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...Miki Grant's award-garnering musical has been all over the country--I first saw it years ago in Philadelphia--but it has arrived in Boston with its vigor and energy unsapped. The effect of the show is cumulative; by the end of the two hours, the Charles Playhouse's exhuberant cast has successfully bounced, exhorted and cajoled its audience through the entire gamut of black experience...
Still, the party and particularly Miki, its chief, should gain from Tanaka's arrest. With the Tanaka faction in disarray, Miki has eliminated his most serious rival within the party. Miki has been widely accused-with some justification-by his L.D.P. colleagues of lackluster leadership, and he could yet face a serious challenge before the election campaign. But his once sagging popularity is on the rise, and the Japanese, still no boat rockers despite their glee over Tanaka's fall, do not seem to be in a mood to turn in large numbers to any of the opposition...
...Clean. Disclosures about Lockheed bribes at the Church committee hearings in the Senate last winter galvanized many Japanese into feeling that wrongdoing in Japan could not simply be ignored. Then Takeo Miki, Tanaka's successor as Premier, promised to "get to the bottom of the affair." Though the pledge was dismissed by many in the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) as "pious hogwash," Miki's determination was genuine. In part, this was because Miki could only enhance his image as the "Mr. Clean" of Japanese politics by giving free reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime...
...small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italy's lame-duck Premier Aldo Moro, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki and Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...they are selling there. Political pressures are mounting for countermeasures. One of them could well be an increase in the exchange value of the yen to blunt the competitive edge of Japanese exports, a subject that doubtless was raised discreetly at the economic talks in Puerto Rico. Prime Minister Miki so far has argued that the situation is temporary and should redress itself as imports increase along with the domestic recovery...