Daily Tar HeelFriday, November 10, 1989
World and -Nation
Borders to open between East, West
From Associated Press reports
BERLIN East Germany's em
battled Communist leaders said Thurs
day they would throw open western
borders and allow citizens to travel
freely anywhere for the first time since
the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961.
The move would end decades of
fencing in East Germans to prevent
their flight to the West and could leave
the wall a symbol of the differences
between East and West as a mere
monument to the Cold War.
New Communist leader Egon Krenz
also urged a law ensuring free and
democratic elections in a desperate
attempt to gain control of his country.
More than 200,000 East Germans
have fled West so far this year; more
than 50,000 have left since Saturday
alone. Hundreds of thousands of people
have taken to the streets to demand
democratic reforms and the end of 40
years of one-party rule.
' Giinter Schabowski, a member of
the ruling Politburo, said East
Germany's heavily fortified frontier
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with West Germany would be opened
as a provisional step until a law is
passed to allow East Germans greater
freedom of travel.
Schabowski did not say when the
law would be passed and it was not
immediately clear when the borders
would be opened. He also said East
Germany was not yet ready to tear
down all its barriers.
The decision, made during a Central
Committee meeting, means all East
Germans "can travel over all East
German border checkpoints," Sch
abowski told reporters in East Berlin.
Those who want to emigrate can go
to West Germany directly without
having to go through a third country,
Schabowski said. East Germans have
been fleeing through Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and Poland.
Schabowski said those who only
want to visit the West need visas, but
that those should be issued quickly. He
mentioned no limit about the length of
stay abroad.
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and the two German nations since 1961.
Communist authorities built it to stop
an exodus to West Germany. It became
a symbol of the differences between
East and West, differences that Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachev has
sought to erase by urging reforms in the
Soviet bloc.
Every U.S. president since John F.
Kennedy has urged the East Germans
to tear the wall down.
In Washington, Secretary of State
James A. Baker JJI called the announce
ment a "very positive development."
"We've been talking a long time
about freedom of travel being a basic
human right. We've been talking a long
time about open borders. We've been
talking a long time about the impor
tance of seeing the wall come down,"
he said.
Fifteen prominent East Berlin Com
munist intellectuals and officials wrote
a letter to the Central Committee sug
gesting the Berlin Wall be torn down.
"It is also imaginable, even in the
foreseeable future, that the wall will
become a relic of the past," if an agree
ment is signed with West Germany that
would prevent "damage to the East
German economy," the group said in a
letter that appeared Thursday in the
Berliner Zeitung, a newspaper of the
city's Communist Party organization.
As the protests and exodus have
gathered momentum in recent days,
Communist leaders have enacted in
creasingly desperate measures to quell
the unrest.
Krenz, who assumed power just three
weeks ago when his predecessor was
Director
process and by intentionally making it
difficult for witnesses to attend the Step
3 hearing of a grievance filed by offi
cers Edwards, Bowler and Lonnie
Sexton.
Edwards and Bowler claimed Sher
man made them wash their patrol cars
in retaliation for being scheduled as
witnesses in Sexton's hearing. Sexton
had charged he was unfairly passed
over for promotion.
Edwards and Bowler said they also
would like to see Mauer removed.
"They had about the same sort of
situation under the previous director,
and the previous director left, and then
Maj. Mauer stayed on," Bowler said.
"Each time he has been under two di
rectors, and both directors have left,
and it has been pretty much the same
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unable to calm his nation, on Wednes
day purged much of the old guard from
the Communist Party's ruling Polit
buro. The 21 -member body was
slimmed down to 1 1.
The Communist Party's Central
Committee set a party conference for
Dec. 15-17. A party conference, a fo
rum for making major changes in party
policy, was last held in 1956.
The official ADN news agency said
the conference would discuss person
nel changes in the 163 -member Central
Committee.
Krenz touched on the volatile topic
of multiparty elections in a speech to
the Central Committee that was pub
lished Thursday in state newspapers.
He urged a "new election law that en
sures free, democratic general elections
with a secret ballot. He proposed "public
supervision in every stage of the ballot
ing." Krenz did not say whether he was
urging a true multiparty system in East
Germany. Officials already say elec
tions are democratic, even though the
system guarantees the Communists
virtually unanimous approval.
