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- WORLD, Page 35JAPANNumero Uno
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- The new top man pledges reform
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- The latest chapter in Japan's influence-peddling scandal
- came to a close last week as Foreign Minister Sousuke Uno was
- named Prime Minister. Uno replaces Noboru Takeshita, who
- resigned to save his ruling Liberal Democratic Party from
- further embarrassment over the scandal. Uno promised political
- reform and pledged to "regain the confidence of the people."
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- He'll have a way to go. Opposition leaders and some L.D.P.
- members have criticized the choice of Uno, a former member of
- the faction led by ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, during
- whose administration (1982-87) the Recruit Co. helped line
- politicians' pockets by offering to sell them stock in its real
- estate subsidiary at reduced rates before it went public. The
- next chapter of the Recruit scandal may be written when voters
- go to the polls next month to fill 126 seats in the upper house
- of the Diet.
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