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greed Wednesday to ease the 2-
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vould force the Baltic republic to
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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
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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
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east two bodies outside the old
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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
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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.
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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.
The West German federal police
worked with their counterparts in
East Germany to capture Viett un
armed in her apartment in Magde
burg, where she had lived for more
than two years.
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