European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 15 stranded freighter leaks Oil off Australia coast Australia a Coal freighter stranded on a Sand bar off Eastern Australia began leaking Oil sunday As Salvage Crews attempted to free an offi Cial the extent of the Oil Slick was not immediately Clear at Nobby Beach in the Eastern port City of about 90 Miles North of new South Wales state ports minister Joe Tripodi a 60member Oil soul response team with a specialist Oil contain ment vessel was assessing the situation As Crews attempted to float the vessel at High tide sunday he Zimbabwe Price crackdown intensifies Zimbabwe government inspectors and Plain clothes police raided shops and supermarkets sunday to enforce Price hundreds of shoppers swarmed Over shelves grabbing bargains in growing Price chaos across the store managers tried to limit shoppers to two items of milk and other but inspectors yelled at till opera tors to Clear the chaotic Ive got bargains said Aeneas a Harare his arms Laden with packs of Frozen Chicken and Cartons of jostling at the Check the official Media reported sunday at least 20 business executives were arrested in the week end crackdown against Ove pric hoarding of goods and violations of Price reduction railway unions reject Germany wage offer Berlin unions on tuesday rejected an offer from Germany National railway of a 2 percent pay Rise for its increasing the possibility of strikes in the Busy summer the Edba and trans net Union have called for raises of up to 7 percent for some employees of Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn offered a More modest 2 percent increase next followed by another 2 percent in july and onetime extra payments of to cover the rest of this the unions dismissed that offer in a joint statement As mockery of the they pointed to healthy earnings last Italy sends top envoy to help release priest Rome Italy is sending a top envoy to the Philippines to work for the release of an italian missionary priest who was kid napped on june a Veteran of several humanitarian missions when she was a for eign ministry official for Many Margherita now a prominent will travel to the Philippines on tuesday to work for a positive conclusion of the abduction of the Giancarlo the foreign ministry said in a statement from the associated press Abe backs minister after comment japanese president has no plans to seek apology for atomic bomb by Chi Saki Watanabe the associated press Tokyo japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said sunday he has no plans to seek an apology from the United states Over its atomic bombings of Japan during world War a Day after his defense minister caused an up Roar by calling the attacks i think its More important to focus on nuclear disarmament than to our Energy seeking an apology from the United he said during a political debate ahead of National elections later this defense minister Fumio Kyuma came under fire saturday for saying the atomic bombings of Japan in August 1945 were Nevi i understand that the bombing ended the and i think that it  be Kyuma said in a Kyuma apologized sunday after bitter criticism from survivors of the bombs and from opposition and ruling i am sorry if my comments gave the impression i disrespect the Kyuma told a news conference in his Home the United states dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on and another one on Nagasaki three Days in the worlds Only nuclear More than people were and thousands of survivors still suffer radiation linked illnesses such As liver cancer and Japan surrendered on remarks Are nothing but verbal Itsuo japanese prime minister Shinzo shakes hands with Ichiro Leader of japans main opposition democratic party of after their debate at a Tokyo hotel on Terumi Secretary general of Nihon an bomb survivors said in a statement late we de Mand the minister retract his comments in the opposition social democratic party called for Yumas removal from we will question prime minister abes appointment of him and we will Call for the ministers party policy chief Tomoko Abe said sunday on to Asahi before Yumas Abe said he has no plans to dismiss As a Nagasaki native and As the defense he needs to continue to show his leadership toward nuclear Abe said Abe also said which renounces nuclear also has to face the reality that we need to rely on deterrence against North Korea nuclear a Summit opens with debates on Darfur by Kwasi Kyodo the associated press Ghana More than 30 Heads of state gathered in gha Nas capital sunday to debate a pan african government and to discuss a joint peace keeping Force in Sudan Darfur Sudan who can celeb his trip to the three Day Afri can Union Summit after the death of an held a teleconference from Khartoum late Satur Day in which he charged that Western governments were inter vening out of self serving to some of them Are Only involved because of what they will gain from the resources of the Omar Elbashir the crisis in Darfur where an estimated people have died is expected to be addressed by members of Sudan government at the Brit Ain and Ghana which currently holds the rotating presidency of the african Union Are introducing a Resolution to the United nations to authorize a joint can Union Force to help end the fou year earlier this the sudanese government agreed to the deployment of the hybrid ghanaian authorities have banned protests until the final Day of the three Day Summit on and police have fanned out across this West Afri can planned demonstrations included one calling for an end to the violence in Darfur and a second by zimbabwean activists who travelled Here to decry the ongoing crackdown on dissidents in their the main official Agenda item for the Summit is an idea first pro posed four decades ago a United although the idea of a Border continent wide entity has accepted by most african its remained no More than a slogan due to disputes on How to numerous Docu ments had been adopted calling for a pan african body Over the but Many individual states had failed to ratify Portugal faces heavy Agenda As it takes Over eur presidency by constant Brand the associated press Portugal Portugal took Over As rotating president of the european Union Sun Day with the top priority of keeping Poland and others on Board Over the Complex and Deli Cate Reform treaty for which took Over from will also play Host to a key International sum Mit with african nations and separate talks with Ukraine and portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates is to meet with the us 27member executive under european commission president Jose Manuel Barroso also portuguese in the Northern City of Porto on monday to discuss his Busy eur presidency Agenda and Socrates told reporters on the eve of Assum ing the eur chair that he was optimistic he could usher All 27 eur governments into final we know All member states accept that Europe needs to have a new f f portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates new president of the european Union izing the new treaty by an october we know All member states accept that Europe needs to have a new he add ing he had no doubts the treaty will be approved at the to be held in Portugal will be responsible for ensuring the unanimous backing of All eur nations for the Fin print of the new the Basic parts of which were tentatively agreed to during Marathon sum Mit talks last eur leaders were Able to Over come deep divisions on a draft Rule Book to replace the aborted eur which was rejected two years ago by dutch and French the new treaty is meant to up Date How the eur is streamlining decision making and bolster ing its role on the world Socrates said this was Only a misunderstanding that needed to be clarified during technical negotiations in the months apart from fixing the us internal prob Portugal will also have its hands full with hosting a Summit with 53 african a meant to get european relations with its Southern neighbors on a closer