Krenz also promised new laws on
freedom of assembly, association and
the press, but gave no details.
However, he did say independent
groups might have a role in the nation's
politics as East Germany tries to re
cover from the shock of losing more
than 200,000 mostly young, skilled
workers to the West this year.
East Germany's pro-democracy
opposition groups have made free elec
tions their main demand.
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"So, we feel the director may have
been half the problem, but the chief
certainly had a lot of input. As long as
you've got a person continually advis
ing a director in the wrong way, and the
director making decisions, you are
bound to have chaos. If Mr. Sherman
was so wrong enough as to resign, and
the chief was backing him 100 percent,
I don't feel we can have a new begin
ning as long as the chief is still here."
Edwards said, "I think what is needed
in this department is a fresh start with
all new people at the top."
Mauer also declined to comment on
the possibility of being reassigned.
No decisions have been made about
other possible administrative changes
in the department, Tuchi said.
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Chinese leader steps down,
passes power to successor
From Associated Press reports
BEIJING Deng Xiaoping,
China's senior leader, passed his last
formal leadership post to his chosen
successor Thursday, and the Com
munist Party laid out an austere eco
nomic plan for the next two years.
Deng, 85, resigned as chairman of
the party's powerful Central Military
Commission in favor of party chief
Jiang Zemin. He still heads the State
Military Commission, a virtual mir
ror of the party group, but said in a
letter released Thursday he also would
leave that job.
The move solidifies Jiang's posi
tion and appears at least to suspend a
reported power struggle between him
and President Yang Shangkun. Jiang,
63, had not held a national post until
his elevation to party leader after the
pro-democracy movement was
crushed in June.
Foreign diplomats and Chinese
sources agree Deng is likely to re
main the leading voice in party and
government affairs, as he has been
since leaving the Politburo and Cen
tral Committee in 1987.
Contras, Sandinistas begin talks
UNITED NATIONS
Nicaragua's foreign minister said
Thursday his government will meet
Contra demands for a truce and
amnesty if the rebels agree to begin
disbanding by the end of the month.
The U.S. -backed Contras and
Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista gov
ernment began their first direct talks
in more than a year Thursday in an
effort to end an 8-year-old war that
has taken an estimated 12,000 lives.
U.N. Secretary-General Javier
Perez de Cuellar and his Organiza
tion of American States counterpart,
Lewis
campaign four months in advance? It is
unfortunate that Brien's decision has
forced these fine individuals to an
nounce at such an early date. It cannot
benefit the student body to have a
campaign that lasts four months."
Lewis said he didn't agree with
Davis' assessment of his announce
ment. He met with many people before he
made his announcement, and this
meeting included anybody he had spo
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Joao Clemente Baena Soares, opened
the meeting, then turned the media- .
tion effort over to aides.
Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto:
of Nicaragua said before the meet-
ing the key Contra demands would
be met if demobilization began by
the end of November.
The Contras insist on resumption
of the cease-fire President Daniel -Ortega
ended last week, a general.
amnesty and a visit by a Contra dele-, -gation
to Nicaragua to make sure it is.
safe for the rebels to return.
Wholesale prices go up
WASHINGTON Wholesale
prices rose 0.4 percent in October as
the biggest spurt in food costs in 22
months offset the positive effects ,
from moderating energy prices, the
government reported Thursday.
While the increase in the Labor
Department's Producer Price Index
was double what economists had
been expecting, most of them stressed
that they saw no reason for worries
that inflationary pressures are threat
ening to get out of hand.
The 0.4 percent October rise was
down from a giant 0.9 percent Sep
tember increase, and many econo
mists predicted that the news on
inflation will continue to improve in
coming months as a slowing econ
omy takes more pressure off prices.
For the first 10 months of this
year, prices at the wholesale level
have been rising at an annual rate of
5.2 percent, compared to an increase
of 4 percent in 1988.
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ken with in the last two months who
"expressed some form of interest" in
running for president, Lewis said.
"I talked with a lot of people, not just
those individuals. Nobody has said to
me 'I'm definitely running.' If my ac
tions have forced anything, it has forced
people to sit down and re-evaluate their
own thoughts.
"The reason I went to the paper with
it is because rumors can start and grow
very quickly out of proportion."
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