European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday novembers. 1988 the stars and St Lopes vote gives Edge to a Shamir government Jerusalem Al j final Rusulis released Friday in Israel s parliamentary election appeared to give prime minister Yitzhak Shamir s right Wing liked bloc the Best Chance to farm a new government. President Chaim he Frog will Start meeting with Leader monday meat deciding which party to Call on la form the government Israel radio reported. A liked Cabinet minister raised the possibility Hal the rival left leaning i bar party he invited As a government partner. Me said the religious parties Hal hold the balance of Power in forming a majority coalition were pressing Loo hard for orthodox causes. The religious parties Are presenting Many demands and difficult conditions. We will not he Able in re Spond to them mosh Kat a welfare and labor minister told the newspaper had Ashot. The religious parties won 18 scats tuesday in inc 20-Mcniber Knesset. Liked won0 seats and is right Wing allies seven. Labor grabbed 39 seals and its leftist allies 10. The other six scats were won by extreme leftist groups considered unlikely coalition partners both labor and liked would need most of the religious parties 1s scats to form their own majority coalition. Liked is believed to have the Best Cliance be cause its conservative ideology corresponds More closely to policies of the religious groups. The religious groups want to ban driving movies and soccer on the jewish Sabbath and arc demanding that conversion to Judaism to acc Beni cd Only if it was performed by an orthodox rabbi Shamir was in his third Day of negotiations Friday with far right and religious parties in efforts to form a majority coalition. The prime minister has turned Down far right de mands to Annex the West Bank and a a strip but told potential partners thai he would expand jewish settlement in the occupied crr stories. Soviets halt troop pull out in Afghanistan Moscow lil l the soviet Union has suspended the withdrawal of its troops because of recent rebel successes and will Only re sume the pullout once the military and political situation in the country Stabi Lizes. Deputy foreign minister Alexan Der said Friday. He also confirmed that soviet aircraft were conducting bombing raids on Guc Iril la targets such is warehouses and arms de pots but denied Niheu actions were Offen Sive in nature. The United Stales has said the air raids Are Joi no beyond self defense and thus constitute a violation of the april peace agreement signed in Ginex a. Bessmer Nyoh told a news conference that he soviets have suffered casualties since the Start of the May 15 withdrawal and said rebels Hud launched a total of 5 0 attacks on soviet Inion posit ions since Hal Date. He said thai in order to counter the in Cream in Rebe activity the soviet Union is rotating in fresh troops with More sophisticated weaponry. He also said thai v Nic combat units arc still being pulled out from Afghanistan they re now being replaced by new units thus keeping the number of soviet soldiers in the con in by constant. saw half of the 100,300 soviet soldiers who were in Afghanistan Al the Start of the withdrawal Wilf remain be Hind and continue to do so until the Situa Tion stabilises. According to the agreement the soviets should Complete their with awful by feb. 15, but Bessmer Nyoh warned that if Paki Stan and the United states continue to Vio late the agreement by failing to Cut of tanks supplies and shut Down rebel buses then the deadline maybe missed. He made soviet Observance of the timetable conditional on Pakistan and the United states jiving up to i Friend of the bargain. Walesa seeks Thatcher know How says Poland needs her Aid Margaret thalcher dedicates a pills i Monument to Wii British filers. Gdansk Poland up Soli Darity Lender Lech Walesa Friday told British prime minister Margaret Thatcher that poles need her Aulhorn by and experience to help bring democracy to their Homeland. Poland needs pluralism which has stood the test of time in your country and it needs of. Economic issues Walesa told the British Premier just before a luncheon ill St. Brigida s Church in the a Lii seaport. Your authority and experience in democracy can help us lie said. We arc nol beggars but we count tin help in creating Normal the polish leadership and Solidarity Are currently in a Ila Linale Over the Start of planned talks about the Pace of economic Reform in crisis rid Den Poland. Thatcher s visit to Poland the first by a British prime minister to Poland included meetings thursday in War saw with government leaders who urged her to help bring Western eco nomic Aid to Poland. She did not re Spond to that request. Her visit to Gdansk coincides with an announcement that the famous Lenin shipyard the Birthplace of Solidarity will be closed dec. 1 a decision Walesa brands As political and not economically justified. Thatcher wound up a sightseeing program Al noon that included a trip to the site of the German attack Hal triggered world War Al. She a met by Walesa Al her hotel and taken to a memorial built by shipyard workers to some is of their colleagues slain by police in 1970 riot ing along the Baltic coast. Soviet minister foresees Chance for troop Cut Budapest Hungary a some Sui Iet troops could withdraw within a year or two after new talks begin on conventional arms reduction in Europe the sock t foreign minister has been quoted assaying. On thursday the Magazine Hungary also quoted Eduard a. Shevardnadze the foreign minister As say ing i hit there Are only11 in link Al prisoners in soviet Nils and 25 in psychiatric hospitals. He accused is i is. Pm nations which say there arc Many More of Block ing new human rights agreements. ,. A soviet proposal for a human rights conference in Moscow in 199land Western demands for the release of soviet political prisoners have prevented agreement on 3 final document at a Vienna conference to review compliance with the a 75 Helsinki agreements on european cooperation. Creation of a new forum for Easl West talks on reducing conventional forces from the Atlantic Ocean to inc ural mountains depends on a successful resold Ion of the Vienna conference. Shevardnadze said the mandate for the new talks has been essentially coordinated and the possibility remains of Tallis beginning this year. Within a year or two. We could achieve the first stage of the reductions relating to the removal of imbalances and Dmytr to Lihe Ato and inc Warsaw 1 act the foreign minister said.ik1 said areas of possible reduction would include Hungary where an Bijj Maziej 65,000 soviet troops Are stationed. ,. Hungarian defense officials have said the red army soldiers can be withdrawn Only if inc North Atlantic treaty Pargani Alion makes corresponding reductions indications also have surfaced Hal some soviet air defense forces might remain in Hungary. In the interview,.-Shevardnadze criticized. Western countries which he did not identify for blocking agreement in Vienna on the 1991 Moscow human rights conference. This is an unacceptable tactical approach he said. Some of the demands occasionally Sci by the Wesl Are unrelated 10 both inc actual situation and the essence of the question concerned Western nations notably the United Stales and Brit Ain say they will not go to Moscow Tor a human rights conference while political prisoners arc held in the soviet Union. Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany said Dur ing a visit to Moscow last week that the soviets gave assurances that All political prisoners would be free by year s end but some Western governments were sep. Lical soviet jurisdiction docs not include a political prisoner bracket Shevardnadze said according to the Magazine what is meant by such in the Csc is the Case of persons condemned in Jar the code of penal Law for activities termed political in the he said Ivga he soviet Union had re viewed the cases of several people sentenced under Laws now being revised and some people were released. At present there arc Only to i persons serving Sudi terms and the revision of Caius is continuing he was quoted As saying. He said an additional 2 people were called to account before he Taw but later declared As psycho paths and sen to psychiatric hospitals for treatment
