European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. January 11. 1s90 the stars and stripes Page 3 Romania seeks boost in . Trade requests return to a Assif Caf on As favored notion Buch -\rr.st, Romania a the now govern ment said tuesday h would seek most favored nation trading status with the United states As Well As restoration of other privileges and tics. Ousted dictator Nicolas Caus Csc had renounced he . Trade agreement in february 1988. When i appeared Congress would not renew it because of human rights abuses by c Ceausescu s regime. The foreign ministry said it was empowered to nullify the abusive and unilateral feb. 29. 1988. Declaration of the former regime which gave up the gramme by the .a. Of the most favored nation clause the ministry said a decision monday to lift All travel restrictions on romanians paves the Way for Romania and the United Stales to resume the Trade privileges which exempted from some customs duties romanian products arriving in the United slates. Washington granted the privileges to Romania in 1975 when Caus Csc was courted by the United states As a communist Maverick. They were tied to human rights including free travel and emigration under the .15-nation Helsinki final act. Washington became increasingly critical of c Cau a Csc s suppression of free speech religious practice and political organization in breaking the Accord the dictator said the . Pressure on him to Honor human rights pledges violated the principles of for eign relations. Caus Csc was toppled last month in a popular uprising. The provisional government convicted Ceausescu and his wife. Elena of grave crimes and executed them dec. 25. Romania estimated the lost Trade privileges Cost it $250 million in Export revenues from the United slates which totalled $775 million in 1987. The romanians sell wooden furniture Small engines leather textiles gasoline and aluminium products to the United slates. The governing National salvation front also asked for diplomatic ties with the european Community and membership in International satellite organizations. In Brussels. Belgium a european Community commission spokesman said the dec s external relations commissioner. Krans and Essen. Will discuss the request with rumanian authorities in Bucharest on sunday. Romania and Albania Are the Only East european in a Bucharest prison three alleged members of Romania s notorious Security police Uit to be culled up for trial. Nations with which the dec has no diplomatic ties. The state news Agency to marcs said the International satellite organization Intelsat would allow to mania to join and that the country was trying to join other such organizations. Caus Cecii had rejected Romania s membership in the organizations because he was not interested in linking Romania to Europe and the whole  rompers said. The news Agency also reported that leaders of a 1987 protest of the Ceausescu dictatorship were Al Lowed to return from internal exile. The leaders were deported to Oiler pans of the country following the nov. 15. 1987. Protest in Bra i. Which involved at least 10.000 people. To marcs said 74 people had returned. Rompers on tuesday also gave details from the trial of a member of c Ceausescu s Security forces who was sentenced to nine years in prison in the first announced conviction resulting from military Tribu nals set up by he interim government. The defendant identified As loan Hendea. A police major in Sabiu was sentenced in the Transy Vaman City after being found guilty of attempted murder the report said. To marcs said bund a had opened fire on a group of five army officers dec. 22. Injuring one of them. The report which did not provide further details said other such trials were scheduled in Sabiu this week. Captured members of Security units w to battled the army face a maximum life sentence. Ceausescu ordered rebel massacre officer says Bucharest. Romania a Nicolae Caus Csc ordered troops to fire on protesters at the Start of to mania s uprising and his wife told soldiers who did t want to shoot a pregnant woman to run her Down with a tank instead the Interior min ister said tuesday. Interior minister Mihai Cihi tac. The former military commander of the Bucharest Garrison and one of the first generals to Side with civilians seeking c Ceausescu s ouster said in an interview thai about 800 armed Caus Csc loyalists Hase been Cap tured since the uprising began Dee. 15. He also said the army knows the location of the few still Ai Large and is preparing to close in on them. The daily newspaper Adeva Rul said tuesday that c Ceausescu s youngest son. Nicu. A former parly Secretary in Sabiu in Southern Transylvania personally ordered army and police units open fire on revolutionaries in the City s streets last month. The dictator and his wife Elena were toppled in the popular revolt convicted of grave crimes and executed dec. 25. The lieutenant general s eyes misted As he spoke of the massacre in mid december of unarmed demonstrators in Timisoara .100 Miles Northwest of Bucharest the atrocity that unleashed the popular revolution. Ceausescu pave strict orders to  Ihnut said. Special units had been Send to infiltrate arms ranks and these units provoked Gen eral genocide in  mrs. Ceausescu. The virtual second in command was no less harsh ii Lac said. The telephoned the wife of the despot that they could not Elmol lie cause there were women and Chil  he said. She was told Over the Telephone thai a pregnant woman told the soldiers shoot and of will kill two people the tyrant s wife said. If you can t shoot use tanks against them " he depicted the Ceausescu a after their capture and in their final Days As Blind to the reality of a Romania impoverished because of their irrational economic and social poli cies. A interrogator asked them Why did you leave the romanian people without food. Children without food " i Lilac said. The answer was. Have you seen anyone die of hunger in Romania .1 " government officials last week said about 2.000 Ceausescu support ers had been detained hut that figure appeared to encompass those who resisted the army and others who did not fight bul were suspected of serious wrongdoing under the dictator. Cihi Lac also said he intended to open the smelly ethnic romanian police ranks to members of the Hun Garian and German minorities. He said this would reduce the resentment by those groups of what they saw primarily As a Force directed against them under Ceausescu. Other senior romanian officials who spoke on condition of a Mymi to. Said some police officers recently had been lynched in parts of Transylvania Home to most of Romania s 1.7 million ethnic hungarians by vengeful members of the minority group. Whitac would not comment beyond saying thai some ethnic Hungar ians had demonstrated in an extremes Way recently and we had to move some police to other parts of the  the minister said an amnesty of political prisoners declared after the Ceausescu execution last month had been extended to those incarcerated by pre Caus Csc communists More than four decades ago. It was Likely thai some of those freed had actually been in prison for More than 40 years i Lilac said add ing Hal he knew of no specific exam Ples. Cihi tac. Whose ministry was in charge of All police spoke from a spa Cious office where walk in Liu sets har bored massive safes locked by his predecessor. Officials Hae been unable to find the keys. This was Securi Tate secret police said Cihi tac. He suggested that one of the safes contained incriminating Ceausescu Cra documents but said we Don t want to wreck them unless we have  the feared department of stale Security which ran the secret police was disbanded after the Ceausescu downfall