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Show V 1 0 A The Salt Ukf Tribune, Sunday, April , ' J, Mansfield a 1973 the diplomatic circuit here, Mike Mansfield, former TOKYO U S. (UP- D- On Senate majority leader, comes across as a crusty, But the Japanese don't mind a American. bit they know hes got the clout to pick up the phone, if necessary, and get President Carter on the line. And in a country where power is measured In terms of influence, Mansfield is proving to be one of the most effective am- bassadors the United States has ever sent to Tokyo. 4 C ',$$ r I Peter Diamondstone, left, stands with wife, Horis, three children, family dog in Dia- - New Anoclatad Pmt Photo I mondstones backyard in Brattleboro, Vt. Diamondstone refuses to clean up the yard. "Ambassador Mans- Omono (big shot)," said one Japanese foreign ministry official. "All Japanese government officials have a high respect for him. His presence here is regarded by us to mean that the United States considers Japan field is an No-Nonse- Mansfield, 74, stepjied down as Senate majority-leadeearly in 1977 and retired to Florida. Call From President But shortly after Carter moved into the White House, Mansfield got a telephone call from the president who asked him to become ambassador to r Japan. Mansfield says he hesitated only briefly before he agreed. By June he in the Embassy was residing American here. Mansfield is the first to admit that he has had to learn a lot about his job. He says he depends heavily on the Embassy staff to guide him through the diplomatic intricacies incumbent in an Embassy the size of the one in Tokyo. Mansfield has also discovered that as a diplomat he is working a two-wa- y street He not Yorker in Vermont Junkyard Battleground for Individualism Editor's Nets Vermonters havo Iona boon known for their flinty personalities and their ardent advocacy oI privacy and individualism. Peter and Deris Diamond-ston- e arrived bt Vermont front Mew York a decade aeo and have been plttina their own rueeed Indtvkbralism aebinst Vermont laws ever since. The obiecl at the tight: An automobile lunkyard. d When Peter By Nancy Shulins in BrattlebAssociated Press Writer Vt. oro in 1968 with five used FjRATTLEBORO, tow it was to It looks tame enough cars in a vacation from his. enjoy of snow few fk (bmps Long Island law practice, beside a disheveled house. But this is no to write a. book and work on his cars. He decided to ordinary lawn. ". Here lies the Brattleb- stay. Town Controversy oro Conservatory of Junk and Justice Vermonts Today, the, name most celebrated junk- Diamondstone is yard and the front yard synonymous with small of Peter and Doris towm controversy that Diamondstone. Beneath pits traditionally crusty the snow sit partly Vermonters against an Diamond-stonoarrive- yel-lo- Eldorados, Sa$bs and Chrysler that have been a source of coiftention in this southeastern Vermont town forJlO years. equally crusty New Yorker. It also is synonymous with the Liberty Union Party, Vermont's third official political party, founded by the Diamond-- , a cat snoozes in a basket of fruit In the stones. The party operliving room, Doris disates statewide from a, penses mittens and hats she mailing list the Diamond-stone- s to waiting children as Van Gogh say has 1,000 has four and Roosevelt stare icily nomptf The problem is at each other from their spots on the respective conservation yard. if wall. which you please In July of 1968, graces the center of I Diamondstone says, town. Diamondstone out an ad in says he uses the cars for took on Moon Shot tie Day that paper spare parts say my office would theyre for family use to I and beyond the purview not be closed because commemorate not would and of the law; the state mil-iotown say Diamondstone the expenditure of of dollars while peomust clean up, regardple on earth were without less. food, clothing and shelTypical Saturday ter. I got fired. He later was reinstatedOn a typical Saturday-insidthe ramshackle Fired Again' house a mile from Intersin May 19T0, he Then, tate 91, three Saint BerI told the Poor says, nards collide with a visitors who vie for Peoples Congress in a speech at Middlebury a seat at the breakfast table or a spot in line at College that might makes right. I got fire the bathroom door. junkyard - half-doze- n again." Meanwhile, the law Coffee cups rattle and in the kitchen. clatter began to ponder Diamondstone8 junk- yard. The law is still and the cars pondering are still there. But a lot has happened in between. Diamondstone has enfour and lost tered campaigns for state attorney general. Doris Diamondstone lost a bid for U.S. House seat. He has appeared in court 20 times, on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to driving an unregistered vehicle. "But Ive never intenbroken the law tionally, he says. Court Appearances Of the 20 or so times Ive been in court. Ive pleaded guilty about five times. And I really believe that most of the enemies Ive made in this town are people who dont know me. As a member of toe Liberty Union Party, Diamondstone says, he is a firm believer in "less centralization and more local control right down to the individual. In other words, if you dont like the looks of my yard, don't look at "It's it. an old. traditional American philosophy," Diamondstone says, and one that does not seem to set well with his neighbors. At a meeting in Brattleboro this fall, the Diamondstones did their best to explain this philosophy to the townspeople. I found myself comparing our junkyard to the repression of art in other countries, says Doris. "Its embarrassing to think about it now I really don't see junk as art. But there is a principal here. Other people have little plastic ducks in their yards. We have and people real ducks cant handle that. rs We can do any tax return. from the short form to W. th8 very complex. Block HEWLETT PACKARD HR-2- 2 Retired People Self