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Friday, October 2. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Visiting Japanese explain how better trade can occur
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
A good economic relationship and open trade policies between Japan and the United States are important for both countries, three visiting Japanese representatives said yesterday.
The three were in Lawrence as part of the Japan Caravan, a private non-governmental exchange between the United States and Japan.
"It may be a very tiny, small effort, but our relationship is so important," said Akira Kojima, one of the visitors. "So even this tiny, small effort must be done by somebody. We do this because we share some sense of necessity or crisis, and because we believe in dialogue.
"We can't leave everything to Washington and Tokyo," he said.
The team, comprised of Hidec
Sato, a professor of political science from the University of Tsukuba; Hideki Kaihtaus, director of international relations for Fuji Xerox Co.; and Koijma, senior economic writer for Nihon Kiken Shizunim, a publication similar to the Wall Street Journal, spoke last night at a public forum in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
The two countries must try to understand the differences that exist between the two cultures if they want to build a good trade relationship, they said.
Kaihtatsu gave an example of a Xerox copier in a Japanese office. He said most U.S. offices have a copy room, so that a large, noisy copy machine doesn't bother anyone. But the same copiers weren't right for Japanese offices, which are much smaller. The U.S. machines were too
large and made too much noise Xerox later modified its machine.
Kaiatus that such an example proved the importance of adaptability.
Sato said that patience was vital in business. He said Americans often didn't have enough patience to wait for success.
He also said manufacturers needed to establish exactly what people want out of a product and then manufacture the product, instead of making a product and then trying to convince the consumer how good it is.
"You can't expect results the next quarter, or even the next, but maybe in 10 years," he said.
Kojima said that a major difference between newspapers in the United States and Japan was that many of those in Japan have a nationwide circulation.
Activists suing CIA agents
Spokesman says Secord, Casey had secret government
By BRIAN BARESCH
Staff writer
A secret government allegedly set up by late CIA Director William Casey and run by Maj. Gen. Richard Secord and others has been in place and functioning for more than 25 years, a spokesman for the Christine Institute said yesterday.
Dan Siegel, director of public education for the activist legal organization in Washington, D.C., told an audience of about 140 people at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., that CIA agents Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines supervised covert paramilitary operations against Cuba as early as 1960.
These assertions are part of a federal court lawsuit by the institute. The suit names 29 defendants, including Secord, Snackley, Cines, arms dealer Albert Hakim and Maj. Gen. John Singlaub.
Several of the defendants also are under investigation by government committees or prosecutors.
The suit seeks damages for injuries suffered by ABC-TV cameraman Tony Avirgan in a 1984 bombing at a press conference given by Eden Pastora in La Pena, Nicaragua. Eight people were killed and 28 injured in the bombing.
The suit contends that the defendants are engaged in assassinations, illegal arms sales, drug running and terrorism, such as the press conference bombing, Pastora, a former leader of some of the contras, had the press conferenced to denounce a major control organization.
Shackley and Clines, Siegel said, were transferred from Cuba to Laos in 1965 to help a druglord consolidate his control of the opium trade in exchange for some of his profits, which were then used to train Laotian assassins, Siegel said. Second, Singlaub and now-Lt. Col. Oliver North were their chief assistants in the operation, Siegel said.
The two later helped depose Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973, bolster the Shah of Iran, support the Anastasio Somoza regime in Nicaragua after President Jimmy Carter, and supply support arrange covert supply lines for the contras after Somoza fell in 1979. Siegel said.
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The Jayhawker Yearbook is happy to announce the Hilltopppers. The Hilltopper Awards were established in the 1930s as the Jayhawker's way of recognizing those seniors who have made high calibre contributions to the University and/or the Lawrence community and consistently displayed unselfish, responsible leadership in non-academic areas of campus life. The award was re-established in 1984 in order that outstanding seniors may once again be recognized.
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