European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday october 9,1990 news update rwandan civil War Nairobi Kenya up Rwanda said monday it was clearly winning its 9-Day-old civil War against rebels who stormed into the Little East african country sept. 30. The Jove moment announced a relaxation of a total ban on movement in the capital of Kigali. Diplomats in Kigali however said there was Little sign of a setup in fighting in the North where the British broadcasting corp. Reported rebels had shot Down a rwandan army spotting plane. The rebels meanwhile now calling themselves the Randese patriotic front or i Kotanyi wrote in protest to France Belgium and Zaire attacking them for sending troops to prop up a a brutal dictatorship. They said their cause was nationalistic and not tribal As the government was . Korea ties Seoul South Korea apr China plans to improve relations with South Korea gradually to avoid a disruption of its ties with North Korea foreign minister Choi to Joong said monday. Choi told a National Assembly foreign affairs committee that the South korean government had been notified of China a gradual Roach through diplomatic Chan Nels. South Korea has been trying to establish Trade and diplomatic ties with China. The two nations have no formal relations and China is a major ally of South koreans rival communist North Korea. China and South Korea Are expected to open negotiations soon on the Exchange of Trade offices before the end of the year. A the government will use the Trade offices As official channels for consultation and will seek to normalize bilateral relations soon a he  to Thatcher Bournemouth England apr alarmed by Ira attacks police have erected a 6-foot-High spiked wire Fence to ring this weeks conference of the conservative party and warned monday that prime minister Margaret Thatcher is in danger. The 3-mile-Long Fence in the Southern England resort is the first of its kind Ever put up to protect a political conference in Britain. The four Day conference opens tuesday. Dorset county Deputy police chief Alan Rose said that since an Irish Republican army assassination attempt in 1984, the threat to Thatcher has been High. The Fence surrounds the Bournemouth International Center where the conference delegates meet and the Highcliffe hotel where leading party members Are staying. Fear of Gulf War continues to push gasoline prices up los Angeles apr persistent uncertainty about possible War in the persian Gulf and fear of crude Oil shortages sent retail Gas prices upward an average 6 cents per gallon Over the past two weeks an Industry analyst says. Since the iraqi invasion of Oil Rich Kuwait in Early August the average Price of gasoline nationwide has jumped 26vi cents a gallon at the pump. Since the crisis began an International embargo has blocked All iraqi Oil exports. The Sale of kuwaiti Oil also was banned to prevent iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein from making Money on appropriated crude Oil reserves. Increases in Oil Market prices were passed on to Consumers quickly. A the cause of course is the continued pass through of higher crude Oil prices which is driven by fears of shortages due to confrontation in the Middle East a analyst Trilby Lundberg said sunday. The latest biweekly Lundberg Survey of 13,500 gasoline stations nationwide showed the Overall Price of Gas for All grades including taxes was 144.20 cents per gallon. The Survey was taken Friday. The average Price was 5.84 cents higher than the average derived from a sept. 21 Lundberg sampling she said. The Lundberg surveys Overall average Price on july 20 a the latest pre invasion Sample a was nearly $1.18 a gallon. A the Price increases have really put on Speed a said Lundberg adding that she was unable to predict whether prices would continue their upward spiral. A a it a entirely dependent on what the crude Oil Market does a Lundberg said. A a it a insecurity but not a world shortage. The sensitivity of the Market is  the Survey taken Friday showed the average Price of regular leaded gasoline including taxes at self serve pumps was 130.59 cents per gallon. At full service stations regular leaded averaged 152.21 cents. Self serve unleaded was 133.56 cents per gallon and full service unleaded was 155.11. Premium unleaded was 149.95 cents per gallon at self serve and 168.79 at full service. Lundberg notes self service customers represent More than 80 percent of gasoline sales. A the full service prices really represent a specially service that not too Many use a she said. S. Korean president dismisses pair charged with spying on civilians Seoul South Korea apr president Roh Tae woo fired his defense minister and the head of military intelligence monday following allegations that the government spied on More than 1,300 civilians. Presidential spokesman Lee Soo Jung said Roh was holding the two officials responsible and said the government would take Reform measures a to meet with circumstances befitting the new  he did not elaborate on what reforms might be considered. Charges that the