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Show 2A The Salt Lake Tribune, Spotlight 14, 1986 Tuetday, January Elfish Japan Is Shirking Duties In World Economy, Says Senator By Ronald E. Yates Chicago Tribune U S. Sen. John C. DanTOKYO forth, Monday characterized Japan as a selfish country whose hesitancy to open its domestic markets to foreign products is threatening the world economic order. No other nation contributes so little to the open trading system of the world, in proportion to what it gains," said Danforth, who as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on international trade, is leading a delegation of six senators on a mission to discuss U.S. trade problems with Japan and South Korea. Danforth said that despite Japanese promises to open its markets, those efforts have been mostly talk with few, if any, substantial results. Meanwhile, Americans are continuing to lose jobs and Americas trade deficit with Japan remains at $50 billion a year. I am here to warn that talk is not enough and that action is needed," said Danforth, whose outspoken criticism of Japanese trading practices and his three pending Senate bills a retaliaaimed at the Japanese tory trade bill, a telecommunications market access bill, and a bipartisan have comprehensive trade bill earned him the reputatior in this nation of 120 million as Americas chief - Japan-bashe- AP Loserphoto Sen. John C. Danforth Mission to Japan, S. Korea r. Danforth, in his strongest comments since arriving in Tokyo Saturday from South Korea, urged Japan to double its share of imported manufactured and processed agricultural goods within 3 to 5 years and warned that if Japan continues to take the position that it can go it alone and prosper at the expense of the United States and other nations, it will wind up hurting itself. The Japan of 1986 is not the Japan of 1946 or even 1966," Danforth told a luncheon of Japanese and American businessmen and government officials at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. The new Japan is beit has become yond the recovery one of the great economic powers of the world. It is time for Japan to accept the responsibilities as well as the benefits of that power. If it does not, the great system of economic cooperation on which our and Japan's econotrading system is based will begin to break my down, he said. The world trading system cannot long function when its second largest economy abdicates its responsibilities, Danforth added. Because of its size, a Japanese economy that formally or informally remains closed threatens the openness of the system itself." Danforth said that public support for free trade has collapsed in the United States and that many believe the only remedy for Americas trade imbalance is a wall of protectionism. He also charged that while Japan is d of directly responsible for Americas $150 billion global trade imbalance, it is indirectly responsible for the other It seems to me that Japan is a very substantial cause of Americas world trade imbalance, because of the blocking effect Japanese trade one-thir- two-third- s. policies have on products from the rest of the world, Danforth said. For example, if Japan de? not accept goods from the rest of the world, if Korea cannot sell cars In Japan, then where will they? The answer is the U S. Danforth said that Japanese arguments that America's trade imbalance is due to an overvalued dollar and to lack of productivity at home are fallacious. Efforts to reduce the value of the dollar, to produce more competitive products and to bring the federal budget deficit under control are just part of the problem, Danforth said. But even if we did all that, we still could not penetrate the Japanese market . . . Japan imports only what it cannot produce itself chiefly, raw materials like logs, petroleum and toso it can benefit from bacco leaf the production of lumber, gasoline and cigarettes. A country that does not want to import products from abroad will find countless ways to exclude products from abroad, regardless of exchange rates and regardless of specific measures to eliminate trade barriers, Danforth said. The $50 billion trade deficit will only be brought to a tolerable level if Japan itself finds ways to sell the production of other countries in its own market. Japanese businessmen in the audience were quick to disagree. Sen. Danforth is trying to blame Japan for all of Americas problems when in fact, the Japanese are less to blame than the Americans themselves, said Tomoji Machida, a Tokyo trading company executive. Orders Dont Involve Retaliatory Strike Will Rogers Says . . . 2nd Battle Group Sent to Mediterranean There is more conferences going on now. That is where these other nations have got it on us. They can play a half dozen WASHINGTON (AP) - The craft carrier Saratoga and an airaccom- panying battle group have been ordered back into the Mediterranean Sea in a move that will soon give the United States two large carrier groups in the region, Pentagon sources said Monday. While confirming the new deployment orders, the sources continued to stress the Navy had been given no orders involving a retaliatory attack on Libya. The United States has accused Libya of supporting a Palestinian terrorist group that attacked the airports in Rome and Vienna on Dec. 27, killing 19 individuals. conferences at once, while with us, if we can find a man to send to one, why, we are lucky, and we always feel uneasy till he gets home. They always bring a pack of experts and technical men along to advise. I have always noticed that any time a man can't come and settle with you without bringing his lawyer, Januwhy, look