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With him are two other worthy companions: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ieyasu’s mentor, and the great 12th-century warrior Minamoto no Yoritomo, who founded the Kamakura shogunate — and whom Ieyasu claimed as an ancestor.
We were unable to locate anyone who claimed to have shared the information.
In a column in the Times of London, William Rees-Mogg, the newspaper's conservative former editor, claimed a special understanding of the Kennedy clan because, "on my mother's side I come from a somewhat similar Irish-American family."
Protesters hailed it as a victory for their movement, which they claimed had turned public opinion against the WTO.
Each paper reports that the Clinton administration claimed moderate success and warned of possible strikes against terrorists in the near future.