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  3. May  27, 1991: Died:Shintaro Abe
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  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991               
  7. May  27, 1991  Orlando                               
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 72
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  14. <p>     DIED. Shintaro Abe, 67, former Japanese Foreign Minister whose
  15. back-room clout made him a constant candidate for the prime
  16. ministership; of liver failure; in Tokyo. Known as the "Prince"
  17. of Japanese politics, Abe had to content himself with the role
  18. of kingmaker within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party after
  19. failing health and his implication in the Recruit influence-
  20. peddling scandal of 1988 relegated him to the sidelines of power.
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