out for him." ary 14, 1923. Lawmakers Begin MIA Probe Continued From l ernment has received from Vietnamese citizens. A-- Selected and edited by Bryan Sterrights reserved for the Will Rogers Memorial. ling. All As a result of his delegations visit last week, Armitage said that the Justices to Debate Work Benefits For the Pregnant - The case crucial Washington (ap President Reagan has imposed a variety of economic sanctions on Libya as a result, but to date has apparently ruled out any military response. The Saratoga and five accompanying combat ships had been deployed since November to the Indian Ocean, but are now moving northward through the Red Sea and will likely go through the Suez Canal Tuesday evening, the sources said. When the airport attacks occurred, the Saratoga was in the Indian Ocean and the carrier Coral Sea was in port. The Coral Sea completed a holiday port call to Naples, Italy, on Jan. 3 su- to the preme Court, in a interests of American business, said Monday it will decide whether employers may be forced to provide special fringe benefits for pregnant workers. JThe court agreed to study a challenged California law requiring employers to grant leaves of absence to pregnant workers who request them, even if leaves are not granted for any otjer cause. Vietnamese have agreed to allow the excavation of some of the 200 known sites where U.S. military planes crashed in Vietnam. But, Armitage said, the United ha$ declined an invitation to e office for a U.S. techopen a nical team in Hanoi until the Vieta sustained namese demonstrate pattern of cooperation. Another administration delegation is scheduled to meet with the Vietnamese in Hanoi in the last week of February. States full-tim- The congressional delegation is headed by Sen. Frank Murkowski, R- - Alaska, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. Joining him were Sen. Dennis DeConcini, Rep. Michael Bilirakis, and Rep. Bob McEwen, which also in- After the trip eludes stops in Hawaii, the PhilipMurpines, Laos and Thailand kowski said his committee plans to hold hearings about the sightings. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Fayetteville, N.C, in September, two retired Army Green Berets alleged that the Reagan administration has deliberately covered up information about live POWs. The plantiffs, retired Maj. Mark A. Smith and Sgt. 1st Class Melvin C. Mclntire, claim that during missions to Southeast Asia they have uncovered proof that American POWs remain in Laos. JThe California law also generally requires employers to rehire workers returning from pregnancy leaves, tvfn if that benefit is not extended to employees who take leaves for other reasons. m Jhe law is being attacked by an unusual coalition employers, feminists and the Reagan administration jas illegal sex discrimination. In other matters, the court: - Voted to decide by July whether the Reagan administration must cur-ta- 8 Japan's fishing rights in U.S. waters to retliate for continued Japanese killing of sperm whales in the Nirth Pacific. A lower court said a 1979 law requires such retaliation. f-- Let stand a ruling that poor people who face jail terms in cases are entitled to a lawyers help at taxpayer's expense. The lower court's ruling is now binding law in six states Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming. In the pregnancy-benefit- s case, the court must assess tiie 1978 California law against a 1978 federal law, the Pregnancy Disability Amendment, that barred discrimination in employment based on pregnancy. The state law was challenged by the California Federal Savings and Loan Association in Los Angeles after state officials filed a complaint against Cal b ed for not putting receptionist Lillian Garland back to work quickly after she took four months off in 1982. Cal Fed's disability leave policy did not provide for such maternity leaves, and authorized the savings and loan association to refuse to rehire employees who take any kind of leave 4 Assoc lotad Press Loserphota Stevie Aims to Open Drunks Eyes Readers Digest hppes this advertising campaign poster of rock musician Stevie Wonder will help alert young people to the dangers of drinking and driving. The poster won a contest sponsored by the magazine over about 1,100 other entries. and is now on station in the central Mediterranean, drawing an unusual amount of Soviet aerial reconnaissance interest, one source said Monday. Theres a hell of a lot of air activi- ty right now from the Soviets on all of our units in the Med," the source said. Were also seeing some surface activity in the vicinity of Sicily involving Soviet listening ships. One source added the Soviets currently have 26 naval vessels in the Mediterranean, but only five of them are combat ships. Although the sources asserted the movement of the Saratoga did not presage any attack on Libya, Pentagon officials went to unusual lengths on Monday to avoid disclosing the location of the carrier. Navy sources said Monday the destroyer Conolly and the frigate Boone would remain on station in the Gulf of Oman just in case theyre needed. But when reporters began inquiring if the Saratoga could lend assistance if required, the Navy officials flatly refused to discuss the matter. Jessica Lange Julian Lennon Martin Luther King III in iirms I his mother Cynthia Lennon up jefore g g last spr time she saw him in concert for the first A me back and honestly thought that it would take thrilled that Julian and applaud. I was so says. "But all I did was smile Julian Lennon had was Julian. had the chance to play She says its a pity that young Lennon never similarities in are There Lennon. John with his