European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday june 19,1990soviet Reform faction threatens walkout Moscow apr Radical reformers Are threatening to walk out of next months communist party Congress if their demands Are not met opening a rift that could Lead to the creation of a new party. A conference of the Reform faction democratic platform on sunday instructed its delegates to the party Congress that begins july 2 to leave the session if delegates do not eliminate party control Over the armed forces the Kab Security police and other government bodies. If the 4,700 delegates to the Congress balk at those and other demands As seems Likely the groups estimated 100 delegates Are to quit and organize a new party by september. Factions have been banned in the communist party since 1922. Also sunday the mainstream Moscow City party organization published a pre Congress platform that sharply criticized National leaders for Drifting into a an ideological and organizational crisis that was costing them support. A the danger for the party today is a split among communists who support perestroika a said the Moscow party platform. It did not directly mention soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Democratic platform leaders claim to have the general support of 40 percent of the 18 million communist party members a much higher ratio than reflected in the composition of the party Congress. But they say that Only about 500,000 party members would take the decisive step of actually leaving the party to form a new one. Democratic platform founded six months ago has included Boris n. Yeltsin who last month was elected president of the russian Republic and also the new mayors of Moscow and Leningrad Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak. But they have Cut their activities in the group since their elections. Politburo conservative Calls for free Market referendum restructuring should take a to social ism or hold a nation Al referendum a Migachev said. He outlined a traditional marxist Psi ton that contrasted sharply with Calls for Reform being heard in the soviet Media and Leeis Hatiye bodies and urged that the nation stick with a planned Market Economy. A those who advocate a free Market is King is Backoo private appropriation of the results of the labor of other people to their exploitation a he said Twa a a. Moscow apr the lending conservative on the soviet politburo Yegor k. Migachev on monday criticized advocates of a free Market and called for a referendum on whether the nation should be capitalist or socialist. A poll published by a reformist mag a however indicated weakening party Azine uun., support for the communist among the populace. Migachev spoke out in an interview published by the soviet communist party newspaper pravda two weeks before the party is to open a crucial Congress to debate the course of Reform. A a let a ask the people what direction a we have already realized the destructiveness of such a Freedom at the Macro level a lie said. Iliescu a foes seek probe of events Bucharest Romania apr the newly elected parliament met monday and a senior opposition Leader demanded it investigate the events that led president elect Ion Iliescu to Call miners in to put Down last weeks unrest. Hundreds of people gathered for a second Day in University Square to demand the ouster of Iliescu whose inauguration had been scheduled for last week and has now been postponed amid the turmoil. Several mites away another 300 people staged a pro government demonstration outside parliament which was guarded by dozens of soldiers and police with machine guns. Iliescu a Strong Arm tactics have Cost his government Western Aid. On sunday Force was not used against the demonstrators and the government promised dialogue. There was no sign monday however of talks Between the two sides. The protesters who demand Iliescu and other a communists be banned from politics returned monday shouting a Down with Iliescu Quot sen. Radu Campeanu Leader of the Liberal party told reporters As lawmakers convened that his party would push for a special parliamentary commission to investigate the clashes. His party a offices had been sacked. Outside parliament Dan Iosif a senator close to Iliescu defended the governments actions. He said there were a excesses on both sides but insisted the miners excesses were a not so anti government protesters on monday Block motorists from Access to University Square in Bucharest Romania great Wall cyclist Heads into final stretch record a a chinese father and son Stop and stare As California cyclist Kevin Foster pedals Uphill along the great Wall near be Jing on sunday. Beijing apr a California Man in the final stretch of his bid to bicycle the length of the great Wall says he shaving to the Best time i Ever Kevin Foster 30, is the first person to bicycle any substantial distance on top of the Wall which China a emperors originally built More than 2,000 years ago to keep out foreigners. On sunday Foster did wheelies on the ancient Wall outside Beijing. A pretty risky a exclaimed a Middle aged chinese Man As he watched Foster Whiz along. A for Foster a part time actor from Ojai calif., has bicycled 1,065 Miles on or alongside the Wall on a custom built Mountain Bike. He was setting out monday on the last 190-mile stretch to the coast. It took Foster years of Effort to win chinese government approval for his Tnp which began May 11 at the Walls westernmost pass Jay Guan about �?o50 Miles from Beijing As the Crow flies. In some places the Wall disintegrated into rubble or disappeared altogether and Foster bicycled in its traces. He a been accompanied by a Driver and jeep carrying supplies and two Young chinese staffers from his Host organization the Institute of geography who have taken turns cycling with him. The group spent some nights in Small towns that hundreds of years ago housed soldiers guarding the Frontier. Other nights they slept on the Wall. A there Are actually people who live on the Wall and around the Wall Quot he said. A a you a crawl into a 700-year-old watch Tower to get out of the Sun a it d be 120 degrees a and you a find a family living there.�?�. He said the Best part was watching the Sun set on the Gobi desert after a Days cycling. A the Sand the stars the Cool Breeze on a Tower that a Over 1,000 years old a that a what its All
