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Rivals China, South Korea establish diplomatic relations BEIJING (AP) —China and South Korea leaders on Monday established d iplomatic tics that their leaders hope will ease tensions on the heavily militarized Korean Pen insula, one of the last fronts of the Cold War. “This has great significance for peace and development in Asia and the world,” Chinese Premier Li Peng told South Korean Foreign Minister Lee Sang-ock. Hours earlier, Lee and his Chi nese counterpart, Qian Qichen, signed documents establishing re lations. South Korea hung an em bassy sign on its former trade office in Beijing. Highlighting thccountrics’ main interest in forming tics, a 272-mem - ber Chinese economic mission im mediately flew to Seoul to hold a commodity fair and brief South Koreans on investment opportuni ties. South Korea said it planned to hold talks with China next month on opening direct air links. Several South Korean banks announced plans to open offices in China. South Korean President Roh Tac-woo said in a televised speech to his country that relations with China would contribute to resolv ing disputes with Communist North Korea and eventually to Korea’s reunification. South Korea has said it does not want to increase the North’s isola tion but encourage it to form more contacts with Seoul and the West. The Chinese Nationalist gov emmentof Taiwan closed its Seoul embassy. China demands that all countries with which it forms rela tions sever ties with Taiwan. North Korea had no public com ment. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin said his government would not alter any of its treaties and agreements with North Korea. Ties arc not expected to be as close as before. China has been allied w ith Com munist North Korea since the Ko rean Peninsula was divided at the end of World War II. China sent troops to aid the North in the 1950 53 Korean War. South Korea hopes China will pressure North Korea to allow in ter-Korean nuclear inspections. So far, China has promised only to support inspections if both Koreas agree to them. North Korea insists its nuclear facilities arc for peace ful purposes only, but South Ko rean and Western experts believe it may be using one to make nuclear weapons. Starving Somalia Suffering common in nation wracked by war, famine, anarchy BERDALE, Somalia (AP) — Every day at dawn, the starving children, many weak with hacking coughs, line up and wait patiently to be fed. On this day, there would not be enough of the Red Cross provided rice and beans to go around. When it became clear the food would run short, the children began to push and shout and cry. A man and a woman standing next to the black vats hit at the children with sticks to keep them in line. Some cowered momentarily, then pushed forward again. One thin boy stood unflinching, his tin bowl outstretched, even as he was struck on the shoulder. Adult villagers tried to pick the weakest children and bring them to the front, but it was too late. The food had run out. Only about half the children had been fed. The unfed ones scrambled in the dust on hands and knees, wailing and fighting for single grains of rice. They shoved them in their mouths, gelling mostly dirt. One emaciated teen-ager fell flat on his face and had to be helped to his feet. Such scenes of suffering arc enacted day in and around Baidoa, a southwest desert town of about 60,000 people, which holds one of the largest concentrations of starving people in Somalia. In a nation tom asunder by war, chaos, anarchy and drought, between 1.5 and 2 million people — almost a quarter of Somalia’s population — face starvation. The International Committee of the Red Cross issued its first warning about the crisis in Decem ber, but the wealthy nations have begun efforts to alleviate the situation only in the recent weeks. In Berdalc, a village about 30 miles outside Baidoa, the soil is a fine white dust that has turned the entire landscape a pale gray. Its thin, dust-covered residents have the appearance of ghosts. In Baidoa, children streamed in the gate of a center run by Concern, an Irish aid group that is feeding about 10,000 children. A tiny stick-like body lay at the gate. The child had died during the night. Only children who had been examined previously and lagged with plastic bracelets were allowed in. The rest would have to be screened, but all were clearly in need. The number of untagged children grew and grew, soon reaching the hundreds. Finally the guard opened the gate to all and the kids surged in, turning the camp into a free-for- ' all. On Baidoa’s crowded, dusty main street, a big red truck once used for hauling cattle came to a stop. Two workers got out and lifted two shrouded bodies from the roadside. They were the 29th and 30th corpses collected this day — and it was still morning. Officials at the Somali Red Crescent Society, the Muslim Red Cross, said 200 to 300 bodies are gathered daily in Baidoa. The truck’s next-lo-last slop on this grim round was a refugee camp where a dead child, freshly washed in the Muslim tradition, lay on a table. A blue and red cloth stuck to the still-moist skin, the child’s ribs showing clearly through. Family members stood over the body and prayed. The truck’s final stop was a cemetery — whose location in a former farm field seemed an apt - metaphor for the catastrophe gripping Somalia. The bodies were unloaded and placed in rows to await their turn for burial in the barren red soil. Then the truck left for town again. By now, there would be more dead to collect., l Embassies close as fighting rages in Afghan capital KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Diplomats from at least five countries left Kabul on Monday, adding to the exodus from the escalating fighting between rival factions. France, Italy and Bulgaria closed their embassies and removed their remaining personnel a day after the United Nations withdrew its last three non-Afghan off cials. Some diplomats from Poland and India also were in the diplomatic convoy. “There is no point in staying,” Charge d’Affaires Thierry Bcmacac said. Daniel Bernard, a French Foreign Ministry spokesman in Paris, said the decision to evacuate was made after two Afghan employees of the French Embassy were killed in a rocket at tack on the city’s diplomatic quarter Sunday. Bulgarian Ambassador Valentin Galsinki, who left Monday, suffered minor wounds in Sunday’s shelling, and several people were reported in jured when the embassies of Pakistan and India were hit. The main building of the vacant U.S. Embassy also was damaged. The missiles were fired by He/.b-c Islami, a radical Muslim fundamen talist group opposing the interim Is lamic government that was formed when the Marxist regime was ousted in April after a 14-year civil war. 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