European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday september 7,1986 world today Church official finds Candy is in bad taste Bonn a a roman Catholic Church official said Friday the planned Christmas Sale of fruit Flavoured Candy figures of the Christ child Mary and Joseph was on the wrong Sid of Cabi Mathy a spokeswoman Tor the Taribo company of Bonn which produces the popular Mclalin like Gummi Bear Candy said the firm will go ahead with sales of the new Candy despite Church criticism. A spokesman for the German Catholic Bish Ops conference in Bonn Rudolf Hammer Schmidt said Friday he finds the Candy figures a crass business there Are a number of products available for Christmas that arc on the wrong Side of Good taste Hammer Schmidt said. And this is one of Japan bars american who rejects fingerprinting Athens Greece a an american teacher who has lived in Japan 11 years is being denied permission to return there because Shewn t comply with a japanese Law requiring fingerprinting of foreigners the woman and Japa Nese embassy officials said Friday. Nancy Tunison 39, originally from Alanson mich., said she refused to be fingerprinted when her japanese residence permit expired a year ago. Tunison has been seeking a re entry visa since mid june when she left the country with her japanese husband and their three children on personal business. Tunison who teaches English at Daito bunka University in Tokyo also is seeking renewal other 3-year spouse visa. London Leningrad flights planned by British airways London a British airways will re sume regular flights from London to Leningrad on sept. 21 after a 12-year break because the number of British visitors to the soviet Union is increasing the state owned airline said Friday. Traffic on our daily service to Moscow is 25 percent up on last year and there is a demand for a once weekly Leningrad service As Well said John Burley British airways manager of soviet services. British airways flew to Leningrad from 1971 to 1974, but stopped because there was t enough profit in it Burley said. Smoking bomb prompts France to tighten Security Paris a the French government has decided to further reinforce Security measures in Public places after the discovery of a smoking bomb at Rush hour on a local train the Interior ministry said called on the Public to be vigilant and to notify police of any suspicious person or Inci Dent. Police meanwhile said the bomb roundabout 6 30 . Thursday under a seat of a sub Urban train was made of a material used in five bombings earlier this year that killed two people and injured some 60 others. Police said the Detonator had gone off but failed to set off the 4 a Pound charge. Reports say Nakasone Given 1-year Extension Tokyo a leaders of factions in Japan s Rul ing Liberal democratic party agreed Friday to extend prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasonc s current term by one year news reports said. Nakasone s second two year term As party president will expire oct. 30, and current party rules bar him from serving a third term. In Japan s parliamentary system the head of the ruling party normally becomes prime minister. Since the lip s landslide Victory under Nakasone s leadership in july s parliamentary elections there has been widespread speculation that the 68-year-old prime minister s ten ure would be extended. Kyodo news service quoting unidentified lip sources said the agreement among faction leaders was reached in principle following a series of negotiations among lip officials led by party Secretary general Noboru take Shita and representatives of five lip factions. Nakasone All of the major japanese newspapers carried Simi Lar reports Friday evening but lip officials decline to comment. They said Only that the Accord had not been finalized. The agreement Calls for the addition of a clause tothe party bylaws allowing the party president up to a one year Extension beyond the second two year term if two thirds of the lip diet parliament members France arrests terrorist sought in italian slaying Bayonne France up a Man considered Tobe a founding member of the italian terrorist group Prima Linea was arrested at the French Spanish Bor Der and was being held awaiting extradition police said saturday. Giovanni Stefan 32, was arrested tuesday at Hen Daye in southwestern France after crossing the Border from Spain. He was charged with falsifying identity acquiring a passport through fraudulent Means an entering the country through Clandestine police said Stefan wanted under several International arrest warrants was carrying a false portuguese passport but admitted his True identity under question ing. Stefan lived in Portugal for several years they said. They said Stefan was being held at Pau awaiting extradition to Italy. The italian Justice ministry re Quested Stefan s extradition on thursday they said. Stefan was sentenced to life imprisonment in Absen Tia in the late 1970s for the 1976 murder of Milan provincial Council member Enrico Pede Novi a Mem Ber of Italy s Only right Wing political party the italian social movement. Police said Stefan was the founder of the Prima Linca front line terrorist group which is closely aligned to the country s largest left Wing terrorist group the red brigades. Neither group has been Active since 1982. Agree Kyodo said. The proposed amendment will be voted on by a caucus of lip members from both houses of the diet on sept. 11, when an extraordinary session of the diet convenes Kyodo said. Nakasone has refrained from directly expressing an interest in staying in office. He has said he will abide by party rules. However he has portrayed the lip election Victory As a mandate from voters for the continuation of his administration s policies which include a staunchly pro Western foreign policy increases in defense spend ing and reforms in taxes education and the bureaucracy. Following the parliamentary election some lip leaders including Tak Shila. Who has been tabbed As a possible successor to Nakasone said there was a possibility that Nakasone might serve a third term. On aug. 28, the lip research Council on Funda mental party problems a key panel of the ruling party endorsed a proposal to extend Nakasone s term of of fice As party president. However the Council did not decide on the length or method of the proposed Exten Sion. In the july election the lip which has ruled Japa Nese politics for three of the four decades since world War ii won a record 304-scat majority in the 512 member House of representatives or lower House. It increased its grip on the less important 252-Seal House of councillors or upper House from 131 to 142. Focusing on toys a photo an official at the Tokyo toy fair demonstrates How to Load an automatic camera into a radio controlled vehicle called a control unit Clicks the shutter and flashes the bulb and it can also wind the Nim Cartridge and change the Lens Angle. It will be available in the United states soon for about $100. The Tokyo fair was held last week. Arafat compares himself to Washington de Gaulle London up Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat said in a television broadcast Friday thai. If he is a terrorist he is in the com Pany of the likes of George Washington and c a Irlis de Gaulle. In an interview in Harare Zimbabwe with British television Channel 4 news during the Summit of non aligned nations Arafat said All the Freedom fight ers have been called his reference was to numerous leaders at the Summit including Cuba s Fidel Castro and Zimbabwe s Robert Mugabe who attained Power through revolution. Charles de Gaulle was called a terrorist by the nazis Arafat said. George Washington was called a terrorist by the British Empire. I am one of Arafat defended his gun and Olive Branch approach in the Plo s fight for a new Palestine a Homeland that Many palestinians want carved out of Israel. You can t have the Olive Branch of peace without protecting it through your gun he said. The Olive Branch in one hand the gun in the the Plo was thrown out of its base in Lebanon by an invading israeli army in 1982, but Arafat denied that the organization has become isolated in some parts of the third world. This is not right he said looking around at other delegates at the non aligned conference. I am in Harare where countries of the Middle East Are asked what role terrorism now plays in the Plo s Battle for a Homeland Arafat replied any people facing oppression or occupation have the right to Usealla his dream remains the recapture of Jerusalem and its moslem holy Sites he said. In my eyes said Arafat "1 am still seeing the churches and mosques of Jeru Salem. It s a matter of
