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Japan s
Suzuki
warmly
welcomed
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From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON-With particular praise for
Japan's "strong measures-. .. to penalize the Soviet
Union," President Reagan received Prime Minister
Zenko Suzuki yesterday with the administration's
most elaborate welcome yet for a foreign guest.
It was the first meeting between the two 70-year-old
leaders and they apparently hit it off, pledging them-
selves to increased cooperation at a time when the
U.S.-Japanese relationship has been troubled.
An administration spokesman said the leaders
discussed Japan's decision to cut back the number of
Japanese-built cars exported to the United States;
the "tragic" hit-and-run collision of a U.S. nuclear
submarine with a Japanese freighter; regional
problems in Asia; and the U.S. lifting of the grain
embargo.
REAGAN PRAISED Japan as "a harmonious and
loyal ally whose people understand that free societies
must bear the responsibility of freedom together."
"We in America are grateful for the strong
measures that you have taken to penalize the Soviet
Union for its violent aggression in Afghanistan,"
Reagan said. "You have come to the aid of countries
resisting Soviet expansion. You have rescued
refugees, imposed sanctions against tyrants, and of-
fered economic assistance to the oppressed."
Not since Richard M. Nixon was president has a
huge flag of a visiting dignitary's nation flown
alongside the U.S. flag from the front of the Old
Executive Office Building adjacent to the White
House.
TRUMPETERS ON a balcony overlooking the
White House South Lawn blared out a more elaborate
fanfare than previously accorded a visiting dignitary
and cannons fired a 19-gun salute.
And, for the first time in longer than veteran White
House personnel could remember, a fife, drum, and
bugle corps attired in powdered wigs, three-cornered
hats and red coats paraded for the president and his
guest while playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
Following Reagan's formal welcoming remarks,
Suzuki responded in Japanese by expressing "my
heartfelt thankfulness for your truly remarkable
recovery from that unfortunate incident"-the Mar-
ch 30 assassination attempt.
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More defense
spending to
head toward
Frostbelt
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Frostbelt
members of Congress. yesterday
claimed their first budget victory, win-
ning the administration's approval for
continuation of a program that aims
$3.4 billion in Pentagon spending to
areas with high unemployment.
"The president understands that the
Northeast and Midwest are struggling
with high unemployment, abandoned
businesses and low investment," said'*
Rep. Carl Pursell (R-Mich.), a leader of
the Northeast-Midwest Congressional
Coalition.
"AND HE HAS responded favorably
to our belief that the targeted
procurement program, which does not
require new federal outlays or a new
bureaucracy in Washington, deserves a
chance to create jobs in areas of high
unemployment."
Under the program, up to $3.4 billion
of the Defense Logistic Agency's pur-
chases of goods and services are made
in areas the Labor Department defines
as having a "labor surplus"-unem-
ployment 20 percent above the national
average.
It does not include purchase of
weapons systems, fuel or any other
purchase considered vital for national
defense.
THE LABOR Department's 1980 tally
of labor surplus areas listed 589 in the
South and West, the so-called Sunbelt,
and 470 in the Northeast and Midwest.
In a letter to Pursell, budget director
David Stockman said the program,
originally slated to be killed this year,
will be extended through fiscal 1982.
Pursell said the administration's
decision is-a "major boost" in its fight
to save the program in Congress.
The Northeast-Midwest coalition has
maintained President Reagan's budget
proposals are unfair. to the region,
singling out defense spending as a
primary culprit in the shift of federal
spending to the Sunbelt.
"The budget director's announ-
cement shows that the president and
the Northeast-Midwest Congressional
Coalition have begun to establish what
we hope will be an ongoing dialogue on
the severe problems of the
economically declining North," Pursell
said.
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