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Moreover, opponents are threatening a prolonged talkathon that could drag on into next year's presidential primary season. If so, demands would rise that a vote be put off until after the elections. Altogether, it was an unhappy week for SALT backers, who could echo King Pyrrhus:"Another such victory and I shall be ruined...
Ohira's troubles began with Japan's Oct. 7 election. Over the objections of other members of his Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), he had called the vote eleven months earlier than he had to in hopes of increasing his strength in the Diet's 511-member lower house. But some frank talk by Ohira about higher taxes frightened voters, and the party's representation in the Diet slipped by one seat...
When the Diet finally reassembled last week, it faced a situation unprecedented in Japan's 33-year postwar parliamentary history: two candidates from the same party, Ohira and Fukuda, vying for the premiership. Elected on the second ballot by a 17-vote margin, Ohira owed his victory to the support of a conservative breakaway party, the New Liberal Club. The win did little to enhance Ohira's stature, either in the Diet or in his own party. Fumed one L.D.P. member: "At first, I didn't think he should resign, but later I decided he should...
...most significant thing the public did last week was to give a rousing vote of confidence to Daniel arap Moi, 55. Arap Moi has been Kenya's President since the death 14 months ago of Jomo Kenyatta, the autocratic old warrior who secured the East African country's inde pendence from Britain in 1963 and ruled it like a benign colonial governor ever after. Not only did Arap Moi run without opposition in his own district,* but many old Kenyatta regime holdovers were ousted. Arap Moi will now be free to put his own imprint on Kenya...
...Carter calls the "thin line of oil tankers stretching halfway around the earth to one of the most unstable regions in the world." The drive to gain some freedom from OPEC by developing domestic energy sources has never been more pressing. Last week the Senate easily adopted by a vote of 65 to 19 a $20 billion synthetic-fuel program that, among other things, would turn the nation's vast coal deposits into oil and gas. But of all the old and new sources of petroleum now being freshly examined, none is more promising or as controversial...