European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 10,1993 the stars and stripes b Page 9u.s., South Korea begin exercises Seoul South Korea apr . Acid 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 reports 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 Pahang 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 pro West South has harshly criticized the exercises Ana called off talks on easing tensions with South Korea. The annual exercises which began in 1976, were can cell dast 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 Quot seminar state to Cope with what it called a military provocation from the South. The North s armed forces arc estimated at 1.2 million. The North ordered its 22 million people to Quot keenly watch every move of the enemy with nigh revolutionary vigilance and keep themselves in full combat readiness to destroy the enemies at one stroke the North s 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 bib strategic bombers stealth bombers and f-15e Eagle fighters Are to participate for the first time in the exercises. North and South Korea fought a three year War beginning in 1950.fear of divorce offered As motive at murder trial by Craig Martin staff writer Rhein main a Germany a former co worker of the Rhein main technical sergeant accused of murdering and mutilating his Girlfriend offered a possible motive tuesday in the a co a trial. And a doctor who performed the autopsy on the victims body testified that the head and neck were Cut off with a knife and an a Hatchet or Machete. Mark Ryan the assistant manager at the Rhein main Auto skills Center where tech. Sgt James Ancell Thomas had a part time Job said Thomas was afraid Nis wife would divorce him because he was Quot fooling around with other  the testimony came in the afternoon of the 12th Day of Thomas trial. He is charged with premeditated murder and desecration of the Corpse of Yolanda Pengson 27. Pengson a Torso was found sept. 9, 1991, burning in a forested area near Kronau a Small town near Karlsruhe about 62 Miles South of Rhein main. The head and hands had been severed and have never been found. The chief prosecutor maj. Ronald Gregory said that he believes Pengson was killed on or near Rhein main five mites South of Frankfurt and that Thomas used some Type of lethal Force to Peng songs head neck or hands. In a closed door session with the jury excused Thomas civilian defense attorney Joel Cohen objected to Ryan a Testi Tony about Thomas marital problems. However Gregory said Ryan a testimony goes to the heart of his Case. Quot this snows motive your Honor a he said. The judge overruled the objection. At the time the Torso was found Thomas was married. His wife and 4-year-old daughter were living in the United states. Base officials would not say whether Thomas 33, is still married citing the privacy act. Ryan testified before the six Man jury however he testified that a knife would not be Able to Cut through the spine. In his opinion he testified a hat coct a or Machete probably was used on the spine. He also testified that Ai saw could have been used to Cut off the hands. Match said he could not determine a cause of death but he offered three possibilities Blunt Force to the head or neck massive loss of blood or strangulation. He placed the time of death one to three Days before the Torso was found burning. He said the autopsy also showed Pengson had died four to five hours after she had eaten. Earlier last week a witness testified that Pengson had been at her Home for dinner the night she disappeared. The witness testified that she Nad walked Pengson to a Streetcar Stop at 9 30 . Sept. 7,1991. Pengson had told the witness she was getting on the Streetcar to go meet Thomas. Another witness testified earlier in the trial that blood Matching samples in the Torso was found on an a at Thomas workplace in Rhein Mains building 243, the civil engineering readiness Center. S4s  the accused tech. Sgt. James Ancill Thomas left and civilian defense attorney Joel Cohen Are shown in this courtroom sketch. Another prosecution witness tuesday Bridgette Gilbert testified that hair samples found in the Drain Elbow of the sink that Thomas said a former Roommate had told Thomas wife that the no was having an affair with a philippine woman. Ryan testified that Thomas told him he wanted to Patch things up with his wife. Staff sgt. Simmons Ennis a former Roommate of Thomas testified last week that Pengson called Thomas about 10 times a Day and that Thomas wanted to end his relationship with her. It was unclear during testimony tuesday whether Ennis was the former Roommate who had talked to Thomas wife. Ennis also testified last week that Thomas believed philippine women would blackmail american servicemen i the women a washroom in building 243 matched hair samples found in Pengson a Hairbrush and on the Torso. Olbert is a by into marriage by saying the were preg Logist who specializes in hair samples at Nant. He also testified that Thomas said a German state crime lab. He liked philippine women because of what Thomas termed their Quot subservient  Ennis testified that when Thomas found out Pengson was in love with him Thomas said it Quot made things worse in their relationship. After the Torso was found it was taken to the University of Heidelberg in Germany for an autopsy. Or. Raynor Matirn director of the Institute for forensic Medicine at the University testified tuesday that the head and neck had been severed with a Zigzag motion indicating what he believed were several cuts with a knife. Under Cross examination by Cohen Olbert admitted that her test was not 100 percent accurate. She testified however that there were certain unusual qualities in the hair Structure that led her to believe the samples matched. She said that neither she nor a colleague had Ever seen similar qualities in hair and that it would be unlikely the hair samples came from different people. Groci lies sol the trial was scheduled to resume today at 9 . Story said the government s Case re Lely on circumstantial evidence. Japan 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. If 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 a 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 cannot serve in combat roles. Arrest of alleged hit Man is another blow to Escobar Bogota. Colombia a in another setback to Pablo Escobar s 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 a Respecta Dor said monday that Henriquez was believed to have participated in the murder of Medellin a intelligence police chief capt. Fernando Posada in december. He also is accused of helping murder the Galeano and Moncada Brothers who once were Escobares close associates but were ordered killed after they allegedly double crossed the Boss. Officials say Escobares 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. 1