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E. German Parliament elects top reformer
BERLIN - East Germany’s Parliament
elected a leading reformer as the new premier
Monday night, but hundreds of thodsands of
protesters took to the streets of Leipzig to say
Communist reforms are moving too slowly.
After a historic weekend in which millions
of East Germans took advantage of their new
freedom to travel west, Parliament also picked
a non-Communist speaker in the chamber’s
first secret ballot and urged accelerated
changes.
And the government said it was dismantling
internal barriers that for three decades formed
a notorious “death strip” between the Berlin
Wall and the city’s sealed-off eastern sector.
Deputies appealed for truly free elections, a
coalition government and removal from the
constitution of language declaring their nation
a socialist stale.
The parliament, known as the People’s
Chamber, then approved the Communist
Party’s nomination of Politburo member Hans
Modrow to lead a new government as premier.
The government traditionally has been subser
vient to the party.
Modrow is a well-known reformer within
the party, which has been led by Egon Krenz
since Oct. 18. Krenz. has promised some re
forms, including free elections.
As deputies argued into the night in East
Berlin, pro-democracy activists in Leipzig
pressed for continued change to prolong the
spirit of hope sweeping the nation after the
festival of freedom over the weekend. West
German television estimated the number of
protesters at between 200,000 and 300,000.
The protesters urged the government to live
up to its promise of free elections and ques
tioned the commitment of the new leadership.
At the session to approve Modrow, the first
secret balloting in the Communist-dominated
Parliament elected a new speaker, Guenther
Maleuda, who told the assembly it was duty
bound to heed the calls of the'reform move
ment.
, Maleuda, 58, is the chairman of the Demo
cratic Peasants party, one of the four small
parties allied with the ruling Communists. The
Communist Party did not propose a candidate
for the post.
In addition to the parliamentary session, the
party’s 163-mcmber Central Committee set
Dec. 15 for an emergency party congress that
will elect a new leadership and rewrite its
political platform.
Modrow is an anti-establishment Commu
nist who enjoys broad popular support. He was
nominated to replace Willi Stoph, who re
signed last week along with his entire 44
membcr cabinet.
About 100,000 more East Germans crossed
into West Berlin and West Germany on Mon
day, but the arrivals were a trickle compared
with the wave of 3 million visitors that went
west over the weekend after travel restrictions
were lifted.
The East German news agency ADN said
more than 5 million visas were issued since
Thursday, and that only about 10,000 had
asked for emigration papers. They seek to join
more than 200,000 who have resettled in West
Germany this year.
Fewer than 1 percent of the weekend visi
tors stayed behind. Most people returned to
their jobs and homes in East Germany.
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245 killed in fighting in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -
I Rebels held large parts of several
poor neighborhoods Monday and
battled soldiers in a third day of the
worst fighting the capital has experi
enced in a decade of civil war.
At least 245 had been killed and
378 wounded since the rebels at
tacked Saturday night in their biggest
[ offensive since 1981, according to
the armed forces mortuary, civilian
morgues and hospitals, and unofficial
military figures.
Thousands of civilians were
trapped in their homes by exchanges
of gunfire between the army and
guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo
Marti National Liberation Front.
Helicopter gunships and military
planes flew over the city to attack
rebel positions.
Few of the city’s 1 million people
were on the streets and nearly all
downtown stores were closed. People
went to the armed forces mortuary
looking for missing relativos.
Fighting also was reported outside
Usulutan, a major city in eastern El
Salvador, but not in the city itself.
The army press office stopped
providing information Monday and
whether combat continued in the
provinces was not clear. Telephone
calls to provincial cities did not go
through.
There were no new official counts
of dead and wounded from the armed
forces.
The armed forces funeral home
said it had the bodies of 67 soldiers
and military sources said unofficially
127 guerrillas had been killed.
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Morgues said they had bodies of 51
civilians.
Hospitals said a total of 258 civil
ians had been injured. On Sunday, the
armed forces said 65 soldiers and 55
guerrilias had been wounded.
President Alfredo Cristiani an
nounced a state of siege and a 6 p.m.
6 a.m. curfew Sunday and legislators
were considering more restrictions
on civil rights. A photographer who
tried to reach the legislature’s build
ing Monday was turned back by gun
fire.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Barry
Jacobs said an army counteroffensive
had been slowed because soldiers
were ordered toavoidcivilian casual
ties.
The Bush administration said
Cristiani’s government had not re
Suested U.S. assistance in repelling
ic rebel attack. |
“It’s our belief that they are in
control of the situation at this point,"
said White House press secretary
Marlin Fitzwater.
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