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- <title>
- Mar. 25, 1991: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> Japanese politicians are addicted to consensus, so it's no
- surprise that by the time the nation's legislators approved a
- $9 billion contribution to the gulf effort, the war was over
- and troops were on their way home. Last week allied commanders
- took silent note of the tardy assistance when Liberal
- Democratic Party secretary Ichiro Ozawa was abruptly forced to
- cancel a trip to the Middle East. Ozawa, touted as a future
- Japanese Prime Minister, found it difficult to secure
- appointments with top officials in Saudi Arabia. He also found
- that military commanders were suddenly too busy to find him a
- place on a flight into Kuwait. The silent treatment let Tokyo
- know the allies are in no mood to accommodate Japanese
- politicians with a yen to horn in on postwar celebrations.
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- </body></article>
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