Employed Farm Salesmen Partnership" Construction Corporations Estate-Gi- ft Tax indispensable management tool that lets you perform easily, quickly and dependably . . . virtually every computation you need in modem business management from simple arithmetic to complex time values or money problems to planning, forecasting and decision analysis. An COMPUTES: S Annuities Rate of Return Discount cash flow H&R BLOCK' Remaining Balance Wf WfU BEAT Aceaaaanai S ix) Compound interest Amortization and many more. umoort HBCl (N to totek to toMr Mat cany to, caavtoto Ito to ItoatoS aat tart 4 Tana aaa Uatcwatara Japans interests are (X) (x) m n reaction de- to the veloping here detriment of both countries. "Its been about as difficult a year, I think, in Japan-U.relations that weve both gone through, Mansfield said in an interview. "But fortunately weve been able to maintain goodI will, understanding see difficulties from time to time, but I hope weve developed a mutual un- ... derstanding." Those difficulties have centered on the huge trade surplus Japan has built up with the United States. It was estimated as $8.5 billion last year and that bulge has been primarily' responsible for the drastic rise m value of the yen, as opposed to the steep drop in the value of the dollar. Increase Export Efforts Mansfield has been instrumental in efforts to reduce trade frictions between the two countries. But he has found it necessary on occasion to remind the Americans that, they too have a role in evening out the trade, primarily in increasing floor of a Mike Mansfield Has Clout face up to the fact that certain of the OPEC (In- temational Oil Cartel) have been countries making noises about getting off the dollar and getting to a stronger currency. If that ever happens, I think the dollar would go into a tailspin. Even before he arrived, Mansfields appointment as ambassador was hailed by the Japanese, and Mansfield himself reason explains the as well as They see me efforts to export to anyone: as much, if not more just Japan. so, as a former Senate Japan, It seems to majority leader for 16 is too often the Mansfield said. Its the easy target (but) Japan is only a part of the whole. Mansfield is also critical of Congress for its failure to pass an energy bill, and he says that the lack of an energy policy is directly related to the decline in the value of the dollar. Carter has tried very hard to get an energy bill he through Congress, said. Japan and the whole world are looking at us to see what we do me, pigeon, energy, and about theyve been disappointed so far. If you are going to place responsibility on anybody, it would have to be Con- gress. Must Face Up We are the world's the years and member of Congress for 30 years, Mansfield said. They look up on me as a conduit to the president and to the Congress. Throughout his stay, here, Mansfield has stressed to the Japanese that Congress is just as important as the Executive Branch in warding off any such dangers as protectionism. Indeed, in his office he has photos of the entire Senate and House leadership, both Democrat and Republican. sitting right there next to the obligatory photo of the ambassador with Carter. In recent years, and especially during the Nixon era, the Japanese felt slighted by their American allies. Resentment among the Japanese peaked in 1971 when former President Nixon announced his visit to China, with a bombshell effect on the Japanese. The then U.S. ambas- - 0 1W-- Japanese re- staurant, dining with important Japanese business and government leaders. He gamely downs the raw fish, aides say, though the Japanese have learned that the ambassador welcomes a bit of steak midway through the long Japanese meals. Although there is a frantic diplomatic circuit, Mansfield and his wife keep a low profile. Often they will only stay a few minutes at receptions they feel they should attend. Once in a while they (social obligations) get a little heavy, Mansfield said. What we do, its usually because we want to do it Usually hes in bed by 9.30 p.m. and up again at 5:30 a.m. He travels frequently back to the United States, but when in Tokyo he works six and seven days to catch up, a week study, because it's a little difficult on me. Im not an economist, so its a new field. It calls for a lot of reading, a lot of study, a lot of thinking. Asked how long he intended to stay in Tokyo. Mansfield smiled, and I serve at the said, pleasure of the president.' Attn: I and others of love; Ganesis h God created heaven and earth. He was and iked In high heat and 1104. that was smothering and binding Him. hi a plaintive tone. He cried, Help' or. in French, Aider" or AOpheH Day". The pressure of the tone counteracted the wnuthenng preeeure. An eiptosioe or mean occured. From the dark light waves of that he formed Heaven and Earth. See "oner" and words above and below 4 at a French dictionary. NfrerftaM CROIX 4T CROSS CITIZENS OF SALT LAKE COUNTY ROOF DRAINS -1 tried to call Washington he could only get a bureaucrat in the State Department. Mansfield was asked whether he could get a call through to the president in Washington in an emergency, and he said: "I can get anyone in Washington whenever I want to." Live Quiet Life Mansfield and his wife, Maureen, live a quiet life She here in Tokyo. works as hard as I do, Mansfield said. Going around to seeing these people and what noL I think they ought to pay her. On occasion, Mansfield finds himself squatting on the tatami (straw) not () M(x) 1- the news, and when he fairly protected, there is a danger of an world's greatest users and the worlds greatest wasters of petroleum and gas. So we need an energy program. We have to SALE sador, Amin Meyer, hadnt been informed of represents American interests in Japan but is actively involved in making sure that Japanese interests receive a fair shake in Washington. 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