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1 AUSA
Accession number & update
A6UV6L 940601.
Occurrences
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AN (1)
Title
Britain drugs Interpol - Interpol head calls for
decriminalisation of drugs.
Source
LONDON, June 8 94 (AFP), 19:39 GMT.
Publication date
940608.
Length
2,249 Characters, approximately 1 PC screen.
Lead paragraph
The secretary general of Interpol called here Wednesday for
the decriminalisation of drugs, describing use of illegal
substances as a problem for society rather than the police.
Text
In an interview with BBC radio, Raymond Kendall said he was "in
favour of decriminalisation but not in favour of legalisation"
of drugs.
He stressed judicial systems were incapable of dealing with
the vast numbers of users of illegal drugs, adding that the
phenomenon was "much less of a police problem than a social,
health and welfare problem." The head of the international law
enforcement agency criticised politicians for seeking short-
term solutions to the drug problem through the courts. "You will
get immediate results if you take strong police action to seize
more drugs and arrest more traffickers, " he said. "But you are
not dealing with the basic issue of drug abuse, and that is
where you have to get the message across." He also dismissed as
a "false argument" distinctions between soft and hard drugs,
adding that use of all toxic substances should be "regarded as
harmful to health and dangerous." He said: "Any drug abuse
should be decriminalised but the trafficking element we should
be much harder on." Speaking during the final day of
campaigning for Thursday's elections to the European
Parliament, British Prime Minister John Major said he
"profoundly disagreed" with Kendall's proposal.
phv-pjl/jms/bm.
Descriptors
INTERNATIONAL, BRITAIN, SERVICES, BOURSE, BANQUE.
2 AUSA
Accession number & update
4WPMDL 940601.
Occurrences
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AN (1)
Title
Japan airlines - Japan's airlines to use contract labour.
Source
TOKYO, June 8 94 (AFP), 09:13 GMT.
Publication date
940608.
Length
2,761 Characters, approximately 2 PC screens.
Lead paragraph
Japanese airlines, plagued by losses and weak earnings, are
stepping up efforts to cut costs by hiring flight attendants on
temporary contracts to replace those on open-ended contracts.
Text
The move represents a further erosion of Japan's rigid and
cumbersome lifetime employment system which has been
increasingly criticised during the current recession for
breeding corporate sloth and inefficiency.
Japan Airlines Co. Ltd. (JAL), the nation's largest carrier,
plans to start hiring temporary stewardesses for domestic
flights during the 12-month period starting in April next year,
a company spokesman said Wednesday.
The spokesman said JAL was even considering setting up its own
employment company to secure stewardesses on temporary
contracts. But he declined to confirm a report that by using
contract staff, who would work either in high seasons or for
limited periods of several years, JAL will be able to halve
the annual cost of each flight attendant from the present eight
million yen (77,000 dollars), saving up to six billion yen a
year. A spokeswoman for All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd. (ANA) said
Japan's biggest domestic carrier was considering similar
changes but declined to give details. The airline industry's
move toward temporary contracts follows a radical decision by
leading carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. in January to abandon its
strict adherence to the lifetime employment system this year.
Toyota, which decided to introduce the system of "full-time
non-regular employees" in its design division, said it was
"inevitable that the rigid organisational structure of the past
would impose limits on corporate growth." The JAL spokesman
said contracted staff would fill a manpower shortage expected
from the airline's plan to reduce the number of full-time
flight attendants by 900 to 5,600 over the next four years.
Alternatives for cutting personnel costs are consigning
services to subsidiaries or other airlines. JAL suffered a
pre-tax loss of 26.2 billion yen in the year to March while
ANA reported a 82.1 percent plunge in pre-tax earnings to
2.84 billion yen. mt/ps/tc.
Descriptors
ECONOMIC, JAPAN, SERVICES, BOURSE, BANQUE.
3 AUSA
Accession number & update
9W7H9X 940601.
Occurrences
PARAGRAPH
AN (1)
Title
Tennis women - Shriver defeats McQuillan and insults.
Source
BIRMINGHAM, England, June 9 94 (AFP), 19:54 GMT.
Publication date
940609.
Length
1,225 Characters, approximately 1 PC screen.
Lead paragraph
Pam Shriver cruised through to the quarter-finals of the
women's tennis tournament here Thursday, beating Rachel
McQuillan 6-0, 6-4 before getting involved in a slanging
match as the players were supposed to be shaking hands.
Text
Shriver was accused by McQuillan of being "old and haggard"
and told "you should retire."
"It's not something I'm going to cry about, it's something I
say to myself every day, " Shriver said with a smile.
Now, as part owner of the Baltimore Oriels baseball team, she
has other things on her mind as well as tennis.
"Every time I play I know my time could be up but right now
I'm just glad I'm playing some good tennis."
3rd Rd results:
Pam Shriver (USA x-8) bt Rachel McQuillan (Australia x-12)
6-0, 6-4
Joanette Kruger (SAfrica x-14) bt Tina Krizan (Slovakia) 7-6
(7/3), 6-4
Lori McNeil (USA x-2) bt Larisa Neiland (Latvia x-9) 6-4, 7-5
cc/cw.
Descriptors
SPORTS, BRITAIN, SERVICES, SOCIETES.
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