European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes everyone seems to be picking on japanese by Leon Daniel Tokyo up Japan is being cuffed around by some of it neighbors at a time when the United states would like to see Tokyo take on a leadership role in  recent months japanese foreign and Trade policies have irked filipinos indonesians australians and nationalist  the mayor of Manila ordered 18 japanese firms to cease operations on grounds that the Philippines parliament has not ratified a Commerce and navigation treaty signed eight years  nettled indonesian president Suharto recently by not coming across with $100 million in Aid and Suharto Lias turned for help to South Korea an old enemy of Japan and still not very Friendly to  has accused Japan of unfair Competition by dumping cars on the australian Market at Low  to boost its Trade with red China Are threatening Japan s relations with  inescapable conclusion is that Japan s efforts at diplomacy in Asia lag far behind its undeniable economic  s Gross National product last year was third among non communist nations topped Only by the United states and West Germany and outstripping Britain and France. Japan s Neutral stance on the Vietnam War fails to impress some of its communist and non communist neighbors. South Korea which keeps almost 50,000 troops fighting in Viet Nam sees Japan As a Freeloader a nation that does not assume its proper share of responsibility for defending Asia from communism. North Korea on the other hand accuses Japan of sup porting the american position in  s Industrial base gives it the potential to be a military Power but Tokyo has shown no inclination to become one. The roots of japanese Pacific ism were nourished by the rubble of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and after 23 years have spread through out the nation. Japan s Constitution outlaws War. The armed forces euphemistically Are called self defense  the profession of arms once epitomized by the proud Samurai Warrior has slipped Toa Low rung on the ladder of prestige in Japan. Despite a booming Economy Japan s average per capita incomes still Only $922, in 20th place among the countries of the world and Only about one third that of the United  economists say Japan has reached the Brink of the affluent society and the future is Bright.  Inlet s name \ baby red9 i a the toy May to City almost filled resurrect ton City  is almost filled with plywood shanties for housing the poor people s Campaign Demon top salary $9o, stators. This photo was taken from on top of the Washington Monument. The Lincoln me Morial is in the background. A photo taxes pay for private thinkers Moscow a birth registration offices in the soviet Union have been advised to Dis courage parents from giving babies strange names. In the old Days before the re Volution the russian orthodox Church required that Only saints names be used which prevented eccentric  communism there has been no similar restriction handsome oddities have resulted. A geologist named his son for minerals starting with  a revolutionary zealot in the Early 20s chose anarchy and Utopia for his twin Daugh ters. These were isolated cases. But some strange names have got ten wide use because they we rethought to correspond to the soviet Era in russian  became a favor Ite for boys and Oktyabrina for october the month of the bolshevik revolution for  a reaction to this trend some parents have gone Back to ancient russian names Paf duty Moke Phe Ronya pm Elisata and  but opinion within the family has not always been unanimous and cases have been reported where one Parent wanted a new style name and the other Anold style name with the quarrel sometimes causing the baby to be left nameless for months. In one such Case the father Mikhail Feodorov insisted on  said he made this up out of the latin prefix for High and the greek word for rain Bow and he liked its sound. The registration office in the Volga area where Feodorov lives refused to accept  the Mother slipped in one Day and said to put Down in Stead the conventional name of Valerian for the Little boy. But the outraged father counteracted this. He then wrote pravda a voice of authority in this country since it Speaks for the communist party and demanded to know if a Man could not Call his own child what he wanted. The newspaper avoided giving a Flat binding answer. Instead it urged Fyodor Ovand other soviet parents to avoid names that would make their children the butt of jokes or otherwise Embarrass them. It also called on birth registration officials to do their Best to discourage parents from tasteless and Tongue twisting  Washington up con Gressional testimony disclosed monday that some private re search executives earning up to $90,000 a year Are being paid almost entirely out of tax Rev  before the Senate foreign relations committeeman 9, released monday revealed that Many of the Well paid researchers including Gen. Maxwell Taylor Are re tired army officers or sex Pentagon  salary Scales were Dis closed in the committee s investigation of government think tanks huge private re search corporations created by the defense department to study Complex problems of . . John s. Foster jr., the Pentagon s research and engineering director testified that the Best paid research executive was the president of the aerospace corp., or. I. A. Get Ting former air Force plan Ning and development chief who earns $90,000 a year $10, 000 less than the president of the United states. Taylor As president of the Institute for defense analysis earns $49,000 a year Foster said in addition to his army retirement , the Institute for defense analysis and the Pentagon s 14 other Federal con tract research centers receive at least 85 per cent of their financial support from the de sense department Foster Testi  acknowledged that the High salaries available in the think tanks and elsewhere in private Industry made it extremely difficult for the Pentagon to attract and retain it sown cadre of technical sex . Karl Mundt r-s.d., said that a Pentagon official making less than $30,000 a year could resign and get twice or three times that amount still work ing for the government an masquerading As a private or  addition to Ida and Aero space Foster said top executive officers of six other think tanks Are former Pentagon officials or retired army officers. However none of the officers Are nominated by anyone in the defense department he said in the Case of Taylor the Ida Board of directors selected him after he had resigned Asu a ambassador in Saigon without prior consultation with the gov  asked to Supply j Complete list of top reseal officers and their salaries saw he considered it a matter 01some  Why chairman j. William Fulbright d-ark., asked him these arc private organizations Foster  responded it. Capri be a private organization Ujj Foster. Anytime the la pays 85 per cent you Are ing mythology when you says private. It May be sen but it is not private i publicly  european edition editor-1" col. James w. Campbell Usa a it. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., a of dept a Long Wert Proctor. Fam Elmer d. Frank re in mlml1 henrys. Epstein circulation Man unofficial newspaper of and for the u.8. Armed Force n to dammit a , . European command and ,.dit ?., i Germany. Military address the stare and stripes Apo 09176. 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