European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 9, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3japan inches closer to oking troops overseas Tokyo up a after Japan s biggest opposition party agreed to end four Days of delay tactics exhausted legislators in the upper House tuesday approved a Law that would authorize the dispatch of japanese ground troops overseas for the first time since world War ii. The Bill which places Tough constraints on sending troops overseas now returns to the lower House where it is nearly certain to be quickly passed into Law because of the Liberal democratic party a solid majority. To get the measure past the social democratic party and through the opposition controlled upper House the Liberal democrats were forced to Compromise with the two centrist parties. Under the Compromise version of the measure up to 2,000 soldiers could join . Peacekeeping units involved in logistics distributing Medicine and other noncombat tasks. The involvement of japanese troops in More dangerous operations would require the approval of the diet Japan a parliament and could not be undertaken without the passage of a separate Law. But the changes do not satisfy the social democrats or the communist party which argue that the Bill is unconstitutional. Japan a highest Law drafted by occupying . Forces following world War ii bans the threat or use of Force in settling International disputes. Both parties also claim that maintaining a military Force violates the Constitution and most scholars agree with them. About 700 people marched chanted and Sang late into the night tuesday in naga Tacho a Japan a Capitol Hill a to protest the Bill. Opinion polls show that most japanese oppose sending their soldiers into combat zones. A Japan never took responsibility for world War ii and Given its history should never Send troops abroad a protester Yuko Kano said outside the diet. She was accompanied by her two children. A we have a Fine Constitution and we should protect it. As a Mother i have to be  observers say the parties Are Likely to turn the Summers upper House elections into a referendum on the Bill. The legislation had languished in a plenary session of the upper chamber of the diet since Early Friday morning when it was rammed through committee by the Liberal democratic party amid a Melee. The social democratic party Japan a largest opposition group blocked a vote on the Bill for four Days with a series of motions directed against ruling party members and with the a cow walk a a form of japanese filibuster in which legislators cast their votes at an excruciatingly slow  truck hits crowd kills boy hurts 13 others Galesburg Mich. Apr a monster truck veered into the crowd at a Speedway killing a 6-Vear-old boy and injuring at least 13 people. The truck went out of control during a race late sunday at Galesburg motor Speedway said Kalamazoo county sheriffs dispatcher John Loskota. Todd l. Abbott of Kalamazoo was killed in the Accident. The trucks Driver Doug Harland 31 another Man and a 13-year-old boy were listed in fair condition. At least it others were treated at hospitals and released. Witnesses said the truck jumped a Row of cars during the race landed on its left front wheel and turned sharply toward the crowd. The truck ran Over a Stock car jumped a Wall and hit the grandstand said Deputy Rusty Shelburne. It was the second time this year that a Spectator has been killed by an out of control monster truck. In March an x2-year-old Man was crushed he a truck at an event in Niagara Falls . Monster truck races began in the mid-19n0s As an offshoot of truck and tractor pulls. Drivers give the trucks More horsepower and oversized tires and race them Over piles of wrecked vehicles. Petty officers 1st class Tim Taber right and 2nd class David Audoin ready a Mission plan for p-3c Orion flying out of Lajes Field in the azores. The two Navy Aero Raphers arc assigned to a unit in Rota Spain. Navy gears for draw Down of most operations in azores by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau Lajes meld azores a the . Navy will soon Start drawing Down operations and May close the bulk of those on the portuguese Island of Ter Ceira within the next few years. A within the next two or three years the Navy at Lajes As we know it will be gone a said . Navy capt. James m. Piotrowski commanding officer of the naval air facility at Lajes Field on Terceira. A it the naval air facility May possibly be in caretaker status if not totally gone a said Piotrowski who cautioned that the draw Down so far consists Only of working plans. The Navy a plan Piotrowski said a is All tied to the draw Down worldwide and is part of the peace  the air Force expects minimal cuts in the azores. The army a Only unit there the terminal transportation unit will experience a dramatic draw Down in the coming months. The Navy is the Only service represented in the azores in which a variety of units will be affected by cuts. The services anti submarine warfare operations Center at Lajes Field is scheduled to Start drawing Down at the end of september. A it could be Down to caretaker status by april of next year. It could close Down a Piotrowski said. A your aircraft intermediate maintenance division will Start closing Down in Calendar �?T93. We will Start losing people from aim next Spring. We will probably close maintenance by the Middle of next year a Piotrowski said. I he naval aviator said the main purpose of the naval air facility at Lajes is to support anti submarine warfare in the Atlantic. A a 1 hat ask has been reduced to basically very Little or Zero activity on our part in this part of the Ocean a Piotrowski said. Anti submarine duty has been performed since 1962 from Lajes one of four . Bases charged with such a Mission in the Atlantic. The other three Are in Bermuda Iceland and Rota Spain. They have the combined ability to cover All but 3 million Square Miles of the Central portion of the Atlantic Ocean. That area is left to p-3g Orion anti Summa Sas Rine patrol aircraft operating from Lajes. But with the decreasing undersea threat offered by what is left of the former soviet Union p-3cs arc no longer permanently based at Lajes operating from there Only sporadically. A i can to see a Squadron of p-3cs Here regularly or permanently deployed in the future. What we will see Are p-3cs coming into Lajes for exercises out of Rota and Iceland a Piotrowski said. The anti submarine warfare operation centers at Lajes and in Bermuda Are being targeted for draw Down to free up people and resources to staff a new Center at Roosevelt roads Piotrowski puerto Rico Accord my to Piotrowski the senior . Navy officer at Lajes. Piotrowski said the Center at Roosevelt roads will be used for drug interdiction. A a that a where the action is a Piotrowski  referring to the anti drug Effort. The naval air facility at Lajes located about 2,200 Miles East of new York Gity and 850 Miles West of Lisbon Portugal a capital has approximately 16 officers and 200 enlisted  killed in attempt to Hijack soviet plane Moscow up a a police commando sneaked aboard an Aeroflot Jet with 113 passengers Early monday and killed a Man armed with a hand grenade. The Man had threatened to blow up the plane if it were not flown to Turkey. No one else was Hurt in the incident reported russian television. T he russian state news Agency itar Tass said a Man identified As Ramazan Daiev 30, demanded that the Tu-154 jetliner change course for Turkey As it neared the end of a flight to Moscow from Grozny in the chechen Region of Russia Crew members landed the Plain be at Moscow s Vnuk ovo Airport despite the Hijacker s threat Ami a special Interior ministry police squad surrounded the plane on the runway Short la after Midnight. Two flours of negotiations with the Hijacker were unsuccessful and at 2 10 a m. A police commando entered the plane through the cockpit and shot and killed the Hijacker with a machine gun said russian to police said Daiev was aimed with a hand grenade. There was no explanation Why Daiev wanted to Fly to Turkey