European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thes ipes vol. 50, no. 295 tuesday february 4,1992u.s. Lacks work ethic japanese Leader says Tokyo apr just two weeks after leading japanese politician created an a Leadin uproar in japanese politician created a. By calling . Workers Lazy prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa said monday that America has no a work  Miyazawa a comments came during a nationally televised session of a parliamentary budget committee discussing the faltering . Economy. A fellow conservative lawmaker Kabul Muto blamed . Economic troubles partly on what he described As the inability of some americans to put in their Best work efforts on mondays and fridays and asked Miyazawa a opinion. The prime minister said he thought the belief m a producing things and creating value has a loosened too much in the past 10 years or so in the United states. He said that Many american College graduates a landed High paying jobs on Wall Street and As a result you and i have seen that the number of engineers Able to make products has fallen year after  in summing up Miyazawa said a i have Long thought that they americans Lack a work ethic. To live by the sweat of their  his remarks were not As harsh As those of House speaker Yoshio Sakurauchi who last month set off a howl of . Criticism when he was quoted As saying american workers Are Lazy and sometimes illiterate. The 79-year-old House speaker whose position is largely ceremonial later said is remarks were not intended to disparage american workers. But they clearly reflect common attitudes. Many japanese View the United states As a nation in decline. In a time Magazine can poll released saturday just 15 percent of japanese described americans As hard working and 50 percent described them As competitive. President Bush in his state of the Union speech scoffed at Sakurauchi a remarks which were one of the causes triggering a renewed wave of Japan bashing and a buy american sentiment in the United states. The Miyazawa administration has disavowed Sakurauchi a remarks and the Erime minister himself has gone out of is Way to speak in glowing terms of the United states to ease tension. Miyazawa a remarks monday were not so much a critique of the american worker As an assessment of recent trends that see . On Page 2 prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa haitian boat people continue to arrive sunday at Guantanamo Bay Cuba even though . Officials have started sending Back Home some of the Reft gees not eligible for political  in danger critics say port a Prince Haiti a state radio on monday ignored the return of the first haitian refugees being forced Home by the . Government but Numan rights advocates predicted that Many faced persecution and death. The United nations refugee Agency also warned monday that the returnees would of in danger from haitian Security forces and criticized the United states for sending them Back. The . Embassy said the Erst 150 returnees were expected to arrive monday on a . Coast guard Cutter. The docks of port a Prince the capital were quiet and no official reception was expected. The haitians were denied political Asylum in the United states because the government says they Are fleeing poverty not political repression As Asylum cases require. The supreme court on Friday set aside a Federal judges order that had blocked their return. Advocates for the refugees said they expected no immediate problems at the docks. The problems will come later when the returnees go Home to their towns and villages they said. The refugees a will be blown to the four Corners of the country and where they land Many will be silently crushed a said Paul Latortue a haitian economist see returnees on Page 2toll in Turkey grows to 135 after new slide from staff and wire reports Ankara Turkey a a Snow slide claimed four new victims monday As rescuers resumed the search for those missing in the Avalanche disaster that has killed at least 135 people the Anatolia news Agency said. Meanwhile the turkish government terminated its request for american assistance in support of Avalanche victims at Gorec the worst affected Village a spokesman from the combined information Bureau at in Ciurlik a said monday. . Rescue teams from in Ciurlik and Piri Cilik military coordination Center had been working on Rescue efforts for the Village of about 250 soldiers and residents since saturday. . Aircraft that were sent to Aid in the Effort in see Turkey on Page 2 the Marcos Fortune