Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba It i 16 Winnipeg free january East germans storm secret police offices building ransacked As crowds run wild by Dan Morgan the Washington Post Berlin More than East berliners spurned a joint govern men opposition Appeal for Calm and stormed the Stasi secret police head quarters last hurling furniture out windows and dumping file cabinets filled with documents Down the assault began shortly after the government revealed on nationwide television details of the stasis deep penetration of at 6 the East German news Agency adn called the two Haurold attack out of but an hour activists from the new forum opposition group had calmed the last the East German government broke into radio and television programming to broadcast an Appeal for Calm in these difficult the democracy we have begun to build is in the highest a statement read by an announcer it blamed the attack on Stasi Headquarters on irresponsible forces using the cover of dark after weeks of demands by the the communist govern ment released figures yesterday showing that the Stasi controlled informers in addition to its kept an Arsenal of nearly a Quarter million weapons and worked out of More than properties around the another East germans marched peacefully in Leipzig last demanding the immediate dissolution of the Stasi and continuing their weekly Call for unification with West communists this is your last one sign we Are proud to be read in the cities of Zwickau and East workers staged Short warning strikes yesterday to protest the continued existence of the Security in doctors and nurses demonstrated outside their hospitals to protest the severe shortage of medical person Nel that has developed since Many East German professionals moved to West Germany in recent High treason the government also announced monday that former Hartline communist Leader Erich Honecker and former Stasi chief Erich Mielke Are under investigation for High a capital and for forming organizations hostile to the Mielke ran the Stasi for 32 was operated on for cancer of the kidney last weekend a commission of physicians had said two weeks ago that he could not survive a along with nine other former politburo has been in custody since he resigned in although the Stasi was supposed to have been dissolved last a photo Glass door is shattered As East German mob surges into the government said that More than a third of the staff was still working and More than half the Stasi build Ings were still in immediately after yesterdays re talks Between the government and opposition leaders broke off and the opposition activists went on to and radio to urge but the country largest opposition new had called several Days ago for a peaceful demonstration against Stasi and nazis in front of the Security Agency massive Complex near the Centre tens of thousands of people Gath ered after 3 waving West Ger Man shouting Antistasi slogans and warning that they would not allow any work to be done in the an hour Konrad spokesman for the democracy now opposition announced that representatives of All opposition parties would go to the Stasi head quarters to ensure that it was being dissolved As the government had but by then the assault had construction workers drove trucks full of rubble to the Headquarters with help from the bricked Over its replace with partnership on the representatives of a self appointed citizens committee said they were there to replace the Stasi with a partnership Between the people and the National the uniformed Force that handles traffic and nonpolitical new forum activists with no violence banners around their chests appealed for Calm without an initial attempt to prevent Stasi workers from entering the building secret police quickly escalated into a storming of the by 5 tens of thousands of demonstrators were inside the build East German television witnesses reported seeing desks and other furniture being hurled out angry protes ters threatened Stasi running through the demonstrators shouted Stasi out Spray painted Stasi Gestapo on the and taunted Stasi workers who cowered frightened in their of people urinated on the Walls and now its the Peoples turn we must finally know what went on in one protester said As he read of shrimp and other relatively luxurious offerings on the menu of the stasis inhouse Ive never seen such a huge con Ference one old Man told its angry demonstrators destroy files of dreaded Securi Tate bloodsuckers All one woman scrawled on a hallway prime minister Hans who began his Day by appealing to the opposition to help keep the peace and Stem the exodus of East Ger mans to the arrived at the Stasi Headquarters through a urged opposition leaders also appealed for Novio lithuanian party Leader new president Moscow a the lithuanian communist party Leader was chosen president of the soviet Baltic Republic yesterday in a landslide vote by the Algirdas who has challenged the soviet government in was elected by a vote of with 19 soviet president Mikhail Gorba Chev visited Lithuania last week to try to persuade lithuanian communists to reverse their 20 Deci Sion to break from the National the lithuanians would not Budge and Gorbachev failed to end the he concluded his visit saturday with the statement we have Laid a Good foundation for continuing the the soviet news Agency Tass re ported yesterdays sources in the lithuanian news Media said the supreme soviet also voted to Grant voting rights to soviet soldiers and sailors Only if they have lived in Lithuania for at least 10 replaced vytautas who Astraus had served As Lithuania president since december Brazauskas faced other Candi dates in the election National legislator Kazimeras Motieka and Romualdas a Leader of the pro Independence group Brazauskas has been the lithuanian communist party first Secre tary since his new the equivalent of is chair Man of the presidium of the lithuanian supreme lithuanian to journalist Eduar Das to Yasinskas said yesterdays vote will strengthen the position of Brazauskas in dealing with to Gorbachev pleaded for Unity repeatedly while in but was confronted by pro Independence demonstrators at Many pub lic opinion strongly supports Independence for the which was absorbed by the soviet Union in to Yasinskas said the supreme so Viet in later action voted to impose the 10year residency requirement As of 24 for military personnel to vote in local the nation Al government has struck Down Simi Lar attempts to restrict voting rights in other no discussion took place at the supreme soviet of How Many people it would and the soviet Union does not publicize the number of military personnel stationed in its in the finnish capital the Leader of Estonia communist party said yesterday his group is not ready to split from the soviet at least until a party conference in really a lot will depend on the october party we Are political pragmatists in the sense that everything that is useful we shall that which is