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...must expect to dip into even hotter water." So said Premier Masayoshi Ohira last week, after he narrowly won a bruising struggle in the Diet to hang on as leader of Japan's majority government. "The Bull," as Ohira is known, might be feeling plenty of new heat soon. Though he fended off a strong challenge from his archrival, former Premier Takeo Fukuda, he now finds himself at the top of not only a shaky regime but also a divided party...
Former Premier Takeo Miki demanded that Ohira step down as Premier and party leader, and his call was soon echoed by Fukuda, whom Ohira had ousted as Premier last December. But the Bull refused to quit, thus triggering a fierce party struggle. At first, says one L.D.P. Diet member, "we thought that it was like any fight between father and mother. It would get serious, but in the end there would be no divorce." Yet as the days went by, all attempts at compromise proved fruitless...
Seeking to keep that notion alive, the Foreign Ministers of the other Andean countries issued a statement expressing their "confidence" that Bolivia would soon return to "democratic and harmonious national comity." The only way to achieve that may be Coup...
Schmidt's government has expressed sympathy for the gypsies' cause; one official has urged it to settle the compensation issue "promptly and generously." If that does not happen soon, some gypsies are prepared to take further steps to underscore their grievances. One tactic under consideration: inviting arrest by tearing down signs barring gypsies from campsites in the hope that it might lead to a court ruling affirming the full equality of a people still searching for a place to call home...
Venturesome companies are betting millions on shale as they plunge deep into development projects that could soon foster a new energy industry. TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers reports from the heart of the U.S. shale country...