European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes Friday. January 12,1990comecon members Force Market oriented reforms Sofi. Bulgaria Llam a the Sosick dominated trading bloc c of stun ended a crucial meeting wednesday with reformist member slates in Eastern Europe forcing through a Compromise agreement for Market oriented change. The meeting decided that a study commission would evaluate the options for Reform and report Back to another session slated fur Budapest Hungary in March or april. Delegates said the whole mechanism of Trade Between the member slates would be reviewed. The intention was 10 create the machinery for at least some com econ deals to be aligned with world Market prices expressed in convertible currency rather than the non convertible soviet Ruble. Closing the session. Bulgarian prime minister Georgi Atanasin said the agreement Tor change marked a new beginning. "wi1 have reached practical unanimity m the main directions of Renn atm of Cuoc Aluin in the forming of a Market environment. Blending the economic interests of individual producers and National economics us a w link he a Aid Quot irrespective of the differences and nuances of the positions of countries this Dunant Liiv should he appreciated As a real basis for cooperation he said glossing user the disagreements. Observers Saul the delay in implementation reflect led deep conservatism and suspicion about change among some of the bloc s members particularly Cuba. Cuba maintained that capitalist systems should not he aped. I lit organization has been under lire from Lorrn minded states such As Boland. Hungary Ami Cehn Slovakia. They fuse attacked co Mccon s highly centralized Liaiga icing by sick As too restrictive serving soviet interests and trading in shoddy. Unwanted goods. I he consensus for change appeared based on proposals adapted from polish a ugg Camions by soviet prime mini sir Nikolai Ryzhkova. But the celing ended in some confusion. No statement was issued after tuesday s session a wednesday news conference was cancelled anti there were Long delays in issuing a communique. Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary led the Calls for Reform. Prior to the meeting All three plus Romania urged the scrapping of inc old com econ structures anti creation of new trading pads based on convertible currency and world prices. The meeting was Given a report from Andrei Luu Bartuv. Can Nenn s executive committee chairman that reflect led widespread dissatisfaction with com econ Trade. L Zukanov reported Trade was not expanding As envisaged and goods irad cd were of poor Quality could not meet inter n ii Iona standards and were Del in if cd Laic. Com econ a an acronym for the Council for Mutual economic assistance a is based in Moscow and was formed in hm9 to coordinate Trade Between socialist nations. Current members Are the soviet Union. Poland. Czechoslovakia East in Many. Hungary Bulgaria and Romania As Well As the Republic of Mongolia. Vietnam and Cuba. Chinese troops wednesday March across Tiana men Square in Beijing hours before martial a is lifted in the City Tiana men Square fully reopened to Public but troops remain in sight world Tod paper says albanian City put under emergency beit Iradi. Yugoslavia apr a yugoslav newspaper claimed thursday that a state of emergency had been declared in Shroder Albania s second largest Civ. An albanian Diplomat in Vienna. Austria swiftly denied the report. The slate run Politika daily in Belgrade said the stale of emergency was introduced to quell possible popular unrest in Shroder. Which is close to the yugoslav Border to Northern Albania. Polio in did not give the source of its my Bra icon or explain Why some of inc other details in is report sketched Hack three to five years but were emerging Only now. As the last bastion of stalinism in Eastern Europe Albania is viewed by some a siem analysts As the next country to experience Radical change. Bui its isolation and Small population of 3 million Are among the factors that make Albania different from other communist countries in the Region. A spokesman for the albanian embassy in Vienna denied the Politika report dismissing it As an a Absurdity Quot that is part of a an angry smear campaigns against his country soviet Union to upgrade diplomatic ties to Plo Moscow Luigi a the soviet Union a pounced wednesday in is upgrading Plo representation in Moscow to ambassador status and will Send an envoy to Yasser Arafat a Headquarters in Tunis Tunisia. Soviet foreign mini sir Eduard Shevardnadze on wednesday also discussed elevating the status of israeli representation in talks with israeli science mini sir  Wei Man. A the soviet foreign ministry announces it is giving its consent to reorganizing the Plo representation in Moscow into that of an embassy in  Wiz Many a meeting with Shev Ard Nauza Seipolt a juror in Israel because the head or the israeli delegation in Moscow Arieh l Evin was not present. Israel and the soviet in upon have consular delegations in each other s country but Are driving toward a restoration of full diplomatic relations. Which the Kremlin severed in 1u67 during the six Day Arah Lurach war.4 executed in China for Selling heroin opium Beijing Law a tour men live been executed after being convicted of Selling heroin and opium in Southern c Hina an no facial newspaper said thursday. The overseas edition of the people s daily said a court in Kunming the provincial capital of s Yunnan. Found the four Gudex of earning tens of thousands or Yuan thousands of dollars Between i is and it it is from Selling drugs in Kunming and Canton. The paper said the Lour appealed to higher courts but the death sentences were carried out on monday after the appeals were rejected. Also on monday the report said inc Kunming intermediate four sentenced 82 people for crimes including 44 drug pushers four prostitutes. Four Sellers or obscene material 26 swindlers. Three gamblers and one person who Hud cheated people by using superstition. Beijing at a it Imi Munim authorities thursday Gas e people unlimited Access to Tiana men Square for the first Lime since they crushed the pro democracy movement but hundreds of soldiers marched through in in a show of ton e. The familiar appearance of troops on the huge pin a. Which student led protesters virtually took Over last Spring reminded Beijing residents of the lethal Force authorities used 10 Clear it in june. Though the govern Mcnol lifted martial Law on the it wednesday a spokesman said thursday that there will he a Vinall increase m troops stationed in the capital and its suburbs Yuan my said the troops were needed a to Sale Guan Public Security and peaceful work of the people. He did not say How mum troops were involved. An estimated i Sill Jofh moved into the City last summer. More than seven months of martial Law in the City ended at Midnight wednesday. In announcing the change Premier i i eng said the decision to order troops to it i smash the pro democracy movement had been Quot timely necessary and Correct. The lifting of martial lavs was welcomed in the l United states Britain Japan and other Western nations that have said Normal lies cannot he restored until China eases what the countries consider repressive policies. However the end of martial Law will have Little effect on life in the City. Rolice replaced military guards on Beijing streets in october and anti demonstration Laws remain in effect. Students also remain under heavy Surv Eit Lance. Chinese citizens had not had free Access to Tiana men Square since june 3-4, when soldiers killed hundreds of civilians on their Way to Clearing the Loo acre Plaza of pro democracy protesters. The Square was closed after the massacre and Grad nails reopened until thursday soldiers and police had screened All visitors and the Square was closed at night. Shortly before noun up to 1.000 troops camped in the history museum on the cast Side of the Square marched across the Plaza. Chaining and singing military songs t hex disappeared into a waited compound on the Oiler mde of the Groat Leal loathe . A i thought Marlin Taw was  said one of the several thousand people strolling around Tiana men. People a ii of in tired Woik Meu in Moxa barricades to Widen Access in the Square and lined up to have i hair pictures taken by professional photographers Hack in business for the first Lime in months. Steps to the revolutionary Marty re Monument in the Center of the Square students Headquarters during their three Wei a occupation of Tiana men were not open to the Public As before. Two armed police stood guard at the Monument Quot its Good that things arc Hack to  said a woman from inner Mongolia Louring the Square with her child. But one Middle age Man from Nanjing said a we Don t have Happy feelings Quot about the lifting of martial lass. He said people now cannot speak out. Quot we have to keep things in our  _ Quot we Haven t forgotten the students Quot said a Beijing teacher