Page 4 The Battalion Friday, January 24,1} Experts call for temperance Backlash at Japanese has long-term disadvantages (AP) — Some politicians are acting on the popular cry of 'Buy American.' Experts say a backlash against Japan, no matter how emotionally appealing, will have long-term disadvantages. The war of words escalated this week when a Japanese legisla tor was quoted as saying Ameri can workers are lazy and illiterate. Yoshio Sakurachi, speaker of the lower house of the Japanese par liament, later apologized. Then, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission scrapped a $122 million contract with an American subsidiary of Japan's Sumitomo Corp. to build rail cars for its transit system. The commission said it wanted to pur sue the possibility of starting its own factory to produce U.S.-made rail cars. "This will keep jobs from go- □ Study of U.S. worker habits indicates error of Japanese poiitician/Page 1 ing abroad," said Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs, a critic of the contract. "You will see this all over the country in how government contracts are award ed now. This will reverberate around the country." A day before Wednesday's vote, the town board of the Rochester suburb of Greece, N.Y., rejected a $40,000 Komatsu exca vating machine. It costs $15,000 less than the American-made John Deere model, but town officials wanted to make a symbolic point about Sakurachi's rhetoric. "It really irritated me to the point that I moved to reject the purchase of this equipment," said board member Vincent Campbell. Sen. Don Riegle, a Democrat from Michigan where U.S. au tomakers are headquartered, said: "Mr. Sakurachi's attitude in slan dering American workers was the same view the Japanese held the day its warplanes struck Pearl Harbor. Their arrogance was gone by 1945, when they learned the full measure of America's capabil ities." "As much as Japan has outspo ken politicians who relish the idea of attacking America, the folks who run Japan understand their national interest lies in maintain ing a close and relatively friendly economic relationship with us. We on our side recognize the same thing," said Edward Lincoln of the Brookings Institution, a Wash ington, D.C.-based think tank. Gays, Luna call for code revisions Spade Phillips, P.l. by Matt Kowalsj BRFKMuUH.THtHft (fcour w V(S ION/ ffr THE BfcUEKY. Dcxi'T Yoo SEE? IT THESE LlbtfT'Foote£> BflHD- W/locfv/ crusades Have; 6c>TT£sI So OvCRBeflpiMfa oR mayB£ rr meW! , yoo Topped YfeuRta 9RY FRSTIHO ofFWi! /? C lOARETTE YouR 2>Rfli|V wfiTT LO'U .Come. My FJifiJ LET US HUD Sow uppity Women AND BoftSToF oaR PMORItui P£N1$ DiMtMSiodi (the story so far ... ) Yonse rne hamo CtfARACTEK OF THIS CoHiC. STTJU'P? \ Hey. 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