JAPANESE PREMIER PLEDGES TO END TANAKA'S INFLUENCE (original) (raw)
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- Dec. 25, 1983
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Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in a statement designed to insure his continuation in office, today attributed his party's poor showing in parliamentary elections to the controversy over former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
He pledged to ''eliminate completely'' Mr. Tanaka's influence over party politics. Mr. Tanaka was convicted in October of accepting $2 million in bribes from the Lockheed Corporation while he was in office from 1972 to 1974.
A party spokesman, Sadao Endo, said senior members of Mr. Nakasone's Liberal Democratic Party had endorsed the statement, worked out between the Prime Minister and other party leaders Friday.
With party approval of the statement, Mr. Nakasone appeared to have smoothed over intense internal friction and to have won the support of the heads of the major party factions.
Mr. Endo said the maneuver meant Mr. Nakasone would almost certainly be renamed party president and Prime Minister when Parliament convenes Monday. ''With this statement, the conflict within the party has come to an end,'' Mr. Endo said. Opposition Is Skeptical
But opposition parties expressed skepticism about the statement, and the Japan Socialist Party dismissed it as a ''compromise with no solution.''
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