European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday january 15,1990 news briefs referendum to decide Fate of Romania s communists by the Washington Post Bucharest. Romania acting Roma Nian president Ion Iliescu on saturday night re versed his provisional government s decision to ban the communist party. He said the party s future would be decided in a nationwide referendum later this month in which voters might also res Mac capital punishment. Iliescu said on television that he and other revolutionary leaders of the governing National Salva Tion front had made Hasty  he said they put the democratic spirit of the front in an unfavourable Light by declaring Friday night that the communist party had been outlawed. The ban on the party had been announced As Iliescu and other government leaders confronted angry crowds who besieged the front s Headquarters. The demonstrators demanded the ouster of communist officials participating in the provisional government. At least 25 killed in capital As Azerbaijan riots spread Moscow a at least 25 people died in the capital of the Azerbaijan Republic after eth Nic rioting broke out overnight and dozens More people were killed As the unrest spread across the Republic official Media said sunday. Extra internal Security troops were flown to the Southern Republic to try to quell the violence. It was the bloodiest clash in nearly two years Between azerbaijani and armenians who Are locked in a feud Over Magorno Karabash. The enclave is populated mainly by armenians but controlled by Azerbaijan. Most armenians arc christians most azerbaijanis Are Shi Ilc moslem. The violence was set off by news that an azerbaijani had been killed and another wounded by armenians in Azerbaijan s capital Baku. The official Tass news Agency said 25 people were killed in Baku. Radio Moscow quoted local Interior ministry officials As saying most victims were armenians. Late sunday. Tass said that the violence had spread to the Sha Ulyanovsk and Khanlar re Gions of Azerbaijan near Magorno Karabash and that there were tens of dead and wounded from both  Fra officials found dead in missing plane in Chile from wire reports Santiago. Chile a police plane missing since last week was found saturday crashed in the Andes mountains killing All five people aboard including two american officials. The director of the air Force Rescue service cmdr. Rodolfo Acuna. Said the Cessna 206 plane crashed 466 Miles Northeast of Santiago at an Alti tude of 10,500 feet near a natural Lagoon. The americans killed were John Harty jr., and Patrick Puzar officials of the food and drug administration who arrived in Chile a week ago to Check Security procedures in the Export of fruit to the United states. Gift6as a Roht j is Ken Geog Hannelore Hobel left and horse Komarck address the crowd outside a . Army depot near Clausen. West Germany on sunday. The slogan on a protester s balloon says Poison Gas threatens  chemical arms protesters rally at army depot in w. Germany by Joseph Owen staff writer Clausen West Germany about 200 people gathered sunday afternoon outside a secluded . Army depot to hear appeals for information about the chemical weapons believed to be stored there. Most of the crowd walked a few Miles through a frosty Forest to reach the depot located near Clau sen about 15 Miles South of . The West German news Magazine Der Spiegel reported three weeks ago that Clausen is a major storage site for . Chemical weapons drawing at Tention to the otherwise inconspicuous installation. The Magazine did not identify its sources. Two rows of Security fences topped with concertina wire surround the installation. Signs mounted in several places warn that deadly Force May be used to repel trespassers and that guard dogs patrol the area. To the was Pfalz peace coordination the precise location of the weapons had Little bearing on the Point of its warning watch sunday. If we demonstrate in the Beautiful Pfalz Forest in front of a military depot it does t matter which one it  group spokeswoman Hannclore Hobyl told the crowd suggesting it was More important to protest the very existence of such mass killing weapons. She said protests in the past few years at the near by Fischbach army depot had contributed to the . Decision to withdraw its chemical weapons from West Germany beginning in 1990. Spokesman Horst Komarck said local residents observations of activities at and near the depot con Vinced peace coordination members that the weapons were at Clausen and that the army was preparing to remove them. He acknowledged that the group had no proof however. The important question is How the existing Secu Rity problems connected with the removal of Chemi Cal weapons can be solved Komarck said. Der Spiegel reported that the Gas would be moved by Road and then rail Between june and August to the Northern port of nor Dunham then by ship to the Pacific. Komarck said the Federal and state governments should Tell local residents such details As whether the Gas containers would be protected from weather during transport what emergency health services would be on Alert along the transport route and the condition of the Gas containers. 8 arrested in Al Salvador in killing of 6 priests san Salvador Al Salvador a an army colonel three lieutenants and four other soldiers have been arrested in the november massacre of six Jesuit priests. President Alfredo Cristiani said saturday. Cristiani said a ninth suspect a private hot Tuph from in a Marl in rep inti in nah no military officer has been convicted of a human rights crime in the civil War although rightist death squads sponsored or tolerated by the armed forces killed thousands of suspected leftists in the Early 1980s. The other officers implicated by Cris and was a fugitive. The other eight he said have been placed at the disposition of the special investigative  they have not been charged. The colonel was identified As Guillermo Alfredo bin Avidus Moreno. He is the High est ranking military officer to be accused of a crime involving human rights abuse in Al Salvador s 10- car old civil War. Bin Avidus is director of the Gerardo Barrios military College and until last year was head of the intelligence Section of the joint chiefs of staff. It. Yuzi Mcindo a it. Jose Espinosa Guerra and it. Gonzalo Guevara. All Are members of the clue a Lacall infantry battalion. The enlisted men named by Cristiani arc sgt. Antonio Avalos sgt. Tomas Cas Tillo Cpl. Angel Perc pvt. Oscar Amaya and pvt. Jorge Sierra the deserter. Cristiani said the investigation was undertaken without waiting for nation Al or International reaction but As a moral imperative in consequence with the objectives that inspired our responsibility of  he said the investigation to Date was the result of the generalized clamor of the salvadoran people in the sense that those accused of criminal acts be brought before the courts and that the crimes do not go  military men implicated in atrocious crimes have gone unpunished so often that Many observers contended the Jesuit Mas Sacre was Only being prosecuted because of International pressure especially from the United Stales. In u nationally broadcast radio and Tele vision address Cristiani said this is Only one phase of the investigation which has been carried out so that the truth May do known. It is the duty of judicial authorities to Tarn the process to its conclusion so that in accordance with the Laws of the Republic guilt or innocence is  on nov. 16, armed men broke into the Central american University Campus Resi Dence of Jesuit priests and educators Igna Cio Ellacuria Ignacio Martin Baro. Segun do monies Amado Lopez. Juan Ramon Moreno and Joaquin Lopez . ,.i.-_ i n i or Iii the building and shot with assault rifles. The assailants also killed the jesuits housekeeper. Julia Ramos and her 15 year old daughter Colina. Ellacuria was Rector of the Central american University one of the Region s Moil respected educational institutions. Martin Baro was its vice Rector. The killings shocked Al Salvador and the rest of the world and prompted Calls in Congress for a reappraisal of the nearly si.5 million that Washington supplies daily to Al Salvador