European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes saturday March 3,1990 u i romanians pass Nicolas cause suits unfinished Headquarters which opened to the Public thursday. Ceausescu a luxurious Palace opened to Public in Bucharest Bucharest Romania apr the doors of deposed dictator Nicolas a planned palatial Headquarters were opened to the Public thursday for the first time evoking Awe and outrage from the visitors. About 2,000 romanians paid about 25 cents each to enter the unfinished House of the Republic one of the worlds largest buildings situated on a Man made Hill in the heart of the capital. In groups and individually they shuffled through the Mammoth ballrooms meeting Halls Amphitheatres living suites and offices. They gawked at hundreds of Marble columns red velvet drapes extensive Gold ornamentation and Diamond studded chandeliers including one said to be the biggest in Europe in the 800-seat column Hall. Ushers urged visitors not to touch the elegant furniture. The building constructed entirely with local materials was meant to House the leading bodies of the state and communist party and included Imperial suites for the dictatorial couple Ceausescu and his wife Elena. The municipality has not yet decided what to do with the building which Cost $1 billion Over six years of construction. One of the reasons for the 2-Monlh open House is to solicit suggestions from the Public. So far according to chief Engineer Alexander Baum Garten a the most popular suggestions arc making it an International conference and exhibition Center Ora sort of Home for romanians some people finding the buildings extravagance offensive in this impoverished country have also proposed destroying it. But Baumgarten who headed the buildings Quality control team until construction ceased after Ceausescu was overthrown dec. 22, is lobbying hard for the building to be finished. He said it can be completed in two years with another $200 million to $250 million. Sex policeman picked up on drug charges Mexico City apr the former head of the mexican Branch of Interpol who recently asserted that slain drug agent Enrique Camarena is still alive has been arrested on drug and weapons charges the government said. The attorney general a office said thursday that Miguel Aldana Ibarra had been arrested by Federal agents at a Mexico City restaurant. Aldana and four others were indicted feb. 1 by a Federal grand jury in los Angeles on charges of participating in the 1985 murder of Camarena a . Drug enforcement administration agent and a mexican Pilot. When asked whether the mexican government planned to extradite Aldana a spokesman at the mexican attorney general a office said the spokesman Arturo Antelmo said Aldana was picked up on a warrant for his involvement in a huge operation to smuggle marijuana to the United states five years ago. A the was picked up on a warrant for involvement in the 1985 Case at the Buffalo Aldana rallying poles ask for role in 2-plus-4 talks Warsaw Poland apr hundreds of people demonstrated in at least six cities to support prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki a demand that Poland be allowed to take part in International talks on a reunited Germany organizers said. The demonstrations thursday in Krakow Katowice Poznan Lublin and Rzeszot were organized by the anticommunist group confederation for an Independent Poland. They carried banners saying a Yalta never again and a nothing about Central Europe without Poland Quot the state owned Pap news service said. The confederations Leader Leszcak Moczulski meanwhile told a news conference that Poland deserves Access to the so called �?o2-plus-4�?� talks on German reunification involving West and East Germany As Well As the United states soviet Union Britain and France. Poland says it needs Access to the talks to win an ironclad treaty guarantee of its present Border with East Germany on the Oder and Neisse Rivers. A personally i see no real threat to our Banner carrying members of the confederation for an indent font pm in a a j a Western said Moczulski. A but a a a Side the is. Consulate in Krakow. Independent Poland demonstrate such a situation cannot be ruled ranch and also for the cocaine and six ar-15 automatic rifles found at his Cuernavaca Home a Antelmo told the associated press by Telephone. Aldana who used to head Mexico a Interpol the International Law enforcement Agency told reporters in january that Camarena had been in league with drug smugglers and was never killed. He alleged that the slain drug agent had plastic surgery and was living off drug profits in California. The statements were made after the january broadcast of the Abc network television miniseries a the drug wars a based on the Book Camarena and his Pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar were killed after the agent led a series of raids on marijuana plantations allegedly operated by Rafael Caro Quintero who ran the drug ring. The bodies showing signs of torture were found March 5, 1985, on a ranch 65 Miles Southeast of Guadalajara. A Borders will stay the same Genscher says Madrid Spain apr West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher on Friday reaffirmed acceptance that the Borders of a reunified Germany would be those fixed at the end of world War ii. He added that he and Chancellor Helmut Kohl were in a total accords on the Issue. Genscher in Madrid to allay Spanish concerns about plans for German reunification denied that Kohl a conservative Christian Democrat had waffled on the Issue of the Eastern Border with Poland in an attempt to hold onto right Wing voters. Spanish foreign minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez said he and prime minister Felipe Gonzalez agreed a Point for Point on the outline Genscher presented to them of a reunified Germany within the framework of existing plans for a unified european Community. Genscher said Kohl agreed with the position expressed by other Christian democrats in the West German parliament supporting existing Borders and would reaffirm that support after the March to elections in East Germany. A that Means that we done to have any territorial claims with any of our neighbors. We have no claims As far As Poland is concerned not now or in the future a Genscher said. A there is a total Accord
