European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 20, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Sony Boss lists causes of . Trade woes takeover mania poor marketing cited san Francisco up the chairman of Sony Carp monday blamed Wall Street s takeover mania poor marketing strategy and greed for most of the United slain Trade woes. Mao Morita told an inti National eco nomic conference on the Pacific Basin that it is time for America to look into the i am not saying Hal Japan is always right. Bui i am saying America is not always right he said. That View was disputed by Andre Procassini president of the Santa Clara Ca if.,-based semiconductor Industry association. Procassini said Pacific Basin nations must open All their markets to each other and Cany a greater share of lie Burden of world growth. He also urged a change from sonic cratic to democratic systems saying that newly industrialized countries must share More of the benefits of wealth with worker. Although Procassini did not mention countries by name. South Korea an Taiwan have come under lire for repressing political dissent and Japan has been criticized for curbing consumer demand Taiwan minister of stale . I rejected Procassini s criticisms saying political dissent in Taiwan May Cost the government an investment project by a major . Company but that is the Price you pay for the three men spoke at a conference on the Pacific Economy sponsored by the Pacific Basin economic Council. Morita 66, was surprisingly Blunt Dur ing a half hour speech to some 400 delegates from 16 countries among them the United Stales Japan Australia and Mexico. Morita who recently published his memoirs under the title made in Japan criticized , manufacturers for falling to properly research and mar their products. He also said . Companies Are slow to take advantage of business opportunities citing Sony s recent inability to per Suade . Record companies to invest in the production of the company s new compact disc players. Technology itself is important but even if you be got technology unless you have a real creativity in production planning you cannot be successful Morita said. He also said some of America s Best engineers have become the victims of layoffs due to corporate restructuring. And he said some of he americans he talks to arc More interested in gelling a piece of Japan s Export Boom instead of helping their own country Market its goods. Morin also blamed the . Trade deficit on american companies with off Shore production facilities that ship goods Back to the United Stales he said he is worried that the Dollar is getting weaker and weaker a development that could trigger inflation. Morita called for a Summit dialogue among . And japanese companies to discuss their problem but said american buying patterns won t be changed by pot icy alone. This Trade imbalance should be corrected to help the american Economy but we have never caused american peo ple to buy product he said. I said american manufacturers have never adjusted their products to fit asian Homes. And he said America must Redis cover an ethic it made famous hard work i find . Manufacturers Compla cent with your Domestic Market be cause your Market is too weak com pared to asian markets which taken individually Are quite Small spurring Competition among manufacturers i said. You make big air conditioners big App Hod Sony Carp. Chairman Aklo Morita refrigerators White the japanese make smaller ones Hal Are More suit Able for taiwanese Homes i said. Naturally they have More Sale i. There Are Many cases where we want i buy More he said. On this end you have la work help available for sex addicts conferees agree Minneapolis a people obsessed with Texas adults often Are looking for emotional fulfilment after being neglected or abused As children researchers Al the nation s first conference on sea addiction say but they say the condition which can jeopardize Careen and families May be treated with some of the same methods used by alcoholics. A typical sex addict is someone who from the moment be wakes up thinks about what he might do sexually during that Day and he plans the Day Accord ing to said conference chairman Eli Coteman associate director of the program in human sexuality at the University of Minnesota medical school people wid go to great lengths and will risk things of great value to them he said. They la risk their own lives their jobs their while 110 one is certain what Causa sexual addiction Coleman Taid family background teems to play a role. One thing Tome be in common is coming from abusive or neglected family backgrounds where there has not been a lot of intimacy expressed he said. Between 250 and 300 professional sexologist and mental health experts Are attending the two Day Confer ence. Its purpose is to allow specialists to Pool their knowledge in Hopes of coming to a belter understanding and treatment of sexual Compili Sicily and addiction co Leman said. Sex addicts engage in sex to fulfil an emotional need Coleman said. There is obviously a physical pleasure but for Many of them when they re involved in their act it s a release of feelings of depression aloneness. In Many ways they describe it As a fix to