European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday november 20,1986 . Envoy Perkins arrives in South afric i Johannesburg South Africa a Edward Perkins arrived wednesday to begin work As the first Black american ambassador to South Africa a Day after the Pretoria government rebuked the United sum by rejecting an official visa request. Perkins made no comment to reporter Al Jan smut Airport beyond saying he was glad to be in South  on monday foreign minister . Botha said South Africa had rejected a visa request from he slate department for Christine Babcock of the Agency for International development. Babcock was to Complete a report on starvation in Black homelands required under the . Sanctions Law adopted against South Africa last month. Botha said it was outrageous that the United slates could adopt a Taw that he said would impoverish world today powerful blast rocks Manila department store Manila Philippines a an explosion rocked a Central Manila department store wednes Day police and a private radio station  patrolman Romeo Dino said first re ports indicated some people were  Ezrh said the powerful wast occurred around 7 30 . At the shoe Mart department store in the City s Santa Cruz area. Initial reports identified the blast Ai a bomb  radio station reporting from the scene said police cordoned off the area and were pre venting people from entering the store. Employees said the blast apparently came from the front of the store. Paper assails rejection of foreign ideas by China peking Dpi a leading chinese newspaper wednesday assailed As backward and Igno rant the Blind rejection of foreign culture including some capitalist concepts. There Are no class boundaries in social morality and capitalist society offers a lot Worth our attention in this aspect said a front Page commentary in guangming daily a newspaper aimed at chinese  notion in capitalist countries Are not necessarily Bourgeois and concept an practices in developed countries such at respecting women Loving science and striving for efficiency Are Worth our study.". The commentary part of � continuing Effort bythe Reform minded government of senior Leader Deng Xiaoping to encourage the use of Tome capitalist concepts in China s modernization drive. Hong Kong bans Iron steel from South Africa Hong Kong a the Hong Kong government has decided to impose additional eco nomic sanctions on South Africa in protest Over that country s apartheid policy a government official announced  Secretary piers Jacobs told Hong Kong s legislative Council that starting Friday the government will ban imports of Iron and steel from South Africa. New danish Laws restrict farm Industry pollution Copenhagen Denmark up Den. Mark s parliament late tuesday adopted legis lation aimed at reducing agricultural and Indus Irvil pollution by up to 80 percent in three Yean. This is the most important breakthrough Ever in danish environment policy minister for the environment Christian Chrstensen told the 179-�e�t legislature. The plan proposed by the opposition Radical Liberal party was passed by 62 votes to 60 with 57 Abse tensions following a six Hoar  the plan illegal chemical emissions from Industry and Public sewage works will be stopped before May 1, 1987. The government win put Forward an investment Pian to Cut Nitro Gen emissions by 50 percent and phosphorous emissions by 80 percent within three Yean. Black South africans and then feign concern about their state of health and Nutri-1 lion congressional adoption of the sanctions Over president Rea-1 Gin s veto has soured the already strained relations Between the j two countries. Perkins 58, a career Diplomat from Louisiana served previously As ambassador to Liberia. He has a doctorate degree in Public administration from the univer sity of Southern California. At his Senate confirmation Perkins hearing Perkins said he no longer would use the term constructive engagement to describe . Policy to Ward South Africa. That term implying quiet Diplo Macy rather than Public rebukes of South Africa to encourage Chance was Tuo ruled closely with Perkins predecessor Herman Nickel who served at in Naoa Dor to South Africa for four Yean. Many apartheid critics wid constructive engagement merely took the pressure off South Africa allowing it to delay race reforms. Supporters of the policy contend that Public confrontation is counterproductive and that South Africa adopted More change than Ever before during the Yean of constructive engagement by Law and custom apartheid establishes a racially segregated society in South Africa in which the 24-Mil Lior Black majority has no vote in National affairs. The White minority of 5 million controls the Economy and maintains separate districts schools and health serv phone Cas be Ween w. Berlin w. Germany reportedly topped Berlin api soviet bloc Security police can eavesdrop on Telephone Calls Between West Germany and West Berlin