European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday january 29,1990 crusading against sales tax the chairwoman of the Japan socialist party Taka to Doi. Dons Batman Oarb during a Campaign skit saturday in Yotsu Kaido East of Tokyo. The Bat chairwoman told the party s rally that she would subdue a notorious sales tax which is the main Issue hit orc voters in feb. 18 parliamentary elections. Rising crime in Norway creates National hysteria experts say Oslo. Norway a a steady increase in crime has persuaded Many norwegians that their relatively Safe Law abiding country is being overrun by thugs hooligans and even organized crime. Experts say the Public concern verges on National hysteria. They argue that Norway still has one of the world s lowest crime rates and even compares favor ably with the rest of peaceful Scandinavia. Our biggest crime problem is the unfounded anxiety people feel about it. Such fear can ruin people s said Nils Christie a University of Oslo criminology professor. Muggers Are uncommon and even City Parks Gener ally Are Safe. Some cafeterias in Small towns and on certain trains Trust customers to leave Money in the till for what they take and make their own change. Few citizens of this country of 4.2 million have witnessed criminal violence according to an informal newspaper poll. Police usually unarmed used or threatened to use weapons Only 28 limes last year according to Justice ministry figures. Norway is at the Bottom of the list of violent crimes per capita said Christie. The risk of being murdered in the United states is nine times greater than in Norway according to a local study. Sociologist Cicilie Hoigaard listed Norway s murder rate in 1988 As 0.9 killings per 100,000 residents rom Pard to 1.4 in Sweden and 5.1 in France. The world almanac said the . Figure was 8.3 the same year. Yet. Crime has increased by about 15 percent a year since 1986. According to official figures and that has had social and political repercussions. We Aren t interested in comparing ourselves to other countries. We must compare ourselves to the Way said Tor Aksel Busch. Deputy director general of Public prosecutions. It is the increase that is crimes for profit such As theft and fraud represent a percent of the offences. There is simply much More to steal because nor Way s Standard of living has increased Christie said. Norway underwent an economic Boom when Oil was discovered off its coast. From 1986 to 1988. Drug arrests doubled and Vio Lent crime Rose 29 percent partly because alcohol is More accepted by traditionally reserved and pious norwegians Christie said. In december robbers rammed an armoured car with a Large truck and escaped with the equivalent of about $1million, leaving behind a Trail of stolen getaway cars that they burned to destroy any evidence. Norwegians could perhaps understand the greed but were appalled that the thieves were prepared to injure the Security guards. Cnoc was a major Issue in last fall s National on everything from drugs and alcohol to video tapes and foreigners. The right Wing party of Progress increased its standing in parliament tenfold partly on the basis of a Law and order Campaign. Many norwegians arc responding by fortifying their Homes. Lock sales soared 60 percent from 1987 to 1989. And burglar alarm sales also Are reportedly booming. Tabloids routinely Brand any group of criminals the they devote sensational and lengthy coverage to murders pursuing the Story for weeks. World today it costs More to Send Oil via Suez area pipeline Cairo. Egypt a official have increased by one fourth the Cost of sending Oil through to Rland pipeline skirting the sue canal to the sea. The pipeline s capacity has also been increased by 50 percent. Chairman Ibrahim Llama of the Arab Petroleum pipelines co. Which owns the facility known As sum cd. Did not specify when the higher transit dolls were implemented. But he said they would last until the end of implying that a review would follow. Effective Jan. I. Transit tolls for the canal North of sum cd s Eastern Mouth on the Gulf of Suez increased by up to 7.3 percent. At the same time the sue canal authority s chairman. Ezzat Adel announced a Dis count scheme for supertanker that use the pipeline in conjunction with canal transits. The government s Middle East news Agency quoted Ham a As saying the new pipeline toll was $2.55 a ton. No sign yet of Marine Pilot who crashed off Okinawa Tokyo a no traces of a . Marine Pilot Orris fighter plane Hac been found since the aircraft went Down off Okinawa last week officials said sat urday. The search continues for signs of the one seat Ash harrier aircraft which was Hying from Kudrna a on Okinawa Island in Southern Japan to Osanah i South Korea when it crashed at 5 05 . Friday. . Military officials said. The missing Pilot s name and Hometown have been withheld pending notification of next of Kin they said. Japan s coast guard sent three patrol vessels carrying70 Crew members to conduct the search and the . Marines and air Force dispatched a c-130 aircraft said a coast guard spokesman Masataka Kin. The amphibious cargo ship St. Louis also was diverted to the area to help in the search. The plane crashed 23 Miles Northeast of in Yajima Island As it flew in formation with another harrier Jet. The cause of the Accident is under investigation. The plane was assigned to Marine attack so 542 and based in Japan for a six month deployment pro Gram the Squadron s Home base is Cherry Point . Latest idea for Berlin Wall use slabs to store dung Berlin a reinforced Concrete slabs re moved from the Berlin Wall should be used for build ing silos and dung storage containers the East German Farmers party said ried Wail Graffiti would not have to vanish said the official newspaper of the democratic peasant party. Valuable paintings would certainly face outward and would thus be maintained for future generations the paper communist authorities opened the Wall nov. 9 alter 28 years. East German officials have said the Border Barrier will be dismantled and sold by the slab to foreigners paying hard currency. Dismant icly to be Able to compel a much As $29.000 for slabs from the infamous cold wars Mol. Despite the dismantled Wall s suitability for agrarian uses Farmers arc not Likel compete wit Cash bearing westerners who have been paying As Blaze kills 28 revellers at building in Taiwan Taipei Taiwan a Twenty eight people died in a fire saturday night in a five Story commercial Center crowded with people celebrating the chinese lunar new year authorities said. Police in Taiyuan. 30 Miles South of Taipei said the charred bodies of 18 victims were found on the fourth floor. Which housed a theater hotel and shops. E. Germany listening in on Berlin s Calls report says Hamburg. West Germany a East Germany has bugged Telephone Calls Between the West German government and West Berlin authorities at will for years and i continuing to do so. A news Magazine reported saturday. East Berlin s eavesdropping targets in Bonn include the office of the Chan cellar government ministries political parties and the Federal parliament the Hamburg based Magazine Der Spiegel said in its latest edition. It quoted unnamed East German agents. The entire political and administrative area was monitored to a degree of perfection that shocked us the mag Azine quoted a High ranking Bonn offi Cial As saying. The official who also was not named said that the West German government has Clear evidence that East Ger Many s new communist led government in Power since last fall s peaceful revolution has kept up the intelligence gather ing. To combat the snooping the West German government is increasingly using courier services to communicate with West Berlin authorities Der Spiegel quoted the official As saying. Despite being under Allied administration. West Berlin is a West German enclave in the Middle of East Germany. East Germany s government has dropped plans for creating a new secret Ilice Force before free elections in May but officials have indicated that foreign spying will not be stopped in the mean time
