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Japan supports U.S. in crisis
United Press International
TOKYO — Japan agreed in prin
ciple Thursday to join the United
States in imposing economic sanc
tions against Iran but sought Ameri
can assurance of oil supplies to
counter the Iranian threat to re
taliate by cutting off shipments.
Japan also plans to go ahead with
a joint Japanese-Iranian petrochem
ical project in which Japan would
invest $83.3 million despite the
sanctions which are aimed at forcing
the release of 50 American hostages
in Tehran, government officials
said.
The officials said the agreement
came at a 1-hour, 15-minute meet
ing between Philip Habib, a senior
adviser to Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance, and Acting Foreign Minister
Masayoshi Itoh in which Habib
called on Japan to join the United
States in the sanctions against Iran.
Habib said the U.S. measures in
clude a ban on all exports, except
food and medicines, and their
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transportation to Iran and refusal to
extend new’ loans, they said.
Itoh agreed in principle to join
the United States but sought U.S.
assurance that Washington would
find alternative sources of oil supply
for Japan, said the officials.
Japanese firms have contracted to
import 530,000 barrels of Iranian oil
daily or a little over 10 percent of
Japan’s total oil needs this year.
Japan criticized Iran last month
for holding the hostages in violation
of international law and demanded
their immediate release.
Japan may ask for U.S. coopera
tion in maintaining oil supplies from
major international distributors,
which have notified Japanese refin
ers of a drastic cut in their supplies
this year, government sources said.
Specific measures to be taken by
Japan would be made public after
Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira
and Foreign Minister Saburo Okita
return from their current trip to
Australia and New Zealand early
next week.
Since Japanese companies came
under fire from the United States
for buying high priced oil on spot
markets, the government decided to
maintain oil imports at the level be
fore the outbreak of the hostage in
cident Nov. 3, and suspended insur
ing Japanese exports to Iran.
The United States also wants
Japan and West European allies to
coordinate action against the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan, officials
said.
Japan pledged to increase aid to
Pakistan this year when U.S. Secre
tary of Defense Harold Brown stop
ped over en route from a trip to
China last weekend.
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Chinese immigrants tell of survival
United Press International
HONG KONG — They walk,
swim, drift on rafts of plastic pillows
with ping pong paddles as oars.
They risk drowning, sharks and the
bullets of Chinese soldiers.
In 1979 more than 75,000 illegal
immigrants from China’s southern
Guangdon Province were caught
trying to sneak into the British col
ony of Hong Kong and were sent
back to the mainland.
But an even greater number, at
least 100,000 according to govern
ment estimates, managed to slip
past the colony’s defenses into what
is one of the most densely populated
and expensive cities of Asia.
Successful immigrants, located by
a Western reporter, described in
interviews why they risked death to
leave their native land despite its
new modernization program and
political liberalizations of the
post-Mao era. The names used are
fictitious.
“I wanted to help my family,’
20-year-old Heng Yulin, a sturdy
farm boy from a village 25 miles
from the colony, said through an in
terpreter.
“In China, only officials’ children
get good jobs. I wanted to go to a
university but I foiled the exams, so
when I graduated from middle
school a year ago I was sent back to
the farm.”
Last June, Heng and two of his
friends left their village. They
walked for six nights, hiding by day,
and swam for three hours down the
mouth of the Pearl River, before
clambering out of the water at Yuen
Long village on the British side of
the border.
“I didn’t tell my parents I was
leaving because they would have
stopped me,” Heng said. “Parents
are now afraid to let their children
leave because it’s so dangerous.”
“I sent my family a telegram to
tell them I had made it safely. Later
I learned they were fined 1,900
yuan ($665) because I had left. They
had to borrow the money from
neighbors. If they hadn’t paid, offi
cials would have confiscated their
bicycle.”
Heng works eveiy day in a factory
making architectural models, trying
to earn enough to pay off his new
debts so he can begin sending
money to his parents and their other
three children. He earns $100, plus
room, board and two days off per
month.
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where men eat men and only the
strongest survive. But I prefer
capitalism because I have more op
portunities.
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Hong Kong, but in my village of
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tourist hotel in London; no guests killed
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LONDON — Two bombs rocked
a tourist hotel near London’s famed
Oxford Street Thursday, sending
hundreds of panicked guests into
the streets and killing an Arab who
police believed was making ex
plosives in his room.
The first explosion occurred at
7:30 a.m., when most of the guests
of the popular Mount Royal Hotel
were still in lied. A hotel guest suf
fered cuts and bruises and six hotel
rooms also were severely damaged.
The second blast came just min
utes before noon and no injuries
were immediately reported, but
hundreds of panicked hotel guests
and shoppers at nearby stores fled
into the street.
Police said the second bombtlbwE
dently was buried in the debris
the first blast.
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