European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I Page 10 the stars and stripes world Friday july 30,1993 4 killed As israelis Pound Lebanon Saida. Lebanon a israeli warplanes gun boats and artillery hit South Lebanon for a fifth Day thursday As thousands of families made homeless by the onslaught slept on Beirut sidewalks or camped out in other Northern cities. Police said four people were killed and 40 wounded in a dozen israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages thursday. That raised casualties to More than 90 dead and 420 wounded since Israel s biggest offensive in Lebanon in More than a decade began sunday. Most of the victims have been lebanese civilians police and . Official Sny. At least two people have been killed and 28 wounded in Israel in retaliatory rocket attacks since sunday. Thursday s targets ranged from suspected iranian backed shiite Muslim bases in the. Southern Apple province to about 80 nearly deserted villages in the Southeast police said.  officials said shells landed it times at a rate of six a minute. Israel radio quoted army statistics saying the israeli military has fired More than 25,000 artillery shells and the air Force has dropped More than 1,000 missiles in the five Day offensive. Israel says the assaults Are necessary to end shiite Muslim and palestinian guerrilla attacks on troops the jewish state maintains in its self styled Security zone in Southern Lebanon. Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin has said the government s aim is to drive lebanese from their Homes to make it easier to target guerrillas and to pres sure lab anon and Syria to curb guerrilla attacks Syria has about 40,000 soldiers in Lebanon. Some 500,000 of South Lebanon s 800,000 people have filed North and East for safety according to . And govern mint estimates. That Means More than 10 percent of Lebanon s total population of 4.5 million Are now refugees. \ about 25,000 palestinian refugees fled the Ein Al Hilweh Camp outside Sidon on thursday after israeli gunboats fired missiles at a base of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine faction. The Camp is Home to 75,000 people. Lebanese Relief organizations began touring refugee Sites in Beirut the Central mountains and northeastern Lebanon to distribute bread,.water, canned food and blankets. Many refugees slept on Beirut sidewalks or in mos ques and schools. The government was seeking emergency Aid from Arab countries and France. In Beirut the Muslim fundamentalist islamic jihad issued a statement threaten ing to hit american targets to avenge the attacks. The statement Vas delivered to a Western news Agency. In View of America s dirty support for the enemy to kill our palestinian and lebanese people we warn the. Great satan America from continuing its backing Tor tie enemy the statement said. Otherwise we shall hit a number of american targets in the  the group which is Allied with the iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god also claimed that its fight ers fired a number of Katusha rockets at the Security zone and Northern Israel overnight. In Israel army spokesman col. Raanan Gissin said 25 Kat Yushas had been fired overnight with 11 Landing in Northern Israel and 14 in the Security  Resi dents of Northern Israel reported one person wounded. We hit them hard and at each Point we Stop and see whether they have gotten the message we have beaten into their Heads Gissin said. More than 210 Kat Yushas have fallen on the two areas since sunday when Israel began its biggest Offen Sive against Lebanon since it invaded in 1982. Over 100,000 residents of Northern Israel Are living in bomb shelters. The United states is Israel s main ally supplying the jewish state with some s3 billion a year in military and economic Aid and cooperating closely on weapons development programs. Smoke rises from the Southern lebanese town of Naba Atiyeh after bombardment by Israel on wednesday . Jews protest Book and in japanese paper Tokyo a a vitriolic advertise ment in a leading japanese newspaper for a Book that claims Japan is threatened by a jewish conspiracy has drawn Sharp pro tests from american jewish leaders the and is for a three volume work called hit Jup a their last enemy which de tails the jewish program to Rule theworld.". You should know the shocking truth of the last few years it said. Half the human race will be killed and Japan will be  the and fills one third of a Page in tues Day s editions of the Ninon Meizai Shimun the country s leading financial daily. It also contains a number of virulent references to jews and Judaism including a depiction of the Symbol of  the subtitle of one of the volumes is Lucifer s last  in a letter to the newspaper copies of which were sent to news organizations