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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
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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.
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they have engaged in homosexual
acts.
Under the sodomy law, such
acts are a Class C misdemeanor.
The measure would call for the
city to revise the application form
to include the admission of all
Class C violations, not just convic
tions.
Another measure by Council
member Chris Luna called for the
elimination of the anti-gay ban.
But a substitute measure intro
duced late in the meeting by
Councilman Don Hicks was ap
proved instead and no vote was
taken on the Luna plan.
"I'm just not going to accept
anything less than what I asked
for in the first place ," said Mica
England, a 27-year-old lesbian
whose suit against the policy
prompted Thursday morning's
council vote.
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