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Show Sunday, September 23, 1990 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, - Page A7 World Japanese official compares U.S. Blacks to prostitutes - TOKYO (AP) Japan's justice minister compared prostitutes in Japan to black Americans who move into white neighborhoods and "ruin the atmosphere," but later said he regretted the remark. The comment was the latest in a series of remarks by Japanese government officials that have offended American minority groups. A Washington-base- civil rights d group called the comment by Justice Minister Seiroku Kaqjiyama racist. "It's a reprehensible and racist statement," said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Kajiyama made the comment at a news conference Friday after observing a nighttime raid on the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, a notorious red-ligdistrict. ht "It's like in America when neighborhoods become mixed because blacks move in, and whites are forced out," Kajiyama said after watching police and immigration authorities arrest foreign women for alleged prostitution. Prostitutes "ruin the atmosphere" of neighborhoods in the minister same way, the said. A Justice Ministry spokesman confirmed the comments Saturday after they appeared in Japanese news reports. Shortly after the news conference, the ministry issued a statement quoting Kajiyama as saying he meant to convey that people living in the Shinjuku area feel insecure and have been complain- as advertising images and allegedly discriminatory hiring d Japanese practices by well U.S.-base- companies. Sensitivity to racial issues "is a new ballgame for old (Japanese) politicians, and they still don't know how to play it," said Patricia ing. "I intended to say that we must take measures to solve this problem. I did not mean to talk about racial issues," Kajiyama said in the statement. It said the minister's comments contained "expressions that may cause misunderstanding," but the statement did not contain an explicit apology. In observing the police raid, Kajiyama was carrying out one of his first official duties as justice minister. He was appointed last week to replace Shin Hasegawa, who resigned because of illness. Minority groups in the United States have criticized Japan in recent years for similar statements made by Japanese politicians, as Steinhoff, a University of Hawaii sociologist doing research in Japan. "There is a very high acceptance of discrimination in Japan," she said. "They don't realize this is out of bounds" elsewhere. The discriminatory comments have sometimes arisen when politicians and other Japanese praised the "homogeneity" of Japan's population. American minority groups protested vigorously in 1986, when e Minister Yasuhiro said, "On the average, the United States is lower because of a considerable number of blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans." Nakasone said he was referring to literacy rate. He later apologized and said he realized his then-Prim- comment had "offended i ; J "The ANC calls on the government to prosecute the perpetrators of the violence, but immediately complains about any action against its own supporters," he added. The government and the ANC, led by Nelson Mandela, began peace talks in May. But relations have tr'ii strained by the fighting between the ANC and the rival Inkatha movement. white-minori- ty The ANC and Inkatha, a conservative Zulu organization, both oppose apartheid but differ over tactics and plans for a future South Africa.. The ANC has accused gov ernment security forces of siding with Inkatha and also has objected to police measures imposed to stop the fighting. Police have announced a nighttime curfew in some areas, set up roadblocks, weapons begun searches and sent reinforcements into troubled areas. Mandela has said the measures will be ineffective and that his organization could suspend negotiations if the government fails to halt the bloodshed. Viljoen said the government remains committed to negotiations and "will not depart from this many course whatever any other parties may decide." He accused the ANC, the largest black opposition movement, of laying the blame for the fighting "exclusively on the shoulders of its opponents or the government." "The achievement of peace surely requires all parties involved to accept their share of responsibility for quelling unrest and violence from whichever side it eminates," he added. Meanwhile, dozens of people killed in the recent violence were buried Saturday in services around S S id tivists." De Klerk arrives here Sunday, becoming the first South African -- Limit 1 I J Pease r- -J L3fSn VISL "J Shasta Johannesburg. 