European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 28, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 3iraq agrees to free . Observers from wire reports Washington a Iraq agreed Friday to end a standoff at a Baghdad parking lot and free a group of . Nuclear weapons inspectors who have seized documents detailing Saddam Hussein a weapons program a state department official said. A we understand that an agreement has been worked out Between the u. N. Team and the iraqis to resolve the standoff a said the official who asked not to be identified. A it will allow the . Team to leave and keep the documents a he said. A a we re waiting for the iraqis to deliver on their  David Kay head of the 44-member team being held for four Days told the Cable news network in a Telephone interview that the team expected to leave the parking area and move into a hotel by 10 . Edt. At the United nations in , . Spokesman Francois Giuliani said a an agreement has been reached Between the inspectors and iraqi officials on the modalities to copy the documents but the inspectors Are still in the compound and the inventory of the documents will begin tomorrow  the . Inspectors were detained despite an agreement by the United nations to provide Baghdad with an inventory of nuclear weapons documents the inspectors have seized from a government building. Many of the inspectors Are american. . Officials had earlier denied a report by the iraqi news Agency and iraqi officials at the United nations that the inspectors ended their four Day ordeal in which they had been held aboard a bus and six cars in a dispute Over whether they can take the documents. Iraq had insisted that All the records sought by the United nations be catalogued so that there would not be disagreements later Over which were taken and what they disclosed. The Security Council on thursday accepted an iraqi plan to free the inspectors who have the right to assess Iraq s weapons of mass destruction under terms of the persian Gulf War cease fire. The showdown began tuesday after the iraqis demanded the inspectors turn Over documents detailing Georgia troops Lake base rebels hold to Center iraqis secret nuclear program. Kay said his team was getting ready for a solution. A a we be done All the preparatory work on the documents the video and the film. So we re ready to go. We be been working All morning about four hours with teams doing that. So we be done essentially at this Point everything we can do on our own a Kay said. Encircled by iraqi troops the inspectors have struggled to keep their spirits High holding lotteries to make Calls Home and improvising touch football games said Kay an american. To pressure Iraq to comply with . Resolutions ending the Gulf War . Forces Are being sent to neighbouring saudi Arabia. The United states on wednesday began moving Patriot anti missile units to the persian Gulf in Case the Security Council orders military escorts for . Teams searching Iraq. Meanwhile iraqi foreign minister Ahmed Hussein delivered a speech to the general Assembly filled with anti-. Invective but which gave no clue to whether Baghdad would cooperate with . Resolutions demanding its cooperation with the weapons inspectors. Tbilisi .s.r. A soldiers Loyal to president Oviad Gamsa Hurdia have seized the oppositions National guard base but opposition leaders Friday remained in control of the georgian capitals broadcasting Center. There was shooting throughout the night in Tbilisi where Gamsa Hurdia imposed a state of emergency to squelch dissent. The standoff pits Samsak Hurdia a supporters who believe his Strong hand is needed to win the republics Independence against critics who believe he has become increasingly dictatorial. Georgia is one of several soviet republics embroiled in political and ethnic turmoil. The strife in Many areas including Georgia began years ago but has been exacerbated by the erosion of Central Power since last months failed hard line coup against Mikhail s. Gorbachev. In Moscow Gorbachev expressed concern Friday about the unrest in Georgia and the Magorno Karabash enclave in the caucasus and about Public protests Over the reinstatement of a communist party Stalwart As president of the Central asian Republic of Kadzhi Kristan. In Kadzhi Kristan hard line president Rakhman a Aziyev said Friday he is ready to negotiate with representatives of the opposition who claim he seized his Post in a communist coup. A Aziyev also told reporters in the Tadzik capital of Dushanbe that he agreed to postpone presidential elections scheduled for oct. 27. He did not set a new Date or elaborate. Meanwhile about 5,000 demonstrators continued around the clock protests demanding Nabi Yevu a resignation camping out in Large tents not far from his office in the parliament building on liberation Square. The protests began monday when acting president Kadri Din Asl nov was deposed after trying to abolish the communist party in Kadzhi Kristan. Parliament named a Aziyev a communist Stalwart in his place and declared a state of emergency. Rebels guard a to station from attack by troops Loyal to georgian president Oviad Gamsa Hurdia. Police fight romanians with tear Gas rubber bullets m Ira duct a it a / a re ii j. A. Bucharest Romania apr hundreds of riot police firing tear Gas and rubber bullets charged demonstrators near the presidential Palace Friday in a forceful Effort to restore order on the third Day of bloody Street protests. Violent demonstrations by Coal miners against inflation and Low living standards in one of Europe a poorest countries spilled Over into near chaos. Although some miners went Home to the Jiu Valley others remained behind and were joined by Bucharest residents and Union members who converged on the City from other romanian cities. Buoyed by the resignation of Premier Petre roman on thursday they ignored a Call by a miners Leader to disperse and demanded that president Ion Iliescu quit As Well. Special Interior ministry soldiers who arrived in 15 to 20 trucks pursued demonstrators from a Square near the presidential Palace into Public gardens and dispersed them. Police fired tear Gas and rubber bullets and also fired Shotgun pellets into the air As a crowd earlier Friday tried to Force one of the Gates to the Palace. The rompers news Agency quoted miners Leader Miron Cosma As saying after a one hour meeting with Iliescu on Friday that they a considered the conflict Over and Are going  Grimy miners in their threadbare work clothes sat Down outside the Palace armed with Iron bars or Sticks they had Tom from Trees. They complained bitterly of poor equipment dangerous working conditions and and poor pay. Many complain they cannot afford to feed their children. The National salvation front of which both roman and Iliescu Are members took Power after the 1989 revolution against communist dictator Nicolas Ceausescu. In its election Campaign last year the front promised a smooth transition to a prosperous Market Economy. But roman who has won Western backing for his economic policies has taken harsh Steps such As drastically raising prices and slashing government subsidies captors reportedly played psychological game with Mann London apr freed hostage Jack Mann who says he was kept chained and isolated during his 28-month ordeal was also subjected to psychological stress when his captors told him another British hostage was killed one of Mann a Sisters said thursday. A Jack said they told him Terry Waite was dead he had been shot a Madge meager said on bbl radio. A but he just did not believe  Waite an envoy of the anglican Church who had been negotiating with the hostage takers is the last briton among the nine westerners missing and believed captive in Lebanon. He disappeared Jan. 20, 1987, but there has never been any report suggesting he was killed. Former British hostage John Mccarthy said when he was freed by his captors aug. 8 that Waite was alive. Mann 77, relished his third Day of Freedom thursday at a Royal air Force base at Lyneham 80 Miles West of London in the same vip suite used by Mccarthy after he was freed. The staff at Lyneham said Mann has bounced Back remarkably Well from his ordeal and has begun a full debriefing that would have been delayed if he had been too weak. A this spirits Are very High indeed. The medical team consider Jackie is sufficiently relaxed and settled for the full debriefing to begin a said station commander group capt. Ian Corbitt. Mann Stop priorities thursday were a haircut a visit to the base dentist new glasses and ordering a new Wristwatch to replace the one stolen by his captors according to base staff. In Middle East correspondent Brent Sadler who helped Sun me Mann write a Book about her agonizing waiting for her husbands release visited the couple. A they Are continually chatting a almost like a a honeymoon couple. Its wonderful to Sec a Sadler said. Mann also spoke on the Telephone with prime minister John major who pronounced him a in very Good  i he former hostage and his wife were invited to visit no. 10 Downing St