European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes tuesday january 9,1990 s. Korean radicals Burn . Envoy s effigy Seoul. South Korea a Radical students hurling firebombs burned Effi Gies of . Ambassador Donald Gregg and president Rah tac woo monday inthe provincial City of Kwangju. Where Gregg was visiting reports said. About 500 Radical students Yelling anti american slogans hurled firebombs and rocks at 900 combat Clad riot police outside the main Gate of Chosun univer sity reported Yon Hap he South Korea news Agency. Two Black armoured vans fired volleys of tear Gas shells to break up a Campus rally but groups of students and riot police clashed in hand to hand fighting in Side the Campus for More than an hour. Yon Hap said. Gregg holding a news conference in a downtown Holczl apparently did not Sec the fighting news reports said. Gregg came Here under a scheme with Roh tac woo trying to unilaterally Shelve the Kwangju Issue yelled a Stu Dent Leader at the rally Yon Hap said. Gregg was the first . Ambassador to visit Kwangju. A provincial City 155 Miles South of Seoul since a 1980 civil uprising in which 200 were killed and 1.500 injured. The students vowed to continue their struggle to overthrow Ron s government and punish the United states which the claim played a role in the uprising. Many Kwangju citizens believe the United states condoned the mobilization of the South korean Militar to putdown unrest and silence government Dis Scal. The United states has repeatedly denied the allegations but Gregg s predecessors avoided the City apparently for fear of anti american violence. I came Here not to make an apology but to express regret and condolences to Kwangju citizens Gregg told the new conference according to Yon Hap which said he denied any . Involvement in putting Down the uprising. Gregg reportedly told journalists the United states urged the South korean government in 1980 to Settle the protest sin Kwangju peacefully but our influence was not enough Over the South korean  anti american sentiment is Strong in Kwangju and the . Cultural Center has been attacked by Radical students 28 times since 1980. It was closed last year after . Officials expressed concern for the safety of the staff. Gregg arrived in Kwangju on Sunda for a three Day stay. Last week the . Embassy issued a statement rejecting for Mer president Chun Doo Hwan s refer ence to an alleged . Role in the Kwangju incident. Chun said in parliamentary testimony dec. 31 that he then an army Genera decided on the military suppression of the uprising after receiving information from the United states that the military threat from communist North Korea was increasing. The . Embassy said the United tales did not Sec any evidence of height ened threat from North Korea at the time. Comedian Terry Thomas at 78 of Parkinson s disease London a Terry Thomas the Gap Toothe comedian who played la c cad in dozens of British and american films including those magnificent men i their flying machines died monday at age 78. Terry Thomas disabled and impoverished by Par Kinson s disease died of complications from the illness at a nursing Home in Godalming. Surrey according Toan announcement from the Parkinson s disease Socie  Star of films including i m All right Jack and it s a mad mad mad mad world had been Tooill to attend a gala Benefit in his Honor in London last april which raised s51.000 for his  battled the degenerative muscle Dis ease since 1971 and had been unable to work for sever Al years. His last film roles included the last remake of Beau Gisle in 1977 and the hound of the Bas scr Villas in 1978.a a Gar Kllc Holder a Well brushed Mustache and the Gap Between his upper front Teeth were Terry Thomas signatures. He was often the upper class cad or Bounder murmuring Jolly Good show such As his role As sir Percy in those magnificent men in their flying a  once denied that he was typically  that makes me a bit of a Sham i suppose. Because As you know i have made All my Money or most of it anyway by sending up pompous englishmen he  was bom Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens on july 14. 1911 and took his first two names for stage us until too Many people thought he was related to actress Ellen Terry. His first film appearance was in Heller shelter in1949. Terry Thomas career took off in 1956 with the role of a commanding officer in the farce privates Progress which required him to handle tines such As you re an  he appeared in the Green Man the same year and then in 1957teamed with Ian Carmi Chaco in Brothers inlaw and Lucky  in 1958 he appeared with Peter Sellers in Tom thumb for Erry Tonuu Mem and in the British spoof Carlton Brown at the  played the fatuous factory personnel manager to Sellers communist shop Steward in the classic i m All right Jack in 1959. His first marriage to Ballet dancer Ida Zallanski ended in divorce in 1962. A car later he married Belinda Cunningham who was 37 years younger and they had two sons Tiger and  moved to Hollywood in 1958, and a decade later moved to a Villa on the Mediterranean Island of Ibiza. In 1984 the couple was forced to sell the Home an return to London because of the financial Strain of his  an interview