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SATURDAY, December 3, 1988 The Sun A9 Japanese lawmakers step to curb national Question of extraditing priest stirs heated words Thatcher criticizes Belgium at summit loudspeakers and sound trucks from blaring near foreign embassies, government buildings, the Parliament, and, upon special request of the parliamentary speakers, offices of political parties. Violators may be fined $1,600 and would be subject to up to six months in jail. The bill, which is expected to pass the upper house soon, is aimed although the legislators do not say so outright at what may be the worst scourge of all. For years, huge sound trucks manned by right-wing extremists and draped with Rising Sun flags have swept through city streets, blaring martial music. They park near favorite targets, such as the Soviet and other Eastern Bloc embassies, and scream denunciations of communism for hours.

"Frankly speaking, it is not very easy to work in such circumstances," said Andrei V. Krivtsov, second secretary of the Soviet Embassy." The bill is moving through Parliament just two weeks before Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the Soviet foreign minister, is due to ar By SUSAN CHIRA The New York Times TOKYO In Japan, when people have something to say, they turn to the loudspeaker. Loudspeakers crackle at 6 a.m. in country towns, reminding people to get up.

Train conductors preside over the morning rush with a stream of amplified announcements: "The train is coming. Please wait in three neat lines and get into the car in an orderly manner without pushing the people ahead of you." "You must be tired; please do not forget your belongings when you leave the train." All day long, vendors broadcast their wares. "Poles for hanging laundry!" "Toilet paper in exchange for old newspapers!" "Hot baked sweet potatoes!" At election time, candidates scream their names over and over in a shrill plea for votes. But in a nation that usually appears dulled to such cacophony, Japan took one small step Friday toward peace and quiet. The lower house of Parliament passed a bill restricting Thatcher, who has been criticized for being wary of the trade agreement, argued during the afternoon meeting that some border restrictions must remain in place to control terrorism, drug dealing and arms smuggling, officials said.

"Insular thinking is a reality," Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers said of Thatcher. "But I have never seen her more relaxed. She sees this summit as the start of a debate," he told reporters after the 3'2-hour session. The two-day meeting among the often-quarrelsome European leaders, which began Friday, had been expected to produce few problems. Tough decisions on closer union, including monetary cooperation and a single tax system, are due at the next six-month summit in Spain.

Central to the informal agenda was a draft statement aimed at reassuring the United States and Japan the community will not shut out their trade in 1992. "Europe will not close in on itself will not be a Fortress Margaret Thatcher Piqued at EEC talks Europe, but a partnership." The leaders met in the 14th century Knights of St. John castle on the island. A frigate patrolled offshore and commandos armed with automatic weapons patrolled the beachfront. The priest was arrested in Belgium last summer.

Last week, Martens' government turned down the British extradition request and sent him to Ireland. Ireland says it is considering the request, though authorities no longer know where he is. Martens said after meeting Thatcher he told her the extradition request was rejected because it was legally flawed. it Save 15o-50o on quality furniture ready for Christmas delivery, i fcjur rriH1 jm Mb i I ill! fifeliffi iJlli $2399 PIER WALL BED Classic, comfortable country oak wall bed with optimum storage. Soft rounded mouldings, solid oak drawer fronts.

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But Krivtsov and a spokesman for Japan's Foreign Ministry denied Shevardnadze's visit had anything to do with the bill. Many Japanese suspect his visit may have prompted some action, however, because otherwise this nation is remarkably tolerant of what Americans would consider noisy intrusions on their peace of mind. Yet what is annoying to some Japanese is reassuring, even soothing, to others. In a way, the stream of public cautions and exhortations reflects the resolute cheerfulness, moral uplift and emphasis on the public good that run through Japanese life. BRO California Sunday 12 to 6 I IT O'fAlso shown: 74" dresser, $101 5.

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Soon after the angry meeting in Thatcher's hotel suite, she and Martens sat side-by-side as the leaders of the 12-nation community reviewed their ambitious program to dismantle all trade barriers and create by 1992 a single market of 322 million people. Bangladesh starts fixing cyclone ruin By HASAN SAEED Associated Press SHAMNAGAR, Bangladesh Villagers set out Friday to reb uild homes and businesses flat tened earlier this week by a cy clone that left at least 787 people dead and 3,250 missing. "I have lost everything: my home, my crops, my cattle," said Ahmed Ali, a 45-year-old farmer who found temporary shelter in a school building with his wife and five children. "There is no future for me and my family." Dainik Bangla, an indepen dent newspaper, said more than 10,000 people were injured and 5 million left homeless. The storm hit southern Beng ladesh and eastern India on Tuesday with winds of up to 102 mph and 15-foot waves that flooded coastal islands and sand bars inhabited by fishermen and peasants.

It mowed down utility poles and palm trees, killed thousands of cattle and devastated rice pad dies ready for harvest. Not a single mud-and-straw house was left standing in Sham nagar, a town of 6,000 people where 10 people were killed. Dozens of other southern vil lages suffered similar fates. Official reports said 577 peo ple were killed, but that estimate is considered conservative. The Red Crescent Society, the Mos lem equivalent of the Red Cross, said 806 people died, mostly in the southwestern districts of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat, and the independent Khabar newspaper put the death toll at 1,050.

The Red Crescent also said more than 3,000 still were miss ing, mostly fishermen. In the Indian city of Calcutta, police sources said 210 people had died in West Bengal state next to Bangladesh. Indian news agencies, however, said the death toll was 500, with at least 250 peo ple reported missing. Royal couple's brief marriage ends in tragedy VIENNA, Austria (AP) Fourteen months ago they wed in a fairy-tale ceremony at an Al pine castle. On Friday, one of Eu rope's aristocratic young couples was buried the princess a vic tim of an apparent drug overdose, her prince driven to suicide.

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