European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday. September 18,1989 former president Carter talks with president Daniel Ortega after Carter s arrival Friday in Nicaragua. Free elections will improve ties with Nicaragua Carter says Managua. Nicaragua a former president Jimmy Carter said saturday that if he and other observers can certify that next february s elections Are free and fair it will almost ensure an improvement in Nicaragua s relations with the United states. Carter who denounced As fraudulent Panama s elec Tion last May. Arrived in Nicaragua saturday As the head of a delegation of current and former chief executives who will observe the election process and the balloting on feb. 25. The invitation to observers was sent to the Council of freely elected Heads of government based in the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta by the leftist sandinista government the 14-party opposition coalition and the supreme electoral Council which will organize and supervise the balloting. Former president Raul Alfonsin of Argentina a going South North korean defector Suh Yong Chul 26, is escorted by a South korean Soldier after Suhs am across a Border River sunday in the demilitarized zone dividing the two Korea. The defector had worked As an escort who helped Northern spies infiltrate the South the South korean defense ministry said. Member of the delegation sat next to Carter during a news conference shortly after Carter arrived at the Airport in the capital of Managua. Carter said he knew of existing differences Between the opposition and nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega s government. But he said it would be premature to address those issues until he had had a Chance to speak with All sides. Carter said that his delegation would remain impartial and that he was not representing the United  United Stales has not had an ambassador in Nicaragua since Richard Melton was expelled in mid 1988, along with several other embassy officials. The government accused them of instigating unrest. Observers from the United nations and the organization of american states also have been invited to Monitor the electoral process. Namibia seizes elephant tusks Windhoek Namibia a police confiscated 980 elephant tusks weighing about 7 tons saturday in what they described As one of the world s largest Cvar seizures of poached Ivory. Six namibian men were arrested when police uncovered the Ivory in a truck that officers stopped be fore Dawn saturday at a Kahanda about 45 Miles North of the capital of Windhoek police spokesman Kieri Edu Rand said. Do Rand said the tusks would sell for about $1.5 million. The spokesman said the men would appear in court monday. Police said they believe the tusks came from elephants in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia. South Africa. Botswana and Zimbabwe hold positions similar to that of Namibia saying that properly managed Ivory sales allow them to keep the elephant Popula Ion under control and generate Revenue for conservation programs. However the total african elephant population has fallen from about 1.5 million in 1978 to As few As 400,000, due mostly to poachers who seek the valuable tusks. Several Western nations including the United states recently have banned the import of Ivory and the 102-nation convention of International Trade in endangered species will consider a worldwide ban on the Ivory Trade next month. World today poles Mark anniversary of soviet invasion in 39 Warsaw. Poland a about 1,000 peo ple gathered sunday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the soviet invasion of Poland As the new Solidarity government urged the nation to hold dignified demonstrations on a Day it was once forbidden to commemorate. Sept. 17. 1939, the Day the red army invaded Poland from the cast is As bitter a Mcnary for poles As sept. I 1939, the Day the nazi army invaded from the West to Start world War ii. While poles in the past have been Able to commemorate the nazi invasion Independent ceremonies to Mark the invasion by the communist red army were often broken up by police. In Warsaw on sunday about 1.000 people from several groups gathered at the Tomb of the unknown Soldier to Mark the anniversary. Wreaths were placed on the Tomb by representatives of the Home army the underground resistance Force that fought both the nazis and the red army during world War ii the Warsaw chapter of Soli Darity and the confederation for an Independent Poland a Small Independence group. Truck Drivers continue blockade at Brenner pass Brenner Italy up a blockade of the italian austrian Border by angry truckers stretched into its fifth Day sunday with lines of parked trucks stretching Back at least i5 Mileson both sides of main Highway crossing Point. Many of the Drivers who began parking their trucks at the Border tuesday to protest a limit by Austria on How Many vehicles could transit the country went Home for the weekend. The strikers reportedly left a guard unit of unto 100 people to look after their vehicles. As the protest action clogged the Roadway motorists returning from italian holidays found them selves snaking along for hours on secondary roads after being directed off the Brenner Highway Italy main Road link to Austria and West Germany. Police reported car traffic was barely moving. 900 More East germans flee to West Germany Passau West Germany a about 900 East germans crossed into West Germany Over night from Austria bringing to Over 15,000 the number of refugees who have arrived in West Germany since Hungary opened its Borders a week ago. Officials said sunday. Border police said Many of. The new arrivals went straight to West Germany via Czechoslovakia Hungary and Austria without staying in those countries. About 600 East germans arrived in buses and another 130 came by train to the Southern West German Border town of Passau. Others came by private cars. The new arrivals were taken to three refugee Camps near Passau. Austrian Border police said 15,526 East Ger mans had arrived in Austria by sunday morning since Hungary began allowing East germans unrestricted passage to the West at Midnight last sunday. Hungarian reformists create political group Budapest. Hungary a Reform communists preparing for a showdown next month with hard line party members on saturday founded a mass movement espousing peaceful democratic change and elected the most Liberal member of Hungary s four Man leadership to head it. In a statement outlining the functions of the movement for a democratic Hungary the founders said the organization was created to Aid the peaceful dissolution of the dictatorial system and to defend against economic col lapse and political  speaking after his election As Mph president Imre Pozsgay said the movement was open to people of most political persuasions. However the old guard marxists resisting evolution to a multiparty democracy those who still con Sider the Earth Flat will be excluded