thursday the los Angeles based Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed outrage at the blatant and outlandish lies in the advertisement. Rabbi Abraham Cooper the Center s associate Dean said he was shocked that a respected newspaper would lend its name for a few yen to spread this hateful  he asked for a published apology and urged the newspaper not to publish Simi Lar ads in the future. The newspaper however said it was not its responsibility to censor advertisers views and said it planned no apology. To protect press Freedom All ads retreated equally spokesman Shigeaki Umeda said in a statement. It in t the first time that the Nihon Kei Ai Shimun has come under criticism for pro Viding a forum for anti semitic views. Several years ago it published an economics primer in comic form that spoke of jewish capital and depicted what i called a jewish capitalist. Anti semitic literature has Long flourished in Japan. Bizarre books blaming everything from the chernobyl nuclear Acci Dent in 1986 to the rapid appreciation of the japanese yen on the jewish conspiracy have been Best Sellers. Some authors of such books Are consid ered respectable. One prolific author is Masami Yno a College lecturer. Another anti semitic tract was written by a Mem Ber of the japanese parliament. As a racially homogeneous country Japan has often displayed fear and mis Trust of racial minorities. In recent years japanese politicians have regularly made remarks that have of fended american Blacks and in recent months right Wing groups have put up pos ters with swastikas saying that there Are too Many foreigners in Japan. 7-party coalition Aims to take Power in Japan Tokyo a seven opposition parties proclaimed the Start of a new political Era for Japan on thursday announcing a coalition that is Likely to end 38 years of Rule by the Liberal democrats the coalition named a former prefectural governor 55-year-old Morihiro Hosokawa As its candidate for prime min ister in a new government to be set up next month. He is virtually certain to be come Japan s next Leader. The leaders of the seven parties have made this decision so i humbly will com ply with this Mission from heaven Hosokawa told reporters. The lower House is expected to con Vene a special session Early next month to formally choose the new prime minister. Also on thursday the two candidates for president of the Liberal democratic party vowed to revitalize their scandal tainted or pop in time for the next elec Tion. The party will elect its new Leader today. Prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa 73, who resigned As the Liberal democrats president last week at the insistence of younger lawmakers has said he will step Down from his government Post. The Liberal democrats lost their majority control of parliament s lower House in nationwide elections july 18. For the first time since 1955, the Liberal democrats president will not automatically be come prime minister. Opposition coalition lawmakers now outnumber Liberal democratic legislators 255 to 227 in the 511-seat lower House. The remaining lower House seats Are held by independents and the Japan communist party since the dominant parties in the opposition coalition Are former Liberal democrats major changes in Japan s for eign or economic policies Are unlikely. Major s off the cuff remark May Hye won him friends London a behind the diffident mild mannered exterior of prime minister John major lurks Aman who swears laughs at himself and Calls three troublesome Cabine colleagues  and britons May like him better Forit even though it May not change the fact that the conservatives Are Likely to lose a special election thurs Day in what has traditionally been on of their strongest parliamentary districts. A Telephone poll of 500 voters Blondon s daily Star newspaper found that 69 percent thought major was entitled to use the word bastards in a private , about 45 percent said their opinion of major Rose after hearing his off the cuff private remarks Ana about 34 percent said their opinion of major was lower. The rest said their opinion had not  daily Star one of London s More sensational tabloids said that i interviewed 500 people nationwide. The Date and the margin of error were not Given and the newspaper did not explain How the 500 people were selected. When asked was he right to say bastards in private 69.6 percent said yes 20.8 percent said no and 9.6percent said they had no opinion. Major s remarks were recorded Fri Day when he thought the microphones were off after a series of network Tele vision interviews. The remarks were leaked to newspapers. On wednesday a to station broadcast the tape after a Telephone watchdog body ordered the daily Mirror tabloid to shut Down a phone in line for readers to listen to major swear