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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a world today the stars and stripes Friday april 20,1990s. Korean students protest action by ruling party Seoul South Korea apr thousands of students shouting . And anti government slogans demonstrated wednesday to protest a recent political move that gave president Roh Tae woo a majority in the National Assembly. In Seoul about 1,000 students at Kongkuk University fought riot police with rocks and firebombs. A a let a destroy the merger a students yelled. A a let a drive out the Yankees a riot police firing tear Gas dispersed the protesters. There were no arrests or injuries reported. Also wednesday More than 20,000 students staged peaceful Street protests at 19 campuses in Seoul and at colleges in Kwangju. They were marking the anniversary of the april 19, 1960, student led civil uprising that toppled South koreans first authoritarian government. Protests reportedly erupted in other cities but no Overall figures were immediately  men round up kill 50 in peruvian Village Lima Peru apr three Hundred masked men dressed in civilian clothes rounded up residents of a Remote Jungle Village and shot to death about 50 elderly people and children area officials said. The massacre occurred one week ago in son Omoro according to officials 12 Miles North in Concepcion. They said wednesday that they did not learn of the incident until five survivors arrived on foot to report it. Villagers said they did not know who the attackers were. The killers could have been members of the maoist inspired shining path guerrilla group said officials in Concepcion about 120 Miles East of Lima the capital. The survivors said the attackers carrying automatic rifles and grenades rounded up villagers and shot to death about 50 of them in the Village Square after separating them by age. They said the killers then burned Homes and a school and left on  Strangeways inmates believed accounted for Manchester England apr the governor of Strangeways prison said thursday that be has accounted for All inmates and believes there Are no bodies in areas still held by rioting inmates. A the evidence that we have now is that we have accounted for them All that is of course including the seven prisoners who remain out of our custody in the siege area a Brendan Friel the prison governor told reporters. The seven still holding out in the victorian Era jail Are the last of some 1,600 inmates who rioted on april 1. One inmate later died of injuries suffered in the not and a prison administrator died of an apparent heart attack. Some inmates have reported seeing bodies inside the cell blocks. A when this matter is brought to a conclusion As of course it will be we will conduct a very careful search and it will Only be then that 1 can put my hand totally on my heart and say there Are no bodies in there a Friel said.2 Germany to lift controls on movement across Border by the los Angeles times Bonn West Germany a in their first Ever meeting the Interior ministers from the two democratic Germany agreed wednesday to lift All controls on personnel movement across the inter German Frontier before the summer Holiday period which begins in Early july. The decision announced at a joint news conference held by West German Interior minister Wolfgang sch Auble and his newly installed East German counterpart Peter Michael Diestel will effectively erase a Frontier that has divided the heart of Europe and separated the two German states since the end of world War ii. Until late last year the Border Between the Germany was acknowledged As one of the most dangerous fortified stretches of the Iron curtain. Wednesday the announcement of its demise became one of the initial Concrete Steps in the process of German Unity a process that will change the political shape of Europe. A a we re agreed on the goal that personnel controls on the inner German Border should disappear completely As soon As possible a Schauble told reporters. The decision could also signal an eventual end to Border controls Between East Berlin and West Berlin and Between West Berlin and East Germany but a West German government spokesman said the two ministers did not address the question directly during their talks. The four victorious world War ii Powers a the United states Britain France and the soviet Union a remain legally Sovereign in the former German capital and the West German official said any changes in the Frontier controls would have to be agreed to by them. However a spokesman at the . Mission in West Berlin said the three Western allies have always favored free movement in the City and that the East germans not the soviets erected the Berlin Wall and pressed for the stringent controls in the City. Foreigners crossing Between East Berlin and West Berlin at the famous checkpoint Charlie Are not checked at All on the Western Side. East germans control the Eastern Side of the checkpoint. Diestel said the two men had not settled on a specific Date for lifting the controls but said the action would take place before the traditional summer vacation period. The Interior ministers meeting was one of a series of initial contacts Between opposite numbers in the two German cabinets scheduled for this  just swimmingly in this april 12 photo French diver Pierre Bardina who left the tank tuesday and said he was feeling shares a giant fish tank at the City aquarium in mar Fine claims to have set a world record by remaining Seille France with several shark like fish. Bardina underwater for 111  convinced Iraq wanted tubes to build gun London apr Britain said wednesday it is convinced that Iraq was trying to build a giant gun but customs officers frustrated the project by seizing eight steel tubes last week. A let me make it absolutely Clear that the gun itself cannot be in operation without All its parts and it is a great Success on the behalf of this country to have been Able to prevent that happening a Trade and Industry Secretary Nicholas Ridley told the House of commons. Weapons experts have said a gun on the scale of the seized parts a 131 feet Long with a bore of 39 inches a would have the potential to lob nuclear or chemical warheads hundreds of Miles or even boost rockets into orbit. The iraqi government and the manufacturer Sheffield forge masters have insisted the tubes were designed for a petrochemical Plant. The iraqi embassy in London and forge masters said they had no comment on the governments statement wednesday. Ridley said the government believed that iraqis gun project followed the designs of Gerald Bull a Canadian born . Ballistics expert who was murdered in Brussels Belgium on March 22. The financial times reported wednesday that the British and belgian governments have evidence that a belgian defense company pro was contracted by Iraq to help produce a boost or assisted Shell for the same Type of gun. Pro is owned by the British munitions company Astra holdings. Astra holdings issued a statement wednesday night saying that Afier it acquired pro last sept. 11 it discovered a contract a for unusual types of gun propellant for very Large  a although All Normal Export documentation was in place and appeared Correct Astra immediately reported the matter to her majesty a government. The contract is no longer in Force a the statement said. Astra holdings did not say whether the propellant had been shipped to Iraq. Ridley confirmed that his own department had cleared the production of the tubes two years ago but said his Agency had no knowledge the goods were designed to form part of a gun a until a Tew Days  a statement was the first Cabinet level statement that the tubing Naa military  customs and excise 9,, Seiz a the tubes on the docks at Middlesbrough last thursday after a ministry of defense expert concluded they could be used As gun barrel. Sheffield forge masters said it had already shipped 44 sections of tubing Iraq. # Iran Britain banned arms shipments to Ira and Iraq when the two counties were Ai War and the ban remains in Ettelt  
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