European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday March 13, 1986 Japan accused of dumping computer chips in . Washington a that vim pro Dinar front not Hortn nil re a i r o i. Nap the Commerce department in a preliminary ruling on a major .-Japan Trade Dis Pute says Japan has been dumping computer memory chips in this country at below production costs in violation of . Trade Laws. The decision could Lead to stiff tariffs on imports of the japanese semiconductor products a sophisticated Cir Cuit with a memory that can be programmed erased and reprogrammed. The preliminary ruling triggers a requirement that the japanese firms cited in the complaint begin paying a Bond on All future shipments. The ruling came on a complaint filed last september by . Semiconductor manufacturers who claimed that Jap anese manufacturers were deliberately flooding . Markets with the Low Cost chips to try to squeeze out Ameri can firms. Reagan administration sources who spoke Only on the condition of anonymity said a similar decision was expected by the Agency later this week on a companion complaint initiated by the administration. In Tokyo four japanese semiconductor makers denied not being sold at unfair prices on the . Market. Tuesday s ruling and the follow up one seemed sure to have wide ranging implications for .-Japan Trade relations. . Semiconductor makers praised tuesday s decision by the Commerce department. We Are confident that the government will affirm its preliminary decisions in its final ruling said Tom Dun lop general counsel for Intel corp. Of Santa Clara calif., one of three american firms that initiated the complaint. It is Clear that employing predatory pricing practices to gain Market control is a Well established strategy of certain japanese companies Dunlop added in statement. A final ruling is expected by May 27, the department said. At Issue in tuesday s ruling were memory chips that Are a major component in computers and telecommunications equipment called erasable programmable read Only memories proms. The department found that that Hitachi Toshiba and Fujitsu violated . Anti dumping Laws the mosta i jew by i thu pull of owii1iv\j1iuuvlvj1 Llic Livola us Licu 1iv it uj1lothe allegation. Fujitsu ltd., Hitachi Ltd Toshiba corp. Frequently. And corp. Said they believe their semiconductors Are the administration initiated Case involves a different Type of computer Chip a so called 256-kilobyte dynamic random Access memory Chip drams. That one is generally viewed As the More significant of the computer Chip complaints because it was the first one initiated by the administration under president Reagan s plan announced last september to ease the . Trade deficit. The preliminary judgment on the Eprom chips was issued in an investigation that began last september after three . Semiconductor firms Intel advanced Micro devices inc. And National semiconductor filed a Peti Tion alleging illegal dumping. Under . Trade Law once a dumping finding has been made the government can impose an import Tariff on further shipments of the product. If the Commerce department makes its decision final then the . International Trade commission would have 45 Days to determine to what extent . Manufacturers have been harmed by the Low Cost imports. Under . Trade Laws the companies cited by the Deci Sion must Start paying a fee into a special account equal to the margin by which their product Falls below fair value As determined by the Commerce department. These fees would be removed if the preliminary decision is reversed and a finding is made that . Firms have not been injured by the alleged dumping. A photo Patti Davis introduces her Book at a news conference in new York. Reagan denies squelching daughter s to appearances Washington a president Reagan denied wednesday that he had used his influence to get interviews with his daughter Patti. Dropped from two television shows but said he Hopes she makes a lot of Money from the novel she has written. No. Nov Reagan told reporters who asked whether he had intervened to can cel Davis appearances on Merv grif Fin s talk show and the tonight show which Joan Rivers was hosting. I Hope she makes a lot of Money Reagan added. I thought it was interesting fiction the president said of his daughter s novel Home front which is the Story of a rebellious Young girl whose father becomes governor of California and later president. Davis has been on a National tour in recent Days promoting the Book. The president made the remarks after he bid special envoy Philip Habib Farewell on a diplomatic Mission to Central Ameri Ca. White House spokesman Larry speak is also denied that Reagan or his wife Nancy had pressured anyone to drop Davis from the shows. The spokesman said he knew of no such influence exerted by the president or by anyone else in the White House. I Don t know what s going on there speak Essaid. Asked about the Flap tonight show spokesman Joe Bleeden said we have nothing to say about  . Releases list showing death rates at hospitals Washington a the govern ment wednesday released a list of 269 hospitals whose medicare patients died at unusually High or Low rates but both government and Industry officials cautioned against using the list to judge the Quality of the hospitals. The health care financing administration which runs medicare released the statistical tables compiled As part of routine reviews of the care Given patients under the government health insurance program for the elderly or disabled. Or. Henry Desmarais acting administrator of the Agency noted the figures by themselves Lack important qualifiers and explanations that could temper Quick conclusions. The numbers have no intrinsic meaning and they should not be cause for Public concern he said. To use this data correctly one must View it in context with other relevant information we strongly caution the general Public against drawing any conclusions from these statistics  but a Public health activist said other figures provided including death rates for specific operations will provide important guidance on a Hospital s track record. The release of the statistics also Drew Strong cautions from interest groups rep resenting hospitals. We cannot emphasize enough the government s own statement issued today that the numbers have no intrinsic meaning and they should not be cause for Public con Cern said Thomas g. Goodwin of the federation of american health systems an organization of investor owned hospitals. In some instances there May be significant differences in admissions or disease patterns which could affect a Hospital s comparison against National averages he said. However it is impossible to deter mine this without a careful review of All the  Jack Owen executive vice president of the american Hospital association said the statistics will cause confusion and apprehension among medicare beneficiaries rather than convey meaningful  i Don t know How it could be accurately interpreted said Dennis Andrulis of the National association of Public hospitals. There s All sorts of factors that you have to take into  but or. Sidney m. Wolfe of the Public citizen health research group said the information Breaks the barriers of secrecy that the medical profession has erected around itself. What it does is allow people to make choices they were shut out from making in the past Wolfe said. There was no information that was More  he said the True value is not in the Overall death figures but in supplementary tables giving death rates for specific procedures. In coronary artery surgery for example hospitals doing fewer than 100 operations a year reported death rates Between 14 per cent and 20 percent. In hospitals doing More than 300 operations a year however the death rate was under 2 percent. Folk music revivalist Sonny Terry dead at 74 % f t a a w a  t �. Mineola . A Sonny Terry a vocalist and Harmonica player who Sang the blues from Medicine shows to Carnegie Hall and figured prominently in the Folk music revival of the 1940s and 50s, has died at age 74. Terry whose Given name was Saunders Terrill died tuesday. He was born in Greensboro ga., on oct. 24, 1911. Blinded by accidents in his youth he took up the Harmonica and Learned to imitate the sounds of trains and nocturnal animals before going on to blues playing. He was touring with Medicine shows by the time he was 19 and later played in the streets of Durham n.c., with two Blind guitarists Gary Davis and Blind boy Ful Ler. He began his 50-year association with Brownie Mcghee a guitarist and Singer in 1939 they specialized in the so called Piedmont blues an intricate delicately melodic blues style based on Mcghee s fluid Finger picking guitar. On his own Terry made his new York debut in the spirituals to swing concert at Carnegie Hall in 1939. Terry Cut his first records for folkways during world War ii and remained a prolific recording artist for the rest of his Ca reer. He appeared on Broadway in Fini an s Rainbow and with Mcghee in cat on a hot tin  the two appeared together in the Steve Martin film the  Terry also appeared in and provided some of the sound track music for the color  the new film Crossroads also features his distinctive blues Harp music. He is survived by his wife Emma Terry of Hollis