European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday Juno 22. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 arms initiative from West is urged Moscow a soviet Leader Mikhail s. Oar a Chyon sunday accused inc Weil of a deficit of realistic policy and called on Western leaders 10 make an Initia Tive toward d . After a listing his ballot in single candidate elections for local governing bodies the communist party chief approached reporters gathered outside he polling place and asked them to bring h is views to the world s attention. They Call upon us in the soviet Union to do some thing else to do More said Gorbachev referring to Western leaders. But i must say that today the soviet leadership sees that there arc Many words from the West but not Many Concrete  he contended that the West has done Little in response to numerous arms control initiatives advanced by soviet negotiators. We Are prepared 10 cooperate with All forces. But there is a deficit of realistic policy in the West he told the crowd of Aboul 50 journalists mostly from Western coun tries they Are Only concerned with How to save face. But Concrete Steps Are necessary on the rond toward a panel notes Mai Japan could Cut Trade Gap Washington a a joint eco nomic committee report released saturday predicts that the Overall . Trade deficit with Japan would be Oil by up to 13 percent if the japanese lifted barriers 10 american agricultural products. The report requested by sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas chairman of the finance committee also suggests that the japanese would have More Money to buy other . Goods if they were spending less on food stuffs. The reduction of japanese barriers to food could increase . Exports by nearly .10 percent or $7.5 billion according to inc report. In 19b6, the United Stales exported a total of s27 billion to Japan while imports totalled $85 billion leaving a $59 billion . Trade deficit with the japanese. Twenty percent of those exports were a Nail Lura. Virtually All those commodities faced strict japanese government Trade barriers which severely limited sales according to the report Liy limiting Supply these barriers push food prices in Japan up sharply victimizing Consumers there by reducing real  consequently the japanese spend much More on food than americans at the present time we arc exporting about $5.5 billion Worth of agricultural products to Apan Lien sen said in a statement. Now if. You Tore Down All of those barriers 10 agricultural products it would mean that the japanese would be Able to buy Steak instead of paying $24 a Pound As they do in Japan now they d pay s3 a Pound As we do in this country by men said. The Trade barriers Are in place to assure japanese Farmers parity of incomes with Urban workers and to ensure self sufficiency in Rice which has essentially amounted to a ban on imported Rice i he report said. Farmers receive about 10 times the world Price for Rice in Japan. Retail prices Are considerably lower however because elaborate government subsidies arc then applied to moderate commodity prices when sold to wholesalers and later to  japanese government farm subsidies last year totalled $40 billion plus another s10 billion in food overcharges to Consumers and pushed farm incomes 40 percent above Urban families according to the report. American Farmers were Given $27 billion in farm subsidies last year. Bin Lson said his Trade Bill seeks to tear Down Trade barriers including the agricultural tariffs in Japan. His Bill is scheduled for debate in the Senate on tuesday mom ing. The Keagan administration has submitted 30 pages of objections to specific items contained in what is to be an omnibus Trade big. More healthy situation to avoid nuclear Wir Imi violence to broaden  soviet and . Officials have said that the two sides Are close to an agreement a arms talks in Geneva that would eliminate medium Range missiles from Europe and pave the Way for a third Summit Between Gorbachev and president Reagan. Gorbachev deflected All questions from reporters Stal ing repeatedly this will not be a press  he said that disarmament initiatives arc needed from the West but thai the current generation of political leaders at least in the major capitalist countries Are concerned that they May lose in  he did not specify any i and i v id Ual leaders or coun i pics. We should be concerned Only with How to turn the world from confrontation and tension and the arms race to another direction on the Road of improvement of inter National relations and disarmament he said. No words  substitute for real  he began his Short speech by noting that monday 15 a Day of a Perhaj significance for  on j unc 22.1