European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday december 27, 1992 world the stars and stripes b Page 11japanese budget to limit defense hike foreign Aid from wire reports Tokyo a the end of the cold War and a struggling Economy dictated budget priorities saturday when the Cabinet approved expanding Japan s foreign Aid and slowing defense spending to the lowest level of growth in 33 years. Under the finance ministry plan total spending for the next fiscal year would be held to $585.12 billion up Only 0.2 percent from the current year. Finance ministry officials said the end of the cold Nar As reason behind their decision to allot $37.53 billion to defense a 1.95 percent increase Over the current fiscal year. Foreign Aid would total $8.2 billion up 6.5 percent from the current fiscal urges Balkan peace Vatican City a Pope John Paul ii in his annual Christmas Day message to the world prayed for an end to the bloodshed that has torn apart the former Yugoslavia and urged world leaders to heed the voice of god. The polish Pope speaking Friday from the Central Vatican Balcony overlooking a wet and cold St. Peter s Square made his fervent plea to a crowd of pilgrims estimated at a rather sparse 50,000. A worldwide television audience of around 1 billion watched in up to 65 countries on five continents the Vatican baby rescued Palermo Sicily a police rescued an hours old baby from a construction dump Friday after the Mother confessed to abandoning the child news reports said. State television showed the nearly 6-Pound girl dubbed Natalina or a Little Christmas sleeping peacefully in a Hospital incubator after her Rescue. A doctor in the emergency room of a Palermo Hospital treating a woman who had come in bleeding suspected that the patient had just Given birth. The doctor called police who questioned the unmarried woman of 20, Ansa said. The woman and one of her Brothers were arrested on charges of attempted murder Ansa said. Police said they had received Many Calls from people wanting to adopt the teens rampage Stralsund Germany a about 15 teen agers set car tires on fire and damaged 61 vehicles during a Christmas eve rampage in this town on the Baltic coast police said Friday. The police could not say what caused the violence. The teen agers also attacked firefighters and smashed windows on fire engines As Crews arrived to remove the burning tires. The rioters dispersed when police appeared but three were apprehended and arrested police said Comfort women file suit Tokyo a four More South korean women have sued the japanese government seeking an official apology and $2.3 million for suffering they endured while being forced to provide sex for japanese soldiers during world War ii. The elderly plaintiffs a a Sun Nyo 74 Pak to 1,68 Pak so Tuk 60 and you Chan i 66 a maintained they were made to serve As a Comfort women a the euphemism Japan used to describe those conscripted for military brothels. Historians say that As Many As 200,000 women and girls from Korea Taiwan China the Philippines and Indonesia were turned into sex slaves in government run brothels.8,000 inmates Aid poor Rio de Janeiro Brazil a thousands of brazilian inmates gave their Christmas dinners to a poor Community near their prison after learning of the plight of a widow and her four hungry children officials said Friday. The gesture came after inmates in the Southern brazilian City of Porto Alegre were brought to tears by a recent television report showing a widow giving her children a soup made of water and cardboard so the Young ones would a a forget their hunger. By Christmas eve some 8,000 prisoners had agreed to give their Christmas rations to the 45-year-old widow Maria do Nascimento and her neighbors in a poor Shantytown in the Northern part of the City authorities said. Eagleburger russians trying to Nail Down arms Accord by the los Angeles times Moscow a russian president Boris n. Yeltsin ordered his foreign and defense ministers to Fly to Geneva on saturday to try to remove the last sticking Points with the United states on the most ambitious disarmament treaty in history a russian spokesman said. With the final Days of the Bush administration ticking off officials in Moscow said that a Summit could still occur in Early january but that Russia and the United states must close a Deal on the arms pact first. A the treaty is primary the meeting is derivative a foreign ministry spokesman Sergei astr Zrembski said Friday. Foreign minister Andrei v. Kozarev and defense minister Pavel s. Grachev were to Fly to Geneva astr Zrembski said. They will be joined in the Swiss City by . Secretary of state Lawrence s. Eagleburger today As the countries try to resolve remaining disagreements in a treaty to slash their nuclear arsenals by two thirds. Eagleburger announced thursday that he would at tend the Geneva meetings with the russians. A there May be slight differences but the sides arc unanimous on the main thing a astr Zrembski stressed. Both would like to sign the Accord a while the Bush administration is still in the ambitious pact Between the former cold War enemies commonly known As Start ii would eliminate All land based multiple warhead intercontinental missiles and Cut Back thermonuclear arsenals from current Levels of about 10,000 warheads each to 3,000 to 3,500 Over the next 10 years. The agreements Broad outlines were signed by Bush and Yeltsin during their most recent meeting in Washington in june. But the proposed pact has aroused a hostility among Russia s military and its increasingly potent right Wing nationalist forces. The Bush administration which ends Jan. 20, when president elect Clinton will be inaugurated is also hoping to close a Deal on Start ii. And senior . Officials noted the russians seem to be trying to use that deadline to Force last minute concessions. A crowd of homeless people stages a protest Christmas Day in the lobby of the luxurious George v hotel in Paris. Homeless protest at Paris hotel Paris apr about 200 homeless men women and children occupied the lobby of the Swanky George v hotel on a Chilly Christmas Day staging a symbolic protest for housing in this High rent capital. In a markedly relaxed atmosphere hotel officials handed out chocolates to some of the children and said they understood the demands of the mostly african and North african demonstrators. A Well have to spend the Winter in a garage a a North african immigrant in his 40s said of his family. A none of these families Are decently housed. Many Are in the Street a said Jean Claude Amara a founder of the group right to housing. A the Large majority works sweats to make this country a Economy live. They Are mercilessly also among the protesters was the organizations honorary president geneticist Albert Jacquard named wednesday by president Francois Mitterrand to a panel on housing. Right to housing estimates about 200,000 people Lack decent shelter in the Paris Region. The crowd filled the lobby at 3 30 in the afternoon and left by about 6 . A they were Well organized a said an assistant manager adding that the demonstrators remained in the lobby and did not attempt to enter any other areas of the hotel. Havana watches Moonshine Rise Miami up a rising unemployment and shortages of goods in Cuba have led to a dramatic increase in the consumption of Moonshine known As a spark of the train a a newspaper reported saturday. Although the shelves of Havana a tourist boutiques Are Well stocked with state produced Havana club rum few residents have the Money to buy a bottle the Miami Herald said. Mass produced factory rum is in Short Supply and a Young tourist guide Jorge Luis Lopez told the Herald that few cubans could afford the 70 pesos or about $2, needed to buy it. Lopez said the Moonshine drunk openly on the streets trom secondhand bottles is commonly known As Chispa Del Tran or a spark of the another name for it is a Chat ulrus or a throw yourself backs a a it Sas if someone threw you against a Wall a when you drink it Lopez said. Marcelino Hernandez head of Security at the Havana club rum factory in Santa Cruz called the Street concoction a very a the kids done to die from it but it gives them a stomachache Quot he said. A Man who said he used to be one of the factory a 1,300 workers told the newspaper that waste from the factory a vats was one source of Moonshine. A you take the Dregs from containers of alcohol a said Jose Angel Perez 30. A you put it in containers with kerosene and you heat it to 90 degrees celsius to make what we Call Hernandez acknowledged that theft from the factory was a problem