in 1984, Terry Thomas was resigned about his  s no Good asking Why this had to happen to me he said. There Aren t any  Crry-1 Nomas Caree k on to with to nol her Aren l answers. Philippines to seek . Help in converting bases to civilian use Manila Philippines a the government will seek american help in converting . Military bases in this country to civilian use instead of pushing for higher rent in this year s bases talks a senior official of the department of foreign affairs said monday. Our National interest May no longer lie in bigger compensation but rather in seeking . Assistance in convening the bases for civilian use said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official did not say what forms of assistance the Philippines would ask of the Bush administration but he said in the next five years we will need Ever Penny for this conversion. A committee created by president Corazon Aquino is studying various alternative uses for the . Facilities including converting Clark a North of Manila into an International Airport and the Subic Bay naval Uci lilies West of the capital into a ship repair facility. The lease on the facilities expires in 1991 and extending it would require a treaty approved by the sen ate where anti bases sentiment is Strong. In negotiations in 1988, the United states pledged$960 million for the Philippines for the last two years of the lease. Aquino said monday that the talks May be held in March or april. A coup attempt against her govern ment derailed plans to begin the negotiations last month. The foreign affairs official said the democratic movement in Eastern Europe has opened options for the United states regarding the future of its bases inthe Philippines. If these things in Eastern Europe continue . May revise its Forward deployment strategy be cause. This is based on the cold War situation the official said. Who knows with these developments in Europe maybe they will no longer like keeping the bases the official said. Another Factor is that it was shown in the latest coup attempt that the bases can also serve filipino interest not just the american interest the official said. . F-4 phantom jets flew air cover for Loyal troop son dec. 1, when about 3,000 rebel soldiers launched the coup attempt which killed at least 113 people an injured More than 500 others. The official noted that with the opening of easter Europe there would be More recipients of . Foreign Aid and the Philippines might receive a smaller share. World today arrival of soviet subs puts s. Koreans on Alert Seoul South Korea a South korean patrol boats went on Alert after the sudden appearance of two soviet submarines until it turned out they merely had arrived Early for scrapping in South Korea a newspaper reported monday. The patrol boats were put on Alert briefly on dec.24. Said the Joong Ang daily news. It said the soviet subs had been scheduled to arrive dec. 28.South Korea s Samsung trading co. Obtained the 852-ton soviet submarines built in 1943, in a Trade for medical equipment. The two submarines were valued at $255,000, the paper said. It was Samsung s second barter Deal with the soviet Union. Last october it traded $3.2 million Worth of Tele visions video recorders and other goods for soviet pig Iron. Samsung wants to continue barter Trade with the soviet Union because the communist superpower lacks the hard currencies to buy South korean goods the newspaper said. Children s deaths prompt closure of Hospital unit London a a London Hospital has closed it children s intensive care unit after the deaths since Christmas of six babies from a pneumonia like  Hospital which specializes in treating heart and lung diseases said sunday that the unit was being closed temporarily to undergo a deep cleans ing but he said the cause of the illness is  Averil Slade said the six children five of them aged under i year were already very sic with heart  Fisherman who caught coelacanth Dies at 85 East London South Africa a Hendrick Goosen a fishing boat Captain who in 1938 caught a species of fish believed to have been extinct for 70million years has died of a heart attack newspapers reported monday. He was 85.the fish was noticed by a museum curator at the East London docks and identified a month later As coelacanth. Previously the fish was known to scientists Only through fossils dating from 370 million to 70million years ago. Other coelacanth have been caught since 1938. Management Institute to open formally in Kiev Geneva a an International management Institute believed to be the first of its kind in the soviet Union is to open formally in the ukrainian capital of Kiev next monday. Bryan Hawrylszyn a ukrainian bom Canadia economist who was involved in setting it up said courses have already begun with 32 students enrolled in a 12-month program on management techniques. The Kiev school was established last year As a non profit joint venture by the Geneva based International management Institute and the ukrainian Academy of sciences. Hawrylszyn a former longtime director of the Geneva Institute said the permanent staff at Kiev will be chiefly ukrainian with visiting lecturers coming fro the United states Canada Switzerland and other countries