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and Ford Motor and Robert Lutz, president of Chrysler Corp. Tom Hanna, president of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, said the issue arose during discussions about the U.S.-Japan trade imbalance. "There was not an explicit request that the Japanese limit their market share," said Hanna, who was present at the meeting. "It was pointed out as one of the reasons there was less penetration in Europe" by the Japanese. See AUTOMAKERS, Page 9A i BY NORIMITSU ONISHI Free Press Automotive Writer Big Three executives suggested Monday that Japanese automakers limit sales to an unspecified share of the U.S.

market, said Takakazu Kuriyama, Japan's ambassador to the United States. Unlike previous attempts to limit Japanese imports, such an action would cap the number of cars their Japanese competitors sell in the United States regardless of whether the cars are made here or in Japan. Kuriyama said the suggestion was made during a private, 30-minute meeting with Jack Srv'h and Harold (Red) Poling, the chief Assessor threatens a dream March 9, 1993 For home delivery call 222-6500 (50 cents outside 6-county metropolitan area) Ticket citing U-Mstar vanishes after raid Rose says he wasn't at Detroit drug bust by Jim Schaefer, mick mccabe And Greg stoda Free Press Staff Writers University of Michigan basketball star Jalen Rose was cited for loitering last fall in a Detroit house where drugs were sold, but his ticket has since disappeared. Four other people who were arrested or ticketed in the Oct. 4 drug raid have been or are being prosecuted, but the court has no record of Rose's ticket.

Rose has denied being at the house when it was raided. There is no indication Rose, a sophomore guard and key member of the Michigan starting lineup known as the Fab Five, was using or selling drugs. But cocaine and numerous packs of marijuana were found in the house at 8044 Cloverlawn near Tireman. Police documents obtained by the Free Press show Rose, 20, was cited for "loiterine where drugs are kept or stored," a mis- Jalen Rose demeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. But the ticket never made it out of the Detroit Police Department and into 36th District Court, where prosecution would begin.

In three searches for Rose's ticket through misdemeanor records, court clerks found nothing. The records of other people cited or ticketed in the raid were on file. A police log in which tickets are first reported by narcotics officers lists Rose's name, address, ticket date and the arresting officer's name. The ledger also lists Rose's ticket number: U-490-585. Narcotics officers are required to record on that log all tickets issued during raids.

Also, an investigator's report dated Oct. 5 lists Rose among those arrested or ticketed in the raid. Detroit police officials declined repeated requests to explain what happened to the missing ticket. Several officers, including narcotics division Commander Rudy Thomas, declined comment. Chief Stanley Knox did not respond to requests for interviews.

In three brief interviews with the Free Press, Rose said he wasn't in the house at the time of the raid. When asked on Feb. 26 if he'd been in the house when it was raided, Rose said: "Never in 10,000 years." On Monday, before practice for U-M's game Wednesday at Illinois, Rose said: "I wasn't there. It didn't happen. If my name is in the paper, there's going to be action taken." Two hours later, after a team practice, Rose was shown a police investigative report that includes his name, date of birth and home address.

He confirmed that the date of See ROSE, Page 10A group says hJh rl HUGH GRANNUMDetrort Free Press Ambassador Takakazu Kuriyama addresses the Detroit Economic Club. Hi i I I 25 EUROPEAN? A key element in current discussions is whether Japanese car companies should operate in the United States the way they do in Europe. There, by the year 1999, they will be limited to 16 percent of the vehicle market This year in the United States, the Japanese market share is about 22 percent. Ambassador Kuriyama did not say how the Japanese would react to any request to further limit U.S. sales.

til: Elated troops from Navy Construction Regiment 30 board a 747 in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday on their way back to the United States. Some 350 troops left Monday as the withdrawal of all U.S. forces continues. The U.S.-led multinational force is preparing for the United Nations to assume overall control. The coalition arrived in December to safeguard aid deliveries from civil war looting in the African country, where some 350,000 people died last year from war, famine and disease.

Persian Gulf veterans, families report symptoms She said wives reported various gynecological problems in addition to miscarriages, and that several spouses complained of body ache and fatigue symptoms similar to those experienced by their husbands. The Department of Veterans Affairs so far has reached different conclusions. The VA last fall initiated legislation setting up a program to register and treat gulf war veterans with medical problems that may be cents by David hacker Free Press Staff Writer CROSS VILLAGE Susan Ridley, a bookshop owner from Murfreesboro, has dreamed much of her life of retiring to a small house she plans to build on the 200 feet of Lake Michigan beachfront she owns in Cross Village. Now, as she approaches retirement, she fears that high taxes will keep her from achieving her dream. This year, the Cross Village Township tax assessor said Ridley's vacant lot is worth $240,000 about three times its 1991 value.

"I've held this property a long time for my retirement," Ridley told the township's board of review on board Monday. "Now it's going to be taxed away from me." Ridley flew to Michigan to ask the township's three-member review board for relief. She wasn't alone. About 25 others also appealed Monday in the township that was hammered by assessor Ed Jurek with what may be the largest assessment hikes in Michigan an average 102 percent jump. More See CROSS VILLAGE, Page 10A Sect leader wants to die in holy war Free Press Wire Services WACO, Texas Cult leader David Koresh, barricaded in a farm compound for nine days, told government agents Monday that he wants to die in a prophecy-fulfilling holy war, tjie FBI said.

"We are ready for war. Let's get it on," the 33-year-old self-proclaimed messiah has told negotiators, said FBI agent Bob Ricks. The 90 adults and 17 children who Koresh says he has with him in the compound also are willing to die in a gun battle with federal agents, Ricks said. They have been fortifying the complex of peach-colored farm buildings preparing for war, Ricks said. But the more than 400 federal agents and police who have surrounded the cult's compound want a negotiated settlement, he said.

Koresh says he has no intention of ordering a mass suicide. Instead, he apparently believes he will die in a battle with agents, Ricks said. But attorney Gary Coker, who represented Koresh in 1987 on criminal charges resulting See STANDOFF, Page 9A If 1 l. Mr nnriTaifiiiMv Uf Business 5D Classified Index 6B Comics, Crossword 12D Editorials 6A Entertainment 4B Feature Page 8B Horoscope 8B Jumble 6B Movie Guide 2B Obituaries 1W Stock Markets 8D Television Weather 13D 50 Plus 3B Volume 162, Number 297 1993 Detroit Free Press Inc. Printed in the United States i it.

i CORINNE DUFKAAssociated Press Alness lingers after war, linked to exposure to environmental hazards, The VA said preliminary studies found simi-; lar patterns of disease among 837 veterans who saw action in the war and veterans from the same period who did not serve in the gulf. Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Hansen said Monday there were some anecdotal reports of miscarriages during the baby boom that took place after the return of troops from the gulf, but the percentage of miscarriages was not higher than is experienced in the general population. Hansen said she had no information See ILLNESS, Page 9A by Jim abrams Associated Press WASHINGTON After Persian Gulf War troops came home with puzzling, flu-like symptoms, their wives began experiencing a high rate of miscarriages and other illness, a family support group said Monday. Dorothy Brooks, head of the Military Families Support Network in Buies Creek, N.C., on Monday said numerous children of sick veterans also are suffering from chronic health problems. She said her group has compiled records of more than 1,000 Persian Gulf veterans who came back with mysterious ailments, and found that some 75 percent of their wives had health problems.

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