Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ceausescu tried frantic bid to flee Elena struggled to break free by Michela wrong Reuters Romania Reuter panic stricken Elena Ceausescu turned to her husband As they were put before a firing squad and they Are going to shoot us according to an army Captain who saw the the identified Only As said Elena Ceausescu struggled in an Effort to break free when she realized she was about to she and her husband were put against a Wall and shot on Christmas a Burly officer trem bling As he said the army lost allegiance to Nicolae Ceausescu after the death of Vasile the defence minister and army on official reports said Milea committed suicide after refusing to order troops to shoot Demontra As soon As the news of Miles death broke the army was in rebel that was the turning said he said the army was confined to Barracks after when thou Sands of demonstrators were shot in the streets of Timisoara in Western Ceausescu Well armed secret were re ported responsible for Many of the As soon As we heard on the television that Ceausescu was on the our hands were on our guns and our fingers were on the Gheorghe the army and civilian authorities who overthrew Ceausescu 24year Rule in last months bloody revolution have Given conflicting details of the couples last hours before their on wednesday a Deputy police commander told romanian television they were kept at a bar Racks near North of by after being taken there by two policemen following a failed attempt to tried at Barracks militia and army officials at Tir go Viste said thursday the couple was tried and executed at the local military near the railway breaking the strict taboo against conversations with foreigners which Ceausescu police taxi Drivers and waitresses eagerly discussed the capture of their former president with two journalists visiting a town of inhabitants Northwest of by soldiers and militia said the Ceausescu were tried and shot without delay because the Barracks was at tacked by helicopters manned by Securi Tate forces determined to free residents said lifted romanians line up to buy newspaper which appeared after Ceausescu by helicopter from the roof of the communist party Headquarters in Bucharest on 22 As a crowd turned against landed in Burtea and headed for a secret Airport about 50 Kilometres from Virgo the residents said Ceausescu and his wife were spotted being driven by their chauffeur to a metallurgy Complex whose manager was a and Ceausescu shot dead a factory guard who recognized the couple fled As a crowd Gath ered and in the ensuing Chase were forced to change cars after running the system Youe Bonus will get you when you buy just one product from clan ques 3step Basic skin care Well give you the other two Steps As a generous travel this is 3 3 3 each each Clinique unbeatable skin care products that Are All dermatologist designed to work together to make your skin the Best it can the system step 1 facial mild 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Wolf said Romanias new Politi Cal parties Lack the tools of demo and proposed a referendum on the election new parties have asked that elections be delayed beyond april so they will have time to Wolf and Otto a for Mer West German economics minis recommended International monitoring of the both were visiting soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze was scheduled to visit Bucharest today for the first meet ing Between the new romanian Lead ers and a ranking soviet Silviu a member of the National salvation said thursday the soviets had promised extensive including fuel for the the front has governed to mania since the downfall of communist ruler Nicolae who was deposed 22 and executed Victor who is in charge of the Economy for the said in an interview published yesterday that some trading part ners had agreed to accept exports of Industrial products instead of he did not name the but food has been one of Romanias exports to the soviet out of they the Ceausescu were finally sur rounded at an agriculture two militiamen anxious to avoid a Lynching took them away in a Van loaded with radar and handed them Over to the the residents forced labor not official says Ottawa up the forced labor of some army con scripts on a Canadia designed nuclear Power project in Roma Nia was just business As usual in a communist an official with atomic Energy of Canada said Don president of Candy operations for said the Public be surprised that conscripts were used to build Candy reactors in to this int specific to a Candy site its specific to a communist Lawson said he didst see any signs that workers were being mistreated when he visited the site in wont stand there i went where i wanted to he said in an i went and poked around anywhere i wanted to poke we have no examples of peo ple being abused or threatened to be beaten or i can assure you that we would have taken action on that we will not stand there and see people abused in that but Lawson said the 14 Canad an technical advisers on site cant be expected to change the policy of a communist state on the use of army conscripts for construction he said he Doest know if the new romanian government plans to continue using conscripts at the five 600megawatt reactors Are being built in about 150 Kilometres East of construction of the first started in 1979 and was to be completed about three years but it now is Only half the romanians have paid can Ada million for the project about two thirds for equipment from More than 100 Canadian suppliers and the rest to decl for technical help and licensing of Candy Canadian manufacturers sup plied about half the equipment for the first reactor with Romania providing the the Romani ans were to increase their share of manufacturing with each successive almost All of the Canadian equipment for the five reactors is on site with Only a few Supply contracts still to be decl will continue to provide technical assistance but the com Pany wont give details on the Cost or length of the Lawson said the romanians took their time constructing the reactors so they could learn to do the Job it was More important for them to learn than the actual Cost or Progress on the first read he they didst want to lean on foreign expertise any More than they had we Felt it would have been both from an economic Point of View and from a learning Point of to build the first one much but they insisted on taking their in Early decl suggested increasing the number of Canadian technical advisers to 50 to get the work going better on the the romanians agreed to the Lawson said he has no Way of knowing whether work on the project now will Speed Given the new governments commit ment to provide for the people and the critical shortage of Power in but he said the romanians in charge at the site seem anxious to proceed As demonstrated by their activity last month Dur ing the country amazed in the Days after the overthrow of romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu on Lawson said he was amazed to see Tel exed re quests for technical information arriving daily from romanian workers in and Lawson said the romanian government renewed a Multi Mil lion Dollar letter of credit with the Bank of Montreal for the project on less than a week after taking Dumitru manager of the romanian contractors on the said earlier this week that the new government Leader has told him he is desperate to get the Power project up and the status of our system is the Only solution is these five Canadian regional party Leader quits in Wake of Border disturbances Moscow Reuter the communist party chief in the azerbaijani Region of site of a weeks unrest on the Border with has had to step the republics foreign ministry said the ministry said Geider Isayev retired for health reasons and was replaced wednesday by Asye Adin but spokesman Ismail Agayev left no doubt Isayeva retirement was a result of the turmoil on the where crowds Tore up fences thurs Day in a fresh outbreak of violence that began you know what is happening in Agayev said when asked the reason for Isayeva thursdays attack on Border installations followed what official re ports called Days of rioting along the which separates the predominantly shiite Muslim population of soviet Azerbaijan from their Ira Nian a delegation of senior communist party including azerbaijani party chief Abdul Vizirov and Rafik chairman of one of the two soviet houses of was in Nash Chevan yesterday on a fac finding on thursday the Region was closed indefinitely to foreign the order also covers the republics capital of where local officials said people demonstrated in support of their country men in ;