European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday August 25,1989 world today 46 new zealand whales die in mass beaching Whangarei new zealand a Al least 46 Pilot whales died in a mass beaching in a Remote Northern area of new zealand and wild life rangers were trying to re float 10 that sur Vived officials said  spokesman Tor the conservation department said the animals washed ashore wednesday on ninety mile Beach a stretch of Sand along the Western Side of the isthmus of a Pori Peninsula. Officials said the Herd must have come in on High tide after Midnight. Local Farmers and members of a diving club worked through the night with conservation staff to save the whales which were taken by truck across the Peninsula to Calmer Waters. Haitian soldiers arrest beat peasants Burn Homes port a Prince Haiti a soldiers arrested and beat 14 peasants and plundered and burned Down their Homes in an isolated Village in Northern Haiti radio stations said wednesday. Radio Molcil owned by the roman Catholic Church quoted Francois Pierre Louis of the leftist National popular Assembly party As say ing that 40 soldiers rounded up peasants on the night of aug. 17 in the Hamlet of Champagne tied them up and beat  peasants were still jailed wednesday in nearby Leborgne 200 Miles from port a Prince he said without specifying the  port a Prince radio stations carried the same report. Army officials in Northern Haiti could not be reached for comment wednesday. Pierre Louis said the soldiers fell upon the peasants after failing to find three National pop ular Assembly leaders they came to arrest. Greeks to Burn files dating Back to civil War Athens Greece a Security files on greeks involved in the communist uprising 40 years ago will be burned to end a lingering sym Bol of animosity Between rightists and leftists the government announced wednesday. The files were compiled on persons consid ered a threat to Public Security since the Early 1940s and stored in the Dusty Dank basement of Athens Security police  will be burned August 29 in the furnaces of a steel Plant outside the capital said govern ment spokesman Athanassiou Kanellopoulos. The civil War Between 1946 and 1949 pitted families against each other Over political ideology. Tens of thousands of persons were killed and wounded while thousands of others fled the country As government forces backed by Britain and the United states forced the communists to capitulate. Japanese Cabinet official May quit Over sex scandal Tokyo a Japan s new government suffered its first setback thursday when a top Cabinet official said he was considering resigning following disclosures that he had an extramarital affair. Chief Cabinet Secretary Tokuo Yamashita 69, apologized for the  it was the second sex scandal this summer involving a member of the governing Liberal democratic party and the first crisis for the government created two weeks ago by prime minister Toshiki Kaifu. Kaifu speaking to reporters As he headed to a Spe Cial meeting with party leaders said the question of resigning should be decided by the politician him self. He did not comment further. Aged the government s reputation said a faction offi Cial who spoke on condition of anonymity. Kaifu met for two hours with party Secretary general Ichiro Ozawa and members of the party political Reform committee. They left without speaking to reporters. The tense atmosphere followed the disclosure that Yamashita the Cabinet s spokesman and coordinator had an affair with a woman almost 45 years younger than himself. He and his wife of More than 40 years Kyoko have four grown daughters. Yamashita said at a nationally televised morning news conference that he was seriously considering whether to resign following disclosures that he had an affair. That such news would be reported was due completely to my own indiscretion said Yamashita Kaifu s top aide. The task of the Kaifu Cabinet is to promote clean government and As i must follow that and support the prime minister. I can offer Only my deepest apol Ogies to the people or Japan he said. Yamashita told reporters after the party leaders met that he was still analysing opinions and trying to make up my mind whether to resign. One Way or the other the decision has to come before Long he said. Asked if the situation had any Impact on Kaifu s trip to the United states Canada and Mexico next week Yamashita merely said he was considering whether it had any Impact. The Public is not going to tolerate such insensitivity of political leaders said Yotaro Konaka a prominent author and critic on social issues. People must doubt if the new government which appointed such a person to its top Post just when political ethics has become a National Issue has any common sense at  if Yamashita resigns Konaka said other top politicians would be under similar pressure. Masaya Ito. A prominent political analyst said the scandal is unlikely to cause fatal damage to the Kaif administration because it docs not directly involve the prime minister. Of Leno Yamashita Bui it is particularly damaging Tor Kaifu in a sense that the Public is not going to believe what he says from now on after such a disgusting scandal he said. Japanese society has Long been tolerant of Rich an powerful men having affairs and mistresses and such matters Seldom were reported in National