European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and strikes thursday november 24,1985 sex Leader gives Korea apology Money Seoul South Korea a former president Chun Doo Hwan apologized to the nation wednesday for human rights abuses and corruption under his harsh Rule and said he was surrendering millions of dollars no pained and ashamed of my past Chun said in a nationally televised 30-Minulc address. He said he was taking responsibility for Al misdeeds under his Rule and he ended by saying my dear people i am really  about to Radical students Smiet with Iron rods and firebombs tried to break through thousands of riot police around Chun s House in Seoul after he spoke apparently to Slop him from leaving but Chun already had left for Rural exile. The students shouted arrest Chun Doo Hwan As police dispersed them. Yon Hap the South korean news Agency said Chun and Iii wife were ring to a Buddhist monastery in the mountains cast of Seoul. Rural exile is a traditional korean form of atonement for disgraced officials. Many koreans have been demanding Chun be arrested and tried for abuses and corruption during his seven year term which ended in february. Opposition groups staged violent protests As anger Over Chun mounted. President Roh Tae woo another former general arid associate of Chun must somehow satisfy Public Indig nation against Chun while distancing his government from past abuses. Some opposition groups have called for Roll s Resig nation or overthrow contending the government i front for military Rule and part of the system reeled by Chun the 57-year-old Bun said wednesday that he was surrendering All his personal property including his House and land about $3.3 million in Cash and membership in two country clubs. Chun also said he was returning about $20 million in surplus political funds left Over at the end of his term. He said he did not have any property or Money hidden overseas even though he knew Many people would not believe him. This is All i have. There is nothing hidden he said. Chan a former general took Power with military backing in 1580. He has denied any personal corruption but about a dozen of his relatives and associates have been convicted or charged with embezzlement and other crimes. Hordes of starving aussie rabbits stripping Outback of vegetation Sydney aus Rafia a Mil Lions of starving wild rabbits Are eating their Way across the Outback like a furry Carpel stripping it Bare of vegetation in one of the worst Rabbit plagues on re Cord officials said wednesday. The plague follows a we Klong drought and Farmers said dead and dying rabbits were filling dried River Beds and water holes. Scientists from the South australian stale government s animal and Plant control commission said they were try ing to measure the ecological Impact of the infestation which has ravaged thou Sands of Square Miles of the sparsely populated Outback. News reports said the rabbits were so desperate for food and water they were Licking plates left by campers. The Quin iambic cattle station Sev eral Hundred Miles North of Adelaide said it was overrun with rabbits. Or. Brian Cooke the commission s senior research officer estimated 24 million rabbits invaded the ranch. Bui Ron Hyde manager of the 2, Quiny Ambie station on the Border Between the slate of South Australia and new South Wales said he thought the estimate was Low some areas of inc ground Are virtually moving around Here. There Are so Many of them he said by radiotelephone. Every Inch of Shade beneath Trees and Bushes and by Fence posts is packed with rabbits. Trying to escape thc.sun.". Cooke said it was the worst plague on record. I be never seen anything like it he said describing a Field trip where he saw thousands of rabbits huddled in the Shade to escape the 11 5-Dcgrec summer heal. Rabbits introduced by inc first european settlers 200 years ago took to Australia because it has no natural predators. They became one of the worst pests on the Island continent. The latest outbreak follows two years of heavy Rains said Cooke. Efforts to eradicate rabbits with the viru myxomatosis waned As the animals became immune he said. He said that the explosion in Rabbit numbers began in a  mainly pastoral Region in far. .".,  i  Al t-.in3hf hungry wild rabbits swarm across an Are new Adelaide Northeast South Australia and part of new South Wales and that the animals arc moving South where in is  s wild Rabbit population is estimated to exceed 200 million or about 13 rabbits for every australian according to the government funded Bureau of agricultural and resource economics. Rabbits Cost Australia millions of dollars a year in lost agricultural production the Bureau said. They pro Duce is to seven litters a year bearing about five to six offspring each Lime. The drought has left rabbits High and dry said Cooke. They be eaten the place out. Millions of them Are dropping dead. They have eaten our Alt the Vegetationhe said without successful regeneration these areas will be come increasingly treeless with no feed and shelter for Stock and wildlife during the drought years commercial shooters Are having a Field Day on Shequin iambic ranch shooting up to soviets ask japanese to join Auto venture Tokyo athe soviet Union Haap preached japanese automakers about a joint venture operation in that communist country that would produce 300,000 passenger cars a year a major economic newspaper said wednes Day. -. V the Nisba Meizai so imbue said the soviet automotive Industry ministry made the request recently to two separate groups of japanese Aulo makers and trading companies the Mitsubishi corp and Mitsubishi motors corp., and the mar Beni corp. And Suzuki motor co. The soviet proposal Calls far setting up a new joint venture automobile Plant or for the Japa Nese to merely provide the manufacturing technology the report said. It said the plan would initially produce sub compact cars with an engine capacity of 800 cubic Cunti Tilers beginning in Early 1990, an later a car with a i too cubic cent meter engine. The annual production target eventually would be 300,000 cars. Danes jolted by e. Germans on nato project Copenhagen. Denmark up1 Denmark s military found. To its horror that an East German transport company was helping build hangars designed to hide nato aircraft from Warsaw pact attack a military spokesman said wednesday. We thought we had asked an austrian firm to do the Job so we went somewhat shocked to find an East German truck on site said la col Egon Beck the com Mander of Denmark stirs Wpafb. The mistake was discovered in Early november when two East germans in Abig truck arrived at the Torstrup base Complex. Beck said. When challenged the two produce documentation proving that their com Pany had been hired to transport Materi als to danish military Sites for the build ing of nato s new Bombproof hang in the country. Luckily we detected 4he mistake since i la bet my Bottom Dollar that the two men were under orders Beck said. The East German were ordered off the site and asked to unload their consignment outside the perimeter Fence. Someone somewhere roust have been fast asleep. Obviously there s something wrong in asking a Warsaw pact company to help build secret nato military i Ulalla. Lions said Svend Andreason manager of the wok military entrepreneurs. A spokesman for Denmark s military intelligence said wednesday thai both wok and the Royal danish air Force have been asked to make sure a similar mistake is not made again. Nato is in the process of building 71 hangars at several sties around Denmark. They Are designed for use by foreign squad Rons earmarked for the reinforcement of Denmark in  War