European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday May 16, 1989 updates s. Korea protest Seoul South Korea a thousands of people marched in the Southern City of Kwangju on Mon Day to protest the death of a dissident student rejecting Laboratory tests that indicated he died by drowning. Witnesses said about 10.000 demonstrators marched past lines of hot police guarding government offices in Kwangju a provincial capita about 168 Miles Southwest of Seoul. Riot troopers armed with Shields and truncheons watched but did not Block the March pro testing the death of Lee Chol Kyu 24, whose body was found last wednesday in a Reservoir near Kwangju they said. Dissidents claim that police had tortured and killed Lee and that authorities were covering it up by distorting pathological tests. Scots take credit London a scottish nationalists blew up a Stone crushing Plant because the Quarry where it was located was going to be used As a nuclear waste dump an Anonymous Telephone caller claimed on sunday. Police have not commented on the cause of the fire saturday night that destroyed the four Story Plant at the Gle Sanda Granite Quarry near the scottish town of Oban on the Movern Peninsula. There were no injuries. Press association the Domestic news Agency said it received a Call at its London office from a Man who claimed the Plant was bombed by the scottish National liberation army. The caller said the Plant was at tacked because the Quarry was to be used for the disposal of civilian and military nuclear waste. Storms bring deaths Dhaka Bangladesh a rainstorms swept through Northern Bangladesh causing houses to col lapse killing at least eight people and leaving 45 others missing officials and news reports said sunday. The rainstorms come after weeks of drought and a heat wave in the Region. The heat wave caused at least 45 deaths and More than 100 others died of diarrhoea contracted by drinking contaminated water newspapers said. Bangladesh one of the poorest count pcs in the world with an an Nual per capita income of Only $160, alternates Between devastating drought and floods. Last month president Hussai Mohammad Ershad led nation wide prayers for Rains to ease the drought. The Rains came but they were accompanied by a Tornado that killed at least 1,100 people. Last summer More than 1,400people died when Monsoon swollen Rivers burst their Banks. Dam work on hold Budapest Hungary a the hungarian government has announced the immediate suspension of All work on a controversial scheme to build a dam and Power station on the Danube River. The suspension had been widely expected after a government com Mission on Friday recommended Ahalt to work on the nag Maros dam some 30 Miles upstream from Budapest. After a rare saturday Cabinet meeting Deputy prime minister Peter Medgyessy said on hungarian television that a study will be made to examine the financial Legal and ecological implications of continuing the nag Maros project. Second Chance offer to enrol in new go Bill ends on june 30 by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington  who did not sign up for the new i Bill when they first enlisted have until the end of june to reconsider concessional and military officials said monday. Congress concerned that the services May not have publicized the program Well enough during its three year trial passed a Law last year providing a second Chance to sign up for some personnel who declined to enrol during their Ini tial three weeks of recruit training. Under the Law the second Chance offer applies Only to  who joined the military Between june 1985 and july 1988 and have been on continuous Active duty since their enlist ment the official said. The program be came permanent in july 1988. The window of Opportunity for enrolment began dec. I and will end june 30, said a staffer with the House Veter ans affairs committee which had pushed for the action at the urging of its chairman rep. . Sonny Mont Gomery a miss. Recruits who enrol in the program during Basic training pay $100 per month for the first 12 months of their enlistment. In return the military pays them up to $10,800 toward College Tui Tion and expenses. Servic members who take advantage of the second Chance to sign up still will have to pay $ 1.200 to receive the Bene fits a Pentagon education official said. The services Are being flexible about the payments the official said. Mem Bers could make the payment in one Lump sum or it could be spread out Over a number of months. The Only stipulation is that members must have paid the $1.200 before they separate from Active duty in order to use the  of the 940,000 recruits who enlisted Between june 1985 and dec. 1, 634,600 signed up for the new i Bill. Recruits still on Active duty dec. I and eligible for a second Chance at enrolling totalled 220,500. The congressional budget office Esti mates that about 10 percent will take advantage of the second Chance offer to use the i Bill. The Pentagon opposed the second Chance provision on the grounds that costs would Rise because service contributions to the program would have to be paid to More people. Supporters of the second Chance concept admitted that the i Bill would Cost the government Money As Scricc Mem cars begin using their benefits but the reasoned that better educated veterans Wilt land higher paying jobs and give More taxes to the government than they would have without the additional Edu cation. House speaker Jim Wright. A Texas has estimated that the ratio of tax dollars