European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday september 21, 1989 Quayle says . Troops to stay in s. Korea Seoul South Korea a vice president Dan Quayle wednesday said . Forces will remain in South Korea to Block threats from communist North Korea which he said remains a major threat to peace in the Region. Quayle also Mcl with a lop opposition Leader who says the government is waging a Campaign against Dis sent. . Officials said privately that Quayle told South korean officials to respect human rights. The vice president also discussed South Korea s Trade surplus with the United states which has caused friction Between the two governments. The Bush administration wants South Korea to lift restrictions on . Imports. Quayle said the Bush administration remained committed to keeping . Forces in South Korea at existing Levels despite Calls by some us. Lawmakers for troop cuts or a phased withdrawal. The United states has 43,000 troops in South Korea under a Mutual defense treaty. Our commitment to Korea s Security remains unwavering. . Forces will remain in Korea As Long As our two nations want them and As Long As they can contrib Ute to peace and  Quayle said in a speech to the korean newspaper editors association. Quayle claimed North Korea poses a threat to South Korea s Security and the soviet Union has been helping to bolster the North s military capability with advanced new weapons. He said soviet Aid to North Korea cast doubt on the soviet Union s claims to want peace and stability in the Region. The North retains an extraordinary willingness to use Force and terrorism against the South he said. Radical students staged scattered protests against Quayle s visit for a second Day. About so students chanted get out Quayle at Sung Yunkwan univer sity in Seoul but did not clash with police. About 400 students Yelling anti american slogans battled riot police with firebombs and rocks at Kyong Bok University in the Central City of Tanju police said. Quayle assured president Roh tac woo and other South korean leaders in private meetings that the Bush administration will keep its forces in South Korea . Officials said. Some . Lawmakers have called for troop cuts saying South Korea is capable of defending itself. South korean leaders insist . Forces arc vital in preventing a North korean attack. But dissident groups have been calling for the immediate withdrawal of . Troops and an end to close ties with the United states. Quayle on the first leg of an asian trip that will also take him to Japan the Philippines and Malaysia also praised the South korean people for their efforts to build a democracy after years of authoritarian Rule. He praised Roh for helping bring in Broad democratic re forms. . Officials who declined to be named said Quayle urged South korean officials privately to respect human rights and avoid the abuses of past regimes. The United Stales has expressed concern Over the arrests of hundreds of anti government dissidents in recent months. Two dissidents Kim Dong Gil and Park Hyung Kyu were invited to have breakfast with Quayle along with a selection of other South korean opinion  the dissidents criticized the Roh government at the meeting with Quayle but . Officials would give no details. News updates boat people influx Hong Kong up the British foreign office minister responsible for Hong Kong said tuesday the Only solution to a massive influx of vietnamese boat people into the Colony was to Send them Back to Vietnam Francis Maude minister of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairs said Britain was negotiating with Vietnam on a program to Send Back tens of thousands of boat people living in the Colony s cramped refugee Camps. We Are working very hard to find a lasting solution which can Only involve the sending Back to Vietnam those people screened out he said. However it takes two parties for repatriation n sender and a  about 55,000 vietnamese arc languishing in the Colony s Over crowded detention centers. More than 32,000 vietnamese have sailed into Hong Kong so far this year. Brady s arms plea Pittsburgh a the government should Burn All semiautomatic weapons said former presidential press Secretary James Brady who was disabled eight years ago during an assassination attempt on then president Reagan we be stopped the importation of semiautomatic weapons Brady told reporters monday. But we Haven t gone All the Way. At some Point you be got to put your foot out there and draw a line in the Sand and say no More " Brady 48. Was in Pittsburgh to Honor Westinghouse electric corp. For its sponsorship of a pro Gram to help the disabled. A Bullet fired by John Hinckley pierced the right Side of Brady s brain. He now is vice president of the National organization on Dis ability and has lobbied for gun control. Correction the Man named to replace Tom Row Ley As principal of Munich High school was misidentified in yesterday s  Tom an assistant principal at Gen. Maxwell d. Taylor High school in Zama Japan has been named to the Post. N. Korea May develop nuclear bomb London up North Korea May be Able to develop its own nuclear device within five years and possibly produce a deliverable bomb soon afterwards Jane s defense weekly reported wednesday. The authoritative British publication which specializes on military and Intelli gence affairs said that although information on North Korea s capability is scant Jane s said it already has sufficient soviet technology a declassified Model