father, s Lennon says in in their humor and creativity, McCalls magazine. would have a ball, If you could only put them together now, they jamming and playing and writing together.' Julian is like a Cynthia says she fills with horror at the suggestion his own person. reincarnation of his father. Julian, she says, "really is When he's onstage, hes nothing like John at all. ex-wi- has given birth to her second daughter, a Jessica Lange girl. The baby was born Saturday at St. Vincent Hospital, according to live together hospital records. Lange and playwright Sam Shepard first. near Santa Fe. The child is their daughter, Alexandra, by dancer Mikhail Lange, 36, has a Baryshnikov. Martin Luther King III and Corretta Scott King, son and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., attended the opening of an exhibit honoring the slain leader. Entitled His Light Still Shines the collection is being shown at Harlems Schomburg Center, one of the foremost black museums in the nation. The exhibit includes Kings glasses, bible, a suit and the pen President Lyndon Johnson used to sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act. After New York the exhibit, which is sponsored by McDonalds, goes on a tour. 20-ci- ty Tribune Wire Services Now U.S. Wonders If Iran Was Right to Search Ship Continued From l are yet known to determine whether the stop and search was appropriate under the circumstances. The ambassador's report had not been received in Washington. A-- Although the Iranians have been stopping ships and searching them, this was the first American fiag vessel so halted. It raised questions for the administration on how to deal with such incidents in the future. France, which provides Iraq with considerable military equipment, announced in November that its navy would use force to oppose searches of its vessels. The United States, however, bars the sale of military goods to either Iraq or Iran, and so is in a somewhat different position from France. Nevertheless, several administration officials said that politically, it was unacceptable. The United States has intercepted ships on the high seas on suspicion of carrying illegal drugs to this country. And, during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the United States declared the right to stop and search ships that might be carrying missiles to Cuba. A decision on whether to protest the boarding was deferred by the administration pending a report from the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi. On Monday, Ambassador George Quincy Lumsden Jr. drove to Fujaira, the Gulf of Oman port where the ship was docked, to interview Robert captain of the 27,000-to- n ship. Rei-man- Crew Will Try to Repair Intensifier Comet Study Aboard Shuttle Spoiled By William Harwood UPI Science Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A shuttle astronomer saw Halleys comet for the first time from orbit Monday but his view was spoiled by failure of an electronic instrument designed to make the comet appear thousands of times brighter. The faulty device was inadvertently left operating in its packing case since early December, but the scientist in charge of the project said the failure appeared to have a different cause. Scientists said a repair procedure will be radioed up to the shuttle crewmen Tuesday to see if they can fix it with a wrench, a screwdriver and a Swiss army knife. Astronaut George Nelson put fresh batteries in it but that did not help. The broken intensifier, capable of magnifying light by a factor of 100,000, is important to the comet studies because the famous wanderer from deep space is 123 million miles away from the shuttle Columbia. Nelson discovered the problem, but was instructed to look at Halley anyway, using longer exposures on his 35mm camera. "Without the intensifier, the comet is pretty difficult to find in the window," Nelson told mission control. "I think we got it, and ve got five different exposures on it. Im not sure how bright theyre going to be. On the following orbit he used a spectrometer designed to help scientists identify the chemical makeup of the massive cloud of gases around the comets icy nucleus, but he said he never saw the comet through that instrument. "Maybe we got lucky, he said. "I dont know" Alan Stern, the University of Colorado scientist in charge of the comet research, was more optimistic at an evening news conference. He said the observations were expected to produce some valuable results even without the image intensifier. It was a unique opportunity to observe the comet as it approaches the sun, he said, because ground-baseobservatories have had to interrupt their studies of Halley because the - comet is too close to the sun. In space, the astronauts can look at the comet during the four minutes between sunset and the time it disappears over the horizon. Stern said the intensifier, which has worked on earlier missions, was left with its power turned on when it was packed in Houston in late November or early December. He called it just an honest mistake on someones part. But Stern said he did not think the failure was related to the fact that it had been left on. Instead, he said, the trouble appeared to be caused by a stuck safety device designed to keep it from looking at objects to bright. If that is the case, he said, the astronauts should be able to fix it by taking the unit apart and adjusting some screws. Nelson and fellow crewmen Robert Gibson, Charles Bolden, Steven HawR :bert ley, Franklin Chang-DiaCenker and Rep. Bill Nelson, also spent much of the day conducting a variety of other experiments. 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