European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes saturday september 17,1983 Japan stunned by Bush Trade remark Tokyo up vice president George hush s statement that Japan should open its Rice Market caused a juror in Tokyo a riday As top government leaders vowed never to liberalize the Market. Flush in a prepared suite no Cal that Drew Little attention in the United states bul was full pack news in Japan said he supports the american Rice Industry s efforts to open the japanese Market the japanese a Nejiu reported. The . Rite Millers association petitioned the . Triple representatives office wednesday to put ils weight be Hind the charge thai Japan unfairly restricts Rire imports. The group demanded Lylial i Forte  to open 10 percent of it Market. J.ipancv.1 officials stunned by Bush s comment wind the Republican presiden tial candidate has gone Back on a prom ise made by . Cabinet members no to raise the Issue of Rice Libra Bizalion Between the two countries. La appears he Bush will resort to any Means to win the election said Trad minister Hajime Tamura. We have a Promise not to discuss Rice Libra Lara  a senior foreign ministry official. Who asked not to be named said the Promise was conveyed by Secretary of state George Shutlz. Sec relay of Agri Cullura Richard Lyng and . Trade representative Clayton a Cutler. Japanese fear Rice would become the nem hot Trade Issue in a series of . Efforts to open Japan s markets. But top officials say they will not give in on Rice As icy have with sonic other products. We have always maintained that we will not liberalize the Rice Market arid that will stand said agriculture min ister Takashi Sato. Bush said in his statement there Are no exceptions and no excuses Loun fair Trade practices according to the Jpn Anes Media. The japanese argue thai Rice is almost sacred to them. It is their Staple food and is intimately linked to their culture and religion. Virtually All Rice in Japan is produced domestically with government subsidies that push the Price Loas much As 10 limes the world Markci Price. The ruling Liberal democratic party is expected to pass a Resolution rat week firmly staling Japan will not open its Rice Market. Tokuo Matsumoto. The executive director of the largest agricultural cooperative met Wilh . Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield to express his group s concern. Rice is the very underpinning of Jap anese society Matsumoto said to Lake up this Issue very casually in the presidential election will leave very serious problems for the  Mansfield s spokesman said the ambassador understood Matsumoto s con Cern and would convey it to Washington. In Washington. Cutter has 45 Days to decide whether to accept the Rice Indus try s request a deadline that Falls just before the . Presidential election. If the petition it accepted Japan must open its Rice Market in a Short time or the United Stales can impose a unilateral response. If the . Government does not turn Down the petition they will find them selves in a very difficult situation with the j Apa Csc Matsumoto said. My Stem kidnappers released this photograph of american hostages Alann Slenn right and Jesse Turner. Sfax Emend by kidnappers hints at How . Can free 4 captives Beirut Lebanon a moslem kidnappers holding four educators issued a photograph thursday of two of their american hostages Wilh a Handwritten statement setting Ous conditions under which their captives might be freed. The offer from the islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine organization was in a note delivered to a Western news Agency in Beirut. The note included a Polaroid picture of Alann so can 49, of Boston and Jesse Jonathan Turner 41, a native of Boise Idaho. The men have been held for nearly 20 months. The picture showed Slenn and Turner smiling broadly resting on a mattress with a flowered pattern and a Violet Pillow. Each was holding a cigarette. Both wore Navy Blue Gulf tvs and had Long hair. Sleen was clean shaven while Turner had a Bushy Beard. Steen Turner Robert Polhill 54, originally of new York City and Mithilesh War Singh 60, an Indian who is a Legal resident alien of the United slates were kidnapped on Jan. 24, 1987, from the Campus of the .-altilialed Beirut University College by gunmen posing As riot police. The statement written in arabic hinted that the moslem group would free us hostages if the Reagan administration undertook an initiative within one week in support of the palestinian uprising in israeli occupied territories. The uprising began dec. 8. Official . Policy is that the Reagan administration will not bargain under such conditions. Islamic jihad for the liberation of Palestine is believed to be sympathetic to the palestinians As Well As Iran s revolutionary patriarch Aya touch Ruhollah Khomeini. The four educators arc among 17 foreigners missing and believed held hostage in Lebanon. The 17 include nine americans three britons an Indian an irishman an italian and two unidentified men. The longest held is tern1 Anderson chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press who was kidnapped in Beirut on March 16,1985. The statement said the group s offer was timed to Coin cide with the 10th month of the uprising against israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza strip. So can was a communications instructor when Kidnap Ped from the College and Turner a visiting professor of mathematics and computer science. Polhem lectured i accounting and Singh was a visiting professor of finance. World today 16 americans jailed for protest in Honduras Tegucigalpa Honduras a a group of 16 americans was jailed thursday after Stag ing demonstrations at the , embassy and a . Air base and will probably be expelled from the country a police official said. Maj. Manuel Urbina spokesman for us pub Lic Security forces said the americans were pro testing Reagan administration policy in Central America when they were arrested in front of the embassy and the . Air base in Paim Crola about 40 Miles Northwest of the capital. He said four of the protesters were being held at the Casamasa prison in Tegucigalpa and the other 12 at a police jail in Comayagua four Miles away. Chinese troops shot at Royal Navy copter Beijing up chinese troops fired on a British Royal Navy helicopter on a scarch and re scum Mission last month in the South China sea British officials said thursday. There were no injuries and the helicopter was not hit by what one British diploma described As Small arms  the Royal Navy helicopter which was stationed aboard a British naval vessel in the area was responding to a distress Call by a taiwanese fishing vessel aug. 23 when shots were fired from a chinese military outpost on he parcel islands a British embassy spokesman said. A chinese foreign ministry spokesman told reporters at a weekly news conference. This was entirely a misunderstanding and now the matter has in  he declined further comment French fighter program plagued by Cost overruns Paris up serious Cost overruns Are plaguing the development of France s ambitious rafale fighter Jet and raised grave doubts about its economic viability the Magazine l express reported Friday. The weekly Magazine disclosed a parliamentary report drawn up Early this year and sup pressed by then defense minister Andre Giraud saying France has vastly overextended itself in the $ 19 billion program. Out of the Apponi Malelya 16.2 billion development costs of he combat Jet the report said the French stale has allocated less than is Bil lion with other investors yet to be found to nil the Gap. As a result prime contractor assault Breguet aviation and other builders in the project will have to put up nearly 1500 million Between now and 19911463 million for assault alone this year