European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Bush names key envoys Page 3 d Shultz urges curbs on chemical arms Page 8 q bears 49ers, Bills bengals in nil showdowns Page 21 d Gadhof i proposes talks with Page 28 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 47, no. 263 sunday january 8, 1989 254 daily and sunday d 8693 a Tokyo a emperor Hirohito once venerated As a Hying god and made into the guiding spirit of a world War died saturday of intestinal cancer end ing a 62-year reign that saw his nation recover from ruin to riches. He was 87. Crown Prince Akihito oldest of the emperor s two sons became the 125th Hirohito s life in stories photos pages 13, 14, 15 occupant of the chrysanthemum throne. In a solemn wordless four min Ute ceremony a sword jewels and the Imperial seals were placed on a table in front of Akihito and he bowed. Hirohito died without Ever shedding much Light on his world War ii role. Historians generally agree that he was a figurehead who was required to approve military leaders decisions until he concluded the japanese had suffered enough from firebombing invasion and atomic bombing and personally announced surrender in August 1945. His death followed a 3 a month ill Ness during which reports on his blood pressure and temperature became fix Tures of japanese routine and Many festivities were postponed or cancelled. The government proclaimed a six Day formal mourning period and named the new emperor s reign Heisei or achieving peace. Hirohito s reign which began on dec. 25, 1926, was called Showa or enlightened peace. Thousands of people signed Condo Lence registers at the Palace. Japan s Stock markets closed but Banks and Many shops remained open. Some clerks wore Black ribbons but prepared by the Monarch s Long illness people generally reacted calmly. In Western Tokyo police arrested 10 members of the Radical leftist Chikaku a which Means Middle Core faction on charges of assembling weapons for a continued on Back Page world reaction mixed on death of Hirohito by the associated press world leaders from president Reagan to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev on saturday mourned emperor Hirohito who surrendered a broken nation to the allies in world War ii but presided Over its Rise to economic pre Eminence. Reaction to Hirohito s death however was Cool in several asian countries including South Korea which endured years of harsh colonial Rule by Japan. While president Roh Tae woo of South Korea sent his condolences a government party statement added we re serve further comment considering the unhappy past and the current Korea Japan Korea was divided into the communist North and capitalist South in 1945, when . And soviet troops ended Japan s 35 year annexation of the Peninsula. China extended condolences but the nationalist chinese government in Tai wan made no official comment because it has no diplomatic relations with Japan. However Taiwan s daily United evening news said it was an irony that while Hirohito apologized to the United states and Europe for the War he did not direct a sin Gle word to China to show his sorrow. Now Hirohito has died. We May not want to collect the reparations but we shall never forget the painful historic Gorbachev president of the soviet Union sent his sincere condolences and profound sympathy to the Japa Nese people. His two sentence Telegram made no mention of wartime hostilities with what see reaction on Back Page Hirohito surgeons repair Reagan Finger condition Washington a president Reagan s doctors surgically corrected a curvature of his left ring Finger saturday his spokesman reported. He s in Good spirits White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Reagan s surgery which began at 8 24 ., was successfully completed around 11 He has returned to his room the spokesman said. The 2 a hour operation performed by a team of physicians at Walter Reed army medical Center was designed to alleviate a deforming condition known As Dupuy Tren s contracture that caused the president s Finger to curve inward. Earlier in the Day Fitzwater said that Reagan s doctors began administering local anaesthesia shortly after 7 30 And that the president tolerated the procedure Well. First lady Nancy Reagan was scheduled to visit the president in his recovery room around midday her spokeswoman Elaine Crispen said quoting the first lady As saying i think i la take him some because of the surgery Reagan taped his weekly radio address before entering the Hospital Friday afternoon. The presi Dent usually delivers the live five min Ute talk from Camp David or the Oval office. See related Story Page 4. Accompanied by his wife Reagan said he Felt Fine As he entered the military Hospital Friday evening. Reagan planned to remain in the hos Pital until sunday. The surgery is consid ered routine and often does t require an overnight stay in the Hospital but Reagan will stay to be sure everything goes Well Fitzwater said. The affliction which causes a progressive and usually painless contraction of the fingers is caused by a thickening of the tissue called fascia in see Reagan on Back Page
