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WORLD & NATION
Wednesday, October 18,1989
^Politburo meets to determine
future of East German leader
BERLIN (AP) — East Germany’s ruling Polit
buro held a meeting Tuesday that could deter
mine the fate of Erich Honecker, the 77-year-old
leader whose stern rule has been challenged by
mass emigration and pro-democracy protest.
Demonstrations were reported in live cities on
the eve of the regular weekly meeting, including
a march by 120,000 people in Leipzig that was
the largest protest since East Germany was
founded 40 years ago.
In West Germany, the mass-circulation news
paper Bild reported late Tuesday that a special
session of the Communist Party Central Commit
tee had been called for Wednesday.
Quoting party sources it did not identify, Bild
said Honecker would be “pressured” to turn over
leadership of the party “to younger hands.” Hon
ecker also is East Germany’s head of state.
Secrecy surrounded the Politburo meeting
and there was no indication when news might
emerge from it.
The flight of tens of thousands of East Ger
mans and protests that began early this month
have been the most visible signs of growing oppo
sition to Honecker, who has presided over an au
thoritarian regime for 18 years.
Pro-democracy activists estimated the Monday
night throng in Leipzig at more than 120,000,
but West Germany’s ZDF television network
quoted witnesses Tuesday as saying the number
of marchers was closer to 150,000.
Chants of “Freedom!” and “Democracy now!”
rose from the throng and marchers shouted
“We’re staying here!” Most protesters in East
Germany have been people who do not want to
emigrate and demand reform at home akin to
those being pursued in the Soviet Union, Hun
gary and Poland.
ARD television of West Germany said thou
sands also marched Monday night in Magde
burg, Plauen and Halle.
About 3,000 pro-democracy activists held a
vigil in an East Berlin church Monday night. Se
curity on the capital’s streets was increased, but
no incidents were reported.
Three men were given prison terms for van
dalism, illegal assembly and resisting arrest Oct.
4-5, when thousands of people tried to board
trains at Dresden that carried East German refu
gees to West Germany from Czechoslovakia and
Poland.
Two got more than three years and the third
received 4 Vi years, the official news agency ADN
said. ADN reported the convictions and sen
tences Tuesday.
Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer of Dresden told
10,000 protesters through a megaphone on a
City Hall balcony Monday night that he was pre
pared to continue dialogue with reform-minded
groups.
He refused, however, to talk with the pro-de
mocracy New Forum, a relatively new organiza
tion that has united the East German reform
movement.
At last week’s regular meeting, the 21-member
Politburo expressed willingness to talk about pos
sible reform.
Bush selects
new successor
(for C.E. Koop
Clearance postpones
formal nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush has picked Antonia
Novello, deputy director of the
National Institute of Child
Health and Human Devel
opment, to be surgeon general,
administration sources said to
day.
Novello was undergoing rou
tine background checks before
her formal nomination, said the
sources, who spoke only on con
dition of not being identified.
Chase Untermeyer, President
Bush’s personnel chief, said
“there is a candidate in clear
ance,” but he refused to confirm
or deny that candidate was Nov
ello.
Novello’s office said she had no
comment and declined to provide
any background.
According to an industry news
letter, Medicine & Health, she is
44 years old and studied at the
University of Puerto Rico School
of Medicine.
She would succeed C. Everett
Koop, the outspoken pediatrician
who stepped down last month af
ter serving in the post for most of
the decade.
Novello was recommended to
the White House by Louis Sulli
van, secretary of the Department
of Health and Human Services,
the sources said. Her nomination
was pushed by Sen. Orrin Hatch,
R-Utah, the senator’s office said.
Fashion mongers declare ivory
passe in effort to save elephants
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ivory is
suddenly taboo in America. In an ef
fort to save the elephant —just de
clared an endangered species —
stores have stopped selling ivory,
fashionable people no longer wear it
and even Vladimir Horowitz agreed
to give up his ivory-keyed Steinway
piano.
Jewelry made from the tusks of el
ephants became unpopular so fast
that some observers see the trend as
evidence that a new environmental
ethic is taking hold among fashion-
setters.
“It’s a grass roots movement; it’s
becoming unfashionable to wear
furs, too,” Reenie Brown, publisher
of the trade magazine Accessories,
said. “There seems to be a very
strong trend among Americans to
think first of wildlife, of compassion,
and not our own vanity.”
David Federman, gemstone writer
for Modern Jeweler Magazine, said,
“I talk to jewelers every day, from
Main Street to Fifth Avenue, and
they all express abhorrence at selling
ivory today. If they’re doing it,
they’re selling it under the counter.”
William Conway, general director
of the New York Zoological Society,
compared the situation to a turn
around in the fur industry a decade
ago.
In 1968 and 1969, furriers im
ported the skins of 17,490 leopards,
23,347 jaguars and 3,168 cheetahs,
he said. But, under pressure from
public opinion, they stopped using
those animals, he said.
Steinway & Sons appealed this
summer to 800 “Steinway artists” —
ranging from Horowitz and Van Cli-
burn to Billy Taylor and Peter Nero.
They were asked to forgo the ivory-
keyed concert pianos the company
had continued providing them even
after switching to plastic years ago
for ordinary pianos.
“Without exception, all were ap
preciative of the environmental con
cern,” said spokesman Leo Spell
man. Other piano makers also have
switched to plastic, despite the pre
ferred porous quality of ivory keys.
The effort to protect the elephant
reached its climax this week at an in
ternational conference in Switzer
land that classified the elephant as
an endangered species and banned
all trade in elephant products.
The action ny the Convention on
Trade in Endangered Species is
likely to undercut the market for
poachers who kill elephants with au
tomatic rifles and cut off the tusks
with chain saws.
Report: Soviets improve human rights
LONDON (AP) — The Soviet Union’s attitude to
ward human rights has improved dramatically and
most political prisoners have been freed, although
abuses persist and the picture is “deeply confusing,”
Amnesty International says.
In a report published Wednesday, the worldwide hu
man rights movement says its list of Soviet citizens im
prisoned for non-violent exercise of their human rights
shrank from 600 three years ago to about 90 in July,
and would have been lower but for further arrests.
An Amnesty International delegation was allowed
into the Soviet Union for the first time last March, and
found that “the Soviet perspective on human rights has
shifted dramatically since 1986,” the report said.
“The most promising prospect for long-term reform
is a major review of law . . . apparently aimed at bring
ing Soviet law into line with international standards,”
the report said.
For the first time, human rights issues are being
freely discussed and acknowledged by the authorities to
be an international issue, not an internal matter im
mune from outside scrutiny, the report said.
Amnesty International said that of the 600 prisoners,
337 were released early, and another 79 were freed
from psychiatric hospitals where some had spent 15
years or more against their will.
“Most of these 416 people were prosecuted for ex
pressing non-conformist opinions, or for their religious
activities,” the report said. “Some had been arrested for
trying to leave the U.S.S.R.
“They make up the largest single group of prisoners
of conscience to have been freed since the 1950s. Politi
cal arrests have also fallen noticeably since 1986.”
But “despite this clear trend toward reform,” the re
port said, “the human rights picture in the U.S.S.R. is
deeply confusing.”
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