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 CIS NO: 89-H201-75
 TITLE: Common Security Interests in the Pacific and How the Cost and
     Benefits of Those Interests Are Shared by the U.S. and Its Allies.
 SOURCE: Committee on Armed Services. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+99 p.
 DATE: Apr. 19, 1988
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 100-2             SUDOC: Y4.Ar5/2a:987-88/123
 ITEM NO: 1012-A; 1012-B
 LC CARD NO: 89-603395               MC ENTRY NO: 90-4361

 Committee Serial H.A.S.C. No. 100-123. Hearing before the Defense
 Burdensharing Panel to examine the need for continued deployment of U.S.
 military forces in various Asian countries, focusing on Japan and South
 Korea.
 CONTENT NOTATION: US military forces deployment in Asia, assessment
 DESCRIPTORS: DEFENSE BURDENSHARING PANEL. HOUSE; ASIA; JAPAN; KOREA,
     SOUTH; MILITARY.ASSISTANCE

 89-H201-75 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Apr. 19, 1988 p. 2-99
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     LA ROCQUE, GENE R. (Director, Center for Defense Information)
     HAMADA, KAZUYUKI (Associate Director, Japan Program, Center for
        Strategic and International Studies)
     BANDOW, DOUG (Senior Fellow, CATO Institute)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Perspectives on U.S. military deployment in
     Asian countries, focusing on Japan and South Korea; differing views on
     the need for a continued U.S. military presence in Japan (related
     tables, p. 21-38 passim); evaluation of Soviet military forces in Asia.
       Explanation of Japanese defense efforts and expenditures; suggestions
     regarding U.S.-Japanese cooperation in military and related activities;
     doubted necessity of continued U.S. deployment in South Korea, citing
     South Korean defense capabilities.
 INSERTION: 
     -- Bandow, D. "Korea: The Case for Disengagement" Dec. 8, 1987 (p.
        49-79).
 CONTENT NOTATION: US military forces deployment in Asia, assessment
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SOVIET UNION; DEFENSE
     EXPENDITURES (Japan def expenditures review); STATISTICAL DATA:
     FOREIGN COUNTRIES-GENERAL; CENTER FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION