European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday july 25,1988 thai . Troops hit Beach in joint exercise Satta hip Thailand a about 400 thai troopers and . Marines invaded a Beach in Central Thailand saturday in a joint military exercise condemned by Thailand s communist neighbors. The troops made the assault on Yao Beach in Chol Buri province 80 Miles South of Bangkok. The seventh annual joint Maneu vers called cobra Gold 88, involve about 15,000 military personnel. The Maneu vers Are scheduled to end aug. 2. Thailand is bordered on the East by the communist regimes of Cambodia and Laos. Vietnam sent More than 100,000 soldiers into Cambodia in late 1978 and replaced the Radical Khmer Rouge government with another communist administration. An Alliance of the Khmer Rouge and anti communist forces is waging guerrilla warfare against the vietnamese troops in Cambodia. William a. Brown the . Ambassador to thai land said of cobra Gold 88 the message is the . Military have a Good Security partner in the thais. Our intent remains As always to keep the peace to deter aggression and this is an important element of  Cambodia s official radio station on wednesday quoted a foreign ministry spokesman who denounced the .-thai exercises. It quoted the spokesman As saying aircraft tanks and armoured personnel carriers Are used which have occasionally intruded deep into cambodian Terri tory in violation of Cambodia s sovereignty and Tern tonal  Brown was asked about the complaints and he re plied the vietnamese say this is Saber rattling. It s no such  . Marines in amphibious Craft and firing their automatic weapons assault Yao Beach during joint exercises. Deal on bases no no no Aquino gives report on . Leases Manila Philippines a presi Dent Corazon Aquino says no secret agreement was reached a week ago with the visiting . Secretary of state on new leases for american military bases in the Philippines after 1991. Aquino made the remark saturday when asked to comment on statements by Secretary of state George Shultz that he was confident new agreements could be reached on the six . Bases. No no no Aquino said when asked by reporters if the Shultz re Mark indicated there had been any agreement reached during the Ameri can official s visit Here this month. The review is just concerned with the remaining years of the bases agreement she said. . And filipino negotiators have been meeting since april to review the status of the 1947 military bases agreement under which the United states maintains Clark a the naval facilities at Subic Bay and four smaller facilities. Shultz said last thursday in Hawaii that he was confident the oases would remain following talks he held with Aquino in Manila during an East asian tour. We re getting somewhere Shultz said. I m still bullish on the Phil  however the american official also said the United states has alternatives in Asia if forced to leave its former Colony. The philippine Constitution de clares that after 1991, no foreign bases will be allowed in the country unless provided for by a formal treaty to be ratified by two thirds of the 23 member philippine  to the bases is Strong in the Senate. Last month it approved Abill Banning nuclear weapons from the  legislation is pending in the philippine House of representatives. Turkey Greece naval communications station at Nea Makri military personnel 350 hell Nikon air base near Athens military personnel 1,400 naval support activities at Souda Bay Crete military personnel 150 her Klion air base at Bournes Crete military personnel 850 senators visiting Greece discuss lagging base talks Athens Greece a three vis iting . Senators on saturday held talks with Premier Andreas Papandreou on dragging negotiations for a new . Bases  sen. Richard c. Shelby from Alabama and Republican  Gramm of Texas and Steven d. Symms of Idaho met with the socialist Leader on a swing through Greece tur key and the soviet  Force undersecretary James Mcgovern on a separate visit to Greece joined the senators for the 70-minute  was in Greece for talks with senior defense ministry official son the free Transfer of 69 phantom War planes to the greek air Force from .air Force reserves. Government spokesman Sotiri Kostopoulos said Papandreou stressed during the meeting that a new agreement to continue the exis tence of the four . Bases would have to be approved by the greek people in a referendum. Negotiations for a new . Base agreement to replace an existing five year Accord that expires december 31,1988, Are moving More slowly than . Officials would  july 13, the government issued a formal shutdown notice for All .military bases operating in Greece. The notice a Legal formality is not expected to result in any of the bases being  insists that a new agreement should help solve Long running regional disputes with Turkey on the Cyprus problem but the United states does twant to link a new base Accord with regional  eighth round of -greek base talks was to begin monday in Athens. Burmese say foreign Trade curbs May end Rangoon Burma a Burma s leaders Are considering drastic changes in the country s rigid Economy including lift ing barriers to private foreign investment for the first time in a Quarter Century offi Cial burmese sources said sunday. The changes Are being debated at an extraordinary Congress of the ruling Burma socialist program party which convened for its second Day sunday. On the opening Day be win party chairman and Burma s strongman for the past 26 years announced he was retiring from politics and called for a popular referendum that could end one party Rule in the country. Five other Veteran leaders close to be win also offered their resignations. Sources at the Congress said among the proposals being considered Are an almost wholesale pullout of the government from economic sectors it once tried to manage with disastrous results. These include Agri culture fishing forestry mining heavy Industry Trade and transportation. The sources who asked not to be identified said that proposals include joint ventures Between private Domestic and private foreign investors which be win has steadfastly opposed since seizing Power in a 1962 military coup. The proposals also Call for necessary Laws to Safe guard private investment in the country which is one of the world s richest in resources while poorest in income. The sources said the proposals include a total lifting of state controls on agriculture and fisheries. The government would reportedly Only retain its monopoly on teak in the forestry sector Petroleum natural Gas and gems in mining armaments production in heavy Industry and airlines and railways in the transportation sector. The proposals if approved would end the current state monopoly on both for eign and Domestic Trade and would Legal ize the vast Cross Border Black Market Trade with neighbouring countries. News of both the possible economic changes and the resignation of be win and other leaders has spread quickly through this capital of 3.5 million  77-year-old be win cited old age and indirect responsibility for blood anti government rioting in March and june for his decision to step Down