European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday january 17,1989 China Vietnam begin talks on conflict in Cambodia Beijing a China and Vietnam have begun talks on the cambodian conflict in the first face to face meeting of High level officials from the two coun tries in More than nine years. China s foreign ministry monday said first Deputy foreign minister Dinh Nho Liem of Vietnam was in Beijing for private consultations with chinese Vic foreign minister Liu Shuqing on a political settlement of the Kampuchea cambodian  neither China nor Vietnam would offer further de tails of the visit which both sides apparently tried to keep secret. Lick s arrival saturday was not reported by the chinese Media and his welcoming venue was changed in an apparent Effort to evade foreign journalists who had Learned he was on a commercial flight from bang Kok Thailand. East european sources said the talks would last a least several Days and cover the timetable for Viet Nam s troop withdrawal from Cambodia and that country s political future. Vietnam which invaded Cambodia in late 1978 to drive the pro chinese Khmer Rouge from Power claims it now has about 50,000 troops in Cambodia and has set september 1989 As a target Date for pulling out All its forces. China says previous vietnamese withdrawals were Mere troop rotations but it has called the recent announcement of the september withdrawal a  the East european sources speaking on condition Cool colossus he s not the abominable snowman but Adam a 71-foot-tall Snow figure who will be the guest of Honor at an upcoming festival in Hohen tavern Austria. Adam believed to be the largest Snow Man Ever built was sculpted by dutch tourist Orhan otay Over a 14-Day period. Of anonymity said discussions of Cambodia s political future will be More difficult. China has called for a coalition government led by resistance Leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk and including both the Vietnam backed faction of Heng Samrin and the Khmer Rouge. Vietnam wants Heng Samrin to have a major role inane future coalition government and demands Guaran tees that pol pot and other Khmer Rouge leaders held responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of cambodians during the Khmer Rouge s brutal four year Rule will be barred from positions of Power. The sources said China also is not interested in Dis cussing a visit by vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen co Thach until the vice minister level talks achieve positive results. China a staunch ally of Vietnam during the 1960sand 1970s, launched a 20-Day Border War against Viet Nam in Early 1979 to punish Vietnam for its inva Sion of Cambodia. There have been no direct senior level talks since and China has insisted Vietnam must first pull its troops out of Cambodia before Normal contacts can be resumed. China is the main arms supplier of the Khmer Rouge and other guerrilla forces fighting the Vietnam Ese. China has said Cambodia is the major obstacle to improved relations with Vietnam and that Vietnam must withdraw its troops As soon As possible. . Of continue Korea exercises Seoul South Korea a annual  korean military exercises will continue As Long As the South korean government wants them despite pro tests from the North a . Senator said monday. If the Republic of South Korea wants to change them we will discuss it but they have not wanted a change sen. Richard Lugar told reporters before Leav ing Seoul. Lugar ending a three Day visit on the last leg of a five nation asian tour that also took him to the Philippines Thailand Malaysia and Singapore said the annual exercises named team spirit served As a deterrent to a possible North korean invasion. The joint military training exercises have been con ducted in various parts of South Korea since 1976. Communist North Korea has objected to the exercises and has threatened to suspend All dialogue with South Korea unless they Are stopped. This year s exercises Are expected to begin late next month and continue until mid april. Team spirit is purely defensive and invitations have been extended every year for North Korea and China to observe it Lugar said. And North Korea also conducts naval exercises with the soviet  Lugar senior Republican member of the Senate for eign relations committee said the United states has no plan to reduce its military presence in South Korea unless the South korean government wants it to. About 42,000 . Troops currently Are stationed i South Korea under a 1954 defense treaty. World today radio review of play about suicide fools dozens Jerusalem a Israel s state run radio received dozens of phone Cal a from alarmed listeners after it broadcast a review of a new play in which a fictional israeli prime minister shoot himself officials said sunday. The report included parts of the play including one sequence in which a sports broadcaster covering a basketball game is suddenly interrupted with a news Flash. We have to Stop the broadcast of the Basket Ball game. A report received just now says that the prime minister was found tonight dead in his study. His personal handgun was on the floor nearby. A police spokesman said there was no doubt that the prime minister committed Sui cide the broadcaster says in the play. We received dozens of phone Calls from alarmed listeners in spite of the fact that at the Start of the review we warned that the report was Only fictional said Ziva Levin a spokeswoman for the Israel broadcast authority. High winds heavy Rains wreak havoc in Scotland Glasgow Scotland a High Windsand torrential rain swept across Scotland on sunday flooding roads and knocking out electric Power in several areas police and meteorologists said. The West Highland railway line North of Crianlarich 40 Miles North 01 Glasgow was closed by floodwater in three places sunday night and Power was off in the Remote Shetland islands 120 Miles off the northernmost tip of Scotland. The London weather Center said wind gusted to 80 Mph Over the Forth Road Bridge at Edinburgh to 114 Mph on Coll Firth Hill in the shetlands and to 130 Mph at the Summit of the 4,084-foot Cairn gorm Mountain in Centra Scotland. The automobile association reported several main roads and some minor ones closed by floodwater As the gales brought up to three inches of rain in 48 hours undermining Road Shoul Ders and bursting River Banks. Arranged marriages coming Back in China Beijing up in an alarming return Toan outlawed ancient custom Large numbers of children in Rural areas of East China Are being betrothed for marriages arranged by their parents As Early As Ages 7 or 8, an official newspaper said monday. The overseas edition of the people s daily the communist party newspaper said arranged child marriages have come Back into Vogue inthe Golden Delta area comprising the cities of Shanghai Nanjing and Hangzhou along the country s East coast. In one City in the Region the newspaper said More than 40 percent of the children Are already engaged. In another 86 percent of the Young sters under 14 Are engaged with the average betrothal age at 7 or 8 years old it said. The Legal marriage age in China is 20 for women and 22 for men but the government encourages people to marry late As part of it birth control policy. Many wait until they Are 27 or 28. Nicaraguans protest sandinista policies Managua Nicaragua a demonstrators carried a Black coffin bearing the initials of the ruling sandinista Kartyas thousands marched to protest policies they blame for civil War and a shattered Economy. We Don t want arms we want bread read one placard. Opposition United against hunger misery and corruption proclaimed another Banner. Nicaragua suffers inflation of More than 20,000 percent and shortages of most consumer goods including food Staples. Fourteen opposition parties several unions and private business representatives joined in the March called to commemorate the 1978 assassination of newspaper editor Pedro Joaquin Cha Morro. His death galvanized opposition to Anastasio Somoza s dictatorship toppled the next year by the leftist Sandi nistas. .-backed rebels known As con tras have been fighting the sandinista since 1982. Sunday s event turned into a hug anti sandinista demonstration drawing an estimated 5,000 people. No violence was reported. Each party has its own program but we re United against the sandinista government said Carlos Huembes presi Dent of the nicaraguan democratic coordinating committee which called the demonstration. President Daniel Ortega addressed crowd of several thousand government supporters less than a mile away at about the same time explaining a new austere economic policy that involves layoffs. He said the state would Lay off about half its workers estimated now to num Ber about 80,000. There would be no cuts in police he said. On dec. 31 he had said the defense budget would be cut40 percent. The 1989 budget was delayed and is still being considered by the National As Sembly. Demonstrators complained about eco nomic conditions saying they were not earning enough Money to pay for food much less clothing and Medicine. A nearly yearlong series of currency evaluations and increases in the govern ment set Price of fuel and transport aimed at stabilizing the Economy have instead yielded even higher consume prices. Ortega blames Nicaragua s economic plight on the War against the contras and on the battering the nation got in octo Ber from Hurricane Joan