European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 24 the stars and stripes sunday november 4,1990report tells How Berlin Wall opened Berlin apr two officials in the former East German secret police made the historic decision to open the Berlin Wall and allow hundreds of thousands of people to pour into the West a newspaper said saturday. A report in a cuts deutschland the former official newspaper of the old communist party reveals the Complex sequence of events that led to the opening of the Wall on nov. 9,1989. Egon Kronz the communist Leader at the time never gave a Clear order to open the Wall that evening the newspaper said quoting an unnamed official of the now dissolved Stasi secret police. The actual decision to let hundreds of thousands of East germans pour through the Wall was made by two officials of the dreaded Stasi it said. The newspaper said they feared for the safety of their colleagues Stasi Border guards and army troops. Crowds had massed at the Wall because they had interpreted an announcement lifting travel restrictions As immediate permission to go to the West without visas. Friday is the first anniversary of that historic Day which ultimately led to German Unity last month. Last autumn East Germany was rocked by mass pro democracy protests and an exodus of citizens to the West. Hard line Leader Erich Honecker was forced to resign oct. 19,1989. His successor Krenz asked the communist party Central committee to approve a new Constitution allowing free travel privileges but worded the passage in a Way that obscured Clear meaning Neues deutschland said. Krenz led the the policy making Central committee to believe the Constitution would Only give people the right to travel freely to Czechoslovakia the paper said quoting Wolfgang Herger a party Security official who was present at the meeting. At a press conference nov. 9, politburo member Gunter Schabowski read the passage As it was actually written that people could travel where they wished As Long As they obtained a visa. Some Media reported it As the opening of the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of thousands of jubilant people massed along the Colo War Barrier and began clamouring to Cross. Gerhard Neiber Deputy chief of the Stasi and a Stasi colonel independently made the decision to let the crowds pass freely through the Wall without visas the paper said. According to the newspaper the colonel identified Only As Ziegenhorn said Quot it can no longer be halted. Our comrades stand in the  what resulted was a massive spontaneous festival As germans from both sides of the divided City celebrated the barriers demise. Visas never were imposed. Krenz who had a reputation As a hard liner before succeeding Honecker was forced to step Down in the face of continued demands for Freedom. His successor moderate communist Hans Modrow called the free elections that put the communists out of Power and led to German Unity. News Brief anti separatists rally to Back moldavian action Kishinev . A More than 1,000 students marched to Moldavia a parliament on saturday and shouted support for the republics leaders one Day after a fatal clash Between separatists and moldavian Interior ministry troops. Officials in Moldavia said at least three people were killed and nine wounded in the clash Friday East of Kishinev the capital. Student Leader Vyacheslav cereus said the marchers backed the moldavian governments efforts to Stop the separatist movements that have flared in recent Days in the southwestern soviet Republic which Borders Romania. The parliament in Moldavia a Republic of 4.3 million people announced formation of a new National guard to try to re establish order in the area East of the Dniester River. Moldavia declared sovereignty last june and is trying to separate from the soviet Union. But it faces its own crisis produced by two internal separatist movements. Warsaw pact agreement clears Way for signing of arms treaty eating from Page 1 were used to fund real estate ventures. All told 17,458 investors lost More than $250 million prosecutors said. The indictment listed Only 20 victims who lost $1.1 million because prosecutors said they wanted a concise Case. A judge unsealed 45 volumes of grand jury testimony Friday at the Media a request. In other testimony an 83-year-old widow described How she was lured into plunging her life savings into the Bonds. Adaliza Whinfield said she lost $50,000 on Bonds purchased at the Lincoln Branch in Hemet calif., a retirement Community in the desert 100 Miles East of los Angeles. Whinfield said investment Counselor Robert Pascua told her the Bonds a were As Safe As the United states of  Budapest Hungary apr foreign ministry officials of six Warsaw pact countries signed an agreement saturday dividing up tanks artillery armoured vehicles and aircraft under an Accord limiting conventional weapons from the Atlantic to the ural mountains. The agreement removed the last serious obstacle to the signing of a conventional arms treaty in Paris on nov. 19 by the United states Canada and All european nations except Albania. President Bush a presence at the Paris convention has been contingent on the conventional weapons treaty being ready for signing. The Warsaw pact agreement came at a time when the future of the soviet led Block is in question As former allies reorient themselves toward the West. The signing of the agreement at a