European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 26, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 9 anese Tokyo a Sony corp. On Fri Day accepted the resignation of its 73 year old chairman Akio Morita an Industrial Maverick responsible for successes like the Walkman and gaffes like the Short lived Beta Home Vars. Morita who had brain surgery a year ago after a debilitating stroke had said for some time that tie wanted to re sign the company said in a statement. He will stay on As honorary chairman. No successor was announced but Industry analysts speculated that the company s president and chief executive officer Norio Ohga was the most Likely candidate. The Guy who s been running things during Merita s illness is Ohga said Joseph Osha of Baring securities. Morita who co founded the predecessor to Sony in 1946 with electrical Engineer Masaru Iuka led the company from a Small radio repair business to today s consumer electronics giant. With Morita As president of Sony s . Subsidiary Sony in 1970 became the first japanese company to be listed on the new York Stock Exchange. In 1972, it became one of the first Japa Nese companies to build a . Factory. In his autobiography made in Japan Morita said he told engineers to make the Walkman portable personal tape player despite a Lack of supportive Market research we Don t believe in Market re a flt Akio Morita is shown in 1982 holding a Sony Walkman one of his major triumphs. Search for a new product unknown to the Public he has said so we never do any perhaps the company s Best known mistake under Morita was pushing its Beta Standard for Home videocassette recorders a Battle it eventually lost to the vhf Standard espoused by competitors. The company stunned financial markets last week announcing it would write off $2.7 billion of the value of the Hollywood studios it bought during the Heady Days of the late 1980s. Somalia re harks irk a Deriada official Ottawa a the Canadian de Scidane was taken to a Bunker called sense minister said thursday that soldiers the pit where he was tied and Blind should save their stories about Canada s folded after being suspected of stealing troubled peacekeeping stint in Somalia Over the next three hours master Cpl. For a formal inquiry instead of sharing Clayton matches beat him with his fists 16 them with the Media. Defense minister David Collenette com ments came after More disturbing reports surfaced about the Canadian airborne regt s . Tour in Somalia that led to five somalian deaths. Under mounting pres sure r Collenette announced last week thata Public inquiry would be held into the con duct of the forces in Somalia. Collenette said thursday that soldiers should communicate through the Chain of command not the news Media. The regi ment went into Belet Huen in. December 1992 As part of the american led . Intervention Force. Three somalis were shot and killed in separate incidents Dur ing the tour. A fourth Scidane Arone was captured and beaten to death. A Truncheon and eventually a Metal bar. Soldiers from the regiment tortured a year old youth until he died. Maj. Barry Armstrong a military sur Geon. Armstrong said two weeks ago that senior officers issued orders to destroy evidence about Scidane s death. He said Tidence locked in a Safe. News reports thursday quoted retired maj. Lee Jewer who also served As a doctor in Somalia As confirming Armstrong s Story of orders to destroy photographs. Pvt. Elvin Kyle Brown participated he refused to obey the orders and has eve briefly then took photographs of the bloody Scidane and matches. Matches was arrested March 18. Later that Day he was found hanging in his . He survived but suffered such brain damage that he could not stand trial. Brown was court Martiale and found guilty of manslaughter and torture. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Other critical reports about the mis Sion have come from retired Canadian maj. Gen. Lewis. Mackenzie who once commanded . Forces in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mackenzie said last week that japanese Dee allowed Allied be to pass Tokyo a Japan s top surviving Zero fighter Ace admitted Friday that he put aside National loyalty for a moment during world War ii and waved on a plane carrying foreign women and Chil Dren Saburo Sakai who shot Down 64 Allied aircraft in More than 200 dogfights says he remembers the time and place perfectly it was february 1942, near Java. I had just downed a reconnaissance plane when i saw another enemy Craft ahead of me Sakai recalled. Drawing nearer he realized it was a transport plane and could see blonde women and children in the windows. He said the women appeared to be praying. At first he Felt it was his duty to shoo Down the plane. But i let it go he confessed publicly for the first time since the War. I wave their Pilot  Sakai 78, said he has always wondered what happened to the plane which he guesses was flying from embattled Java to Australia via the then portuguese Colon of East timor. I want desperately to meet with those people if they Are still alive he said. Sakai wrote about the incident in a Book published five years after Japan s defeat in 1945, but claimed then that hews outta neutered Japan was still occupied at the time and i was afraid of what repercussions telling the truth would have he said. Sakai asked a researcher eight years ago to Check into the Fate of the plane but has found no leads. 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