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Thousands in Moscow protest Communist stranglehold
MOSCOW - Hundreds of thou
sands of cheering protesters filled the
broad streets of the capital Sunday to
demand that the Communists surren
der their stranglehold on power, per
haps the biggest protest in Moscow
since the Bolshevik Revolution.
The huge gathering came on the
eve of a party Central Committee
meeting during which President
Mikhail Gorbachev is expected to
propose that other parties be allowed
to compete for power, a move likely
to spur an intense struggle between
hard-liners and reformers.
The crowd waved huge white-red
and-bluc flags of pre-revolutionary
Russia and held signs warning party
officials to “Remember Romania,’ ’
where a bloody revolt last year toppled
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Harkening to the revolution that
overthrew the czar in February 1917
before being swept away by Lenin
eight months later, protesters said a
new revolution was under way.
“Long live the beginning of the
peaceful, non-violent revolution ol
February 1990!” historian Yuri Afa
nasiev told the cheering crowa.
Some demonstrators at the head of
the rally chanted ‘ ‘Politburo resign!
Others whistled in derision when they
passed the Moscow city council head
quarters on Gorky Street.
The march and rally lasted about
fives hours before participants began
to disperse. Police observed the peace
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of the capital, but there were no re
ports of any disturbances.
According to published reports,
party leader Gorbachev will propose
to the Central Committee that the
party give up the guarantee of power
that was written into the Soviet
Constitution in 1977.
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Mandela awaits agreement with government
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obstacles still block the release of
Nelson Mandela and more pressure
must be put on the white-led govern
ment before he can be freed from
nearly three decades in prison, his
wife said Sunday.
The government, meanwhile,
warned Mandela’s newly legalized
African National Congress that the
world would turn against the group if
it continued to wage a guerrilla war.
Mandela met with his wife, Win
nie, on Sunday, two days after the
government lifted numerous restric
tions on the anti-apartheid movement.
After the meeting, she appealed for
renewed pressure on the government
to force the lifting of remaining
emergency restrictions.
“Unfortunately, the obstacles that
were in the way, which prevented his
release on Friday, still exist,” Mrs.
Mandela said after the four-hour visit
at the Victor Vcrsler prison farm.
“It . . . doesn’t depend on him
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But in answer to repeated questions
about the obstacles, she said Mandela
still demands the complete lifting of
the state of emergency.
President F.W. de Klerk partially
lifted the emergency in a historic speech
Friday in which he legalized the Afri
can National Congress, placed a
moratorium on executions and lifted
restrictions on hundreds of individu
als and scores of anti-apartheid or
ganizations.
Dc Klerk’s actions met many, but
not all, of the conditions the ANC and
Mandela had set for the start of nego
tiations tosnd apartheid and give the
votelcss black majority a voice in the
government.
Under the emergency regulations
that remain in effect, the government
can detain anyone for up to six months
without charge, and the police have
wide powers to ban meetings or
speeches and restrict television or photo
coverage of their own actions in deal
Dc Klerk issued a statement through
government-run radio Sunday night
responding to comments from ANC
officials that the guerrilla campaign
would continue. If that happened, dc
Klerk was quoted as saying, “The
world would turn against them.”
Mandela, 71, was jailed in 1962
and is serving a life sentence for help
ing to plan the start of the ANC’s
sabotage and bombing campaign
against the government.
Dc Klerk said the government will
free Mandela as soon as possible. He
mentioned safety and personal con
siderations as reasons for what he
said would be a short delay.
“The onus is on Mr. de Klerk,”
Mrs. Mandela told journalists. “We
arc back to where we have to pul
pressure on the government.”
She said Mandela was preparing a
reaction to dc Klerk’s speech to Par
liament, but she didn’t know when it
would be made public.
Panamanian paper
suggests continued
American presence
PANAMA CITY, Panama - The
U.S. invasion of Panama has once
more raised the issue of whether the
United States will maintain a military
presence beyond the year 2000, w hen
the American bases must close.
President Guillermo Endara has
abolished Gen. Manuel Antonio
Noriega’s military, leaving open the
question about who would defend the
Panama Canal. Endara has made no
public statement about the issue of
the bases.
The newspaper Panama America
recently suggested the U.S.-Panama
treaties be renegotiated to allow
American payments in exchange for
keeping American military bases. The
1977 treaties provide for the possibil
ity of new agreements on defense of
the waterway.
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from the United Stales, the U.S. bases
mean nearly Sl(X) million a year for
Panama’s economy in services pur
chased and other expenditures.
Some U.S. military sources say
the United States might maintain
Howard Air Base, just outside ol
Panama City, and the Rodman Naval
Base.
The treaties did away with the old
Panama Canal Zone, a 10-inilc stretch
across the country along the canal
that was U.S. territory, and stipulate
that the canal will be turned over to
Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, when the
last American soldier is to go home.
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