European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Pepsi otters Job to contest Winner Page 2 d chemical weapons disposal outlined in new report Page 5 d Thatcher arrives for Moscow visit Page 28 tripes authoai1id unofficial Ruvo. 45. No. 343 sunday March 29, t987 of Tai . Retd f8kcb1 08693 Aegean confrontation eases by the associated press a turkish seismic vessel saturday began exploring for Oil within Turkey s territorial limits after Greece threatened to Stop the ship from conducting tests undisputed areas of t he Aegean sea. As Long us Greece Mays within the 6-mile territorial Waters limit in its Oil research we will do the same said a turkish official Olio spoke on condition of anonymity. The Simsik to which icel its moorings in the Darda Nelles Early saturday under escort or two warships began seismic testing in Turkey s Saras Bay military and civilian authorities said. As tensions Between the two countries cased Creek Premier Andreas Papandreou saturday dropped a re quest for the closing of a . Navy communications base near Athens. Greece made the request Friday and blamed Washington Tor the confrontation with Turkey Papandreou asked to comment on the situation told reporters saturday i can repeat the phrase re strained optimism but i be nothing else to  Greece put its military on Alert Friday because or turkish plans to Send the Oil vessel to conduct tests in Aegean Waters outside of Turkey s territorial Lim sea Aegean on Page 28 . Plans retaliation against Japan with heavy penalty tariffs Washington a president Reagan contending that Japan has re need on a major Trade agreement on computer chips announced plans Friday to impose stiff penalty duties on a wide array of japanese products including television sets and pocket calculators. J Reagan said in a statement thai the action the most sweeping Trade retaliation that the United slates has taken against Japan since Hie end of world War ii would cover As much As $300 million in japanese exports to the United states. . Trade representative Clayton Cutter told reporters this action should come As no Surprise to the government of Japan but Japan s Trade minister. Hail me Tamura called the . Decision  he said Japan would seek emergency consultations to resolve the dispute before the tariffs take effect. Penalties on selected japanese products will be As much As 100 percent or equal to the current prices of the products themselves potentially doubling the Cost of Host items to Consumers. Cutter and Commerce Secretary Mal Colm Baldric said the 1 Don t expect the action to result in major Price increases to . Consumers. They said they doubt that japanese companies would risk such big increases in the face of Competition from elsewhere. Products selected for targeting Are Only those that Are also widely available from non japanese manufacturers. However other officials said that some Price increases seemed inevitable and that in any event americans might have to switch away from popular Japa Nese brands to less costly alternatives. The move was praised by the nation s semiconductor makers who claim they arc losing $1 billion in sales a year to japanese computer chips sold at bargain basement prices. These sanctions should provide reasonable incentives for the japanese government and Industry to comply with the agreement said Andrew a. Procassini. President of the semiconductor Industry association. However Tamura said the . Deci Sion to impose penalties violates the agreement and is in total disregard of the fact that the japanese Side is implementing this arrangement in Good  he told a news conference it takes time for the pact to produce results add ing i feel perplexed because the United states has taken such Hasty action with out wailing to Sec those results.1 he said the japanese government would Challenge any . Retaliatory measures As violating the general agreement on tariffs and Trade. Based see Japan on Page 28 Curling Cue a Patio this is no hockey puck on steroids and Andre Schoepp has t forgotten her skates. The Granite Stone is used for the Winter sport of Curling. Schnupp is Captain of the German women s team. Here she Calls a shot to team members in the sell finish of he world ladies Curling championship in Lake Forest 111. Germany played Norway in the match Friday. Opposition to German census growing by eur reams Salt writer the German government is feverishly working to keep he National census scheduled for May from becoming farce. A census Boycott movement has mobilized some 400 groups operating out of several thousand Cemers throughout the country to turn the can into in expensive Flop a spokeswoman fur the Green party in Bonn told the Sun and stripes. The German government is looking for 600,000 people to Knock on doors All Over the country May 25 with Luc lion Aires in nine languages to collect information on the Republic s 25 million households. They la be asking questions about birth dates marital status religious affiliation rent and jobs. People residing in Germany under the status of Fortes agreement will be cd Mph from the count. The Federal Bureau of statistics maintains thai the census is necessary to col Lect data needed to plan for the future. We really have neither an accurate count of our people nor the buildings in the country Bureau spokesman Paul we by Borcer said. In addition to very practical Domestic needs we also have a duty to our european common Market co members to provide accurate Statis tics about the  since the end of the War Weer Borg Craid there has been some kind of Consul about every 10 years. In i a we counted buildings in 1970 the population. There were 6 million West germans at he  lie said the l 70 census came off without a hitch. The planned i Esq census was dropped because the government Undine Stales could t agree on who would foot the Bill. It was rescheduled for 1983. But col lapsed again when part of the census Law was ruled unconstitutional because it allowed the Matching of data wit local police registers. Parliament removed the offending passages in the Law in 1985 and paved the Way for this year s census. The weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel Hiis quoted a prominent census observer who claims two thirds of the  again it tin1 a mix with the trend be on Ting increasingly hostile As May 25 hours. Some officials such us Justice min ister Hans Engelhard arc calling for 10.000-Mark $5,500 fines for members of he Green party who Call for a renewed census Boycott. Individuals who Hoy Cou or falsify their questionnaires could be subject tothe sum Fine in Galliard said. Chief Federal prosecutor Kurt Reb Mann has been quoted As saying local prosecutors could and should charge peo ple who publicly urge citizens to break the Law by refusing to talk to census Lak ers or providing insufficient or wrung information. I it he state ignores the cull for a boy Cott of the census this could cause serious damage to the understanding of democracy n the future citizens could refer to the disrespect for the Law by members of parliament it manii lot her Spiegel. After a March 10 bomb attack against he census Center ill liver Kusch Blute governments have transformed census renters into High Security areas in anticipation of further attacks. A group  census opponents claimed responsibility for the lever Kusch attack. A Onsi Sling Book in the past several continued on Page 28