European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes monday april 23,1990moscow predicts disaster for Lithuania Vilnius . Apr a top communist party official from Moscow said sunday that the lithuanian Independence movement was leading the Republic to catastrophe. Andrei n. Sirenko a Secretary of the soviet communist party Central committee also denied lithuanian charges that Moscow had imposed a total economic Boycott against the breakaway Republic. Neighbouring Latvia a drive for Independence received a show of support in a rally attended by 9,000 of the 16,000 newly elected members of that republics Sider restoring latvian Independence a without delay in its first session a journalist Boris Kolesnikov reported sunday. The declaration also called on All latvians to become actively engaged in working for Independence. Lithuanian Deputy Premier Romual Das Vozolas charged saturday that a full embargo was beginning with orders a Quot a to halt All rail situation changed the few factories still open probably would have to shut Down within two weeks. Sirenko was in Vilnius to attend a meeting of the minority communist party faction that remains Loyal to Moscow. The faction counts 37,000 of the 200,000 lithuanian communists As its members. Tion to stand by the March Tion of Independence. Declara members of the movement dominant the lithuanian government. Saudis accused the Kremlin of at tempting to use economic Means to Tun lithuanians against the drive for ind Pendency. Ca City councils regional bodies and Par Alii from Moscow to halt All rail and truck traffic to Lithuania. Lithuanian officials also reported numerous Large shipments of food metals Wood chemicals and parts had not arrived As scheduled and payments to lithuanian businesses have been halted. He told a news conference that to Grant the lithuanian governments demand that the Republic be considered Independent would mean constructing new economic relationships based on hard currency Trade and higher prices. The saudis statement said Lithuania was breaking from an impoverished Empire that was in the grips of economic chaos itself. Lament a journalist reported. Lithuania Latvia and Estonia Are All trying to restore the Independence they lost m 1940 when they were occupied and forcibly annexed to the soviet Union. Lithuania has declared Independence. Estonia has dropped enforcement of the soviet Constitution As part of a transition period to Independence. Latvia is expected to declare its Freedom from the soviet Union on May 3. The latvian officials meeting in Riga a Daugava stadium adopted an Appeal to the Republic parliament to con but Sirenko said sunday that Only Oil and natural Gas were being affected. A this is Only a Small part of the products that Are supplied a he said. A plans for a total blockade done to  the soviet decision to Cut off All of Lithuania soil Supply and nearly All of its natural Gas is expected to put 70 percent of the republics work Force of 500,000 people out of work. Most of the factories in Lithuania a this would sharply catastrophically affect the republics affairs and the living standards of its people a he said. Sirenko said he still believes common sense will prevail but reiterated the soviet demand that Lithuania must Back off of its declaration of Independence and follow the soviet secession Law. Activists reject this saying the new secession Law is designed to make it impossible for any Republic to leave the soviet Union. Were closed saturday normally a workday to conserve fuel and raw materials. Officials said that unless the economic the saudis pro democracy pro Independence movement of Lithuania also meeting sunday declared its determine the streets of the lithuanian Capi were Calm sunday with people walk ii rather than using cars As they coped wit stringent gasoline rationing that permit just 30 liners about 7 Gallons per Moni for private cars. In Moscow about 5,000 people at pro democracy rally sunday at Luzani shouted a Freedom for Lithuania a Al hearing a lithuanian representative s his people understand that i Dividu leaders not the russian people responsible for the blockade. A shame on the organizers of the dec nomic blockade of Lithuania a read i poster at the demonstration. News Brief develop deterrent Force Qadhafi tells Arab world Rome apr libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi called on arabs saturday to develop a deterrent Force including nuclear bombs in the next 20 years the official libyan news Agency Jana reported. Qadhafi said that if Libya had possessed powerful enough weapons it would not have been attacked by the United states in 1986. The United states bombed Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for what it called libyan support for International terrorism. A if we had a deterrent Force of missiles Able to reach new York we would have directed them at that very moment against it a Qadhafi was quoted As saying in a Jana dispatch monitored in Rome. Qadhafi said arabs must work together so that a the whole Arab world becomes a single country possessing a deterrent Force of missiles and even nuclear bombs a Jana reported. The United states said earlier this year