European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 23 the stars and stripes tuesday january 16,1990 news briefs soviets czechoslovak begin talks on troop cuts Prague Czechoslovakia apr Czechoslovakia began talks. Monday with the soviet Union on the withdrawal of about 75,000 soviet troops and Otic source said czechoslovak officials wanted at least half of the Force out by May. The Day before the talks about 6.000 people protested in the town of Kohorany demanding that the entire soviet Force leave by aug. 21. The 22nd anniversary of the soviet led invasion that crushed the Quot Prague Spring reforms. Foreign ministry spokesman Lubos Dobrovsky said last week that the soviet forces should leave Czechoslovakia by the end of the year. Quot the idea is to have them soviets make a political nimm Meni during these talks that All the soups Vaj leave but the end of the sear the source said on condition of anonymity. A the rough idea of the Lime Ironie on the f pc Hovi of Side is to see a to Ftp a percent a a  a ,the source said adding   Shizui i iut us on technical Ilc a in. I i a. Melt a Well us its pie is 11mine it.  i tugged from the talks led in in Chi a i reign minister Eiven Vacek and in soviet coun Lepari Han  party chief elected head of Lithuania Moscow apr Lithuania s communist parly chief was overwhelmingly elected the Republic s president monday in a Clear endorsement of his defiant stand toward the Kremlin and soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Algirdas Brazauskas was elected 228-4, with 19 abstentions by the Republic s supreme soviet legislature the Tass news Agency reported. The republics supreme soviet also decided to limit voting rights for military personnel requiring them to have lived in Lithuania for at least 10 years said Eduardas to Yasinskas a journalist for lithuanian television. The measure in elect restricts voting in idea elections feb. 24 to serv in members from Lithuania or a few Long serving soldiers and sailors. Brazauskas. S7. Faced alternative candidates National legislator Kazimeras Moticka and Romualdas Vozolas a Leader of the pro Independence group saudis. To Yasinskas said the vote would Quot strengthen the position of Brazauskas in dealing with  Brazauskas backed the lithuanian party s decision Dee. 20 to break away from the National communist party the first such break since the communists took Over in Moscow in 1917. Gorbachev who had denounced the move visited Lithuania from thursday through saturday to try to persuade lithuanian communists to reverse their  bulgarian lawmakers end communist party supremacy Sofia. Bulgaria apr parliament voted monday to abolish the communist parly s political monopoly and agreed to discuss further constitutional changes with the opposition which is demanding a swifter Transi lion to democracy. Lawmakers voted unanimously to delete clauses in the Constitution that had guaranteed communist party supremacy in Bulgaria for 44 years following the Lead of colleagues in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. On sunday More than 50,000 people rallied in Sofia to keep up the pressure on legislators and demand the immediate dismissal of old guard communists still in the leadership. They chanted a communists resign resign Quot parliament was also expected to adopt a let la ration backing the restoration of the rights of the turkish speaking Minimise the  nose Fitim  Iasi Witk in uric 1 . Opposition hymns 1 1-Lioiialisl iras Lars a my ethnic i inks Ike Les a ration  to its fuse Valmic tension  slide  a i a Vila is of Iki Gana s hauled 1.2 million ethnic links. I Arlin myth also adopted a proposal is Andrei , the no. 2 official in the communist party to set up the group that is to join lawmakers and opposition figures in drafting further constitutional Chen Gas. The changes arc Likely to include scrapping the reference to Bulgaria As a a socialist stale. Headed by the working  the changes Are expected to be voted on at the next parliamentary session in february. The country s new president and party Leader Pelar Mladenov is under pressure from pro democracy opposition forces to Speed reforms. The demonstrators on sunday demanded a Quot government of National Accord Quot and the resignation of pre Mier Corgi Atanassov a Holdover from the hard line Rule of Todor Zsivkov who was ousted nov. 10 after 34 years in Power. Leaders of the pro democracy opposition Union or democratic forces also read Csc apis from a declaration aimed at ending ethnic discord. It was agreed on Friday by nationalists. Communists and opposition representatives. Isl month. The country s new leaders struck Down a Zsivkov decree under which turks were forcibly As Simila cd. Thousands of ethnic slavs reacted by taking in the Sirc Cis in protest and staging strikes. Petko Simonov. President of the glasnost and democracy club has accused orthodox communists of manipulating nationalist sentiments in an mumps Quot to smash in Morvai Quot to a unix s .hci,-l.ciii rails opposition leaders an i Imi  of demands -, include iwo Isaye Lviv Lah a. Him ii. Mils and november rein Vieg to. I Impi i i Jis lion i nuns police and workplace a us  c die  guarantees of com i Mist supremacy pc tier in no n lending opposition spokesman who read the demands from the Steps of Alexander Nevski Cathedral called for some parliamentary seals held by Zsivkov cronies to be contested in May. With a full general election in november. Quot we re hearing of changes in nearby countries like Romania even Albania so we demand demo raise guarantees Quot Beron shouted to the crowd who Sang and cheered in almost a Holiday mood. He also called for a full report on the finances of the secret police and the removal of All former Zsivkov collaborators