European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 10, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 392 european beaches get Seal of approval Brussels a the european economic Community announced Friday it had Given its Blue approval Flag to 392 european beaches 10 More than last year. The european commission the dec s decision making body said it was particularly concerned that the beaches indicated and promoted As bathing beaches should be of the highest standards through out the  the Blue dec Flag is Given to beaches with unpolluted sea water and where no untreated sewage is pumped into the sea. In addition the beaches them selves must be clean have safety equipment and pro vide environmental information to the  and Spain were each Given 106 Blue flags followed by Portugal with 69 and Denmark with 42.ireland received 19 flags Britain 17, West Germany 13 and the Netherlands 8.surprisingly, two of the most popular destinations for Beach bums Greece and Italy received Only 7 and5 flags respectively. Luxembourg which is land locked received none but neither did Belgium which has about 40 Miles of Beach. Portugal won kudos for its beaches from North to South. But Only 14 beaches on France s popular Mediterranean coast won Blue flags. Most of the others were on the Atlantic coast from Bordeaux to the Porto la Rochelle and on the Brittany coast. The majority of Spain s Blue flags were Given to beaches along the country s Eastern coastline in the province of  greek islands of Rhodes chios Corinthia and Crete were the Only ones to get dec approval and Only Italy s Northern beaches on the Adriatic and Mediterranean coasts won kudos apart from fiume Freddo i Sicilia in Sicily. This was the second year of the european Blu Flag Campaign first launched last year for the euro Pean year of the environment. Cabinet is reshuffled in Spain Madrid Spain a prime min ister Felipe Gonzalez has chosen his fourth government since his socialist party won a landslide electoral Victory in october 1982. Government spokesman Javier Solana said the new Cabinet which includes the first two women named to a Gonzalez government would be sworn in on tues Day. Seven Cabinet posts changed hands and 10 others remained unchanged. The announcement of the Cabinet selections Friday came after reports of conflicts among education Justice transportation and Industry ministers. The most notable change came in the Interior ministry where labor activist and socialist party executive committee member Jose Luis Corcuera replaced Jose Barrionuevo who moved to the ministry of transport tourism and communications. Also named were were Matilde Fernandez As social welfare minister a new Post. Rosa Conde Gutierrez Del Alamo government spokesperson. Jorge sem run culture minister. Enrique Mugica Herzog Justice minister. Claudio Ara Zadi Industry min ister. Solana minister of education. Spokesmen for the country s largest Trade unions the socialist led general workers Union and the communist oriented Comis Iones Obreros said they did not believe the changes would alter gon Zalez s centrist economic policies. Both unions have made Strong Calls for Gonzalez to take a More left Wing approach to economic issues. Antonio Hernandez Mancha Leader of the largest opposition party the conservative popular Alliance told reporters Friday the new Cabinet represents a very Little change and recognizes the lightness of our party s views that Basic government services had  police unions praised Barrionuevo on Friday. But human rights groups have criticized him for alleged reluctance to investigate charges of police brutality and misconduct. A series of strikes last Spring by teach ers demanding higher wages and protests by students and University professors Over Reform programs undermined the standing of former education minister Jose Maria  opposition leaders and Justice ministry employees angry Over Lowray had attacked former Justice minister Fernando Ledesma As  removal of transport tourism and communications minister Abel Ca Ballero was viewed As a response to criticism Over a failure to improve Public transportation and Telephone service. No changes were made among theother 10 Cabinet ministers. A photo crowd of armenians trying to get permission to resettle in United states gather outside the . Embassy in Moscow Friday. . Postpones processing soviets who wish to emigrate to America Moscow a the . Embassy will not process soviets who want to set the in the United states As refugees until oct. 1 because a huge surge in Immi Grants has exhausted government funds an embassy spokeswoman said saturday. Armenians who were the hardest hit by the move criticized the decision. Embassy spokeswoman Marguerite Squire said the United states would continue to accept applications from soviets wishing to resettle in the United states but on monday embassy officials began postponing the last step in approval of the applications pre departure inter views. She said the government has run out of funds for the refugees housing food clothing and transportation. The cutbacks to last until a new fiscal year begins oct. 1. The restrictions affect any soviet Citi zen applying to the embassy for political Asylum in the United states but the affect armenians most of All. Last month the embassy issued a re Cord 2,063 immigration visas 94 percent of which were for armenians. The Fig ures do not include most soviet jews who generally leave the soviet Union on israeli visas and get . Visas in West Ern Europe. We Are ready to Start a new life in a new country and what happens would be immigrant Mushegh Sarafyan said saturday. Already they Are deceiving  Sarafyan was among about 50 arme Nian men women and children huddled on a Street next to the embassy under overcast skies. They said they had received permission from the soviet government to emigrate to join relatives in los Angeles but that american Diplo Mats told them of the delay last week. They accused the . Government of being insensitive and questioned whether budgetary constraints Are the real Rea son for the new restrictions. America is such a Rich country. Why can t it afford to take in 70 families Sarafyan said. He said american Diplo Mats had told 70 armenian families who applied for immigration within the past few months to show up last week at the embassy for the pre departure interviews. But now the families have been left out in the cold. We moved out of our apartments our Homes we sold our clothes and quit our jobs and now we Are left practically on the Street he said. Sarafyan said the would be emigres had expected to leave the soviet Union last week after completing american paper work and have no place to stay in Moscow until october. The . Embassy should have Given us at least a month. This Way they told us nothing. Who is responsible no one is helping us he said. Squire and other american diplomats refused comment on the armenians complaints and said any response would have to come from Washington. From last oct. 1 to sept. 30 of this year the embassy expects to Grant 9,500 soviets mostly armenians permission to resettle in the United states. From oct. 1, 1986, to sept. 30, 1987, 1,800 immigration requests were approved. The Sharp Rise is a result of a recent easing of soviet emigration restrictions under Kremlin chief Mikhail s. Gorba Chev