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THE MORNING CAIX, Allentown, Monday, July 1972 478 Party Members Choose Leader of Japan Wednesday TOKYO (AP)-Money usually does the talking in the selection of a Japanese prime minister. But this time the candidates also are talking in the hottest race in recent history for the nation's top job. The four-way contest for lead- ership of this nation of 105 million will be decided Wednesday 478 members of the ruling Liberal Democratic party. This comparative handful meets in a one-day convention to choose a party president to sue- has not been in the postwar bureaucracy which bred most of Japan's prime ministers. But he is popular with millions of Japanese who began poor, as he did.

Neither he nor -the other candidates has Said whether they would do anything to eradicate party factionalism. The factions were created to channel big business contributions to the campaigns of individual Diet candidates. The faction leader, holding the purse strings, commands loyalty. The man with the ability to attract the biggest contributions usually has a major leg up on the presidential post. Not all the electors, of course, can be bought.

But many it appears, have their hands outstretched again. The Home Affairs Ministry reported that overall contribu prime minister. Because the election is an internal affair, unresponsive to public opinion, money was tended to count more than silver oratory in winning the votes of the 17 factions within the party for the new party leader. Once more the words "Nik-ka," "Suntory" and "Old Parr" have surfaced within the party. Brand names of Japanese and Scotch whiskies, they are the not-so-secret designations of party electors who can be bought.

"Nikka" refers to those who take money, or favor, from two of the party's factions, "Suntory" to those who take from three, and "Old Parr" to those who get their palms crossed by all. The codes appeared first in Sato's unsuccessful effort, in July 1964, to unseat Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, with Sato's backers doling out an estimated $3 million. But this year public clamor is calling for a change in the policies of the ruling party, which is conservative. Though Sato accomplished as much, or more, than any other postwar prime minister, he seemed to lack decisiveness in meeting the challenging issues of the day: recognition of China, frayed Japanese-American relations and rising living costs, Fukuda entered the race a favorite because of Sato's backing. But he now is beginning to find identification with his old mentor a handicap.

Many party members are saying that if he wins it will be more of the same. Tanaka, a bouncy, self-made man who scratched his way up from boyhood poverty, is regarded as more likely to adopt the bold policies needed to restore Japanese prestige abroad and economic stability at home. Fukuda, seeking to counter claims he will follow Sato's "stand pat" policy, announced he will go to Peking, once elected, to negotiate normalization of relations. Tanaka 54, is hampered by his relative youth in a political system which traditionally gives its richest plums to the old timers. Sato is 71, Fukuda 67, Miki 65 and Ohira 62.

Fukuda went to the best schools, came from a wealthy family and climbed the rungs of the bureaucratic ladder in accepted fashion. Tanaka not only did not attend the most prestigious universities, he didn't go to a university at all; His career and eight months in office, the two principal contenders, Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda and the international trade minister, Kakuei Tanaka, have been galloping neck-and neck down the home stretch. Lagging behind, but still hopeful, are former foreign ministers Takeo Miki and Masayoshi Ohira. Jockeying for the lead position In ordinary years would have been carried out behind the scenes, unembarrassed by declarations on national and international problems. The election involves only the Liberal-Democrats, the majority party in the Diet, Japan's parliament.

Since Sato's resignation involved no change in the majority, the party must pick a successor. The Diet is elected every four years. The leader of the victorious party becomes the tions in 1971 to all factions in the party totalled $14 million, a figure most agree represents only the tip of the iceberg. Fukuda 's faction got $2.2 million and Tanaka's slightly less, $2.1 million. Because the courts have ruled that the party presidential election is a private affair the Diet, or parliament, actually chooses the prime minister the wheelers and dealers do not come under the national laws on political corruption.

In the party voting, 431 Liberal-Democratic members of the Diet and 47 delegates from the prefectures will select the president. The prefecture delegates, usually unpredictable, are ardently wooed by the factions. ceed Prime Minister Eisaku Sato. The presidency automatically insures its holder direction of the government. He will be selected for the premiership by a special Diet meeting the following day.

Since Sato tearfully announced his resignation on June 17 after a record seven years OPEN MONDAY 10-10 OPEN TUESDAY 12-6 (JULY 4th) -Deadline for Chess Play 7Z A Civilian S. S. If i Given to U.S. Challenger vnv7nin in rrr3 ference where he announced the decision on the- postponement, Euwe said: "I think there will be no play at all That is my personal opinion." Euwe had said earlier that cancellation would be "a great Joss in many respects for the iim Icelandic organizers who have a great investment at stake and lor the game of chess itself." Americans claiming to repre sent Fischer here did not want 19-M. LAWN MOWER QLn) Co) 3 Fischer disqualified.

"One of the troubles is that there is no one here who can act on the authority of Fischer," Euwe added. i "The situation is extremely difficult." By his tone Euwe seemed to favor the alternative he described as "just postponing the first game for two days. And if Fischer is not here by Tuesday Reg. 45.95 aJ 2 Days LT LJ i CO) BOBBY FISCHER BORIS SPASSKY REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer was given a Tuesday noon deadline on Sun film and television rights. This alone was 10 times greater than any prize money ever paid to a chess player.

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Sunday. Euwe said a friend of the American challenger was leaving for New York "to talk with him." "He will try to convince him to appear. I can't say who it is," he added. Fischer refused to play the match after officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation balked at his last-minute demands for more money, in addition to a record purse already contracted for. Fischer and Spassky were to have a guaranteed share of $125,000 the winner taking five-eighths plus 30 per cent each of income from the sale of cal of confusion surrounding preparations for the match, the federation doctor, Ulfar Thor- darson, left for his country speak for Fischer, said he had house early Sunday morning.

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