European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and strikes world thursday september 1,1994 Japan plans fund to atone in Wii Tokyo a Japan will set up a $1billion fund to help atone for world War ii wrongdoings the government an-., bounced wednesday. But women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial army say victims should be compensated directly. Prime minister Tomiichi Muray Masaid in a statement that the Friendship fund would finance such projects a women s centers cultural exchanges and historical research on Japan s role i world War ii. The Money is to be spent Over 10 years starting in 1995. It is imperative for us japanese to look squarely to x or history with the peo Ples of neighbouring Asia,5 said Murayama who returned a Day earlier from a tour of several Southeast asian countries tantalized by Japan during the War. The japanese plan does not Call foray direct payments to individual asian War victims including forced labourers and women forced to serve in front line brothels run by the Imperial army. Japan maintains that compensation is sues were settled in postwar treaties. It has Long resisted any direct reparations fearing that such a decision would Ope the door to endless Legal Battles and huge payments historians estimate that up to200,000 South korean women were forced to become sex slaves for the Japa Nese army during the War. Groups work ing on behalf of the former sex slaves denounced the plan As inadequate. To me it s just a government Effort to save face said Mizuho Fukushima Art attorney for a group of former South korean sex slaves who Are suing for compensation. The former sex slaves indicated they would press Forward with their Legal fight. An attorney for filipino sex slaves also said the fund would be unacceptable. The admission of guilt and apology on the part the japanese policy makers and the japanese government carries with it the obligation to Honor its commitments to pay direct compensation to the victims under the Geneva convention of 1907," lawyer Romeo Capulong said i Manila. An hour after Japan announced the Friendship projects about 20 elderly South korean protesters hurled dozens of eggs at the japanese embassy in Seoul to express their outrage. S compensate apologize shouted the demonstrators including six women who claimed they were sex slaves and relatives of South koreans killed in world War ii. A tussle broke but Between pro testers and 50 riot police officers who blocked them. No serious injuries were reported and the protesters voluntarily dispersed after an hour. Later in the Day Chang Kiho a South korean foreign ministry spokesman said Japan must do More to help repatriate koreans left behind on Russia s Sakhalin Island after serving As forced la borers during the War there s still time to play "100 Days of summer at participating Safe Bowling centers. You have until memorial Day to win chances for some really Cool prizes like Cash a car airline tickets vacations shopping sprees to shirts and much More. The winning is As easy As the playing. Summer kids sponsored by. Chrysler military sales services no Federal end casement of ii i i i in k i i la ,. Interned Walloff Lre flames Light up the sky in the slum area of Bangkok Thailand on tuesday As fire Crews arc delayed by traffic snarls created when the Blaze reached the overpass. The fire started in a wooden Shack and leapt from one dilapidated Home to another igniting a conflagration that left 3,000 homeless before it was extinguished Early wednes Day. No residents were reported injured. France expels 20 suspected of links to algerian radicals Paris a France on wednesday expelled 20 of 26 people interned in an unused army Barracks since Early augus because of their suspected sympathies with islamic extremists in Algeria. Government officials said the group was sent to Turkina fast. Officials in the capital Ouagadougou confirmed the West african nation was taking in the group. The detainees were rounded up in a crackdown on Muslim fundamentalists in France following the aug. 3 killing of five frenchmen in Algiers by islamic insurgents trying to topple the military backed government."1 Hope this serves As a lesson to those who do not respect the Laws of the land and its hospitality Interior minister Charles Pasqua said As he left a weekly Cabinet meeting. France had said the detainees eventually would be expelled but it excluded sending them to Algeria to face the harsh military regime. The ministry said the six not expelled would remain under surveil Lance but officials did not elaborate. The army Barracks in Fol Embray i Northeast France appeared to have been entirely  later said one of the six said Magri could go Home. Magri has been hospitalized because of the effects of a hunger strike begun aug. 16 to protest his confinement. He claims he has no Jinks to fundamentalist sympathizers. A lawyer for another Detainee Larbi Kerhart an Imam or Muslim priest said his Clent was  decision to intern the group Drew protests from various political parties an human rights groups. The internment by passed the Justice system As did the expulsions wednesday. The detentions were part of an Iron. Listed Campaign by Pasqua who has pledged not to allow fundamentalists to hold Sway Over France s Large Muslim Community. Thousands of people have  questioned in systematic identity checks around France. Little Hope held for trapped miners Malanga Philippines a officials held Little Hope wednesday for finding More survivors trapped in a Coal mine where an explosion killed at least 64 people in the nation s worst mining disaster. The monday night blast in a Tunnel about 500 Miles South of Manila was the second at the mine in the past six months. An explosion there in March injured 11. It there were conflicting reports about what caused the blast one official said miners hit a pocket of methane Gas that exploded. But a is Al Nayor said the Acci Dent was triggered by a dynamite blast. The explosion was at the state run philippine National of co. Mine which is near Malanga in a Remote area with poor communications. The mine produces about 200,000 tons of Coal annually. In a Telephone interview from the provincial capital of paladian gov. Isidore real or. Said 79 bodies had been counted by tuesday evening. But other officials said 64 bodies had been removed by wednesday afternoon. Nazario Vasquez president of the proc Energy corp., which operates the mine said about 170 miners were work ing approximately 150 Yards underground at the time of the Accident