and once tried to blackmail � .military officer after tapping one of his Calls West German television said tuesday. The West Berlin based sender Fries Berlin said units contrast investigative Public affairs program that East German and soviet agents Are Able to Monitor Telephone and radio messages to and from West Berlin. The Western governed sector of this partitioned City i surrounded by communist East Germany and lies 110 Miles East of the West German Border. Berlin s Eastern zone is communist ruled and the capital of East Germany. The contrast program said soviet spy recruiters tried to blackmail a West Berlin based . Army offi cer into service last summer after lapping a Telephone Call to West Germany in which he discussed intimate personal matters. The recruiting ploy failed after the officer reported the incident to his superiors the station Taid. It did not identify the officer or give any other details of the alleged incident. Two West German official interviewed on the pro Gram Carl Dieter Spranger of the Interior ministry and Rupert Scholz the West Berlin Interior minister acknowledged the lapping ability of East bloc agents. Of course not every Call is being monitored Ai Scholz. We must just be aware that every citizen Mak ing a Call possibly could be overheard. Technically this goes without  Canadian tax data returned official Calls removal inside Job Ottawa Dpi the disappearance of income tax records for 16 million canadians was an inside Job by at least one employee of the lax department spokesman for the Revenue department said tuesday. Canadian police recovered the records late monday hours after the Federal government announced in parliament that the 1,250 microfiche cards had been miss ing for two weeks. The cards contained confidential information sichts names addresses dates of birth social insurance numbers and sources of Revenue for most canadians who filed an income lax return for the latest tax year. A spokesman for the Revenue Canada tax depart ment said a lawyer for the principal suspect in the Case who is employed by the department returned the re cords to police. No charges have been tiled against the suspect and the investigation is continuing the spokesman said. Opposition Liberal party politician Herb Gray told parliament tuesday the disappearance of the records constituted the biggest invasion of privacy in the country s history. Maybe the world s  Gray said the conservative government had broken its 1984 election Campaign Promise of two Way Trust in the tax department. Revenue minister Elmer Mackay said the govern ment is taking Steps to increase Security in the depart ment but he said canadians can never be sure there might not be lapse of  Mackay also Taid the department was reviewing these of microfiche to store information. Lawmakers charged tuesday it would be possible for someone to use the data on the records to obtain additional confidential information on individual lax payers from District taxation offices. A Liberal politician said a Secretary was Given confidential information from Bis tax return after providing a taxation office with data similar to that contained on the microfiche records. Britain rejects Argentina s proposal London a Britain on tuesday rejected Argentina s offer to declare an end to hostilities Between the two countries. The foreign office reiterated that Britain will no negotiate sovereignty of the Falkland islands Chain in the South Atlantic but wants to normalize relation with Argentina Britain Brake diplomatic relations with Argentina Al the Stan of the 74-Day falklands War in 1982. Tim Veraar a foreign office minister said Britai will be wrung to consider any serious offer from Argentina that is not tied to the sovereignty Issue. He called the offer Argentina nude monday a exercise in megaphone diplomacy,1 saying it did t contain any new elements. Argentina called for an open dialogue with Brit Ain As a preliminary step toward negotiations on Falk land sovereignty the Argentine government in Buenos aim said monday it would declare a formal end to hostilities if Britain dropped its Iso mile military Protection zone around the falklands. Argentine Plieni and ships Are barred from the zone Britain declared at the end of the War. The absence of negotiations not Only keep the dispute alive but also generates growing Causa of ten Sion and conflict As proved by the British declaration of oct. 29" on fishing rights the Argentine proposal said. Britain imposed a 200-mile conservation zone in the falklands fishing grounds and Taid anyone hiking within Iso Miles of the islands would need  area coincides who the military zone. The Falkland islands have been a Crown Colon since 1832. Most of the 1,800 islanders Are of British descent. " Argentina Tea ii Oie if Jmmy As an inheritance Days of Spanish colonial Rule. It invaded the on april 2, 1982, and a briton task Force Recti list them Jane 14