European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes sunday october 21,1990 Beijing Seoul agreement establishes Trade offices Beuing up a Beijing dealt a diplomatic snub saturday to ally North Korea establishing de Facto Trade relations with Seoul in what Western diplomats called a a definite step Forward for sino South korean relations. The Long expected agreement to Exchange Trade offices Between Beijing and Seoul was signed saturday morning by Zheng Honeyc chairman of the China Council for the promotion of International Trade or Cupit and Lee Sun i president of South koreans state run Korea Trade promotion corp. With annual bilateral Trade reaching $3.1 billion in 1989, Seoul and Beijing badly need representative offices to handle the huge flow of goods and raw materials Between the two countries. But the Trade offices will also carry out limited consular functions such As issuing visas bringing the communist Mainland a step closer to establishing formal diplomatic ties with capitalist South Korea. China is deliberately soft peddling its stepped up a statue or Lenin that was damaged by angry workers deteriorates in Yerevan Armenia. The Republic s lawmakers have cancelled revolution Day  officer cancels Parade in Azerbaijan Moscow up a the soviet commander in Baku on Friday cancelled the annual nov. 7 military Parade making Azerbaijan the latest Republic to suspend revolution Day celebrations. But while nationalist controlled parliaments in Latvia and Armenia cancelled their military parades earlier As a protest of soviet Rule it appeared that fear of Public unrest motivated col. Valery Yuniya Tovy a decision. Defense minister Dmitri Yazoo had indicated that Moscow would not oppose decisions to cancel military displays in areas torn by ethnic strife. He suggested that less conspicuous parades might be held away from City centers in those republics. In january the soviet government imposed a state of emergency in Baku and other parts of Azerbaijan after ethnic violence rocked the Republic. The country a observation of the nov. 7 Holiday which Marks the anniversary of the 1917 russian revolution was accompanied last year by nationalist protests in four republics. In voting to cancel the military parades this year the Legislatures in Riga Latvia and Yerevan Amenta defied an oct. 10 decree by president Mikhail Gorbachev who ordered that revolution Day be observed with processions in All Republic capitals and other cities with Headquarters for military districts or naval fleets. Contacts with former adversary South Korea to avoid alienating its Pyongyang ally. China a official Xinhua news Agency carried a terse report of the signing that bore no mention of the Beijing offices capacity to Issue visas which was confirmed by an announcement from the Korea Trade promotion corp. In Seoul. Although the Beijing Trade office will have no Contact with China a foreign ministry the Cupit will serve As a a Shadow official Agency through which the Rivo nations May discuss pressing issues such As commercial and civil air agreements and an investment treaty the Beijing based Diplomat said. The Cupit is the same organization that dealt with . Relations during the Days of a pingpong diplomacy in the Early 1970s, before the normalization of bilateral ties. In Seoul South koreans foreign ministry issued a statement welcoming the agreed Exchange of Trade offices with China As a step Forward for improved relations Bambi must remain in jail until hearing Thunder Bay Ontario apr convicted murderer Lawrencia a a Bambi Bembenek a former Playboy waitress and police officer who escaped from a . Prison in july must stay behind bars until her immigration hearing this week a Federal adjudicator ruled Friday. Carmen Decarlo made the ruling during a closed hearing at the District jail. He scheduled the immigration hearing for thursday. Heading into the proceedings Decarlo told a throng of reporters he had to consider whether Bembenek was Likely to appear for another hearing and whether she posed a danger to the Public. Decarlo was not available for comment after the hearing. Steve Csik representing the Federal employment and immigration ministry said the hearing a dealt with the change of venue Media Access and continued  Csik also said the immigration hearing was scheduled for later this week to give Bembenek a lawyer David Dubinsky of Thunder Bay time to prepare. The immigration hearing will be moved to the immigration offices in Thunder Bay. The judge will Rule thursday morning if Media May attend. About 30 re a orters and photographers sought Access to fridays earing. Bembenek was arrested wednesday night on an immigration warrant three months after escaping from a Wisconsin