European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page8 the stars and stripes sunday. August 13,1989 Japan s top envoy faults . Business says there s a Lack of understanding Tokyo a Japan s new foreign nations from signing a peace treaty. In the interview the foreign minister la. Who resigned june 2 to Lake response Chanec. The said americans have made considerable ability for the a Cru fore minister said Friday americans Are to blame for friction Over Trade because they Don t understand his country speak its language or try hard enough to penetrate the japanese Market. Taro Nakayama a physician appointed foreign minister wednesday after prime minister Toshiki Kaifu took of fice said that ". Efforts Are lacking and Japan s internal goods distribution system should not be held responsible As Many american business people say it should be for tensions Over Trade. While i am of course aware of the various opinions emanating from the . Side in regard to Japan s distribution system the distribution systems of the United states and Japan differ As the countries themselves differ he said. He said that Japan must speak its mind to bring the United states around to its Way of thinking. In an interview with Kyodo news service Nakayama also was quoted As saying he expected the soviet Union to offer to return a group of Small islands off Northern Japan in Exchange for Japa Nese technology and  soldiers have occupied the is lands since the end of world War ii an the dispute Over them has kept the two nation As International relations change the soviet government authorities change and their Way of thinking will change As Well to adapt to International Circum stances Nakayama was quoted As say ing. Many business leaders in the United states believe americans cannot penetrate the Market because the japanese system won t let them. The new prime minister said he would visit Washington next month to meet with president Bush and reaffirm relations with the United states As the foun Dation of Japan s foreign policy. He pledged to push political and tax Reform As a Way of preventing the kind of scandals and unpopular policies that brought Down his two predecessors and Cost his governing Liberal democrats an upper House election. Americans including members of Congress often complain that Japan s Complex distribution system in which longstanding relationships and deliver practices take precedence Over efficiency and Cost cutting arc a major Barrier to . Goods. Japan s Trade surplus with the United states was $55 billion last year Accord ing to . Government figures. I Sai Progress in improving their understand ing of the japanese Market but depend too much on japanese who speak English rather than learning the language them selves. How Many americans working in Japan can speak perfect japanese he said. Nakayama was a member of a Liberal democratic party committee that negotiated in Washington on Trade issues. Re Ferring to that experience he said americans then appeared to under stand Japan but in fact did not. That s Why it is so necessary to talk at length with the United states. If that is not done the United states As can be expected of them will come up with Var ious unilateral  Kaifu succeeded sous pc Uno who resigned after Only two months in office to take responsibility for the governing party s election defeat last month. The Liberal democrats lost their majority inthe upper House of parliament for the first time since the party was formed in i955. Uno also was plagued by allegations that he had kept paid mistresses. Uno took Over from Noboru Takeshi la t Tak responsibility recruit co. Influence buy ing scandal which reached the top ranks of politics the bureaucracy and business. On Friday Only two Days after taking office Kaifu denied a newspaper report that he had an illegitimate child As the result of an affair with a Model. I was shocked by it he said in response to a question from reporters. It is totally irresponsible and without foun Dation. Kaifu said his office had asked the Nagoya times to apologize and pub Lish a retraction. He defended the 3 percent sales tax which has outraged housewives since its introduction in april but said he agrees it should be reviewed and the Revenue should be used for welfare programs. Kaifu said scandals such As the re Cruit affair in which the information conglomerate tried to buy influence with Large political donations and Cut rate shares of Stock should not be allowed to recur. He has acknowledged receiving donations Worth $ 110,000 from the com Pany. Running a political organization in Japan is too expensive and Reform is essential to regaining the Public Trust Kaifu said and we have to change this dependence on  Juliet s Balcony is falling apart Verona Italy a in what could be another tragic chapter in a classic love Story the Balcony from which Juliet supposedly talked with Romeo is crumbling away. Newspapers reported saturday that Verona City authorities have declared the Balcony dangerous