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...given Japan 23% of the entire U.S. car market. General Motors Chairman Roger Smith last week urged a "short-term voluntary" cutback in imports and warned that the alternative was a trade war with Japan. In Washington and Tokyo the Reagan Administration and the government of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki worked determinedly to settle the most festering trade issue the two countries have faced since World...
...sales. The Administration is suggesting that it will get the Japanese to accept an import limit of about 1.7 million cars annually-if Detroit falls in line quickly. Reagan wants to have the industry concessions in hand and an agreement negotiated with Japan before May, when Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki is scheduled to visit Washington...
...Pope admitted to Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki when the two met that his appeal for peace was the central reason he included Japan on his grueling twelve-day Asian trip. Japan has only a tiny Roman Catholic flock (406,000 people out of 117 mil lion) and, like the weather, the crowds were cool after the exuberance of the Philippines. But, if anything, the absence of roaring throngs and John Paul T shirts seemed to heighten the seriousness of the Pope's message...
...reaction to Chun's act of mercy was just what he had hoped for. The Japanese government, for whom the Kim case has become the most vexing and potentially critical problem with neighboring South Korea, was mollified and happy. Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki described himself as "greatly relieved that the worst has been avoided." Said a U.S. State Department spokesman in Washington: "We welcome the decision. Our concerns are well known to the Korean leaders, but this is President Chun's decision...
...midweek, French police announced that they had reconstructed a Suzuki motorbike on which the bomb presumably had been strapped; the owner, Alexander Panaryu, believed to be a Cypriot, was being sought for questioning. And by then, the unity and earnest soul searching that followed the tragedy had given way to confusion and recrimination...