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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1996
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Clinton's visit boosts relations
The Associated Press
TOKYO — President Clinton celebrated America's ties with Japan as better and stronger than ever yesterday despite unresolved trade frictions between the world's two richest economies. He planned to tell Japan's parliament that trade must be free and fair.
Winding down a state visit, Clinton was to address Japanese lawmakers today to underscore U.S. efforts to pry open Asian markets.
Clinton hit it off well with Prime Minister Kyutaro Hashimoto. The two did have differences, though, on trade issues. But the matters were not discussed in detail, said Sandra Kristoff, the chief Asia specialist on the National Security Council.
At a joint news conference with Hashimoto, Clinton declared the trade relationship to be on the right track and said the two sides would handle disputes in a patient and pragmatic manner.
The leaders strived to keep the focus on security issues. They readily agreed that a strong American military presence is needed in Asia.
Hashimoto said Japan wants the 47,000 American service personnel stationed in Japan to remain. Clinton, in turn, pledged to reduce the burden that U.S. bases put on Japan's citizens. But he said the
Bill Clinton
United States would keep 100,000 U.S. troops in Asia to maintain stability.
"We are seen as a source of stability by our mere presence here," the president said.
A powerful example of the U.S. presence, the aircraft carrier Independence, was berthed in Tokyo Bay at Yokosuka U.S. Naval Base. Three weeks ago, it was sailing off the coast of Taiwan as a symbol of American firepower as China conducted menacing missile tests.
The president and his wife, Hillary, visited the massive ship where they were cheered by thousands of sailors, Marines and family members.
"With your strong presence here," Clinton said, "we are preventing war's return and preserving stability for a remarkable region that is growing so fast it buys enough American products and services to support the jobs of 3 million of your countrymen and women back home in the United States."
He told the troops, "Without you, the stability and prosperity of Asia could be in danger and, therefore, so could America's."
Canadians confront cheesy controversy
The Associated Press
TORONTO — The camembert crisis? The Parmesan purge? From Toronto's Little Italy to the cheese-loving bastions of French-speaking Quebec, Canadians are heaping scorn on a Health Department proposal to ban some pungent, unpasteurized cheeses.
"They have to get their heads X-rayed," Marco Abdl, owner of an Italian restaurant in Calgary, said of the Health Ministry regulators.
At parliament, critics of the proposed ban organized a taste-in yesterday and invited Minister David Dingwall. The minister, though at the center of the controversy, planned to attend.
Government scientists have worked discreetly for six years on tougher cheese regulations, but their proposals came to public attention only this week after the Health Department formally gave notice of a proposed new safety measure.
To reduce the possibility of disease, the measure would require that cheese either be made from pasteurized milk or be subjected to intense heat-processing, then stored at low temperatures for two months.
Raw-milk cheeses such as camembert and brie, not to mention the much-imported Parmesan, might not meet the new standards.
"We have been eating parmesan for hundreds of years...I've never been sick."
Alfonso Gagliano Canada's Labor Minister
When the topic came up in Parliament, some legislators were, well, a bit cheesed-off.
"We have been eating parmesan for hundreds of years," said Labor Minister Alfonso Gagliano. "I've eaten a lot of parmesan, and I've never been sick."
In Quebec, radio call-in lines hummed with complaints about a perceived federal slap at the province's love for distinctive, raw-milk cheeses.
Dingwall promised a 75-day consultation period before a final decision is made.
Columnist testifies in 12-year-old shooting case
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The young man paralyzed by subway gunman Bernard Goetz told columnist Jimmy Breslin that his friends planned to rob robo Becez because he looked like easy bait, the writer testified yesterday.
Goetz's lawyer then rested his case without recalling his client to the stand, clearing the way for closing arguments tomorrow in the $50 million civil trial. No testimony is scheduled today.
Goetz is sued by Darrell Cabey, one of four young men Goetz had shot on a subway train Dec. 22, 1984, after they had demanded $5. A bullet through Cabey's spine had left him paralyzed. Cabey's lawyer, Ron Kuby, said his client had the mental capacity of an 8-year-old after the shooting.
Last week Goetz testified he opened fire when he saw a smile and a shine in one victim's eyes, and said that the shooting could be viewed as a public service.
Breslin, one of only two witnesses called by defense lawyer Darnay Hoffman, had talked to Cabey in the hospital in November 1985 for a daily news column. The columnist recently retired from Newsday.
Cabey told him that his three companions, who also were wounded, intended to rob Goetz because he looked like easy bait. But Cabey said he was merely talking to the three.
Breslin said Cabey seemed confused about where he got on the subway. When Kuby asked, "Did you
write in your column he seemed confused? "Breslin snapped: "I said he was confused about the subway stop. Now you're trying to slip in a quick little thing."
The only other defense witness was a Boston psychiatrist who testified about the normal human reaction to the type of stress Goetz was under on the subway train almost 12 years ago.
Goetz was acquitted of attempted murder in 1887.
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