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
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| 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 $47 billion less
thar\ the 1980 levels of service.
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West German chancellor visits Israel
United Press International
f 2 pr(xl T jJFRUSALEM — West Ger-
man Chancellor Helmut Kohl,
rnami rebresenting the ‘‘new Ger-
■ny,” laid a wreath Tuesday at
<*»^"memorial for the 6 million
xisl, sa-jeU killed by the Nazis as
rodua | srae ]j s wear j n g concentration
d Rof !: am p uniforms protested his
is the (■"
t forlejt Police searched the Jeru-
!$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
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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.
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