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pages in the same edition.
6. Finally, Mr Murata made the point, known to us, that the LDP had been heading for some years towards a position where it would have to rely to some extent on a coalition partner
The double election in 1986 had been an to continue to rule.
The party to aberration as far as this trend was concerned. which the LDP would most naturally turn would of course be the DSP, always assuming that it survived in a recognisable form.
John Whitehead
2 August 1989
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