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the majority needed to
win on a first ballot
dent Friday from among Obuchi, have been looking for a zealous
former Chief Cabinet Secretary reformer.
The three candidates laid out extensive economic reform, said
their proposals for nursing the his administration would aim for which ends in September 1999.
dent Mohammad Khatami’s elec-
tion campaign last year — has
been at the center of the tug-of-
war between the competing fac-
tions in Iran’s Islamic govern-
ment, headed by Khatami and
the country’s hard-line supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The verdict against him was a
victed Tehran’s reformist mayor show of force by Khamenei’s
Thursday and sentenced him to hard-liners, who showed they
five years in prison for corrup- wield considerable power despite
tion, another twist in the strug- their crushing defeat during
gle between Iran’s moderate
president and his hard-line polit-
ical rivals.
tion and traffic jams.
He made enemies among
Khatami’s election. two years for misappropriation of wealthy businessmen by raising
The trial featured often emo- government money. taxes but was a hero to ordinary
Karbaschi has denied stealing Iranians such as Mohammed
Gholamhossein Karbaschi baschi and Judge Gholamhossein any government money.
also was banned from holding Mohseni Ejaei — who under the
public office for 20 years and sen- law also acts as prosecutor.
tenced to 60 lashes, but the court
suspended the flogging because
the United States.
Besides bringing Karbaschi to
trial, the hard-liners recently
impeached the interior minister,
another Khatami ally.
Since Karbaschi took over as
Tehran’s mayor in 1989, he had
built a reputation as a no-non-
sense administrator, building
roads, sports facilities and parks
Mohammed Qaraat in a city once known for its pollu-
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premiership in an upcoming Par-
liament vote.
Surveys of the party showed ly
Obuchi, a former foreign minister,
within striking distance of the Obuchi, 61, por- I
majority needed to win on a first trayed himself I
ballot. If no candidate wins a as the only
TOKYO — Political old guard majority — 208 of the 414 LDP choice with the
favorite Keizo Obuchi bolstered members voting — a run-off will
his lead in the race for prime min- be held immediately.
ister, wrapping up his campaign
3 percent annual growth — a
turnaround for an economy that
shrank for the first time in two berg's project to film 50,000 inter-
decades in the fiscal year that views with World War II Holocaust
ended in March. survivors and witnesses is nearing
Koizumi, 56, a maverick its goal, the project leader said
backed by younger dissident law- Thursday.
makers, vowed to implement Since Spielberg launched the
drastic reforms of the political endeavor four years ago, it has
system, including cutting the amassed 46,600 interviews, total-
number of Parliament members ing almost 100,000 hours of mate-
and government bureaucrats rial.
nearly in half. The project, spawned by Spiel-
The three are battling to take berg's Oscar-winning movie
Qaraat, a soft-drink seller who
Since Khatami’s election, criticized Thursday’s verdict.
ultraconservatives have fought “If he was so bad, then why
On Thursday, Ejaei said Kar- back as he tried to relax the was he allowed to remain in
baschi would remain free on bail strict Islamic rules governing life office for nearly nine years?”
of his social standing, karbaschi until he decides whether to in Iran, encourage a more liberal Qaraat asked.
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A win for Obuchi — seen as an ing to get the quitting last week.
Thursday by pledging to pull LDP loyalist, but not a brilliant job done. He
Japan out of its worst recession in innovator — would mark a victory also reiterated pledges for a $42.6
decades with tax cuts and bank- for the party’s longtime power billion income tax cut and $70.9 over from Prime Minister Ryutaro Schindler's List, has no commer-
ing reforms. brokers over younger dissidents billion in new spending to jump- Hashimoto, who announced last cial aims. When completed, it will
The ruling Liberal Democratic who have called for more dynamic start economic growth and spur week he was quitting after the be made available to schools,
Party was to choose a party presi- leadership. Discontented voters lagging consumption. LDP was trounced in July 12 elec- libraries and other users around
Kajiyama, 72, the favorite of tions for the upper house of Par- the world.
the markets for his backing of liament. His successor will finish
out his term as party president,
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King, Claudia. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 82, No. 211, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1998, newspaper, July 24, 1998; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1820490/m1/7/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed July 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.