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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 29, 1991 world protesters attack Center in Kwangju s. Korea from wire reports Seoul South Korea apr hundreds of students wielding clubs and firebombs attacked the . Cultural Center in Kwangju on Friday to protest president Roll Tae Woods upcoming trip to Washington news reports said. Five students were arrested and three policemen were injured the reports said. A about 500 students attacked the three Story building where the cultural Center is located shortly after Dawn lbs television said. Police fired More than .20 Blank shots from m-16 automatic rifles and handguns and used tear Gas to repel the students after a 20-minute Battle the National news Agency Yon Hap said. Roll was to leave saturday for san Francisco and Washington where lie will hold Summit talks on tuesday with president Bush. A the Kwangju daily newspaper said students scattered leaflets demanding that the divided korean1 Peninsula be made into a nuclear free  leaflets also called Lor the withdrawal of 43,000 . Troops stationed in South Korea. Radical students have demanded that Roll cancel his trip saying the Seoul government is too subservient to Washington and that the presence of american troops hinders dialogue with North Korea on National unification. Paris subway paralysed Paris a commuters in. The French capital faced severe disruptions Friday As a strike sharply. Reduced service on the Paris metro subway system. The 24-hour strike was called by five unions protesting budget  of the 13 metro lines was shut Down be cause of the Job action and service on the others was curtailed by 30 to 90 percent at midday officials said. Commuter train-service1 also slowed because of the strike. A transit officials maintained the unions were motivated by concerns other than Public service. The synodical chamber of French employers the leading National business association urged the government to intervene. The unions virtually paralysed the transit sys Tern with a similar strike. May 3l and an air traffic controllers strike earlier in the Veek sharply reduced air traffic to France. A prison bombing kills 4 Seville Spain a a  believed sent by Basque separatists exploded in a local prison Friday killing four people and injuring More than 20, officials said. A prison spokesman Emilio Alonso said the explosion at Seville-1 prison occurred around 11 30 . When the  being passed through a scanner. He said the blast killed two guards a prisoner and a Man visiting his inmate brother. The Seville civil governors office said the bomb contained 15.4 pounds of explosives. Several Wii bombs unearthed in Solomons a Honiara Solomon islands a More than 30 dangerous relics from world War  been unearthed by workers excavating the site of a new museum in the Center of the Solomon islands capital. A. Australian army bomb disposal experts and the local police explosives unit were called to. The site to retrieve the deadly Arsenal of japanese and american shells and mortars that have been buried in Honiara almost 50 years. The live shells were discovered about a week ago when a Workman using heavy earthmoving equipment noticed the Point of a live Shell pointing straight at the Solomon islands National museum. Workers had been on the site for six months preparing the area to build a new cultural heritage museum. The latest discovery comes  a month after ., weapons experts retrieved a Cache of Mustard Gas shells left in the islands by . Troops after world War ii. The 115 Mustard Gas shells discovered in 1987, were loaded onto an Navy ship and were taken to the . Chemical weapons destruction \ Plant at Johnston atoll about 500 Miles Southwest . The stars and stripes Page 9 queuing up for Aid gut of work berliners grimly wait to enter the unemployment office for the  Friday. Tiie lines have swelled As East berliners continue to lose their jobs. Since unification about 10 percent have been thrown out of work and a million More Are expected to join them soon. Walesa fails to get his Way in polish election Law Battle Warsaw Poland apr Poland slower House of parliament on Friday overrode president Lech Walesa a veto of an election Law capping a divisive showdown Between Walesa and the lawmakers. The election Law sets up a proportional election system that bars citizens from voting for party tickets. Its passage opens the Way to Poland a first fully free parliamentary elections since world War ii. Voting is scheduled in late october. The Sejm voted 283-100 to override with nine abstentions. A two thirds majority or 261 votes was required to defeat Walesa. Walesa on sunday had raised the possibility of dissolving parliament if it defied him but by wednesday he con ceded he lacked the constitutional Power to do so. The president had said the Law would undermine party discipline in the next parliament and Lead to Many Small parties and factions a resulting in weak unstable governments like Poland had when it regained its Independence after world War 1. The lawmakers opposing him said their version of the Law would allow greater democracy by requiring voters to select individual candidates instead of voting for parties. The president backed in his fight by the 100-Membcr freely elected Senate was Defeated by a coalition of former supporters from the Solidarity movement aligned with former communists and their allies. Members Lay com econ to rest Budapest Hungary apr representatives of the nine member states of the soviet led com econ declared com econ dead Friday in one of the shortest meetings of the moribund 42-year-old economic organization. The meeting opened at 10 30 . With participants signing pre agreed documents formalizing the end of the organization. It closed 15 minutes later after the representatives put their names to the documents. In his opening statement Hungary a minister of foreign economic relations Bela radar welcomed the representatives from the soviet Union five East european countries Cuba Mongolia and Vietnam to what he termed Quot a Short but historically significant  com econ the Council for Mutual economic assistance has existed in name Only since member states switched to hard currency accounting As of Jan. 1. The head of the soviet delegation Stepan sit Arian arrived thursday and immediately went into talks with Kadar on easing the soviet hungarian Trade crunch. The two protocols signed Friday establish that com econ will cease to exist legally within 90 Days. The meeting also appointed a committee to liquidate com econ assets. Those assets include the massive Headquarters building in Moscow As Well As two Banks the International investment Bank and the International economic cooperation Bank. The East european members Are pressing for the Headquarters located on prime real estate in the Center of the so Oviet capital to be shared by the Chambers of Commerce and business representatives from former com econ members. The soviet Union wants to buy the building at its Book rate of $23 million instead of its actual value of up to s500 million. Kadar told reporters thursday that the six european members a it pm leg would discuss further cooperation after Quot it t c protocols shutting Down the old trailing or eur Tunnel drilling completed san Gatte Era Nee up workers completed drilling Friday on the eur Tunnel linking France and Britain finishing the last of three Tunnel connections three months ahead of schedule officials of the trans Munche link consortium said. The Tunnel digging machine known to workers As Catherine pierced through the final Yards of Blue Chalk in the Southern Tunnel at 12 45 . Local time. To t it c . S Mala l t december in the r. 1 on Hoy 22, the Northern Tunnel a s completed. Work on the 3i-m. A  pc egg in March 1987. The  a it s. He Dole i to open a  1993 to Rati traffic. Over the next the veers radioed track and other mater Al will he . And links Between the three Tunnel will he entre or set  
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