he Battalion ORLD & NATION 7 hursday, June 14,1990 p rence > issilfr supports 'Jesecratid ci that the |, 'otected h, 'he Cotisti ha PPy tosi » n flag bm ('hen thef; lonte Will, asm was -hementlv te said. “A t ; ical i MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin greed Wednesday to ease the 2- nonth-old economic embargo on ithuania that Moscow had hoped vould force the Baltic republic to Irop its declaration of indepen- lence, the Lithuanian Parliament .aid. Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazi- miera Prunskiene met with Kremlin officials Wednesday and was told the patent Soviet government would restore 15 or him bt ed if he Publican o s. doesn’t this right ith said. “|| probably 4 e doesn’t h his,” Bed »y eath • A 6-year- al condiiii,;: being pufc a downtml ool where If dfirialssar tni wasfoui p end of tii ren were pr •parate swr aid YWC i Acuna, d was in (i- to 8-v« Soviet leaders agree to reduce embargo n Lithuania’s gas supply after 2 months percent of the republic’s natural gas needs, Rita Dapkus, a parliamentary spokeswoman, said. The gas shipments, promised by Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzh kov, would allow a Lithuanian ferti lizer plant to reopen and would bring Lithuania back to 30 percent of its regular supplies, said parlia mentary spokeswoman Rita Dapkus. Ryzhkov made no promises on re storing other supplies, Dapkus said. The Soviet Union cut off the re public’s entire oil supply, most of its natural gas and some raw materials on April 18, to pressure the republic into rescinding pro-independence laws. The embargo put 26,000 peo ple out of work. Tass quoted Prunskiene as saying after meeting Ryzhkov that, “We have no doubts the economic block ade will be lifted.” But Dapkus said the Kremlin of fered to end the embargo only if We welcome this announcement. Together with the beginning of the dialogue yesterday, these are positive steps.” —Marlin Fitzwater, presidential spokesman Lithuania agrees to stop implement ing its March 11 declaration of inde pendence for the duration of nego tiations with the Soviet Union on the issue. Lithuania has said it was willing to negotiate on rolling back its inde pendence laws but steadfastly had refused to revoke its declaration of secession. The Soviet news agency Tass quoted Ryzhkov as describing Wednesday’s encounter with Pru nskiene as “the beginning of a con crete dialogue on the question of fu ture negotiations.” The reported breakthrough in the impasse between Lithuania and Moscow was hailed Wednesday by the White House. “We welcome this announcement,” said a spokesman for President Bush, Marlin Fitzwa ter. “Together with the beginning of the dialogue yesterday, these are positive steps.” Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorba chev and Ryzhkov met with the pres idents of the three Baltic republics Tuesday and offered Lithuania, Lat via and Estonia deals that would lead toward negotiations on their de mands for independence. The republics want independence lost when they were forcibly an nexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. Latvia and Estonia have taken more cautious steps toward independence than Lithuania. Ryzhkov said negotiations could lead to full independent statehood for Lithuania, such as that enjoyed by Finland, Dapkus reported Pru nskiene as saying. But, she said Ryzhkov favored an alternative in which Lithuania would remain part of a transformed Soviet Union, with a new union treaty granting the Baltic republic special status or privileges. Ryzhkov reportedly suggested that negotiations on independence would take two to three years, Dap kus said. The Lithuanian Council of Min isters will discuss a response to the Soviet proposal Saturday, the parlia mentary spokeswoman said. Friday marks the anniversary of the day in 1941 that 36,000 Lithua nians were deported to Siberia and the Far North by Soviet secret police. They were accused of anti-Soviet ac tivities just days before Nazi Ger many attacked the Soviet Union in World War II, Dapkus said. AIDS activists ignore White House move Groups plan to boycott international conference WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House move to ease immi gration restrictions for an inter national AIDS conference has not swayed the more than 100 groups that plan to boycott next week’s event, AIDS activists said Wednesday. The activists, releasing the American edition of an interna tional study on AIDS discrimina tion, said the U.S. immigration limits are part of a worldwide pat tern that’s spreading fear “as widespread and destructive as the virus itself," Martin Foreman, author of the Panos Institute report, said more than 100 groups are boycotting the conference despite a new 10- day visa the United States an nounced in April for AIDS-in fected foreigners who want to at tend the conference. Groups listed as boycotting the 6th International Conference on AIDS include die International League of the Red Cross, the Eu ropean Community, the Ca nadian Public Health Association, the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church’s charity group, Caritas Interna tional. The San Francisco meeting is June 20-24. “One of the purposes of the conference, which is the free in ternational exchange of informa tion, has already been defeated,” Foreman said. _ The Immigration and Natural ization Service had denied entry to the United States to anyone with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, one of a handful of diseases that bar entry to the country. Those applying for the new visa don’t have to reveal whether they are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes AIDS. But AIDS ac tivists said the limited visa sends the wrong message to those al ready facing discrimination. Romania experiences explosion of violence iSoldiers fire on demonstrators Flag amendment ‘sails’ through subcommittee Terrorist House re-launches campaign /, Acunax BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — soldiers fired on anti-government lemonstrators outside the former iccret police headquarters Wednes- lay night after protesters attacked 'tate TV offices and burned another ere seated' )0 fl ce building, witnesses said taking turs re P ol ls °f shooting cappe ler when it hy °f violence that began wit h ed a the elice clubbing and dragging away ppeared i, t H )rotesters w bo had staged a 53-day led lifeguatB nt '"^‘ onirnun ' st demonstration in a Y\VC\ Jl entral Bucharest square. ie swimmuM ^ was d ie wors ' outbreak of vio- rhild linl S erice ' n d ie capital since Romania’s 1 ^iid’no’ J « ) * 00 ^y December revolution that ’ un[ || a |jjl|oppled dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. One witness reported seeing at east two bodies outside the old