Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 14, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free february official language decree protested no lithuanians condemn Law from the news services Moscow tens of thousands of russian and polish speakers have demonstrated in soviet Lithuania against a decree making lithuanian the language of business and govern ment in the local journalists said a reporter at the official lithuanian news told Reuters up to people took part in a protest in the capital Vilnius organized by a mass movement of mainly no lithuanians called be or other lithuanian sources said the movements leadership claimed at Tendance was As High As they were complaining that the Law relegated russian and polish speakers in the Republic to second rate another local journalist they want equal some of the speakers even threatened strikes if their demands were not he the decree on language in Lithia which was absorbed into the soviet Union with Estonia and lat via in was passed last no lithuanian senior officials and Industrial managers there have been world Given two years to learn the Lan the decree was applauded by a a mass movement similar to the popular fronts of Estonia and which demands More Auton omy for the Republic and a greater role for its language and the estonian parliament had passed a similar language Law ear Lier in nationalist unrest also spilled into the Republic of Mol where a four hour demonstration sunday in the Drew several thousand people who were dispersed by it was the second time in three weeks that moldavian had mounted a mass demonstration centring on the preservation of the local Lan Guage and other ethnic Yuri a participant in the demonstration and one of the leaders of an unofficial activist group called the moldavian popular said yesterday that conservative forces in the Republic were trying to quash any expression of hungarian Premier warns communists Hungary Reuter hungarian Premier Miklos Nemeth warned the governing communist party yesterday it will have to accept the possibility of defeat in elec and if this happens they will have Only themselves to the party Central committee on saturday approved the reintroduction of the multiparty system sup pressed by the communists 40 years if they Are the a sep hungarian socialist workers party must accept Nemeth told a news if this Hap it would be the party fault and no one Nemeth acknowledged there Are differences within the party Over the methods and Pace of political and economic but he welcomed the entry of other parties into the country Polit ical saying open and fair Competition can create new Momen Western diplomats had earlier expressed Surprise Over the Tough tone and Content of a speech Given by party Leader Karoly Grosz to the Central committee the text published by official hungarian newspapers yesterday indicated Grosz said the communist party would accept Power sharing Only within certain limits cautioned that the move toward a multiparty system will be a Long a multiparty system is not a step Forward for Only an other form of he this appeared less Liberal than his comments during a television inter View when he said Hun Gary could Progress no further with a single party Oystein and that the communist party would have to win the right to in fridays Grosz said cooperation with other organizations would be possible if they accept respect Hungary membership in the Warsaw and have the declared aim of preventing a deeper crisis in Grosz said new political groups emerging in Hungary Are trying to destroy the the extremist Wing of the opposition groups is sharpening the Situa coming out against cooperation and turning those under its influence against the he what do they want Cut the party to pieces Grosz also said individuals opposed to the government Trum Peting lies All Over the world through official hungarian and that Media distortions and extremities Are partly to blame for crisis in certain broadcasts on radio and television Are striving to weaken Bower and undermine the Peoples Grosz Sharp differences reported in polish economic talks Warsaw a representatives of the polish government and the Solidarity movement reported Sharp differences yesterday after a meeting of a working group discus sing the country economic prob at Issue was whether a govern ment plan to attack the economic crisis would be adopted by the work ing group As the basis for its deliver Solidarity considers the plan drafted by the government of prime minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski a Good declaration of but Short on Solidarity spokes Man Janusz Onyszkiewicz said at a news the opposition has not offered a reasonable alternative to the Industry minister Mieczyslaw Wilc zek speaking at a separate news the working group on the econ which includes representatives from the the government and the official Trad Union Alliance is part a Broad series of negotiations known As the round table that began other working groups Are meeting on issues of political Reform and Trad Union and the whole series of negotiations is expected to last three to five More a government Zbyslaw characterized the talks yesterday As rather difficult and exchanges of monologues rather than a the economic debate is so vast that so far it is hard to put some order into he crisis Sparks Early Congress Belgrade Reuter yugoslav Vias ruling communist split by Power struggles and battling eth Nic and economic said yesterday it would hold an Early con Gress to tackle the country party Secretary Stefan Korosec was quoted by Tan Jug news Agency As saying the Congress would be held Between 15 and six months ahead of the party decision to Call an Early Congress highest level political gathering in Yugoslavia reflected its concern at months of turmoil which prompted president Raif Dizdarevic to say last week that the country very foundations were speaking at a meeting with regional party leaders in Bel said the Congress would focus on party reforms and a new Yugo Slavian in a significant Howe he stopped Short of calling the meeting an emergency Yugoslavia biggest which is campaigning for More political influence within the Federal state of six republics and two autonomous wants the Congress to have emergency this would have helped serbian communists press their ambitions since delegates to an emergency Congress Are picked according to the strength of party membership in a a method favouring pop Ulous an open Power struggle is raging among regional leaders for the control of the yugoslavian communist with Serbia populist party Leader Slobodan Milosevic battling yugoslavian party chief Stipe a notices to cud Stoks in the matter of the estate of Valgerdur Ruby Latu of the City of in the province of All claims against the above estate duly Veri fied by statutory declaration must be filed with the undersigned at their offices at 400 201 Edmonton r3c on or before the 19th Day of dated at the City of this 7th Day of Campbell me Ocieh Saper Boni 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