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Bush urges ‘new thinking ’ of Soviets
BRUSSELS, Belgium — President
Bush said Monday it’s too early to
proclaim an end to the Cold War, but
added that Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s
acceptance of sweeping reform in
Eastern Europe “absolutely man
dates new thinking” by the West.
Wrapping up his weekend summit
journey with a slop at NATO Head
quarters, Bush also told reporters the
United States would maintain “sig
nificant military forces in Europe as
long as our allies desire our pres
ence.”
The president said he wants a
treaty making initial cuts in the super
powers’ conventional forces in Eu
rope “in the bank” before seeking
deeper reductions. He told NATO
leaders he hoped a multinational
summit could be convened in Europe
next summer to sign such an accord.
Conventional forces aside, the
United States and Soviet Union are
negotiating a proposed 50 percent cut
in* long-range nuclear weapons, as
well as a proposed ban of chemical
weapons.
The president spoke as Gorbachev
was convening a meeting of a radi
cally reordered Warsaw Pact in
Moscow to review the weekend
summit.
The dramatic change in Europe
continued uninterrupted during the
day, as the Soviet Union and the four
other Warsaw Pact nations con
demned their own invasion of
Czechoslovakia in 1968. In Leipzig,
East Germany, about 2(K),(XX) dem
onstrators broke into wild rounds of
applause as speakers called for Ger
man reunification.
Bush and Gorbachev agreed at an
unprecedented joint news conference
before leaving Malta that their meet
ing heralded a new era of cooperation
in East-West relations, including
arms control and trade. They intend
to meet again in the United States in
the second half of June.
At his news conference, Bush
said, “We stand at the threshold of a
new era....” but declined to assert
the Cold War has ended as Gor
bachev suggested.
“That day hasn’t arrived,” the
president said when asked about
Gorbachev’s statement declaring an
end to the “epoch of the Cold War.”
Barring a utopian development,
Bush said, “the United States must
stay involved” by keeping troops
massed against Warsaw Pact forces.
“If you want to project out 100
years, or take some years off of that,
you can look to a utopian day when
there might be none (U.S. troops in
Europe),” he said. “But as I pointed
out to them (NATO leaders), that day
hasn’t arrived -- and they agree with
me.”
Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lub
bers said he was impressed by the
United States’ “extraordinarily posi
tive attitude” toward events in Eu
rope.
“It has nothing to do with a ‘we
are pulling out’ attitude,” he told
reporters. “On the contrary, they are
again promising a meaningful pres
ence (in Europe).”
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher said Bush ’ s speech ‘ ‘ was so
full of meat that we really should
consider it very carefully before we
reply to it.” She has urged a more
cautious altitude than some allies
toward events unfolding in Eastern
Europe.
Czech demonstrators reject new government
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia --
More than 150,000 demonstrators
chanting “They must go!” rejected
the new Communist-dominated gov
ernment Monday and demanded free
elections in a roaring show of support
for the opposition.
Also on Monday, thousands of
tourists from Czechoslovakia freely
visited the West for the first time in
decades after the government lifted
most travel restrictions.
Demonstrators massed in central
Wcnccslas Square for the first lime
since Nov. 27, when a nationwide
general strike forced the government
to grant historic concessions. That
demonstration capped 11 straight
days of rallies in Czechoslovakia.
Monday’s demonstrators waved
red, white and blue national flags and
applauded opposition demands for
elections by July and a second gen
eral strike on Dec. 11 if there is no
new government by Sunday.
“Resign! Resign!” they chanted.
The turnout at the rally and
smaller ones elsewhere was a clear
signal to the government that the
opposition has massive popular sup
port for its demands for real democ
racy.
They were protesting the new
coalition government named Sun
day, which brought only five non
Communists into the 21-member
Cabinet and left Communists in con
trol of all key ministries. Thirteen
were holdovers from the previous
Communist Cabinet.