military spied on civil ians have eroded government  the armed forces Are politically Neutral and no longer a Factor in South korean Domestic politics. Roh moved quickly in an Effort to diminish the Impact of the scandal before it threatened to seriously Jolt his government. Defense minister Lee Sang Hoon was replaced by former army chief of staff Lee Jong Koo 57 and it. Gen. Koo Chang Hoe is new commander of the defense Security command replacing it. Gen. Cho Nam Pung the presidents office said. The new defense minister once headed the defense Security command under disgraced former president Chun Doo Hwan now in Rural exile. About 25 students shouting anti government slogans staged a sit Down protest monday at the defense Security command Headquarters near the . 8th army base in Central Seoul. All were taken away by riot police. Some 50 students staged a one hour protest outside Seoul National University to demand the command be disbanded. Pictures of flight 103 wreckage shown Dumfries Scotland a relatives saw photographs on monday of the mangled wreckage of pan am flight 103 scattered across hundreds of Miles and the Muddy indentations left by bodies which landed in Grassy Fields. Scotland a senior Law officer lord Fraser the lord advocate barred police photographs of some of the 270 victims from being shown at the first Public inquiry into the crash. But the pictures that were shown and the descriptions of those that weren to including a burned hand in debris human remains in other debris a body in the cockpit a were clearly upsetting. Tears streamed Down the Cheeks of Marina de Larracoechea sister of pan am stewardess Maria Nieves Larracoechea of Spain who died in the crash. John Boyd the scottish police officer who presented the photographs said they were included As evidence because a i want to show the severe damage done to the  Boyd was chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Region when a terrorist bomb Tore through the aircraft on dec. 21, 1988, scattering wreckage Over the nearby town of Lockerbie and an 845-Square-mile area of Southern Scotland and Northern England. Two bodies and various human remains were never identified Boyd said and police tried to dissuade relatives from viewing remains unless accompanied by a doctor because of the a severe physical  several Aerial photos showed numerous indentations of bodies in Fields. One close up showed the outlines of a victim his outspread legs etched in the grass. There were pictures of the Crater on Sherwood Crescent where the fuel Laden Wing Section damaged or destroyed 20 houses. A there was a smell of aviation fuel in that area for Days and weeks afterwards Boyd said. There were also photos of the engines the cockpit bits of debris found in forests and Meadows and lines of searchers looking for victims. Boyd now the inspector of constabulary for Scotland read Large sections of his report on the police emergency response into the record and was questioned by lord Fraser. Immediately after he heard about the crash he said he realized there was a a distinct possibility a criminal act had taken place that caused the disaster so he ordered criminal investigators to the scene. The inquiry expected to last three months is focusing on the causes of death and ways to prevent another Lockerbie not on criminal responsibility. Police have said the bomb hidden in a radio cassette recorder in a suitcase was probably put aboard flight 103 in Frankfurt. The flight changed from a Boeing 727 to a Boeing 747 at London a Heathrow Airport. Scottish officials have said they Are investigating several Radical palestinian  Force honors stroke victim for Wii heroism Garden Grove Calif. A it took 46 years but the . Air Force finally honoured a world War ii hero with its most prestigious medal for airborne bravery. As family and friends gathered saturday around his bed at the hallmark nursing Center a . Air Force colonel pinned the Long awaited distinguished flying Cross on the Chest of Jack Ward. As co Pilot of a b-24 bomber an injured Ward continued to Fly his plane Over Austria and Hungary after it had been hit allowing Crew members to Parachute to the ground. The Pilot had died instantly. A there Are five of us living today because of  said Gilbert Fisher the planets nose gunner from Bethesda my. A military oversight kept Ward from receiving his medal. His wife Beverly wrote to politicians and military officials. Her efforts were futile until a newspaper article caught the attention of rep. Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher a staff gathered accounts of the Mission from those who flew with Ward and eventually the air Force relented. Ward 67, a former los Angeles teacher who suffered a stroke eight years ago stared at the ceiling with brimming eyes As he i praised during saturdays ceremony. Ward was Only Able to respond with stick clenched in his Teeth. Pointing to Board with letters on it he spelled on a thanks for  a i thought frankly he was going to t dead before this happened a mrs. War said. A this is like being Able to hear Yoi own