European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes saturday March 31,1990 soviet troops reportedly occupy office of Mil 1c t t o c to / a no a i a i. A Vilnius apr soviet troops occupied the lithuanian prosecutors office on Friday after its staff members refused to take orders from a new chief prosecutor appointed by Moscow lithuanian officials said. If the report is confirmed it would be the first time soviet soldiers have taken control of a lithuanian government building since the Baltic Republic defied Moscow and declared its Independence on March 11. The report came several hours after the White House announced that president Bush had called for a peaceful Resolution of the lithuanian crisis. The trouble began at the prosecutors office earlier Friday when Moscow officials fired Lithuania a chief prosecutor in a bid to make the Republic adhere to soviet Law. The officials then tried to install their own prosecutor. The move failed when the offices employees remained Loyal to their former news briefs Boss. The dispute became a standoff with both chief prosecutors trying to run the office at the same time. Several hours later soldiers of the soviet Interior ministry took Over the building with one employees help lithuanian legislator Egidius Bickauskas said on the republics television. He did not elaborate. He accused the soviet Union of violating Lithuania a sovereignty. A lithuanian Interior ministry spokesman also said soviet soldiers were inside the prosecutors office and added that soldiers had moved into the Institute of party history. A foreign journalist said he saw a truckload of soviet Interior ministry soldiers enter the building. Soldiers previously had occupied a handful of communist party but not government buildings in Lithuania. Before fridays reported occupation Moscow a tactics had included other shows of military Force the arrest of army deserters and orders that foreigners leave the country and that residents turn in their guns. Earlier Friday White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Bush sent president Mikhail Gorbachev a letter stating Bush so support and the american support for the aspirations of the lithuanian people for a we have expressed our belief and our emphatic View that a Resolution of this conflict lies in peaceful dialogue a Fitzwater said of the letter. In another development Friday the Kab pledged to protect lithuanian citizens who cooperate in enforcing soviet Law. The statement distributed by the official Tass news Agency denounced As illegal a Resolution passed tuesday by Lithuania a legislature saying that Kab a a informers risked being punished and having their names published out Gorbachev a orderno1 car arms from citizens Litho 310 for had air pad Ull ouanian had already refused to comply13" to ice ,?ife.mn0-sc.ow officials to replace Artris Paulauska h acc ecu Tor appointed by the pros Ern ment on March 22 with Nam lithuanian Antanas peirauskas311 c Holli Liev who brought . ,1 a i told More than 100 angry Mcmo i the lithuanian staff that Al quire to execute soviet Law 1 Vasiliev later told reporters that he ii member team from Moscow k % l an instrument of Force and that i nil Bald il�111 Here until Force is used against me.�?�3 killed when explosions Rock dynamite Plant Bretzfeld West Germany apr a Chain reaction explosion rocked a dynamite factory Here on Friday killing three people leveling Many company buildings and damaging houses in a residential area police said. Three workers were injured a two of them seriously according to police. About 30 workers were at the sprawling Dyna Mit Nobel Complex when the series of blasts went off in the morning said police. At the time of the explosions most of the workers were taking a morning break in another part of the Complex. Two West germans and a Turk died in the blasts which occurred inside a shop that makes Gunpowder and fireworks said police. Damage was estimated to be in the of Maryland names new Chancellor Towson map a Donald Langenburg a physicist and Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago will head the 11-Campus University of Maryland system. A former Deputy director of the National science foundation Langenburg was named thursday by the Board of regents As Chancellor of the 130,000-Studcnt University system. Langenburg a recognizes and respects the Bond Between the Academy and the larger Community a regents chairman George Mcgowan said. The 58-year-old scholar will replace John s. Toll also a physicist who stepped Down Over disagreements with regents about his vision for the University system formed in a 1988 reorganization of state higher from Page 1 Transfer and a decision is expected by next week the Pentagon source said. The Pentagon endured a three month across the Board Cut during the first Quarter of the current fiscal billion us lec n a Ense a gets shrinking by by trying to deny the Transfer request for this year Aspin has wanted to make those cuts so painful for the White House and Pentagon that the administration would choose to Compromise with Congress on the fiscal 91 budget rather than go through another Cut Aspin