harmful we shall throw party Leader Vaino Valjas told a news splitting from the soviet party is not an aim in Valjas refused to comment on trends in Lithuania and said lithuanian leaders should answer such Valjas said Estonia will continue to seek economic he welcomed foreign Aid and cooperation with overseas european Bank under discussion proposal to help Eastern bloc Economy gets off to speedy Start victims unknown As search halted san Jose Reuters Pap a plane with 21 people possibly some crashed yesterday in a Mountain Range South of the Costa rican officials Costa rican officials said 13 foreigners were aboard the there was no immediate word on the red Cross said Rescue teams were sent to search for but the Public Security ministry called off a res Cue Mission last night because of bad the search was to continue Early a helicopter Pilot who flew Over the crash site said the plane had been missing the Costa rican Servi cios Sereos or plane crashed minutes after take off from san Joses Juan Santa Maria red Cross spokes Man Jose Manuel Calvo Calvo said the Spanish made Avi Ocar took off at est for Palmar about 200 Kilometres South East of san Jose and was reported missing 10 minutes it was carrying 17 passengers and four he an undetermined number of canadians May have been on said a spokesman for the external affairs department in we dont have any Robert Peck we dont know where there How Many there were trying to get additional in san a Canadian embassy spokesman said a guide waiting at the destination of the flight had been expecting a party of canadians for a visit to the vent Ana de Osa ecological re there May have been As Many As seven canadians on the but the spokesman stressed he was unable to confirm any were on the passenger lists Are not required on Domestic in an interview Consul Jean Roberge said we have reasonable grounds to believe that some Are he said it will be difficult to determine who was on the flight because passengers paid in Cash and not with credit cards or tra Vellers which would have been easier to he said embassy officials Are trying to match names with local tour companies that Deal with Calvo said a red Cross patrol spotted the wreckage three hours after the crash Southeast of Pico about 20 Kilometres South of the airline officials did not immediately identify the cause of the which occurred in Calm weather in mountains frequently crossed by commercial Roberge said there could be As Many As canadians on vacation in Costa about canadians live there during the Winter and most Are registered with the unlike those who Fly Down on a charter Deal for a few Paris on creat ing a 34country Bank to encourage investment in Eastern Europe was off to a fast Start in Paris yester a French spokesman there was a very constructive atmosphere and a general will to progess said French presidential spokesman Hubert president Francois who earlier inaugurated the today urged Swift action to set up the european Bank for reconstruction and development to keep Pace with changes in Eastern Vedrine said delegates to the con from Western Industrial countries and the Warsaw de scribed the establishment of the Bank As a major historic they expressed a will to create the institution As quickly As possible and to thereby reinforce the link Between East and West Strong consensus was achieved in the first two articles of the Banks proposed dealing with the transition of East european economies from centrally planned to capitalist this was an essential Vedrine but it will be pursued without excluding the Public Sec especially in the important area of economic which holds the current presidency of the european comm proposed a Compromise capitalization figure of 10 billion european currency Worth the equivalent of about 14 billion some wanted some wanted discussion on this will continue Vedrine he said the meeting agreed to hold a further conference of experts in Paris on 30 and to meet again 2223 for a second full Vedrine said France Hopes for a third and final session of the negotiations in Early today it has gone much faster than he driving Force behind the stressed delegates would have to work fast to avoid being overtaken by events in Eastern eur i urge on you a a rhythm that is not traditional in International where one takes ones sometimes we take too and events go postwar system the aim of the Mitterrand is to give the people of these numerous countries the Means they require to make democracy and pluralism a he compared the Paris conference in scope with the 1944 Bretton Woods talks that created the framework for the postwar International financial Bretton Woods effectively ignored the centrally planned economies but the task of the new Bank will be to create viable economic systems out of their your work will not be Mitterrand you will have to go beyond acquired experience and invent the institution Best adapted to needs of the Europe of tomorrow and with an annual lending capacity Worth the equivalent of of the Bank should aim to encourage reduce Finan Cial Aid transition towards capitalism and accelerate structural he diplomats said it is unlikely the first Loans could be made before Spring no decision is Likely in Paris on where the Banks Headquarters will be Amsterdam joined co Vienna and Rome on Fri Day in bidding to Host the and West Germany has proposed West in addition to the 12 european Community the United Japan and the other Mem Bers of the 24country organization for economic cooperation and de the Bank would include the soviet East Yugoslavia and the soviet the United West Germany and Italy would each be allocated an share in the and six East european coun tries would have a total stake of per paper appeals to readers for financial help in crisis London a the morning the daily newspaper of Bri gains breakaway orthodox comm published a frontage Appeal to its readers yesterday for Money to buy new the Appeal is the Only solution to the enormous crisis faced by the paper As the result of the drastic halving of the copies previously or dered by the soviet the morning Star the papers soviet distributor Cut in half its daily order of copies 25 after the Kremlin ordered it to meet efficiency the which marked its 60th anniversary this is expected to lose about on Quarter of its an Nual income because of the soviet the newspaper is run by communists who split from the original party several years ago because of its increasingly eur com Monist up to 25 jobs Are to be Cut and the newspaper is to be reduced to eight pages from 12 until it can buy better printing the morning Star a Clarion Call is going out to All the democratic and progressive forces which the paper has served so Long and so urging them to come to its the paper it said the which is asking for the equivalent of about has raised the equivalent of about half of it from an employee who planned to bequeath the Money in her and the other half from a lifelong 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