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Wednesday January 25, 1984rrhe Battalion/Page 13 by Scott McCullar Federal budget deficits criticized by Wright Japan to spend 6.5 percent lepresti- turalSci- more on defense this year 'IfUnited Press International ■TOKYO — Prime Minister I 'ajuhiro Nakasone has over- ultd a Cabinet decision and ountnnrrckred that Japan spend at least '.5 percent more on defense this leirect; eai to satisfy demands by the nier Zhidailed States, officials said ttotheT.'uesday. ie optioil (The Cabinet tentatively en- gn thedtBi|sed a Finance Ministry prop- no partial last Friday for a 5.1 percent :y showdKease in military spending in tsaid, iscal 1984, which begins in at acomjpi d, but critics said that was too iple, surtk. )u can scKfapan’s Defense Agency and hefdefense lobby of the ruling jbpral-Democratic Party press- yJCA's djhe Finance Ministry to recon- presidwT ed Blodi] make the farm lepj sider, officials said — and Naka sone overruled the Cabinet deci sion. A final decision on the de fense budget is scheduled to he made by today, after a meeting between Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita and Yuko Kurihara, director-general of the Defense Agency. Nakasone’s order means the 1984 budget would earmark ab out $12.5 billion for defense spending. The defense issue will figure high in talks this week between U.S. officials and Japanese Fore ign Minister Shintaro Abe, who leaves for Washington today. Officials in the prime minis ter’s office said Nakasone made the decision because of Washing ton’s pressure for a defense buildup. The United States has long de manded that Japan assume a greater share of the burden of defense in the Pacific, but succes sive governments have found the anti-military sentiment among post-war Japanese nearly impos sible to breach. Japan’s economy has also suf fered comparatively from reces sion, and finance officials are attempting to hold the line on non-military expenditures, proposing a general boost of only 0.5 percent. The Defense Department re quested an increase of at least 7 percent to implement its five- which year buildup program opened last year. Officials said Nakasone, in a meeting with LDP executives Monday, ordered an increase of at least 6.5 percent to meet com mitments he has made to Presi dent Reagan, officials said — the same amount of increase in the 1983 budget over 1982. The Nakasone defense budget would account for 0.99 percent of Japan’s gross national pro duct. The government has kept defense outlays within 1 percent of its GNP since 1971 because of opposition to a substantial buildup. Also on the agenda at Abe’s talks in Washington this week, will be trade. Reagan favors space station it I j; United Press International | 1 WASHINGTON — Presi- Hni Reagan will include $150 million to $175 million in his fis cal 1985 budget to start the de velopment of a space station, an authoritative aerospace maga- lucers. zinc reported Tuesday, tnber comp price aiKK Administration of ficials con- kely wouk||i!ined last week that the presi de,” Knfmt will propose the construc- pn of such a permanent orbit ing base in his State of the Union message Wednesday night to a joint session of Gongress. Aviation Week and Space technology magazine said the president’s budget, to go to Con gress Feb. 1, will request the space station start-up money for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. oi The magazine said NASA ■iginally had requested $235 million to begin designing the modular space base. However, NASA Adminis trator James Beggs said in De cember that the agency could start the project with an approp riation of $100 million to $200 million. NASA’s plan is to have a pre liminary space station, costing about $8 billion, in operation by 1992. It would be built of mod ules carried into orbit by the reusable space shuttle and would house rotating crews of six to eight members for months at a time. Aviation Week said NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Hous ton will lead the space station de velopment with the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsvil le, Ala., and the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., having substantial roles in its de velopment. United Press International WASHINGTON — House Democratic leader Jim Wright called on President Reagan Tuesday to convene a summit conference with congressional leaders to deal with growing fed eral budget deficits. “Obviously something needs to be done, and it needs to be done this year,” said Wright, D- Texas, in a “state of the nation” speech at the National Press Club. The speech was intended to be an advance answer to Reagan’s State of the Union address to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday. Wright said participants in such a summit meeting must be willing to deal with tax law and military spending as well as