European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday August 4, 1988 Thatcher tells critics we re no slouches in sharing defense Canberra Australia up Brit ish prime minister Margaret Thatcher strongly defended Britain s contribution to military forces overseas wednesday in response to pressure from the . Con Gress that the allies pay More for euro Pean defense. Speaking at the National press club Thatcher said Britain is grateful for . Forces in Europe and the americans Are right to insist on a fairer share of the Burden. But we re no slouches in Britain  she said there Are about 66,000 Brit ish front line troops in Germany about the same proportion As the United states when Britain s size was taken into account. British navies sailed All the seas. Brit Ain maintained forces in 38 countries helping to train other armed forces an provided training for foreign personnel in  Thatcher added i am used to being tackled about we Don t do enough. We do. We play our full part and will continue to play our full part. I think they critics in the . Are right to expect that those in nato who Donot play an out of area nato role ought to have an increasing share of the  Thatcher on the third Day of a six Day official visit to Australia to Mark austra Lia s Bicentennial met earlier with australian prime minister Bob Hawke and senior government ministers. Hawke accepted Thatcher s invitation to visit Britain next year with senior ministers to discuss Trade developments within the european economic  and Hawke signed a Mutual assistance treaty under which both coun tries will be Able to ask for and receive help in cracking Down on drug traffickers. The treaty will pave the Way for close cooperation in drug trafficking investigations tracing freezing and confiscating criminal proceeds and prosecuting the tray  her speech at the National press club Thatcher strongly defended he View that sanctions against South Africa Are ineffective against apartheid or the system of racial discrimination and Only Hurt Black countries whose economies Are dependent on South Africa. She defended Large foreign companies for investing in South african Industry and said they Are actually breaking Down apartheid through training schemes based on  praised soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev s policy of openness and his contribution to what she called very exciting developments that hold out unprecedented Hope and  but she said the West cannot afford Totake a Chance and reduce spending on de  and her husband Denis left for Melbourne later wednesday where she will meet the Premier of Victoria John Cain who will Host a state dinner for the couple at the victorian arts Center. Needles join aids fight latest weapon in West Germany s War against aids is this automat in Ahlen westfalen which dispenses disposable hypodermic syringes for the convenience of drug addicts who run a High risk of acquiring aids if they share Needles with other addicts. Automate offering two one use Only syringes for 1 Mark have been set up in nor Rhein westfalen under government direction. 3/vorld today Bonn Calls for billions to clean up North sea Bonn West Germany a Federal environment minister Klaus Toepfer called tuesday for billions of Marks in Aid to help clean up the polluted North sea where nearly 2,000 seals have died. Toepfer told a parliamentary committee that More than 20 billion Marks $10.8 billion is needed for technologies that would help reduce pollution in the North sea. On monday alone 187 seals were found Deacon North sea shores near the West German port of Kiel. This raised the total number of Seal deaths in the North sea Over the past few months to 1,780. West German environmentalists say pollution in the North sea has caused a mysterious virus that is killing the seals. But Many scientists reject that theory saying overpopulation of the Seal Community May be linked to the deaths. Report shows world Trade topped $2.4 trillion in f87 Geneva up world Trade Rose by around 5 percent in volume in 1987 and Statis tics for the first half of this year indicate a Simi Lar rate for 1988, the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Gatt said wednesday. The value of global Trade in 1987 soared by an estimated 16.5 percent to a record $2.475 tril lion gait said while cautioning that the figure was partly distorted by the fall in the . Dollar. The increase reflected the Rise in Trade vol ume increased Dollar prices for Petroleum handsome other primary commodities a valuation effect due to the appreciation of some major currencies against the Dollar and the Impact on Dollar prices of underlying National inflation rates it said. Moslem rebels threaten to kill hostages taken in Philippines Zamboanga Philippines up moslem re Bels have threatened to kill a kidnapped foreigner believed to be an american and his filipino wife if the military attempts to Rescue them a military official said wednesday. Col. Carlo Pena brigade commander in the Remote province of Lanao identified the hostages As David Blair Steffler and his filipino wife Elpidia Benjuya who were abducted saturday from a passenger mini  could give Only scant details of Steffler other than he was identified As an american by the vehicle Driver because he looked caucasian and spoke English. Pena said the Driver and 11 other passengers of the minibus the rebels held up were subsequently released. He said the kidnappers believed to belong to a fac Tion of moslem separatist rebels who have now be come bandits sent a letter dated aug. 1 to a radio station in Malawi City capital of Lanao. He said the letter signed by former rebel Field offi cers gave the military " 15 Days to negotiate before any maltreatment will  we Are warning the military units to Stop Rescue operations otherwise we might be forced to kill the hostages it said. The letter read by Pena told authorities to Contact the kidnappers through the radio station. Maybe they were kidnapped for Ransom but the letter did not say so Pena said. . Embassy spokesman Jerry Huchel said in Manila he had no information about a kidnapped Ameri can and the embassy had no record of Steffler. Huchel said the embassy was in touch with the Philippines military Southern command in Zamboanga but it is their responsibility to find  Pena said two National police companies have Bee sent to track Down the hostages who were believed being held captive in the Village of lil Intengan in Lanao. He said moslem religious leaders were coordinating Rescue efforts with the kidnappers whose leaders he said had been implicated in a series of robberies and kidnapping cases in Lanao. A number of foreigners have been kidnapped in the South since moslem separatists launched a War for self Rule in 1972 in the Mindanao Sulu Region Home of 3.5million filipino moslem. All of them were subsequently freed. The . Embassy has banned travel by americans to most of the Mindanao Region including Lanao. Sex single girls wreak havoc in China Beijing up an influx of thousands of single female workers into a special economic zone in South Ern China is sending premarital pregnancy rates sky rocketing and wreaking havoc with marriages official news reports said wednesday. Nearly 10 percent of 10,000 unmarried women fac tory workers in a single District of the Zhenzhen Spe Cial economic zone became pregnant in 1987, the offi Cial English language China daily said. The zone set up As a free Market Experiment employs about 250,000 temporary female workers most of them single. The women Are forbidden from marry ing in the economic zone because they do not have Zhenzhen residency status. Local officials told the China youth newspaper the single women working in Zhenzhen Are suffering extreme anxiety because of the vast imbalance Between men and women in the factories. At one plastic bag manufacturing Plant All but five of 205 temporary workers Are women. Providing female workers with sexual satisfactions even More difficult than reducing conflicts Between management and labor the newspaper said. Efforts have been made to set up social clubs an dance Halls to occupy their free time but it was later found that what the female workers really wanted was sexual satisfaction the China youth said. The China daily report said the free Wheeling eco nomic zone has been visited by a wide variety of vices and problems related to sex since its founding