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WORLD & NATION 7
Monday, April 16,1990
Pope uses Easter message to salute
Lithuania’s yearning for freedom
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In an Easter Sunday
salute to man’s yearning for freedom, Pope John
Paul II said he hoped Lithuanians would achieve
their goal of independence through “respectful
and comprehensive” dialogue with Moscow.
In other Easter celebrations, Romanians and
East Germans gave thanks for the freedoms won
by their pro-democracy revolutions, and reli
gious leaders called for peace and tolerance in
Lebanon and Israel.
In the Soviet Ukraine, where Roman Catholi
cism was banned 44 years ago. Catholics in Kiev
were allowed to legally perform Easter services
for the first time in decades.
The pontiff spoke as Lithuanians waited to see
whether Soviet President Mikihail S. Gorbachev
would carry out his threat to impose economic
sanctions on the republic unless it rescinded in
dependence-oriented actions by Sunday.
“In the name of Jesus dead and risen for all
men, we ask for peace for our children in the
dear Lithuania nation, while we hope that their
aspirations find confirmation in a respectful and
comprehensive dialogue,” the pope said.
He spoke in Lithuanian after delivering his
noontime Easter message from the central bal
cony overlooking St. Peter’s Square.
Cheers went up from a crowd of 100,000 faith
fuls and tourists in the square, where the pope
earlier celebrated Easter Mass in front of St. Pet
er’s Basilica.
Tass, the Soviet news agency, reported that a
Soviet envoy received by the pope on Saturday
had delivered a message from Gorbachev about
the crisis in Lithuania, where four out of five
“I
In the name of Jesus dead and
risen for all men, we ask for peace
for our children in the dear Lithuania
nation, while we hope that their
aspirations find confirmation in a
respectful and comprehensive
dialogue.”
— Pope John Paul II
people are Catholic.
The Vatican in March opened diplomatic rela
tions with Moscow. Earlier this month, the Vati
can’s newly appointed envoy to the Soviet Union
said the Holy See would be w illing to mediate the
Lithuanian dispute.
In his speech, John Paul gave holiday wishes in
55 languages.
In Romania, tens of thousands of worshipers
sang ancient hymns in packed churches across
the nation in an emotional celebration of their
first free Easter in more than four decades.
In Timisoara, where Romania’s pro-democ
racy revolution started and where some of the
w'orst fighting occurred, Archbishop Nicolae eu
logized the martyrs of the revolution in a sermon
to 2,000 people:
“After 45 years during which (Communists)
tried to enslave our soul and history ... we now
celebrate in freedom Holy Easter.”
East and West Germans poured through their
border in both directions and packed churches to
give thanks for their new-found freedoms, while
thousands of others took part in traditional peace
protests.
Border guards waved crowds from West Ber
lin through the Brandenburg gate checkpoint,
where churchgoers headed for Roman Catholic
services at St. Hedwig^s Cathedral and Lutheran
services at St. Mary’s Church in East Berlin.
In Lebanon, church bells vied with bursts of
gunfire in east Beirut as thousands of Christians
celebrated Easter and wondered whether full-
scale fighting would break out again in the battle
for control of their enclave.
In Israel, the Roman Catholic patriarch of Je
rusalem used his Easter message to call for equal
ity between peoples, as tension continued be
tween Jews and Christian Arabs over a Jewish
settlement in the city’s Christian quarter.
Americans work longer in 1990
to reach 'Tax Freedom Day’
WASHINGTON (AP) — You
won’t be through w ith taxes for the
year even ii you heat the midnight
Monday deadline foi filing your fed
etal return. I he average American
will have to work through May 5 to
satisfy the tax collectors.
If that prediction by the Tax
Foundation proves accurate, it will
be the latest “Tax Freedom Day” on
record and falls two days later than
1989.
