NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 11, 1983 Page 10
Japanese welcome, protest Reagan
By United Press International
TOKYO — Swarms of kindergarten children broke past security agents at the Meiji Shirne yesterday and captured President Reagan's heart, his departure for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakaseo.
In the northern Tokyo suburb of Fussa, about 500 Japanese workers burned an American flag and a portrait of Reagan near the giant U.S. Oda Air Base to protest the president's four-day state visit to Japan.
Officials said the demonstrators skirmished with riot police but there were no arrests. The demonstration took place near the Yokota base.
The protesters said Reagan's talks with Nakasone "clearly are intended to strengthen the military alliance between Japan and the United States, raising the possibility that residents in the air base would be involved in war."
ABOUT 150 TOTS, waving paper U.S. and Japanese flags, wiggled and charmed their way past agents
guarding the president and Mrs. Reagan at the Meiji Shrine, named after the emperor who forged Japan into a world power.
"Arigato, arigato (thank you, thank you)." Reagan told the children, bending over to shake their tiny hands. The encounter with the children delayed Reagan's departure for round of talks, with Naasone
Rengan was paying his respects at the controversial shrine, regarded by many Japanese as a reminder of Japan's warlike past. It is named for Emperor Meiji, who turned Japan into a powerful military power he died in 1922.
Despite a cold rain, the Japanese organized a colorful exhibition of the 70th Century martial art of "yabusame" — archeery on horseback
- for Reagan's visit to the park-like shrine grounds in central Tokyo.
FIRST LADY Nancy Reagan charmed Japanese children yesterday during a visit to a Tokyo elementary school by handing out New York Yankee baseball caps and speaking a little Japanese.
"I enjoyed your music, my play," Ms. Reagan said to her young hosts at the Bancroft Elementary School they put on a performance in her honor.
"Arigato (thank you)," she said.
"Is that right?"
Pandemonium broke out as the first lady announced she had brought Yankee baseball caps for all the students as a gift from Public School 84 in Queens, N.Y. Baseball is a sport in Japan as in the United States.
The children had been kept waiting for Mrs. Reagan for several minutes because she reportedly needed a little extra time to adjust her makeup, but room they happily waved Japanese and American flags and applauded.
"She's coming here 'cause our school's famous," shouted Ryo Takugi, a fourth-grader who perches in a class play for Mrs. Reagan.
Asked for his impression of the 5-foot-3 first lady, one small boy thought for a moment and replied, "Tall."
Legislators delay tax package
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Almost no chance exists that Congress will approve a tax package this year, and Congress probably won't act until after the 1984 elections, congressional leaders and administration officials said yesterday.
DOLE SAID he thought Regan's decision was the death knell for his proposal. However, he said that it may not happen this year.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, following a private meeting with the Senate Finance Committee, said that the administration agreed that the deficit should be brought down over the next three to five years, but insisted that the proper way was to cut spending.
Brushing aside committee chairman Robert Dole's $150 billion deficit reduction plan, which is even divided between spending cuts and tax reforms, Regan said the administration would consider contingency taxes only after the necessary spending cuts were put into place.
Dole, R-Kan., conceded that it would be a lot harder next year to approve a
similar package before the elections.
in his office.
In the House, Speaker Thomas O'Neill also indicated that Congress would adjourn for the year on Nov. 18,
as scheduled, without passing a tax bill.
In Tokyo, deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes rejected a Washington Post report that the administration hoped to use Reagan's new approach next year to begin a drive to overhaul the tax system after the election.
"There is no plan to increase taxes — no plan to ask for a flat tax." Speakes told reporters traveling with President Reagan.
Ragene's retusal to discuss a tax package clearly angered some members.
"It the same old thing. There's no willingness to help," said Sen. David Boren, D-Deka, storming out of the office as he wrote the bullet, but we got no answer."
THE POST said the proposals would not raise new revenue to cut the huge projected deficits, but would address several political problems that could trouble Reagan in the campaign if he ran again, such as charges that his previous tax revisions have favored the wealthy.
In the House, O'Neill discounted Dole's $150 billion deficit reduction proposal because it relied too heavily on the military. Security cost-of-living adjustments.
"There's no way we're going to fool around and hurt the citizenarians and us."
O'NEILLE ALSO left little hope for action on the $8 billion tax package that the House Ways and Means Committee approved last month.
"The situation is pretty much at a stalemate." he said.
The package would change the tax treatment of life insurance companies, preserve the tax-exempt status of most insured persons, and increase mortgage subsidy bonds for five years.
It is stalled by disagreement over a section involving industrial development bonds. Ways and Means Chairman Dan Hostenkoski, D-III, of the board program, which grew from $6.2 billion in 1974 to $44 million in 1982.
O'Neill said it was always possible that the warring factors would come to an agreement, but that no one was willing to budge at this point. He said he had no problem with adjourning for the year without passing the measure.
Official stresses size of shield plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's call for a space shield against Soviet missiles will require an effort a dozen times greater than the Manhattan Project, which developed the first man-made antagonist's research chief said yesterday.
Richard DeLauer, unders secretary of defense for research and engineering, gave the first public glimpse of what would be needed to carry out Reagan's "star wars" initiative during testimony in 2014. House Armed Services Committee.
The hearing was on legislation proposed by Rep. Ken Kramer, R-Colo., to restructure Pentagon space programs under a unified command for the purpose of establishing space programs, including a manned space station.
In a March 23 speech, Reagan called on the nation's scientists "to define a long-term research and development program to begin to achieve our ultimate goal of eliminating the threat posed by strategic nuclear missiles."
that showed 12 areas in which research needs to develop a system by the year 2008.
"There's a lot of loose talk that all we have to do is create another Manhattan Project and carry it out," he said, referring to the secret gathering of top scientists who developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
Pointing to the chart, he said, "Every single block is equal to or greater than the Manhattan Project," which at the time was an all-out effort by the government.
DELAUER PRESENTED a chart
"When the time comes that you deploy any of these technologies, you'll be staggered at the cost that they could involve," he said, adding that research costs of a few billion dollars are nothing compared to actual development costs.
JAMES FLETCHER, chairman of a special presidential commission that studied defensive technologies, argued in the report that work immediately despite the cost.
"The payoffs to a successful ballistic missile defense program are so far-reaching that we cannot afford to procrastinate," he said. "The risks to our security, if we do not pursue a defense capability, and if our potential
adversaries do, are so grave that we have no alternative but to pursue them.
"I must tell you that I have never been involved in tackling a tougher problem."
Fletcher said the key to an effective ballistic missile defense was to apply different systems to detect enemy aircraft or cut decays and destroy the missiles.
ONE MILITARY expert observing the hearing said it appeared the Pentagon was reluctant to commit funds to the defensive missile shield at the possible expense of offensive weapons programs.
"That's what they're trying to avoid by pushing a solution off into the 21st century."
The Fletcher Commission report, which has not been made public, reportedly outlines several alternatives from which Reagan may choose.
Depending on which it picks, the Pentagon's proposed 1985 research budget for ballistic-missile defense, which was projected to be $1.8 billion, will be increased from 25 percent to 50 percent, Del. Lauder said.
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