European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 34 the stars and stripes thursday. May 1, 1988 Trade deficit jumped to $14.5 billion in March Washington a the . Trade deficit jump lft.3 percent in match to sm.5 billion As Init arts of manufactured goods snared loan All time High and the Cumry suffered a record deficit tvs a Japan the govern ment reported wednesday. The cum Mcrae department said the March a Cicil was up from a february imbalance of $12.-19 billion but still below the nil Lime High ur$6.46 billion in january. The in Mitch came despite the fact that Fulling ail prices Cut Clr Alcum imports by 13 percent. This gain was erased by a Hig jump in imports of manufactured Gix ids. Which hit a record $25.211 billion in March 13.9 percent higher than in february. The deficit a ii Japan climbed Ion record $5.52 billion a whopping 27,5 percent higher than the february imbalance. The japanese who accounted for one third of the total us Trade deficit fast year have been under pressure from the Rongan administration Anil Congress to increase their Pur chases of american goods to Cut inc Trade imbalance. Tjie Trade deterioration in March threw cold water on Hopes for an Early end to America s trading woes. The administration joined in a coordinated Effort with four of her coun tries last september to drive the value of the Dollar lower As a Way to boost american sales overseas Ali it pushing impart prices higher in this country. Economists believe this Effort will Cut into the Trade deficit but Many analysts believe the positive benefits of a weaker Dollar will not Start showing up until this fall. Commenting on wednesday s report Commerce Secretary Malcolm Waldrige predicted the lower Dollar will begin to help in the last half of this but he also called on other countries to stimulate economic growth to promote world wide economic recovery and bring Trade among nations into better the administration s desire to Sec other nations Cut interest rates and lanes while taking other Steps to generate higher growth is expected o be a major topic of conversation when meets next week with the leaders of other Industrial countries at the economic Summit in Tokyo the dramatic plunge in Oil prices is also expected Lei reduce the country s Trade deficit and this did show up in the March figures. America s foreign Oil Bill dropped 13 percent to s3.29 Bil lion in March despite the fact the Tola volume of Oil imports Rose by 11.1 percent. The Price per barrel dropped to 28 percent below where it was at the beginning of the year Ana the lowest level since junct97�.warnings from Page 1 blk radiation Poison. Yugoslavia s official news Agency said Levels of radioactivity were three to four times above Normal in the country s North. Scwll european leaders angrily demanded that Moscow explain Why it had not quickly alerted he world Many s Eastern Borders. Radiation in Germany so far has been Only half As Strong As that measured in Sweden and is so times less than the level regarded As a danger to human health Butz said the government has determined that a threat lowest Germany does t now exist and can be ruled but for the foreseeable future up quoted government spokes Man Norbert Schaffer As saying. Travel agencies that sell Tours to Ameri cans in Germany Are keeping on Eye on the situation in the soviet Union but spokesmen far top and Shefflco agencies said Tours la Moscow in late May and june Are still on. Der a major German travel Agency cancelled its Kiev Tours m May 4, 11 and 18, but is running its Moscow tour. The British government wednesday began daily checks of the country s milk supplies for radioactivity up reported. Britain he not recorded higher than nor Mal Levels of radiation since the soviet disaster but the milk checks were being taken As a precautionary move a spokes Man for the ministry of agriculture fish eries and food told up because of what happened in Russia instead of taking them monthly we re going to Lake them on a daily basis the agriculture spokesman said. Press from Page 1 native . Source said the Reagan administration believes the indonesian government has halted the summary execution of suspected crime figures and thai the suppression of political opposition in timor has eased Al Bei not enough to suit inc United slates. We do talk about these things with indonesian officials one american said but we Don t annl to hit it Square on the Pochtar when asked if he was concerned that his government s action by focusing attention on human rights issues would cast n pall Over the meeting said i Hope it will senior . Officials made Clear they did not want the meeting set la discuss eco nomic issues to be complicated by the whirlwind caused by the reporters Case Good diplomatic conduct is when an Issue is dead you put it behind you,1 one official said adding that us. Experts were recommending that Reagan not even raise the matter with Suharto. Reagan has made the winds of free own the theme for his 13-Day trip to the far East but officials said wednesday he would concentrate on issues of free Trade and free markets during his visit Here to talk to Suharto and the foreign ministers of the association of Southeast asian nations Astana compact of non communist trading partners in the Region. The press thing is so overheated now 1 Don t think it will do any Good raising it with Suharto one official said. All reporters working for australian news Media were banned from Indonesia following publication of an article in a Syd Ney newspaper comparing Suharto and his family to former philippine president Fer Dinand Marcos and his family Barbara Cross the of the new York times whom Pochtar called one of my favorite correspondents was banned after she wrote a similar piece. Kochlar acknowledged that an article about the two australian journalists who were ousted As Reagan arrived tuesday was censored by blocking it out of copies of the International Herald Tribune sole Here. You can t Force us to like what you write the foreign minister said. Asked if the government practices press censorship he replied it is indication the soviets had accepted. 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