In an indication the government
may respond to demands for new
ministers, First Deputy Premier
Bohumil Urban met with two opposi
tion representatives to negotiate a
new meeting with Communist Pre
mier Ladislav Adamcc later this
week.
Frantisek Pitra, the premier of the
Czech republican government, asked
for more time to consider changes at
the republic level, postponing an
announcement originally scheduled
for Monday night.
The governments of the Czech and
Slovak republics control key areas
such as justice and education in their
respective regions.
Eleven of the 17 ministers under
Pitra in the Czech republic have sub
mitted their resignations, including
the unpopular ministers of education
and justice, the stale news agency
CTK reported.
A parliamentary commission re
ported on its investigation into police
brutality against student demonstra
tors on Nov. 17. It concluded that
police used inappropriate force and
seriously injured peaceful demon
strators. It said some police on duty
ihen may face charges of assault and
abuse of office.
Pentagon says
Soviets detained
U. S. officer team
WASHINGTON - Soviet mili
tary personnel in East Germany
detained a team of U.S. military
officers for 7 1/2 hours on the eve
of President Bush’s summit with
Soviet President Mikhail Gor
bachev, the Pentagon said Mon
day.
“There were no U.S. or Soviet
injuries. U.S. personnel were re
leased later that day. The incident
is under investigation,” Pentagon
Spokesman Navy Ltr. Cmdr. Ken
Satterfield said.
Satterfield said the U.S. team
was ‘‘on their assigned mission”
which involved observing installa
tions in East Germany. It was not
immediately clear how many U.S.
and Soviet personnel were in
volved in the incident
The spokesman said die vehicle
in which the U.S. team was riding
was detained and ‘‘a tire was punc
tured with a bayonet.” Satterfield
said the team was not threatened
by the Soviets.
The incident had not been an
nounced by U.S. authorities, and
Pentagon officials offered infor
mation about it when queried by
The Associated Press.
‘‘They don’t want to elevate
this,” said one Pentagon source,
referring to efforts by U.S. offi
cials to minimize the incident at a
time of improving U.S.-Soviet re
lations. Bush and Gorbachev met
over the weekend in Malta and said
their talks heralded a reduction in
East-West tensions.
Satterfield said he was not
aware that any official protest had
been filed over the detention.
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■ Antique carousels breaking up
MIDDLEBURY, Conn. - For
70 years, the hand-carved wooden
animals of the Quassy Amusement
Park carousel transported giggling
children on fanciful trips that al
ways ended where they began
But the brightly colored horses,
zebras, lions and giraffes went to
auction in October and were par
celed out one by one to places far
flung - such as New Jersey, Ala
bama and Washington.
The four dozen animals aboard
the 18-ton merry-go-round that
had been near the shores of Lake
Quassapaug in Middlebury,
Conn., for as long as most people
could remember, fetched a total of
$638,000.
Experts say a buying frenzy
among private art collectors has
caused the value of antique carou
sels to skyrocket, increasing the
temptation for small amusement
parks to sell their prized rides.
George Frantzis Sr., co-owner
of Quassy, says his family-run
park could no longer afford to
maintain or insure the ride. He
adds that a recent theft of one of the
wooden horses hastened the deci
sion to sell.
“We will replace the old
merry-go-round with a new fiber
glass one that is safer for our pa
trons and allows for greater iase in
operation,” the 62-year-old
Frantzis said. “It wasn’t an easy
decision. I grew up on that carou
sel. But 99 percent of the people
who ride the carousel don’t have
the vaguest idea of its history. To
them it’s just a ride that goes fast, a
fun ride.”
To carousel lovers and history
buffs, the loss of another merry
go-round means the destruction of
an important link to America’s
past.
In the early part of this century,
there were 6,(XX) carousels, ac
cording to William Manns, a na
tional carousel expert in Katonah,
N.Y. Now, there arc only about six
dozen carousels similar to
Quassy’s, and two-thirds of those
are in danger of being sold to sat
isfy antique art collectors, Manns
says.
