European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q Reagan completes videotaped testimony Page 2 d iranians still target author Rushdie Page 3 q Sac commander rips budget cuts Page 7 d notre Dame beats Syracuse 66-65 in last second Page 21 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces Good Momma vol. 48, no. 308 monday. February 19, 1990 at is a d 8693 a Bucharest mob assails regime a protester smashes windows of the i government Headquarters in Bucharest durin the break in sunday. Ihk ii at is. Romania m l in raged Demon str Alors Yelling Down with communism smashed their Way sunday into Romania s provisional govern mint Headquarters on Victory Square in the most Vio Lent protest since december s revolution. The crowd also shouted for interim president Ion Iliescu to resign. Rows of soldiers in preen uniforms initially held Hack do ens of protesters in a Central hallway of the building used by prime minister Petre roman since the revolution that toppled communist dictator Nic olae Ceausescu. More than 1.0 10 people in front of the building cheered As protesters smashed the windows and Glass doors with rocks and Iron rods. The protesters then climbed through windows to open the doors. The demonstrators broke in after soldiers hauled away several protesters who had scaled the building and were waving romanian flags from a Balcony. More than 200 demonstrators got Mlo the building which appeared descried and the protesters were wan Dering around the hallways. The soldiers who first held them Hack did nothing to Stop them. Roman is on a visa lol ranch. Itescu has moved his office several Miles away to the old Irand National Assembly building which now is Headquarters for the ruling provisional Council of National i Only. The crowd is reamed that the government headed by Itescu. Was dominated by communists from the discredited Ceausescu regime and should resign. Pro testers also insisted that members of Caus Csc s haled see regime on Back Page Ceausescu had it coming romanians agree s Nolc reporter Randy Mcclain recently re turned from 10 Days in Romania. The last instalment of his report begins on Page 13. By Randy Mcclain staff writer to most romanians the execution of tyrant Nic olae c ears Csc and his wife. Elena was Justi cd. I think it was necessary to execute Ceausescu. Because in that moment the television and newspapers told the people that he s dead the Security at slopped their said 26-year-old Erhardt Dan. A romanian born student who now lives in Darmstadt. West Germany. Dan recently led a Church group to Romania with several carloads of food Medicine and other Relief. Revolutionary forces apprehended the eau pcs Cus while they were trying to escape the country. After a summary trial they were executed by a fir ing squad on Christmas Day. Other romanians concurred with Dan saying that word of the repressive Leader s death drained the Security forces of the will to fight and helped bring peace. Dow n Many e w Ith Ceausescu reads a slogan in Rumania. I � executing him was the Normal Bead Rice Georgescu. A id year old housewife in Bucharest said execution was the Normal thing for Ceausescu and his Wile. The woman who broke her hand during a scuffle in Bucharest s Palace Square at the height of the revolution said she considered herself a Christian hut mercy was properly withheld from Romania s evil dictator. Ceausescu and his wife weren t she said. They were Angelica Onu. A .10-year-old shop owner in Bra is in. Romania offered a different View. She said she would have devised a special punish ment for the communist party Boss who instituted draconian measures during his 24-year Rule and built a personality cult around himself. It would have been belter for Ceausescu to live for a time like the average Man in Romania with food rationed by coupons with no hot water and without she said. That would have been just. Or perhaps it would have been better to put him in a Cave where the people could have walked by and spit on reunification Likely by year end Baker says Washington Dpi Secretary of state James Baker said sunday there is an excellent Chance the reunification of East and West Germany will occur before the end of the year but he cautioned that additional time May be needed to resolve the Security implications for Europe. For an in depth Analy Sis of the subject Sec article on Page 28. Baker and nato Secretary general Manfred Wornor. Interviewed on the Abc television network both said they consider it Likely that the soviet Union will drop its opposition to Western de mands that a unified Germany be a member of nato. At the same time Thev underscored the uncertainties and difficult problems that confront the superpowers and their allies As germans move toward a Politi Cal and economic Union that has re kindled fears of european domination by a powerful Germany with the strongest Economy in Europe has agreed to use its formidable currency to bolster the battered Economy of East week Baker won agreement on a plan la would give the wartime allies Britain. France the soviet Union and the United Stales a role in shaping external Security arrangements once East and West Germany have agreed on terms for their internal events proceeding so fast that even president Bush admitted trouble keeping Pace with them last week. Baker said there is an excellent Chance reunification will occur this year because the process is taking place As we sit Here this is de Facto economic unification taking he said. But will we have resolved All of the external questions sur rounding German reunification at the end of this year 1 can t Tell you we East German opposition Leader Wolf gang Ullmann also interviewed on the . Television network expressed some degree of scepticism at the timetable mentioned by Baker noting that there Are a lot of difficulties in unifying two totally different countries and the key questions to be addressed in the two plus four formula Baker negotiated last week at a nato Warsaw pact meeting in Canada is whether Germany will remain a member see Baker on Back Page
