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Show M Qi A8 World Friday, March 2. 1M) I he Daily lirraici. rrtno. I lan Soldiers deserting; Sandinistas deny Gliding weapons MANAGUA, Nicaragua APj -- April 25 and for the United States to lift the embargo and send the aid Draftees in the army are deserting their it has promised starting that day," Sandinista-con-troiie- d ranks and the military is reportedly hiding arms ahead of next month's swearing in of an opposition government. Sandinista officials on Thursday acknowledged the desertions but denied weapons and ammunition were being squirreled away. Also Thursday, President Daniel Ortega called on the United States to resume aid on the day he steps down to the opposition coalition that upset l.'is leftist party in Sunday's election. "The best that could happen would be fur the Contras 'rebel guerrillas) to be demobilized by Ortega told Nicaraguan journalists. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. w ho is due to succeed Ortega as president on April 25. has echoed Ortega's call for the Contras to Ls down their weapons. Her United National OppoMi:or. UNO) and Ortega's Sar i.r.istus are beginning to disc -- ss the pr.vess of transition. The Suniir.ista staked out a touh set of Tuesday, induing the is;:ur.U.r of the i Cor.tra rettls from their Honduran jungle Cu::.;s Honduran officials tnlay were expected to join Sandinista and UNO officials on shutting down the Hon U.S.-suppo- East Germans to privatize industry - EAST BERLIN (AP) The program to sell off East East German authorities have taken an- Germany's huge industrial comother step toward the introduction bines mainly to East German naof capitalism by announcing the tionals begins three days before nation's industries will parliamentary elections scheduled be sold off to private investors March 18, the first free vote this Communist-lenation has seen in starting March 15. However, land and fixed assets 40 years. will not lie on sale to foreigners in The new parliament would superwhat is seen as a move to prevent vise the program and could even a huge sellout to West Germany. It foiild Also Inursaay, tne East German fnjfo ubct2rti3! 'hHnuMi from investors some foreign Foreign Ministry proposed that ex- exempt if that is ban the purchasing both from meet perts Germany's soon to work out a common position deemed in line with the public benefit, Krause said. on German unification for presentation to the World War II allies the The privatization plan is a comUnited States, the Soviet Union, between the concerns of promise Britain and France. West German investors, who want In Poland, demonstrators rallied full integration of the two nations' Thursday in three cities to support economies, and worries in East their government's demand that it Germany of a complete takeover by also be included in the talks. Po- the West. land says it needs access to the Government spokesman Wolfgang talks to win assurances a united said the interim step toward Meyer Germany would not claim prewar would give privatization territory that is now part of managers more autonomyindustry while Poland. present-da- y hindering "arbitrary sale of assets Details are sketchy on the eco- and property." The lack of specifics apparently nomic measures by the interim government of Premier Hans Mod-ro- reflected the Modrow government's which were announced by eco- reluctance to go ahead with major nomic reform commissioner Wolf- reforms without a parliamentary mandate. gang Krause. state-owne- d d Mandela today named ANC deputy president - Zambia (AP) The African National Congress today named Nelson Mandela as its deputy president and welcomed him and two others to leadership positions they held when thev were arrested in South Africa in the 1960s. Mandela, released Feb. 11 after 27 years in prison, becomes the No. 2 official in the ANC, behind president Oliver Tambo, who is recuperating from a stroke in a Swedish clinic. The post of deputy president is a new position. The ANC, the main black group fighting South Africa's white-le- d government, also reaffirmed its intention to meet soon with South African President F.W. de and said it would soon open headquarters offices in Johannesburg. While the ANC was outlawed in South Africa, its political and g'.ier-rill- a leaders operated their head LUSAKA, quarters from Zambia. De Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC on Feb. 2. Mandela and fellow longtime political detainees Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki resumed seats they held on the National Executive Committee when they were arrested more than two decades ago, said an ANC statement read at a news conference by acting president and meeting chairman Alfred Nzo. Sisulu, 77, and Mbeki, 79, were sentenced to life in prison along with Mandela in 1964. Mbeki was released in 1987 and Sisulu was freed in October. The committee is the ANC's main policy-makin- g group. Mandela gave few details on his new role in the ANC. "I am prepared to serve in any role the national executive instructs me to fill," he said. Lithuania pushes eariy vote on independence - Lithuanians (AP) scrambled to move up elections to allow their parliament to vote on independence before Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev gains new power they fear could thwart their drive. Activists in the Baltic republic were making the moves while