European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday october 28, 1991 politician linked to scandal Heads for Japan s top Post Tokyo apr the governing party chose Cabinet Veteran Kiichi Miyazawa As its president sunday guaranteeing that he will succeed Toshiki Kaifu As prime minister next week. The landslide Victory had been a foregone conclusion since Early october when powerful figures in the Liberal democratic party switched their support from Kaifu to Miyazawa. The 72-year-old Miyazawa who was forced to resign As finance minister in the recruit influence buying scandal two years ago smiled broadly at a news conference As he discussed his return to government. He stressed the importance of  relations. A the United states and Japan have similar values and Are two nations with great responsibility to the world a he said.  relations have been the basis for our  one of his first tasks As prime minister will be play ing Host to president Bush who will visit Japan in a month. Miyazawa said he wanted to Issue a joint declaration detailing How the two nations could promote world peace. Bush is among Miyazawa a longtime acquaintances As is former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Miyazawa is fluent in English and enjoys a reputation As an expert policy maker with a Good grasp of economics. On sunday Miyazawa indicated he might be a Tough negotiating partner saying he wanted to a speak freely and debate freely with Bush. He sounded pessimistic about a Quick fix to Trade friction with the United states. A it is not surprising that Trade friction exists because some Type of Trade friction is always inevitable a he said. Nonetheless he urged japanese companies to use More locally produced components at their factories in the United states. Poles casting ballots for lawmakers Warsaw Poland apr As the first Snow of Winter fell voters in Poland headed to the polls sunday for the country a first open parliamentary elections since 1947. Some 27 million voters were eligible to vote for the 460-seat Sejm or lower House of parliament and the 100-seat Senate in elections held two years after the country a communist government was toppled. Many voters however were expected to Register discontent with the painful process of free Market Reform by staying away from the polls. Amid a recession wages have not kept up with inflation and the jobless rate is 10 percent. Confusion Over the nearly 70 parties participating in the elections also was expected to cause apathy. Voting began at 6 . And was to last 14 hours. Final results were not expected until wednesday. A without settling political issues without carrying out the elections we could not do anything a president Lech Walesa said after voting in his Hometown the Baltic port of Gdansk. A today we Are celebrating democracy a said prime minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki who is favored to head a new government even though pre election polls give his reformist party the Liberal democratic Congress Only 10 percent of the vote. World pirates attack passengers on Bangladesh ferry Dhaka Bangladesh a pirates masquerading As passengers overpowered the Crew of a ferry stabbed 25 passengers and stole More than $8,000, police said saturday. The attack by about 20 pirates took place on the Meghna River near Mun Shigano 20 Miles South of Dhaka. After the attack on the double Decker ferry which contained 250 passengers the pirates fled in a fishing trawler Mun Shigano police  jumper Dies Johannesburg South Africa a a safety harness failure saturday was believed to have caused South africans first a bungee jump death. A 22-year-old woman Cheryl Ann Fromburgh plunged to her death at a Charity pop festival near vereeniging 53 a titles South of Here. The bungee jump craze which originated in new zealand is sweeping the country with participants throwing themselves from a platform suspended High above the ground on a Crane. An Industrial strength rubber band tied to the legs pulls the jumpers up before they hit the  hits Philippines Manila Philippines a typhoon Ruth pounded the Northern Philippines on sunday triggering landslides and damaging houses. On sunday afternoon the Manila weather Bureau located Ruth in the Pacific 50 Miles East of the Northern town of Aparri 250 Miles North of Manila. It was packing Peak winds of 117 Mph. Local radio reported one woman was injured when her House was crushed by a landslide in the Mountain resort City of Baguio 130 Miles North of Manila. Newlyweds Michael Cooper and Nicola love take turns punching a mask of iraqis Saddam Hussein after tying the knot in England on saturday. Cupid s Arrow pierces Saddam s human Shields London apr no one has Ever accused Saddam Hussein of playing cupid. Maybe now they can. Two air plane Crew members held by Iraq As a human Shields during the persian Gulf crisis married saturday and afterwards posed for photographs punching a mask of the iraqi president. Nicola love 24, and Michael Cooper 29, were members of a British airways Cabin Crew stranded in Kuwait City when Iraq invaded the emirate on aug. 2, 1990. Iraq held them and other westerners at various Sites to Ward off Allied attacks. The chief bridesmaid Best Man and master of ceremonies also had been held As so called human Shields at key installations to Ward off Allied attacks. The Rev. James Newall who conducted the service described the Cou less relationship As a a love which blossomed in the midst of cruelty War and  love and Cooper were kept at the same hotel in Kuwait before being taken to a Camp in the iraqi desert. The couple had talked about marriage during their Captivity. A German rabbis plan meeting to determine cemetery s Fate Berlin apr German rabbis Are to meet next month to decide whether the last remains can be exhumed from an olt jewish cemetery in Hamburg and reburied elsewhere to make Way for a shopping mall. Plans to build the mall have triggered vocal protests by orthodox jews fearful of what they see As the desecration of a cemetery which dates to the 17th Century and once held 4,000 Graves. A for us its Clear that a jewish cemetery is a jewish cemetery and according to our rules it stays that Way forever a said Micha Guttmann general Secretary of the Central Council of jews in Germany. The . Embassy has also expressed concern. A the ambassador and other . Officials have raised the Issue with German officials in both Bonn and Hamburg and expressed our desire that a Resolution of the controversy reflect the views of concerned american jews a said . Embassy spokesman Helmut Fischer in Bonn. A half Century after the holocaust construction at or near Sites linked to nazi terror remains a sensitive Issue. The Hamburg controversy is especially difficult because the Lvi acre cemetery was sold into private hands in the 1950s, years after nazis ransacked the cemetery. Since then a warehouse and several other buildings have been built there and much of the cemetery paved Over with Asphalt. Peter Voss a spokesman for the developers said that work Crews Are tearing out a world War ii Bunker at the site but that no construction is taking place now. Voss said the developers could receive a building permit within four weeks adding that plans include a memorial recalling the former cemetery. China executes drug traffickers Beijing apr authorities executed dozens of drug traffickers and burned More than 5 tons of opium and heroin saturday following Public rallies at which the condemned were paraded before thousands of spectators. Evening television news showed unusual footage of the prisoners being led by Hel Metea police into one sports stadium their hands cuffed behind their backs. The state Xinhua news Agency said the traffickers were executed immediately after the rallies. It was unclear whether the condemned whose sentences were read in Public had any Chance of Appeal before they were whisked away. Prisoners Are generally led from sentencing rallies to an execution area where they Are killed with a single Bullet to the Back of the head. The official China youth news and Xinhua said death sentences were announced for 35 people at a rally in the southwestern City of Kunming and for others at rallies in 14 nearby towns. China youth news said the total number of executions exceeded the 88 on june 26, 1991, when the country marked world anti drug Day. But it gave no exact figure. Xinhua reported 40,000 people at the rally in Kunming an area bordering Burma and Laos that has become a major narcotics route and the target of a government crackdown