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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d ruling party keeps majority in Japan Page 3 d Navy patrols still an option drug Czar Bennett says Page 4 q Sac commander rips budget cuts Page 7 d 3 giants of boxing honoured a Johnson. Louis Page 8 it ionized in Offick publication for the us Omeo forces vol. 48. No. 309 d 8693 a Bucharest mob assay regime Bucharest. Romania a demonstrators jelling Down with communism smashed then Way into interim government Headquarters with rocks and Iron rods sunday in the most violent protest since the december pro democracy Resolution. Soldiers fell Hack before More than 1.000 demonstrators and about 500 pro testers poured inside. An official said not enough troops were on hand to keep order. The stale news Agency to marcs said More than 20 paratroopers were severely wounded but reporters saw Only two injured soldiers. Hundreds of troop reinforcements a rued and pushed Back the crowd which numbered around 5.000 at its height and l armoured personnel carriers were positioned in front of the building. The army blocked the Entrance alter allowing Man demonstrators to leave. A army Captain said about i 50 people were arrested and remained inside the building guarded by soldiers. The building on Victory Square has been used by i rim minister i etre roman since the revolution that toppled communist dictator Nicolas Ceausescu. Who was later executed. The demonstration started like others this past week in Victory Square with about 20ii people arguing in the mid morning sunlight. 1 he enraged crowd stormed the offices sunday afternoon shouting for president Ion Iliescu to resign and accusing the provisional government of being dominated by communists from the Ceausescu regime. The on member of government in the building apparently was vice prime minister Tielu v Unican Voiculescu. Demonstrators Sei de him. Punched him and dragged him onto a Balcony where he was jeered. Soldiers hustled Voiculescu to his of fice where they guarded him from hundreds of demonstrators Selling Voican Voidean " the crowd broke into the building protestors storm the front of the Headquarters of Romania s interim Gou rement. After soldiers hauled away protesters who scaled the building and waxed romanian hags from a Balcony. Protesters told the crowd one Man who was hauled away had been shut prompting cries of assassins murder cars protesters then went into a fran a tearing Iron bars from in front of the building. More than i Ink people in front of the building cheered As protes ters smashed windows and Glass doors and hundreds surged inside. Protesters shouted that the govern ment had not disbanded the be Cuneate As it had promised. The Only solution is another revolution they yelled. They failed to find Iliescu. Who recently moved his office to the old grand National Assembly building the Headquarters for the provisional ruling Council that is several Miles away. An army colonel in the government building in old a reporter. If we had got ten an order to tire we would have fired and finished this off in two  in spoke on condition of anonymity. Nger has built since the National Sal vation i Roll  m planned to Lake part in May elections i he a rent then gave up Power and the Council of National i my  funded opponents have accused the front of  Llie Council and seeking a return to one party Rule roman who was in pans on a tour  Oll Kial visit said the protesters rep Icson cd an insignificant portion of the  i at tins tune we Are Nelv .1 provisional  roman told the French television network Anlennc-2. We do not have a real . But these of persons  entered the build ing of the provisional government they represent  roman told French journalists earlier sunday that his fasten i Uio can nation had reached political stability under the leadership of Iliescu. Who has become increasingly disliked for his communist past. Ceausescu had it coming romanians agree editor s note reporter Rudy Mcclain recently re turned from 10 Days in Romania. The Sithat aument of his report Beuins on Page 13. By  staff writer to most romanians the execution of tyrant Nic Olac Ceausescu and his wife. Elena was Jusli 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 so Cunlain stopped their  said 26-year-old Erhard Dan. A romanian born student who now lives it Darmstadt. West Germany Dan recently led a Church group to Romania with several carloads of food Medicine and other  forces apprehended the a causes 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 rumanian 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. Foi v,&5 Dij in Dan Down with  reads a slogan in Romania. In Many executing him was the Normal  head nce  a fifi year old housewife in Bucharest  was the Normal thing for him Ciru am his wife. Of Georgescu. Who broke her hand during a scuffle in Bucharest s Palace Square at the height of the revolution said she considered herself a Christian but mercy was properly withheld Fiona Romania s evil dictator. Ceausescu and his Wile weren t  she said. " i hey were  Angelica Onu a .50-year-old Simp owner in Bra Sov Al Juania. Offered a different v Lew she ,cml11 have div i cd a special punish ment for the c  party Boss who instituted draconian measurc4ttjllig his 2-1-year Rule and built a personality cull aft Nii himself. It would have been better cd Ceausescu to live for a time like the average Man in Romama. With food rationed by coupons with no hot water and without  she said. That would have been just. Or perhaps it would have been belter to put him in a Cave where the people could have walked by and spit on   
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