that Libya had begun producing Poison  from Page 1 Lincoln Park to hear local politicians and musicians. Thousands of others turned out for similar events in Boston Philadelphia Indianapolis and scores of other cities. The Day began with dozens of Sunrise ceremonies including a mass walk up Cadillac Mountain in Maine by some 800 flashlight carrying hikers. They watched Indian rituals and a spectacular Sunrise in what is considered the first place where the suns rays hit North America. Beac goers breakfasting at Dawn on Florida a Sandy shores watched As a plane piloted by environmental activists flew by pulling a Banner urging greater efforts to save endangered sea turtles that use the states beaches for laying eggs. Bush vacationing in the Florida keys also was up Early to observe Earth Day with a Dawn news then the self proclaimed a environmental pres Dent headed off for a second Day of Bone fishing Bright Blue and Green seas. In the soviet Union the news Agency Tass Repolt de that residents of the embattled lithuanian Capi Tal of Vilnius put aside their struggle for ind Pei Dence to Plant Trees hold a Parade of bicycles As Fly kites in the City a ancient Ringys Park. In the new african country of Namibia a whip became Independent from South Africa on Marc 21 a some 700 people marched through the Capiti of Windhoek and held a ceremony in the Gardei car below parliament where minister of wildlife co conference where he announced a non binding International proposal to protect Coral reefs off the hostage keys by closing those Waters to big ships and hazardous cargo. Standing on the Beach under a Palm tree Bush also said be would soon announce a decision on a proposal to ban offshore Oil drilling off the keys. He told supporters of the ban they would not be a too disappointed by his decision but he refused to elaborate. Ser vation and tourism Niko Bessinger called youth to be environmental watchdogs. Hikers clambered up Britain a highest Mountain Ben Nevis in Scotland to Clear the 4,406-foot-hi Peak of litter. A joint u.s., soviet and chinese Mountaineer ii team had hoped to reach the Peak of mount even on Earth Day but bad weather delayed their Asce and they were not expected to reach their goal uni Early May. But the climbers have picked up to tons of trash left by past expeditions with Suppo teams transporting it Back Down the Mountain. While most events were Joyful police in Pai clashed with environmental activists who staged ceremony at the arc Detriomphe in memory victims of Industrial and nuclear accidents. Police broke up the rally held by about 30 demo stators who tried to place photographs of the be pal and chernobyl disasters on the Monument the unknown Soldier. From Page 1 Polhill had been released to syrian custody. Fitzwater issued a statement in Bush a name and stressed time and again that with others still captive the United states was not prepared to take any Steps such As improved relations with Iran. Word that a hostage would be freed first surfaced wednesday when the kidnappers announced they would release one of the three hostages in 48 hours. But on thursday the captors indefinitely postponed the release after Bush refused to Send John Kelly As pontiff from Page 1 Distant Secretary of state for near East affairs to Damascus As the kidnappers had demanded. Catholic Bishops. The Synod apparently will map strategy to meet the Popes vision of a Europe United on the basis of its Christian roots rejecting the materialist communist concepts that prevailed in the East As Well As the consumerism oriented Western Model. Hours before sundays release the captors released a third statement saying they would free one of the american educators within 24 hours. The longest held Western hostage is Terry a. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press who was kidnapped March 16,1985. On saturday an iranian newspaper close to Iran a Quot a a a a lid president said the first release could Lead to another release by another pro iranian group. When 52 american hostages were released by Iran in 1981, a team of 30 doctors psychiatrists psychologists and social workers awaited them in Wiesbaden West Germany to Cushion the Shock of their newly regained Freedom. After celebrating a mass at Belehrad attended by some 200,000 people the Pope flew 90 Miles to Bratislava capital of Slovakia for another huge open air service that was the final big event of his trip. Navarro disclosed that the Pope will travel to Cuba in december. The Pope had earlier accepted a invitation to visit the Caribbean Island country ruled by Fidel Castro a a hard line communist government. Something similar awaits Polhill. This time the assemblage of experts has been Given a name hostage reception team. The the Synod will be the first such continent wide Summit and will bring together Bishops from All european countries. A today in this very place we Are seeing the signs of a new Blessing in the promising Travail of deep and vital transformations a said the Pope speaking from an altar beside the 17th-Century onion domed Basilica in Belehrad. Pope John Paul h walks toward a Bratislava altar us for the last mass of his visit to Czechoslovakia