hungarian government guest House was delayed by almost four hours past the scheduled 11 . Ceremony As the delegations continued to work out what hungarian foreign ministry spokesman Janos Herman called a technical  soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze did not come to Budapest because of a internal engagements a Herman said. He did not elaborate but Shevardnadze could have been forced to stay in Moscow because of ethnic violence that erupted in soviet Moldavia along the romanian Border. The soviet Union was represented by Deputy foreign minister Yuli Kvit Sinsky. The foreign ministers of Bulgaria Hungary Poland and Romania were present. Czechoslovakia was represented by Deputy foreign minister Robert Harenchar substituting for Jiri Dienst Bier who is ill. Warsaw pact experts agreed last weekend in Prague on How to Divide among themselves the 20,000 tanks and other conventional weapons they May keep within the agreement Between East and West. The Western nato Alliance will be allowed to keep similar Levels of weapons but will have to destroy Mam fewer than the Warsaw pact members. A czechoslovak officials said after last weeks meeting that the soviets will keep 13,150 tanks 150 fewer than they had proposed to keep. The Budapest meeting was held on the Date on which officials had intended to hold a Warsaw pact Summit in the hungarian capital. The Summit was postponed at the soviet unions request. A hungarian official recently revealed that the a military aspects of the Warsaw pact would be suspended in december and the pact dissolved As a military Alliance next year continuing Only As a political body. Hungary has already served notice that it will leave the military part of the pact next year even if it is not dissolved by then. Czechoslovak president Vaclav Havel recently said that the pacts military Structure would be abolished. The organization would be transformed into a body with a a consultative political  from Page 1 questions about the nature of the dispute and the Legal status of the Case. Osborne added another question to that list a Why is my stuff being used As collateral a _ the Soldier said he has diligently tracked the status of his goods since he arrived in Hanau from fort Riley kan., on aug. 2. He was told that his baggage would arrive in 45 Days. When he failed to receive it in mid september he was Given several different stories explaining the delay including that operation desert shield was jamming up the system. But on oct. 15, he was assigned his oct. 29 delivery Date by the transportation management office in Hanau. The native of St. Joseph mo., was also told about a vague  but a your stuffs in Frankfurt a he said he was told. A a it a not  his first shipment of possessions did not show up oct. 29, his intuition said things had taken a turn for the worse. On oct. 30, he and his platoon sergeant paid a visit to the Hanau transportation office to discuss Why his baggage including his television set stereo Ana clothes Wasny to delivered. A Well your stuffs on hold a Osborne said he was told. A something about an unpaid Bill. That a when i got real ticked off. That a not the company a stuff to hold. It s my  contributing to this report staff Wittor Chuck Vinch in Washington Iraq from Page 1 pensive in recent Days regarding the treatment of its foreign guests Quot As it Calls the hostages. Iraq said it would equip the strategic Sites where captives Are being held with International Telephone lines so they could talk to their families. Iraqi officials have expressed fears that the United states will use reports of maltreatment of the captives As a pretext for a military strike. Western leaders in turn say the selective release of groups of hostages is an Effort by iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein to split their Alliance against him. In the latest such move iraqis parliament voted to allow the 700 bulgarians remaining in Iraq and Kuwait to leave. Also saturday the official iraqi news Agency said european contract workers stranded by the invasion could now leave if they wished. It did not say How Many workers would be affected. The French soldiers were whisked into a vip lounge at the Amman Airport on arrival but the vip treatment might not last Long. A French defense ministry spokes Man said they were Likely to face disciplinary action for their a act of carelessness a France stopped Short of admitting the soldiers had blundered into iraqi territory but hinted that had been the Case. On the diplomatic front Baker left Washington for a trip that was to include stops in Bahrain saudi Arabia Egypt Turkey Britain and France. He is also to meet with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and chinese foreign minister Qian i Chen. Also in the Region was French president Francois Mitterrand who arrived in Egypt on saturday and had a meeting scheduled sunday with president Hosni Mubarak. The iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz arrived in Jordan on saturday for talks with King Hussein. A senior jordanian official said Aziz was carrying a message from Saddam on a ways to achieve  in other developments a Kuwait a exiled Emir called for the a Complete and decisive implementation of . Resolutions calling on Iraq to get out of his country. A former japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone arrived in Baghdad to try to win the Freedom of japanese hostages. \