European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b a a the stars and stripes tuesday. March 13, 1990 entire mongolian politburo resigns Moscow apr the entire politburo of Mongolia a communist Pany resigned monday and the Leader of the longtime soviet client state said the ruling party must renew itself to head off crisis Tass reported. The soviet news Agency said the country is Leader a Hamby Batmons. Made the announcement at a meeting of the party a policy making Central committee that had been moved ahead eight Days in response to a demand by the hunger strikers. He also proposed holding an extraordinary party conference april 10. Apparently to make further changes in top party personnel. The moves were obvious concessions m protesters who crowded the Central Square of the capital ulan Bator on Friday to demand change in the party a leadership and an emergency party Congress. Batmons told the nation on television that evening that the Central committee would consider both demands. The demonstrations shown on soviet television showed that the winds of democratic change that swept through Eastern Europe last year have reached Asia. Mongolia is a sparsely populated nation on the soviet chinese Border. The mongolian democratic Union an organization similar to the grass roots citizens groups that have sprung up in the soviet Union is demanding an end to the communist party a 69-year-old monopoly on Power a multiparty system and resignation of the Premier Cabinet and legislature. It has also called for new elections and for the withdrawal of soviet troops. Batmons told the Central committee that the situation in the country is a not simple a a but denied there is a deep political economic and spiritual crisis. A to avoid an effective sliding toward it the party should initiate a renewal starting with a change in the leadership to justify the Hopes of workers a Tass said he told the party body. He told communist leaders they must now justify their role in society. Protesters have also been complaining about Long term soviet domination of their nation of 2 million people. Western economists estimate Mongolia a debt to the soviet Union at nearly $6 billion. Tass said hundreds of mongolians gathered outside the House of government to demand live broadcasting of the Central committee meeting. Krten  fair features Western firms a displays Leipzig East Germany apr the Leipzig Trade fair opened sunday providing the first major meeting ground for West German firms Rushing to link with partners in fast Germany since the collapse of communist control. The Spring edition of the twice year a fair which focuses on Industrial machines and electrical equipment comes at a time when both Germany a arc moving steadily toward de Facto economic Unity. Few cooperation agreements Are expected to be signed however before the March 18 parliamentary elections in East Germany. Small and Middle sized Western firms Are especially prominent at the we Klong fair which East German economic minister Christa Luft dubbed a a marketplace of new  West German companies increased their presence by about 25 percent Over last year accounting for some 1,000 of the show s 9,000 displays by manufacturers from 60 countries. Hans Modrow communist Premier of the East German caretaker government rejected recent West German charges that his country is not moving quickly enough toward a Market Economy a there is no Way Modrow could act As a Brake Quot the Premier said As he walked through the fair. Modrow appealed to West German industrialists to work together with his country s struggling firms. A have Faith in us a he said. On the fringes of the fair Adam opel a. The West German Arm of . Automating giant general motors signed an agreement sunday to co produce passenger cars in East Germany with the Aulo Mobil Crk Eisenach company. Under the joint venture agreement both partners said they Hope to produce 150,000 opel cars yearly at the East German company a Plant at Eisenach near the West German Border. Organizers expect half a million visitors in the fair Halls where All available display space was occupied for the first time in years. Fair director Siegfried Fischer said he received a rash of late applications after last fall s peaceful popular revolt which forced out hard line communist leaders opened East Germany a Western Border and set the economically moribund country on course for Unity with its Rich powerful neighbor. West German firms Are looking for East German partners to tap the country a skilled workers and gain Access to what is expected to be a major consumer Market. East German companies run for 40 years under a state controlled planned Economy Are hoping for injections of Western technology and capital. East German Premier Hans Modrow gets a kiss sunday from a dutch participant after Modrow officially opened the Leipzig Trade  detains 7 activists in crackdown on dissent Castro terms reforms in East bloc a a betrayal Mexico City up a cuban president Fidel Castro delivered a stinging condemnation sunday of the political reforms in Eastern Europe accusing four Warsaw pact countries of a a betrayal and saying that the communist bloc has vanished. A what socialist Camp can be talked of currently a Castro said in remarks carried by Prensa Latina the official cuban news Agency and monitored in Mexico City. A or can talk about the soviet Union. The soviet Union Lias not fed Len Leto counterrevolutionary  but the cuban  the i numb line communist  ration in Havana. Castro lashed out at the United states for sponsoring a Resolution at the . Human rights commission calling for continued monitoring of the cuban human rights situation. And he condemned Eastern european countries for co sponsoring or supporting the Resolution noting that they have taken the same position As the panamanian government of Guillermo Endara who was installed by a us. Invasion or Panama just three months before the vote Prensa Latina said u a owl it k left of those countries dignity what a left of the soda list Community despite big pressures other coun Trie stood up Aga luit w Resolution without waver a a a a n Havana apr cuban authorities have rounded up seven political activists including a leading human rights advocate in a crackdown on dissent sources said. Human rights groups have said there has been a general crackdown Over i t past year on groups seeking greater Pou Teal Freedom in communist Cuba. Samuel Martinez Lara Leader of us unsanctioned pro human rights la a was detained saturday 17 Days at completing a 10-month prison Sente a said the sources who spoke on a noun of anonymity sunday. He was among a group of activists sentenced to prison terms a year ago trying to organize a rally to Suppo soviet president Mikhail Gorbac during the Kremlin leaders visit to a Vana. Also among the seven detainees Fidel Castro Apha. Was Tania Diaz Castro who was released from prison last fall after serving. Tence for protest  is not related to president to Castro. M. There was no immediate Oft Ciai t formation of the latest arrests