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BERLIN (AP) — New leader Egon Krenz said
Wednesday he will let East Germans travel
abroad more freely but made clear the Berlin
Wall, a scar on the city for nearly three decades,
will not come down.
In further signs the communist nation is mov
ing toward at least limited reform, the official
news agency ADN carried a series of reports that
included a news conference by police to address
accusations of brutality and a dispatch quoting a
prominent dissident.
Tens of thousands of young, skilled workers
have fled to West Germany since September and
throngs of protesters fill the streets at home to
demand democratic reforms in this rigid society.
Late Wednesday, about 200 people carrying
burning candles marched silently through down
town East Berlin. Police first stopped the protes
ters but let them proceed after a brief discussion.
No slogans were shouted.
The marchers joined about 2,000 people at a
vigil at a church at Alexanderplatz and later dis
persed peacefully.
ADN said Wednesday night that about 20,000
people joined in what it called a “march of hope”
in the center of Neubrandenburg, a city north of
Berlin.
The marchers called for a dialogue with au
thorities and the city’s mayor, Heinz Hahn,
promised talks with citizens, ADN said.
With the comment that “no one will be left out
of the dialogue,” Krenz indicated Wednesday the
new regime’s willingness to discuss reforms may
extend to members of pro-democracy groups.
He and the party previously rejected talks with
the opposition.
Krenz, who last week replaced Erich Honecker
as Communist Party chief, also said Wednsday he
was interested in meeting with Chancellor Hel
mut Kohl of West Germany, but “one has to un
derstand that I have to first attend to domestic
political problems.”
He said he planned to discuss a summit date by
telephone with Kohl, who said Tuesday he was
ready for a meeting.
Krenz spoke after meeting with Wolfgang Mis-
chnick, parliamentary leader of the Free Demo
crats, junior partner in Kohl’s coalition.
Mischnick was the first senior West German
politician to see Krenz since the ouster of Hon
ecker, 77, a hard-liner who ran the country for
18 years and was Krenz’s mentor.
Krenz told reporters who accompanied Misch
nick that East Germans would be given greater
freedom of travel by year’s end.
Under a more liberal law proposed by the
Communist Party’s ruling Politburo, passports
and exit visas would be available for travel to any
other country. It also would drop current re
quirements that family members remain behind
as insurance the travelers would return home,
Officials in East Berlin say financial obstacle
still must be resolved. East German marksarenof
convertible outside the country and officials art
unlikely to release much of their hard-currenc
reserves for Western travel.
Strict curbs on foreign travel have been
prime source of complaint by East German!
joining with limits on speech and political activiti
to propel the mass exodus.
A Western reporter asked whether easier
travel to the West would make the Berlin Wall
obsolete. Krenz replied: “The wall has a very
ferent meaning than what is implied in ]
question.”
His statement was a clear reference to the gov
ernment’s long-standing position that the wall
has been a stabilizing influence in Europe and
necessary to protect East Germany from being
“plundered by capitalists.”
At the police news conference Wednesday
East Berlin chief Lt. Gen. Friedhelm Rausch
knowledged officers had used “excess and trans
gressions” against demonstrators that
have been avoided,” ADN reported.
Rausch said 150 people had complained of po
lice brutality. “Police have apologized tothoseaf
fected and have promised compensation," ADb
quoted Rausch as saying.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An official
report made available Wednesday
said Yasser Arafat’s guerrilla faction
had ordered 12 bombings and at
tacks on Israeli civilians since the
PLO chairman promised in Decem
ber to abandon terrorism.
Groups affiliated with the Pales
tine Liberation Organization carried
out 18 infiltrations or rocket attacks
across Israel’s borders in the same
period, the report said.
Yigal Garmon, Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir’s anti-terror adviser,
prepared the report and provided a
copy to the Associated Press.
It comes at a time when Israel and
the United States are at odds over
PLO involvement in peace efforts
and coincides with a campaign
against the U.S. dialogue with the
PLO begun 10 months ago, soon af
ter Arafat renounced terrorism.
In his report, Garmon said the at
tacks “are a violation of the commit
ment Arafat gave to the United
States and shows he can’t be trusted
and that you can’t do business with
him.”
Israel defines the PLO as a terror
ist organization and refuses to deal
with it.
Thomas Pickering, then the U.S.
ambassador, gave Israel a pledge a
day after the U.S.-PLO talks began
Dec. 15 in Tunis that “no American
administration can sustain the dia
logue if terrorism continues by the
PLO or any of its factions,” the re
port said.
Washington told Israel it expected
the PLO to condemn any act of ter
ror and discipline the guerrillas re
sponsible, Garmon’s report said, and
added:
“Not only has the PLO failed to
fulfill these requirements, but Ar
afat’s own Fatah organization in par
ticular has itself engaged in terrorist
acts . . . and it has, furthermore, en
couraged and lauded these attacks
even in the midst of these talks.”
Anat Kurz, head of a terrorism re
search group at the Jaffee Center
for Strategic Studies, expressed a
contrasting opinion.
She said Arafat had restrained
militants in order to preserve his
diplomatic initiative, but the PLO
had difficulty controlling organiza
tions that sprang up during the 22-
month-old revolt in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
“Generally speaking, terrorism in
Israel did not decline since the start
of the intefadeh (uprising), although
most of what we call terror activities
have been conducted by locally affil
iated elements and unorganized
groups,” Kurz said.
Sources said one reason U.S. offi
cials remain unconvinced by Israeli
claims of Fatah involvement is tin
they are based on interrogatioi
The credibility of such informatioi
was diminished after a 1987 invest
gation revealed the use of torturek
the Shin Bet security service.
Garmon said PLO factions unde
Arafat’s umbrella were responsi
for nine attacks across the borderi:
the past 10 months, many aimed
settlements near Lebanon, inwhid
no civilian casualties were reportei!
He said the other raids were by pro
Syrian groups opposed to Arafat.
Mexico, U.S. discuss trade policies
McALLEN (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Clay
ton Yeutter, meeting his Mexican counterpart for the
second time, Wednesday asked Jorge de la Vega to
speed up the dismantling of Mexico’s protectionist poli
cies.
Yeutter lauded Mexican President Carlos Salinas de
Gortari’s program that has done away with many trade
barriers, but added there are some instances in which
the United States wants to see Mexico hasten its compli
ance with the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade, or GATT.
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“We’ve been encouraging the government of Mexico
to phase out import licensing for a lot of products com
ing into Mexico, industrial as well as agricultural,”
Yeutter said. “Mexico has an obligation to do that un
der the GATT rules.”
Specifically, Yeutter said he wants Mexico to ease im
port restrictions on oil seeds, soybean products, apples,
peaches and nectarines.
De la Vega emphasized that Mexico has opened its
“Today I’m going to have the opportunity to
with Mr. Yeutter in terms of the bilateral arrangement!
we will need in order to promote better understanding
between both countries in terms of agriculture and live
stock,” de la Vega said.
De la Vega said Mexico would consider approving
additional cattle inspection stations. Texas cattle
ducers have complained of delays and expense export
ing cattle to Mexico because it only allows cattle in
spected at the five Texas Departrpent of Agriculture
stations.
Yeutter, de la Vega and U.S. Rep. Kika delaGarza
were in McAllen for the 49th Annual State Meetingo(
District Directors of Texas Soil and Water Conservation
Districts.
“Some day we’re going to see huge advances in eco
nomic activity between these two countries,” said Yeut
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