European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday january 19,1989 world today Auto bomb explodes near Belfast courthouse Belfast Northern Ireland a a bomb exploded Early wednesday outside the top Secu Rity Crumlin Road courthouse in Belfast in the second such attack in eight Days police said. The area had been evacuated and there were no injuries said a spokesman for the Royal Ulster constabulary. Damage was slight he said. The bomb had been placed in a car stolen from a family held hostage in the Springfield Road area of mainly roman Catholic West Bel fast he said. On Jan. 10, gunmen opened fire on a British army Post atop the Crumlin Road courthouse and prison building and left a b9mb in a stolen car nearby. There were no injuries in that Inci Dent and bomb experts quickly defused the bomb. Japan Agency predicts 4% growth in Economy Tokyo up Japan expects its Domestic Economy to remain robust in 1989, the rest of the world to suffer a slowdown and Japan s Trade surplus to decline slightly the economic plan Ning Agency said wednesday. The business Cycle is in an expansionary phase the governmental Agency said predict ing Japan s Gross National product will grow by 4 percent to $3.07 trillion in fiscal 1989, which begins april 1. A year earlier the Agency predicted a 3.9 per cent growth in Gnu the total value of the nation s output of goods and services but the Actu Al growth is expected to be 4.9 percent. Private organizations Are forecasting a faster growth rate than the government. The average of 40 private forecasts puts Japan s growth rate at 4.3 percent. Early Blackbird sets up nest in Christmas tree London a a Blackbird confused by Britain s unseasonably mild Winter is raising a family in a Christmas tree outside a department store two months out of season. From the size of the Chicks it looks As though the Mother must have Laid its eggs on Christmas Day said Adam hands assistant general manager of the store in Cheltenham Western England. Photographs of the nest its three Chicks the Parent and the tree on a Balcony filled almost a Page of London s evening Standard newspaper on tuesday under the headline Early Bird catches the  forecasters say High pressure Over Southern England is forming a Barrier to Europe s chills. Wildlife watchers report hedgehogs the european version of the Porcupine Are refusing to hibernate frogs starting to spawn in Waters usually Frozen at this time of year and migrant Birds staying on. Soviets seek to wipe out another Stalin Era name Moscow a the Kremlin on tuesday struck another blow against Josef Stalin s legacy by ordering the name of one his lieutenants party ideologue Andrei a. Zhdanov stripped from Leningrad As Well As locations nationwide. The move was 9nly the latest action taken to wipe from the soviet landscape the names of late Kremlin leaders and officials who have fallen into disgrace or Disfavour under president Mik Hail s. Gorbachev. Zhdanov first Secretary of the Leningrad communist party organization in 1934-44, directed violent purges in the country s second largest City following the 1934 assassination of Sergei kirov the former Leningrad party chief who opposed Stalin s dictatorial Rule. Stripped of Zhdanov s name were universities in Leningrad and the siberian City of Irkutsk the soviet army s engineering Academy and a Loco motive works in the ukrainian City of poltava. Under Stalin Zhdanov also served As party Secretary for ideological affairs. Tactics against palestinians trigger hot debate in Israel a Mem a he Mik of Psi Fyk  a Jerusalem a a new policy of tougher Steps against Arab Stone throwers sparked angry de Bate in Israel with opposition Par ties filing no Confidence motions and soldiers complaining bitterly to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. The new army tactics to Battle the palestinian uprising were instituted tuesday As the death toll from clashes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip Rose. Three arabs died and 16 were wounded Arab reports said. Defense minister Yitzhak Rabin announcing the new policy said troops May fire plastic or rubber bullets at Stone throwers even when the Stone throwers Are fleeing and not threaten ing the soldiers lives. In addition the number of troops authorized to fire plastic bullets was expanded. Of the 13 teen agers killed in the past six Days at least eight were shot with rubber or plastic bullets. Another new measure allows the army to demolish or Seal Homes of Stone throwers or confiscate their families property chief of staff it. Gen. Dan Shimron said. Parents of Stone throwers under age 14 can face fines of at least $ 1,000. Shimron said the new rules would will increase  protesting the orders five