European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday september 23,1989 colombian Justice minister has resigned radio reports Monica de Gruiff. 3 months on the Job Bogota Colombia a Justice minister Mon Ica de Gre if who travelled to the United Stales to seek Protection for judges under death threats from colom Bian drug lords resigned thursday Afler three months on the Job. A radio Chain reported. De Cir Ciff. A 32-\car-old lawyer has been threatened with death since she signed an extradition order that brought alleged drug Money launderer Eduardo Marti Nez Romero to Atlanta on sept. 6 to face . Charges. The report by radio Caracol could not be con firmed late thursday at either the presidential Palace or the Justice ministry. Her resignation has been re Mored almost since she look inc Post july 16. Radio Caracol. Quoting unidentified sources said she handed a letter of resignation to president Virgilio Bare. Who offered her the ambassadorial Post in por Tugal. She reportedly declined. Official confirmation has to be made by Barco. The presidential Palace said. The press office at the Palace neither denied nor confirmed the report. She travelled to Washington in August amid a series of reports she had resigned. Bui she repeatedly denied those reports one of which was by Caracol. In Washington she met with . Government officials and won a pledge of $19 million to provide Secu Rity for the hundreds of colombian judges under death threats from drug traffickers. Reports say she left her 3-year-old son in the United states because he was also threatened by death. Barco declared War on the cocaine cartels after the aug. 18 assassination of leading presidential candidate sen. Luis Carlos Galan. A staunch enemy of drug Deal ers. Barco then decreed emergency measures empowering him to bypass Congress to extradite colombians to the United states. Only Martinez Romero accused of being the my Del Lin Cartel s financier has been extradited. Top drug Barons remain at Large. V my kit Immke Mem i. I a British prime minister Margaret Thatcher with vice president Qun be before he conference opened in Tokyo. North Korea s fanaticism poses threat Quayle says Panmunjom North Korea a vice president Dan Quayle on thursday visited . And South korean troops near the demilitarized zone and denounced communist North Korea As a fanatical dictatorship. Quayle who donned a . Army camouflage jacket at one Point inspected a Tunnel under the demilitarized one that was unearthed in 1978 and said North Korea posed a grave threat to South Korea. If anybody thinks North Korea is a passive nation. I suggest they go Down and visit this la incl. I think it shows the fanaticism of that country and How far they Are willing to go to Export destabilization he said. The la incl one of several discovered by South korean and . Troops leads from the North into the South under the demilitarized zone dividing inc nations. South korean officials say the a unnels were to be used in the event of an invasion. Quayle visited the demilitarized zone on the last Day of his visit to South  then flew to Tokyo where he met briefly with prime minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain who is there on an official Visil to attend a reception for the Start of the International democratic Union conference. Quayle and Thatcher were to speak on Friday at the three Day gathering of 27 conservative parties from 26 democratic nations and meet with a wide array of leaders. Quayle began a 10-Day tour of four asian nations on tuesday. I be also plans to Visil the Philippines and malay  korean soldiers photographed Quayle and his wife. Marilyn when they visited the Border truce Vil Lac at Panmunjom on  korean officers came out of their Pavilion to take notes and watch the Quay los. Who stared Back com a lower on the . Side of the compound. North korean loudspeakers along the a Militari de zone trumpeted songs and propaganda. The vice president repeated  that the United states will keep it 3,000 troops in South Korea. Quayle had lunch with Aboul 100 american soldiers. World Toda 5-Day namibian elections scheduled to Start nov. 7 Windhoek. Namibia a the elections that will set the stage Tor Namibia s Independence will Lake place Over five Days starting nov. 7. And results Are expected to be announced nov. I the territorial radio reported Friday. Ten parties have registered thus far to com Pete in the .-supervised elections for seals in an Assembly that will draft a Constitution for the new nation. Independence is expected sometime Early next year. The South West Africa people s organization which waged a 23-year guerrilla War against South african Rule of Namibia is favored to Oul poll the other panics but needs two thirds of the Voles in order to have full control Over the Assembly. About 700,000 people have registered to vote and registration ends saturday. Spanish postal workers protest bombing death Madrid. Spain a a terrorist parcel bomb blast that killed a mailman prompted Sev eral thousand Post office workers across the nation Friday to take pan in peaceful Street pro tests against the killing and a recent rash of similar bombings police and Union spokesmen said. The protests came a Day after Basque separatist sym Alhi cars in the mailman s Hometown of run Tycria. A town near the Basque City of Sansebastian attacked Madrid government officials who attended the slain Man s funeral. Meanwhile police Friday continued to investigate the parcel bombing in run Tycria that killed the 22-year-old mailman wednesday As he sought to place a package in an apartment mail Box. No group has claimed responsibility. Cattle Medicine suspected in deaths of 6 people Dhaka Bangladesh up medical experts suspected and a government official denied that a huge Quantity of cattle do warm ing Medicine dumped in two villages has killed six people and sickened 300 others. Medical experts hired by the government to determine the cause of the disease said their primary Assumption was the illness was caused by a huge Quantity of cattle a worming Medicine dumped in two villages of Pythia subdistrict. The experts said the outdated a worming Medicine mixed with the canal water that is n major source of water used by the villagers in bathing and household chores. But an official of Floc livestock directorate in Dhaka on thursday dismissed the experts claim that the illness was caused by Walcer polluted by the dumped cattle Medicine. Mexico will sell share of its Telephone monopoly Mexico City the mexican government announced wednesday thai it would sell its majority stake in Tel Fonos do Mexico the nation s struggling Telephone monopoly to private inter ests. At a news conference in Mexico City on wednesday the minister of communications and transport Andres Caso Lombardo said the mexican slate has decided that the indispensable expansion and modernization of Tele Binos do Mexico should be carried out by Means of the internal resources the company itself generates and through private  Caso Lombardo said inquiries about Tel Max As the giant and highly profitable Utility is known had already been received from ., european and japanese companies. The government did not make it immediately Clear How much of its 51 percent share in Tel mex would be sold