European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                B 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. Croat puts death toll at 5,000 Zagreb Yugoslavia apr croatian fighters held their ground sunday in the besieged port of Dubrovnik As the yugoslav military hit other areas of the secessionist Republic. One croatian official claimed 5,000 people have died in the four month conflict. The casualty count by croatian foreign minister Zvonimir Separovic nearly five times higher than recent Media estimates was included in a letter to european Community foreign ministers who were scheduled to meet in the Netherlands today. The serbian dominated yugoslav army and ethnic serbs opposed to secession have taken control of about a third of the Republic which declared Independence june 25. Most of the recent attacks have concentrated on remaining croatian held towns in Eastern areas and around the medieval City of Dubrovnik. Many residents and fighters have fled to Dubrovnik a walled Center and about 6,000 people waited for More evacuation boats sunday the yugoslav news Agency Tan Jug reported. There were no reports of fighting sunday in Dubrovnik but some fighting was reported in Eastern Croatia and South of Zagreb the croatian capital. In his letter to the dec Separovic said about 5,000 people have been killed and 350,000 people have been forced from their Homes by fighting. There was no breakdown on the casualties or details on How the death toll was compiled. World rightist training Center attacked in Germany from wire reports Gottinger Germany a masked leftists attacked the training Center of an extreme rightist party with firebombs and stones leaving 15 people wounded police said sunday. Following the attack saturday evening police kept watch on the situation to try to prevent revenge attacks and avoid spiralling violence by leftists and rightists. Cars carrying about 40 attackers rolled up without warning at the building used by the Independent German workers party in Mackenrodt a town near Gottinger in West Central  House destroyed Bari Italy a a fire Early sunday destroyed what was considered one of Italy a most important opera houses officials said. No one was injured in the Dawn Blaze at the Petruzzelli theater in Bari on Italy a Adriatic coast authorities said. The theater was inaugurated in 1903 and has featured Many of Italy a most famous operas and  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 Crom Burgh plunged to her death at a Charity pop festival 53 Miles South of Johannesburg. 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 the jumpers up before they hit ground. Newlyweds Michael Cooper and Nicola love take turns punching a mask of Iraq s Saddam Hussein after tying the knot in England on  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 couples 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. 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 old 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 1 /2-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. Access to dead sea scrolls widened Jerusalem a the israeli antiquities authority announced sunday that it will allow scholars around the world Access to unpublished fragments of the dead sea scrolls. The action opens up an important source of biblical scholarship after years of complaints that a Small group of researchers was hoarding the scrolls. They contain the oldest known version of the old testament biblical writings and information about Early christianity and modern Judaism. The decision was made reluctantly after the Huntington Library in san Marino calif., which owns pirate microfilm copies of the scrolls said it would allow scholars to review All the material. A we have now realized that for the Benefit of scholarship this is the right thing to do a said Emanuel Tov editor in chief of the scrolls project. But he added that the projects officials have a mixed feelings about releasing the material. Work on the scrolls has been restricted to a group of about 40 scholars around the world. When the Huntington Library first announced earlier this year that it would open Access to the material the antiquities authority threatened Legal action to Block the move. The scrolls were discovered Between 1947 and 1956 in caves near the dead sea. About 80 percent of the material has been deciphered and published Tov said