European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 1,1991 japanese minister criticizes Job jumping by americans the stars and stripes world b paged Tokyo up a Japan a foreign minister who touched off a firestorm of protest when he criticized . Blacks in 1988, blamed . Companies Friday for a Bevy of business ills. Foreign minister Michio Watanabe told reporters that Japan has a leg up on the United states because japanese workers usually stay with one company for life. Many americans move from company to company during their careers. A if you Are going to quit and go somewhere else anyway you Are not going to be concerned about things five years Down the Road a Watanabe said. The minister has gotten himself into trouble with such off the cuff remarks before. Three years ago . Minority groups reacted strongly when Watanabe said american Blacks spend themselves into bankruptcy and do not care about the consequences. Watanabe has also disparaged american and chinese culture. In fridays remarks Watanabe said american companies do not think enough about foreign countries individual needs when they try to sell products overseas. For example he said Many . Companies try to Market cars that Are too big for Japan a narrow roads. By contrast Watanabe said Japan tailors its Auto exports to the american Market a going so far As to consider consumer needs in individual . States when it designs cars. Watanabe also criticized . Managers saying they Are Only concerned with Short term profits not Lon term investments. Still Watanabe did have a few Nice things to say about american Industry. He acknowledged that such . Mega corporations As coca cola and Mcdonald a have penetrated the japanese Market dominating All competitors in their respective markets. Street vendors sell baskets of food to Drivers waiting in line at a port a Prince filling station Friday. Long lines of haitians await fuel from 1 St shipment since embargo port a Prince Haiti apr Long lines formed at filling stations Friday while haitians awaited delivery of the first imported Tiel since a hemisphere wide Trade embargo was imposed seven weeks ago. Haiti a Senate threatened to sue the organization of american states in the world court for damages resulting from the 34-nation Boycott which has brought formal trading to a near standstill. The National association of Petroleum distributors said trucks would begin delivery Friday of gasoline and diesel fuel being unloaded from a Tanker ship at port a Princess Harbor. The Tanker docked thursday. Cars trucks and buses began lining up at Dawn Friday at gasoline stations which have been closed for More than a week. The Tanker carried 1.3 million Gallons of gasoline and twice As much diesel fuel the . Embassy said. The shipment should last six weeks Independent radio Tropic said quoting an Industry official. A . Official who requested anonymity said . Coast guard officials inspected the ship outside haitian Waters wednesday and found that it did not violate the embargo because it had no connection with american nations. The Oas approved the embargo oct. 8 to pressure Haiti a military and political leaders into reinstating president Jean Bertrand Aristide who was ousted in a sept. 30 military coup. The embargo has disrupted transportation and electrical service and forced the closing of dozens of factories. Dec urged to legalize limited drug use Brussels Belgium a european Community nations should legalize Possession of Small amounts of drugs for personal use a european parliament special committee said. The committee in a study released Friday also urged the 12-nation dec to provide drug users with free syringes and free Access to special medical care. A the health of users of illegal drugs suffers not Only from the effects of the substances themselves but also because of the climate of illegality surrounding the Market a the report said. The 60-Page document issued after a nine month inquiry by a special european parliament committee focused on the dangers of a surge in drug traffic after the 12-nation Trade bloc drops internal Border checks Jan. 1,1993. It called on dec nations to allow some Border checks for a High risk traffic after that Date. Some committee members opposed the recommendation to legalize Small amounts of drugs. A this is tantamount to the european parliament advocating that the Rule of Law enshrined in All . Conventions and in Allec member states legislation be set aside a committee member Patrick Cooney an Irish Christian Democrat Tola  airline passengers protest delays at airports from wire reports Moscow a airline passengers outraged Over flight delays caused by fog and fuel shortages seized planes on the ground and threatened to occupy runways the soviet news Agency Tass reported Friday. # about 5,000 passengers were jammed into Moscow a Domo Medovo Airport while 3,000 crowded into Moscow a Vnuk ovo Airport waiting for flights bound for the Ukraine the caucasus and Siberia. Some passengers had to wait three times longer for their flights to take off than it would have taken to Complete their trips by train Tass reported.55 million poor reported Brussels Belgium a fifty five million people live in poverty in the european Community a group says. The european network against poverty said Friday that the 55 million people had to live with an income that is less than half the average income in their own country. It called the situation a a monstrous scandal for the new  smuggles liquor Helsinki Finland a a finn air Airliner was unable to take off in Paris because liquor bottles smuggled aboard by the Pilot jammed the controls officials said Friday. The flight to Helsinki was cancelled in september after mechanics called to the Mcdonnell Douglas md-80 Jet at Charles de Gaulle Airport found three bags of whiskey and Vodka bottles hidden under a Hatch. The bags prevented the controls from moving freely. Tapio Kilpinen flight safety director for the finnish civil aviation administration said 77 passengers were put on other planes. Pilot Esa Rantamaki 48, was grounded for 10 months without pay for endangering passengers safety. A finn air pilots Are paid sufficiently Well so it is hard to believe they need to smuggle alcohol a Kilpinen  attack israelis Berlin a two israeli tourists were attacked by right Wing skinheads in a supermarket in the Eastern German City of Brandenburg on Friday. A foreigners get out a shouted the two 19-year-old skinheads As they assaulted the israelis. Police called to the scene arrested both extremists. The israelis escaped injury but a 5-year-old child was taken to the Hospital after he was hit on the head by a shopping cart thrown by one of the  kills 32 in India new Delhi India a at least 32 people died and about 200 others were sickened in two incidents of tainted liquor supplies news reports said saturday. It was the second and third such cases of mass alcohol poisoning in the month in India. The twin tragedies occurred less than a month after More than 200 people died in new Delhi from drinking cheap illicit liquor made with improper forms of  payments ordered Toulouse France a a court has ordered the National Center for blood transfusions and a regional transfusion Center to pay More than $1 million to three Haemophiliacs infected with the aids virus by blood transfusions in 1985. In its decision thursday the court made Clear that blood is a commercial product and that transfusion centers were obliged to sell a Safe product. The court ruled that the centers must pay $428,000 to 34-year-old Alain who was contaminated following a Haemorrhage. The court also ordered the centers to pay two other Haemophiliacs 18-year-old Nicolas and 3u-year-old Pierre $363,636 each while they away i the results of an expert report on what the final damages should be. The three asked that they be identified Only by their first names