European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday july 24,1990 in Masse in Seoul South Korea apr a opposition lawmakers resigned monday demanding new elections and accusing president Roh tac woo of using sensitive inter Korea issues to divert attention from pressing Domestic problems. The resignations of All 79 opposition members in the 299-member National Assembly could throw the country into political crisis As it prepares for the first meeting Between the prime ministers of North and South  woo government announced monday that it was willing to negotiate with the communist North on its conditions for opening the Border Between the Orcas to travellers. In a dramatic speech Friday woo proposed that the common Border be opened for five Days in August on a trial basis allowing people on both sides free travel. He said the Issue of open Borders could Lead the talks on unification. But North Korea demanded that South Korea scrap its anti communist National Security Laws release prisoners jailed for promoting unification and allow South korean dissidents to attend an aug. 15 Border rally sponsored by North Korea. North Korea proposed monday that expanded High level talks be held Friday among government and political leaders of the two sides. North koreans official korean Central news Agency monitored in Tokyo reported the proposal. Longtime observers View the Border talks As part of a continuing sporadic dialogue Between rivals. Mutual distrust has blocked any real Progress in prior talks. Three South korean Cabinet ministers said Seoul is willing to negotiate conditions set by the North and also suggested the two sides meet on Friday. Quot in order to open the Border and realize grand National exchanges we Are ready to discuss any problems related to it a unification minister Hong Sung Chul said on National radio and television. Chul and other Cabinet ministers said North Korea has a number of barriers to free travel and a poor human rights record. Justice minister Lee Jong Nam cited reports by International human rights groups that North Korea is holding 152,000 political prisoners at 12 concentration Camps. He also noted that the North a Constitution makes communication of the South the country Stop goal. The heavily fortified Border is tightly sealed and More than 1.5 million troops Are stationed on either Side behind bunkers and barbed wire. There is no mail travel or other communication Between the nations. Kim Dae Jung head of the leading opposition party for peace and democracy said his party welcomed efforts for Border openings with North Korea. But he said woo should not use the Issue to bolster what he called sagging support for the governing democratic Liberal party. The mass resignations from the National Assembly included 71 members of Jung a party and eight members from the splinter democratic party. The legislators cleaned out their offices and said they and their staffs would refuse further government paychecks As of monday. They said they would not return unless the governing party agrees to discuss their demands including new elections. They also want 26 controversial Bills that were pushed through the legislature at a special session earlier this month returned to committee. The governing party said the resignations would not be immediately accepted. Under korean Law the speaker can refuse to accept the resignations until the next parliamentary session a in september a when they would be voted upon. Opposition lawmakers said they considered themselves finished with the National Assembly regardless of How the resignations Are dealt with. World today poles May get Gas masks for pollution Protection Warsaw Poland apr the government is considering issuing up to 100,000 Gas masks in Southern Poland to protect the populace from air pollution and factory accidents an official said monday. Gas masks used by the army and miners Are being tested and a proposal is being drafted to distribute them in heavily industrialized Katowice province said col Czeslaw Bujalka of the provincial civil defense office. Air and water pollution has reached desperate Levels across Poland because of outdated plants a heavy dependence on Coal economic decline and decades of disregard. But the problem is particularly severe for the 4 million residents of Katowice in the Silesia Region which accounts for 20 percent of Poland a Industrial output and 30 percent of its air pollution. Elevated infant mortality rates substantially in creased cases of tuberculosis cancer and other diseases As Well As shortened life expectancy Are documented in the region.4 bodies found in Crater of Active latin Volcano Guatemala City Guatemala apr the charred bodies of four people who set out to film the fiery explosions of an Active Volcano were found in one of its craters after a three Day search authorities said. Search Crews found the bodies saturday after family members reported the group missing two Days earlier said Govanni Soberanis a fire department spokesman in que Tlaltenango 100 Miles West of Guatemala City. The four had driven to the abandoned town of Al Palmar 120 Miles West of Guatemala City and then set out to take pictures of the Santia Guito Volcano. The 11,000-foot Volcano has been Active in the last few Days spewing out lava Ash and gases that authorities said could have killed the group. This ones for Yew w Ith a tip of his hat and a flick of a on the estate of Earl Bathurst near Power switch Jim Freeman prepares to Start the annual trim of the worlds tallest Yew hedge which he stands atop. The hedge was planted in 1720 Cirencester England. It stands 36 feet High measures 15 feet thick at its base and runs for 170 Yards. The trim is expected to take eight or nine Days. Parli Omeril death blamed on poor working conditions. Arty described carry a death As Quot a devastating London apr the death of a Young member of parliament prompted Calls Over the weekend for a review of working conditions which one member described As a grueling Quot and  Deputy prime minister sir Geoffrey Howe has been asked to review working arrangements and hours for parliament members following the death Friday of 43-year-old Mike Carr who entered the House of commons in May. Carr died of an apparent heart attack following a labor party meeting. Carr was the fourth member in his 40s to die within the past 18 months. Opposition labor party Leader Neil Kinlock described  members of parliament pointed out that there was no evidence linking the recent deaths with working conditions. But they added the deaths highlighted the need for an urgent review of the environment in which members work a it is grueling. Conditions Are sordid squalid and  said Alice Mahon a labor party member. A i work in the Cloisters which is like an open Dungeon. Visitors cannot believe we Are trying to run a country in these conditions Quot she said. David Blunkett another labor party member said he would discuss the Issue with Howe who is also Leader of the House and with the commons commission e a i have been concerned about those who Start Early in the morning and finish Early the following morning. Conditions Are Tough with temperatures awry Lack of fresh air and sheer pressure on time Quot Blunkett said. He said the a conditions would be Ille Al pretty Well everywhere else where health and safety regulations apply. The hours for those who do the Job on a full time basis Are  Blunkett added a i Stop thinking in the Middle of the week. So do ministers who Are All subject to the fogging of minds and failure to be Able to tank because of the procedures operated at Westminster a i often wonder How any government gets anything done in these  but Bob Cryer another labor party member said the conditions were not poor enough to have contributed to the members deaths. A if they were lorry Drivers Coal miners textile workers or Nightshirt workers the hazards facing them would be far greater Quot he said. A these Are sad deaths which happened to take place by Chance. 1 would not for a moment subscribe to the View that working conditions in the commons Are Likely to be a  Carr married with four children was elected on May 24 in a special election caused by the death from cancer earlier in the year of Allan Roberts 46, an opposition environmental spokesman. French High Speed train derails i i to ,. R.,. Toulon France apr a rail placed across train tracks by vandals derailed a High Speed locomotive with 368 passengers aboard but no one was injured railway officials said monday. Police said the incident was unconnected to a series of protests by regional residents opposed to plans to expand the High Speed rail network into the Provence wine country. The Bullet nosed Tiv was tra Yelin a relatively slow 78 Mph when it sir the 551-Pound rail sunday evening. The Impact caused the front wheel Jupp off the tracks but the rest of engine and the dozen cars it was put remained on the rails. Officials from the French Nat it railway said the rail used to Block track came from a nearby repair site