European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thes Fafe vol. 50, no. 282 350 wednesday january 22,1992japan regretful Over rift leaders deny reneging on pledges to Bush from wire reports Tokyo a in a frantic Stab at damage control Japan sought tuesday to soothe . Anger Over a senior politicians comment that Lazy . Workers Are to blame for the countries Trade Gap. Japanese leaders also quickly issued reassurances that prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa had not reneged on pledges made during his Tokyo Summit with president Bush to increase imports of . Cars and Auto parts. Quot we have determined that we will sincerely accomplish each item which we have promised to do a said Koichi Kato the chief government spokesman referring to targets to import 20,000 More . Cars annually and roughly double . Auto part imports to $19 billion. . Officials bristled after Miyazawa said monday that the figures were a a target rather than a firm  the controversial comments could not have come at a worse time for strained .-japanese relations As american election year rhetoric heats up following Bush a contentious visit. The japanese government appeared particularly concerned Over reported comments by Yoshio Sakurauchi speaker of the House of representatives that american workers Are Lazy and Many can to read. Quot it is very regretful that the remarks were taken As if to disparage or slight american workers a the 79-year-old Sakurauchi said in a statement issued tuesday. Sakurauchi whose position As House speaker is esteemed but carries Little influence also acknowledged his comments Quot were liable to cause  on monday newspapers quoted him As saying a if America does no to watch out it is going to be judged As finished by the  in his statement tuesday read to foreign journalists at a foreign ministry news conference Sakurauchi denied reports that he had described the United states As a Japan s subcontractor or had said 30 percent of the . Work Force was illiterate. Foreign minister Michio Watanabe travelling in the United states issued a prepared statement saying he did not share Sakurauchi s reported views a i understand labor productivity of american workers in general is quite High As is the literacy rate a the statement said. Most japanese television news which largely ignored Sakurauchi a comments initially gave prominent play tuesday to american newscasts showing . Auto see Japan on Page 2 plane crash near Strasbourg kills 87 a Section of fuselage from an air inter Airbus a-320 lies in the Forest of Mont Salute Odile France. Strasbourg France up a searchers on tuesday found both flight recorders from a French Airliner that crashed into snowy Woods minutes before Landing apparently killing 87 of the 96 people aboard. Officials said the plane had followed Normal procedures during its Landing approach but was flying at a lower Altitude than Normal at the time of the crash. They also said both flight recorders were damaged. Rescuers found nine survivors from the monday night crash of an air inter Airbus a-320, including a female Crew member a 13-month-old girl who was unhurt and a 9-year-old boy found walking in the Snow near the scene. Authorities began removing bodies and said they had Little Hope of finding More survivors because the fuselage was destroyed. It took some 1,000 Rescue workers about four hours to find the French Domestic Airliner which was carrying 90 passengers and a Crew of six on a flight Between Lyon in Southeast France to Strasbourg. The search for the aircraft was made particularly difficult because of heavy fog Hilly terrain and falling Snow. The air plane was found in snowy Woods 550 Yards South of a Britain v Bel Ger i,.g a Lux Strasbourg France site of crash Strasbourg Ger Mont Sainte Odile a Mitus 20 Kmap Mont Sainte Odile near Strasbourg close to the German Border authorities said. The aircraft first put into service in 1988, Hail been inspected about 5 . Monday or less than 15 hours before the crash officials said. On tuesday rescuers found both of the airliners Black boxes which see crash on Page 2 cubans execute exile team Leader Mexico City a an exile convicted of leading an armed three Man infiltration. Team was shot by a firing squad in Havana on monday for endangering the Security of the state the cuban news Agency Prensa Latina said in a Brief report. In announcing the execution of Eduardo Diaz Betancourt 38, of Miami Cuba criticized Washington a unwillingness to prevent such missions. The Agency did not say where the reported execution occurred. Diaz Betancourt was captured with two other Miami residents dec. 29 after Landing on a cuban Beach. The government said they were carrying guns and explosives and planned to attack Heaters stores and other civilian targets. The sentence was carried out a Day after cubans ruling body the Council of state refused to commute Diaz Betancourtt a sentence. The 31-member Council of state led by president Fidel Castro ruled that Diaz Betancourt who illegally left Cuba just nine months ago was primarily responsible for the infiltration. The other two men a Daniel Santovenia Fernandez 36, and Pedro de la Cari dad Alvarez Pedroso 26 a initially had been sentenced to death. But the Council spared Santovenia Fernandez and Alvarez Pedroso a sentence was commuted wednesday by an appeals court. Both face 30-year prison terms. Cuban Media reports said that since both had spent most of their lives in Miami s exile Community they were simply victims of its virulently anti Castro environment. Diaz Betancourt by contrast had enjoyed All the fruits of cubans revolution Only to betray it the cuban Media said. All three men had trained with Alpha see cubans on Page 2 inside today financial planning in Uncertain times