European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday april 2, 1989 a boy takes a closer look Al Art from a different . I Jfe size sculptures  � a Ivity fre St e win suspended from he Selling of a train Sta Tion at the Gate Wiy to the Yokohama highbrow Art exposition which runs until october. The figures were a tide by a us firm for hum motors and designed to catch the imagination and promote lie expo s theme of children and space. New taxes patience of Japan Consumers Tokyo api politicians went shopping saturday As confused Consumers and clerks tried to adjust to a controversial new sales lax thai has plunged the popularity of prime minister Noboru Takeshita s administration to an All time  must wait longer at the Register since we Haven t gotten used to calculating this tax  said Tokiko so Kitayc a clerk at a drugstore in Down town Tokyo but they Aren t complaining. Most blame the government and sympathize with  ski take said a pretax Sale held by the pharmacy was a big hit As shoppers Friday to cd to avoid the 3-Pcrccnl tax by blocking upon everything from shampoo to toilet paper.-. V j ,. The prime minister and his wife Naoko showed their support for  purchasing some Salmon and a neck tic made in France during a visit to a Tokyo department store saturday morn ing. ".  ,./ he bought a Lanvin lie for 15,000yen $115115,450yen $118 with tax included an unidentified Mitsuyoshi department store employee said. His wire bought some Salmon for 2,000 yen s15.3s2,060 yen s 15.84 with tax other members of the Takishita cab inet who left their office to drum sip support experienced firsthand the tax payers disapproval. Tsutomu Hata. Minister of agriculture forestry and fish cries was jeered by angry shopkeepers Al the Tokyo Central wholesale Market according to the Asahi Shimun Japan s second largest newspaper. Soon after assuming office in october 19117, Takishita made tax Reform a major goal of his administration. Last december his Liberal democrats who command comfortable majorities in both houses of parliament voted the package into Law despite the first no Confidence motion in five years by opposition Par ties. But the passage of inc lax Reform Anda Stock trading scandal involving Many of the ruling party s top members have led to poor ratings in several recent Opin Ion polls. Opposition parly leaders repealed their Calls for abolition of the lax and for Takeshita s resignation. The government says the sales tax Fifthe needs of a rapidly aging society better than an income tax and claims the main goal of the Reform is to distribute he la Burden More equitably by lightening iric Middle income group s Burden. The Reform will reduce Japan s heavy dependence on direct la is by  inheritance income and residential taxes by 5.8 trillion yen $44.6 billion in fiscal 1989, which began sat urday part of those cult  offset by the sales tax which the finance ministry has forecast will bring in 3.2 trillion yen $24.8 billion its first year. That amount is expected to reach about i trillion yen $38.5 billion by fiscal 1990, when Mea sures to Case inc initial Shock Are lifted. But opponents say the Reform is full of loopholes int can he used by he wealthy and say the sales tax imposes an excessive Burden on those with Small Dis Posable incomes. Kho Memi May have of name son to carry on revolution sources say Manama Bahrain up iranian Leader Aya Iol Lah Ruhollah Khomeini May be forced to designate his son,-.Ahmad, As   his 10 Vearold revolution lives on after him diplomats and iranian sources said Friday.  -. Gulf diplomats said Uherc was no obvious replace ment to Ayatollah Ali Montazeri whom the. 88-year-.old Khomeini ordered to resign As his designated Suc Cessor in a Surprise move tuesday. It s beginning to look very Likely thai Khomeini will be forced to push his son.Ahmad into the fore front of iranian politics for the first time since inc revolution in 1979 which toppled the late Shah Mohammad Keza Pahlavi one envoy said. Iranian sources said Khomeini has been grooming  Ahmad Khomeini for some time. Ayatollah Khomeini.Ahmad Khomeini 3 East germans attempt escape am a Hail of gunfire witnesses soy uerl1n a three East German men crashed a car through a comr Junist Border Barrier amid a Salvo of gunfire in a failed escape attempt to West Berlin police said saturday quoting witnesses. Witnesses also reported the Driver was slightly in " Jurawl but it was unknown whether he was Hurt when the car crashed into a second Barrier or whether he was hit by gunfire from East German Border guards a West Berlin police spokesman said. According to the witness accounts it was apparently an escape attempt. The car rammed through a Bor Der Barrier and then smashed against another. Border guards then look the three men away said the spokes Man who requested anon i the spokesman said witnesses reported hearing gunshots but he had no further information on inc reports of gunfire. The incident which occurred late Friday night at the Drewitz control Point Between East Germany and West Berlin was witnessed by West germans travelling to the divided City he said. Easl Germany s state run news Agency adn also reported the incident but did nol mention any shoot ing or injuries. World today chinese warship to make first . Port Call Beijing a a chinese warship will visit Hawaii next month the first american port Call by a chinese fighting vessel the . Embassy announced Friday ambassador Winston lord said a training ship of the people s liberation army will visit Pearl Harbor on april ii with vice Aden. Maxin Chun aboard the . Navy made its first port Call to China in november 1986 when three Navy ships visited Qingdao in Shandong province. An american official speaking on condition of anonymity said a . Navy ship would visit Shanghai most Likely on May 18. Sovichf presi Dent Mikhail Gorbachev is scheduled to be in Beijing then. Soviet Union s germans form new ethnic society Moscow a a new National society has been organized in Moscow for the first time to safeguard the language and traditions of More than 2 million ethnic germans in the country the official Tass news Agency said Friday. The group called the revival society of soviet germans ended a three Day organizational Confer ence Friday and adopted a charter and program of activity Tass said. This is inc Fin Public organization in the country formed according to National affiliation the news Agency said. It said 105 delegates representing More than 2 million soviet germans have discussed important problems of safeguarding and devel Oping National culture language and traditions. Tass said the. Society elected Heinrich Grout,38, Kris first chairman