Media. But the taboo was broken in june when a respected weekly Magazine published an interview with an sex Geisha who said then prime minister Shusuke Uno had paid her to be his mistress. Uno had been in office less than a week and uproar Over the allegation contributed to his downfall and to the Low popularity of the Liberal democrats who Are reeling from a bribery scandal and from Public dislike of a new 3 percent sales tax. Uno resigned and was succeeded by Kaifu after the Liberal democrats suffered a massive defeat in the july 23 election and lost their majority in the upper House of parliament. In Yamashita s Case the respected weekly Shukan Shincho reported in its thursday Issue that he started an affair with an office worker and part time bar Host Ess in 1984 when she was 21. The Magazine said the affair lasted for More than three years during which time he served As transport minister and head of the management and coordination Agency. It reported that he gave her $21,000 on aug. 3.whcn there was speculation he would get a High Post in the new government. The woman who was not identified has returned the Money according to the Magazine. China orders training for recent College grads Beijing a government employees who graduated from College in 1985 or later have been ordered to work one to two years in grass roots units to improve their political understanding officials said thursday. The move is pan of new government efforts since the crushed Spring pro democracy protests to make youth both red or politically sound and expert in ominous echoes of the far leftist cultural revolution. The communist party newspaper the people s daily said that youths still in school who create disturbances rather than study will be expelled and could face criminal prosecution. The newspaper directed a lengthy editorial at College students Many of whom Are resuming class this month. Student from today must conscientiously study marxist Leninist Mao tsp Tung thought and study the party s line it said. The new order affecting graduates for the past four years reflects deep govern ment suspicion Over the political reliability of an entire generation of educated youth. Many Young government workers marched in the student led protests for a Freer society that ended with a bloody army attack on june 3-4. Earlier this month education official denied reports that All recent graduates were being sent out of the capital. However this week s culture news the culture ministry s newspaper Sai College graduates assigned to work in the ministry first must join in unspecified group study and then spend one to two years receiving training in an enter prise under the ministry s jurisdiction. It said the graduates residence per mits will be switched from Beijing to their new location and that those who do not perform Well will not be allowed to return to the ministry. China tries to limit the population of its cities and Beijing residence permits Are especially difficult to obtain. Every office of the ministry Rous help these comrades to raise their political Ana professional Quality the paper said. The culture ministry contacted by Tele phone confirmed the report but said it did not know How Many employees were affected when they would leave for their new jobs or exactly where they would go. The ministry of broadcast film an television and Academy of social sciences also confirmed such an order was issued but said they had not begun Send ing their recent graduates to new jobs. The defense ministry and state Educa Tion commission said they were not accepting any new graduates this year. Students who had planned to Start graduate studies this september also must undergo what is called grass roots  the government announced recently. This usually Means working in a country town. Some observers have likened it to the 1966-76 far leftist cultural revolution when virtually All of China s College and Middle school students were sent to Workon farm communes. Many were never Able to regain their City residence permits. Now however the communes no longer exist and there is no indication the youth will be put to work planting Rice or feeding pigs. Education officials said a 1983 Regula Tion called for All College graduates to spend a year at the grass roots before joining Central government offices but it never was enforced. Students said usually Only the most Politi Cally Active youths chose to work at the grass roots in Hopes of gaining party membership. Most Beijing College students return to class this month and face several weeks of concentrated political study. The people daily editorial acknowledged continued Campus unrest the a kinds of the students Are far from Calm it said. It said the Politi Cal study should help them begin the school year with their minds at rest it reiterated government pledges to punish Only the ringleaders of the seven week democracy movement hundreds of students professors and other intellectuals have been arrested since june 3-4, along with thousands of workers. The president of Beijing University whose students led the protests was replaced wednesday. The government has stopped announcing most arrests but the official radio in the Southeastern province of Huangdong reported thursday that five people were arrested there for plotting to smuggle a wanted student Leader from the country