European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga8 the stars and stripes tuesday May 26,1987 Japan asks its firms to buy foreign semiconductors Tokyo api Japan s Trade minister asked 10 major electronics companies monday to buy More foreign made sem conductor an  at the ministry said. Internal Iona Trade and Indus try minister Hajic Tamura made the request in a meeting with executives from Nec corp., Hitachi Ltd. And other leading electronics firms said ministry spokesman Taisho Sato. Sal said the executives replied that they would try to comply with the request. It comes a few Days before Japan is to resume talks with the United Stales to review an a month old semiconductor Trade agreement. President Reagan imposed Ito percent tariffs on j3qo million Worth of japanese electronics goads on april 17, saying Japan had violated the agreement to Stop dumping computer chips at unfairly Low prices in i hard country markets and to import top japanese electronics firms in billions of dollars of electronics sales or 1985 Tjai Sushila $17.9 Panasonic quasar Tec Mic and National Brand name products Chicago Tribune graphic source Eloer Ronic business Magazine More american made chips. Kyodo news service quoted Tamura As Ellin the executives whether you like it or not the bilateral issues on semiconductor Trade have become a symbolic matter 1 the 10 companies which also included Sony corp. Mitsubishi electric co. And Fujitsu Ltd., Purchase about 40 percent of All semiconductors bought in Japan. Last week the ministry said it had obtained data that showed increases in computer Chip prices in third country markets and a steady Rise in the share of foreign made computer chips in Japan but refused to disclose details. The United states has indicated in May Lif at least pan of the sanctions once it sees hard evidence hat Japan is comply ing with the pact. The talks on semiconductor Rade Are to be held in Washington on thursday and Friday. Libya $ Industrial base crumbling Qadhafi admits on to broadcast London up ii libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi has publicly announced that his country s Industry is collapsing and he cited cases of factory mis management theft and absenteeism. Qadhafi made the statements to a government meet ing. A recording of the session monitored by the British broadcasting corp., was shown saturday night on libyan television. The broadcast did not say exactly when Qadhafi made the speech. The libyan Leader called for a i reorganization of libyan Industry based on native raw materials and indicated thin lower Oil prices were a major cause of the nation s current problems. He called for the hiring of cheap foreign  he said that after his takeover Qadhafi of Libya in 1969. Many factories were set up. There is a wide scale of industries but they Are declining and failing now. Due to the  of the concerned secretarial to control them Qadhafi said. They managed the factory without being partners in in and could not care less Itil stopped wanting he said libyan factories have not satisfied con sumption have not developed have not mastered their Industry and have not provided goods at Low  in fact. Qadhafi admitted we aspect that. In the coming period the Industrial base that we have established will  he said that if Libya itself could not provide the raw materials needed for a factory there is no Point in setting up an Industry and burdening the  while you Tell Oil in libyan Leader said you get Money and with the Money you buy raw materials from abroad. When you do not sell Oil you will not be Able to buy raw material and the factory will Stop. All the machinery which Aai millions will stand still. And the workers will have to  Qadhafi said that at one factory producing medical goods workers Lead taken the Plant s raw materials and sold them for personal gain. The workers would be referred to it revolutionary court he. Said. Qadhafi also complained there is no committed work Force in factories. Today there Are Soo workers tomorrow 400, the Day after 700 and then 200. Why do they come and go Qadhafi said a new Industrial plan should be sub melted to the libyan people s Congress he said he believed the sector should be divided into heavy Indus try medium Industry and Light Industry he said heavy Industry including petrochemicals and steel must be based on a cheap foreign labor Force and those libyans who fulfil the  the libyan Leader also said thai agriculture Tad to be planned so As to increase exports and Cut imports. He called for he establishment of Public agricultural projects that could be used to introduce an element of Competition into the Home produce Market. Re radio Liberty jamming increased Munich up the soviet Union has stopped jamming he voice of America Bui has increased its inter Ference with radio free Europe and radio Liberty Mal Colm s. Forbes or. Chairman of the Board that oversees the two Munich based . Government financed stations said monday he said the soviet Union is continuing to Jam Broad casts of Germany s Deutsche Welle station and Israel s Kol Forbes