found 1 but the be; ousness. director V 1 parami 0 minutesa! Jieadquarters of Securitate, Ceauses- u’s hated secret police, but this ould not be confirmed. Witnesses aid at least seven people were ounded outside the building, hich is used by the Interior Min istry. The demonstrators say Commu- ists still dominate the National Sal- ^ ^ ^^■'ation Front, which has been in IIP power since the December revolu- | lion and which won last month’s free elections by a landslide. | President-elect Ion lliescu, in a :ommunique Wednesday night, ac- :used the attackers of organizing a 1 f ‘Nazi rebellion.” “We are now facing an organized, •/ Ipre-planned attempt to overthrow through force and violence the lead- spended« ership elected in a free and demo- iter a Bcs :rat ' c wa y.” sa *d lliescu, the first ex- turned indt th aggravaii s of assatiS' i making i in court f, 28, is a to i probati 1 Communist to win a popular presi dential election in Eastern Europe. A Scottish freelance photogra pher, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, said he saw soldiers shooting from inside , the old Securitate building in down town Bucharest and the body of a man who had been shot in the head. He said other photographers had seen at least one more body near the building, which was ringed by half a dozen armored personnel carriers. , Associated Press reporter Gabriel Paslaru reported that demonstrators who tried to force the main gate of the building were met with auto matic rifle fire or single, precise shots. “I saw one man with a wounded hand who fainted before he was rushed into a car and another man who was hit in the neck,” Paslaru said. “His face was a red mask of blood —it is hard to believe he could survive.” He said the building was sur rounded by several hundred people. In the crackdown on the demon stration in the square and the subse quent clashes, police said about 260 people were detained and a po liceman was injured. They did not say how many protesters were hurt. State-run television, scene of fierce fighting during December’s revolution, was stormed by the pro testers who occupied one of the main studios. An announcer said they might not be able to transmit any longer. WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposed constitutional amendment against burning the American flag sailed over its first congressional hurdle Wednesday, two days after the Supreme Court threw out the federal flag- protection law. Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier, D-Wis., complained, “It’s unseemly that we’re rushing to judgment” as the proposed amendment whisked though the House Con stitutional and Civil Rights Subcommittee. Supporters of the amendment called the flag a sym bol of “all that America stands for” and deserving of special protection, while critics said that the plan would “mutilate the Bill of Rights” and the entire issue smacked of election-year politics. Both sides said if the House were to vote today on the amendment it would be close. The proposal would have to win two-thirds majorities in both houses and appro val by 38 state legislatures to take effect. Wednesday’s subcommittee session re-launched, in a fiery burst of congressional rhetoric, the proposed amendment that was set aside last year as Congress passed the statute overturned by the Supreme Court on Monday. The House panel voted 5-3 to send the measure to the full Judiciary Committee with an “adverse” recom mendation — a symbolic dark cloud that will have no effect on its chances of eventually being adopted. The three Republicans on the subcommittee, all of whom favor the amendment, voted no on the roll call because they wanted a “favorable” recommendation. “You don’t see that very often,” said panel chairman Don Edwards, D-Calif., an outspoken critic of the plan. President Bush passed up a chance to restate the vig orous support of an amendment that he voiced on Monday — after the court ruling — and again on Tues day. But his wife Barbara endorsed his views on the subject, saying “You’re darn right, I’m always with the president.” Bush himself addressed a number of topics with a group of reporters but didn’t bring up the flag. Vote speeds market economy Soviets delay oreadprice increase MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet leg islature voted to further speed the nation toward a market economy Wednesday, but a government offi cial told lawmakers that a threefold increase in bread prices would be de layed. Panic-buying has emptied many store shelves since late last month, when the Communist government C roposed to cut many price subsidies y January. Prices on bread, the main staple of the Soviet diet, also will be raised eventually, but “of course, not by July 1,” said Yuri Maslyukov, chair man of the government agency that runs the centralized economy. Bread now sells for less than 30 cents a loaf. The Supreme Soviet, ordering the fine-tuning of a plan that drew wide spread criticism as being too vague and tentative, instructed the Council of Ministers to have drafts of all the laws needed for the switch from a planned to a market economy by Oc tober. The measure also instructed Pres ident Mikhail S. Gorbachev to issue a series of presidential decrees begin ning July 1 to speed up progress on bringing new laws on ownership, leasing, farming and other key el ements of a market economy into ef fect. “The main thing now is that now we can begin to work,” said leading economist and Deputy Prime Min ister Leonid Abalkin. “Three years ago someone who called for a market economy was pointed at — ‘There’s a man who’s betraying the ideals of socialism!”’ he said. (Continued from page 1) The secret police, once virtually omnipresent, would have known the background of any West Germans resettling in East Germany. Many suspected the secret police, or Stasi, had provided the terrorists with new identities and other help. If so, Diestel said, it was a “diaboli cal connection.” The government-run East Ger man news agency ADN said Viett, wanted in several attacks, was cap tured Tuesday night in the East Ger man city of Magdeburg. It immediately led to speculation that other members of the Red Army Faction would turn up in East Germany, or that they once lived there. Ever since the two Germanics started their rapid road to unifica tion last fall, the question of terror ism has become increasingly impor tant. Officials on both sides of the crumbling barriers have warned that East Germany could provide fertile territory for new leftist terrorist crimes. Joint efforts were stepped up to capture any Red Army Faction members who may have slipped across the border after a series of at tacks that rocked West German in dustry in the 1970s and 80s. 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