European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes tuesday March 6,1990 Kohl a errs on nato official says from staff and wire reports Oskar Lafontaine the probable social democratic candidate for West German Chancellor says a reunited Germany should not belong to nato. In a radio interview Over the weekend Lafontaine said Chancellor Helmut Kohl a errs if he believes that Germany can stay in Kohl and president Bush agreed during their meeting feb. 25 at Camp David md., that a reunited Germany should remain a full member of nato. Kohl said at the time that a a neutralise would be a very false in contrast Lafontaine said he believes a reunited Germany should be part of a european defense Community. Lafontaine the minister president of West Germany a Saarland state said the defense organization would work with the United states Canada and the soviet Union. Die Welt am sonntag a newspaper in Bonn quoted defense experts of Kohls Christian democratic Union and the governments Junior coalition partner the free democratic party As dismissing Lafon to inc a defense stance As irresponsible. Lafonta inc a comments also Drew criticism from within his party. A the social democrats have to Stop being More soviet than the soviets themselves a the weekly newspaper quoted nor Bart Gansl an spa defense expert As saying. Lafontaine is seen As the strongest candidate to run against Kohl. Charter proposed East Berlin apr communists and opposition parties agreed monday to submit a Broad social charter to lawmakers in both Ger Many designed to protect East germans against social hardships once the countries merge under a capitalist system. The charter was adopted at weekly negotiations Between the communists and 15 opposition groups. Peter Schutt left sports some of his military Memorabilia As browsers look Over his wares near the Brandenburg Gate. A amps Ken Clauson vendors Yeltsin from Page 1 medals to about $35 for helmets. The Market has had its problems As Well As its profits. On the recent sunday sales came to an abrupt halt about 5 p.m., As West Berlin Colice began telling the vendors with the ingest selections that they would need licenses to continue business on the Street. Schutt shrugged and said the License requirement was no Surprise. A that s not East Germany and its not West Germany its just Germany a he said. A in Germany you must have a License just to gop chairman Atwater faints Midway in speech Washington apr Lee Atwater chairman of the Republican National committee fainted while speaking at a fund raising breakfast monday and was rushed to a local Hospital a spokeswoman said. Atwater recovered immediately after he collapsed at the podium said Leslie Goodman inc communications director. Atwater just Back from the West coast where he accompanied president Bush to several gop fund raisers recently has been on a special liquid diet. Goldman said she did not know if the diet had been a Factor in his collapse. Atwater is a frequent Jogger. One aide said Atwater was using a diet food sold in powder form in grocery and drug stores and designed to be mixed with milk. The aide speaking on the condition of anonymity said however that Atwater had lost Little weight on the diet because he frequently supplemented its Milkshake like regimen with regular High Cal Orie foods. Goodman said that Atwater 39, had not been ill and that his collapse was a a total he was being kept at George Washington Hospital for tests. Atwater was attending a fund raising breakfast for sen. Phil Gramm a Texas at the ramada Renaissance hotel. From Page 1 Runoff elections would have to be held in dozens of districts where none of the candidates won a majority of the votes. The Runoff balloting is expected in two weeks. Yeltsin easily won a russian parliamentary Seal in his Home District in the ural Mountain City of Sverdlovsk. The Victory will allow him to be a contender when the parliament chooses a Republic president a Post Yeltsin has sought As a Way to Challenge the soviet president and hasten political reforms. A people Are getting More Uncertain All the time Quot Mitsin said in Amsterdam explaining his Victory. A five years of half baked political measures and compromises have Only made things the russian Republic the largest of 15 soviet republics stretches from the ural mountains to the Bering Strait and has nearly half the country a population. Its presidency traditionally merits a seat on the nation s ruling politburo and Yeltsin could possibly return to the ruling body from which he was ousted by Gorbachev in february 1988. The current russian Republic president Vitaly to Sotnikov who is a member of the politburo also won a seat sunday with a majority of 71.3 percent. Anatoly Moiseyev a member of the republics election commission said Yeltsin garnered 72 percent of the vote in his Home District. But Yeltsin told reporters in Amsterdam where he flew sunday to promote his autobiography that he had received 84.2 percent of the vote. In the ukrainian capital of Kiev preliminary results showed that communist party first Secretary Vladimir a. Ivashko a member of the politburo who is seen As a Gorbachev protege failed to win a majority Over 11 opponents and will have to face a Runoff election. J voters in the Ukraine selected a 450-member supreme soviet legislature. Byelorussian chose a 310-member legislature and Russia elected a 1,068-member Congress that will choose a legislature and leadership from among its members. In Lithuania where the pro Independence saudis movement already swept most seats at least nine deputies to the lithuanian supreme soviet were elected eight of them supported by saudis. A tile Lee Atwater a the was in the Middle of a speech Quot Goodman said. She said that a doctor at the event a immediately attended to an ambulance was quickly summoned. Rioting from Page 1 urday in parkent to demand the removal of mesh Etian turkish refugees. The crowd burned Down the District police Headquarters after authorities prevented them from attacking refugees Homes he said. One Soldier and three civilians were killed in the clash and 92 people were injured including 60 police and Interior ministry soldiers he said. A Seleznev said the City was relatively quiet monday. But Avidov said parkent was blocked off after a regional communist party Leader was stoned to death by the protesters who demanded their own candidate in a local election sunday. Officials denied it. A newspaper said the clashes broke out after residents demanded that the government move out several Hundred Merkhe Tian turks who had fled ethnic violence in the nearby uzbek Region of Bukinski. Grigory Kuplin a spokesman for the Interior ministry in Moscow said at least one Soldier died in a clash Between demonstrators and Interior ministry troops saturday. He said he had no information on other dead or wounded and knew nothing of a curfew in parkent a City of200,000. The Uzbekistan Interior ministry and other official sources contacted in Tashkent refused All comment on the violence. One National newspaper printed a smal report sunday on unrest but other official Media including the official Tass news Agency provided no information. The Uzbekistan Republic has been the most recent area of the soviet Union to erupt in violence As president Mikhail Gorbachev loosens decades of tight Kremlin control. Twenty two people were killed in rioting in Dushanbe the capital of the neighbouring Kadzhi Kristan Republic last month. Tension persists in the caucasus republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan where hundreds have been killed in the past two years. In addition to ethnic tension residents of Uzbekistan Are frustrated by Low wages in the Cotton growing Republic ecological devastation and poor housing exacerbated by Large families
