The World : Quayle Backs Japan Ties

Vice President Dan Quayle, who toured two northern Japan military bases on the third day of his Far East visit, said that the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty must not be touched. “Anybody who thinks you ought to tamper, rewrite or modify the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty is wrong,” Quayle told reporters during a flight to Chitose and Misawa, the two main air bases guarding northern Japan. Japan’s opposition Socialist Party has called for scaling back U.S.-Japan military ties. In the Philippines, the May One Movement, a 750,000-member labor group, accused the United States of attempting to pressure Manila to extend the lease on key U.S. military bases and vowed protests during Quayle’s visit, which begins Tuesday.