The reason is simple, the nonpar
tisan research organization said Sun
day in announcing the mythical
date: “Tax increases will outpace the
growth in individuals’ income dur-
mgI990.” no ouBjnafe-rq
Tax Freedom Day founda
tion’s estimate of how long it would
take an average person to pay his or
her state, f ederal and local taxes if all
income went for taxes until they
were all paid for the year 1990.
I he calculations assume that all
taxes are paid by individuals, includ-
mg those collected f rom cor pot a
lions
Until this year, the latest date was
May 4, 1981, before a big tax reduc
tion took effect. The foundation said
subsequent watering down of several
deductions, increases in Social Secu
rity taxes and state and local taxes,
and a gradual economic slowing will
have wiped out that reduction.
For the millions of couples and in
dividuals still struggling with 1989
returns, the Internal Revenue Serv
ice announced that its toll-free tele
phone service would remain, open
late Monday night to answer techni
cal tax questions.
The Postal Service said most post
offices in cities with at least a 30,000
population planned to station clerks
at curbside to receive returns.
Neither the IRS not the Postal
Ser vice estimated how many returns
were likely to he filed Monday night.
However, the IRS said it expects to
receive about 23 million this week —
or one of every five that will be filed
this year.
About 6 million couples and indi
viduals unable to file their returns
on time were expected to receive a
four-month extension by filing
Form 4868 instead. The extension is
automatic — but only if Form 4868
is accompanied by a check for esti
mated taxes owed.
Another 650,000 or so Americans
abroad, including military person
nel, qualified automatically for a
two-month extension just by having
their main business, home or duty
station outside the United States and
Puerto Rico.
Official says
rebels may
reignite war
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The
return to Nicar agua of thousands
of armed rebels threatens to reig
nite Nicatagua’s civil war, Nicara
guan Foreign Minister Miguel
D’Escoto was quoted as saying in
Sunday news reports.
D’Escoto, who spoke to report
ers Saturday night on a stopover
in Mexico en route to Europe,
said Washington would be re
sponsible for any flareup in hosti
lities.
“The United States created a
monster similar to the
Frankenstein story, that once it’s
alive, nobody can stop it,” D’E
scoto said.
D’Escoto stopped in Mexico on
his way to Paris, where he was to
participate in a committee meet
ing with Nelson Mandela, leader
of South Africa’s African Na
tional Congress.
The ruling Sandinistas turn
over power April 25 to Violeta
Barrios de Chamorro, whose Na
tional Opposition Union
trounced the ruling Sandinistas
in the Feb. 25 elections.
Leaders of the Contra rebels
are scheduled to meet this week
with representatives of Chamor
ro’s incoming government to ne
gotiate a definitive cease-fire.
The Contras have been fight
ing the Sandinistas since 1981,
and many rebel leaders have in
sisted they will not give up the
fight until the Sandinistas give up
all political and military power in
Nicaragua.
The war has killed some
30,000 people since it began two
years ago after the fall of Anasta-
sio Somoza’s dictatorship.
D’Escoto said the Contras, who
have poured back into Nicaragua
from Honduran camps, continue
to attack government targets.
“After the victory of Cha
morro, we wanted to have a
peaceful transition on the 25th of
this month, hut the return of the
Contras and the fact that they
have not been disarmed fortells
the worst.,’ D’Escoto was quoted
as saying,
“Out people should be pre
pared for a civil war. The Contras
resist handing over their arms.
They don’t stop their attacks in
various areas aominated by the
Sandinistas,” he added.
Freedom euphoria dies down
Real world problems plague
Czechoslovak government
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) —The euphoria sur
rounding Vaclav Havel’s fairy-tale journey from prison
to the presidency is gone and Czechoslovaks are back in
the real world, arguing about the economy, politics and
the country’s name.
In January and February, intellectuals still exulted
over the end of censorship.
The playwright president in Prague Castle and his
entourage of former dissidents and underground art
ists introduced a new morality to politics at home and
abroad. They were praised from Washington to Mos
cow.
Then domestic worries began to take over.