confirmed reports that the soviet Union has ceased jamming broadcasts of the voice of America. He added. Our engineers have established that no least two of the soviet hammers previously aimed at Voa have been redirected against frequencies of radio free Europe and radio  we Welcome the fan thai the .s.r. Is no longer jamming the voice of America Forbes said. A More convincing  of glasnost however would be a soviet decision to cease All jamming Cla Nast is soviet Leader Mikhail Gor Echev s policy of a Freer flow of information. Radio Liberty which broadcasts to the soviet Union in russian and 14 other languages and radio free Europe which broadcasts to other East european countries have been the main target of soviet jamming for decades Forbes said. He disclosed that in the past when the soviet Union stopped jamming most Western broadcasts it continued to Jam radio Liberty and radio free Europe. Unlike other Western broadcasters. Radio fret Europe and radio Liberty concentrate on internal developments in the Sot Iet Union and Eastern Europe acting As Suito Gale Home services Forbes said the soviet leadership p never has been willing to accept the role of radio Liberty and radio free Europe in pro Viding the people of the .s.r. And Eastern Europe with accurate and balanced news about events in their own  he said. In january when the soviet Union slopped jamming British broadcasting corp s russian broadcasts Forbes said it turned those jamming transmitters against frequencies used by radio Liberty and radio free Liberty. It noted that jamming of International radio Broad casts is a violation of International Law and of several treaties to which the soviet Union Isa signatory. World today moderate quake strikes Alps Region in North Italy Rome a a moderate earthquake hit mountainous Region of Northern Italy on Sun Day rattling China and loosening Bill of Shuter siding on Homes italian officials reported. One aging abandoned House collapsed near Lake Garcia but no other major Daman or injuries were reported from the quake which struck Jusi after noon in the Alpine Region Between Trento and Brescia. The National Institute or geophysics Bawd m Rome said the Leshor a distend a magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter scale with a corresponding intensify of a i tilth Grade on the mar Tail scale. The Richter scale is a gauge of the Energy released by an earthquake As measured by the ground motion recorded on a Seismograph. Every increase of a number meant the ground motion is 10 times greater. A magnitude of 4 can cause moderate damage while a 5 on the Rich scale can spread considerable damage. . Climber reaches top of world s 5th-tallest Peak Katmandu Nepal a one More member of a climbing team from the United states has reached the Summit of the 27,738-foot mount Makalu i. The world s fifth tallest Peak Nepal s tourism ministry announced sunday. Quoting a report from the team s base Camp the they followed the same route along the North St Ridge taken by three other members of the team two americans and a Sherpa guide when they climbed to the of on May 12, chilean journalist honoured by newspaper publishers Helsinki Finland up chilean journalist Juan Pavlo Cardenas who led his country 10 Days ago to escape imprisonment monday was awarded the 1987 Golden pen of Freedom award by the International federation of news paper publishers f1ej. Cardenas accepted the recognition at a ceremony attended by finnish president Mauno Koivisto. Cardenas editor of the Santiago based Magazine analysis was cited As the person who most fought and uttered for the Freedom of the press by Gio Vanni Giovanni publisher Foll Matino of Naples Italy and Secretary Gen Era of Fie. Cardenas Home has been bombed his foreign editor assassinated and his publication seized by the chilean government on numerous durations. 4 killed by Stampede during clothes Giveaway Dhaka Bangladesh a a Stampede by thousands of poor people scrambling for Charity clothes killed three women and a child clutched in his Mother s arms newspapers reported Sun Day. The stamp de saturday also injured 10 peo ple most of them women the Independent Bengali language daily it Tefas said. Police said Mey were investigating the reports. Affluent moslem distribute free Soihet to destitute people to fulfil their religious Obliga Tor of giving a portion of Ihetu income to the poor. The government also hands out clothes and feeds the poor on such occasion chinese Magazine assailed for telling personal secrets Beijing a China s official communist party newspaper took a Magazine to task sunday for printing Wamon exaggerations about a a. Mous writer s finl love. Revealing other people s personal secrets is Dis respectful unethical and violates China s Constitution people s daily said in a front Page Anicie. 1 did not identify the writer. It did t even identify the Magazine that it said engaged in the corrupt practice1 of reporting details of peo ple s personal lives but the paper implied it was a literary publication the More famous person Isth higher the value  have people Sadi Lysall