European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 22, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9czechoslovakia joins regional group Alps Adrian pact unites East West Neutral nations Vienna Austria apr Czechoslovakia on sunday formally joined Austria Italy Yugoslavia and Hungary in a regional cooperation group that is the Only one in Europe to unite Neutral and nonaligned nato and Warsaw pact nations. The foreign ministers of four nations and a High foreign ministry official from Hungary met in Vienna to discuss ways of furthering cooperation in transportation communications the environment culture and Small businesses. They then boarded a Danube River boat to sail to Bratislava Yugoslavia for More talks. The organization grew out of cooperation Between Border regions of Italy Yugoslavia Austria and Hungary that began la years ago in the a Alps Adrian group. These four nations decided to boost cooperation last fall just before the peaceful revolution in Czechoslovakia that toppled the communists and brought former dissidents such As president Vaclav Havel to Power. The decision to admit Czechoslovakia was taken in april. Italian foreign minister Gianni de Michelis and Yugoslavia a Budmor Loncar said Romania and bul Garia also have applied to join. Austrian foreign minister Alois mock said Switzerland also would be Welcome a if it wants to take  de Michelis an Active promoter of the cooperation with his Eastern partners stressed at a news conference that one aim of the organization is to ensure that Western Europe considers the demands of the Region Between the Adriatic Alps and Danube. He indicated there is a danger that organizations such As the european Community could become Overly preoccupied with questions posed by German reunification ignoring other regions. He said the five nations Hope to be among the first to apply for investment Grants to the new Bank for european development and cooperation formally founded in Paris saturday. The five also intend to present to an upcoming 35-nation conference on human rights in Copenhagen Denmark proposals on minority rights designed to defuse potential ethnic conflicts particularly in Eastern Europe de Michelis said. During an hour Long televised discussion the five officials stressed the importance of the group As a Way to bring together organizations with diverse affiliations but common pasts and interests. Yugoslavia is nonaligned and in transition Between communism and democracy. Czechoslovakia and Hungary moving swiftly toward Western style democracy Are still members of the Warsaw pact and co Mccon. Austria is a Neutral member of the european free Trade association and Italy is in nato and the dec. Despite Overall Harmony czechoslovak foreign minister Jiri Dinst birr came under fire both during the discussion and at the news conference for his country a decision to expand its nuclear Power stations. The decision announced Friday has sparked widespread protest in comments from Media and All political parties in Austria where the nation voted in a 1978 referendum not to put its Only constructed nuclear Power station into operation. Dinst birr said that for the moment Czechoslovakia whose population is double that of Austria a 7.5 million has no alternative but nuclear Power. He noted that his country is almost 100 percent dependent on the soviet Union for supplies of Gas and fuel. Brown Coal mined in Czechoslovakia to Supply Power stations has severely polluted North Bohemia stripping vast tracts of Forest Bare of  buried in cheap disguised Graves Bucharest Romania apr former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena had lavish burial plans but a government official said saturday they were buried under false names in a Public cemetery. The ranking official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed rumours that the Ceausescu who were toppled in the december revolution were buried at the Ghincea cemetery in South Bucharest. A the is on the left and she is on the right Side of the path leading to the cemetery a Chapel the official said. Gravediggers took a group of Western reporters to the burial site and pointed out two plots that were overgrown with weeds. Candles burned on other nearby Graves but the two in question were unattended. The violent revolution that toppled the Ceausescu and ended More than 40 years of repressive communist Rule climaxed on Christmas Day when the two were executed. Ceausescu and his wife a former politburo member and first Deputy Premier had been tried in secret in a military Barracks in tire Viste a City 43 Miles West of Bucharest. A recent film of the Ceausescu us execution and burial was shown on romanian television but it did not disclose the site. The videotape also did not show Ceausescu tearfully going to his death in front of a firing squad and mrs. Ceausescu screaming in panic at his Side. Authorities fearing that vengeful romanians would desecrate the Graves have refused to say where the two were buried. A this is a state secret. We cannot let the cat out of the bag. People might find out and they will scrub the Graves to know the truth a said Vasile Ionescu a 68-year old Carpenter who has worked at the graveyard for 15 years. However gravediggers showed reporters the unkempt plots assume to hold the Ceausescu us bodies. They refused to identify themselves saying they would be a a severely punished if the authorities Learned their names. The gravediggers pointed out the unusual Way in which the Graves had been dug breaking with the regular pattern and resembling hastily added plots. Two Bucharest men poke around an overgrown grave where Nicolae Ceausescu is believed to he buried. The government official refused to disclose the names under which the Ceausescu were buried. Ceausescu a presumed grave is topped by a common Oak Cross whose inscription reads col. Popa Dan 1920-1989. Mrs. Ceausescu a a has an identical wooden Cross carrying the name col. Enescu Vasile 19211989. According to official statistics Ceausescu was born in 1918 and Elena in 1916. Cemetery administrators would not confirm the burial site and insisted that the Ceausescu Graves should remain  a they could be buried in tire Viste or some other place but not Here Quot an undertaker said. The dictator and his wife had carefully planned for their burials by ordering expensive Gold plated coffins Media reports have said. A the dictators deserved their  said a beggar pointing to the cheap desolate  Yemen Sheds symbols of its marxist past Aden South Yemen apr South Yemen shed its marxist decor sunday pulling Down All the statues of Karl Marx and . Lenin that used to adorn its Public squares As it prepared to merge with conservative North Yemen. Slogans of the ruling yemeni socialist party such As a no voice can be louder than the voice of the party a were also removed from government buildings. South Yemen was the Arab worlds Only avowedly marxist state after it gained Independence from Britain in 1971. But with reforms in the soviet Union and Eastern Europe South Yemen also began opening up. The process accelerated after party Secretary general Ali Salem Al Cidh agreed last november to a merger with pro Western North Yemen within a year. Al Cidh and North yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh have seeded up the merger plan and Are now set to proclaim it through their parliaments during the next few Days. As a gesture of Solidarity Between the two nations the socialist party Central committee on sunday announced it is absorbing into its ranks the popular unionist party a group that called for armed struggle against North Yemen in the 1970s and represented Southern opposition against the North. The two red sea countries have engaged in numerous Border wars in recent years and their merger is meant to restore the historical Union of the Days of the Queen of Sheba. The party leadership meanwhile set out to heal its own wounds by posthumously reinstating former leaders who fell out in inter party struggles. The Central committee announced sunday that it was awarding its highest decorations to the country a first president. Mohammed Qahtan Al Shaibi and to his prime minister Feisal Abdul Latif Al Sheri. Both died in detention. Also decorated was Salem Rabei Mohammed who was accused of usurping Rule and executed in 1978