Show 8A oaUifuuy June 3 1 WORLD 99t WORLD Briefs on stage governor Tokyo Former comic Arrest warrant cancels expo lifted for can't answer them of world cities ex-sp- y BONN Germany - An arcest warrant for former East German spymaster Markus Wolf has been hi ted meaning he no longer faces prison and is Iree to travel outside Germany a court said The Duesseldorf superior court based its decision on last week’s ruling by Germany’s supreme court that most East German spies can’t be prosecuted for treason or espionage Wolf 72 was sentenced to six years in pnson for treason in 1993 The legendary spymaster has been free on appeal but not permitted to leave the country He also was convicted of bnbery but even if that conviction sticks it would only cam Wolf a suspended sentence said court spokesman Klaus Forsen Austria to help victims of WWII VIENNA Austria - Filly years after World War II ended Austria is taking a step toward confronting its wartime past by creating a $50 million fund for Nazi victims Lawmakers said the fund created by legislation passed by parliament late Thursday shows Austrians are finally facing up to a chapter of their history many have tried to forget "This law is 50 years overdue" legislator Volker Kier of the Liberal Forum party said Peter Kostelka of the governing Social Democrats said the fund is "recognition that Austrians participated in the crimes of National So- cialism” The leader of Austria’s Jewish community Paul Grosz welcomed the gesture but complained the fund’s regulations are "extremely difficult for the victims to deal with" He said individual victims don’t know how much compensation they can receive and those who live outside Austria haven’t been told how to apply Green Party lawmaker Johannes Voggenhuber whose party voted against the fund criticized it as “an attempt to cheaply buy” a clean conscience and said it doesn’t con- tain enough money for adequate compensation An estimated 200000 Austrian Jews fled the Nazis or perished in concentration camps after Nazi Germany annexed Austria on March 13 1938 After the war many Austrians chose to see themselves as the first victims of native son Adolf Hitler They repressed memories of the masses who cheered the German troops marching into Austria the Austrians who took up arms for Hitler and those such as Adolf Eichmann who were responsible for Nazi atrocities During parliamentary debate Thursday Voggenhuber recalled how Austrians praised the wartime deeds of Austrian soldiers and how Austrians who were bigwigs m the Nazi Party were welcomed at taverns Arafat reaches out to factions TUNIS Tunisia - Palestinian holding Palestinian general elec- tions Palestinian leaders have warned the peace process will fail if the deadline passes without agreement "Israel does not give the impression that it is committed to this date" chief Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said at a meetmg of the PLO leadership to try to carve out a new role for itself after Arafat takes control of the West Bank Tayyeb general secretary of Arafat’s autonomy govAbdel-Rahi- ernment Aoshima (AP) - They say you city hall and in few has that been truer than in Japan But one pohucian is shaking up the pohucal establishment in a way not 6een here in years When Yukio Aoshima a former television comic and parliamentary gadfly was elected governor of Tokyo on Apnl 9 most Japanese could barely believe it A man who had spent 25 years in Parliament railing against powerful pohucians had finally become one himself The actor who used to prance around in wig and kimono on the TV show “Nasty Granny” was to rule a huge bureaucracy at $1 bilhon-plu- s Tokyo’s City HalL The upset by Aoshima an independent over a candidate backed by most major parties posed a question: Can anyone derail Japan’s pohucal establishment with its customs of corruption and projects? Regular politicians arc angry at his TOKYO 48-sto- ry big-mon- actions in office ‘S & A 2146 North Main (by Albertsons) Antelope Square Layton The battling has taken its toll on Aoshima 62 w ho overcame cancer several years ago Normally quick with an acerbic crack in the informal lingo of an Edokko or Tokyo nauve he has been forced to adopt the hononfic-lade- n jargon of professional politicians OPEN MON-FRI9- But the decision infuriated most politicians - no one more than Aoshima’s predecessor Sh unichi Suzuki who had pushed for the expo He even compared Aoshima to the terrorists who spread nerve gas on Tokyo’s subways complaining that canceling the expo “is like spreading sarin on the car of city Many politicians have been unable to conceal their malice against someone who broke all the rules -refusing to give campaign speeches for instance - and still won a convincing election victory Political pop quiz After Aoshima’s first 40 days in office the answer is: maybe - and it’ll sure be interesting to watch This week the governor keeping a campaign promise canceled a multi-bilho- n dollar exposition of world cities that had been planned for Tokyo next year The move raised him to hero status among many Japanese who saw the expo as an expensive showpiece benefiting large companies while doing nothing to solve city problems such a severe overcrowding “Any society is built around people keeping their promises” said In one case a legislator seeking to embarrass the governor decided to give him a pop quiz on city policy Aoshima was forced to admit that he had never heard of “Hello Work" the nickname bureaucrats have given to the unemployment of- -- Spiced W mmmm mm mMmm mtfmm mm I Urban Japanese citizens often complain that their houses or apartments are too small that prices are too high that politicians are too corrupt to listen to people like themselves Low-scal- But that dissatisfaction rarely percolates to the top in the way that middle-clas- s revolt jolted American politics in the 1994 elections - possibly because Japanese have little tradition of democracy and a strong tradition of doing what they’re told fice The governor got an F on the quiz - but an A for politics A wave of grass-roosympathy has emerged for Aoshima with the legislature widely portrayed as petty and undignified “Asking idiotic questions and then criticizing someone because he ts “The exposition was a symbol of what Tokyo has too much of” said Harumi Suda a longtime civic activist in Tokyo “In Japan it has been the tradition that once the government decides something it cannot be changed In that sense this is mmt mm w't mm On 60 tablet size mm ON MMT WMS MM IMS' MM DIET PEP t See the Classified revolt e 9-- 6 Ssjfgfesassfis "bs Through it all the governor has been in an unprecedented spotlight The reason is this: Aoshima has translated the dissatisfaction of many Japanese into a real political force for the first time in memory government” -7 SAT ki He wears a plainuve frown most of the time and complains of exhaustion He has even become a terrorist target: A package addressed to Aoshima exploded last month when opened by an aide blowing off the man's left hand rhc r¥cattA-- Big frown Tokyo resident Shunsuke Miya-wawho works for an English testing service “If he hadn’t canceled the exposiuon it would have been the end of democracy" First 40 days Buy vour last grill first: A lifetime of grilling enjoyment! 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