European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse The Safe my us vol. 50, no. 281 350 tuesday january 21,1992 d 8693 japanese official Calls american workers Lazy Tokyo apr a senior lawmaker has placed the blame for the Trade imbalance on what he described As Lazy and poorly qualified american workers newspapers reported monday. A american workers done to work hard enough. They done to work but demand High pay a japanese newspaper reports quoted Yoshio Sakurauchi speaker of the House of representatives As saying. The yom Iuri newspaper quoted Sakurauchi 79, As describing the United states As a a Japan a subcontractor and saying a if America does no to watch out it is going to be judged As finished by the Kiihn past Heinrich two sex guards guilty of death at Berlin Wall Berlin apr two former East German Border guards were convicted monday in the shooting death of the last person killed while trying to flee Over the Berlin Wall. Only one was sentenced to prison however and the other two co defendants were acquitted. The 416-month trial was widely considered a test Case for investigators trying to build charges against dozens of other former East germans Tor deaths at the Wall. More than 200 people were killed trying to flee the stalinist state of former East Germany and this was the first prosecution stemming from the deaths. Defense lawyers in the politically charged Case insisted that the defendants were following the legitimate orders of a then Sovereign country when Chris Giffroy 20, was killed by a Bullet through the heart feb. 5,1989. Just nine months later anti communist protesters breached the Wall. In announcing the verdict Theodor Seidel chief judge of the Berlin regional court Drew parallels Between the Blind obedience to orders in the nazi Era and in communist East Germany. Defense attorneys had repeatedly challenged the courts authority to hear the Case. And Many germans criticized the proceedings As unfairly singling out four Young guards while former East German Leader Erich Honecker and other top ranking communists remain free. In what May have been an attempt to Lessen see Wall on Page 2 his aide Tadahiro Mishima on monday confirmed 2 the general Content of the reports of Sakurauchi a statements which came sunday m a speech to supporters in Western Japan. But the aide denied the specific portion of the re see related Story on Page 17 ports in the nationally circulated yom Iuri and Manichi newspapers that quoted Sakurauchi As saying managers in the United states cannot give written orders because one third of american workers arc illiterate. The governments main spokesman chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato told a news conference later that a politicians would have various kinds of opinions but the government has no intention of making any comments on the level Quality or education of workers of foreign Mishima said Sakurauchi a speech was largely a recounting of what he had heard from japanese Auto executives. Sakurauchi who has been elected to parliament 16 see Lazy on Page 2 King Day draws Calls for end to poverty drug abuse Bias Atlanta a the Rev. Martin Luther King widow called for an end to poverty residents of Oakland calif., demanded an end to drugs and a new York congressman urged stiffer penalties for Bias crimes As americans marked King Day. Cor6tta Scott King challenged the Bush administration to erase poverty and reawaken Hope in the poor. In her annual state of the dream speech sunday she called on government and the private sector to increase Job training and child and health care programs. A your nation cannot do less a she said. A the time has come for us to civilize ourselves for the total direct and immediate abolition of King and South african rights activist Winnie Mandela wife of african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela planned to Lead a March through the City monday. Drugs Are just another form of slavery elsewhere a new York gov. Gilda i Mario Cuomo _. Planned to attend a bak8t March in Albany n.y., accompanied by actor Harry Bela Fonte and Shen Tong chairman of the democracy for China fund. A we not Only Honor the memory of or. Martin Luther King jr., we reaffirm our vow to Stem racism and pursue social Justice through reconciliation and Healing just As this extraordinary Man taught us a Cuomo said sunday. A a a Freedom train with an estimated 4,000 riders was expected to kick see King on Page 2 Winnie Mandela holds the special award Given to her in Atlanta by Coretta Scott King right widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Reminder on Dodds school lunches see Page 3
