European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday november 23.1994 Japan s Cabinet backs Aid to some bomb survivors Tokyo a Japan s Cabinet approved a Bill tuesday that would provide $1,020 to citizens who lost family members in the 1945 . Nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bomb survivors said the plan was too limited. The payments Are Only for surviving victims registered with the government who lost immediate relatives in the bombings. � if approved the Bill would Coyer 230,000 to 280,000bereaved families the health and welfare ministry said. The plan also sidesteps the Issue of government War time responsibility and compensation for victims by calling the payments funeral contributions rather than compensation. The Bill must also be approved by parliament before payments begin in july 1995. The parties of the ruling coalition which drafted the Bill Hope it will pass parliament by dec. 3, the end of the current session. Compensation of a bomb victims is one of several lingering Post world War ii issues that have come to the fore As the 50th anniversary of the end of the conflict approaches. A Geneva based lawyers group was to release a report later tuesday on whether Japan should compensate women forced into sexual slavery by Japan s military. Japan already makes regular payments to 334,000registered surviving nuclear bomb victims to cover the costs of special medical examinations and treatment about $200 billion in such Aid was distributed last year. Earlier this month protesters denounced the initial draft of the plan As insufficient. They also objected that it did not cover other japanese who suffered during the War for which they hold the government responsible. The activists contend that the Lack of government acknowledgement of responsibility for damage in Japan would set a precedent on reparations for foreign Vic Tims of past japanese aggression. The government has refused to compensate individual foreign victims say ing War reparations were settled in government to government treaties in the 1950s and 1960s. Anti nuclear activists still Hope the Bill will be changed before Likely parliamentary approval. The Bill is very disappointing said Yoshio Saito director of the atomic bombing sufferers Organiza Torii-v.,-/ v.,/ r /. The Bill does not clearly say that it s direct govern ment compensation. It does not convey the govern ment s commitment not to repeat its  Akihiro Takahashi of the Hiroshima peace culture foundation told associated press television that the Bill discriminates against some bomb victims for in stance by not compensating people orphaned by the bomb. At least 140,000 people died in the Hiroshima bomb ing. An additional 70,000 died in the Nagasaki attack. I Eria cases jump in Russia s far East ready for Takeoff it. Melinda Brennan has become Australia s first female army Pilot. The 27-year-old Brennan who graduated from the army s school of aviation Friday will Fly into fire and emergency areas but will stay out of combat. Vladivostok Russia a diphtheria cases in Russia s far East have soared to emergency Levels infecting More than 1,700 people the itar Tass news Agency reported tuesday. Doctors Are Rushing to the hardest hit areas of the Pri Mirskiy Region to administer mass vaccinations against the disease which has killed35 people in the past year. The number of diphtheria cases has increased by 150percent compared with 1993, according to the territory s epidemiological control Center. Regional authorities have declared a medical state of emergency the news Agency said. Diphtheria epidemics have swept Russia in the Pas year and a half. I and How a Var Magazine covers mar activities in r Kais Mautern Mannheim Heidelberg Karlsruhe Worms & Pir Masens. 0t Fathis thursday in the stars & stripes. Cyprus frees German head As spy suspect. Vow a a. -.k. 1 ". _ _ T. A Nicosia Cyprus a a German held on suspicion of spying on the National guard the greek cypriots army was freed tuesday a police spokesman said. Police said monday that Diether Webling 56, was arrested monday in Nicosia capital of the War divided East Mediterranean Island in connection with an apparently Clandestine attempt to photograph military Maneu vers. A police statement said that on nov15 National guard soldiers had spotted a Man hidden in a Plantation taking photo graphs of troops near the Village of Sotirin the Eastern part of the Island. The Man fled chased by soldiers and got away in a rented car police said. The statement did not say How authorities were led to Webling. 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The gangs Are said to consist largely of soldiers with the Defeated rwandan army. . Officials have said that As Many As 30,000 of these former Soldier Sand the militias Allied with them May be in the Camps. The groups Are suspected of controlling the distribution of food and Relief supplies and terrorizing the hundreds of thousands of refugees living there. It is believed that these elements May be preparing for an armed invasion of Rwanda and that they May be stockpiling and Selling food distributed by Relief agencies in preparation for such an inva Sion the report said. Boutros Ghali said that taking control of the Camps would be a risky com Lexand very expensive  but he said it was necessary because the weakness of the present rwandan army might Well Lead to another civil War the first of which led to the massive flight from Rwanda this year