European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world japanese Leader Kaifu won t seek second term from wire reports Tokyo a prime minister Toshiki Kaifu announced Friday that he will not seek a second term As head of the ruling party and the premiership accompanying the Post. Kaifu said he would not seek the Post because he was responsible for the failure of parliament to pass his electoral Reform package into Law. The embattled Kaifu also said he was responsible for the inability of the ruling Liberal democratic party and three main opposition parties to agree on an inter party panel charged with resolving the debate on political Reform. Despite incredible personal popularity that some political analysts regarded As enough to spiral Nim into a second term the sharpest attacks on Kaifus ineffectiveness came from members of his own party determined to halt a reelection bid. Kaifu earlier told former prime minister no Boru Takeshita and former Deputy prime minister Shin Kanemaru the co leaders of the largest lip faction that he would step  Leader in Sweden Stockholm Sweden a parliament confirmed conservative Carl Bildt As prime minister thursday placing Sweden under non socialist leadership for Only the second time in 60 years. The Riksdag Sweden a legislature voted 163 to 147 for Bildt. There were 23 deputies who abstained 16 were absent. Bildt 42, was to name a Cabinet on Friday and announce government policies for the next three years. The government was expected to include four parties Bildt a own moderates the Liberal party Center party and Christian democrats. Together they have 170 seats in the 349-member Riksdag five Short of a majority. To pass legislation the government will have to depend on the newly formed new democracy  nurses rally Paris a several thousand nurses from across France rallied near the health ministry on thursday to demand better working conditions. Organizers estimated the turnout at More than 5,000, while police said it was 3,000. No disturbances were reported. A nurses a an endangered species a said one of the displayed placards. Representatives of the protesters met with health minister Bruno Durieux and later said they were disappointed by the talks. He proposed forming a commission to study problems facing the nursing profession. The nurses demands include higher pay larger nursing staffs and efforts to improve physical conditions in  Public display bell1nzona, Switzerland a in a country known for secret Bank accounts Early morning strollers received a very Public display of Cash when a bag containing 1 million Swiss francs about $670,000 fell from a postal train. The sack of Money destined for Banks in this Southern Swiss town was apparently sucked out of an open door thursday As the train left a Tunnel officials said. Gianfelice Colombo Bellinzona a postal director said the loss was discovered about 2xh hours later after several trains had driven Over the bag and scattered its contents. Colombo said by late afternoon Only one fifth of the Cash had been recovered. Police were investigating reports of passers by gathering up the stray banknotes he  lady a lord London sex prime minister Margaret Thatcher will be offered the title of countess and Given a seat in the House of lords after the general election the times reported thursday. The newspaper citing unnamed government sources said the convention of offering a hereditary earldom to a retiring prime minister would continue. Thatcher who resigned under pressure from her colleagues last november has said she will accept the Honor if offered. Police officers Scurry for shelter in Berlin on thursday night after a clash broke out at the end of a demonstration. Violence against foreigners continues across Germany Hamburg Germany apr the wave of anti foreigner violence continued into Friday after the attacks overshadowed reunited Germany a first anniversary party the Day before. Speakers at the country a main National Celebration had drawn parallels with nazi terror As Thev sought an end to the rash of firebombing and Stone throwing a by right Wing extremist thugs. In Central Germany radicals set fire to the Home of a turkish family in the town of Seesen Early Friday after shouting a out with foreigners and a smash the  police said two adults and three children were suffering from smoke inhalation. Authorities said about 15 assailants stormed into a shelter for romanian refugees in the Eastern German town of Gate Sleben. The attackers nearly destroyed one room but no injuries were reported. Attackers also threw firebombs at a refugee shelter in the bavarian town of Piele Hofen but none of the Gorbachev hails Bush s proposal to trim arsenals Moscow apr soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev on thursday gave High Marks to president Bush a arms control proposal and said he considers it As important As the landmark superpower Summit at Reykjavik Iceland in 1986. In a Brief interview on soviet television Gorbachev also said he has appointed a group of experts to Analyse Bush a proposal and work out a a positive adequate response. Gorbachev noted that he spoke with Bush by Telephone before the president announced a week ago that America was unilaterally reducing its Arsenal of Short Tange nuclear weapons. Bush called on the soviet Union to take similar Steps and to enter negotiations to eliminate intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple warheads. A we agreed with the president that it is necessary to immediately begin contacts to clarify All the questions that we have. Trie president right away in that conversation said he liked the idea. And now representatives of the president Are coming to us a Gorbachev said. He was referring to a delegation led by undersecretary of state Reginald Bartholomew that is expected to arrive in Moscow soon. A i gave a special presidential order to form a group which is already acting to Analyse in detail the proposal from the american Side. Gorbachev said. Indians and pakistanis inside was injured. In Berlin police said they arrested 59 militant leftists who rampaged after marching in a pro foreigner rally. Leftists also clashed with police the Day before in Hamburg. A German president Richard von Wei sticker visited three Homes for Asylum seekers on Friday in what amounts to a show of Solidarity with the foreigners. On thursday alone German police reported 14 injuries nationwide in attacks in 16 towns and cities. The most serious left two lebanese girls aged 6 and 8, in critical condition after a firebomb was thrown into a shelter for Asylum seekers in Hixine a suburb of Disseldorf in Western Germany. Four suspects were arrested it and face charges of attempted murder in the Hixine attack police said. Witnesses said the attackers were a skinheads a youths favouring shaved hair heavy boots and bomber  s members Back defense cuts Brighton England a defying its leaders Britain a labor party on thursday voted to slash defense spending if it wins next years election. But party spokesman David Hill said Leader Neil Kinlock would ignore the vote carried by a More than 2-1 margin at the opposition party a annual conference. The vote marked the first major Rebuff at the we Klong conference for Kinlock who has hauled the party onto a centrist platform shorn of former hard line socialist policies. Delegates rejected by 3-2 a left Wing attempt to reintroduce the controversial policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament which Kinlock dumped two years ago. Delegates at the convention Center in this Southern England resort cheered the passing of the Resolution calling for a labor government to Cut British defense spending to the average of other West european countries. Kinlock who sat silently through the debate made no immediate comment. But he told reporters before the vote that the conference a will decide what it will. But that is rather different from the obligations to the  asked if Kinlock would ignore the vote Hill said a ooh