The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, May 19, 1981-Page 9
Suzuki to
investigate
shipping
disputes
TOKYO (AP)-The United States and Soviet Union
accused each others' ships yesterday of slashing
fishing nets in the Sea of Japan three days ago.
Japan's new foreign minister said he would in-
vestigate the incident, as well as reports that U.S.
ships bearing nuclear weapons have been sailing in
Japanese waters.
The two controversies were the latest in a series of
foreign policy disputes to shake the government of
Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, rocked last week by
the resignation ofForeign Minister Masayoshi Ito.
RUSSIAN CONSULAR officer Georgi Komarovsky
was summoned to the Foreign Ministry Monday after
the U.S. Embassy relayed a report from the com-
mander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, Adm. Carlisle A.H.
Trost, that said a Soviet guided-missile cruiser may
have cut the nets Friday.
Japanese fishermen claim more than 100 fishing
boats had their nets damaged as U.S. vessels swept
past on their way to a joint U.S.-Japan naval exer-
cise.
The U.S. Navy, in a report over the weekend, said
its ships "may be responsible." But U.S. Embassy
sources, who asked not to be identified, said the
report handed Japan on Monday said that the
damage was "more likely" done by the Soviet vessel
Petropavlovsk, which was observing the convoy of
U.S. ships.
OFFICIALS SAID Komarovsky promised to con-
vey Japan's demand for an explanation to Moscow
but that he insisted it was "more likely" the nets had
been cut by U.S. vessels.
Japan's new foreign minister, Sunao Sonoda, said
at his swearing-in ceremony yesterday the net-
cutting incident would be his "first order of
business."
Sonoda also said he had ordered a probe of reported
statements by former U.S. ambassador to Japan
Edwin Reischauer that American vessels carrying
nuclear weapons regularly call iri Japan's ports and
sail in its waters.
REISCHAUER, now a history professor at Har-
vard, was quoted by several Japanese newspapers as
saying the two nations agreed to such visits in 1960.
U.S. officials, citing a policy of refusing to discuss the
location of U.S. nuclear weapons, declined comment.
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