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.
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Colombian judges, court
employees begin striking
BOGOTA, Colombia - Judges
and court workers began a series of
nationwide strikes Thursday, a day
after another judge and a congress
man were murdered, apparently by
drug traffickers.
In Medellin, where the judge was
killed, federal justices walked off the
job indefinitely until they receive
more protection.
It is the third time judges have
gone on strike in the last three
months, with each walkout following
the assassination of a federal judge.
In the last eight years 222 court work
ers, including 43 judges, have been
killed, most of them by drug traffick
ers.
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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