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...marital and familial ties. Six of the 20 Cabinet ministers, including Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama, are sons of former Diet members. Former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and L.D.P. kingmaker Shin Kanemaru are related through the marriage of their children. Former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, a son of a parliamentarian, is married to the daughter of former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. In the upcoming elections, the sons of former Prime Ministers Takeo Fukuda and Zenko Suzuki hope to succeed their fathers in the Diet...
...Gorbachev gamely struggled to maintain an appearance of normality. Just back from his vexing three-day visit to Lithuania, where he failed to persuade nationalists to curb their secessionist demands, he aimed to project the air of a competent crisis manager. He received former Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe and met with U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who encountered protesters in Moscow holding up signs that read GORBACHEV, HISTORY WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU FOR THE BLOODSHED IN AZERBAIJAN...
...enough to declare victory, his razor-thin lead had stabilized about where it would end up: just 6,582 votes out of a record 1.78 million ballots cast. That was enough, however, for Virginia's Governor-elect to declare proudly, "As a boy, when I would read about an Abe Lincoln or a Thomas Jefferson . . . when I would read that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights . . . I knew it meant...
...country where only three females have ever held Cabinet posts, the appointments seemed a welcome change. But the L.D.P. still has a way to go in reforming itself. Kaifu, 58, attained his office by deal-making with ousted leaders Noboru Takeshita and Shintaro Abe; in return for their help, Kaifu awarded their factions powerful Cabinet positions. And Kaifu was already bedeviled by unfounded rumors of sexual misconduct...
Kaifu is little known except for his oratorical talent and his pleasant personality. Those were exactly the qualifications that appealed to such influential L.D.P. members as Takeshita and former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe. They see Kaifu as young and attractive enough to appeal to the public but docile enough to heed his elders. Anyone more outspoken could threaten the delicate balance among the party's four major factions, which operate like separate clubs and compete for Cabinet posts...