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Texas 76101 The Battalion WORLD & NATION 12 Monday, November 13,1989 The Wall crumbles East German officials work to restore orde BERLIN (AP) — West Germany’s president on Sunday urged Western nations to help East Germany re cover from the exodus of its citizens, and the mayors of East and West Berlin shook hands in no man’s land to usher in a new era of relations. Another hole was cut through the Berlin Wall to the roaring cheers of spectators. East Berliners continued to flood the western half of the city, buying up anything they could af ford with their $55 of government “welcome money.” By Sunday afternoon. Burger King was out of beer and Haagen- Daz had sold all of its ice cream bars. Amid the euphoria, there-twere re minders of the political changes and uncertainty still sweeping through East Germany, which opened its bor ders Thursday and began carving passages through the 29-mile-long Berlin Wall Friday. The Communist Party announced an emergency congress for next month during which party chief Egon Krenz will try to solidify his power base. Krenz indicated a new Central Committee will be elected to carry out various reforms aimed at stopping East Germans from aban doning their Communist homeland. Since Krenz replaced hard-liner Erich Honecker as party chief Oct. 18,10 full members of the ruling 21- member Politburo have lost their po sitions. There also has been pressure for the 163-member policy-setting Central Committee to resign. On West Berlin’s fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue, about 1,000 leftists marched through the streets shouting slogans against Ger man reunification. More than 3 million East Germans headed West over the weekend, while several hundred thousand people made their way to Berlin from other countries to join a 4-day- old celebration that showed no sign of slowing down. “The wall will never be what it used to be. It remains a memorial to inhumanity,” West German Presi dent Richard von Weizsaecker said in a speech in West Berlin’s Kaiser- Wilhelm-Gedaechtnis Church. The church, a landmark to World War II destruction, combines the bombed- out ruins of the old Kaiser-Wilhelm church with a modern structure. China accuses U.S. radio of trying to 4 stir up chaos ’ BEIJING (AP) — China on Sun day accused the Voice of America radio network of trying to “stir up chaos” in its report on a Communist Party meeting considering an eco nomic austerity plan. VOA reported on the policy-mak ing Central Committee meeting “in a purely fictitious way,” the govern ment news agency Xinhua said. It said VOA reported that provin cial party officials Fiercely debated with central party leaders over fi nancial matters, and that economic measures adopted at the meeting aimed to return China’s economy to government control. “There was no fierce debate what soever. . . . This was a sheer fabrica tion by VOA,” Xinhua quoted an un identified “authoritative source” as saying. The source ‘accused the U.S. gov ernment-run radio station of at tempting to stir up chaos for despi cable means,” Xinhua said. A text of the Chinese-language VOA broadcast was not immediately available. China has repeatedly lashed out against VOA for “spreading ru- Foreign ministers meet with Arafat CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The for eign ministers of France, Spain and Ireland met PLO chairman Yasser Arafat in Tunis Saturday and later said they were “working seriously” to push forward the Middle East peace process. The three ministers are scheduled to meet President Hosni Mubarak Sunday and then fly back to Europe, where they will meet with Israel’s prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir. French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas told reporters at Cairo Inter national airport that the aim of the ministers tour was to gather infor mation so that they could help ad vance the peace process in the area. “We are working seriously,” Du mas said, but declined to give any details on his talks with Arafat. Ar afat briefed them on the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s position regarding Secretary of State James A. Baker’s proposal to start a Pales- tinian-Israeli dialogue. Shortly before the meeting in Tu nisia, PLO spokesman Ibrahim Souss told reporters that his group continues to demand that it alone choose the Palestinian delegation to a Palestinian-Israeli dialogue and that it alone should represent the Palestinians in any peace negotia tions. Israel refuses to deal with the PLO, which it calls a terrorist organi zation. Color Copies Depend on Kinko’s. 