European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes 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. Free travel across Seoul South Korea apr fifteen activists Cut a barbed wire Fence near the heavily armed Border monday and were arrested As they rushed toward the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. Elsewhere in South Korea thousands of dissidents students and separated families demanded to be allowed 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. A free travel across the Border Quot chanted 3,000 students gathered at Seoul s Monsei University. Police fired tear Gas to disperse about 40 students hurling rocks at one of the schools main Gates. A North open the door a shouted hundreds of mid dec age koreans at a Horder 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 meeting 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 Northern 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 a 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 proposed by president Roh Tae woo thousands of exasperated dissidents separated family members and Radical students shouted slogans held rallies sent symbolic letters to North Korea and demanded monday that both governments allow inter korean travel. Berlin apr the West German government wants to Lei soviet troops in East Germany take part in Maneu vers with an All German army after unification a newspaper reported sunday. The Berliner Morgen Post said the offer was contained in a proposal Tor a German soviet treaty on the stationing and withdrawal of the soviet forces from East Germany. The soviet Union has dropped objections to membership of a United Germany in nato and has agreed to negotiate Complete withdrawal of the estimated 370,000 soviet troops from what is now East Germany. Soviet troops now regularly rumble through East 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 /2-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 1950-53 korean War. The act was seen As w symbolic gesture of unification since it would have been virtually impossible for the group to have mane Vered past thousands of soldiers mines bunkers and More fences to Cross the Border. Earlier in the Day seven Radical students were arrested trying to Cross Freedom Bridge a key rally site because its the nearest Point civilians can travel to the Border. Another five radicals were arrested in downtown scout 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 members mailed letters in seven boxes symbolizing North Korea. A i have resisted Many requests to remarry Quot said Chang Kiryo 80, a doctor who last saw his wife and five children in 1950. Quot i often see you and our children in my dreams Quot he said he wrote his wife a tear Down the Wall of division Quot protesters shouted. Some 4,000 mostly Middle age koreans gathered at Seoul a 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. German towns and villages in heavy trucks and jeeps. They train in the country a Fields and after unification soviet troops would be allowed to conduct land air or sea exercises Only 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 All German army. World today Malaysia unveils new car produced with Mitsubishi Kuala Bumpur Malaysia apr prime minister Mah Athir Mohamad on sunday launched a More powerful version of malaysians Proton Saga passenger car. The new Proton Saga Mega valve comes with either a l,300cc or 1,500cc engine. The new engines Are 11 percent to 15 percent More powerful than the earlier models introduced three years ago said Mohamed Nedzmi Mohamed Salloch 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 1,500cc a Roback. Quot taking into account the additional features the new Proton Saga is still the cheapest buy on the Market Quot Nedzmi killed by famine honoured with Monument Moscow apr a Monument to the millions of peasants who died in the 1933 famine engineered by Stalin to Force them onto collective farms was dedicated sunday soviet television news simple memorial called the Hill of sorrow 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 t he ground and crowned with Small shears of Rye. The Monument was consecrated under orthodox ritual in a Public ceremony the evening news show a Tvr Emyan 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 prostitutes paid by Australia to quit Perth Australia apr the state health department said sunday that it is paying several aids infected prostitutes to keep out of the sex Industry. However or. Charles Watson director of Western Australia states disease control division denied the payments were As High As $240 a week As reported by Perth a sunday times newspaper. Watson said taxpayers were subsidizing a less 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. A we normally see the process As extending for a few weeks when someone with a pretty High income a $400 to $800 a week a drops Down to nothing Quot Watson said. He admitted however that he could give no a absolute cast Iron 100 percent guarantee that people with the aids virus were not putting others at Accident May leave Caracas without water Caracas Venezuela apr a massive electrical breakdown in Caracas main waterworks could leave most of this City of 4 million dry for two weeks during the hottest month of the year the government said sunday. No injuries were reported in he sunday morning Accident said to be the worst in modern venezuelan history. The breakdown caused about $1 million in damages to the City a main water station part of the Tuy ii Complex on the Mariposa Reservoir 30 Miles South of the City officials said. The Accident was described As a Quot Short circuit a but no details were released about its cause. About three fourths of Caracas will be without water while authorities search for parts and arrange Lor repairs City Aqueduct director Victor Medina said. Berlin paper reveals exercise plan
