Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 83, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 December 1989 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 11,1989

Czech Communists give up power after 41 years;

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) tav Husak presided over the end of 41 years of Communist rule by swearing in a Cabinet whose members include people he had jailed or stripped of all but the most menial jobs. Tens of thousands of jubilant Czechoslovaks then toe*: to the streets Sunday to celebrate the triumph of their peaceful -evolution, which gave the county its first government dominates by nonCommunists since 1948. Calls grew for opposition leader Vaclav Havel be elected president. “WE HAVEN’T WON yet,”

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Havel, 53, told a cheering crowd of 100,000 in Prague’s Wenceslas Square. “But it is a great success, giving us great hope. “This peaceful revolution was ... against violence, dirt, mafias, privileges, persecutions,” the oncebanned playwright said in the nationally televised speech. “Let us preserve its purity, peacefulness, love and merry, friendly flair.” The new “government of national understanding” contains 10 Communists, two of whom enjoy opposition support, seven non-party members and two members each from the small Socialist and People’s parties, which recently broke with the Communists. IT INCLUDES TWO men who just weeks ago were persecuted as dissidents. In a key compromise, the Interior Ministry, which runs the nation’s hated secret and uniformed police, will be run jointly by a former dissident, the new Communist premier and a Communist Party member proposed by the opposition. The new government was swom in by Husak, 76, the man responsible for the 21 years of repression after a Soviet-led invasion crushed the “Prague Spring” reforms of 1968. Husak, who presided over the jailing and firing of hundreds of thousands of people as Communist Party chief, then resigned. IN ADDITION TO Havel, ‘Prague Spring’ reform leader Alexander Dubcek has been named as a candidate few president, to be

chosen by Parliament this month. Dubcek, 68, had been replaced as Communist Party chief by Husak. Elsewhere in Eastern Europe on Sunday: • More than 50,000 people chanting “Democracy!” rallied in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the biggest demonstration for reform since the Communists consolidated power there 43 years ago. • Tens of thousands of East Germans rallied in several cities in support of further democratic reforms. The country’s new German Communist Party chief said he wants a clear separation of party and government functions. • Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned Communist Party leaders in Moscow that.their colleagues’ fall from power in Eastern Europe proves they must quickly solve Soviet domestic problems or face similar “excesses.” THE NEW Czechoslovak government marks a triumph of the persecuted over their persecutors. The new foreign minister, Jiri Dienstbier, was jailed with Havel from 1979 to 1982 few battling for human rights. A new first deputy premier, Jan Camogursky, is a Slovak lawyer and Roman Catholic activist freed from jail just two weeks ago. Gen. Miroslav Vacek, a Communist, remained defense minister, but the Interior Ministry will be run by the new premier, Marian Calfa;

Bloodshed on the hustings

Free Nicaraguan elections unlikely after rally turns to riot

DANIEL ORTEGA Sandanistas are blamed

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Tens of thousands of Prague residents took the the streets Sunday in celebration of the capitulation of Czechoslovakia’s Communist government. The new Cabinet is made up of 10 Communists, two of whom enjoy opposition

First Vice Premier Valtr Komarek, a Communist Party member proposed by the opposition; and Camogursky. Havel said Carnogursky will oversee the secret police, who once hounded him. PARLIAMENT, WHICH meets Tuesday, has two weeks to

MASATEPE, Nicaragua (AP) An opposition campaign rally turned into a riot in which one person was reported killed and more than 20 people injured. Foreign observers blamed the violence on Sandinista provocateurs. Sunday’s violence lasted four hours and was the worst of the campaign leading to general elections set for Feb. 25, and the foreigners said it raised doubts that the balloting would be held without incident. OPPONENTS AND supporters of the ruling Sandinistas clashed with machetes, knives, broken bottles, rocks and sticks Sunday in this town 30 miles south of Managua. The local Sandinista Front headquarters was sacked, and two vehicles were burned. “I came here assuming that there would be free and open elections,” said Robert Beckel of the Washington-based Center for Democracy, a bipartisan group invited to observe the electoral process. “You can’t witness what we saw today and believe there’s any way there’ll be a fair election in this country.”

support, seven non-party members, and two members each from the Socialist and People's parties. Two of the new government officials were persecuted just two weeks ago as dissidents. (AP photo)

choose a new president. The opposition coalition Civic Forum and its Slovak counterpart, Public Against Violence, were formed Nov. 19 two days after riot police brutally beat peaceful demonstrators in Prague. Czechs and Slovaks were taking

THE FIGHTING BROKE out during a rally organized by the National Opposition Union, or UNO, when a group of about 20 Sandinista loyalists and opposition followers exchanged insults and then blows in this town of 15,000 people. Beckel and an opposition organizer, Jeremias Mahmud, said a series of provocations by Sandinista supporters sparked the riot. “It’s very clear to me that (Sandinista) supporters were constantly probing the perimeter of this rally looking to disrupt it,” said Beckel, who managed Democrat Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign. “It was too clear: they showed up at specific times and the police disappeared.” LT. FERNANDO Montoya, Masatepe police chief, said he had been ordered to keep police away from the rally. He said he did not want to give opponents of the leftist Sandinistas “a pretext for them to say that we were there to repress them.” The opposition coalition has accused Sandinista gangs of disrupting earlier opposition rallies. Montoya confirmed that one person was killed in the disturbance, but would not elaborate. Witnesses said at least 20 people were injured. WITNESSES SAID Sandinista activists threw rocks during an opposition march, reappeared to trade

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to the streets by the hundreds of thousands to demand a government of their choosing. The ruling Communist Party has since lost its constitutionally guaranteed monopoly on power and all its hard-line leaders have been removed.

insults with the crowd while candidates were delivering speeches and withdrew after being admonished by observers from the Organization of American States. The Sandinista militants appeared again after the event had ended and the opposition crowd, estimated at about 2,000, was dispersing. People were slashed with machetes, knives and broken bottles; rocks were thrown and people hit with sticks. BECKEL SAID HE was pushed to the ground as opposition and Sandinista supporters threw stones at each other. He said rescued a girl about 5 years old who apparently became separated from her mother. “The girl ... was getting trampled so I pulled her out from underneath it,” Beckel said. “The machetes came out and we were four feet from the fighting.” Beckel was hit on the back of the head and hurt slightly. He said he and the little girl crawled away, then ran. Presdent Daniel Ortega moved up the general elections by a year as part of an agreement by Central American to end regional insurgen:ies. The U.S.-backed Contra rebels lave fought the Sandinistas since 1981 and are based in neighboming Honduras.