European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes sunday february 9f 1992 Tojo linked to Wii sex slavery sunday february 9, 1992 Tokyo apr world War ii government documents obtained Friday show that Gen. Hideki Tojo Japan a wartime prime minister was directly involved in forcing asian women to work As sex slaves for japanese soldiers. Documents unearthed from military archives by an opposition legislator include a Telegram addressed to Tojo also then War minister reporting results of health examinations of chinese korean filipino and japanese women who were forced into virtual sex slavery. The government recently was forced to acknowledge for the first time its direct involvement in forcing korean women to work in brothels for japanese soldiers during the nations wartime expansion through Asia. The latest evidence shows that women from other countries also were forced to be sex slaves. Following the latest disclosures chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato told reporters Friday that Japan May expand its investigation to include chinese and other asian women As Well As koreans. A copy of the Telegram a dated March 12, 1942, and addressed to Tojo by the commander of the japanese Imperial army stationed in Taiwan a reads new world will Greet cosmonaut Moscow apr when cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev finally gets Back Down to Earth next month a after spending seven months longer than head planned in space a he May Well want to crawl Back into his spacecraft. The country he blasted off from does no to exist any More. His Hometown has a new name. Economic reforms Are ravaging russian living standards. Space engineers Are threatening to strike. Even the Agency that sent him into space has been broken up. What a a spaceman to do. A the is hanging 250 Miles above the surface of the planet and watching everything from the Point of View of an interested but absolutely helpless participant a wrote the Qew paper Komsomol Skaya pravda. After months of being left up in the air Kri Kalev at least has a firm return Date. Deputy flight director Viktor Blagoev told the associated press on Friday that Kri Kalev along with fellow cosmonaut Alexander Volkov who joined him later would come Home March 23. That would bring his total time in space to 311 Days about two months snort of the 366-Day world record held by fellow cosmonaut Musa Sanarov. For Kri Kalev its been a Long strange trip. He and fellow cosmonaut Anatoly arts Barsky took off May 18 from the soviet unions sprawling Bai Konur cosm drome in Kazakhstan. They were scheduled to return aug. 30 after a routine three month Mission on the space station Mir. But 12 Days before they were to land came the August coup that set in motion the disintegration of the soviet Union. The missions Landing site was claimed by Kazakhstan Ana the space Agency Gla Kosmos was sent to the chopping Block. Officials put off the cosmonauts return until october. Cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev by october however the soviet Union was in the final stages of its collapse. In a Compromise with Kazakhstan Russia got use of the Landing site in Exchange for sending an inexperienced kazakh to the space station in place of Kri Kaleva a successor. The kazakh cosmonaut returned with arts Barsky who was replaced by Volkov. But Kri Kalev 34, got no word on when he would be brought Back. A i have a question a Kri Kalev said plaintively from space at that Point. A is it True the russians Are going to sell the Mir space station. Along with us a Kri Kalev May be relieved to get Back on solid ground but its a whole new world he a coming Home to. His Hometown of Leningrad is now called St. Petersburg. His official monthly salary of 500 rubles is now far less than the average russian wage and Worth Only about $9.60 at the widely used unofficial Exchange rate. With the country a Economy in shambles space officials while denying any intention of Selling the space station have put much of the space program up for Sale. A regarding a request received from South theater Headquarters to dispatch 50 native taiwanese Comfort women to Borneo i ask your permission to Send the following three selected by the military police As Brothel managers. A Comfort women was the term used in official documents to describe the sex slaves. Hideko Ito a socialist legislator found the documents in the defense Agency Library and released them to journalists. Ito said the documents she found show that military police overseas were involved in rounding up women. She cited a report by a military doctor in Shanghai thanking the police known As Kem Eitai for their efforts to find women who were free of venereal disease. A forcing the women to have sex with soldiers 20 to 30 times a Day was the same As torturing them to death Over and Over again a Ito said. Although the military brothels Are common knowledge the government Only acknowledged the army a involvement with korean women last month just before prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa visited South Korea. The