left Wing opposition parties filed motions of no Confidence in parliament on tuesday. In an unusual confrontation at an army Camp in the West Bank sol Diers from the elite paratrooper brigade lashed out at Shamir saying they Are ashamed of How they have to treat palestinians in the territory and can hardly face their friends and family at Home. Reservists in their late 20s and Early 30s Rose to Tell Shamir they had been forced to beat innocent people to instill fear in them and enforce order. I feel that our Unity is deteriorating one Soldier said in the nationally televised debate near Nablus the largest West Bank City. In order to enforce order in the marketplace we must be brutally violent to innocent people said a reservist who identified himself Only As Youtam a la Borer from the Northern City of Tiberias. When i get up in the morning i say to myself now i have to go out and Chase somebody. And when i catch him i look at his hands and see he is a working Man just like me. I have to slap him or beat him with murderous blows to get him to fear me. It wears me Down As a person. It Breaks me. These Are not the values i grew up  Shamir told the paratroopers that the Tough Mea prime minister Yitzhak Shamir responds to soldiers in Nablus occupied West Bank who complain of having to beat up innocent people. Sures were necessary to maintain order. We have to do it if we want to survive the right Wing prime minister said. The alternative is to abandon life and commit  for 13 months palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have been revolting against Israel s 21-year occupation. The uprising has claimed the lives of 362 palestinians and 15 israelis. The no Confidence motions filed by left Wing legislators in the Knesset or parliament were to be debated wednes Day but were not expected to succeed because their Spon sors Lack the support of the two main political blocs. The army should not be everywhere said Amnon Rubinstein of the left leaning Shin i movement. We Don t need to enter into every Side Street in a refugee Camp or run after a 60-year-old woman who hangs out a pales Tinian Flag he said on Israel television. Right Wing legislators praised the new policy. If some body wants to harm us he will be harmed. If somebody wants to kill us he will be killed said Uzi Landau of Shamir s liked bloc. If this is the message we should bless  Kissinger meets with Gorbachev to pass along Bush s greetings Moscow a soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev met tuesday with former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger who relayed to him president elect George Bush s opinions on the future of super Power relations Tass reported. Kissinger is taking part in a Moscow meeting of the trilateral commission along with former president Valery Giscard d Estwing of France and former prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan. The commis Sion is a private group of business government labor and academic leaders from North America european Japan. Tass the official soviet news Agency said Gorba Chev and Kissinger discussed some considerations on the development of soviet american relations which were set Forth by Kissinger on behalf of . President elect George  Tass did not elaborate. It was not immediately pos sible to reach Kissinger for comment. A senior official in Bush s transition office in Washington said or. Kissinger is not an emissary of the vice president in Moscow. He did meet with the presi Dent elect Early last week and if he meets with Gorba Chev in Moscow we expect him to pass along greeting from the  was a Kissinger Secretary of state under president Nixon i foreign policy adviser to Bush during the fall election Campaign. Kissinger and other participants in the trilateral commission meeting were scheduled to be received by Gorbachev As a group on wednesday. Anatoly f. Dobrynin a former soviet ambassador to the United states also attended the Gorbachev Kissinger meeting Tass said. Dobrynin was retired from his Post As communist party foreign affairs Secretary in september. Tass said he now acts As an adviser to Gorbachev. The trilateral commission created 15 years ago by banker David Rockefeller has been a pet target of conservatives in Congress. Some critics have accused it of seeking to set up a Shadow world government and of being subversive. Us leaders repeatedly have dismissed the claims As ridiculous. President Reagan criticized the group during his 1980 Campaign but later he acted As Host for trilateral commission members at a White House reception and expressed support for the organization and its goals. The commission meets privately to discuss the Vir tues of economic and political coordination