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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, November 12, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 12. 19b6 the stars and stripes battleship Missouri on 4-Day visit to Turkey aboard Missouri api the recommissioned . Battleship Misson whose first Call Here 40 years ago symbolized the Start of he .-turkish defense Alliance arrived in Istanbul tuesday for a four Day visit to this nato member country. The Missouri sailed into the narrow bosporus waterway Early tuesday firing a 21-gun Salute before dropping Anchor in front of the 19th-Century Otto Man door Nabahhe Palace just As it did an april 5, 1946. Then it brought Back the body of the late turkish ambassador to Washington Munir Ertegun. The Missouri s 1946 visit came four months after the soviet Union delivered an ultimatum to Turkey demanding joint control of the bosporus and the Dardanelles Straits. Just a year before this the Sovi ets had cancelled a treaty of Friendship with Turkey demanding thai Turkey turn Over the Eastern prov inces of Kan and Adanan. When you came Here the Clouds Over our North started to disappear Ismet Inonu then Turkey s president was quoted As saying to a group of Ameri can diplomats upon the Missouri s arrival. The following year Turkey and the United Stales fashioned a military Alliance against the soviet Union which paved the Way for Turkey s admission to the North Atlantic treaty organization in 1952. The Missouri in i94s arrived to an unprecedented Welcome with at least two thirds of Istanbul s 500,000 residents in the streets and Ai the Dolma a acc waterfront greeting the american sailors. Buildings had been whitewashed and restaurants and shops were prepared to give the american servicemen a lavish Welcome. The second visit of the battleship did not cause As much excitement among the now 6 million residents of Istanbul . Officials said the current cruise is he first Globe circling Lour for the Missouri since its launch ing in 1944, during world War ii. The ship served the rest of the War in the Pacific and it was on its decks that Japan s surrender documents were signed in i94s. The Missouri s Only other action was off Korea during the korean conflict i n the Early 1950s. President Reagan recommissioned the Missouri last Spring after it had been at rest for three decades. The battleship left Bremerton wash., on june 10. The 58,000-ton battleship normally carries about 1,600 officers and men . Officials said. It will leave Istanbul Friday morning and Wilt Call at several Mediterranean ports including Naples Italy before heading into the Atlantic to return Home. Aquino says private sector must rebuild Economy Tokyo a philippine president Corazon Aquino tuesday told japanese legislators the primary responsibility for rebuilding her country s Economy must fall on the private sector. Because the ruin of the Economy was made possible by the stale s control of the Economy and because a Are committed in principle to free Enterprise the Effort to rebuild the Philippines must mainly be carried out by the private Sec Tor both filipino and foreign she told a nationally televised reception at the official residence of the speaker of Japan s House of representatives. We need outright Aid. But More importantly we need Japan s expression of Faith in the Promise of philippine Progress said Aquino who arrived monday on a four Day visit to strengthen philippine japanese lies and encourage Japan to increase its economic presence in the Philippines. It is her third overseas trip since she took office nine months ago. Earlier tuesday in a series of 15-min ule Courtesy Calls Aquino and other members of her delegation met with the chief officers of several major japanese firms including the six largest trading companies spokesman Bencdicto s. David said. David told reporters the companies briefed the president on their activities in the Philippines and philippine officials figured the revenues generated by japanese companies exports from the Philippines would reach $1.1 billion in 1987, up from s845 million in 19s5. David said there was no estimate available for 1986. David also quoted prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasonc As telling information minister Teodoro Benigno at the afternoon reception that Aquino is show ing thai she is a great Leader a generous woman while at the same Lime remain ing a typical  Ai a luncheon with Nakasone Aquino said she expected to preside in the next japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone toasts philippine president Corazon Aquino during a tuesday luncheon. Six years Over the same kind of dynamic Progress that made Japan an economic Power after the devastation of world Warll. Twenty years ago we were second Only to you in our Region in terms of wealth. Despite such blessings our Polit ical leaders managed to squander every thing and leave us broken at the Bottom of the pile she said. The foreign ministry provided a copy of Aquino s speech. While i am anxious to resolve the communist insurgency blood Lessly i will not tolerate a non democratic Challenge to our government and people from any Quarter she added. My presidency runs until 1992, and in that time i have every expectation that i will oversee the same concerted burst of directed National Energy that did so much for  she said that for Japan and the Philippines the Philippines resurgence could be not just shared Pride but a sense of regional Security As  Aquino also received gentle applause from hundreds who had gathered in the Giroua shopping District where she viewed a philippine fair at the Seibu department store. Sales personnel wore yellow sweatshirts with Cory the president s nickname printed on them. French demonstrators chant Botha assassin1 Longuevan France a president . Botha of South Africa snubbed by the French govern ment dedicated a museum honouring his country s War dead tuesday saying that their sacrifice should still in the determination Floday s South africans. The ceremony was disrupted twice once by an anti apartheid demonstrator and once by jeering by dozens in the audience when the French government representative presented a Wreath. Hundreds of police officers were deployed through the Fields and Woods of the Somme Valley for Miles around the museum memorial and cemetery. Several dozen demonstrators chanting Botha Assassin were kept behind police lines about two Miles from the armistice Day ceremony. Earlier tuesday the extreme leftist group direct action claimed responsibility for bombing three Paris office buildings during the night to protest Botha s visit. All three buildings House companies with Busi Ness tics to South Africa. Botha spoke at the memorial site in Delville Wood just outside the Liny Village of Longuevan. We stand Here today to Honor the death of those South africans who gave their last full measure of Devotion to what they believed was right and in the interest of Freedom Botha said. It is a Clear signal of our determination not to lose our commitment to Freedom gained Over Many centuries on countless  when Botha began speaking a Young bearded Man stood up and began shouting if you respected the soldiers ,." he was quickly shouted Down and hustled away. Earlier when the senior French official present a local administrator presented a Wreath on behalf of the government dozens of French people in the Audi ence hooted whistled jeered and shouted Gauvre France poor France to show their disapproval of the decision of the government of Premier Jacques Chirac not to meet with Botha. Botha who was received Only by Low ranking French officials said the museum is a tribute to All South africans who have Given their lives for South Africa during the Long course of its  the Only French official to speak at the ceremony was Long Cal mayor gallon Declerq. Jean Pierre Sturbois a member of the French National Assembly for the Eil erne right National front said he and three others from the party attended to support what he called Botha s efforts to try to solve the problems of his  Botha is to leave France on wednesday stopping off in the portuguese protectorate of Madeira from nov. 12-14 on his Way Home  
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