European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday. April 10,1989 Takeshita defies Calls for resignation Tokyo Lupi prime minister Noboru Takeshi tit vowed sunday to remain in office despite mounting rails for his resignation in the Wake of a widening bribery scandal. Takishita said he would fight to remain in Power a two major newspapers reported that the prime min ister will publicly disclose More than 1750,000 in do nations and Stock profits he received from the giant firm Altha Center of the scandal. I am endowed with Power to dissolve parliament and my Cabinet but 1 have no intention of taking such Steps at present Takeshita said Al a news conference in he Southern japanese City of Oita. I will stake my career on political reforms to regain Public Confidence  Takeshita said he would provide details of his Deal Ings with the scandal Ridden recruit co. In parliament As soon s3  Asahi Shimun and Sank i Shimun to nationally circulated newspapers quoted aides to Tak Shila As saying he prime minister would Mcvea a list of donations by recruit co. As Early As monday. There was no immediate comment on the published reports by Tak Shila. Who has come under mounting pressure to resign because of the scandal. Takishita standing in the nation s opinion polls has plummeted in the Wake of the affair. The aides said Tak Shila received donations or made Stock profits exceeding �750,000 from the scan dal Ridden company Between 1985 and 1987, the newspapers reported. Recruit a huge Job placement and publishing firm is suspected of buying political favors with gifts of Cash and Stock. -.-. The company is also alleged to have sold pc listed shares of Stock at bargain prices to politicians and business leaders in late 1986, enabling the buyers to reap huge profits when the shares subsequently went Public. Takeshita admitted in parliament on Friday thai recruit bought $225,000 in ticked to a i 987 fund Raiser for his Campaign to claim the government s lop executive Post. Tokyo newspapers on saturday quoted aides As saying the firm also purchased ii 50,000 in tickets for a second Campaign party. The two newspapers on sunday again quoted aides to Tak Shila As saying that he also received si88,000 in donations from recruit it 986. Takeshita has already admitted that he made�195,000 by buying Pacli Slid recruit shares in the names of his private secretaries. He later sold the stocks at a profit. Other leaders of the ruling Liberal democratic parly have made similar admissions. Even some members of the ruling party have suggested that Takeshita should resign. Or. Tak Shila should Lake Repossi Billiy Tor causing rouble to the ruling party and believe he is looking for the opportune Lime to step Down Susumu nil uti do former president of he party said saturday. Four major opposition parties pledged Al a Summit Friday to unite in a tight 10 oust Takeshita. Three of Takeshita key ministers have resigned because of their roles in the scandal including former finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa who had been considered a Strong candidate to succeed Takeshita As prime  recruit executives including the firm s founder and former Deputy ministers of labor and education also have been arrested in connection with the affair. Eight have been indicted on charges of brio cry. ,--.-. Public support for take Shiva s government has Sun to 5 percent the lowest for any postwar japanese prime minister according to a recent Survey by the main Tchi Shimun newspaper. / the government s proposed $454 billion budget has been stalled in parliament because of a Boycott Fay opposition parties Over the scandal. News updates Low fat diet study London api a new medi Cal study says a Low fat diet May no be he ally for everyone and that a 12-year Survey shows Low cholesterol Levels coincide with a increased risk of cancer in some men. " the researchers reported in in weekly British medical journal that their results also show people with High cholesterol have a greater Chance of gelling heart  finding has been confirmed by other scientific teams and has gained widespread Public acceptance. However the latest learn of re searchers said their results also show that Low cholesterol level sometimes coincide with a greater risk from cancer although this link was Only significant for men. Detention extended Belgrade Yugoslavia a a District court in the province of Kosovo extended the detention of an ethnic albanian Leader accused of inciting last month bloody dashes a newspaper said saturday. Azem Vlasi who was arrested March i will be held for at least another month Belgrade s  novo Sli said. The news paper said his lawyers had appealed the decision. The court ruling came after prosecutors said an investigation into charges of counterrevolutionary a Lively had not been com plete the newspaper said. The charges carry he death penalty. Escape try foiled. Berlin special interest groups Sef record for spending in last election drive Washington a political Campaign spending by special interest groups shot to an All Lime High of $349.6 million in the last election the  commission said saturday. Outlays by 4,828 political action committees Many of them formed by Spe Cial interest groups that lobby capital Hill Rose 5 percent in the last two years