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Turning his attention to other na tions, von Weizsaecker, the former ‘ West Berlin mayor, said: “The West should be re^dy to help East Ger many with open hearts and open doors.” He cautioned that the West should not interfere in East Ger many internally but urged the East Berlin leadership to stick to its promise of free elections. Weizsaecker later went through the new Berlin Wall crossing at Potsdamer Platz, took several steps into East Berlin and exchanged a few words with some border guards as he was mobbed by hundreds of people. West Berlin Mayor Waltr Momper and his East Berlin con terpart, Erhard Krack, met at ti< Potsdamer Platz, once a vibrant < center but now a bleak no man’slais bisected by the Berlin Wall arc flanked by concrete watchtowers. Their highly symbolic handshaif represented a start of a new era optimism on closeness for the Ge man people, although Krenz ar,: other of ficials have flatly ruled reunification of the countries. Outside Berlin, East Germ; opened at least 10 more horde crossings to West Germany for seemingly endless stream of visitor who created mammoth traffic jams British rock star Joe Coc joined the party in Berlin with ape formance that drew thousandstoii Deutschlandhalle concert hallintii western sector, about two miles fro! the wall. He was among moretta 20 musicians peforming at the cert, which police said was sta[ partly to draw crowds from the wal mors” during the April-to-June pro- zhic' tests for democratic reforms, which ended in a military crackdown that left at least hundreds dead. Criticizing VOA is one of the Chinese government’s ways of ex pressing displeasure with the U.S. government, which Beijing accuses of involvement in the popular upris ing. Two VOA correspondents were expelled by China following the early June crackdown. One accred ited reporter remains in Beijing. The four-day party meeting ended with a communique calling for austere living over the next two years to combat inflation, excessive growth and corruption. It also outlined four general goals, including cutting consumption, tightening control over finances, re aligning the industrial structure and boosting production. Experts encourage legalization of drug “But the VOA, in its Chinese-lan guage service, distorted the contents of the communique,” Xinhua quoted the official as saying. “This will surely arouse the indignation of the Chinese people.” WASHINGTON (AP) — The conversion of former Secretary of State George P. Shultz has ex perts predicting others from across the political spectrum will join ranks with those who see de criminalization as a workable so lution to the drug problem. National drug control policy director William J. Bennett ac knowledges that Shultz may draw others with him, but argues that legalization is a “dopey idea” and a “moral disaster” that won’t wash with anyone who has been “within five miles of a crack house.” Nevertheless, legalization pro ponents are trumpeting an Octo ber speech by Shultz that ap peared in adapted form in the Wall Street Journal as a major step toward moving the once-rad- ical viewpoint toward the mains tream. The political mix of legaliza tion advocates is already broad. On the conservative side are Shultz, who headed President Reagan’s State Department and President Nixon’s Treasury De partment, economist Milton Friedman and political commen tator William F. Buckley. The liberal side includes Dem ocratic Mayor Kurt Schmoke of Baltimore, a former prosecutor, Hodding Carter III, journalist and chief State Department spokesman in the Carter adminis tration, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. “The liberal-conservative defi nitions keep crumbling,” Prince ton University’s Ethan Nadel- mann said in an interview. “Each is split into libertarian and social control groups.” Some legalization advocates say the issue simply needs to be ad dressed, while others call for con trolled legalization with alcohol like regulations for drugs such as marijuana, and more restrictive rules for more dangerous drugs. Most say President Bush’s anti- drug strategy, developed by Ben f; nett, is more of the same lawen-; forcement programs that have X not worked in the past. In an open letter to Bennett; published in the Wall StreetJom f nal on Sept. 7 — two days after I Bush presented his strategy in 11 prime-time television address- Friedman wrote: “The path you propose of more police, more jails, use of the: military in foreign countries. : harsh penalties for drug users, and a whole panoply of repres sive measures can only make a had situation worse.” Drug program raises number of coke seizures $24 billion since it j a major anti-drug cm- j MEXICO CITY (AP) - The government has seized cocaine; valued at launched sade last December, according to a newspaper report published Sunday. El Universal, quoting the attor- 1 ney general’s office, said that the anti-drug ef fort has cost the gov ernment $47 million, or two-! thirds of the budget for the attor ney general’s office. The govern- ment said that more cocaine has been seized since last December than in the preceding six years. President Carlos Salinas de Cortari took office Dec. 1, vowing to fight drug traffickers to the end. U.S. of ficials have expressed approval for Mexico’s anti-drug j fight. Since December, authorities have seized 53,000 pounds ofco caine, which the government said If is worth $24 billion on the black m market. J I 7 Contact Lenses 0, Only Quality Name Brands (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) I $ 49 00 $ ?ae LEN ses pr.*-STD. CLEAR DAILY WEAR SOFT A $69°° $69°° SChtffo pr*-STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES $gg6o pr.*-STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES £ m % SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES Sale ends Dec. 20, 1989 Call 696-3754 For Appointment * CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. * DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY / *Eye exam not included. Free care kit with exam and pair of lenses. V 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D J College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University