki stay in office until the Lockheed investigation is concluded-but only if he agrees to step down as Premier before the general elections...
...electric power. The party's hawkish right wing blocked Miki's attempts to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Miki seemed weak and ineffective; there were whispers that prior to the next elections he might be replaced as party boss by a stronger man-possibly even Tanaka...
...Lockheed disclosures changed all that. Miki still has his reputation for integrity; he has never been associated with the right-wing, big money elements in the party. Thus it now seems virtually certain that he will serve out his full term as party leader, until 1977. Tanaka, on the other hand, has apparently had his wings clipped once again. The brash, unrepentant politician promised the nation a full answer to questions about his financial dealings when he resigned in 1974, but no explanation has ever come forth. He is still rich, head of his party's biggest faction...