European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday August 24,1989 world today these ethnic turks Are among he Las allowed o enter without visas. Turkey is  train sen ice to Bulgaria on Friday to Stem the refugee flow into the country. Turkey severing bulgarian rail link Ankara Turkey a Turkey will close it railway link to Europe to prevent entry by ethnic turks travelling without visas from Bulgaria a foreign ministry spokesman announced wednesday. Spokesman mural Sungar told reporters that the train service would Slop on Friday and that All coun tries that would be affected had already been in formed. He said ethnic turks travelling aboard the train without visas before Friday would not be admitted Ither. The Only european train that travels daily betwee Munich West Germany and Istanbul goes through Austria Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. It is Turkey s Only outlet to those countries by rail. Bulgaria had been sending hundreds of ethnic turks daily on the train since May. Last week Turkey barred indefinitely the entry of a bulgarian train that had been carrying an average of 600 ethnic turks daily to this country. On tuesday Turkey began requiring visas for ethnic turks coming from Bulgaria. About 310,000 have flooded into Turkey in the past three months. The immigrants say they Are fleeing from a harsh assimilation Campaign in Bulgaria which among other things has included forced change of their mos Lem names to slavic ones. A group of 522 ethnic turks without visas were aboard the european train on tuesday. Turkish officials tried to turn them Back but later admitted them when they refused to go Back some attempting to jump from the windows of the train. Sungar said Turkey could review its decision if the Buganan government guaranteed that it would not Send immigrants without visas on the trains. The first immigrant from Bulgaria who crossed the Border with a valid visa said thousands of ethnic turks Are being kept wailing on the bulgarian Side of theron lick the sem official Anatolia news Agency reported on wednesday. Anatolia quoted Ahmei Durm Ushev As saying thai the would be immigrants were wailing in miserable conditions with Little water or  they cannot go Back they cannot go Forward. Some of them have sold their houses Durm Ushev told Anatolia. The dispatch said Durm Ushev had a 15 Day visa but did not intend to go Back. The dispatch quoting Border Post officials said the ethnic turks have to return when their visas expire unless they officially apply for Asylum in Turkey. In recent weeks some of the immigrants have gone Back to Bulgaria citing separation from family Mem Bers or difficulty in finding jobs and housing As the reason for returning. According to Border officials 2,000 ethnic turks have returned to Bulgaria. Sungar said there had been no immediate increase in the number of ethnic turks requesting visas at turkish consulates in Burgas Plovdiv and Sofia in Bulgaria. He added that the turkish consulates had been asked to process the visa requests rapidly giving prior Ity to those whose families have already come Over. The turkish government says an immigration agreement is urgently needed to protect the ethnic turks Legal rights including social Security benefits and compensation for property left behind. Bulgaria has refused to enter talks to discuss such an agreement. S. Korea cracking Down on sex service businesses Seoul South Korea a the govern ment launched a crackdown wednesday on barbershops disco clubs Massage Parlours and dance Halls thai provide sexual services or lewd performances officials said. Regulations will be tightened to allow officials to shut Down barbershops and Beauty Parlours providing sexual services they said. Many barbershops in South Korea employ female attendants to provide customers with sex Ual services. Some in downtown Seoul have showers and Beds hidden away in Back rooms for such purposes. Government officials said the crackdown also is aimed at disco clubs dance Halls and night clubs violating a ban on strip tease shows. Under tightened regulations they said dancers would be required to Register at District  wednesday tax offices vowed to closely examine night clubs and other sex related Busi Nesses to prevent tax evasion. Hong Kong to abolish flogging of criminals Hong Kong a the government wednesday announced it will abolish logging a criminal punishment once widely used in Hong Kong during the heyday of the British Empire. The use of the Cane already has declined markedly. Hong Kong courts ordered Only two floggings this year compared with 476 in 1952. Under local statutes Only men can be flogged and the instrument used shall be a Light Cane or Ratlan of a Type approved by the  the maximum number of strokes thai can be applied ranges from 18 for offenders aged 17 or older to six for offenders under 14 years. Offences that Ted to a caning sentence include indecent assault robbery rape of a woman younger than 16 and piracy. Most casings in the past decade have been for weapons Possession convictions. Philippine rebels free 11 inmates on prison bus Ozamis Philippines a communist re Bels freed three comrades and eight other prisoners by Way laying a prison bus with the help of a woman who faked extreme pain to Stop the vehicle on an isolated Highway police said wednesday. Three prison guards were killed in the attack police said. Three of the eight non communist prisoners surrendered to authorities a few hours  incident occurred tuesday on the out skirts of sin Caban town 15 Miles North of Oza mis seaport on Mindanao Island and 480 Miles Southeast of  bus was taking the prisoners All convicted of murder to Ozamis to Board a ship for Manila and a Transfer to the National prison there. Also aboard the bus were six guards and two women ostensibly seeing their husbands off. Official says american unvers by Beirut inseparable Amman Jordan Jap the Ameri can University of Beirut will never leave the lebanese capital despite fighting that has closed it for More than five months the school s chief administrator said. It will not exist anywhere else or. Ibrahim Salti said tuesday. The school s president Frederick p. Herter is based in new York because Lebanon remains off limits to Ameri cans. Salti now handles administration in Beirut. In an interview with the associated press the jordanian physician said that it would take decades to reproduce the programs Aub offers on its 73-acre sea Side Campus. He said that in the 123 years since it was founded by presbyterian missionaries american University has developed a close symbiotic relationship with Beirut that makes the City and Campus inseparable. The school which has educated Many of the Arab world s most prominent Fig ures was forced to suspend classes in March when heavy shelling erupted be tween syrians in West Beirut and the largely Christian army of Gen. Michel Aoun in East Beirut. Since then 70 shells have hit the Cam pus which is located in West Beirut Salti said. He said most of the damage was superficial and that none of the staff or 5,300 students had been killed largely because classes had been suspended. He said the University s 421-bcd hos Pital and medical school have continued to operate although a shortage of nurses has Cut operations by a third. The Amer ican University Hospital is by far Leb anon s largest and most sophisticated medical Center. Before the nation s civil War began in 1975, the Hospital was the most popular in the Middle East with people arriving from All Over the Region for treatment. Salti said the school had become used to the rounds of Battles and cease fires during the past 14 years but that inc current round of fighting was probably the most cruel and most protracted of the War scores of westerners have been kid napped or assassinated in Beirut in re cent years. There currently arc 16 westerners being held hostage in Lebanon eight of them Are americans. Three of the hostages were employed by american University Thomas Sutherland 58, scottish born acting Dean of agriculture was kidnapped june 9, 1985. American Joseph Cicippio 58, acting comptroller has been held since sept. 12, 1986 Brian Keenan 32, of British ruled Northern Ireland an English language teacher has been held since april 11,1986. The longest held captive is Terry an Derson 41, chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press who was kidnapped March 16,1985. Salt said that if the University can meet its sept. 11 target Date for starting classes or even one in october it should be Able to make up for the lost time by holding classes through scheduled Vaca Tion Breaks. If a cease fire is declared tomorrow in a few Days the Campus will be a Bee hive of activity again he said. Salti said the War has driven away nearly All of the foreign staff who once made up 30 percent of the faculty and has reduced non lebanese students to about 10 percent of enrolment but he said interest from non Leb anese students remains Strong partly be cause of the school s standards location and Low Cost. And despite All the problems facing american University its pre Mcd Stu dents recently scored above the . Average on the Standard american test used to rate qualifications for medical school Salti said