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News Digest East Germans flee PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia -- More than 1,300 East Germans jammed the West German Embassy on Thursday to seek new lives in the West, ana many scoffed at promised reforms in the communist homeland they left behind. In East Berlin, Communist leader Egon Krcnz urged closer economic ties to the West and said a new law permitting freedom of travel to the West would be announced Monday. Several top Communist officials re signed, including the wife of ousted leader Erich Honecker. At least 8,000 East Germans swarmed into Czechoslovakia after East Germany lifted a month-old travel ban on Wednesday, the official East German news agency ADN said. It is the only country East Germans can visit freely. A Czech policeman outside the embassy said he and his colleagues had orders not to interfere with any East Germans seeking entrance be cause this was a matter for the two Germanys alone. Shipments of tents were ordered from West Germany to cope with what embassy sources expected would be a renewed influx over the weekend. East Germany has agreed to allow East Germans at the embassy and at the West German Embassy in War saw to renounce their citizenship and go to West Germany, which auto matically gives them a new passport and assistance in starting a new life. East German diplomats are proc essing only about 100 people a day in Prague, and more than 1,000 are still waiting in the West German Embassy in Warsaw. West German coaches were used to ferry the processed East Ger mans to the Czech border with Bav aria at Waidhaus. Sandinistas attack Contras MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Sandinista troops launched attacks in Nicaragua’s central and north ern mountains Thursday to try to wipe out outnumbered Contra forces that have infiltrated from Honduras, according to reports. Lt. Col. Rosa Pasos, a military spokeswoman, said most of the action was concentrated on rebels , sneaking into Nicaragua, but she would confirm only one attack near Quilali, in the border province of Nueva Segovia. “What the lifting of the cease fire does is give us the possibility of organizing offensives in a more organized manner and with greater firepower,” Pasos said. President Daniel Ortega ended a 19-month cease-fire on Wednes day, saying the Contras had been stepping up attacks inside Nicara gua. He also blamed the United States for the renewed attacks and accused President George Bush of promoting “terrorism.” The Sandinista party newspa per Barricada said Thursday that combat units in 14 towns and vil lages in northern Nicaragua began operations overnight, but neither the newspaper nor Pasos gave de tails. A communique distributed by the Nicaraguan Resistance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, said the Sandinistas had mounted attacks Wednesday with tanks, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery. Pasos refused to comment on those reports and said she had no immediate reports on casualties or details of the fighting. In Tegucigalpa, Contra com mander Enrique Bermudez said that the Contras would continue observing the cease-fire because they have not naa tne resources to launch attacks since U.S. military aid was cut off in February 1988. In Washington, Bush admini stration officials reiterated con cern that the ending of the cease fire was a prelude to cancellation of the Feb. 25 vote. While House spokesman Mar lin Fitzwater said Thursday it was unrealistic to expect the Contras to lay down their arms when the left ist Sandinista government is out “to destroy them.” State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher said the administration believes reports from Contra rebel leaders that the Sandinisias have commenced ma jor military operations in at least two regions in Nicaragua. 4 4 We believe that the process of elections cannot be helped by these kind of attacks,” he said. GOAN OPENING! 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In the latest slaying, federal Judge Mariela Espinoza was killed by sub machine gun fire from two speeding cars as she arrived at her Medellin home Wednesday night with two motorcycle guards. One of the body guards and a bystander were wounded. Espinoza, 43, was one of 42 fed eral appellate judges in Medellin, a city of 2 million people that is the cocaine capital of Colombia. It was not immediately known if she had handled drug trafficking cases. In the capital of Bogota federal Rep. Luis Francisco Madcro was killed with a pistol shot to the head Wednesday night by a man who was waiting for Madero in the shadows outside the congressman’s apart ment. Madero, a 27-year veteran in Co lombia’s House of Representatives, had supported extradition of Colom bians to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. No one claimed responsibility for cither of the slayings, but govern ment security forces say mat brought to 42 the number of people killed by drug traffickers since a government crackdown began 11 weeks ago. The deaths include the three fed eral judges, a congressman, a gover nor, a state leader of the leftist Patri otic Union and nine news media employees. Two newspapers have been bombed. The traffickers arc trying to force the government to reverse its deci sion to extradite suspected Colom bian drug traffickers to the United States. Five suspected traffickers have been extradited so far. The National Association of Court Workers, which includes 5,000 judges and and 12,(XX) other court workers, declared a strike of two hours Thursday, four hours today , and all of Nov. 7 and Nov. 8. Senate acts on North pension WASHINGTON - The Senate late Wednesday acted to restore Ol iver North’s $23,000-a-year military retirement pay, which had been re voked after he was sentenced in July for illegally shredding government documents. "Ollie North has been punished enough,’’ said Sen. Jesse Helms, R N.C., sponsor of the change. “Let ihe persecution end. Let the vendetta end.” The issue, which has heavy politi cal overtones stemming from the Reagan administration’s Iran-Contra scandal, now goes to the House, where similar legislation has been introduced but not yet acted on. 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