European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes August 1985 Dole demands Japan act to ease Trade imbalance Tokyo up Senate majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas bluntly criticized Japan monday in an attack on its huge Trade surplus with the United warning that Congress is angry enough to make a Trade War in a speech at the Japan National press Dole said unemployment and the approach of the 1986 congressional elections could give retaliatory legislation the impetus it needs to pass unless Japan opens its markets to foreign i know the mood of the Senate and the american Dole they Are demanding that something be done we can no longer avoid a Trade we have the time is past for immediate action is Doles warning came hours after he met minister of International Trade and Industry Keichiro he and a delegation of six other including Pete the new Mexico Republican who chairs the Senate budget were to meet tuesday with prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and japanese Trade of Bills Dole pointed to hundreds of Protection Stori enter Bills up for consideration in saying some arc Likely to pass and withstand a presidential Dole conceded that the Trade deficit with Japan forecast to reach a record billion this year was in part caused by the Federal budget deficit and the High value of the which makes goods More expensive but he spurned criticism that american manufacturers arc not responsive to japanese markets and push noncompetitive asserting that to Kos unfair quotas and regulatory restrictions arc chiefly to your markets arc closed to Many american products even when they Are the Best in the he your testing and standards rules contribute to keeping foreign products As do your customs Reg the japanese system is notorious among foreign despite positive signs in a Market opening action program the japanese government announced last Dole said its three year timetable ignores the urgency of the it re announces Many things that have been announced he and fails to provide greater Access for key symbolic commodities such As wine and Citrus fruits that american exporters want to sell in officials have been seeking greater markets for american High technology and Industrial Trade representative Clayton in Tokyo last urged the japanese government to encourage increased imports of american Auto parts and Auto transport a photo Maria Russo police work my Only dream fathers crimes spoil her dream Sicily a a 30yearold woman denied Entrance into a police Academy because her father is a convicted mafioso is struggling to realize her dream of fighting newspapers reported Interior minister Oscar Scalfaro told the newspaper corriere Della Sera that he would examine details of the Case of Maria Andrea which has received wide Media attention in but he noted that the mafia connections in her family background could pose a source of danger and that he did not know whether the italian government would pursue the Case the woman 54yearold Vincenzo is in prison on charges stemming from his organized crime activities with the the newspapers reported with out married and Mother of two said that her parents Are separated and that she has not seen her father since she was 4 years i believe deeply in the values of Justice and am mor ally on the Side of those who fight to preserve those Russo was quoted As i would like to do something to be on the front she added to be with the police is my Only but the guilt of the father is visited on the there is no room there for those with fathers who dont have a clean police scores die As boat capsizes in China peking up at least 110 people drowned when an overcrowded tourist boat capsized on Northeast chivas Songhua the peking evening news reported Mon the newspaper said the which carried tourists Between the City of Harbin and Tai Yang capsized sunday when passengers rushed to one Side of the Over loaded boat to watch a yesterday at Tai Yang a boat Cap sized and Only very few of the morethan300 passengers aboard the newspaper according to preliminary the boat capsized because it was after the boat set out from Tia Yang a fight broke and several people on Board rushed to which caused the boat to lose its the report said the boat and Only the people on the upper deck about 110 bodies were an Early report a spokesman for Harbins foreign affairs office said in a Telephone interview that the vessel capsized at 2 while to Harbin from the tourist Island in the Middle i the he said authorities were still searching the River Mon Day and refused to provide any further the a major waterway in northeastern Heilongjiang flows through Harbin on its Way North to the soviet floods caused by torrential Rains have hit several areas of Northeast China this but there was no immedi ate indication that bad weather had contributed to Sun Days in neighbouring Jilin at least 50 people were killed in floods spawned by a month of unseasonal Hail storms and the official Peoples daily newspaper p it said the floods hit 38 counties and cities in Jilin destroying at least Homes and damaging More than Bridges and 300 Miles of irrigation some million acres almost one Quarter of All Farmland in the province have been devastated by the flood the paper in some of the heaviest Rains in 35 19 major Rivers in the province Are still and water in 67 reservoirs is above danger the paper provincial authorities have mounted a huge Relief opera and people have been mobilized to help with flood prevention the paper the latest flood casualties brought to 580 the number of deaths attributed to a spate of fierce storms and typhoons since the Start of the experts find no evidence of bomb in air India crash London a British air safety experts have found no evidence that a bomb exploded aboard the air India jumbo Jet which crashed into the Atlantic on june killing All 329 on a leading official there is no positive evidence yet to suggest that a bomb was to said Geoffrey head of the ministry of transports Accident investigation Branch at Southwest of to get such a catastrophic breakup of an aircraft As strongly built As the Boeing 747 would require a very Large and one would therefore have expected to have found some evidence of Wilkinson mass amnesty Mark Indonesia Independence Day Jakarta up Indonesia climaxed its 40th anniversary celebrations with a Parade through Jakarta and a mass amnesty for More than criminals and political an estimated Flag waving spectators crammed the 16mile route of the which organizers said was the biggest in Indonesia the Parade climaxed a month of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the country proclamation of in dependence from the Netherlands in August Irwin temporarily gives up his search for Noah Ark Turkey a former astronaut James Irwin has temporarily abandoned plans to climb mount Ararat in search of Noah Ark because of a government ban on the Independent Hurr yet news Agency the government imposed the ban after a series of raids on mountaineering Camps in the area by suspected kurd ish Security forces have been carrying out operations on the Mountain since who has led numerous expeditions on the Moun told the news Agency he would return to Dogu Beya a Village near mount when the government lifts the Early capital of ancient China uncovered by archaeologists peking a archaeologists have uncovered one of ancient chivas first capitals at Sanshi in Henan province near the yellow the official Xinhua news Agency re the capital of the Early Shang which lasted from 17001066 is the largest and Best preserved site of chivas ancient cities so far the news Agency Xinhua quoted archaeologists As saying a dig revealed a rectangular City just Over one mile encircled by earthen Walls 59 feet it had at least seven City a Checkerboard Road a Central area of Imperial buildings and two flank ing dissident filipino film director named to receive asian award Manila up a militant filipino film director has been named to receive the 1985 Ramon Magsaysay award for literature and creative communication arts asias version of the Nobel the awards Board of trustees cited Lino Lor making a vital social Awakening Public consciousness to disturbing realities of life among the filipino b an Active participant in antigovernment Brocka was jailed for two weeks this year after a riot and was charged with sedition by the 20yearold govern ment of president Ferdinand former ugandan president seeking Asylum in Zambia Zambia a Milton former ugandan president overthrown in a coup july is in Zambia seeking but his precise whereabouts Are a government spokesman m Obote was allowed into this Southern african nation purely on humanitarian said acting foreign minister Frederick Czomba hinted that it was Likely Obote would be granted Asylum but did not say so he said Obote Zambia in line with organization of african Unity guidelines on treatment of it has and will not the intention of my govern let internal affairs of Uganda or any other Czomba