European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes March korean officials still trying to sort out cause of shooting aboard chinese torpedo boat Seoul a South korean authorities tried to determine sunday what happened during a shootout aboard a chinese Navy torpedo boat that wound up in korean but kept a curtain of secrecy around the the chinese a hydrofoil attack drifted into South korean Waters Friday with six Crew dead and two wounded among the 19 men three other chinese Navy ships were reported to have entered South korean Waters while searching for the torpedo boat in the yellow but pulled Back after a show of Force by South korean air and Navy the torpedo boat was towed saturday to the West coast port of 125 Miles South of where the casualties and other Crew members had been the wounded were hospitalized in satisfactory re ports from Kunsan and the other 11 Crew members were put up in a hotel under police local sources said a Broad investigation was going but said they could disclose no sources Here and in Tokyo have said the shooting resulted from an attempt by some of the Crew to defect to but the South korean government said in an official statement there was a simple scuffle among the chinese and that no political reason was the sources also said some kind of a Mutiny had taken but they gave no details and officials Here declined to confirm there had been such an one Seoul newspaper said in a dispatch from Kunsan on sunday that the fighting had been Between two factions aboard the but gave no China called for South Korea to return the boat and All Crew members while South Korea called for the chinese to apologize for the entry of their Navy vessels into korean Waters and to punish those the chinese said their Navy units had entered the territorial Waters but pulled Back quickly on their own and there were no there was no word Here whether the chinese had apol but both sides appeared to be seeking to keep the incident South Korea and China have no diplomatic and sources Here said contacts were being carried out in Hong Kong in an Effort to resolve the Taiwan ambassador to South Korea Cut Short a Vaca Tion Here sunday and returned to Seoul to try to interview Crew members of the torpedo i would like to talk to them individually to find out what actually Hsueh Yuchih he a he May have some difficulties be cause the incident is still under the chinese nationalist government in Taipei said sat urday it would Welcome any crewmen who wanted to defect to South Korea is the Only country in Asia that maintains full diplomatic relations with the chinese nationalists and there Long have been warm ties Between the two staunchly anticommunist on the other Long has been a main ally of North and it sent troops to the support of the North during the 195053 korean in recent there have been efforts to promote no official links Between South Korea and including Trade and sports a photo peaceful protest about people citizens of the european countries which have agreed to station Pershing ii and cruise missiles within their Bor Ders gathered in on saturday to protest the police said the demonstration was battleship Missouri floated out refit nears completion Long up the battleship the Unladen platform for the signing of the japanese surrender in sailed from dry Dock to a Deepwater pier saturday As part of its refitting for a new Era of sea Shes afloat Navy Anne Mcdonald watching through binoculars As the Battle Wagon completed its 500yard journey saturday the which has been in Mothballs since the korean will be fitted with launchers for the Tomahawk and Harpoon cruise missiles and will have sophisticated electronic warfare equipment on Navy officials it is expected to rejoin the Fleet in mid1986 As part of president reagans push for a 600ship Jim a Navy information called the re floating a significant step in the modernization despite signs of better soviets wage War of words Moscow up despite signs of better relations Between Washington and the the superpowers propaganda War continues since the death of president Konstantin Chernenko March there have been several diplomatic feelers about a possible Summit Between new soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev and president High level officials on both including Reagan and continue to toss verbal barbs at each accusing each other of violating arms agreements and whipping up the arms after Chernenko Reagan suggested that Gorbachev visit the United states at an undetermined in indicated to British opposition Leader Neil Kinlock that he would like to meet but he did not say where or Summit interest has done Little to curb the verbal although they Are not As Sharp As they were during the tenure of the late Yuri an aide to the president said that although Reagan is prepared to talk to the soviet it Doest mean we Nave to drop our in a speech in Reagan blasted the soviet Union for alleged violations of the a ratified Salt ii the world War ii Yalta Accord and the chem Ica weapons in Gorbachev used his Maiden speech to denounce military spending and Star reagans strategic defense initiative proposal for research into space based antimissile never before has so terrible a threat loomed so Large and dark Over Mankind As these Gorbachev the soviet press does not let a Day pass without condemning the United states and its the state run news Agency Tass lashed out at the failure to ratify Salt ii and the ban on underground nuclear Tass also accused american legislators of bowing to pressure from the White House by voting for funds for More my inter continual ballistic allocations for the my program at a time when Sovi Eta Merican talks on nuclear and space armaments Are held in Geneva fully expose Washington hypocritical declarations that the United states is fully determined to achieve and even of offensive strategic it China continues its Campaign for economic Reform peking a the chinese govern ment pressed ahead sunday with Market Force economic but the nations leading newspaper acknowledged growing criticism by saying nothing is the communist party Organ Peoples daily said that with the arrival of foreign Trade and a bit of decadent and corrupt Bourgeois culture will unavoidably find its Way into a week another official the Hartline workers had surprised observers by decrying recent spiritual pol the target of a party Campaign in the frontage Peoples daily editorial also admitted that As enterprises were Given More competitive abuses would for newspapers have reported economic crimes ranging from misappropriated state funds to theft and tax but advantages outweigh disadvantages in the Reform process started by chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping in and the entire nation supports the switch from Mao tse tunes egalitarian commune sys the newspaper Reform in China is an great social its future is definitely but its Road will be it the editorial appeared alongside a new directive from the party and state Council on Reform of the fishing mandatory state purchases will end and prices will be regulated by Market while state investment will help quadruple production by the end of the it the shortage of fish in big and medium sized cities should be solved within three to five the government announcement also published sunday was communist party document 1 of ordering 10 measures to build a Market oriented Rural the adopted at a party Central committee meeting last Are de signed to boost farm production by abolish ing most state quotas and allowing prices to float at free Market Testate will continue to guarantee Grain and Cotton other Steps include diversified development of local food trans formation of Steep hillsides into forests and preferential Loans and tax rates to Rural and faster growth of Rural the document said household based Rural and the contract system linking income with will remain unchanged for a Long period to recent press and unofficial comment reveal considerable unease Over Side effects from Denis there Are still a few people whose sight is blocked by temporary difficulties and the Peoples daily it is said that some people now have less Confidence in Reform than they did in the last Quarter of they have failed to consider that Many problems would crop they mistakenly thought Reform was always such critics Are fail to recognize an excellent economic make a fuss about nothing and Are in a constant state of it