European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 14,1990. I a South korean whose relatives live in the North kicks a wire Fence after guards refused to let him Cross Over. S. Koreans press n. Korea for free travel across Border a Seoul South Korea a fifteen activists Cut a barbed wire Fence near the heavily armed Border Mon Day and were arrested As they rushed toward the Demil Itari de zone separating North and South Korea. Elsewhere in South Korea thousands of dissidents students and separated families demanded to be Al Lowed to visit the communist North. It was to have been the first Day of the first Border opening Between the two hostile nations since 1945. Free travel across the Border chanted 3,000 Stu dents gathered at Seoul s Monsei University. Police fired tear Gas to disperse about 40 students hurling rocks at one of the school s main Gates. North open the door shouted hundreds of mid dle age koreans at a Border rally demanding they be allowed to visit North Korea. South korean authorities said North Korea failed for the fourth time monday to Send officials to a meet ing at the truce Village at Panmunjom so the two sides could Trade names of travellers. Officials said chances the Border would be opened even temporarily during the week were Remote. A joint unification rally was to be held on the North Ern Side of the Border wednesday but the Seoul government said South koreans could not attend unless North Korea guaranteed their safety in writing. The North s response issued monday in a radio broadcast said they would guarantee safety of dissidents at the rally. There was no indication they would Deal directly with the Seoul government or put the guarantee in writing. More than 61,000 South koreans applied to visit the North during the five Day trial Border opening pro posed by president Koh Tae woo. Thousands of exasperated dissidents separated fam ily members and Radical students shouted slogans held rallies sent symbolic letters to North Korea and demanded monday that both governments allow inter korean travel. Riot police arrested 15 Border activists carrying wire cutters about 20 Yards inside a military secure area near Freedom Bridge on the outskirts of the 2 i mile wide Doz located 35 Miles North of Seoul. All were identified As members of families that were split by the division of the Peninsula into capitalist South and communist North in 1945 and the 1950-53korean  act was seen As a symbolic gesture of unification since it would have been virtually impossible for the group to have mane Vered past thousands of sol Diers mines bunkers and More fences to Cross the order. Earlier in the Day seven Radical students were arrested trying to Cross Freedom Bridge a key rally site because it s the nearest Point civilians can travel to the Border. Another five radicals were arrested in Down town Seoul shouting anti government slogans. At Freedom Bridge 500 riot police deployed to guard against violence checked passenger cars and buses. Some 300 former North koreans and separated family Mern Bers mailed letters in seven boxes Symbol i ing North Korea. I have resisted Many requests to remarry said Chang i rep 80, a doctor who last saw his wife and five children in 1950. I often see you and our children in my dreams he said he wrote his wife. Tear Down the Wall of division protesters shouted. Some 4,000 mostly Middle age koreans gathered at Seoul s Sejong cultural Center and passed a Resolution demanding free travel and the Opportunity to visit loved ones in the North. The Border Between the two Korea is one of the most heavily fortified in the world with 1.5 million armed troops behind bunkers and barbed wire. There is no mail or other regular communication and the Only jointly approved civilian crossing since world War ii was a Small family Exchange in 1985. Berlin paper reveals exercise plan i run a the West German government wants to let soviet troops in fast Germany take part in Maneu vers with an All German army after unification a newspaper reported sunday. I he Berliner  Saui the offer was Eon lamed in a proposal Lor a German soviet treaty on the stationing and withdrawal of the soviet forces from fast Germany. The soviet Union Lias dropped objections to membership of a United Genius in a to and has agreed to negotiate Complete withdrawal of the estimated 370,000soviet troops from what is now fast Germany. Soviet troops now regularly rumble Throm a fast German towns and villages in heavy trucks and jeep they train in the country s Fields and forests. But after Union action. Soviet troops would he Al Lowed to conduct land air or sea eve Visos univ on bases that they Are allowed to retain. However some units could take part in training and Maneu vers with the future All German army upon invitation the newspaper reported citing the treaty proposal. Hans Dieter Wichter. A spokesman for the West German defense ministry in Bonn later said that there were no plans to allow soviet units to participate in manbevers with the ail German Arrne. World today Malaysia unveils new car produced with Mitsubishi Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a prime minister Mah Athir Mohamad on sunday launched a More powerful version of Malaysia Proton Saga passenger car. The new Proton Saga Mega valve comes with either a l,300cc or l,500cc engine. The new engines Are 11 percent to 15 percent More powerful than the earlier models introduced three years ago said Mohamed Nedzmi Mohamed Salleh executive director of Dearan Oto Mobil National the Proton Saga is made in Malaysia in collaboration with Mitsubishi motor corp. Of Japan. The engine transmission and some other parts come from Japan while the tires batteries wiring seats and most other parts Are made in Malaysia. Prices for the car Range from about $10,000 for the l,300cc Model to about $13,000 for the l,500cc Are pack. Taking into account. The additional Fea Tures the new Proton Saga is still the cheapest buy on the Market Nedzmi said. Peasants killed by famine honoured with Monument Moscow a a Monument to the Mil Lions of peasants who died in the 1933 famine engineered by Stalin to Force them onto collective farms was dedicated sunday soviet television news reported. The simple memorial called the Hill of Sor Row is on the outskirts of Lubna in the Ukraine said Rab Ochaya Tribuna a labor newspaper. It takes the form of a burial Mound topped by a Cross surrounded by a Row of Sticks planted in the ground and crowned with Small shears of Rye. The Monument was consecrated under Ortho Dox ritual in a Public ceremony the evening news show Eremya said. It was approved by a Council made up of religious government cultural and other leaders. More than 5 million people Are believed to have died in the famine mostly in the Ukraine aids infected prostitutes paid by Australia to quit Perth Australia a the state health department said sunday that it is paying several aids infected prostitutes to keep out of the sex Industry. However dr., Charles Watson director of West Ern Australia state s disease control division de Nied the payments were As High As $240 a week As reported by Perth s sunday times newspaper. Watson said taxpayers were subsidizing mess than five his positive prostitutes by up to $80 a week As an incentive to keep them out of brothels and off the streets. He said the payments continued for up to four weeks until the prostitutes male and female were retrained for alternative work. We normally see the process As extending for a few weeks when someone with a pretty High income $400 to $800 a week drops Down to nothing Watson said. He admitted however that he could give no absolute cast Iron 100 percent guarantee that people with the aids virus were not putting others at risk. Major Accident May leave Caracas without water Caracas Venezuela a a massive electrical breakdown in Caracas main water works could leave most of this City of 4 million  for two weeks during the hottest month of the year the government said sunday. No injuries were reported in the sunday morning Accident said to be the worst in mod Ern venezuelan history. The breakdown caused about $1 million in damages to the City s main water station part of. The Tuy 11 Complex on the Mariposa Reservoir. 30 Miles South of the City officials said. I he Accident was described As a Short Cir Cuit hut no details were released about As cause. About three fourths of Caracas will be with out water while authorities search for parts and arrange for repairs City Aqueduct director Victor Medina said