European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 10, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 ., South Korea begin exercises Seoul South Korea apr  And South korean troops began 10 Days of joint military exercises tuesday with a Large pre Dawn mock amphibious assault As North Korea placed its entire army on full Alert. North korean news re it Orts monitored in Tokyo on monday said the hard line communist state proclaimed a a a seminar state in response to the team spirit exercises calling them a preparation for War. Thousands of Battle ready  And South korean marines came ashore at to Haft 186 Miles Southeast of Seoul in the first major Field Man Euver of the controversial exercises. About 5,000  Marines from Okinawa landed in air cushioned Landing Craft deployed from american Navy ships while thousands of South korean marines stormed ashore at nearby beaches. More than 120,000  And South korean troops Are taking part in the exercises which end March 18. North Korea longtime rival of the protest South has harshly criticized the exercises and called off talks on casing tensions with South Korea. The annual exercises which began in 1976, were cancelled last year in a peace gesture to North Korea. They were reinstated this year after the North refused to agree to inter korean inspections of suspected nuclear weapons facilities. North Korea said its entire armed forces and citizens went into a a a seminar state to Cope with what it called a Mili Tail provocation from the South. The North a armed forces arc estimated at 1.2 million. The North ordered its 22 million people to a keenly watch every move of the enemy with High revolutionary vigilance and keep themselves in full combat readiness to destroy the enemies at one stroke a the North a official korean Central news Agency reported. North Korea took similar actions during past exercises. On monday 550  Soldiers flew from Washington states Mcchord fab to Pahang for a Parachute drop. . Air Force b-1b strategic bombers stealth bombers and f-15e Eagle fighters Are to participate for the first time in the exercises. The Al 17-a stealth attack aircraft and batteries of Patriot missiles which also will be used in the exercises were part of the  Arsenal during the 1991 persian Gulf War. The patriots were shown in South Korea for the first time last year. There Are about 36,000  Soldiers stationed in South Korea under a Mutual defense pact. South Korea has about 650,000 troops. North and South Korea fought a three year War beginning in 1950.  Hund.  . From Washington states Mcchord fab year War beginning in 1950. 2 soldiers held by afghans freed after 9 years Moscow apr two bewildered bearded former red army soldiers arrived Home and were greeted with Flowers by sobbing relatives monday nine years after being taken captive by Muslim insurgents in Afghanistan. Leonid Vulku and Viktor Nazarov were released saturday from the Northern City of Mazar a Sharif As a Goodwill gesture by Afghanistan a islamic government afghan minister Counselor Abdul Wahab Assefi said. A conditions were difficult but that Sall Over now a Vulku said after a flight from the afghan capital Kabul. Quot i just want to forget All the bad things and remember Only the Good ones a he said As his sister Irina pinned Small Flowers on his lapels wrapped her arms around him and wept.  an estimated 115,000 soldiers into its Southern neighbor beginning in 1979 in Hopes of crushing the Muslim insurgency. In february 1989, the former soviet Union withdrew its troops in line with an Accord brokered by the United nations. Last april Muslim insurgents overran the capital and overthrew the marxist government. Russian officials estimate that afghan groups hold As Many As 100 pos. Afghan guerrilla groups claim fewer than 50 soldiers Are held. Wahab Assefi said about 20 remain captive. Russian foreign minister Andrei v. Kozarev greeted the former soldiers at the Airport and said he was ready to visit Afghanistan a was soon As circumstances Are normalized in Kabul. Fighting continues in Afghanistan despite a peace Accord. Looking stunned As he sat White faced on a Couch in the Airport lounge Nazarov 26, gazed at photographers As flashbulbs went off. He wore dark sunglasses an islamic Scarf was wound around his head. Raised in Ukraine Nazarov said he Learned the local language and converted to islam in Afghanistan. He has no immediate plans he said. Quot i just can to believe you re Here a Nazarov s Mother Zoya said clasping his thin hand in her ample one. Vulku. 27, studied journalism in his native Moldova before going to Afghanistan where he wrote a Book. A a. A Leonid Vulku a former soviet Soldier released after nine year As a prisoner of War in Afghanistan embraces his sister Irina upon arriving in Moscow on monday night. Viktor Nazarov who was also released is behind them. He Hopes to become a Diplomat he said. His sister Irina said she Only Learned her brother was alive in 1989, thanks to a letter passed on from a red Cross worker. She said she got an Early indication that Vulku would be set free from her Young son Shenka. A a Shenka told me he had. A dream on wednesday when someone told him he did t know who that Uncle Leona would soon be set free a she said. A the next Day i called authorities in Moscow and they told me a ukrainian and a moldovan prisoner would be released. I knew it had to be  continues its ban on women fighter pilots Tokyo apr Japan a military said tuesday it would continue to ban women from flying Jet fighters in part to protect their  the air self defense forces decision followed a study in december reviewing restrictions on women said maj. Isao Azuma spokesman of the Force. A we took into account the Protection of motherhood in not allowing women pilots in High risk duty Azuma quoted Isao Ishizuka the forces chief of staff As saying. But Azuma said the air Force soon would allow women to Fly transport and support aircraft. As of 1992, women accounted for about 8,000, or 3.3 percent of the 240,000 members of Japan a armed forces the defense Agency said. It said women work in 80 percent of the military a Job areas including air traffic control and telecommunications. But they Are kept out of combat roles. In 1992, Japan s military Academy accepted 39 women the first females to enrol in the four year school since it opened in 1952. In the  Air Force women can Fly military aircraft such As transport planes helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft but cannot serve in combat roles. Britain a Royal air Force said in 1991 that it would allow women to Fly combat missions in future  of alleged hit Man is another blow to Escobar a Bogota Colombia apr in another setback to Pablo Escobares drug operation police in Medellin arrested a suspected hit Man for the cocaine Cartel officials said monday. The capture of Juan Guillermo Henriquez on sunday was the latest in a string of arrests of about two dozen Escobar employees since the drug Boss escaped from his resort like jail in july. Another alleged hired gun Julian Gomez was arrested saturday. The Bogota newspaper Al Espelta Dor said monday that Henriquez was believed to have participated in the murder of Mede Iun intelligence police chief capt. Fernando Posada in december. He also is accused of helping murder the Galeano and Moncada Brothers who once were Escobar s close associates but were ordered killed after they allegedly double crossed the Boss. Officials say Escobar s men murdered the men at the jail where the drug lord was being held in his Hometown of a Nigado. Their murders appear to have split the Medellin Cartel leaving Escobar under attack by disaffected gang members As Well As police and the rival Cali drug Cartel