European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday november 2,1986 handgun ban Oak Park. Iii. A officials Are considering further Lega action against a Gas station owner acquitted of violating this Chicago suburb s ban on handguns when he fired on two robbers. They re trying to destroy me said Donald Bennett who won support from the National Rifle association a 13,000 defense fund Aad an award Tor valor from the american federation of police. Bennett 43, of nearby Hanover Park was charged last March when he exchanged gunfire wit two men who had robbed him of f 1,200 in Cash and jewelry at hit Amoco nation. 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A key element of the Accord was the Bank of Japan s agreement to Cut its Dis count lending rate saturday from 3.5 percent to a Post world War ii Low of 3percent, a move the Reagan administration has sought for some time. The unusual economic pact Stem from a recent meeting Between Treasury Secretary James Baker and japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa in san Francisco according to a senior Treasury official the announcement of the Accord Fri Day coincided with the conclusion of talks Between . And japanese negotiators. Latest figures show a slight decrease . Trade deficits but leaders of both negotiating team said they agree closer cooperation and More work Are needed to Cut the .-Japan imbalance and in crease Japan s Domestic demand. We Hope that the United Stales will fight protectionist pressures said Dep Uty foreign minister Rishi Teshima Leader of the japanese team at the Washington talks. He said he pointed out to the Ameri cans that one of the continuing reasons for the Trade imbalance has been continued High demand in the  Allen Wallis undersecretary of slate for economic affairs who led the is. Team said be noted that serious and unsustainable imbalances remain in our economic relationship with Japan and that further actions by Japan Are urgently needed the economic Accord is intended to promote growth in Japan and the de Mand for imports but could Nave the Corr Elary effect of weakening the yen against the Dollar by reducing the return on Bonds and other investment vehicle. The Dollar rallied against the japanese yen in Active trading in Tokyo Friday dosing at 161.45 yen up 1.51 Over thursday s dosing rate As Rumor of the impending Cut leaked to the  Cut look effect saturday. Japan also agreed to submit to its diet or parliament a 3.6 billion yen supplementary budget designed to boost growth through substantial investment in housing Public works and non residential conjunction. A third element of the Accord Calls for an administration program to push tax Reform through the diet a government tax Council report submitted last week to prime minister Yasuhiro Nakaten recommends culling the effective corporate tax rate to below 50 percent. It also Calls for an unspecified reduction in the marginal tax Rale on personal in come. In return the United states has prom ised to continue reducing its own budget deficit to continue fighting protectionist pressure and to implement lax reforms recently passed by Congress. The Treasury official who spoke anonymously denied the pact was one tided saying the . Reforms were significant and appreciated by the japanese. The official also refused to speculate about whether the joint announcement was intended to put pressure on . Trading partners notably Germany to take stimulative measures including interest a tents. Liquor May Hove been linked to crash of Machel s plane s. African suggests Johannesburg South Africa Dpi foreign minister Roelof Pik Botha saturday said at least two Crew members on the plane that crashed an killed mozambican president Samora Machel had been drinking. He also said the soviet made aircraft had obsolete navigation equipment and lacked a ground proximity warning sys tem. Evidence supplied by the survivors and others indicate that the pilots were prepared for a Normal Landing at Maputo Airport but the instruments indicate the pilots had ignored instrument readings Botha said. Botha was reacting to widespread accusations from Black african leaders that South Africa was involved in Downing the plane that crashed oct. 19 on a Hillside just inside South Africa s Border. Machel and 33 other died in the crash. He said at least two soviet Crew Mem Ben had alcohol in their bloodstream but did not say if they were flying the plane. One soviet a flight Engineer sur Vived the crash. There is no evidence of any explosion or abnormal activity at any tune while the aircraft was Mill in the air Botha said. He called on Maputo to release tape recordings of conversations Between the Pilot and air traffic control. Surely it is not necessary to Send that recording to Moscow to be decoded he said. In Cape town opposition politicians made last minute applications to get restrictions lifted on a Cape town funeral saturday for the wife of imprisoned Trade unionist Oscar a Petra the restrictions imposed under the june 12 state of emergency say no More than 200 people May attend services for Rose Mnetha no political speeches can be made and no criticism of the govern ment May be made. Tian Van Der Merwe a progressive Federal party minister of parliament Fri Day said he would approach Law and order minister Loub be Grange to have the restrictions eased Petha 77, who suffers from diabetes has been denied permission to attend the funeral in port Elizabeth general motors chief Robert White met with Trade Union officials Friday and underlined a threat to dismiss Black workers who Nave been on strike for three Days if they Are Nosback at work monday. Of spokesman Mike Killeen said Lite strike by 2,000 out of a workforce of 3,300 was continuing at the factory which is to be sold Early next year to local investors. The strike was called wednesday to protest oms failure to consult labor unions on the Sale of South african asset to local businessmen following the decision by the Detroit mich., Par ent company to withdraw from South Africa. Sweden protests listening devices discovered in embassy in Moscow Stockholm Sweden up swe Den has protested to the soviet Union after workmen found soviet listening de vices at its embassy in Moscow a for eign ministry spokesman said saturday. The listening devices cannot Nave been installed without the knowledge of the soviet authorities said to Hinebeck chief foreign ministry spokesman. Hinebeck said foreign ministry director Pierre Schori called in soviet ambassador Boris Rankin Friday afternoon and handed him a protest note. The devices were found in the Pas week during the erection of a superstructure Over one of the courtyards at the. Embassy Hinebeck said. He decline to by what Type of equipment was a covered or to give further details of the incident. The swedish embassy compound in Moscow was built Between 1968 and 1972. He said. Hinebeck said the incident swe Den s fourth protest to the soviet Union in five Yean would Cool a warming trend in relations Between lie two nations at Odds since a soviet submarine incursion almost exactly five Yean ago. Tail is not conducive to furthering our relations Heine Becic said. We have tried to build Good and liable relations with the soviet Union but a pre requisite of Conne is that they follow the rules of diplomacy and the 1961 Geneva. Switzerland diplomatic Conven Tion 1 Hinebeck said. The ties Are in violate. Social do moot Premier Ingvar coils son said the protest note delivered to the soviet was  this soviet behaviour u unacceptable Caisson told to the National news Agency. Until Friday relations Between swe Den and the soviet Union had gradually improved following a free imposed in 1981 when a soviet submarine ran a round off a swedus naval base a number of recent ministerial visits on both tides sought to improve Trade cultural and political exchanges. 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