prison where she was serving a life sentence for the first degree murder of her former husbands a wife. The 32-year-old Blond Model had been working As a waitress and aerobics instructor in Thunder Bay when she and her 35-year-old Boyfriend Dominic Gugliatto were caught after being featured on the to show a a american a most  they were charged with entering Canada illegally. Separate immigration hearings will be held for Bembenek and Gugliatto Csik said. News of Bembenek a capture buzzed around her Hometown of Milwaukee and residents convinced she never committed the murder say  use the publicity to drum up support for her release. Her escape from prison through a laundry room window spawned a Milwaukee mini Industry of a run Bambi run to shirts bumper stickers and cardboard cutouts. Bembenek was a waitress at the Playboy club in Lake Geneva wis., before she joined the Milwaukee police Force in the late 1970s. She was fired in 1980 for lying about a friends marijuana arrest and later was arrested for murder. She was convicted in 1981 of killing Christine Schultz the sex wife of Elfred Schultz a former police detective who was then married to Bembenek. Bembenek was divorced from Schultz in 1984. Jim Gilmore sheriff of Wisconsin a Ford do Lac county has said Bembenek will be charged with escaping prison. Gugliatto could be charged with conspiracy which carries a five year jail term he said. World Brief Norway linking Krone with european currency Oslo Norway up a Norway has decided to Peg its currency to the european currency unit even though it is not a member of the euro Pean Community norwegian radio said Friday Norway has assigned its Krone a value of 7,9940 ecu the radio report said. A the norwegian government decided to link the Krone to the ecu during a special Cabinet meeting Friday afternoon the radio report said. The report said the government decision did not imply Norway would be a member or associate of the european monetary system but established a purely technical relationship Between the currencies. It said the Krone was to be pegged to the ecu at a Standard rate or parity of 7.9940 ecu to one Krone with a margin of plus or minus 2.25 percent. A the ecu is a composite of 10 dec currencies dominated by the German Mark. The danish Krone is one of the ecu component currencies. Norway a decision comes two weeks after Britain a big trading partner decided to bring its Pound Sterling into the Exchange rate mechanism of the european monetary system at a parity of 2.95 German  of severed foot from Arm to leg fails Paris apr doctors said Friday they have abandoned an unprecedented attempt to reattach a Many a foot to his leg after it was sewn to his Arm for seven months. The foot which had been severed in an Accident was reattached to the leg oct. 10. But the two plastic surgeons handling the Case said Friday that the foot had to be removed because of infection. The doctors Serge Baux and Maurice Mimoun said the 40-year-old patient was in satisfactory condition and had concurred in the decision to abandon the attempt. The patient whose name was not disclosed fell from a subway platform last March As a train was pulling into the station. The wheels mangled his lower left leg and cleanly severed the foot. Rescue workers placed the foot in an ice pack and rushed it and the Man to a Hospital Mimoun decided to graft the foot to the Many a forearm to keep blood flowing to the foot while the stump on his leg  court sends 3 hungarians to prison Bucharest Romania up three ethnic hungarians who tried to climb a statue to remove a Flag were sentenced to 2vi years each in prison by a romanian court officials said Friday. Nagy Csaba Bugyi Istvan Miklos and Balint Gyula were sentenced thursday in the Northern transylvanian town of Stirgu mures. They Are members of the 2 million Strong ethnic hungarian minority living in Romania. They were found guilty of committing an offence against the romanian Flag and Public peace earlier this month when they were seen trying to climb the statue of Avram Iancu a former romanian Leader. The trial is Likely to raise antagonism Between romanians and ethnic hungarians who each make up half the population of Stirgu mures. There has been tension Between the two communities since pitched Street Battles in March when six people died. The ethnic hungarians said they want their own schools and other cultural facilities but the romanians say that would be  French Farmers Pelt government building Dijon France apr about 50 Farmers angered by government agricultural policies bombarded a government building with vegetables paint and liquid manure during a late night raid police said Friday seven people were arrested after a Highway Chase police said