' “We don’t have that many cul
tural landmarks in our nation,” he
says. “The little carousel, in its
own way, has contributed to our
beginnings. If it goes its 47 differ
ent ways, it will never be brought
back together.”
E. Germans try to secure evidence for
trials of ousted Communist Party leaders
EAST BERLIN -- East Germans
outraged by the corruption of ousted
Communist Party leaders tried to
storm secret police offices Monday to
make certain evidence for criminal
trials is not removed.
Prosecutors blocked access by the
former officials to evidence that
could be used against them in the
widening corruption investigation.
State television showed pictures
of people joining police at luxurious
government guest houses and at
warehouses in East Berlin and
Potsdam to block any efforts to re
move documents.
Officials appealed for calm as
people tried to force their way into
secret police offices in Erfurt.
In Leipzig, where about 200,000
people attended a rally calling for
German unification, 30 demonstra
tors were allowed inside the secret
police headquarters, including oppo
sition leader Wolfgang Schnur.
East Germany’s official ADN
news agency said the group was let in
“after massive demands of demon
strators who had surrounded the
building.’’ It said the protesters pre
sented their grievances and departed
but 2(X) other demonstrators who re
fused to leave were permitted inside
later to tour the building.
Parts of the building were sealed
off to prevent documents from being
smuggled out and Schnur said citi
zens would take part in making sure
the papers remained there.
Wolfgang Schwanitz, new chief
of national security, ordered flights to
Romania halted because of reports
that sensitive material was being
smuggled to the Warsaw Pact ally,
whose leader, Nicolac Ccauscscu,
has rejected reform.
Officials said there was no proof
documents were being sent there.
Opposition sources said earlier that
important documents were taken
from party headquarters to Schocn
fold airport for flights to Romania.
Premier Hans Modrow, who *
emerged as the leading political fig- I
ure one day after the entire Conimu- :
nisi Party leadership resigned, was ^
not in East Germany. He led a three
member delegation to the Warsaw
Pact summit in Moscow.
At the huge Leipzig rally, the
crowd applauded and cheered as
speakers called for a united Ger
many. Demonstrators waved dozens
of West German flags in front of the
secret police headquarters. One flag
was draped over a surveillance cam
era mounted outside the headquar
ters.
Filipino rebels offer to allow
hundreds to leave seized district
MANILA, Philippines - Rebel
soldiers Monday offered to allow
hundreds of foreigners to leave hotels
in the financial district, seized last
weekend by mutineers seeking to
topple President Cora/.on Aquino.
Late Monday, two bombs ex
ploded in the capital, wounding two
people. It was unclear if they were
related to the coup attempt, which
began Friday and has killed at least 70
people.
Hundreds of Americans and other
foreigners were pinned down in
homes and hotels in the posh Makati
district, where forces loyal to Aquino
contained the mutineers to 22 build
ings.
About 400 rebels continued to
occupy Mactan Air Base in Cebu,
350 miles south of Manila. Their
leader refused to surrender and
threatened to blow up the base’s
planes.
The United States provided fresh
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military supplies to the Aquino gov
ernment and promised $25,000 in
assistance for civilian hospitals, said
Richard Boucher, a State Department
spokesman in Washington.
In Manila, a statement from a
rebel spokesman, Capt. Albert Yen,
telephoned to news organizations,
said the insurgents would release the
lorcigners to dispel suspicions they
were being held hostage.
The statement said the foreigners
would be free to leave the hotels at 10
a.m. today (9 p.m. EST Monday)
and would be taken to Manila’s air
port aboard shuttle buses. There was
no word if foreign embassies had
been informed of the offer.
Ycn said the move did not indicate
the rebels were about to end their
four-day bid to oust Aquino.
“That’s the farthest thing that we
could do,’’ he said. “We pledged dur
lives to this cause. We will hold the
line to the last drop of our blood.”
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