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Tuesday, February 6, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Neutrality not set in stone Modrow welcomes talks on German unity plan
The Associated Press
WEST BERLIN - Premier Hans Modrov of East Germany said yesterday that his proposal of a neutral, reunified Germany was open to discussion, and he indicated he wants fewer Soviet soldiers stationed in his country.
Economics Minister Christa Luft said monetary union with West Germany must be approached with care. Rapid introduction of the West German mark would solve some immediate problems but create others, she said.
Parliament added eight representatives of pro-democracy groups to the government, giving the opposition Cabinet seats for the first time in East Germany's 40-year history. It won 18 of the 18 for first free elections and expanded West Germany's ultra-right Republican Party.
Modrow's remarks in the televised Parliament session appeared to soften his stance on neutrality. The reform-minded Communist said his views were meant as a basis for discussing ways to achieve German unity.
official news agency ADN reported.
About 100,000 people rallied in Leipzig yesterday and speakers called for quick reunification, the
One sign said, "Unity Now." West German flags waved in the crowd, and many demonstrators carried anti-Communist signs.
Leipzig has been at the heart of the pro-democracy movement, and regular Monday rallies in the southern industrial city contributed to the downfall of the Communist old guard in October. In recent weeks, the rallies have become a focal point of support for reunification.
ADN said a group of Republicans distributed leaflets, carried signs and used bulbhorns to publicize the West German party's goals. It said they also marched and raised their arms in the Nazi salute.
Republicans have attended recent Leizig rallies. The party has said it wanted to run in the East Germany elections.
Government and opposition officials spoke out against West German politicians making campaign appearances for East German parties during the campaign. West German party leaders said, however, that they would continue campaigning for sister parties in the East.
Modrow said yesterday that his proposal of a neutral united Germany meant military neutrality,
which appeared to leave open the possibility of political ties with the Western alliance.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany has rejected the concept of neutrality for a united Germany, as have the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German foreign minister, has suggested that the united country remain in the alliance but that NATO military structures not extend to what is now East Germany.
In Parliament on yesterday, Modrow said: "There is opposition to the idea of a military, I repeat, military neutralization of the future joint Germany. Well, then, we should discuss this point of contention so that we can come to an acceptable solution that would respect security needs of all those involved.
"Why not, for example, start with a reduction of reciprocal military presence on the territory of the present two German states?"
The premier said his proposal last week that a united Germany be neutral was not meant to be the final word on the matter.
Costa Ricans cheer election of Social Christian founder
The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — President-elect Rafael Calderon said yesterday that he was a great friend of the United States and told his team to vote for him, his election victory into a triumph for all Costa Ricans.
On May 8, Calderon will succeed Oscar Arias, who won the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize for developing and promoting the Central American peace plan.
He attended Mass yesterday at the Roman Catholic Basilica de Los Angeles in Cartago, the colonial capital 15 miles east of here.
"I asked God to help me give the people of Costa Rica what a better future," he told the 3,000 supporters gathered in downtown San Jose.
Calderon, 40-year-old founder of the Social Christian Party, repeated campaign pledges to fight crime, poverty and poor housing, but got the biggest cheer among demonstrators during drug trafficking and corruption
The festive crowd waved Costa Rican and Social Christian flags. People gave loud, good-natured
jeers when a partisan of Carlos Manuel Castillo, candidate of the incumbent National Liberation Party, waved a green and white party flag from a balcony.
By yesterday afternoon, the official count showed Calderon leaden loss 36 percent. Calderon's 694,868, with about 90 percent of precincts reporting.
Castillo broke even in San Jose, the National Liberation Party strengthhold. Calderon's Social Justice sweeping most of the countryside.
"Today, we have elected liberty and democracy to the presidency of Costa Rica," Castillo said in a concession speech Sunday night.
Calderon, who visited Panama shortly after the Dec. 20 U.S. invasion, is a strong supporter of U.S. policymain in the restion.
Newspaper projections showed Calderon's party winning 29 or 30 of the 57 National Assembly seats, with the other two receiving and minor parties the remainder.
"Costa Rica has elected a great friend of the people and government of the United States," he said.
in answer to a question yesterday. "I've always said Costa Rica and the United States are two countries very different in size and power but very much alike in their battle for peace and democracy."
He delivered his broadcast address of thanks to the nation from a balcony overlooking San Jose's central pedestrian mall, where even curious tourists joined the spirit of the occasion.
The president-elect has expressed disappointment over U.S. aid for Costa Rica, set at 35 percent of the budget to fall about 30 percent in 1997.
Tousands of Calderon supporters celebrated into the early hours yesterday, honking car horns and waving red and blue flags; the girls rushed rush hour were quieter than normal as celebrants staved home.
Costa Rica celebrated 100 years of democracy in October. Calderon's victory marks the 10th straight peaceful election in Costa Rica since 1948, when his own father, Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia, tried to overturn the
Right-wing party entreats whites to unite against de Klerk
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The main right-wing political party yesterday called on whites to mobilize against the revolutionary left-wing announcements of President F.W. de Klerk.
The leader of the Conservative Party, Andries Treurnicht, said South Africa's 5 million whites faced "the hour of truth." His party applied for a permit for a mass march in Pretoria on Feb. 15 to launch a freedom struggle aimed at protecting whites from domination by the Black majority.
D Kleer, in a momentous speech last week, lifted bans on more than 60 anti-apartheid groups, including 'the
African National Congress guerrilla movement, and promised to free jailled ANC leader Nelson Mandela in hopes of clearing the way for negotiations on Black-white power-sharing.
The Afrikaner nation is not prepared to live under an overwhelmingly ANC government," said a statement from the Conservative Party, which won 31 percent of the white vote in a general election in September.
Police used tear gas and buckets to disperse throngs of Black protesters in Tembla and Thokoa, two townships near Johannesburg. Several people reportedly were injured in the confrontations, and angry youths
erected street barricades in each town.
Cabinet ministers said the government sought a new political system in which all South Africans had full voting rights. But they said special protection would be needed to help them assert their support for serviced neighborhoods and public cabins.
Several far-right groups have vowed to resist de Klerk's reforms. Fears of an extremist backlash increased after an attack Sunday on the British Embassy in Pretoria.
Assailants shot out windows at the embassy, a day after right-wing graffiti was spray-painted on the building. Embassy spokesman John Sawyer said it was
suspected that the assailants were angered by Britain's support for de Klerk.
Robert von Tonder, leader of a group that seeks as whites-only homeland, said de Kleirk's changes could prompt the formation of an underground white guerrilla movement.
Five whites were arrested recently on suspicion of planning attacks against de Klerk and other government leaders as well as anti-anarchist activists.
Most right-wing whites are Afrikaners. Primarily of Dutch descent, they began settling in South Africa more than 300 years ago and now account for 60 percent of the 5 million whites.
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