European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 17, 1990the stars and stripes Page 3 moves to of radio to Moscow a president Mikhail a Gorbachev has moved to end the communist party s longtime control of the airwaves decreeing that the state broadcasting monopoly must provide Access to competing voices. His decree a on democratization of television and radio was read on the main evening news program a a Eremya a sunday just hours after tens of thousands of people braved a driving rain to gather at the Kremlin Gates in the capitals first mass demonstration against the communist party. Although the decree did not appear to be a direct response to the demonstration Gorbachev a decision to open the airwaves to groups other than the communist party and government comes amid growing criticism of Central authorities. The communists fortunes Are in decline As forces of democracy gain strength and demand that the party blamed for plunging the country into economic crisis be stripped of All its political monopolies. The decree on broadcasting was issued a month after the supreme soviet legislature passed the nation s first Law guaranteeing Freedom of the press and creating Broad rights for journalists and publishers. The press Law gave non gov comment and non party groups the right to own and operate newspapers and magazines ending what effectively had been a decades old monopoly held by communist authorities. Rather than appeasing popular opinion however greater Media openness has helped fuel Public anger toward Central authorities As demonstrated in the March on the Kremlin. A communist Worms a this Corpse wont feed you anymore a read a poster carried by a demonstrator on sunday. One woman hoisted a pair of shoes worn into tatters and labelled a slave of the  used trucks and barricades to Block the Entrance to red Square and the marchers instead gathered around a sound truck in the adjacent manch Square just under the red Brick Waits and towers of the Kremlin. The demonstrators cheered when a speaker called out the names of three leading reformers who last week announced they were quitting the communist party russian Republic president Boris n. Yeltsin Moscow mayor Gavriil Popov and Leningrad mayor Anatoly Sobchak. The protesters estimated by a police officer and local television to number 50,000, shouted a Down with the criminal communist party a As they huddled under a sea of umbrellas a every communist to his own mausoleum a read another poster alluding to the mausoleum of soviet founder Vladimir Lenin a few Hundred Yards away. Many soviets regard Lenin As a deity and thousands file through his crypt daily to see his mummified body. Soviet reforms have been transferring Power from the parly that Lenin founded to elected Legislatures throughout the country and to the newly strengthened hammering away for tourists who come unprepared to Berlin Ham Wall. This Wall picker rents some tools for 15 min mers and chisels of various sizes Are available for utes at a fee of $3 monday at a spot in East Berlin rent to Chip off chunks of what remains of the Berlin near the former site of checkpoint Charlie. Buyer at shootout where 3 died was . Drug agent official says Manila Philippines apr an american identified As the buyer in a drug Deal in which a colonel and two other alleged dealers were slain was actually a . Drug agent working with police a . Official said monday. Last tuesday police and National Bureau of lives ligation agents shot and killed col. Rolando de Guzman Deputy chief of the military a Northern Luzon command his intelligence chief maj. Franco Cala nog and a military informant. The bureaus director Alfredo Lim said the three were trying to sell $10 million in heroin to an american Phil Needham who escaped after shooting broke out. . Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said monday that Needham was actually a drug enforcement administration agent on temporary assignment from his Post in Bangkok Thailand. Schrager said Needham was working on a Case with the National Bureau of investigation but he refused to elaborate. The associated press telephoned the Dea office in Bangkok and asked to speak to Needham but was told he had a just stepped  the shooting has produced a major National scandal. De Guzman a colleagues in the military branded the killings a cold blooded murder and said their investigation showed that the three were shot at close Range. That raised doubts about the report of a  party presidency held by Gorbachev. Last week the 28th Congress of the soviet communist party re elected Gorbachev As Genera i Secretary and adopted his proposal to restructure and expand the party s leading body the politburo. Henceforth the politburo which once ran the nation will concern itself largely with party affairs. The decree on broadcasting which was also carried by the official Tass news Agency states that growing democracy in the country requires a a Cardinal change in the nature of the country a television and radio  the guidelines for radio and television Are currently set by a state committee. The decree a recognizes the need to determine a Legal basis for the activities of television and radio broadcasting under new conditions and recommended that parliament adopt appropriate Laws. Those Laws apparently would correspond to the press Law passed june 12. A a a a. A a until now Only groups approved by the stale committee had Access to soviet television and As a result the communist party received Large segments of time on the airwaves. The decree emphasized the inadmissibility of monopolizing Quot air time by this or that party political current or group Quot Tass reported How Var the decree stresses control by the soviet government Over the Legal status of radio and television stations in the republics. 1ukraine declares its Laws supersede soviet authority Moscow apr the parliament of the Ukraine following sovereignty decrees by other republics declared monday that us own Laws take precedence Over soviet Law the official Tass news Agency reported. The Ukraine is the soviet unions second largest Republic with More than 50 million people. It also is a key Industrial and farming Region. The republics parliament meeting in the capital of Kiev declared the a supremacy Independence absolute authority and indivisibility of ukrainian authority on the republics territory Tass said. But the news Agency added that the majority of deputies who spoke Dunn the supreme soviets debate did not support secession from the soviet Union. Instead they said sovereignly a should not break the existing social economic and cultural and other ties with republics but develop them Quot Tass said. In its declaration the Ukraine followed the Lead of the huge russian Republic the Baltic republics and several other soviet republics clamouring for More Independence from the Central  ukrainian nationalists support total Independence for their Republic but the movement is not As far advanced As it is in other soviet republics such As the Baltic. Last week debate Over sovereignty in the Republic s parliament had caused Sharp disagreements and led indirectly to the resignation of the Republic s president Vladimir  was then chosen Deputy chief of the soviet communist party. The declaration on monday called for the Ukraine so Independence and equal rights in external relations a and stated that the Republic has the right to have its own armed forces Tass said. Currently the Ukraine a youth cannot perform military service outside the Republic without parliaments permission. The declaration sets a future goal of establishing a a constantly Neutral government which does not take part in military blocs Quot and opposes the production proliferation and use of nuclear weapons Tass said. Yashko and other deputies to the ukrainian supreme soviet were called Back last week from the soviet communist party Congress for the debate on sovereignty. Ivashko refused to go and turned in his resignation. He said he interpreted his dispute with parliament Over the Issue As indicating that he did not have enough authority to govern the Republic. The same Day he was nominated to be soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev a communist party Deputy and he was elected easily