government previously had claimed the brothels were run privately. Canada s health system catches financial cold Toronto a Canadas $60-billion health system which has provided free medical care to everyone regardless of income for 20 years is grappling with growing costs that have forced layoffs and reduced the number of Hospital Beds. Frequently cited As a Model for the United states Canadian medicare consumes 9 percent of Canadas Gross National product. Canadians have been willing to pay for it because they View free health care As a Basic right. President Bush recently dismissed the Canadian system As a a cure worse than the  Canadas National budget for health care has grown from $40 billion to $60 billion in the past five years making it Canadas single largest Industry. About a third of most Canadian provinces budgets Are devoted to health care. In Ontario for example medicare ate up $17 billion of $52.7 billion in spending last year. But the recession has been a Large dose of reality for government and Consumers alike. In an Effort to rein in costs hospitals Are laying off employees and imposing ceilings on doctors salaries. A the health care system has reached a Fork in the Road whereby something that huge needs to readjust itself to the new economic realities a said Bob Bell director of the health and social services practice of the consulting firm Ernst and Young. When a person receives medical care in Canada he or she never gets a Bill. The patient merely presents Bis or her health insurance card and doctors and hospitals collect pre determined fees from the government. Hospital patients do pay for such extras As private rooms an telephones. Health care is a provincial responsibility but the Federal government traditionally has shared the Cost. Under legislation passed last year however the Federal share has been Frozen at 1989-90 Levels and eventually will be phased out. Beth Witney of the Ontario Hospital association said there could be 10,000 to 13,000 layoffs in Canadas most populous province this year because of the funding decrease. Various remedies Are being discussed. Quebec is considering a $5 user fee each time a person visits a doctor or Hospital to Cut abuse. . Adoption lawyer accused of smuggling peruvian children Lima Peru apr an arrest warrant has been issued for a . Lawyer accused of smuggling children out of Peru. Special prosecutor Gladys Hernandez on Friday accused James Gagel who specialized m adoptions and two peruvian lawyers of illegally Selling More than 4,000 peruvian babies to foreign couples. Hernandez said All three had fled Peru. Their whereabouts was unknown. A this Man had a staff of child snatch ers which is a new Type of illegal work and he received the children. From All parts of the country a Hernandez said. A Man who answered Gagelis Tele phone Friday said that the lawyer had moved and that he did no to know How to Contact him. Gagelis Home state was not reported. Attracted by relatively Quick and easy adoptions thousands of foreign couples mostly from the United states have hockey to Peru in recent years. Lawyers fees for arranging adoptions of peruvian children can Range from $6,000 to $9,000 per child attorneys ave said. Local Media have recently spotlighted adoption scandals in which lawyers and judges allegedly were bribed and children were kidnapped from poor families. . Planning to attack Libya Beirut journal says Beirut Lebanon up the United states has prepared a plan to attack Libya following Libya s failure to hand Over two nationals accused of the 1988 pan am bombing that killed 270 people a Beirut Magazine claimed saturday. The Ash Shiraz Magazine reported that the . Attack could come As soon As saturday if the weather is favourable. The Magazine which broke news of the . Arms for hos tages Deal quoted Arab Security sources As saying they a received a Gad Hafl report on a plan prepared by Washington to attack Libya because it had failed to abide by United nations Security Council Resolution 731 to turn Over the libyan  sources quoted in the Magazine said the . State Security Council on Jan. 28 requested that a plan be prepared a to destroy libyans military Arsenal and strategic economic positions mainly military establishments near the Airport and  the plan according to the Arab sources would be carried out on feb. 15 if the weather conditions were right. In november 1991, two libyan agents were indicted in the United states after a three year probe produced evidence linking them to the pan am bombing Over Lockerbie Scotland. French officials have since said the agents were also responsible for bombing one of Frances passenger planes. The United states Britain and France want the agents to be tried in the countries where the crimes took place. Libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi offered to try the agents in Libya or in a Neutral state but the United states and its allies rejected both proposals. Qadhafi a a closest aide Brig. Abdel Salam Jalloul recently toured a number of countries to rally support warning that Washington was moving toward militate action