Over its Mark in the comparable 1985-86 period the commission said that did represent a slowing of growth in Campaign spending by special interest groups which previously had been charted at 22 percent. The Fec said. Democrats who control both houses of Congress Benefit most from the generosity of the special interests inc com Mission said. The groups lend to favor incumbents and incumbents lend to win re election. " ?. Political action committees known As pics Are formed by corporation labor -.unions,and other organizations to raise Money for political contributions. Under Federal Taw a Pac May give each Candi Date a maximum of $5,000 for each Pri Mary Runoff and general election. Individual contributions arc limited to si.000 each for primaries runoffs and general elections. In 1987-88, $1.2 billion Overall was. Spent on campaigns for Congress an president including Money from the fed eral government individuals political parties and pics. Of that total the pics accounted for Aboul 28 Pyrc Cal according to commission figures. During 1987-88,-tne pics pal. 74 per cent of their Money on incumbents while in he previous two year period 68 percent went to incumbents the com Mission  reaped 12 percent of inc Pac Money in the last elec Tion compared to 14 Pyrc Cal in 1986, Randy Huwa a spokesman for com Mon cause a Washington based group that advocates overhaul of the Campaign financing system,.noled thai the Pac Money spent on congressional winners also Rose last year. That went up from from si01 Mil lion in 1086 to $122 million in 1988," he said. So members who were elected in 1988 Are More indebted to pics than any claw in history so i Don t see thai necessarily As indicating hat Pac growth is slowing in addition to providing campaigns with direct contributions limited in size pics can spend unlimited amounts on behalf of candidates. For example the can produce and air television commercials. The Law requires thai such an Effort must not be controlled by or coordinated with the Campaign organization. These Independent expenditures amounted to 120.2 million in 1988, up from $9.4 million in 1986, according to the commission. Almost All of thai increase came from just one Pac inc National Security political action committee a conservative organization that zoomed to inc top of the charts in spending last year with out lays of some 10.3 million. According 10 the election commis Sion s records nearly $8.1 million of thai was spent Tor the Benefit of just one candidate president Bush. The Lone of the group s advertise meals and its methods of raising funds however caused la wish s Campaign to Dis avow it publicly and to file a formal complaint against it. Vienna police arrest fourth nurse in Angels of death murder Case Vienna. Austria a a fourth nurse was Arr sled sunday in Austria s widening Hospital murder Case and the number of seriously ill patients killed by the nurses at Vienna s Mainz Hospital has reached 44, Gunter b6gi, vienna1 police chief said. Bbl told a news conference thai the four nurses dubbed the Angels of death by the Media had confessed to killing 44 patients whom they considered terminal by injecting insulin and other medications and by forcibly infusing  reports said the killings occurred Over a period of one year but Bogl  police investigators were looking into death registers and other Hospital records Back to the year 1982. The fourth nurse was identified As St fanic Mayer age so. The other three nurses. Irene Leidolf 27, is Giraud Wagnew 30, and Maria Truber 26, reportedly were assistant nurses police said saturday. Franz prics Snitz a senior police offi Cial involved in the investigation identified Wagner As the main suspect saying she was suspected of single  ing some 20 patients. At sunday s news conference b5gl said one of the nurses under arrest killed More than half of the victims bul he did not give a name. Our investigations Are continuing the police chief said suggesting that More arrests might be made. Bugl said the nurses declared their main motive was Active euthanasia a " method to induce painless death in peo ple suffering from a lethal and painful disease. But he added that police were investigating this claim and Priessnitz on sat urday said on austrian Public television thai the nurses also killed patients whom they considered a nuisance. For me this is murder said Alois Stacher Vienna s City councilman i charge of Public health. Is irrelevant if the women were Ward assistants assist ant nurses or certified  Stachur said reports thai the nurse injected Loo much insulin in patients suf Ferine from diabetes were not Correct but a aliens who did not suffer from diabetes were Given insulin thai should never have been  bbl did not identify any other medi cations allegedly Given to the  did say thai he had increased the number of he Case s investigators to 30,and he hinted that the probe into the biggest serial murder Case in postwar Austria was far from Over the deeds were mostly perpetrated single hand edly he said. In individual cases two nurses acted together.? police officials involved in the investigation believe most of the patients were Between 75 and 80 years old but they added that their information was being checked against computer lists of patients who had died Al the Hospital