European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 16. 1985 James Kilpatrick Reagan and Nakasone sharing similar problems i oko some months ago. Japan s crime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone made a male visit to the White House. He and president Reagan got along so famously that they wound up by addressing one another Asya and Ron. I have now been three Das in Japan enough to make file an expert and i can explain their affection they share the same problems. Take the matter of a defense budget. Our Oun Peerless Leader As everyone knows has been having a terrible Lime persuading Congress la increase spending on the military. Nakasone is about to have a worse time. On Cpl. K he announced thai he would ask he diet to appropriate ik.4 trillion yen Over the next five years for Japan s self defense forces. The announcement set off a barrage from every Side. Nakasonc s Cap Weinberger defense director Koichi kit to. Was unhappy. I be thought the budget Loo Low. A a Vernonc else thought the figure Loo High. Hack in la 7d, Japan s Cabinet had established a guideline by which defense spending Ould no exceed i percent of the nation s Gross National product. This fiscal Vear. Defense outlays Are estimated at 0. �7 percent. Nakasone s budget would amount to 1 Oak percent. You would t think an insignificant difference of 41 one-thousandth1 if a percentage Point would touch Oil a political explosion bul the outcry was a is a Nix k. So is Nakasone his term As prime minister expires in november of next ear. And he has he equivalent of Jeorge hush Jaek Kemp and Rob Dole who warn his Job Vika Ione s Liberal Semoc Ralic fart Corr k the diet in about the same a that Reagan s republicans control the i s Senate. A very Bod s got his own i Owell Weicker. Hack Home in Washington the talk is of a Trade policy. That s the talk Here in Tokyo too. Reagan and Nakasone both Are lending off protectionism and i he Ivan gentlemen have their hands full. It is said that Nakasone personally would be agreeable to expediting a schedule of Tariff reductions on Ameri can beef Citrus fruits and Wood products bul he can t overcome opposition George will from the count is to in his parliament. Keagan Lias the same problem with the shoe Wear and textile lobbies. Remember hitburg1.1 Teagan Gol him self in a political Pickle last summer by visiting a military Cemel Arv in West Ger Many where a Lew a i storm troopers were buried. A Lew weeks ago on the Jot i anniversary of the end of world War ii Nakasone provoked a remarkably similar rhubarb. He a visit to the Masukuni shrine where the souts of Japan s War dead Are thought to assemble such a visit might seem no More offensive than an american president s laying a Wreath at Arlington cemetery bul such is the innate fear of japanese that the incident touched nth a rolling Thunder of protest we have recurring problems Al Home with the solvency of our social secant Sistern has half u do in pension systems one for tanners one for rail Road workers and so on and they cause headaches Here. Japan s program of nah tibial health care is running into the Vimr Villi cull that is overtaking medi Cate Ino in i n \ benefits not enough nil Sonk a lose nil Japan s National rail a a. At least in part and turn them Over to private ownership am Emerit Reagan is trying to sell and get rid of Amtrak hold gentlemen Are having to satisfy the railway unions and the unions Don t satisfy easily. The two leaders at least one More thing in common Toth of them Are More popular than their policies. A recent poll found an approval rating of 5k percent fur Nakasone. Iven so. Nakasone has to struggle to push his pro Gram to enactment his Good buddy. Ronnie . Knows exactly How it Fecla Detroit Republican wants to be first Black governor Bim Micas manner is in Zuj As milk his speech is touched As softly As by a Caribbean Brece with the lilt of St. Martin s Island where he was born. Tim faint musical inflection survived a har Lem childhood during which both parents died within a year. He lives in Detroit. His voice will Rcv male nationally next year when he tries to become America first Black governor i Lis attempt have added drama because he was a Democrat until earlier this year and now is running As a Republican. Lucas is a 57-year-old with four grand children. He looks 45fid carries himself with the gliding Grace of a distance run Ner which he was in College. He has transmitted the discipline of the track to five children a policeman thre doctors and one medical a Ludum. Fresh from i Oldham Law school he joined Robert Kennedy s Justice la part ment then became an i i agent. I be settled in Detroit. In 1968, the year after the riots he became under sheriff of Wayne county which contains Detroit and 2.3 million peo ple one Quarter of Michigan s population. It is the nation s fourth most populous county lie became sheriff in l%9 and served until l k3 when he became the first elected co univ executive not bad for a Man who says that few of the boys i knew in Harl can Are still alive. Jani he says Good judge of human nature having spent my life on the there is. He save. Nothing extraordinary about his ideas for an or Derly such As of you Kereji doing something Lor people they will continue in expect he believes that the form of discipline called patience is As important As intelligence. He runs a closely super Vised youth jobs programs because the ethics of work follow you All our Mork than h is words his works Republican pulses to race. I or example. By measures such As turning the counts Hospital Oier to private opera Tion he Cut the count s annual medical costs from $12 million to so million. Changing political parties is a risky business bul less so for than for some. Not Long ago a move from the democratic to the Republican i ugly would have been perceived As going from something vaguely Good to something narrow. Today the move can be portrayed As does As emancipation from special lie sides today tile parties arc More ideologically differentiated than Thev once were and ideas clearly establish him As a Republican and a rarity. Most Black leaders of the old civil rights groups now deny the principle that once animated those groups. It is the principle race should be irrelevant i civic life and is inherently unacceptable As a basis for slate action these leaders have a vested interest in expanding what has emerged in the name of affirmative action a racial spoils system of hiring quotas minority set asides and the rest such leaders denounce Blacks u to deviate Iron the old orthodoxy that govern ment action is the key to improving the condition a Blacks especially bul All other Ameri cans too. Sutler from the shortage ,
