European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Slip seen in Japan s Economy Tokyo us l Japan s economic growth in fiscal 19s9 will decline slightly from this year but still stay at a High level because of is rang consumer spending and capital investment a private research Institute has predicted. The Nik Fco research Center a 111 Ink tank of Nikko securities co. Cost Imald Japan s net economic growth for the year starting april i at 4.4 percent compared with on estimated 5,1 percent for the current year. Equipment investment by manufacturers will enter a phase of slowdown but will cause Little effect on the economic growth As it is aimed mainly at coping with restructuring. Nikki said in a report sunday. A remarkable aspect of the ongoing economic expansion is the rapid Progress in the restructuring of the japanese Economy the report said. In  re Struc luring which was spurred by the yen s Sharp appreciation demand is shifting from exports to Domestic scene while on the Supply Side Domestic production is being replaced by overseas production overseas Pur Chase of parts and imports of manufactured  capital investment by non manufacturers who account for two thirds of total equipment investment is expected to continue growing it said. Low interest rates will be maintained and the spread Between expected corporate profit Rales and interest rates will remain favourable for investment the Center  said that Given the present Price stability consumer spending is expected to maintain its High growth Rale. Therefore the Economy in fiscal 1989 will show a relatively solid performance in said personal consumption expenditures will maintain an annual growth rate of about s percent in real terms the report said adding thai wage increases next year will be 4.8 percent u p from 4.4 percent this year. It said Plant and equipment investment by manufacturers will fall to about 7 percent next year from 25 percent this year bul capital spending by non manufacturers is expected to continue growing by about 12 percent. As a result capital spending by All industries will show a gain of about id percent it said Japan s Trade balance will show Little improvement intensifying demands for Japan to increase efforts to bolster Domestic demand the report continued ii estimated the Trade surplus in 1989 to be $90,2. Billion compared with s92.8 billion in 1988 and $94 billion in 1987. Exports will Rise 6.5 percent to $281.4 billion while imports will jump 11.6 percent to $191.2 billion it said. The yen will appreciate to 120 for inc Dollar com pared with 126.5 in fiscal 1988, and the official Dis count Rale will remain unchanged at a postwar Low of 2.5 percent it said. The report said prices for crude Oil will remain unchanged at s14.5 a barrel. Sunday. December 25, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 9 taking aim Patrick i Mckernie explains to an unidentified Blind Man hem id shout with it special rlfli1 it the arc Tail Slio Otini Center in suburban i Uris. The Rifle s Sij lit has a device that transforms the target s re Flucard Light into Al duh Lical signals that inc Silook r hears through earphones connected to the sight. 189 Harvest envisaged is crucial Rome a drought floods and hurricanes wreaked havoc on world food supplies in 1988 and experts Are worried about the Outlook Tor next year the director general of the . Food and agriculture organization says. The outcome of next year s Harvest will be Cru Cial Edoliard Saouma said. In 19s9, global Cereal output must increase by an unprecedented million tons or 13 percent la meet food needs and rebuild stocks to acceptable levels.". During 1988, he said the world depleted once Abun Dant food reserves to their lowest Levels since the food crisis of the Early 1970s. For the first time since world War ii global Cereal production has declined. In two successive years. Sao Masaid. Belter harvests in Asia Africa and Western Europe were unable to offset crop losses in the americas. East Ern Europe ant inc soviet Union he said. Saouma also noted a severe drought in North Amer Ica the traditional breadbasket of inc world reduced Cereal output by almost a third. -.-. Two successive hurricanes took a  Harvest in some Central american and Caribbean countries and floods battered crops in a number of countries particularly in Oan Gladysh and Sudan he said. Food production he said has not kept Pace with population growth in two thirds of inc countries in Africa about half in latin american the Caribbean and Middle East and a third of those in the far Easl. I Ficon countries arc facing unusual food shortages and require exceptional food Aid he said. The coun tries arc Angola Benin Bangladesh Cambodia Haiti Laos Lebanon Malawi Mozambique Nicaragua so Malia sri Lanka Sudan Vietnam and Ethiopia. Our main multilateral food Supply for use in times of disasters the International emergency food re serve is exhausted he said. He repeated his proposal to make the voluntary re serve a legally binding convention and to augment the 500,000-Lonycar Reserve with a standby pledge of 1.5 million Tontor emergencies. Saouma said a number of Low income food deficit countries could have trouble meeting food needs next year because the Low stocks Hove pushed up Cereal prices. He also identified foreign indebtedness and agricultural Trade barriers As major obstacles for the third world. ,. ,.the Rome based organization coordinates agricultural projects in developing countries. Soviets breaking rigid dec Uca fond Molda a. ,.  -. -. Leo Tolstoy. Works neglected by students Moscow a soviet schools which Long churned out tens of millions of graduates formed in identical holds Are shifting to a recognition that individuality is a treasure and must be fostered the country s lop educator says. I students will be allowed to choose elective courses and teachers will be Able to Leach once banned classics of 20th Century russian literature under reforms being considered Cannady a. Yagodina told a news conference  Yagodina chairman of the state Edu cation committee did not specify which. Novels might be permitted to Sway Young minds but some of the masterworks rehabilitated in recent Yean include Boris Pasternak s doctor Zhivago and Mik i Hail Bulgakov s master and Margucri-1 la -. V forcing every student to fit the same Mold which was Long the soviet educational Norm fails to encourage greatness Yagodina acknowledged. The teacher hits the Nail on the head to keep in from sticking out but a this docs great damage to the individual he said ". Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev repeatedly has said changes in teaching methods and in the nation s curriculum arc necessary to guarantee that his drive for social Ana economic Reform succeeds. We pin Hopes for the future largely on the work of our school which is Only natural with its own teaching talents and the creative pursuits of the soviet teacher Gorbachev told the communist party s policy making Cen. Trial committee in february at a special meeting devoted to school  raised the startling possibility that the  curriculum might not include mathematics Foi every student considered abroad to be a Forte of soviet education but that seemed to be his per Sonal desire rather than a pending policy How many1, Here can subtract the Square Root of174?" he asked an auditorium full of soviet and foreign reporters none of whom answered docs Hap piness depend on this Yagodina added. He suggested that the Core curriculum should include language literature Sci ence and history. The first stage of schooling will last three or four years depending on the a. Titus a of the students and hey will have to pass a lest to move up Beci Iuse if n student poorly reads and counts when he moves on it builds in problems for the future he said. A. In the higher grades students will spend less Lime doing literary criticism and More time Reading literature he  we have students who can  Leo Tolstoy s mistakes but they have never read War and peace he said. More literature from foreign countries and the non russian nationalities of the soviet Union will be added he said More soviet students will go abroad As Well he said. Already the 2,500 Young people attending classes outside their Homeland is three times the number in 19.85, he said