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Thursday, November 16,1989
E. Germans will ask Parliamen
r
to end Communists’ power lock
BERLIN (AP) — An East German political
party said Wednesday it will ask Parliament this
week to abolish the Corpmunists’ 40-year lock on
power, the first direct challenge to their rule, and
it predicted an easy victory.
Communist officials spurned Bonn’s offer of
an economic bailout, saying they prefer their
own recovery course and hinting at reforms to
encourage free-enterprise investments.
In West Berlin, hundreds gathered at the
enormous Brandenburg Gate, hoping the East
Germans would break through the Berlin Wall in
front of the 200-year-old “symbol of unity.” A
West German TV network said as many as 7,000
East German refugees are expected to return to
their communist homeland.
challenged at Friday’s sitting of the increasingly
independent-minded Parliament, Manfred Ger-
lach, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, said.
It was unclear whether a vote on the constitu
tional change would come the same day.
“I figure it will pass with a large majority,”
Gerlach told West Germany’s ARD radio net
work. His party, once closely allied with the Com
munists, has been at the forefront of calls for
change in East Germany.
The East German constitution’s guarantee of a
“leading role” for the Communist Party will be
The new speaker of Parliament, non-Commu-
nist Guenther Maleuda, on Tuesday urged a con
stitutional change to allow a true multiparty gov
ernment.
The East German constitution specifies that
constitutional changes must be approved by a
majority of the lawmakers in the-500-member
Parliament, or People’s Chamber.
Despite Gerlach’s prediction, a majority!
chamber is still believed to be made upof
dox members likely to reject the measure,
Parliament, however, has showed ini
signs of independence, engaging in o:
thinkable debates and casting 26 "no
against naming the new Communist Pan
Egon Krenz as president on Oct. 24
Gerlach for weeks has urged the Coiwr..,
to abandon their “leading role,” but Frick- •
tion will be the first direct challenge.
Gerlach also predicted free electionsascr
next year, and said the Communists wouliii-
win a majority. Krenz has promised fretl
lions, but has not set a date.
Krenz’s leadership on Wednesday weigk;
latest pledge of economic aid from Bonn,ot|
in exchange for sweeping political andecM
reforms. PhBM ■
President says future of Europe
will be decided during summit
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush declared on
Wednesday that his summit with Soviet Leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev will not be a meeting “to negotiate the fu
ture of Europe.”
“Only free and unfettered electiops can satisfy the
yearnings of free people,” Bush told the AFL-CIO. He
praised the labor movement for being the spark that ig
nited the fires of freedom in Poland and elsewhere in
Eastern Europe.
“At Malta, I will work to advance (the) progress of re
form and democracy,” he said. “Everywhere you look in
the wor d, members of the AFL-CIO are fighting to
keep the door to freedom open for all.”
on Wednesday to propose to the AFL-CIO a “part
nership for progress” to help Poland restructure its
economy.
Bush, saying “let us join hands,” also used the occa
sion of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa’s triumphant visit
Steering clear of issues that have divided his adminis
tration and organized labor, Bush asserted that doors
that the labor union helped to unlock throughout East
ern Europe “cannot be unlocked again."
He also told the 14.1 million-member federation’s
biennial convention that he would discuss the impor
tance of trade unions in “building a free country” in his
Dec. 2-3 shipboard summit in Malta with Gorbachev.
Bush asserted that he and Gorbachev “are not meet
ing to negotiate the future of Europe. The peoples of
Eastern Europe are speaking their own minds about
that future. They are calling for democracy.”
Bush, Shamir meeting ends in failure
WASHINGTON (AP) — An ap
parently friendly meeting Wednes
day between President Bush and Is
raeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
failed to break an impasse on Arab
g articipation in Mideast peace talks.
hamir blamed Yasser Arafat’s PLO
for the delay.
“There are some obstacles that we
have to remove and work out,” Sha
mir said after talking to Bush for an
hour. “It will be a Tong process. It
will take time. It’s not easy.”
that the Palestine Liberation Organi
zation might get a foot in the door of
the talks, blamed Arafat’s group for
the impasse.
The Israeli leader, who came to
Washington to register his concerns
“We need some Palestinians with
whom we will have to cooperate and
work together in order to implement
this process, including the first
steps,” Shamir said in the White
House driveway.
The PLO, communicating with
the Bush administration through
Egypt, has not given a green light
for Palestinians on the West Bank
and in Gaza to meet with Israel to ar-
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Tornado kill
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range an election.
Secretary of State James A. Baker
III said a response from Egypt was
essential for the talks to move ahead.
Standing alongside Shamir in a
marble-columned lobby of the State
Department, Baker referred to Is
rael’s conditional acceptance of his
plan for talks with Palestinians.
“I hope we will soon be receiving a
similar response from Egypt,” he
said.
Baker and Shamir said they had
made “some progress” toward nego
tiations.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.(AP)
tornado slammed intoashop?
district, a residential area
school Wednesday, killingat
five people and trapping
others in their cars and
police said.
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ment complexes and shop
areas,” said police spota
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this northeastern Alabama
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trailers in rural areas east
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reported near the shopping;
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