Czechs and Slovaks, whose winter revolution was so
smooth, split on the question of whether “socialist”
should be removed from their republic’s formal name
The mattet still is not resolved
Government com musts fa-mg a deadline in late
April for an agreement on drastic reforms, fell out over
how quickly to adopt a free market.
Political rivals of the movements that led the revolu
tion began campaigning for the June 8 elections, the
first free vote in four decades.
Havel, recovering from a hernia operation, acknowl
edged in a national radio address April 1 that “the time
of elation and happiness, stemming from the fact that
everyone can say what they want, has come to an end.
“The time has come when we will really have to do
something with the freedom,” he declared.
Transition from communism to democracy in
Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe has
been sudden and makeshift, marked by ethnic prob
lems, sharp decreases in worker output and a political
shift to the right.
Czechoslovakia is better off than most.
Disputes between Czechs and Slovaks have not be
come violent, as ethnic strife has in Romania.
The economy, while lagging behind countries
Czechoslovakia outstripped 50 years ago, is not bur
dened by heavy debt, hut hundreds of potential West
ern investors flocking to Prague still await law's liberaliz
ing capital movement.
Unlike Hungary, Czechoslovakia has not even begun
establishing such fundamental elements of capitalism as
new banks and a stock market
A senioi economist with close ties to the government
said reform is hindered by a split between Finance Min
ister Vaclav Klaus, w ho wants to go all-out for capital
ism, and others, including Havel, who fear the social
consequences.
Havel’s Civic Forum and its Slovak partner Public
Against Violence lead opinion polls for the elections.
Chinatown’s merchants fight for freeway
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Chinatown, normally jammed with
tourists, has been suffering finan-
cially since October’s earthquake
smashed one of the main highways
leading to the maze of crowded
streets and bustling shops.
So when Mayor Art Agnos sug
gested the crippled Embarcadero
Freeway be destroyed instead of re
paired, with a new road built at
ground level or underground, mer
chants decided they had had
enough.
Activist Rose Pak of the Chinese
Chamber of Commerce is leading
the fight to rebuild the 1.7-mile free
way. At her urging, hundreds of
Chinatown merchants planned to
lock their doors Monday and show
up at a Board of Superv isors meet
ing where the freeway’s fate was ex
pected to be decided.
Agnos argues the freeway is ugly
— it blocks prime views of San Fran
cisco Bay — and too expensive to re
pair and reopen.
His supporters on the issue in
clude many groups who opposed it
even before it opened in 1959. They
stretch, and time is the key to recov
ery of businesses in the nation’s sec
ond-largest Chinatown.
Pak called the plan to shut down
“I
It’s a political statement that we’re not a silent
minority.”
— Rose Pak,
activist
include preservationists and urban
design activists, who say the freeway
sacrifices city streets and alters the
character of neighborhoods.
The freeway survived a 1986 vote
to spend $10 million to tear it down.
But opponents of the mayor’s
lan say rebuilding the damaged
ighway would take far less time
than building a new underground
the neighborhood’s shops and cafes
for a show of force as the supervisors
vote on the Agnos proposal “a very
basic, grass roots, humble gesture.”
A longtime ally of Agnos, the out
spoken Pak is steamed that the
mayor has rejected the message of
10,000 people who signed pro-re
pair petitions.
“It’s a political statement that
we’re not a silent minority,” she said.
Under Agnos’ proposal, $120 mil
lion would be spent to replace the el
evated roadway with a sunken one
leading into Chinatown, North
Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf and the
rest of the waterfront. He acknowl
edges it could take five or six years to
complete.
It would cost far less, an estimated
$32 million, to reinforce and patch
up the freeway. The state Transpor
tation Department has that amount
set aside for the repair and is await
ing the city decision of whether work
can begin.
One supervisor the protesters
have on their side at today’s meeting
is Tom Hsieh, who says he is out
raged by the mayor’s decision.
“Some leaders have no idea of the
hardship and the trauma people in
that community are facing,” Hsieh
said. “They lost not just business,
they lost employment.”
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