European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a the stars and stripes monday november 5,1990report 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 Neucks 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 Krenz the communist Leader at the time never gave a Clear order to open the Wall that evening the newspaper said quoting an unidentified 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 Deus Tschand said. Krenz led the the policy making Central committee to believe the Constitution would give people the right to travel freely Only 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 cold 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 Ziege Nhom 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  from Page 1 of the Arab Union of workers a pro iraqi labor group. Quot what should we fear a he said at another Point. Quot the americans will be Defeated no matter How Many they  Saddam s outburst his most aggressive in weeks suggested that he had been stung by remarks in recent Days by president Bush and Baker who have signalled an increasing impatience Over iraqis intransigence on Kuwait and its treatment of american hostages. The freed americans and French soldiers arrived in Iordan aboard the same iraqi airways flight from Baghdad. At the Amman Airport they were quickly hustled away by . And French officials. The americans did not speak to reporters except to say they were tired. Also aboard the flight were about 80 Arab nationals and three men who identified themselves As Irish. They did not give their names. Embassy officials from France said the French soldiers were expected to leave for Home late saturday. The americans were to Fly Home sunday. The americans were identified As Randall Trinh 49, of Hacienda Heights Calif. Or. Abdul Kanji 50, an Indian born american from Glencoe 111. Raymond gales a Diplomat from the . Embassy in Kuwait whose Hometown and age were not immediately available and Michael Barner 49, of Woodworth la. Iraq said the four were released As a humanitarian gesture because they were Quot elderly and  . Embassy sources in Baghdad said Trinh suffered from a stomach ulcer and Barner had a neurological disorder. No other ailments were reported. Iraq has launched a Public relations offensive regarding treatment of its foreign a guests a As it Calls the hostages. It said saturday it would install International Tele news Bri Efanti separatists rally to Back moldavian action Kishinev .s.r. 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 Eust 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 National guard to try to re establish order in the area East of the Dniester River. Moldavia declared sovereignty in june and is trying to separate from the soviet Union. But it faces its own crisis produced by two internal separatist movements phone lines at strategic Sites where captives Are held so they can talk to their families and last week offered to allow hostages relatives to visit them at Christmas. A French embassy spokeswoman in Amman expressed appreciation for iraqis Quot Good gesture of freeing the three soldiers who were captured monday France stopped Short of admitting the soldiers had blundered into iraqi territory but hinted that had been the Case. A French defense ministry spokesman said the three were Likely to face disciplinary action for their Quot act of carelessness. A the iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz arrived in Jordan saturday for talks with King Hussein and a senior jordanian official said Aziz was carrying a message from Saddam on a ways to achieve  no details were disclosed. Aziz accused the United states and Britain of Quot escalating their War rhetoric and  but he said there were expressions of interest in a peaceful solution being voiced elsewhere. There was word of a planned iraqi peace initiative from Irish and italian parliamentarians who met with the speaker of iraqis ruling National Council. They said the iraqi plan Calls for the release of All foreigners in. Return for guarantees from world Powers that Iraq will not be attacked. Former japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone arrived in Baghdad to try to win the Freedom of japanese hostages. Although Nakasone strip is private it has the Tokyo governments backing. Warsaw pact agreement clears Way for signing of arms treaty 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 shipments from Page 1 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 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 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 Many fewer than the Warsaw pact members 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 Quot consultative political  about a vague  but a your stuffs in Frank Furt a he said he was told. A a it a not  after his first shipment of possessions did not Sho up on oct. 29, his intuition said things had taken a Tun for the worse. On oct. 30, he and his platoon sergeant paid a visit to the Hanau transportation office to discus Why his baggage including his television set stereo am clothes was t delivered. A a Weh your stuffs on hold a Osborne said he a told. Something about an unpaid Bill. That a when i go real ticked off that a not the company a stuff to hold its my stuff a contributing to thin report staff writer Chuck a Neh in Wuhan ton