European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 27, 1993 i world the stars and strides b Pago 9 japanese firm to provide radar technology to . Tokyo apr Mitsubishi electric corp. Said tuesday that it will provide the United states with technology for More precise radar a product of the project to develop Japan s next Jet fighter plane. It will be the first Transfer to the United states of military technology developed solely by a japanese company said torn Shioda a spokesman for the Jap anese electronics maker. He said final negotiations on matters including Price Are under Way with the . Defense department. Under a 1983 agreement the United states is the Only nation to which Japan May Transfer military technology. In line with the agreement Japan informed the United states in 1990 that it would Transfer technology developed in Japan for the fax fighter a joint .-Japan  said the technology for Active phased array the Core of a new radar system for the fax could be transferred As Early As july. Phased array radar can detect objects in All directions without turning the equipment As required with conventional radar. Shioda said that because the radar transmits Many Waves it also can identify each plane detected. Mitsubishi electric is among japanese companies working on the fax modelled on the f-16c. That fighter is built by the . Co Developer of the project the general dynamics corp. Based in St. Louis. Japan originally intended to develop the new fighter on its own. But the United states wanted Japan to buy . Planes. The two sides then agreed on joint development of the fax. T critics in Congress charged that the project would amount to a Giveaway of . Technology in Cronau tics where the United states is considered to have a competitive Edge. Proponents contended both sides would gain military and technological benefits. The japanese Side agreed to give . Companies a 40 percent share of the is xes estimated $1.2 trillion development work. The japanese prime contractor is Mitsubishi heavy industries ltd., Developer of the famed Zero fighter of world War ii. An order for about 130 fax jets is expected in the late 1990s. Japan s Post world War ii Constitution bans inc nation from using Force to Settle International disputes but it maintains a military called the self defense forces. Caught in a net a a two workers silhouetted in a planer tree along the in to the tree s brunches planer Trees need to get new main River in Frankfurt Germany seem to melt right branches trimmed to keep their classic shape. S. Korea . To resume exercises Seoul South Korea apr South Korea announced tuesday that it will resume joint military exercises with the United states because communist North Korea has failed to resolve suspicions about its nuclear program. 1 a the . Military command in Seoul said about 49,000 american troops will participate in the exercises set to begin this month and last until mid april. About 150,000 South koreans will participate officials said. There was no immediate response from the hard line communist government in Pyongyang. But the North frequently denounces the exercises As a rehearsal for an invasion. Each Side is demanding that the other make the first move on stalemated nuclear talks. Seoul wants the North to accept inter korean inspections of its alleged nuclear weapons program. The North in turn says the South should first Call off the a team spirit exercises As a Goodwill gesture. Team spirit which began in 1976, was skipped last year to encourage dialogue Between the Korea. Col. Park Jae Wook a spokesman for the South korean defense ministry said there was no Choice but to hold the exercises this time because the North was not sincere about solving the nuclear question. North Korea denies its nuclear program is for weapons and allowed the . International atomic Energy Agency to inspect its facilities for the first time last year. Seoul says More comprehensive inter korean inspections arc needed As required under a nuclear arms ban adopted by the two sides a year ago. The rivals have failed to agree on the rules for such inspections with Seoul demanding unconditional inspections of All facilities. . Military spokesman Jim Coles said some american troops will be brought in from the . Continent and Pacific regions. But Coles declined to give the number. About 36,000 . Troops Are stationed in South Korea under a Mutual defense  mayor resigns after anti semitic letter i a from wire reports Mainz Germany a a Small town mayor has resigned amid a juror Over an anti semitic remark he made to the Leader of Germany s jewish Community officials said tuesday. Franz Dicker Schlag Kemp mayor of the Mosel Valley town of san him had written a letter to Ignatz Bubis chairman of the German Central Council of jews saying he was Happy there were no jews a to disturb the peace in his Community. Schlag Kamp has since apologized to Lubis. But the remark created a scandal in the Rheinland pad. State where san him is located. The states Interior minister Walter Zubur demanded that Schlag Kamp resign. Zub cry a office said the mayor complied and quit monday night. Jewish leaders have expressed concern Over growing anti semitism in Germany which has been coupled with a wave of anti foreigner violence.6,929 aids cases in . London a More than 130 new aids cases were reported in England in december according to figures released monday. The total number of Case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome Rose to 6,929 with the latest. Monthly increase of 135, the Public health Laboratory service said. A spokesman for the service said 85 people involved in the new cases were probably infected through sexual Intercourse Between men and women. Fourteen of those who developed the virus died. In 1992,1,492 cases of aids were reported an increase of 9 percent on the previous year. The service compiles its figures from voluntary confidential reports by clinical  work intensifies Athens Greece a traffic was redirected around Central Athens Constitution Square on monday As construction on the capitals new subway system intensified. In the projects first major traffic diversion the flow of several streets was reversed or stopped but police reported few problems from the changes the system will carry 250 million passengers a year after going into operation in november 1997. Construction which began last year is expected to Cost about 520 billion drachmas about $2.6 billion. The traffic diversion will lust about two years. T i 1video game study urged Brussels Belgium a a european Community lawmaker monday called for an dec inquiry on the health hazards of video games and challenged inc Community a executive commission to a take  British socialist Kenneth Collins who chairs the european parliament s consumer Protection committee called for the inquiry saying that Quot reports suggesting a link Between epilepsy and these games Are disturbing Quot according to a statement of the Assembly a socialist group Collins demand followed reports that More than 120 people have suffered epileptic fits while playing video games in  to sell . Smokes Tehran Iran a a hard line iranian daily reported monday that the iranian government would Market Winston cigarettes under the name Quot Bitoon a and asserted that it was squandering Public funds on Quot the lowliest of consumer  t he newspaper Salain said the iranian tobacco organization would sell Bitoon cigarettes in an agreement with . Reynolds co. Winston had been the Best Selling cigarette Brand in Iran. Quot the Deal is based on an out of court settlement of a Case before t he Hague s Iran-. Claims tribunal Over Money owed the tobacco organization by , Reynolds a a Public relations official at the organization was quoted by Sulam As saying. T he tribunal was established in 1981 to help Settle financial disputes arising from the 1979 iranian revolution