: ; Over Use anaes hingion Post Foreign Service’ “ . ; cb May 26—Construction of a new US. Em- was halted Monday when about 300 Soviet ” ed. off thei fter U.S. security officials designed ‘to discover listening ‘de- a rahe RR EE RTE TET ST today, saying that _ doned the re 8 fi teat ~~ Employe of Honkin Department Store in: Akita ¢ examines debris of adve ee ate a Quake, Tidal Waves .. su mane vows By Tracy Dahlby ul were sate __. Washington } Post Foreign § Service_ dom According to eatiaes aici work on the nev halted whe four Sox om "spate for -. pan’s picturesque northern coastline today, spawning y, prevent isd workers from entering the Tenced 15-foot tida! waves, leaving at least 32 persons dead and uuing that the use of the new machine exposed causing widespread damage over seven of the country’s . prefectures. cwThe quake, the most deadly to hit Japan i in 15 years, hit shortly after noon with its epicenter in the Sea of Japan about 100.miles off the shore of Akita prefecture dn. the. countey's northeastern: Tohoku region and 340 miles north of Toky », The quake re istered a magnitude OD naan Re Na n embassy spokesm ident as a dispute about terms of the contract. fied,” he he said, “there “there are NC no health haz det AOOGIGBIOG pgiA-Buinge-SoTeSROOTeOD2s0005-6. with the Soviet Union. . t, Japanese television « crews pro- Page Reet “TOKYO, ‘May 26—A powerful earthquake rocked | Jae of 7.7 on the o an -ended Richter scale, and left 60 per- - As aftershocks from the tremor continued to rattle the. vidi hig, cou f sior Aki as vie' att fall len the loc
mere, than.a. racted_haggli over the terms, a summit _ between Embassy com- ind on upper Wisconsin Avenue h Washington was largely com- pleted two years ago when Soviet persoririél moved into their housing ~ facilities, weeks. ““Although the cornerstone for the ‘new American Embassy here was ‘oh “-~laid in 1979, the project. is only about 30 percent complete and is ~not expected to be finished until late 1985 at the earliest, according. to U.S. construction specialists here. Its estimated cost of $100 million has .risen by 20 percent since 1979. . The project includes an eight-sto- «Ty chancery building, originally .Slated for completion this year, an cent. elementary school building, sports the and other. recreational facilities and ing for 134 families. he current cus. 3. Em-., “whose _ 1( 10- -story | ing was found to have hh aren ago. After ee ‘enti about: difficulties with _ Soviet. workers, Under the agree- signed at the. ~ ment’ the United States is not al- . _..dgwed.to import foreign workers to do the job. It is allowed to have about 40 supervisors on the site. - The 900-by-450-foot. complex is surrounded by a wire-mesh fence and lit by floodlights, presumably to prevent clandestine installation of listening devices. Other precautions include trans- parent pipes within sections of the chancery building to allow security personnel to monitor possible use of the pipes by the Russians to sneak in bugging devices. The site was almost deserted to- day, and several U.S. construction supervisors were reported to be plan- ning to depart for the United States for the duration of the shutdown, which came just as work was accel- erated to take advantage of the mild summer weather. For most of the year, Moscow's harsh climate allows