European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the Tarsan stripes january 1981 defense Japan urged to build forces Washington not senior Ameri can officials have quietly urged Japan in recent months to build conventional military Power capable of defeating naval and air forces on and below the seas for a distance of Miles around officials said the japanese could make a significant contribution to the defense of Northeast Asia if they would acquire the naval and air the modern equipment and the logistical support to accomplish that the if a conflict should break would be to Clear the skies of soviet aircraft and to bottle up the soviet surface and submarine Fleet based across the sea of Japan in it is estimated that there Are 100 80 surface combatants and 80 sub marines stationed beyond adding to the military strength opposing the soviet the officials a japanese military buildup would free More american forces to move from the Western Pacific to the Waters around Southeast Asia and especially into the Indian Ocean and Ara Bian sea near the persian they contended that such a move would be even More in the japanese National interest than in that of the United states since Japan is far More dependent on Oil from the persian Gulf and from Indonesia than is the american officials have urged Japan to in crease economic Aid to South Korea and to China in ways that would allow those nations to use More of their own Money for military that would be intended to dissuade North Korea from military adventures and to help China tie Down soviet military forces along the chinese soviet so said an informed we have been frustrated and japanese military officials generally agreed with the officials Here but they have been unable to obtain the necessary funds from japans political leaders and the finance president reagans foreign policy advisers have indicated that they intend to pursue the Issue with the perhaps even More vigorously than the Carter administration incoming defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger said in congressional testimony that Japan and Western european nations must pro Duce real increases in military the Reagan transition team at the state department identified military along with Trade As a critical Issue Between the and a report by the team defense spending remains a sensitive Issue for japanese politicians it is an Issue which also concerns Charles the new chair Man of the foreign relations and John the new chair Man of the armed services Are both known to believe that Japan should con tribute More to collective american officials have been reluctant to set definite numbers on what they want Japan to look out of by spend for military Power because that tends to polarize political discussion and because it could be construed As interference in japans National they have urged the japanese to spend enough to acquire an effective military ability to do what is japanese military officials estimated last year that a 15 percent increase in military spending for the 1981 fiscal year would be needed to begin the finance ministry at first Cut that to per wanting to keep the increase under 10 percent to avoid creating too much political opposition from the they to an additional percent for military pay raises that would be counted elsewhere in the making a total of officials Here said that the defense Secre tary Harold ambassador Mike mans Field and other senior american officials had been led by japanese leaders to believe that the percent total was in late Tokyo announced that the increase would be Only that prompted Brown to assert that the Bud get proposal was so modest that it conveyed a sense of complacency which simply cannot be justified by the he said it Falls seriously whether measured by the Security by the discussions held Between senior officials of our two governments Over the last year or by considerations of equitable until the soviet intervention in Afghanistan in december american officials had generally confined themselves to gentle suggestions that Japan do More to contribute to collective but the United states had few specific for their the japanese brushed off allegations that they were getting a free ride on defense and resisted suggestions for a buildup by pointing to political pressures from the swiftly increasing deficit financing in the nations budget and fears among neighbouring nations of a revival of japanese after Brown told officials in Tokyo that the changes in the International situation meant that the United the Western european allies and Japan should make steady and significant increases in Mil itary spending Over an extended across 1 sets in opposition 5 malt beverage 8 pointed projection 12 file 13 celtic sea god 14 russian River 15 ancient asian country 16 rower 17 Telamon 18 wanting 20 regarding 22 tapestry stitch 26 Chic 29 actress Farrow 30 labor 31 italian Lake 32 resinous substance 33 opening 34 Mouths 35 snare 36 assistants 37 under 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and am the father of three my wife name is a while Back you printed a letter from a Guy who signed himself Norman on the West his problem was about a Battleaxe mothering Law like when that column appeared i got a lot of rib yesterday a letter signed norms Marge appeared in your it was about a couple with three and the wife had a habit of going off on spending sprees which mine again i got Why dont you play it Safe and use makeup so nobody will get Hurt i have never writ ten to you in my but i had to write now and get this off my guilty dear Norm i i often change num Ber of City and state to protect the but invariably i score a Bullseye some if you can think of a fail Safe name let me dear Ann Landers before i married my wife she was engaged to and sleeping with an other we have been mar ried 12 years and in sure Nora has been completely the problem is this we keep running into her old flame at funerals and social Nora greets him in a Cas Ual As if she knows him Only it galls me to see 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