from the government. From Page 1 for French forces assigned to locations in Rheinland Pfalz. Quot we think we will have some problems finding work for these  dict zen said. A we want to know what these workers can do and arc there similar civil jobs they can  . Military occupies about 250 Sites inside Rheinland Pfalz. The Sites would be Ideal for new industries because most already have streets electricity and sewers. Dietzen  option proposes to ease air traffic congestion at Frankfurt International Airport by convening one of six . Air bases in the state into a civilian auxiliary Airport. Dietzen did not specify which air base the officials wanted to use for an auxiliary. A 17th air Force spokesman said his Headquarters unit which oversees . Air Force activities in West Germany and the Netherlands had not discussed with the state government specific issues related to a future withdrawal of forces. Quot at the 17th air Force level we have not gotten to the Point where we arc working particular negotiations with the Rheinland Pfalz slate government Quot maj. Greg Smith said. Quot everything at Inis time is proposals and speculations and we re awaiting air Force and nato guidelines concerning draw Down  usar Eup if Ciali would not  from Page t in the crowd also appeared Calm and Good natured As they milled through the Headquarters. The protesters had dispersed by late evening. No injuries were reported but the West German to network Adf quoted unidentified East German officials As saying protesters Quot threatened workers Quot when they broke into the building. Some used stones to break through Glass doors and gel into the building witnesses said. Adn said Quot Lens of thousands of people stormed the building Bui the television spoke of 100.000. The new forum pro democracy group had originally organized monday s protests and had repeatedly called for demonstrators to avoid violence. The seventh weekly negotiating session bal when the communist party and opposition groups where a government official assigned to dissolve the Agency had made a report was suspended after the attack on the Headquarters. To other demonstrations official Media reported that More than 300.000 people rallied against the communists and secret police in at least seven other cities. About 150,000 people staged a noisy protest against the communists in the opposition hotbed of Leipzig another 150,000 rallied in Karl Marx Stadt adn said. Other protests were reported in Potsdam Erfurt. Schwerin Rostock and Halle. Thousands of workers staged politically motivated warning strikes in the cities of East Berlin Gera Jena and Zwickau. The indictment or Hon Cockcr 77, and former Security chief Erich Michlke would be the most drastic action to Date against leaders of the disgraced regime that ruled for 18 years. High treason carries a maximum penalty of death in Quot exceptionally grave eases Quot and a minimum of 10 years m prison. Hon Cockcr and Michlke 82, Are among 30 former leaders being investigated for corruption abuse of office and other serious offences. Joseph the chief proc Cuylor announced at the weekly negotiations that he would indict Honecker and Michlke for Quot anti constitutional association Quot in addition to  Sauer the government official assigned to dismantle the secret police dominated mondays meeting with the most comprehensive disclosure yet about the secret police. He said that one of every 80 East germans had worked for the Agency or supplied it with information and that 3,200 employees were assigned to lapping telephones and opening  from Page 1 some parts of the Southern Republic where most of the victims were armenians attacked by mobs of azerbaijanis in the capital of Baku Many armenians were reported fleeing. The official Tass news Agency said that some azerbaijanis were armed with machine guns and that communist party and government officials were taken hostage in one Pari of the Republic. Soviet radio said High level troubleshooters were dispatched to Baku where the killing began saturday night and continued sunday and to Yerevan capital of the neighbouring Republic of Armenia. A Armenia is in a state of Battle  Karen Shakhbazyan an armenian activist said monday by Telephone from Yerevan. Soviet television said people were reported massing outside government offices there demanding the return of weapons confiscated from them. A russian witness in Baku described a Street awash in blood and said victims included two women tossed from balconies and an old woman who was shot Point Blank when confronted by an unruly mob. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Soviet Media said the Quot pogroms of armenian Homes and murders Quot continued sunday. It gave no details. Azerbaijanis and armenians Are locked in a feud Over who should govern Magorno Karabash a mainly armenian enclave of 160,000 people controlled by Azerbaijan since 1923. Most armenians Are christians most azerbaijanis Are shiite moslem. Two ferries Cvack Ald about 660 armenians mostly women and children from Baku across the Caspian sea to Krasnyy disk in the Republic of turkmen a and Aboul 200 others were sheltered from attacks in the capital soviet to said. In Yerevan 300.000 people rallied sunday night to demand that authorities take More Resolute action to protect their Brethren. Shakhbazyan said at least 100 armed police massed at Yerevan s Airport monday hoping to Fly to villages in Azerbaijan to defend armenians under siege. Armenian journalists working for slate run agencies said the death toll in Baku had risen to 32. To try to end the bloodshed the Kremlin dispatched Yevgeny Primakow a non voting member of the ruling politburo to Baku. Nikolai sly nov a full politburo member was sent to Yerevan