European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b a the stars and stripes wednesday january 15, 1992 Japan s government reels As bribery scandal widens Tokyo apr the arrest of a senior political ally sent prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa a troubled administration spin ring tuesday immediately raising suggestions that he May be forced to step Down. But the latest in a series of japanese political and financial scandals May soon be overshadowed sources close to the governing Liberal democrats say new allegations Are linking senior politicians to a mob tainted company. A former Cabinet minister 69-year-old Fumio Abe was arrested monday in connection with bribery allegations. Japanese Media reports said he took bribes Worth about $634,000 and used his influence As director general of the hokkaido development Agency to help steel Frame maker of Cynowa corp. Win lucrative construction contracts. Kiowa is now bankrupt and facing fraud charges. Televised news reports showed Abe being taken to court tuesday in a police Van. Tokyo prosecutors declined to comment on the Case or any of the allegations appearing in the Media. Abe denied the allegations when questioned by prosecutors tuesday the Public Japan broadcasting corp. Reported. None of the Media reports has linked Miyazawa directly to the allegations. The prime minister has called the Case a regrettable indeed but dismissed reports that some of the Money purportedly received by Abe went to his Campaign for prime minister. A of course questions will be asked a Miyazawa said tuesday. Opposition parties Are threatening to make the Kiowa Case a major Issue when parliament reconvenes Jan. 24. Accused politician Fumio Abe is driven to a Tokyo detention Center. Analysts say the scandal could cripple Miyazawa a attempts to reassert leadership following his recent humiliating failure to win parliamentary approval of landmark legislation that would have allowed japanese troops to join International peacekeeping operations. A the very foundation of the Miyazawa administration May be threatened and May possibly even crumble a Kenzo Uchida professor of political science at Tokai University said in the Japan times. A Miyazawa May have to go. The lip May abandon him a said political commentator Masatake Takahashi. Al Salvador foes reach Accord on  peace plan United nations apr government and rebel negotiators announced final agreement Early tuesday on details of the Salvador peace Accord Clearing the Way for its signing in Mexico City on thursday the  talks on the logistics of ending the 12-year-old civil War had been stuck on disagreements Over a timetable for demobilization of the leftist rebels and on the future size of the army. The parties released a Short statement signed by representatives of both sides that said they had reached agreement on a fall topics that were left pending Quot when the Accord was initiated on new years eve details of the agreement reached in talks that began last week and extended through several deadlines were not immediately available. The agreement was reached a Day after . Secretary general Boutros Ghali proposed sending 1,000 peacekeepers to Al Salvador to Monitor the peace accords implementation. A cease fire is to take effect feb. 1. Both sides had agreed to allow Ghali to arbitrate unresolved issues after Midnight monday officially sloping the clock to allow the discussions to continue into tuesday. The presence of . Peacekeepers would a permit the salvadoran people to feel sufficiently secure during the delicate phase of transition from armed confrontation to National reconciliation a Ghali said in a report to the Security Council dated Friday and released to reporters monday. Ghali asked the Council for authorization to have 631 members of a . A police division deployed in the Central american nation. He also asked for 372 military observers to be deployed As the formal cease fire is implemented. About 160 civilian . Representatives Are in Al Salvador to Monitor human rights conditions. It Wasny to immediately Clear if the 1,000-member Force would include those already at the scene. David Hannay the British ambassador said the Security Council was to formally approve Ghalie a proposals on tuesday. Ghali said the . Peacekeepers would work with the salvadoran police a widely mistrusted by the rebel Faramundo Marti National liberation front and by human rights groups a to a deter intimidation reprisals or other violations of the civil rights by All sectors of the  More than 75,000 people have died in the fighting Many of them civilians. World German police arrest 4 for printing bogus Marks from wire reports Berlin a police have arrested four men and have seized 6 million in counterfeit German Marks in connection with a forgery operation discovered last year an official said. A fifth suspect is still at Large said Andreas Pahl head of the Berlin police department s organized crime division. The counterfeit Marks were seized during an undercover operation in which a Berlin police officer posing As an underworld figure offered to buy the forged notes for 1 million genuine Marks Pahl said. The printing press used to produce the notes was seized in october by police in the Berlin District of Kreuzberg and Pahl said there probably were Only 10,000 Marks of the forged notes still in  Dies at 79 Frankfurt Germany a Josef Neckermann one of Germany a Best known businessmen and a former olympic Champion horseman has died. He was 79. Neckermann died of lung cancer at his Home in Gotzen Hain near Frankfurt Early sunday the Frankfurt based office for German sport Aid said monday. F Neckermann headed the organization for More than two decades collecting nearly $127 million in donations to support Amateur athletics bom in Wurzburg on june 5, 1912, Neckermann wanted to joined the German cavalry but instead went into business because of the Early death of his father a wholesale Coal dealer. In 1935, Neckermann took Over and managed jewish retail businesses that had been confiscated by the  became the third Reich a representative for clothing and related areas during world War ii. In 1948, Neckermann opened a wholesale textile operation in Frankfurt that eventually grew into one of Germany a largest mail order businesses which still bears his name. _ Neckermann a wife Annemarie died in 1989. He was the father of seven children four of them  into Hitler Book Warsaw Poland a prosecutors Are investigating the publisher of a polish language edition of Adolf hitlers mein kampf on the grounds that the company is fomenting racial hatred the Pap news Agency reported monday. The prosecutor in Krakow initiated the inquiry following a weekend news report that a polish translation of hitlers Book appeared on Sale in several bookstores in the southwestern City of wroclaw. Polish Law forbids publications inciting racial ethnic or religious hatred. If convicted the publisher could face prison sentences of one year to 10 . Pledges Aid to kurd Geneva a the United states pledged $36 million monday to help feed shelter and protect More than half a million kurd in Iraq Over the next six months Relief officials said monday. Llie pledge came after the United nations appealed for $145.3 million in such Aid. , Relief officials presented the latest plan to representatives of 17 donor governments in Geneva. Gay Argentine wins refugee status in Canada Etc  no mlle cause a the fact Thev know me As a Eav  he said. By the new York times Toronto a for the first time in Canada a homosexual fearing persecution in his Homeland because of sexual preference has been granted refugee status under a government decision that could have Broad ramifications in North America. The Case involving a 28-Ycar-old Argentine named Jorge Alberto Naudi was decided by a panel of the immigration and refugee Board. It is an Independent quasi judicial Agency under the minister of immigration. Its rulings Are usually final although they can be appealed to Federal courts. In Argentina the Law allows the police to arrest homosexuals. Inaudi who has been in Canada since March 1990, testified that As a homosexual he had been arrested in 1989 and Early in 1990, raped and tortured by Argentina a Federal police and a completely  at the time he was studying engineering at the University of Cordoba. He said he had fled the country be cause a the fact they know me As a Gay Man and i am on file makes me very vulnerable Quot Michael Schelewa a Toronto immigration lawyer who took up the Case for the Argentine said his client had been Able to establish a High  sexual orientation had been used As an argument in earlier Canadian refugee cases but prior applicants were denied refugee status because their credibility was questioned Schelewa said. A this is the first Case Ever examined on the Mer he said. The decision in effect puts persecuted homosexuals in the same category As political leaders or others who upon repatriation might face life threatening situations. Nicholas Rizza refugee coordinator for amnesty International in new York said Canada was a affirming that Asylum claims should be based on human rights needs and not on political or foreign policy considerations or any biases that the receiving country May