has been miffed that Anonymous sources in the administration have hinted that president Bush might allow another round of automatic cuts to occur in fiscal 1991 rather than accept a democratic budget plan not to his liking. E the administration has the Power to shield military personnel accounts from the effects of across the Board cuts but decided not to do that for this years three month sequester because it would have required deeper cuts in other accounts. Bulgarian conferees set june free election dates Sofia Bulgaria apr the ruling communists and the democratic opposition after arduous round table talks agreed Friday on the creation of the new Post of president of the Republic and set june 10 and 17 As the dates of the first free elections since world War ii. The state news Agency Bra reporting the agreements said the communists and democratic opposition also agreed that Petar Mladenov bulgarians current communist president should serve in the new presidency. Mladenov 53, will be formally elected to the new Post by the current communist dominated parliament. He will be replaced when the newly elected parliament approves a new Constitution. Mladenov a current title is president of the state Council a body that will be dismantled Bra said. As in neighbouring Romania and other East euro Pean countries the communists state Council acini As a legislature in Between infrequent sessions of to countries rubber stamp parliaments. The round table talks also decided to hold Narl Ham entail elections on june 10 and 17, the first Frej elections in Bulgaria in 45 years. A 1 it was not immediately Clear if the two sides Man aged to overcome their divergent views on the make Ute of a new parliament and a draft electoral Law. 1 communist party chief Alexander Lilov said Tutsi Day that the new parliament chosen at june selection should sit for four years a because we need a Strong government at a time when the country is in crisis bulgarian state radio reported. E. German prison Camp victims to be allowed to a rest in peace or Nienburg East Germany apr hundreds of people will remain buried near a prison Camp first used by the nazis and then by the soviets because the dead a should rest in peace a an official said Friday. Local officials in or Nienburg discovered the remains at the site this week after a resident said he saw soviet soldiers gun Down hundreds of German prisoners there after world War ii the nazis ran the prison Camp near the town during world War ii and the soviets later used it to intern German prisoners after the War. A mass grave of unknown victims a entry forbidden a said the sign posted after authorities unearthed dozens More remains on Friday. Skeletal parts from an estimated 200 to 1,000 people some of them children have been unearthed officials said. They said that after More than four decades identification of the victims would be a extremely difficult and it would be better not to further disturb the remains. Or Nienburg authorities have now decided to sea off the mass grave said Heinz Erdmann Deputy Ora Nienburg District Leader. A the dead should rest i peace they will not be transplanted a Erdmann said. A the site will be turned into a memorial a Erdmann said. I the Ca Jabout 30 Miles North of Berlin is one Oil several nazi Camps later used by the soviets to hold German prisoners. I East German soldiers digging in the wooded areal near the site of a former Camp uncovered the skeletal remains of dozens More people on the official news Agency adn reported earlier this week that officials ordered the excavation after a local resident said that in the years after 1945, he witnessed naked prisoners being driven to the site on trucks. According to the adn report the prisoners Werel forced to dig their own Graves before they were shot and buried. A they were piled on each other like Sar a dines a in the Graves the report from Page 1 Are prepared to meet . Demands to remove barriers that have prevented sales of american made satellites to the japanese government. A week ago negotiators reached agreement on a . Proposal intended to boost sales of . Supercomputers to japanese universities and other government agencies. The supercomputer agreement was the first breakthrough in 10 months of discussions. Joshua Bolten general counsel for the . Trade Ellice refused to speculate on How Many countries could end up on the priority list this time around. However the administration is expected to once again pare the list to Only a handful of countries Wenj Bers of Congress Are lobbying to make sure Japan i included in the second round of talks. I a until the Long list of barriers that . By Nejl faces in Japan is Cut Down substantially the i states must keep up the pressure on Japan to open a Market a sen. Max Baucus d-mont., said. J the countries included in the 1990 barriers rep were Argentina Australia Brazil Canada China Colombia Egypt West Germany f i France Greece India Indonesia Israel Italy j p i Malaysia Mexico new zealand Njg Ena n Pakistan the Philippines Portugal South i Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand key the United kingdom Venezuela and Yugo
