European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse It Page 8 world the stars and stripes wednesday june 19, 1991british House retains death penalty for Mutiny from wire reports a London a the House of commons has do Cidad to keep the death penalty for Mutiny arid other offences committed by during wartime. The House voted 228-124 monday night to re Jeet a proposal to abolish death by firing squad in the armed forces for Mutiny communicating with the enemy serious misconduct in action and obstructing operations. Coalition sought in India new Delhi India a Congress party leaders set about selecting a prime minister and finding coalition partners tuesday after the party won indians general elections by a margin too Small to return to Power unassisted. The politicians face the prickly task of choosing indians next Leader without setting off Power struggles that could Divide their party which is already shaken by the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv guerrillas ambushed Tyre Lebanon a an israeli army patrol ambushed Arab guerrillas in Southern Lebanon Early tuesday killing two and capturing a third Security sources said. They said a fourth guerrilla escaped. One source said that the identity and affiliation of the guerrillas was not known but that Quot they apparently were on their Way to attack a target inside israeli several palestinian factions plus lebanese leftist and Muslim fundamentalist group operate in Southern Lebanon. Europeans fear japanese will turn them into Colony by William Drozdiak the Washington Post Paris a a new wave of anti japanese sentiment is spreading across Europe As Public admiration for Japan a remarkable postwar recovery is rapidly turning to concern that its economic juggernaut will soon smash key industries conquer the unifying european Market and transform the continent into an Industrial Colony. Books and newspapers Are jammed with references to the a japanese the japanese a salary Many so arduous office hours skimpy vacations and fanatical work ethic Are scorned in France and Germany As anathema to an enlightened lifestyle. For european workers accustomed to six week vacations Complete medical coverage and generous retire ment plans the notion that the Good life May end with eventual japanese colonization is becoming a powerful rhetorical weapon for european politicians. Government and business leaders in Europe speak increasingly in Bellicose images such As the a looming invasion or a economic War plan that they insist Japan is poised to launch when the 12 european com-., Unity countries create a single Market of 340 million Consumers at the end of 1992. French prime minister Edith Cresson has even described the japanese As a a ants imbued with a single minded Devotion to vanquish the Western world. A they sit up All night thinking of ways to screw the americans and the europeans a she said before taking office last month. A they Are our common in an interview with Pierre Antoine donnet the author of a recent Book entitled Japan buys the world Cresson compared the publication of the Japan that a can say no to Adolf hitlers plan to vanquish the world. The Book by Sony corp. President Akio Morita and Shintaro Ishihara Quot argues that Japan is the rightful Leader of a new world order. A it is exactly the same thing As the real mein kampf. That is to say this Book describes everything that is going to happen a Cresson said. _. A a even More than the economic turmoil in Eastern Europe the expanding Power of the asian Island nation is increasingly perceived by politicians and analysts As a major threat to Europe s ambitions to emerge As the pre eminent economic superpower later in the decade. Besides Japan a formidable strength As a commercial rival european analysts Are concerned about japans clout As the worlds biggest creditor. They worry that Japan May be increasingly tempted to use that Power to threaten capital starved countries and to acquire further economic leverage Over Europe. I the a Nippo phobia phenomenon has gathered momentum largely because there appears to be no easy answer to prevent the likelihood that european unemployment already much higher than in the United states is about to increase. Or if protectionist measures Are invoked to save jobs prices will have to soar arid thus Hurt the european consumer. Europe a computer industries Are on the verge of collapse because they cannot compete with japanese and american companies that adapt More quickly to swiftly changing technologies. A the Netherlands electronics giant Philips Italy a Olivetti and Frances Bull have been forced to slash thousands of people from their employment Rolls this year a a a automobile companies which account for 10 percent of the jobs in Europe Are also withering under the japanese Challenge the biggest japanese firms Are skirting the threat of quotas and import duties. France Italy and several Southern european states Are inclined to take urgent protectionist measures to Rescue key industries. Even Germany which As the worlds leading exporter has traditionally favored free Trade policies is advocating Western action against Japan a growing clout forming a network of Industrial Al finances through Cross Border mergers with firms in other european countries and in the United states. Iraq reportedly releasing jailed British Engineer London a iraqis president Saddam Hussein has ordered the release of an imprisoned British Engineer former prime minister Edward Heath said monday. A. Douglas Brand 51, was arrested in september when he tried to leave Iraq after the aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. Brand who had been Clearing mines under contract with Saddam a govern-., ment was convicted of spying and last month sentenced to life imprisonment. A statement from heaths office said Saddam had contacted the former prime minister last week and told him he was prepared to release Brand Heath said he had received information that Brand was being released Mon Day night and would be moved tuesday to Amman Jordan. The foreign office said it could not confirm the report. A if confirmed this news would be Welcome a. It said. A it is what we be been pressing for. We re grateful to or. Heath for his brands release had been part of the cease fire agreement reached yith the troops who drove the iraqis out of Kuwait. Britain had said it would press to continue sanctions against Iraq As Long As Brand was still in prison. Britain also has been pressing for the release of another briton 45-year-old Ian Richter a chemical Engineer imprisoned in Iraq for six years. It j. A kit ,3 v my t. Amsterdam Netherlands apr the dutch communist party a pillar of wartime resistance that also resisted toeing the Kremlin line has voted itself out of existence after 82 years. A we just done to have a function anymore a party chairwoman la Ruus Diven dal said monday a Day after 600 party faithful voted to disband and join a leftist umbrella group. A years ago already under Stalin our people had problems looking at themselves on the soviet Model a she said characterizing them As More concerned with women a peace and race issues than with a the class the party never took part in any governing coalition. Set up in 1909, it enjoyed its greatest popularity right after world War ii. The communists had fielded the largest of the nations resistance movements against the nazi occupation. In 1946 elections they captured 10.6 percent of the vote but their share of the popular vote has since steadily declined. The party a death Knell sounded in 1986 National elections the first postwar vote in which it failed to earn a seat in parliament that poor showing led for formation of the Green left Alliance a group of Small leftist parties to which the dissolving communist party threw its support sunday. Wet Blanket for Beer Garden an umbrella toting pedestrian walks through a wet and empty Beer Garden in Munich s English Garden on tuesday. Such establishments Are usually crowded this time of year in the bavarian capital but Rainy weather throughout Germany is putting a Damper on profits. See weather information on Page 11
