European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday August 30. 1989 Gorbachev says lithuanian activists went too far separatist reports Moscow a president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has told officials of the lithuanian communist party that the Baltic Republic s separatists have gone too far in their drive for Independence an activist said monday also on monday the communist party daily newspaper pravda accused ethnic activists in the Southern Republic of Moldavia of trying to take Power on the Crest of a Muddy wave of chauvinism and  in Vilnius Lithuania. Romaldus olo Zus. A member of the governing Council or Sejm. Of the saudis grassroots move ment said he and four colleagues met with lithuanian communist party chief Algirdas Brazauskas on monday after Gorbachev called the lithuanian party Leader on Friday and sunday to express his concern. Razauskas told the saudis members that Gorbachev is concerned about what s happening in Lithuania that what had happened so far was Worth sup porting but that now we d gone too far Olous said by Telephone. On saturday the soviet communist party Central committee in Moscow is sued a stinging statement saying that separatists Are leading the Baltic republics of Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia into an abyss. The statement came several Days after More than i million Baltic people joined hands in a human Chain to protest the 1939 agreement Between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler that assigned the then Independent Baltic to a soviet sphere of influence. The government of Lithuania and the communist party of a second Baltic re Public Latvia came into line monday behind the party statement. The Tass news Agency said the latvian party issued a statement calling the Par by s stance the basis for Concrete action for normalizing the social political Situa Tion in the  in Lithuania the presidium of the re Public s supreme soviet legislature rejected a commission s findings that the incorporation of Lithuania into the soviet Union by Stalin in 1940 was an inter National  Izvestia. The soviet government news paper said the findings did not Lake into account Lithuania s political situation in 1939-40. Would Lead the Republic into a political dead end and would serve poorly in the Transfer to economic ind Epen  it turned the supreme soviet commis Sion s work Back to it until a National panel finishes its review. Izvestia said. Olous said Gorbachev apparently was upset with the findings of the lithuanian commission because they could heighten the Legal argument for full Independence. A meeting of communist party activists was called monday in Vilnius but nothing was known of its results. The confrontation Wilh the Kremlin was inescapable but the resistance might slow Down the saudis cd drive for greater autonomy if not outright in dependence from Moscow Olous said. The grass roots movement will continue on the same path but the Steps can be slower or faster depending on the Concrete situation he  chairman Vytatus lands Bergis also indicated sunday that the Kremlin state Mcnol will make some problems for  but he added that Heddin t expect the Kremlin to crush the movement. I Don t think they re mad  he said. Olous said that no special meeting Ofsa Judis was planned to discuss the Kremlin reaction but that Landsbergis would speak on lithuanian to tuesday  said that he had an impression from talking to Era Rauskas that Gorba Chev did not entirely support the strident tone of the Central committee statement but that his reaction was  Matador Jose Ortega Cano pauses briefly cry briefly to kiss the Horn of his adversary monday during the fourth fight of the annual Spanish festival no lingering kiss of san Sebastian de los re is near Madrid. After the Matador s flex line tribute. Hit Hull and its Niter sury resumed their All out Coni Hul. Japan seeks new rules in woke of child killings tied to horror videos Tokyo a the government in the aftermath of four child slaving blamed on the harmful effects of horror videos tuesday said it wants the video Indus try to regulate How it Sells and rents violent tapes. The spread of videos in Japan has been remarkable in recent years and some feature brutality in the treatment of humans and animals and arc seen Clear Lyas inhumane Kiyoshi i Uno director general of the management and coordination Agency said. Mizuno. Who also Heads the Agency s youth affairs administration which works to prevent juvenile Delin Quency said he is concerned about How such videos affect Young  urged the video Industry to strengthen its own regulations on the Sale and rental of videos depict ing cruelty. He also urged local governments and youth organizations to study  of regulating the Sale of potentially harmful  request came after authorities said Tsutomu i a Zaki. A 26-year-old print shop worker confessed to police investigators that he kidnapped and killed four girls aged i to 7, Over the past v car in a Tokyo suburb. News coverage of the Case has focused repeated a on his room filled with a collection of some 5,000 video tapes including horror films and animation films showing violence and unclothed women. Kyodo news service said the government would ask the video Industry to designate videos Wilh violent scenes As adults Only As is done Wilh pornographic videos in Japan. World today dogs far from mailman s Best friends in Britain London a dog attacks on mailman arc increasing the Post office said monday blaming the increase on warmer weather than usual and on people keeping larger dogs. Hot weather makes dogs irritable and attacks on mailman were up by 40pcrcent in the first six months of this year the Post office said. There were 7,057 dog attacks on mailman in Britain last year nearly one fifth More than in 1987. The Post office said dog attacks Cost it 330,000 pounds $515,000 a year in payment for sick leave and loss of  try to Slop attacks the Post office is testing a device which emits a High pitched sound inaudible to humans but allegedly intimidating to dogs. In the past mailman facing a threatening dog were advised to get Down on All fours and look it straight in the Eye. But few mailman were Brave enough to try1, the Post office said. Japanese Banks will merge to become world s no. 2 Tokyo up two major japanese commercial Banks announced tuesday they will merge to form the world s second largest Bank next april i. A move observers said May trigger co Rani action of Japan s financial  merger Between Mitsui Bank Ltd. And Taiyo Kobe Bank Ltd. Will be realized on an equal basis executives of the two institutions said. We have judged that the merger will Best serve our customers in the age of Liberali action and inter Natina a Alion of the financial  Yasuo Matsushita president of the Taiyo Kobe Hank said at a news con Ler Cnoc tuesday. The new Bank to be named 1 Jim Nkoba Mitsui Bank ill be the world s second Lark ,.imcrcial Bank in terms i f fund volume after Daiichi Kang Bank Ltd. Of Japan. The combined fund held by the to Banks at the end of last March 31 totalled of $231.87 billion mein Kampp translated into hebrew but no takers Jerusalem not Dan Yaron a 70-year-old israeli whose parents died in nazi concentration Camps has translated Hitler s mein Klampt into he brew for israeli youth. But in so doing he has touched feelings that run so deep Here that he cannot find any one Olio is willing to publish it. In the last six months 12 major publishers have rejected his manuscript but Yaron is still  Hope to get an affirmative answer soon he said. Written in 1923, mein kampf my struggle is Hitler s  have to read the Book to learn what it Means to be a fascist an anti semite Yaron said