of a 1956 British Power station and at least one mine producing uranium. At the current rate of Progress it could produce a nuclear device an experimental non deliverable system within five years and a deliverable nuclear bomb shortly thereafter Jane s said. Despite its propaganda offensive de Claring the desirability of turning the korean Peninsula into a nuclear free Rone As Well As a zone free from Chemi Cal weapons North Korea s capabilities could affect the balance of Power in the Northeast asian Region it said. In the mid-1970s, North Korea in stalled two soviet supplied research re actors to produce radioactive isotopes for Medicine and Industry at its new nuclear research facility near Yon Byon about 56 Miles North of the North korean capital of Pyongyang. Jane s said North Korea began to expand the facility with a larger reactor that is believed to have started operating in october 1987. After the United states showed con Cern about the project when it was about half finished the soviets convinced North Korea to accept the conditions of a non proliferation treaty and placed the facility under International inspection. By accepting the treaty North Korea was Able to reach an agreement with the soviet Union to construct a nuclear Power Plant. According to Jane a the Plant May be built on a site being pre pared in North Ham Gyong province. In addition . Satellite photograph detected four of five additional facilities under construction in the Yon Byon area. It said that North Korea had established a nuclear Power Industry ministry in 1986. Jane s said there was concern about North korean espionage at South korean nuclear plants and in one instance in 1983, a bungled attempt to sabotage Canadian built nuclear Power station in South Korea. Truck Drivers end Brenner pass blockade Bolzano Italy a italian truck Drivers ended a week old blockade at the Brenner pass Border crossing into aus Tria on wednesday after customs officials began delivering permits granting transit through Austria. However traffic at Italy s busiest Bor Der crossing remained snarled because of several Hundred trucks still parked along the approaches to the pass. Drivers who abandoned the vehicles during the blockade arc Rushing Back. The situation will be Back to Normal by tomorrow said a customs police officer in i Pinteno. Drivers began the blockade which slowed passenger traffic and hindered shipments of goods Between Italy and Northern Europe to protest an austrian slowdown in granting transit permits. Italian transportation minister Carlo Bernini said the granting of additional transit permits will be negotiated with his austrian counterpart next  he said that in the future most freight traffic will have to be switched from the Road to railroads. More than 230,000 trucks arc allowed to Cross into Austria every year with the permits that austrian authorities Grant on a quarterly basis. Italian truck Drivers already had exceeded the limit for the july september Quarter. Anita the powerful association of200,000 italian truckers warned that new protests could begin in october if the italian government fails to negotiate a satisfactory solution with the Austri b-52 explosion linked to faulty plug san Antonio a the air Force tuesday said failure to remove an improperly manufactured vent plug Dur ing refuelling of a b-52 bomber led to a fuel spill and explosion in july that killed one person and injured 11. The vent plug used during pressure checks was mistakenly left in place Caus ing Over pressurization and a spill said maj. Gen. Richard d. Smith of the air Force logistics come at Kelly fab. In Layman s terms we filled up a bal Loon and there was no place for the air to go and it ruptured Smith said. Jesus Pedraza a worker was killed and three of 11 injured people were hospitalized after the july 24 nighttime Acci Dent. The lengthy Accident investigation re port on the fire did not determine a cause of the Blaze which charred the b 52, one of several aircraft serviced at Kelly and did total damage estimated at $ 15.8 million according to the report. Smith said a differently designed vent plug was used at Kelly before the Acci Dent. Although air Force technical data has indicated that the design was faulty that was not determined until after the explosion he said. A new design is now used on vent plugs at Kelly Smith said. Navy names Sailor killed in 3-car crash Nas Simonella Sicily is the Navy on wednesday released the name of an american Sailor killed Sun Day in a three car Accident. A Navy spokesman said Petty officer 3rd class Michael a. Ritchie 20, of Pond jct on ore., died when the car he was Riding in was struck by another vehicle about seven Miles South of Catania Sicily. Ritchie an aviation structural me chanic was assigned to Fleet logistic support so 24 at Simonella. He is sur Vived by his Mother Christine Way Bridge also of Pendleton. Ritchie was Riding in the rear scat of the car driven by Seaman Walter r. Comic 20, who also is assigned to the support Squadron. Comic received minor injuries in the crash. His 19-year-old wife Lisa who was Riding in the front scat was critically injured and is being treated in a cat Ania Hospital. She was listed in stable condition wednesday. A passenger in the second car is in serious but stable condition in a local Hospital. The italian Driver of the car involved was slightly injured. The Accident occurred when the ital Ian car struck the american s car push ing it into an unoccupied parked car