1945. I V I n Assorted Flavor RegUlt" ' l Con- Saturday it had cancelled a scheduled meeting with South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk. The caucus, which includes all 24 black members of Congress, did not give a reason other than to say the decision was made "in response to recent developments in South Africa and after extensive acconsultation with U II Caucus rejects de Klerk meeting leader to officially visit the United (AP) - The States since meets with gressional Black Caucus announced WASHINGTON P Americans." But he did not retract his remarks. Government says ANC must take responsibility for violence JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A government official said (AP) Saturday the African National Congress bears responsibility for factional fighting in black townships !and should stop blaming white authorities. The comments by Gerrit Viljoen, minister of constitutional development, were typical of the increasingly hostile rhetoric between the government and the ANC since i:i ; violence broke out last month black areas ringing Johannesburg. More than 800 people have died in the fighting. "The ANC and its allies are among the main parties to the conflicts," Viljoen said. jWl Eggs He President Bush on Monday. De Klerk has begun dismantling the apartheid system of racial segregation, hoping to grant power-sharin- g to the country's black majority. His actions have won widespread support from the United States and its allies. But critics accuse the South African police of complicity in the violence among rival black groups which has resulted in over 1,700 deaths this year. Yeltsin, Gorbachev clashing again over emergency economic powers - MOSCOW (AP) Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, was back on a collision course with Mikhail S. Gorbachev Saturday as he challenged the Soviet leader's Nazi apologizes to village he helped destroy France (AP) rode his former A BEAUVAIS, Nazi army captain bicycle back to the French village he helped destroy 50 years ago to apologize and "make peace with his conscience before dying," officials said Saturday. Helmut Eckhoff, 76, arrived in Crapeaumesnil last weekend after a journey from Aachen, West Germany. Eckhoff spent two days in the village, where crowds held a welcoming party, then returned home by bicysix-da- y, 360-mi- le request for new emergency powers to rescue the economy. Yeltsin and Gorbachev have political feud waged a three-yea- r that has complicated Gorbachev's efforts to implement urgent economic reform. In a statement read on the nightly television news program "Vre-myathe country's most widely watched program, Yeltsin and other leaders of Russia's legislature called Gorbachev's request for expanded powers "unacceptable." The leaders vowed to take "all necessary measures to defend the sovereignty and constitutional order of Russia." Gorbachev asked the national legislature Friday to expand his powers in order to begin an economic rescue plan without having to go through the tedious process of seeking lawmakers' approval at each step. Gorbachev seeks the authority to issue decrees on property, management of the economy, prices and ," law enforcement. The national Supreme Soviet would have the power to recommend Gorbachev revoke or modify the decrees. The Supreme Soviet is scheduled to vote on the rquest Monday, the same day it is to choose from among three economic plans. Yeltsin fears Gorbachev seeks the power to introduce presidential rule in sovereign republics and disband their governments. That request is not contained in Gorbachev's resolution, but apparently was inferred from his comments to the Supreme Soviet. Gorbachev said he needed the extra authority because the dire state of the economy requires extreme action. The powers would be used to implement one of the three plans to switch the Soviet Union to a market economy. Yeltsin's celebrated clashes with Gorbachev date back to criticism of reforms at a Communist Party meeting in 1987. II J . Country Pride . Family Pack- - H j cle. Crapeaumesnil. about 40 miles north of Paris, spent three days under fire in June 1940 as the 41st Panzer division confronted the 109th French infantry regiment. The village, was razed. "Since then, I live with the memory of that battle, how we set everything afire and how we wronged the inhabitants and their defenders," wrote Eckhoff in an August letter to Crapeaumesnil Mayor Hubert Detavernier. "I always wanted to return to Crapeaumesnil in a civilized manner to ask for pardon from the residents." Detavernier invited Eckhoff to visit the village, so he could "make peace with his conscience before dying," officials said. After arriving in town, Eckhoff read a message of apology "in the name of the German army." He spent last Sunday with a French veteran who fought at Crapeaumesnil. Aachen is just west of the West German capital or Bonn, near the border. West German-Belgia- n t if Come in and meet Clifford Sorenson, DDS, use this introductory offer: EXclHl X-Ka- ys ctJI "Z Prophylaxis (Polishing) 37 AA ' Limited offer - call for appt. 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