University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 20, 1989
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East Germans protest, push for more reforms
The Associated Press
DRESDEN, East Germany — Tens of thousands of protesters in at least eight cities braved ice winds yesterday to keep the heat on the Communist leadership, despite open borders and the election of a reform-minded Cabinet one day earlier.
Nearly 3 million East Germans crossed into West Berlin and West Germany between Friday and yesterday, the second weekend since the government opened borders to the West, border police said. Most were just visiting for the day.
In another change, the official ADN news agency reported that the roles of the party and the govern-
ment were reversed and the armed forces would be separated.
Communist Party chief Egon Krenz assured East Germans in a televised interview late yesterday that he would fight for political reform.
"If the party is of another opinion, then they should find another general
secretary," he said at his East Berlin home.
ADN said 50,000 people participated in Dresden's first officially authorized protest rally.
"Lord don't forgive them because they knew what they did," said one banner in the southern city.
One sign suggested, "Honecker to court," and speakers called for prosecution of the country's former leaders, including ousted president and party chief Erich Honecker, who was replaced by Krenz on Oct. 18.
Krenz was quoted by a West German newspaper as saying Honecker was one of those under investigation by a parliamentary commission.
Parliament on Saturday confirmed a reform-minded Cabinet of Communist Premier Hans Modrow and created a committee to study possible constitutional changes, including dropping a law guaranteeing Communist rule.
mount rule.
ADN reported other pro-democracy rallies yesterday in a half-dozen cities and towns.
CHINESE CALLS FOR CUTS:
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
said yesterday he was planning to
cut Pentagon spending next year
because "the likelihood of all-out
conflict between the United States
and the Soviet Union . . . is probably lower now than it's been at
just about/any time since the end of
World War II."
World Briefs
"You can't watch the events unfold in Eastern Europe, the development of governments headed by non-Communists, the possibilities of free elections, of
opposition parties, and not believe that that will have some long-term impact upon the security situation in Europe," Cheney said.
EARTHQUAKE SURVIVOR DIES:
Buck Helm, the longshoreman rescued from a flattened Oakland, Calif., freeway 3½ days after the Oct. 17 earthquake, was mourned yesterday as a gutty symbol of endurance. His death raised the toll from the quake to 67.
Helm, 58, died of respiratory failure Saturday night at Kaiser-
Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, said hospital spokesman Roteleven. No other details on his death were available.
His death raised the toll from the collapse of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway in Oakland to 42. Overall, the 7.1-magnitude quake killed 67 people, injured more than 2,800, left more than 14,000 homeless and caused an estimated $7 billion in damage.
CALM IN SAN SALVADORI Listett guerrillas withdrew from San Sal-
vador's outskirts yesterday, winding down their biggest offensive of the civil war.
There was virtually no gunfire in the capital as troops regained control of the working-class districts of Zacamil and Metropolis on the north side, Mejicanos in the northeast and Soyapango on the eastern edge of the city.
The military said that 794 guerrillas were killed, 527 wounded and 129 captured and that 208 government forces were killed and 627 wounded.
Iran could be covering up political killings
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — A wave of executions in recent months of drug dealers and traffickers in Iran may be a cover for political killings, a U.N. human rights investigator reported.
draw up a list of some 1,700 individuals possibly executed, either for ordinary offenses or for political offences," said Galindo Pohl, a Salvadoran.
The report of Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, a special representative of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, was released Friday. It indicates Iranian authorities have not eased the crackdown on dissent or improved the human rights picture.
"From various sources, it has been possible to
in-treatment and torture, both physical and psychological, were continuing in Iranian prisons," he wrote. "According to the reports, it would seem that, during the months of the current year, psychological torture has been prevailing over physical torture."
reports, and testimony from refugees and opposition activists.
According to Galindo Pohl, punishments included whipping the soles of the feet with cables or barbed wire, sexual abuse, mock executions, burning with cigarettes or hot metal rods, and confinement en masse in "small closed rooms with high temperatures and insufficient oxygen."
Galino Pohl was not allowed into Iran. He based his report on official Iranian statements, news
Iran contends that claims of executions stem from opposition groups such as the People's Mujahdeen of Iran, which it calls a "terrorist" organization that assassinates people in Iran.
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