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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. June 32. 1988 the stars and stripes � Page 2 Shultz plans visit to 9 asian nations Washington a Secretary of stale George p. Shultz will Allynd a meeting of inc association of Southeast asian nations in Bangkok Thailand next month and will visit eight other countries during a 15 Day Farewell to Asia ship that begins july 6, inc stale department announced monday. Shutlz s last trip to the Region before the Reagan administration leaves office next january will take him to More countries than any of his annual sojourns in Asia since he became Secretary of state in 1982. After attending the july 7-9 meeting of the South East asian nations. Almli will travel to Malaysia in Donesia the Philippines Hong Kong. China South Korea Japan and the Marshall islands. In Bangkok. Uliuli will take part in Trade and Politi Cal discussions with foreign ministers of he six Asean nations and their major railing partners Japan Australia. New zealand Britain Canada and the european common Market. This year s session comes at a Lime of increasing Hope of a settlement of the Region s most volatile Polit ical Issue the occupation of Cambodia by Vietnam Ese troops. Vietnam has promised to withdraw its forces by the Early 1990s. In addition there have been reports that China is willing to help bring about Asean s conditions for a settlement namely that the Khmer Rouge which ran Cambodia in the late 1970s, be left Oul of any new cambodian government. Stale department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley con firmed that China has signalled in private its backing for a non Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. She declined to comment on a report in the Washington Post last weekend that China had gone even further and had agreed to get Khmer Rouge Leader pol pot out of the cambodian picture by giving him Asylum. Shultz and the Asean leaders arc also expected to Confer on the increasingly difficult problem posed by the new flood of people fleeing Vietnam in rickety boats. The United states is concerned that the influx will cause an anti refugee reaction among Southeast asian nations that have provided Asylum for the escapees since 1975. In the Philippines Shuitz will discuss the future of . Rights at two major military bases. Clark Field and sunk Bay naval Silian. The United states is negotiating with the government of philippine president Corazon Aquino Over base rights and the filipinos want huge amounts of . Aid for keeping out the Welcome mat. . Relations with China have been warm in recent years though the Reagan administration has Eril Tzc the Beijing government for Selling missiles to Middle Eastern countries and has been annoyed at China s refusal to Back a vote in the United nations for an arms embargo against Iran. Shultz is expected 10 Dis cuss these two issues when he meets leaders in Beijing. In South Korea he will Mucci president rho tac woo for talks about the country s democratization and to discuss plans for the 1988 olympic games to be held in Seoul in september. Shutlz will be the highest ranking . Official to visit Japan since prime minister Noburu Takishita look office last year. As usual Trade is expected to dominate the discussions. After leaving Tokyo Sulu will Fly Home by Way of the Marshall islands which became an inc Pendani country in october i98fi. Makeshift aircraft Carrier British stunt Pilot Brendan o Brien to about to make a successful Landing on a runway hut is not Only much too Short but moving along at a merry clip. O Brien expertly Matching his Speed with thai of the truck pulled Oft the App told daredevil act As part of in International air show at Biggin Hill near London Ozal s attacker admits conspiracy paper says Ankara Turkey a the Man accused of trying to assassinate Premier Turgut Ozal said he was not acting alone a turkish newspaper reported monday. The Istanbul daily Hurriel did not say which group Kauai Demirag claimed to be working with or provide other details the newspaper said Demirag told police that he had planned to fire seven shots at owl and then kill himself with the remain ing Bullet. Authorities refused comment on the re port in Hurriel Winch is generally reliable a Al suffered a hand wound when he was shot saturday while giving a speech to a convention of his governing motherland party. Twenty other people were wounded As polio returned fire Hilling ire gunman. And bystanders fled. Ten of the injured remained hospitalized monday. The court examining the attempted assassination ordered police and slate officials to make no comment on the results of the investigation. The Ankara governor. Saffel Arikan Biduk who has been working with police on the Case told reporters monday he would not be Able to make any announce ments in accordance with the stale Security court s  turkish newspapers reported that Demi rag initially said he was acting alone. The reports said be had been a member of the youth organization of the now defunct Neo fascist National movement party. The youth group is known As the Gray wolves or the idealist clubs. Since saturday chief prosecutor Nusret Demirali and his assistants have been interrogating the 32-year-old to Mirage. The suspect was convicted of attempted murder last year and sentenced to id years in Anson Biduk said. He escaped from the minimum Security Mulla prison in Jan uary he added. The Ankara governor announced earlier that authorities were looking into Demirag s possible political connections. The Gray wolves were involved in a wave of terror ism by both right and left Wing groups that claimed  lives in 197b-80 and prompted a military takeover in 1980. Mechmet Ali Aga the turkish gunman who wounded Pope John Paul ii in 1481, was also accused of belonging to the Gray wolves and turkish newspapers on Mon Day pointed out similarities in the two men s cases. Roth came from lower class families escaped from prison and possessed fori Ign currency at the time of the shoot Ings the dailies said. Aga was captured in Istanbul in 1979 and was accused of killing a newspaper Edi Tor. He escaped from jail a few months later and was eventually sentenced to death in absent a. Aga maintained he acted alone when he attempted to kill the Pope. But his testimony later led to the indictment of three bulgarians and three turks on charges of conspiring to kill the polish bom pontiff. The six were acquitted later for Lack of evidence. Newspapers and opposition politicians Crivici de Ozal s bodyguards for their handling of the incident. The police bodyguards fired for about 30 seconds trying to hit the gunman. Sixteen bystanders suffered Bullet wounds and four other people were bruised in the Melee  
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