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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1974
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TOKYO (AP) — President Ford
icknowledged Wednesday that the
nited States and Japan “have had
pine disagreements” on policy mat
ters but declared the two nations
ill work together to help solve the
orld’s economiuills and avert war.
In a text prepared for the first
ormal address of an unprecedented
presidential visit. Ford told a lun-
iheon crowd at the Japan National
iress Club, “We worked together
o solve the problems of the cold
liar. We succeeded because we
worked together. Now we confront
. . . new and even more compli
cated problems. Just as we worked
together to maintain today’s peace,
we can work together to solve
tomorrow’s problems.’
The President cited inflation, re
cession and potential shortages of
fuels and raw materials and said,
“America cannot solve those prob
lems alone. Nations can only solve
them by working together. We can
work together to meet the global
economic issues.
“I believe we are not just tempor
ary allies; we are permanent
friends. We share the same
goals—peace, development, stabil
ity and prosperity.”
To criticism by some Americans
of his decision to visit Japan “when
we have unsolved problems at
home,” Ford said his response is
that U.S. domestic difficulties “are
not just American problems but the
problems of the world as a whole. ”
Just prior to his press club ap
pearance, Ford held a second day of
meetings with Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka and other ranking
Japanese officials. On Tuesday he
assured the Japanese leaders they
could count on a steady supply of
food from the United States.
The President expressed under
standing for Japan’s “special sen
sitivities” about nuclear weapons, a
key domestic issue, and tried to
clear the way for purchase of choice
American beef, now in abundant
supply in the United States as far
mers sell off cattle they can’t afford
to fatten up on expensive grain.
“Our paths are not always identi
cal,” Ford told Emperor Hirohito in
a banquet toast, “but they all lead in
the same direction—that of world
peace and harmonious relations
among mankind.
Ford and Hirohito drove off in a
long, black Nissan limousine to the
Imperial Palace. Crowds were kept
back by police but some 2,000
selected spectators, most of them
women, were allowed within reach
so that Ford could shake a few
hands.
Cheers rang out and small Ameri
can and Japanese flags were waved
in the spring-like breeze. In con
trast to Monday, no demonstrations
against Ford’s visit were reported
anywhere in the Tokyo area.
A railway worker’s strike for
higher year-end bonuses, timed
partially to embarrass the govern
ment during Ford’s visit, forced an
estimated 36 million Japanese to
find alternate transportation to work
or else to stay at home. But the
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24-hour strike, which ended at
noon, had no significant effect on
Ford’s activities.
Reporting to newsmen on Ford’s
talk with Tanaka, Kissinger said the
President assured Tanaka that Japan
“could count on a stable level of ag
ricultural supplies from the United
States.” This was a vital guarantee
from the world’s largest food pro
ducer after the Nixon administra
tion last year abruptly halted ex
ports of soybeans, a Japanese staple.
Regarding U.S. efforts to get the
Japanese government to ease its ban
on meat imports, Kissinger said:
“That question was discussed. I
don’t want to speak for the Japanese
government but my impression was
that the President’s point will be
taken very seriously.”
Kissinger said Ford was under
standing about Japanese concern
over nuclear weapons reportedly
brought into Japanese ports by U.S.
warships. But he implied the con
troversy remained unsettled by say
ing that the two sides agreed on
further consultation between the
secretary of state and Foreign
Minister Toshio Kimura. He added
that the 1960 security treaty bet
ween the two countries would be
applied.
The treaty does not allow the Un
ited States to deploy or store nuc
lear arms in Japan without the
government’s permission. How
ever, there have been reports, regu
larly denied by the Japanese, that
the agreement allows U. S. ships
bearing nuclear weapons to stop
routinely at Japanses ports.
John W. Caple
Mayo J. Thompson
Former students
elect officers
for coming year
Fort Worth businessman John
W. Caple was chosen president and
Federal Trade Commissioner Mayo
J. Thompson president-elect Satur
day of the 65,000-member Associa
tion of Former Students.
Caple and Thompson were
picked, along with other officers, as
the leaders of the alumni organiza
tion met on campus to formulate
plans for continued support of the
university. ,
Caple, a 1952 graduate and class
agent, is president of Trailer
Equipment Inc. He is chairman of
the Friends of the Corps Commit
tee, a past president of the Fort
Worth A&M Club and two years ago
served as the association’s vice pres
ident for fund raising.
Thompson is a 1941 Texas A&M
graduate and was an attorney in
Houston before being appointed to
the FTC in Washington. He serves
as a member of the TAMU Centen
nial Committee and Alumni-
Student Relations Committee.
Elected as program vice presi
dents were James R. Page of San
Antonio, activities; R. Wade Lo
renz, Lake Jackson, community af
fairs; Harvey Cash, Dallas, fund
raising; Dr. John M. Knox, Hous
ton, high school program; Robert A.
Miears, Houston, membership, and
Douglas E. Flatt, Tyler, public rela
tions.
Boh Bell of College Station and
Herb Gersbach of TAMU were cho
sen as Memorial Student Center
representatives.