CONTENTS

POLITICS
*Koganei City Assembly says election must be free from obstructions; LDP and Komei opposing
*LDP presidential candidates are Yasukuni Shrine worshipers
*Six opposition parties/groups jointly denounce LDP's partisan politics
*All JCP candidates in 5 city assembly elections get seats
*JCP Ichida criticizes Koizumi's "structural reform" as anti-people policy

TEXTBOOK
*Asian criticism of rightist textbook is not interference: JCP Yoshioka

CONSTITUTION
*Majority upholds Article 9 in local hearing on the Constitution

ECONOMIC POLICY
*JCP parliamentarian discusses economic crisis with Kansai business leaders
*JCP emergency economic package proposed to 23,000 organizations

U.S. FORCES
*Roppongi residents call for withdrawal of U.S. base
*Demo flights by U.S. helicopters reveal loud noise around new U.S. base site in Okinawa
*U.S. 'exhibition flights' canceled by local resistance
*U.S. sailor suspected of committing assault runs away

PEACE
*Gensuikyo petitions for legislation of Three Non-Nuclear Principles
*Gensuikyo calls for successful 2001 World Conference against A and H Bombs

LABOR
*'End LDP-Komei Government' is common call for this year's May Day
*NTT three-year plan to trim 30,000 personnel
*Symposium shows excessive workload on medical and transport workers
*Use ministry directive to eliminate unpaid overtime: Akahata editorial
*Workers in Toyota and affiliates struggle for eliminating unpaid overtime
*Nestle blackmails workers into quitting

ENERGY
*'Plutonium-only' nuclear energy policy must be abandoned: Akahata

INTERNATIONAL
*JCP's message to Communist Party of Vietnam 9th Congress