Yasu's last stand? (Yasuhiro Nakasone) (Asia)

The Economist (US) | February 10, 1990 | Copyright

Yasu's last stand?

TO BE re-elected is to be purified--not only reinstated but forgiven. That is how the politicians tainted by last year's Recruit shares-for-favours scandal are thinking about the election on February 18th. It accounts for the fervour, indeed emotion, with which many of the party's most senior figures are contesting seats that they used to take entirely for granted. Mr Noboru Takeshita, for instance, who had to resign as prime minister last summer, rushed off the moment parliament was dissolved on January 24th to campaign in his Shimane-ken ...

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