spending growth in guaranteed federal benefit programs. “This group would be directed to develop an across- the-board adjustment in the three things most responsible for the deficits — revenue losses, military spending growth and entitlement spending growth — sufficient to reduce the pro jected deficit for the coming year by at least one-half,” Wright said. The budget deficit is pro jected to approach $200 billion. “Stonewalling the excessive tax windfalls for the wealthy, and threatening to veto any ad justment will not get the job done,” Wright said. “Refusing to acknowledge the role of military spending as a major contributor to the deficit will not avail.” Domestic spending has drop ped from 9.3 percent of the gross national product in 1980 to 7.8 percent now. Wright said the United States “begins 1984 with our own priorities cruelly deranged.” “Our commitment to educa tion has been cut,” Wright said. “Programs to make life easier for the elderly and handicapped have been cut. Clean air and clean water programs have been cut. “Across the board, our na tional investment in the health and well-being of the American people has been reduced by ab out 16 percent. Funding for so cial programs is $47 billion less thar\ the 1980 levels of service. deJews honored at holocaust memorial icies wtidF would !<j rly in ik ctions'lK West German chancellor visits Israel United Press International f 2 pr(xl T jJFRUSALEM — West Ger- man Chancellor Helmut Kohl, rnami rebresenting the ‘‘new Ger- ■ny,” laid a wreath Tuesday at <*»^"memorial for the 6 million xisl, sa-jeU killed by the Nazis as rodua | srae ]j s wear j n g concentration d Rof !: am p uniforms protested his is the (■" t forlejt Police searched the Jeru- !$em Hilton for a bomb during Pdinner for Kohl after an rt our "anonymous caller said explo- ie addeiiives had been planted there to iroductMl him, Israel Television said. Mo bomb was found, vers pr®[ At the start of Kohl’s six-day iofLoretnfficial visit, differences be- i farniciiiween Israel and West Germany > compcsiurfaced immediately over son a ^Bonn’s plans to sell arms to mustol)f>audi Arabia, a country Israel jgulatioURws as a hostile state in the rs. Middle East conflict. ■ Prime Minister Yitzhak Sha- jmir, meeting with Kohl for 90 minutes, raised strong objec tions to any West German weapons shipments to the Saudis, said Shamir’s spokes- tan, Avi Pazner. The official visit, which ends Sunday, was accompanied by bitter memories of the slaughter of6 million Jews by Kohl’s coun- ^men during World War II. It is the first time a West German :hancellor had come to the Jew ish state since Willy Brandt’s 1973 trip. |“I can assure you that in Ger- ith ifldS. Tax P.M ak many, it will not happen again,” Kohl said at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. About 200 anti-German pro testors lined the road leading to Yad Vashem. Many were clad in the striped uniforms of concen tration camp inmates and car ried violins to symbolize the Jew ish musicians forced to play at the death camps as Jews mar ched to the gas chambers. “Nazis go home,” the protes ters shouted. One 83-year-old man wore a faded uniform he had kept from his days in the Dachau death camp in Germany during World War II. “By this action, we want to re mind the chancellor who he is really visiting in Israel. I mean the six million who cannot be here today,” said Herzl Makov, a member of the ruling Herut party’s youth movement, which had vowed to disrupt Kohl’s six- day stay. “I come as the first chancellor of the post-war generation, as the representative of a new Ger many, which regards respect for human dignity, justice, peace and freedom as the highest pre cepts,” Kohl said upon arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport. In a toast Shamir prepared for the dinner in Kohl’s honor, the Israeli leader said: “We are not prisoners of the past. We re member it and recall it out of a belief in a belter future.” Shamir called the Holocaust “a deep painful wound which cannot be disregarded, and one must be on guard against any thing that is liable to reopen it.” In Yad Vashem’s cavernous Hall of Remembrance, studded with the names of Nazi Ger many’s 22 concentration camps, the heavy-set West German leader, 53, put on a black hom- burg in the Jewish tradition of covering one’s head during wor ship. Kohl opened a flue and strengthened the memorial’s “eternal flame,” sending a red dish glow against the black metal frame encasing the fire, which has burnt continuously since Yad Vashem opened in 1953. -G j&’cmctitnc* Cfilu Dragon (Wins I Ta«4a*)j ^’kt’rts. j 9.0. Box 42531 riT j Rocfusier, MJ MV ! yfriie jor a caiaiocpxe j ■ !V S C ApClE CINEMA^ presents Judy Garland in “THE WIZARD OF OZ” Come see the cinematic ■ classic Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Rudder Theatre $1.50 w/TAMU I.D. 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