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Wednesday, April 15, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Japan may eliminate quotas on few imports
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Japan is being told to overlook its traditional rice calling for self-sufficiency and open the door to imports as a gesture of international trade harmony.
Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng, who is headed for Japan for two weeks of trade talks, said the elimination of quotas on Japanese imports of beef and citrus also are top priority items.
"The policy of Japan toward rice does have some mystical characteristics," Lyng said yesterday. "There will be no way that we can suggest that the door be completely opened on rice."
Lyng was joined by U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter in a meeting with reporters at the Agriculture Department.
Reuter says he expects Japan to join the United States in putting "all of our trade policy on the negotiating table" as part of what is known as the Uruguay Round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Geneva, Switzerland. And that includes Japan's rice policy.
"We do not believe that it is any way unreasonable to expect other nations to put their agricultural trade on the negotiating table." Youtter said.
Lyng added that one of the aims of
"For too long, they have had the ability — not just the idea, but the ability — to export pretty much as they wish, and import pretty much as they wish." Lyng said. "That hurts us in agriculture, it hurts us in a number of other areas. They can't continue to do that."
his visit will be to get Japan's fuller cooperation in the Uruguay Round of trade talks.
Lyng said Japan's unyielding policy of self-sufficiency on rice is "a symbol of protectionism in a country where it's totally inconsistent and out of character with their ability to trade" in the world market.
Last year's trade deficit with Japan was $88 billion, meaning Americans bought that much more from Japan than they sold to that country. Japan is the largest single foreign customer of the American farmer, buying about $1.1 billion worth of products last year.
"In the face of a $50 billion-plus trade surplus, Japan retains import constraints that we feel are completely unjustifiable." Yeutter said. "It happens that a lot of those are in the agricultural area."
A special federal panel yesterday concluded two days of hearings into sanctions the Reagan administration says it will impose at the end of this week on $300 million in Japanese electronics imports.
The Associated Press
Surgery may help treat disease
He predicted that U.S. doctors would rush to adopt the procedure. The surgery involves transplanting into the brain nerve-like cells from one of the patient's adrenal glands, located above the kidneys, to replace degenerating brain cells.
NEW YORK — Brain surgery developed in Mexico to treat Parkinson's disease is a dramatic advance that could lead to new treatments for strokes and Alzheimer's disease, but it requires more study because two of the 11 patients who had the surgery died, a U.S. doctor said yesterday.
Abraham Lieberman, chairman of the medical advisory board of the American Parkinson Disease Association, went to Mexico last week to examine the patients and said he was enormously encouraged.
It has been less than three weeks since the first report of the surgery
"I think I witnessed history." Lieberman, a professor of neurology at New York University, said at a news conference in his office. "I think this is the approach you're going to take to Alzheimer's, to spinal cord injuries and to strokes."
appeared, and George Allen at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.. already has performed the operation on one patient there. The patient is in satisfactory condition, and improvements in her Parkinson's disease have been reported yet.
New York University is preparing to do its first transplant in May, and Lieberman said other hospitals likely would follow suit.
But he warned that hasty adoption of the procedure could be dangerous. "My fear is that there will be a number of deaths, and the government or the states will come in and say 'What is going on here?' " he said.
Lieberman said one patient died from brain seizures 45 days after surgery. Although the Mexican doctors claim the death was unrelated to the surgery, Lieberman said it was not possible to rule out such a link without further study.
The patient was given anticonvulsant drugs to prevent seizures, which sometimes are known to follow brain surgery, but the patient had the seizures while taking the drugs, Lieberman said.
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