European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday june 27,1988 Japan signs 2nd pact on . Imports. Washington a . And japanese Fri Ciak announced an agreement saturday aimed at expanding sales of a Range of american made consumer products in Japan a Market that . Companies have found gift cull to pc Cirvie. The agreement would Altel american sporting Good and Leisure products furniture jewelry proc Essed foods and pet foods which together accounted for nearly jl.6 billion in exports to Japan last year. Of the United slates j170 billion Trade deficit in 1987, 160 bid Ion was with Japan. American government an business officials have Long complained dial . Products Are not allowed id compete fairly try Japan this is a first attempt to really penetrate the Japa Nese consumer Market by getting Access to Consumers Commerce Secretary c. William Verity said. Verily and Japan s minister of International Trade and Industry Hajime Tamura. Announced the pact at a news conference and said they hoped that additional industries soon would be added loathe initiative. Ver ily said officials from the to county n  the eventual inclusion of Aboul 20 products. Under the agreement Trade officials from both countries will help american companies locale Polen Lial customers in Japan. Verity said he would soon meet with executives of the involved . Industries to discuss the program. Japan s ministry of incr National Trade and Indus try will help remove obstacles thai have hindered .s in in a Ipin the officials said Miti will work with them in opening a Portuni to i to get the products on the  Verity  department stores Ull products Are  japanese Hanks and truding companies also will try to Spur saus of . Goods. Verily and Tamura declined to estimate what effect the agreement would have on sales of american products in Japan. They acknowledged however that the initial results would Noi be dramatic. We Don t have Flowers immediately when we try Losow the  Tamura said through a translator. We have to sow the seeds  Tamura said thai Japan s International Trade sur plus which peaked in 1986, has been dropping in re cent months while Domestic demand has been growing sharply. He said that in the first five months of this year . Imports w Japan increased 43 percent Over the same period in 1987. Now is the Best possible Opportunity for  he said. The japanese consumer is finally coming into disown verily said. . Experts so Japan Las year totalled j204 million in Sperling goods and Leisure products $34 million in furniture $217 million in pc wiry and $1.1 billion in processed funds and pet food. Last monday the two countries reached a Trade pact thai would result in Large increases in . Imports of beef and Citrus fruits 1o Japan by phasing out or reducing quotas and tariffs. -. " ".-, i n a n Hull of a discovery Leslie Stewart Amer Nalphy archaeologist for the Arpi River nor Memphis Tenn the Liula and four  Survey inspects an old Wood others were discovered when the River dropped. They found on the Arkansas Side of the my Aisaia Are believed to be irom the 1880s.en boat to defense firms fear backlash from Pentagon bribery probe by Norman Black a military writer Washington the defense Industry fears that the investigation of fraud and bribery in Pentagon contracting will cause a slowdown in contract awards and new layers of oversight but the Pentagon says it does t expect that fallout any time soon. We Are Al least weeks if not months away from the kind of evidence which would Point to looking at the acquisition process for an overhaul says Dan Howard the Pentagon s chief spokesman. In the meantime the process of awarding contracts has not ground to a halt Howard said however Industry officials were nearly unanimous in their concern about the Impact of the probe. The investigation is very bad news for All of us because of i he effect it s going to have on the reputation of the Industry in total and because of the Stim ulus it will provide for additional regulations and Over sight w. B. Jones n vice president of the grummancorp., said last week. Well get regulations and stipulations on what consultants May do said Joseph Campbell an aerospace analyst for the Paine Webber group inc. Larry Mccracken manager of Media relations for Raythelon corp., said. Most people believe the procurement process will probably slow Down a bit be cause of new people being moved into some of the positions at the Pentagon several companies arc also worried that existing contracts will be cancelled because of evidence of wrongdoing and they May have to rebid projects Al ready under Way said Herbert c. Clu a spokesman for the aerospace industries association. Former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger meanwhile said sunday that an earlier study of Penta gon contracting found that contractor already Are Over audited and often Don t have the Opportunity tomake adequate profits. I certainly Hope that this is not used As an excuse by the professional Pentagon washers for cutting out enough funding for the defense of this nation Wein Berger said on Abc tvs meet the  the investigation of defense fraud surfaced on june m when Fri agents served More than three dozen search warrants around the country. 350 ufos enthusiasts gather to talk and wonder. Lincoln neb. Up Mem Ben of the Mutual ufos network hire converged on Lincoln this week end for i conference to speculate on the existence of unidentified Hying objects. Authorities and ufos expert  the latest information and photographs they bait thai Nurre that ufos exist. About 3so muons it tended the three Day conference. We re Here with speculations looking for Insorn said Waller Handrus my Fon International director. Andna mid it news conference opening the ration Friday that the main question Muon look to an wer re do ufos exist How Are the Craft powered a Bare Are the Craft from who Pilot int Cefi their have been More than 60,000 sightings of ufos Andna said he described scene he and lib wife witnessed in Texas. Four floating balloons Mored slowly parallel to be horizon then disappeared Only to reappear u suddenly. Fallowing the unexplained incident and began researching ufos Light Ings ind what be described u the comic watergate  to withhold information about ufos  from to Public. To Gnu started the network to 1969. The organization u comprised mostly of Jence enter aunts ice Iowla inter ested in studying and researching the phenomenon known jul  Muon Bel Letic i concentrated dentine study by Yinru Titton and earthen will provide the ultimate answer a the ufos Enigma. Punk Rocker Busy Day and night producing those Meese to shirts Washington a me Csc is Apig a slogan first plastered on construction fences building Walls and traffic Sig Nal boxes in the nation s capital has turned into a thriving Enterprise that can t keep up with demand. The to shirts spoofing attorney Gener Al Edwin Mccase Iii Are the holiest Selling item Ever locked by common con Cerns a downtown Washington Bookstore manager David Marcuse says. He estimated that about 1,000 of the have been sold so far. The to shirts Are the work of a group of about 60 Punk Rock musicians and fans who say they got into the business after they were arrested for putting up posters with the Mcnese is a pig slogan i places where no posting is allowed to Date Only one member of the group is making the shirts and Mark Andersen spokesman for the Punk Rock ers said the Ash it maker goes to sleep gets up and makes to shirts goes to sleep. Gets up and makes  group members say they decided Tosello shirts to get out their message in another Way than putting up posters and to raise Money to cover their Legal expenses. We weren t intending to become i to shirt fashion fad said Andersen. The business got some free publicity last week after a bicycle messenger re ported thai he had not been admitted into the Justice department became he was wearing the Shin. But by the end of the week the jus Tice deportment said it would allow poo pie wearing the shirt inside the bunding. Justice department spokesman fat Rick Korten said in an interview during the weekend that the department does t Lake the to shirts Loo seriously. "1 know it s hard to believe but we spend 13, 14 hours a. Day thinking about serious matters involving Law enforce ment he said