Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1jfc wingtip leg free january romanian youths warn against complacency by Jonathan Randal the Washington Post Romania thou Sands of romanian Many of whom played a role in overthrow ing president Nicolae turned out yesterday to complain that the new revolutionary authorities were taking them for at a rally at the polytechnic Institute students also criticized the National salvation roman is interim for Dis playing secretiveness despite its proclaimed goal of preparing for democratic elections in we have the impression this government is hiding from the Marian a student member of the governments executive commit told the students issued an 11point including de mands for autonomy for universities and greater student participation in setting the at the same thousands of anticommunist demonstrators marched through Bucharest to pay tribute to those killed during last months uprising against Ceausescu the half mile process Ion was called by the once banned peasants and Christian democratic which have joined forces to prepare for the in an apparent response to mount ing leaders of Romanias interim government allowed representatives of the conservative peas ants party and the Liberal party to speak on television last night for the first time in More than 40 in another roman is leaders said they May delay the april elections because of com plaints from the new political Par ties that More time is needed to Reuter news Agency re if the people ask for the elections to be we Are ready to discuss the vice presi Dent Dimitru Mazilu told reporters yesterday at Bucharest Oto Peni the report interim president Ion Iliescu said late Satur Day the elections could be according to a report by the National rompers news on the provisional government agreed to one student de postponing examinations that had been set for student had argued that participating in the up rising had interrupted their at the polytechnic Stu including expressed dismay at actions by the National salvation fronts 11man executive i ask myself what i am doing said one of the executive committees four student i have Only a decorative and All decisions Are taken without Mierlan said he was appointed Only because he happened to be at the television building 22 when the front was formed and student members were we Are afraid of their socialism with a human Mierlan borrowing the slogan of the 1968 czechoslovak Reform movement crushed in a soviet led we dont want their socialism at a a student from where the uprising began three weeks was More All the students in the country agree with the fronts program but disagree with those students serving on the front and How they were said Marin sum Ming up student Cazimir a vice president in the provisional was booed despite promises to get rid of incompetent teachers who hold their jobs because of loyalty to the Ceausescu Chi Hyto Clergyman at Centre of Timisoara revolt guarded after attack by Alan Cowell new York times Romania More than two weeks after Romanias Laszlo the Clergyman whose resistance to the old regime helped ignite the insurrection and who be came its first remains under military guard in a Remote Village after what might have been an assassination his family said a 37yearold pastor of the reformed Church of was serving in the Western romanian town of he ran afoul of the authorities by openly discussing what Romanias Large ethnic Hun Garian minority considered oppress Ion by the draconian regime of Nico lae efforts by both Security agents and the local Church Hierarchy to expel him from his Home on 17 started the demonstrations in Timis Oara that immediately preceded the 22 revolution in Bucharest and elsewhere in the in an interview yesterday in this transylvanian his is Van himself a retired pastor of the same said his sons congregation in Timisoara and the revolutionary leadership in Bucharest had both urged him to re main in the Village of 137 Kilometres Northwest of in visits to his son and in messages from the father he had been told that survivors of the Ceausescu secret police were still thought to be at Large in or near Timisoara and might try to kill under fire the father and other fam ily members they had received word from the son that in Early after he paid his first visit to Bucharest since the he had escaped unhurt when unidentified assailants fired on the train carrying him Back to the bullets struck the Compart ment in which the minister was travelling on the outskirts of by the family they said they had no further details of the and the son could not immediately be reached for the interview with the family offered some insights into the Way the Ceausescu government sought to prevent the demonstrations and sub sequent bloodshed in Timisoara from As Security forces opened fire on the protesters the father said in an account based on what his son had told Security forces seized Laszlo Tokes and whisked him away to a Remote they began demanding that he sign a declaration that he had been a paid agent of the West and an enemy of his for several Days he was summoned to Security police interrogators and told to sign the he according to his the clergy Man was not but when reports of protests in Bucharest began to reach the the inter dropping their demands that he sign the apparently melted leaving the son to be guarded since then by army units Loyal to the new revolutionary open protests the declaration that Tokes would not sign was apparently to have been read out by Ceausescu when he addressed a rally in Bucharest on 21 gathering that turned into open protests against his 24year regime and precipitated his Over since Many romanians have expressed concern at the whereabouts of Many Ceausescu Security agents who escaped with their weapons after the the plight of Tokes seemed to underline those As Long As my son is in this i wont be certain whats going to happen in our coun his father the ministers destiny has special significance Here because he has fought against the Ceausescu policy that dissidents had charged was de signed to destroy the ethnic identity of the country million Hungary who came under romanian Rule after the first world Laszlo Tokes is a member of the front of National salvation that took Power after Ceausescu but his seclusion has kept him away from most of its the hungarians Are Only one of several minorities ser and jewish Are others that make Romania one of Eastern eur ropes most Complex ethnic in his drive to stamp out ethnic distinctions that could Breed Disley and to earn hard Ceausescu in effect sold hundreds of thou Sands of germans to the Bonn allowing them to Emi grate to West Germany for around according to diplomats in they reported he had also charged Money to permit the emigration of around jews to hungarian grievances have spurred ethnic hungarians to seek refugee status in Hungary in recent Ceausescu treasures stolen Bucharest Reuter looters have taken valuable Art works from the Home of executed romanian Dic Tator Nicolae police sources said an Appeal was broadcast Over radio and television for the identified As Gypsy men and to return the stolen items without fear of Ceausescu a luxurious 40room Villa in a formerly restricted residential area of was filled with Gold and Silver and National police sources said the army was guarding the Home even had a Marble bomb shelter when the looters broke in Friday the governing National salvation front has set up a commission to carry out an inventory of National Art and cultural but an army source said it is not known whether the commission has made a Survey of the Ceausescu the communist dictator and his were overthrown on 22 and executed on Christmas a student in Bucharest Sticks head through Hole in romanian Flag where communist logo has been All childrens outerwear 4ciof jackets Coats ski suits pants special buys our to Sale to each sizes selection May vary by january that ail 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