European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strikes d Pope May make Lebanon trip Page 2 d bases phaseout proposed in Philippines Page 3 d Delta blasted into orbit Page 7 d slain colombian politician mourned by thousands Page 28 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for Che us armed forces Good morning vol. 48. No. 125 sunday. August 20. 1989 ree o.,T s,., d 8693 a Mazowiecki wins nomination Warsaw Poland a president Wojcicch Jaruzelski saturday nominated Solidarity activist Tadusz Mazowicki As Premier in a move that will end the communist party s 45-year grip govern ment president thinks that the formation such a government will be conducive to Over coming economic difficulties. And satisfying the needs and aspirations polish the official news Agency earlier the Pap news Agency announced that Jaruzelski had accepted the resignation Premier Czslaw Kiszczak a communist who was unable to form a government in the face opposition from the Solidarity labor movement. Pap said Jaruzelski would soon Forward the Nomi nation Mazowicki a Farmer political prisoner with close lies to Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to the e. Germans storm Gate to Austria Vienna Austria a several Hundred East germans seeking to Emi grate to the West pushed through a Bor Der Gate from Hungary into Austria saturday when it was opened As part an event organized to emphasize euro Pean Unity police and Media reported. Police who refused to be More specific confirmed that the number East germans who took advantage the weekend event to Cross into the West was in the hundreds. According to the Austria press Agency some 200 to 300 East germans pushed through the Gate As it was being opened and a total 500 were Esti mated to have crossed Over during the course the afternoon. The East germans stormed through the Gate As it was being opened about 3 . And Border guards were pre paring to stamp Peoples papers Apa reported. Police said it remained open Al afternoon for the symbolic Border Cross ing. The event organized by hungarian opposition lists and the austrian Branch the pan Europa movement was held to emphasize european Unity allowing participants to Cross the Border from Hungary to Austria and Back again and have a picnic in the formerly restricted area just inside the hungarian Border. The Border zone restrictions were lifted aug. I Hungary one the most Liberal coun tries in the East bloc began dismantling the barbed wire fencing and electrical warning devices along its Border with Austria in May. The participants in the event also Cut pieces the barbed wire in a symbolic act. At least 1,600 politically and economically frustrated East germans Are Esti mated to have crossed illegally into aus Tria from Hungary since the hungarians began dismantling the Fence in Austria they Hope to get documents from the West German embassy in Vienna for travel to West Germany. According to West German Law All see germans Back Page speaker the Sejm. The lower House parliament. It is an incredible Success for tar struggle but let us now see it in Walesa said afterwards from his Gdansk Home in a Telephone interview with the associated press. This is just the the nomination the first non communist govern ment in Eastern Europe since Josef Stalin consolidated communist party control in the late i mfrs is an event historic , b2. Said Friday that he was prepared to accept the premiership. He was reported by an associate to be resting saturday outside Warsaw. The Sejm must now elect a Owiecki. A parliamentary majority put together by Solidarity and two minor parties the United peasant party and the democratic party assures Makowiccki s election. Even with a non communist coalition in charge the government the communists will continue to Wie Jil Greal influence. As president. Jaru Els i oversees military and foreign policy. Party members fill the government and courts. Solidarity mindful the soviet Union s strategic concerns Lias said it will let the communist party retain control the ministries defense and Interior which oversee the army and police. A Owiecki was described by Pap As a longtime Catholic activist and former Sejm one the leading activists Solidarity and the editor its weekly newspaper. To Godnik sol Idarnos. The announcement came As the communist party Central committee was meeting in Warsaw and Walesa was meeting with the Union leadership in Gdansk. On Friday the powerful Warsaw Branch the communist party argued for a non political government experts an apparent last minute bid to keep the see Mazowiecki Back Page the copter used in the prison break sits abandoned near a farmhouse 35 Miles North the prison facility near Ord Colo. Daring copter prison break ends with gun Battle in Nebraska town Holdrege. Neb. A \ dra Matic Colorado prison break tamed out by two women in a hijacked helicopter concluded in a police shootout in a Small town 400 Miles away. The women were believed to be the wives the two men freed at Daybreak Friday. The four ordered the helicopter Pilot to Fly from the Colorado prison Yard to a farmhouse where they picked up a Van. A police officer in Holdrege a town 5,600 in southwestern Nebraska spotted the Van Friday evening. That began a nine minute Chase and gun Battle through a residential area that ended after the Van had been surrounded. Iit1cw Dut Mosti cd notch us Otu Motr Chosic tows gon ales Brown they picked a bad place for a shoot out police c Hief Kenneth Jackson said. One the escaped inmates. Kalph Brown was shot in the hand during the gun Battle. Phelps county Deputy attorney Rebec Ca Miller identified the four people in custody As Brown 30, and cellmate Fred die Gonzales 21. Both inmates the Arkansas Valley correctional Center near Pueblo. Colo Rebecca Brown. 26 and Pat Gonzales. 41. Police recovered two 9mm pistols and a .38-caliber revolver. The women rented the helicopter from helicopter airways in Denver saying see copter Back Page
