The World - News from May 22, 1986
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The secretary general of Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party reportedly declared support for simultaneous elections for both houses of Parliament, a move regarded as favorable to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in his quest for an unprecedented third term. Nakasone is said to feel that by combining elections, he can win such an impressive mandate that the Liberal Democrats would pick him as party president, and thus another term as prime minister. Party rules now bar a third term.
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