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...resume the talks. With the presidency of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party up for election in December and rival candidates calling for the treaty with China for both trade and security reasons, Fukuda needed a foreign policy coup to bolster his position. The Russians responded again with a stiff protest. In a letter to Fukuda, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev warned that Soviet policy toward Japan might be seriously affected if Tokyo signed the document. This time the warning was ignored. Said Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda: "Japan will not tolerate instructions from another country on the conduct of its policies...
...faces stiff competition in the September 19 Democratic primary from Dukakis (who is wowing crowds in his "Blizzard of '78" sweater) and from Ed King (former Massport director and All-American footballer). Operating on a shoestring budget (her sevenmember staff receives just $500 a week), Ackermann must compete with the media blitzes and black-tie fund-raisers of King and the "Duke." "Massachusetts voters are very sophisticated," says the former Cambridge mayor and veteran of five years on the Cambridge School Committee and ten on the Cambridge City Council. "Often, it's those who didn't go to Harvard...
...crush your limbs, but you are reluctant to take his hand when he offers it. You know Arok's master is putting words in his mouth from across the room through a microphone in an attache´ case-sized control panel, but you find yourself interviewing him with stiff formality. You know his name is Arok, but you want to call him sir. Your palms grow moist, and the room suddenly seems very small. When you point out with exaggerated amiability that his digital watch is an hour slow, he snaps, "That's Mars time, dummy." He does...
...Minister has consistently outpointed his Tory challenger. As if in recognition of a tough election fight ahead, Callaghan has begun to launch a few harpoons at his rival. Borrowing from Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, for example, the Prime Minister has scoffed at Thatcher in the Commons as "Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long." Thatcher, who can indeed be starchy at times, gave an uninspired response to that pointed sally, in which she dismissed as "a little optimistic" any hopes of hearing "an intellectual argument" from Callaghan. Tory backbenchers listened...
Everywhere the cult of personality prevails. Some stiff-necked resistance comes from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who argues for the public's right not to know, "not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk." His own American experience illustrates the difference between gossip and "personality" journalism: though an authentic personality, Solzhenitsyn is allowed his right to privacy. There is less of journalistic prying now, even though gossip and gossip columning are still around. Gossip flourishes particularly in Washington, where political hypocrisy still lends savor to misbehavior. More familiar nowadays are volunteered surrenders of privacy. Celebrityhood lives...