some very negative feel Ings he said. People addicted to sex say their craving is similar to on alcoholic wanting a drink or a drug addict s want ing a fix Coleman said. Sen becomes an obsession that preoccupied them one example is that they can l carry on an Ordinary conversation with a Friend without these thoughts. They d rather be somewhere else or be sexual with this person. It starts to become pervasive Wilh them Coleman said. Researchers Aren t sure How Many americans suffer from sex addiction largely because the study of sexual compulsively is fairly new Coleman said. We be identified far More people with this pattern than we did in the past but that May be due id our awareness of the problem Coleman said. But it could also be an increase because of the social and cultural sex addicts reflect a Cross Section of the population according to a study of people attending meetings of group caned sexual addicts Anonymous Coleman said. They were found to be More highly educated and a Little More affluent than the average population he said. Studies have not determined whether men or women Are More inclined toward sex addiction and it is difficult to draw the line Between people who limply engage in sex frequently and those who Are truly addicted he san. Steps leading to recovery include awareness discovery and Victory Over the negative aspects of lust and sexual sobriety. Organizations besides sexual addicts Anonymous formed to help sex addicts include sex Holit Anonymous sex and love Anonymous and sex abusers Anonymous he said. It is not known How Many members the groups have. Arrested actress defends right to pose in protest at Marine office Spokane Wash. A about 100 people opposed to president Reagan s policies in Central America demonstrated monday at a Marine recruiting office and police said 14 protesters were arrested when they refused to leave. Those arrested were issued citations for first degree criminal trespassing a Mise Meanor carrying a maximum penalty Ozone year in jail and a $5,000 Fine. All those arrested were released immediately. The demonstrators said they initially planned to occupy the Navy recruiting of fice but moved to the Marine office when Navy officials kept its office doors dosed. Protesters said they were opposed . Military Maneu vers in Honduras in Seattle meanwhile demonstrators erected a mock Central american Village on the Federal courthouse Lawn and said they planned to stage a Street theater War to protest a , intervention in Central a Nerica. Playboy doing layout on paraplegic Chicago a a pictorial on a paraplegic actress May have sparked internal debate at Playboy Magazine bul the woman who posed Semi nude for the pictures says the focus is on who she is not that she is disabled. Ellen Stahl 23, a student at California stale University Fullerton is the subject of a planned eight Page layout in the july Issue said Playboy spokesman Biu Paige. Slot is nearly nude or partially Clad in All of the photos except for one which has her sitting fully clothed in her wheel chair. The Magazine is to go on Sale the first week in june. Stohl was studying acting when she broke five neck vertebrae in a 1983 Auto Mobile Accident and was temporarily paralysed from the neck Down. Her legs remain paralysed. For a while 1 tried to sublimate my desire to act and Model by going to Art school but i came to terms with myself and decided 1 wanted to make a statement thai i was a total woman she said in a let Rhone interview. She wrote to the Magazine Sug Gesting the article and pan of her Letteris reproduced As part of the feature said Paige. She wanted to show that her sexuality was still part of Lohl s letter read in part sexuality is the hardest thing for disabled persons to hold "1 did t want to be treated specially when i approached Playboy and i was Happy when the first thing they asked me was what do you look like Are you Playboy material i think 1 am she said in the Telephone interview. The focus is on who i am not the fact that i m disabled she said. Her views were echoed by Speed Davis a spokesman for the National spi Nal Cord injury association of Newton mass. She has the same right to pose for Playboy As any other woman who thinks she has the qualifications Davis said. It s a step Forward for a disabled woman and i see no reason to feel Dif Ferent about it because it is in a mag Azine like said he thought the layout is a Good Opportunity to educate the Genera Public about sexuality among the Dis centuries ago the disabled were hidden so other people could t see them and Only seven or eight Yean ago the easter Seal foundation received a lot of negative comment when it skipped their usual Little girl on crutches poster and showed a Young Man in a wheelchair silting in a part with his Girlfriend in Bis Lap lie internal debate at Playboy was aired sunday by Chicago Tribune columnist Bob is precisely the kind of attention Playboy does t need Playboy associate editor Barbara this was quoted assaying. The Only thing people Are going to say is have you see what Playboy i doing girls in wheelchairs " editorial director Arthur Kretchmer defended his decision to run the layout telling Greene i May be naive but i Don l Sec this As
