European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes saturday february 10,1990 a rack history month Billie Holiday an outstanding jazz Singer in the blues " Billie Holiday Cut her first record in 1933 after her professional debut in Harlem nightclubs two tears earlier. Known As lady Day she was a local list with such bandleader As Benny Good Man. Teddy Wilson. Count Basle and Artie Shaw. With no technical training. Holiday instinctively created Beautiful und sophisticated musical effects. Hit classic records included strange  i Iier  them there eyes and cod bless the  this is one in a series of paintings by spec. James Scott appearing in the stars and stripes this month. Lithuania s 1940 annexation invalid its parliament says Moscow a the lithuanian supreme soviet or parliament has declared that the nation s 1940 annexation by the soviet Union was unlawful and invalid and Tass Friday acknowledged the move As a step toward  lithuanians whose communist party broke with the Kremlin in december took the new action wednesday. They said they want to Start talks with Moscow on lithuanian Independence. Estonia took a similar action in november Declar ing the annexation of the Baltic republics invalid. The Legislatures of All three Baltic republics including Latvia already had condemned the soviet German agreement of 1939 that gave free rein to nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in Poland and to soviet Leader Josef Sta Lin in the  lawmakers passed a Resolution Declar ing that legislation passed on july 21, 1940, making Lithuania a soviet Republic did not express the will of the people and was unlawful and  the lithuanian action coincided with the final Day of a meeting of the National communist party Central com Mittee where party leaders denounced the lithuanian party for breaking tics with the Kremlin. They said the split undermines the Unity of the party and damages president Mikhail Gorbachev s Reform program. However the Central committee also said it was ready to drop its own constitutional guarantee of Power and accept a multiparty system. In its report. Tass. The official soviet news Agency said wednesday s Resolution in Lithuania cannot be regarded otherwise than a step toward this Baltic re Public s secession from the soviet  will Lithuania and the soviet Union proceed along the Road together or take separate paths the news Agency asked. Time will judge who is right in this Contention. The lithuanian Resolution also called for abolishing All constitutional tics of lithuanians to the soviet Union and returning some nationalized industries to private ownership. Iranian says death decree against Rushdie still valid Nicosia. Cyprus a Iran s spiritual Leader Friday said the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s order calling for the death of author Salman rustic must be carried out Tehran radio reported. The broadcast monitored in Nicosia quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei As saying in a Sermon Friday that Khomeini s religious decree about the writer of the blasphemous Book the satanic verses is still valid and must be  Rushdie an Indian born British author has been in hiding since Khomeini issued the decree feb. 14. 1989. In interviews with the British Independent newspaper and Newsweek Magazine Rushdie said he regretted the pain the Book had caused but said he stood by it. He said he was pressing for a paperback edition. Moslem fundamentalists who consider the Book blasphemous for its irreverent treatment of the Prophet Mohammed islam s founder reacted violently to the Book after its publication in 1988. But the controversy escalated after Khomeini issued the death decree and iranian leaders put a $5.2 million Bounty on Rushdie s head. Riots break out after 2 groups merge with s. Korea s ruling party Seoul. South Korea a the governing party and two opposition groups formally merged Friday into a powerful new conservative coalition and hundreds of Radical stud cols battled police in two cities to protest the Alliance. The Leader of the Only remaining opposition party denounced the merger As a kind of coup d eat that betrayed popular will. No injuries or arrests were re ported in the student protests in the Southern City of Kwangju and Seoul. In a joint rally. 105 delegates from the governing part and two opposition groups unanimously voted to Combine into the democratic Liberal party and Rati fied its platform Constitution and Basic policies. President Roh tac woo. Along with Kim Young Sam and Kim Jong Pil. Leaders of the country s second and third largest opposition parties were named As the new coalition s supreme leaders for two year terms. In an address read by a Deputy. Roh praised the merger As a historic step that will bring stability and peace to South Korea s faction Ridden politics and promised that the new party would accelerate demo cratic reforms. In Kwangju. About 1.000 students clashed with police after an anti government. . Rally at Cho Nam University said the National news Agency. Yon Hap. It said about 1.000 riot police backed by armoured vans with tear Gas launchers stormed into the school to break up the rally. Yon Hap said. The students countered with rocks and firebombs touching off running Battles that lasted nearly an hour Yon Hap Salt. Kwangju 150 Miles South of Seoul is the scat of opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung whose party was Iso lated by the merger. The City was also the scene of a 1980 civil uprising that left about 200 people killed. Students demanded the expulsion of . Ambassador Donald Gregg claiming the the United states was behind the three party merger. Israel praises e. German move Jerusalem a israeli officials Friday praised East Germany s decision to acknowledge a share of responsibility for the holocaust but said they want practical Steps before forging ties with thai country. In a letter released thursday. Prime minister Hans Modrow of East Germany recognized that his people bore some of the responsibility for the deaths during the holocaust. He also pledged material support for the victims of nazi persecution but did not elaborate. Michael Shilo. An israeli foreign ministry adviser on Diaspora affairs said Friday. We have to. Chew a Little bit on the wording of Modrow s Decla ration. But obviously it is a beginning. 1 Don t think we have Ever heard before this kind of a declaration from East  Israel and East Germany never had formal tics because of East Germany s denial of responsibility for the holocaust in which an estimated 6 million jews were killed by nazi Germany. East Germany has maintained it was a new state created in 1949 by communists and could not accept blame for crimes committed by the third Reich in world War ii. Communists also suffered persecution under the nazis. However in his letter addressed to Edgar bronc Man president of the world jewish Congress mod Row said East Germany recognizes the responsibility of the entire German people for the  this is a consequence of the deep guilt of Hitler fascism which committed terrible crimes against the jewish people in the name of the German peo ple Modrow said. World today moslem husband advised he should beat frigid wife Cairo Egypt up an egyptian newspaper for devout moslem advised readers thurs Day that a wife who declines to have sex with her husband will be cursed by god s Angels until she repents and a husband has the right in such a Case to beat up his spouse to make her see the  Ibrahim Al Nakfa a religious adviser to the Cairo weekly my waa Al islami in reply to a letter from anxious Reader Moham mad Al Metwali said divorce in a Case where a wife refuses to have sex with her husband was a last resort. A wife who refuses sex with her husband will be cursed by the Angels of god until she re Penis sheikh Ibrahim advised his worried Reader. If she insists on refusing to have sex with her husband he can divorce her but Only after advising her. Leaving her to sleep alone and beating her up  Switzerland to take larger role in aiding East London a Swiss foreign minister Rene Fol bar said thursday Switzerland will be taking a More Active role in assisting the emerging democratic countries of Eastern Europe. Felber cited the feb. 3 International business forum in Yugoslavia and Switzerland s membership in the group of 24 countries providing Eastern Europe assistance As examples of his government s greater interest in International and european affairs. The foreign minister met wednesday with his British counterpart foreign Secretary Douglas kurd and with prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The half hour meeting at Thatcher s Downing Street office included discussions on european matters bilateral and East West relations a spokesman for the prime minister said