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WORLD, Page 35JAPANNumero UnoThe new top man pledges reform
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."
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.