28 JANUARY 1984, page 10

A Patriot Passes

Murray Sayle Tokyo akuei Tanaka, the former Japanese .1./Prime Minister and current ruling strongman, may yet do time for his involve- ment in the long-running Lockheed scan-......

Too Many Midgets

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington I n 1822, two years before the next presidential election, Hezekish Miles, a visitor to Washington, wrote home astonished at `so great a buz......