European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes monday april 30,1990 news briefs . Hostage to be freed in 48 hours message says Beirut Lebanon apr kidnappers said on sunday that american hostage Frank Reed will be released within 48 hours and will carry a message for the . Government. The unsigned statement was delivered anonymously to the offices of  Nahar newspaper and was the first news by the captors of Reed since shortly after his sept. 9, 1986, kidnapping. The statement was delivered at 6 30 . Local time and presumably would take effect by the same time tuesday. Reed 57, a native of Malden mass., appeared neatly combed and clean Reed shaven in the photograph. He wore a Blue and White striped shirt. Reed director of the privately owned lebanese International school was kidnapped near Beirut Airport while being driven by his chauffeur to play  from Page 1 proposal so other solutions will have to be found a he said. Tass said soviet defense minister Dmitri t. Yazoo told his East German counterpart Rainer Eppelmann that a a United Germany a membership in nato May influence the balance of forces in Europe and destabilize International  the soviet Union views the future of economic relations with a United Germany and its Security concerns As serious issues that must be addressed at the talks. East Germany has been a key member of the Warsaw pact military Alliance and an important trading partner for the soviet Union. De Maiziere said soviet officials expressed concern that their Trade relations will be Hurt by East Germany a expected adoption this summer of the West German Mark As its currency. But he said East Germany will be looking for alternatives to the Brown Coal it has used extensively for fuel and will look to the soviet Union for Oil and other Energy  from Page 1 and Bolden fired the discovery a twin Orbital braking rockets 4 minutes and 48 seconds to slow the ship by 390 Mph just enough to drop the 100-ton glider out of orbit. After a one hour plunge Back into the atmosphere Shriver banked discovery Over Edwards lowered its nose and dived to a smooth touchdown. Left behind in orbit was the $1.5 billion Hubble space Telescope capable of studying planets stars and galaxies with 10 times the Resolution of ground based instruments in a project aimed at revolutionizing humanity a knowledge of the birth Structure evolution and Fate of the universe. The discovery carried the costly Telescope into orbit last tuesday and Hawley using the shuttles 50-foot robot Arm released it into space the next Day after ground controllers managed to get a stuck solar panel to unwind. Since then engineers at nasal a Goddard space flight Center in Greenbelt md., have been faced with a steady Stream of problems. Engineers were attempting to aim the healthy Antenna at a Nasa data relay satellite saturday when the other antennas drive motor began to push too hard. Playing it Safe the operation was halted to give the test team time to figure out How to isolate the jammed Antenna for More troubleshooting. In any Case transmission of the telescopes first photo a focusing test shot will be delayed until the satellites checkout is Back on track and problems with the science transmission antennae Are resolved. Forty thousand demonstrate sunday in Timisoara Romania demanding that interim president Ion Iliescu resign romanians rally demand resignation of presiden Timisoara Romania apr tens of thousands of people rallied sunday to demand the resignation of interim president Ion Iliescu in one of the largest anticommunist demonstrations in Timisoara since the december revolution. In Bucharest an anti government protest in downtown University Square entered its eighth Day with up to 10,000 people taking part. Similar protests occurred in other parts of the country and one Large pro Iliescu rally was reported in Transylvania. Timisoara in Western Romania is the Cradle of the popular uprising that toppled hard line communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu on dec. 22. It is described As romanians a Martyr City because of the blood that was shed there during clashes Between demonstrators and Ceausescu a Security forces. A Down with Iliescu Down with communism a shouted the 40,000 people who overflowed Victory Square in Timisoara 300 Miles West of the capital. Iliescu is running for president in the May 20 election and his National salvation front has dominated the interim government that will run the country until then. Romanians seeking Iliescu a resignation accuse him and others in the National salvation front of seeking to reestablish some form of communism in the country despite repeated assertions that the party embraces democracy. Several thousand people also demonstrated against Iliescu in the Black sea port of Constanta on sundal the state radio reported. In Bucharest protesters vowed to continue thai Vigil until the May 20 election. Protesters in the Cap ii waved banners proclaiming the Square a a Oneo Cori monism free  1 a speaker at the Bucharest rally Stelian Tanase $ the group for social dialogue said of the Gover Mefi a they Are offering us communism in a Sweet Box. 1 we want sweeping changes not perestroika a a rely ence to the economic and political reforms being Tri i in the soviet Union. $ a government spokesman who requested Anonym re to described the Bucharest protest As a a demons i Tion of the extreme  f Many protesters in Timisoara wore badges say Ini a a in a a thug a a defiant allusion to Iliescu a description of the Bucharest demonstrators As  a if Iliescu does not go it would be a betrayal of to revolution a one of the protesters Dana Sherbac a. A if he stays it would be a waste of blood spilled last  immediately after the revolution romanian a foreign Media said up to 4,000 people died in Timsic a in clashes with Ceausescu a Securi Tate troops. I romanian officials later said that Only about 100 put pie died in Timisoara. Several speakers at the rally on sunday acc fac Iliescu of hiding the real death toll of the revolution Lithuania from Page 1 their dispute offered by France and West Germany. The two Western countries suggested that Lithuania delay implementing its Independence without rescinding the declaration itself. A the soviet Union has started supplying the fertilizer Plant at Jon ova which practically stopped operating with natural Gas a said Vilnius radio. A from the beginning of the blockade Lithuania had been receiving 3.5 million cubic meters of natural Gas per Day and that was just enough for everyday household needs a it said in a broadcast monitored by the British broadcasting corp. In London. A now the fertilizer Plant in Jon ova is also going to get 3 million cubic meters of natural Gas each Day. This is almost sufficient for the Plant to keep operating  before the blockade began the Republic received about 18 million cubic meters of natural Gas a Day. The radio said about 30 percent of the plants work Force or More than 1,000 people would be going Back to work monday after being forced off their jobs because of shortage of Gas. There was no official announcement by Moscow or change of policy. However in an interview saturday it the official soviet news Agency Tass Deputy state Supit committee chairman Vladimir Kosy Unin said Litsuai was receiving 30 percent of its Normal share of Natu to Gas. When the restriction went into effect More thairl week ago it was receiving Only about 16 percent. Rita Razavicius a spokeswoman for the inform if Tion service of the lithuanian supreme Council be i a lature confirmed the Jon ova Plant had started to receive its allotment of Gas. The soviet Union has Cut off All Oil supplies an shipments of Many manufactured goods raw Materia and food items in an Effort to make Lithuania bats away from the declaration of Independence. Many motorists faced with strict rationing that la 1 its them to about 7 Gallons of gasoline a month Simp a parked their cars. Some bus routes in Vilnius the Cap Tal have been Cut out others scaled Back. But Razavicius said in a Telephone interview tha Many Young Vilnius residents brought their bicycles to Thi legislative building sunday and then biked six Miles to the City a outskirts to show their Defiance of the blockade. In Moscow a spokesman for Gorbachev Arkady Maslennikov also indicated that a temporary suspension 1 Lithuania a new Laws might be an acceptable Comaromi