European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed 25� daily and sunday d 8693 a6 killed 300 Hurt in clashes of ethnic groups in Romania Bucharest Romania apr romanians and ethnic hungarians took to the streets of a Northwestern City for the second Day in a Row wednesday and the army sent reinforcements to quell ethnic violence that has left at least six people dead and 300 injured. Troops cordoned off the town after armed ethnic romanians on tuesday night poured in from neighbouring villages and battled ethnic hungarians who were protesting an attack a Day earlier on their political association Headquarters. On wednesday a government fac finding panel went to Stirgu mures a City in transylvanian 250 Miles Northwest of Bucharest. Vice president Cazimir Ionescu said leaflets distributed by the fascist Iron guard had caused the fighting by falsely claiming that the hungarian minority entered in Transylvania is seeking political autonomy. A they scared the romanians with the idea that the hungarians want to take Over Transylvania and they arc telling the hungarians that some requests they have made to the government will not be granted a he said in an interview. A a it a a movement that wants to create panic a the vice president said. Since the december revolution see Romania on Back Page Gorbachev tells All lithuanians to hand in guns Vilnius .s.r. Apr soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ordered lithuanians on wednesday to turn in All firearms a Day after the Baltic state sharply protested soviet military Maneu vers on its territory. A directive from Gorbachev read on the evening television program a Tvr Emyan said the soviet Interior ministry would confiscate guns from anyone who refused to turn them in during a seven Day period i the order from Gorbachev was sure to heighten the tension Between the Kremlin and Lithuania which declared Independence on March 11. Gorbachev and the soviet parliament has declared the lithuanian move illegal and demanded it be reversed. Gorbachev also ordered soviet Border guards to prevent what it called illegal acts along the Border with Lithuania. The soviet foreign ministry also was ordered to Clamp tighter controls on granting foreigners the right to travel to the Republic. Lithuanian lawmakers tuesday night had sent a Telegram to the Kremlin complaining about increased activity of soviet soldiers stationed on its territory. The people of Lithuania Are deeply disturbed about the actions of the soviet armed forces the intense mobilization of armoured vehicles and tanks the intensified flights of military air Force planes and unauthorized sorties into lithuanian territory y paratroopers involved in intelligence activities a lithuanian prime minister Kazimiera Prunskiene said in the Cable to Gorbachev. Lithuanians have begun signing up for voluntary Ense service and some lithuanians serving in the soviet armed forces have deserted. No Al Canth left Moscow a group of soviet deputies Nhav f Lasc soyuz or Union appealed for Gorba or. A. Use Quot is newly strengthened authority to in the Jar eco presidential Rule Over the Baltic state that j Lithuania was planning legislation snntov0u. Apo. The jailing of any resident who by reported asst no Epen ence it the Tass news Agen with0/?/ a a d he intends to carry out talks out Tho l thu amans and soviet officials have ruled me use of Force. Workers searched cities nooks and crannies and even caves in St. Paul minn., during homeless to count homeless a went very Well a official says by the associated press a government trying to shed Light on How Many of its citizens live in the shadows ended an unprecedented 14-hour Survey wednesday to count the homeless. Free meals blankets and parties helped lure the homeless to government workers carrying clipboards and flashlights. But the counters some of them homeless themselves also encountered gunfire in Brooklyn a Spring Snow in Vermont robbers in Florida and the protests of critics and elusive targets everywhere. And Many of the homeless fell once again Between the cracks. Although results of the homeless census wont be known for months the census Bureau declared it a Success. A nationally the operation went very smoothly a census director Barbara Everitt Bryant said at a morning news conference in new York. Bryant noted that there were a few spots including Cleveland and Washington where the census workers did no to finish and would return wednesday night. Around the nation some homeless people took Comfort in the very fact they were being counted. A it shows that they re starting to recognize us As humans and not the scum of the Earth a said Chester Broadwell 21, a resident of the Way station see homeless on Back Page
