European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 29, 198b the stars and stripes Paga 9 mail Call for Santa Eie Gui silo Lylw letters letters bags of letters. Is one of of ctn yours remember kids Santa Clowis has a special Mui gement Wilb the stars and stripes every request that comes to us will be forwarded straight to old St Nick himself. So get on the Ball and write Santa a letter lung him what you d like Tor Christmas. Yon letter should be addressed to Santa Clam co the Storsand stripes Apo 09211. Gorbachev warns reforms threatened by ethnic violence Moscow a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said ethnic strife is threatening his program of economic and social reforms and he said restructuring is the cure Tor the violence not the cause. Gorbachev was reacting to a wave of a. Lion Alist unrest that has swept across Trecot uttry from lire Baltic rep wies in inc Northwest to the caucasus in the Southwest in a a claimed development inc policy making body of the ruling communist parly the Centra committee met Mon Day to review proposals for revamping the Central government relationship to the 15soviet republics. Official Media said Gorbachev was to deliver a report monday to the 300-Mcm bar body but no further details were Avail Able. Among die draft proposals before the Central committee arc constitutional amendments that critics say would concen trate too much Power in the Kremlin and eliminate the Legal possibility for republics to secede from the soviet Union. Gorbachev said in a speech broadcast on stale television sunday that attempts arc being made to kindly dislike in inc into Rulh Nic  this would be disastrous. Ii would put perestroika in jeopardy he said refer Anglo his Reform Campaign would even make some people think that it is perhaps per Stroika that is to blame for All  lit said Bis policy of opening up information and opinion is inc solution to ethnic tension which exists in Many of the 15 so Viet republics. Gorbachev s remarks come during ten Sions Between the neighbouring Southern republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan an during demands for increased autonomy in the Baltic republics of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania. He made his speech saturday before the presidium of the supreme soviet the nation s top executive body saturday s session of the presidium truck Down an estonian declaration of limited sovereignly made earlier this month official Media reported. Estonia declared then that in had the tight to veto soviet Laws. Official Media said Gorbachev acknowledged before the presidium that National constitutional amendments be has pro posed May have angered estonians and others by curtailing local Rule. Lull his remarks saturday also carried a veiled warning. "1 must say we receive a great number of tellers from working peo ple in every Republic with remarks thai Wear at times too tolerant with regard to extremists Gorbachev said. In Azerbaijan on sunday two communist party officials were reported fired. Soviet newspapers charged that local authorities were not helping soldiers Hall the ethnic violence in the Republic. Rallies of up to 500,000 people were  ported sunday in Baku the Republic s Capi Tal. -.-,.the military newspaper red Star said local officials Are not helping troops trying id keep the clashing  and armenians apart in the azerbaijani City of  least seven people were killed and 60 injured in kirov bad in last week s Vio Lence Between the mainly Christian armenians and moslem azerbaijanis . Japanese firms in . Avoid Black areas study says Detroit not japanese automobile Compa Nies that have built factories in this country have systematically avoided areas with Large Black populations two professors at the University of Michigan have asserted in a  professors also said Blacks were hired by the japanese companies at a proportionately lower rate than their share of inc work Force around the plants. In the study published Lasi week in the Californi management review of the University of California Al Berkeley the professors Robert e. Cole and Donaldr. Duskins. J r., said that As a result of these practices Blacks who lose their jobs when american Nubia manufacturers close plants have Little Hope of gaining employment in the new japanese , who now make up h percent of the . Population fill 17.2 percent of the jobs in american Auto plants. Indicative of the magnitude of jobs lost in the american Auto Industry Lite membership of the United automobile workers declined to 1 million in 1987 from 1,5 million in 1979.  our study indicates there is an extraordinary mis match Between the heavy toll on Black employment taking place among . Manufacturers and the Small number of opportunities for Blacks being made Avail Able at the new japanese plants the professors  for inc japanese companies said Sites for new plants were chosen based on available land transportation and the proximity of suppliers and labor. The study comes in the Wake of remarks by Japa Nese leaders that were regarded As racist. In August a Leader of Japan s ruling Liberal demo cratic party Michio Watanabe said Blacks were nonchalant about going bankrupt.  years ago Yasuhiro Nakasone then prime min ister made remarks that seemed to suggest that Ameri can minority groups had lowered either the National intelligence level or the National literacy rate. Both officials apologized for their remarks. Japanese owned plants Are becoming an increasingly important Factor in the nation s Auto Industry with six now in operation and two others under construction. The study covered four of the open plants. Duskins said the study was undertaken when Cole who is a specialist in japanese affairs noticed that most new japanese plants were in Small Rural  conclusion was that the reason was Black avoid Ance he said. So we devised a method of testing tout. Deskins said they found a consistent pattern will japanese plants situated about 30 Miles from the near est concentration of Black workers. Other stud ies have shown that factory workers Are generally unwilling to commute that far. New american Auto plants have also been situated in Rural areas the authors said. But inc contracts of the United automobile workers with the american ear makers give workers Al closed plants rights to jobs in new facilities. The proportion of Black workers in new american Auto Penis is 25.4 percent because Hacks have generally chosen to follow the jobs the author said. -. Dea says Houston a the . Drug enforcement administration admits it has directed local Law enforcement agencies nationwide to stage phony drug seizures and generate false news reports about them to help Dea agents gain the Confidence of drug lords. Dea spokesman Maurice Hill in Washington said the technique is employed in High drug traffic areas across the country including Florida and Texas the Houston chronicle reported sunday. It s a procedure that is used but 1 can t begin to Tell you with what frequency Hill said. Staging bogus seizures and feeding the information to reporters apparently came into practice several years ago to resolve a problem for undercover agents posing m cocaine importers for colombian drug lords according to the chronicle. Often the Dea operatives posing As middlemen. Deliver inc drugs to focal dealers according to instructions from colombian  then keep the shipment under surveillance in the Hope of intercept ing in before it hits the Street officials said. Dul the Dea also Haslock authorities seize the drugs before they arc delivered to the local dealers. Inc newspaper reported. In some cases even the officer making the seizures Don t realize that busts were planned in Advance by their superiors newspaper clippings on the fake seizures help con Vince the traffickers that the seizures Are for real according to the chronicle. The colombians the Only Way they la believe Louis to show them the stuff drug the Money or the newspaper clips Hill said. Harris county sheriff Johnny Klevenhagen whose office cooperated in at least two staged seizures said local police agencies use inc lactic Only at the Rekuc Lof the Dea he praised the bogus seizures As very productive in taking illicit drugs off the  he added that withholding information is a com Mon  and that it docs not constitute lying for officers to withhold the True origin of drug when discussing a Siag a seizure. Journalists said the scams raise ethical questions about government deception of the Public. If the Dea is willing to lie to the Media and Public about this Issue what else might they be willing to lie about asked chronicle. Managing editor Tony Pedrson Paul Larocque an assistant journalism professor a Southern methodist University in Dallas asked How can the Public Trust what they read in the paper if the paper has been conver Edip an Arm of government