closed off the area underneath it for safely reasons and decided to begin major Restora Tion work in the next few months. Only a Radical intervention can prevent a total  said Lanfranco Franzoni Dirac or of Verona s museums. Some tourists have been hit by falling pieces of Wood and Rock from the Balcony. But not Only time is to blame for the decay of the Balcony. Many of the 200,000 visitors who come yearly to Verona to remember Romeo and Juliet try to break a piece away As a souvenir. Juliet s Balcony is a place of pilgrimage for Shakespeare fans and romantic souls. Juliet s House a 13th-Century building in the Center of town used to be an inn called ii Cappollo the Hal in italian. Its name sounded close enough to Juliet s family name Capulet for the Veronese to identify it As the setting of the tragedy involving the Montague and Capulet families William shake Speare wrote a play about three centuries later. Seething spuds destroy experimental potato plants wag Ningen Netherlands a a group Call ing itself the Seething spuds Friday claimed responsibility for destroying 400 genetically altered Pota to plants that Are part of a research project police said. The protest caused a delay of at least one year in research at the agriculture ministry s 1tal Institute which planted the potatoes in june said Institute spokesman Willem Stie Kema. The potato plants were ripped out of the ground tossed on a Heap Early thursday according to police spokesman h. Martin. No arrests were made. In a letter to the dutch National news Agency the group said the protest was aimed at using genetic manipulation to make potatoes More resistant to herbicides. Dundee Rowdy Dies in Australia Sydney. Australia a John Millon an actor Best known Fortis roles As an Outback Rowdy in the Crocodile Dundee movies died Friday friends said. He was 55. Meillon was found dead in his Sydney Home by a Friend. The cause of death was not yet known. His agent Bill Shanahan said head no details of the actor s death. Millon whose acting career began at age 11, became prominent worldwide As Paul Hogan s Outback sidekick in Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee  but Meillon s earlier roles won Australia television and film awards and led to his being named by Queen Elizabeth ii As an offi cer of the British pm  said he believed Meillon s favorite film role was that of a single father dealing with his Young son s fatal cancer in the the fourth  he was very selective in the roles that he did he refused Many because he did not think they were Good enough and Money never entered his head Shanahan said. Actor Noel Ferrier called Millon. One of Australia s Premier actors. I was always a bit in Awe of Meillon because he was one of those actors. That when he gets on stage or when he gets in front of a camera you never Felt he was acting he said. Actor Michael Craig admired Millon for his daring. He would hold a pause longer than anyone else dared to do and get away with it he said. Meillon s other films included sundowners and picture show  he is survived by his second wife Bunny Gibson and a son John Meillon or. John Meillon world today horse sickness strikes Spain in new outbreak Seville Spain a a government offi Cial Friday confirmed the third outbreak in Spain in two years of the deadly african horse sickness giving Rise to concern that the Barcelona 1992 summer olympics May not Host Eques Trian events. Agriculture ministry official Julio Blanco said lab tests showed the viral disease also known As Equine plague caused the deaths july 31 of two Polo ponies at a Polo club in in Southern Cadiz province. He said tests were underway to determine the cause of the aug. 3 death of a third horse at the same club although it appeared the animal died of Equine plague As Well. International olympic com Mitch president Juan Antonio Sam ranch told reporters in Sev Ille he was very worried that confirmation of the outbreak could cause International equestrian authorities to oppose the staging of equestrian events in Barcelona in 1992. East germans inaugurate flights to w. Germany Dusseldorf West Germany a an East German into Pflug Jet arrived Friday in this West German business Center completing the first Exchange of commercial flights in the 40 years since the nation was divided. Heinz Ruhnau head of West Germany s Luft Hansa airline that inaugurated a Frankfurt to Leipzig service thursday deemed the new routes a step toward  but despite the new services aimed at shuttling passengers from both sides among the major business cities a remnant of the cold War continues to encumber both National carriers neither Lufthansa nor into Pflug is allowed to flyover the Border Between the countries so they must Detour to the South and Fly through czechoslovak airspace. Under a Post world War ii agreement Amon the Western allies Only France Britain and the United states Are allowed to provide air Servic Between West Germany and West Berlin and they must travel along three closely prescribed routes