European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 27, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Targets Japan on its Trade hit list Washington a the Bush administration has targeted Trade harriers in Japan. Brazil and indians it moves to earn put a controversial new Trade Law that potentially could Lead to huge import taxes against some products officials said thursday. Congressional and administration officials said the decision had been made to cite Japan for its refusal to buy .-Madc satellites and supercomputers As Well As its barriers on . Lumber products. The 1988 omnibus Trade act requires the administration to Issue a sort of hit list identifying the Trade barriers most harmful to american producers. Presi Dent Bush then has 18 months to negotiate the remo Val of the barriers. If the talks arc unsuccessful the government can imposes taxes of up to 100 percent on selected imports from an offending country. Officials said India would be cited for its restrictions on foreign investment and foreign insurance Compa Nies while Brazil would be cited for its import Licens ing practices. Two congressional sources who both spoke on condition that they not be named said that the unite states also would list five countries for priority negotiations on the Issue of failure to protect . Copy rights and patents. They said another 25 nations would be put on a watch list for possible inclusion in this category in november. The Trade hit list has stirred anger among . Allies who charge that the unilateral listing by the United states of a particular nation As an unfair trader violates the general agreement on tariffs and Trade the pact which governs world Trade. Some nations mounted extensive lobbying efforts to keep from being named to the list. That lobbying Effort worked for South Korea Taiwan and the 12-Nationeuropean Community which were kept off the priority country list despite having Large Trade surpluses with the United Stales. Congressional supporters of the new Trade provi Sion known As super 301, mounted their own Campaign to make sure the administration named Japan As a priority nation. Japan ran up a Trade deficit with the United states of $52 billion last year accounting for 44 percent of the total deficit of $119.8 billion making it a prime target for inclusion on the Trade list. While South Korea s deficit of $8.9 billion was among the largest of any nation officials from that country stepped up efforts in the past weeks to reach agreements on the removal of various barriers against . Products and the administration apparently took these concessions into account in making its determination. Nonscheduled Landing after High winds finished sweeping through Central and Northern Illinois on thursday Mike Lynn left and an unidentified Friend found Flynn s Cessna 172 upside Down on the roof of a hangar at the Crystal Lake Airport. The winds ripped roofs off buildings and overturned Mobile Homes. Vets defy order barring Vietnam Tours Washington a two Vietnam veterans from Akron. Ohio said thursday they will continue to organize group Tours of Vietnam for fellow veterans in Defiance of a Treasury department order. The american civil liberties Union said it will de fend the two men if they Are prosecuted. The Treasury department sent a letter in february to Donald Mills and John Myers of the Akron chapter of Vietnam veterans of America telling them to immediately terminate performing any activities involving travel Tours to  the department s letter said such activities Are prohibited under foreign assets control regulations and arc punishable by a Fine of up to $50,000. Imprisonment for up to 10 years or both. The regulations were issued in March 1988 in accordance with economic embargo Laws affecting Viet Nam Cambodia and North Korea under the trading with the enemy act. They do not prevent veterans from travelling on their own. Mills and Myers have conducted the trips twice yearly since 1984. The seventh and most recent one was in february. The next trip is scheduled for november and will involve 21 or 22 veterans paying $2.700 for three weeks in Vietnam including travel accommodations and meals. Mills said. He said it would be too difficult and costly for most veterans to make the trip individually. Mills said he began the trips after going to Vietnam on an approved Mission for the veterans organization in 1984 and finding that Many veterans wanted to return to the scene of the War. I feel that going Back to Vietnam is very beneficial to them he said. Every other Veteran in history has been am to return Back to the Battlefield that they served in Mills said. There is no reason Why we As veterans can t do the same  first tour de sol puts solar vehicles to the test montpel1er, it. A the Sun warmed to the occasion thursday pow ering the entries in the first american tour do sol a race for solar powered cars from Vermont to Massachusetts. The trip which lakes four hours for internal combustion engined vehicles will take these competitors four Days. All five entries plus a pint size speedster driven by a preschooler have Large panels of photovoltaic cells which turn sunlight into electricity to run electric motors and charge batteries. The solar cars were running the route in four legs of several hours each Day with overnight slops at Hanover n.h., Concord n.h., and Lowell mass., be fore reaching the finish line scheduled sunday at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge mass. The Mit entry sole Ciria a won the first leg of the race covering the 59 Miles from the statehouse in month Click to the Dartmouth College Green in just under an hour and 40 minutes. The car entered by the new Hamp Shire technical Institute from Concord finished second in 2 33 17, and the Dartmouth College entry finished in 3 01.the Worcester mass polytechnic in the entry from Dartmouth College is followed by other solar u hic Les thursday in a Parade kicking off the tour de sol race. Slit Ute team had what it called last min Ute bugs that caused it to Lake More than seven hours to arrive at Dartmouth. And a unique wedge shaped vehicle brought by a two Man team from Alabama broke Down on the first leg of the race. Participants said they hoped for thursday s sunny weather to continue through sunday. Clouds could make it impossible to finish the race in the four Days allocated. Race organizer Jim Kirby of the brat Leboro based Northeast solar Energy association said the aim of the event is to promote interest in and development of cleaner transportation technologies. Only a few years ago this would have been thought of As a rather novel and bizarre event said Vermont gov. Madeleine Kunin who was the race starter. But with heightened concern of Eric environmental she said the racers might be offering a preview of what life will be like in a couple of