coming Back to the government is. Money paid out in education benefits is 20to i. The Vietnam Era i Bill generally provided up to 48 months of tuition assist Ance for veterans who enlisted before dec. 31, 1976. Until the Start of the pre sent i Bill in 985, service members were covered by the veterans education assistance program under which the government contributed $2 for every $ i a  set aside for education. However the program limited the government payout to $8,100. Gens Fier presses drive for forum to Cut number of Short Range missiles Bonn West Germany a for eign minister Hans Dietrich guns Char claimed monday that West Germany s position must carry a special weight in the decision on whether to upgrade nato Short Range missiles. In an interview with radio Luxem Bourg Genscher pressed his Campaign for convening soon a superpower disarmament forum aimed at reducing the number of Short Range missiles based in Europe. Most of the nato Short Range rockets arc based in West Germany and Bonn officials have called for postponement of the upgrading project As Well As for the new round of talks. Guns Char said that along with the americans West germans make the larg est contribution to nato defences and therefore it is perfectly Normal for the West German government s View to carry a Cor responding weight in the  the United states and Britain wan full Alliance support for the project to be shown during the nato Summit in Brussels May 29-30. But West Germany has been holding firm to its position that the superpower should be working to reduce the weapons before moving to upgrade them and the Short Range Issue now threatens to Domi Nate the meeting in two weeks of the 16 nato nation leaders. The Western Alliance devised a plan five years ago to replace aging Lance nuclear missiles by 1995 with new weapons that have More than triple the Range of the Lance systems. A go ahead vote on modernization had been expected at the Brussels Summit but West Germany has insisted that the Deci Sion be put off for at least two years. Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Gunsch or have called on the United states and the soviet Union to open talks on reducing the number of Short Range missiles. But Washington has tied those negotiations to a balance of nato and Warsaw pact conventional armed forces. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has begun pulling Back 50,000 Kremlin troops and 5,000 tanks from Eastern Europe but . Officials contend that the West s troops will remain widely out numbered. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze stepped up the pressure on Washington last week when he threat ened a possible breach of the 1987 inter mediate Range nuclear forces treaty if nato goes ahead with modernization. After repeatedly calling for Short Range talks Shevardnadze deemed the modernization project a Western attempt to re cover some of the striking Power negotiated away under the inf treaty. He likened the planned Lance replace ment missiles to the Kremlin s ss-23,which is being dismantled under the inf treaty. He said a nato move to go ahead with the Lance replacement project would prompt the Kremlin to consider halting the is 23 destruction or devel Oping a new missile to replace it. Spanish police rout Rota protesters naval station Rota Spain a protesters demanding the Dis mantling of . Bases in Spain tried Togo Over a Wall and into a .-Spanish naval base but they were turned Back by local Spanish police using clubs rubber bullets and tear Gas police said. No arrests or injuries were reported in sunday s confrontation. The roughly 400 protesters Many with their faces covered were among about 5.000 people police said had marched on the joint use base. March organizers Esti mated the crowd at 15.000, but a spokeswoman at naval station Rota said the number of protesters was closer to 2,000. The marchers were turned away from the front Gate without incident the Rota spokeswoman said. Many of the marchers shouted anti nato slogans. Some walked nearly 10 Miles to the base from the town of puerto do Santa Maria. Others took buses to within a mile of the base the spokeswoman said. The Atlantic coast base i about 50 Miles North of the Strait of Gibraltar. There Are 9,000 .  civilian employees and family members at naval station Rota the spokeswoman said. The March was organized by regional pacifist groups. Spain and the United states signed a new eight year pact on dec. I that Man dates removal of 72 . F-16 fighter bombers from Spanish soil by 1992. The new agreement reduces the Maxi mum number of . Troops allowed to be stationed in Spain by 36 percent from 12,545 to 8,078. Although it is a member of the Nort Atlantic treaty organization Spain re Mains outside the Alliance s military command Structure. Cafes seeks summer Job applications Munich West Germany is applications Are now being accepted for the cafes Europe summer work pro Gram which is open to Young people be tween the Ages of 14 and 21. The Job program is open to family members of All Active duty military personnel appropriated fund and non appropriated fund civilian employees and employees of agencies providing logistical support to the . Military. Parental consent is necessary for applicants under 18. Applicants must have a valid social Security number. Last year cafes Europe provided More than 1,500 summer jobs. This Yea the program will run from june 19 to aug. 25. To apply or for More information Contact your local Exchange personnel of \ fice