Soviet authorities also came under pressure Thursday in neighboring Latvia and in Moldavia. In the neighboring Baltic republic MOSCOW of Latvia, the parliament gave some youths the right to refuse conscription in the Soviet army. In the southwestern republic of Moldavia, Communist leaders admitted their party's past mistakes and agreed to talks with popular political movements, the official news agency Tass said. Already, 22 local election boards in Lithuania have moved up their runoff elections from March 10 to Sunday, Tass reported Thursday. Others are expected to follow, said Vitoris Radjavichus, a spokesman for the Lithuanian people's front, Sajudis. That will allow the new Lithuanian parliament to meet 2nd possibefore bly vote on independence March 12, Radjavichus said. That is the opening day of the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies, which is scheduled to vote on creating a more powerful presidency, expected to be occupied by Gorbachev. The bill would give Gorbachev the power to declare a state of emergency and suspend a repub lic's parliament. He could also send troops into a locality and even declare war without asking the Soviet parliament. Radjavichus described the powers as dictatorial." Candidates backed by Sajudis, which favors independence, won 70 of 90 seats filled in the first round of the election Saturday. But 94 of the parliament's 140 seats, or a majority, must be filled before the body can begin to act, Sajudis secretary Andryus Kubilyus told the Radio Moscow news service Interfax. Kazimier?s Motieka. a Sajudis leader and member of the national parliament, appealed on Lithuanian television for the republic's new legislature to take office by March 11, Tass said. In the December session of Congress. Motieka asked Kremlin leaders to begin negotiations on the Lithuanian demand for independence from the Soviet Union, which forcibly annexed Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1940. In its decision Thursday, the parliament said local youths will be allowed to choose three years of alternative public service work to the military, if they have pacifist or religious convictions, Tass said. The decision contradicts Soviet law, which requires all to serve two years in the army. All three Baltic republics adopted constitutional amendments in the past 16 months giving their parliaments the right to overturn Soviet two-thir- laws. The deserters also reported weap- tion was go'ng to be hidden at "They took our weapons away on Construction Ministry facilities. Monday and didn't give them ons stored by the military. UNO leaders have expressed conback," Juan Carlos Medina, 18, told One deserter told of tunnels being cern to international observers The Associated Press. '"Maybe they dug in an army post in San Nicolas, about didn't trust us." being taken by boat near the northern town of Esteli, in across weapons Lake Nicaragua into the Medina said 40 out of 60 young which to hide weapons. southern province of Rio San Juan. A government official said 600 draftees in his unit, stationed at the But Capt. Nelba Blandon, spokesmain air force base in Managua, weapons, including d deserted this week. He said the AK-4- 7 assault rifles, were taken woman for the Interior Ministry, denied the reports. officers seem to want to ignore the from the regional military headproblem. quarters in Juigalpa to the remote "Those are just rumors to try to The desertions are "normal under town of El Rama, in central Nicaaffect the dignified image of the the current situation," said Lt. Col. ragua near the Atlantic Coast, on Sandinista Front," Ms. Blandon Rosa Pasos, Defense Ministry Monday. said. On Wednesday, a witness saw "Just the fact that for us it spokeswoman. "We definitely don't want to have trucks from the Ministry of Con(losing the elections) was an enorpeople who don't want to be with struction taking about 600 boxes of mous surprise means w could not us," Ms. Pasos said. "And anyway, ammunition out of an army depot. have set up a plan to transport An army source said the ammuni we're going to reduce the army." weapons," she added. duran rebels camps. The Sandinistas, who receive Soviet and Cuban aid, have also demanded the army and the Interior Ministry security forces remain d at least until the rebels Island. m-ti- UJ.-backe- between the Sandi-r.:s- ti and army and security jrry forces has been a source of strerth tcr the Sandinistas, but the arr: s tr.enty was questioned as rtjvrti of desertions circulated. TVe close l.rik Soviet-designe- draftees doing compulsory military apparently have decided r.u to wait Uj the inauguration of Mrs Chamorro. who is committed t'. bjr.:ur.g the draft. The deserters years to strik-- vf Moslems Ceausescu headquarters opened protest shootings BUCHAREST. Romania lAPj The doors of deposed dictatoi Nicolae Ceausescu's planned palatial were headquarters opened to the public for the first time, evoking awe and outrage from the visitors. About 2.000 Romanians paid about 25 cents each on Thursday to enter the unfuiished, monumental House of the Republic, one of the world's largest buildhill ings, situated on a man-mad- e in the heart of the capital. In groups and individually, they shuffled through the mammoth ballrooms, meeting halls, amphitheatres, living suites and offices. They gawked at hundreds of marble in Kashmir SRINAGAR, India (AP; 1,000 Moslems wearing Moslems, police said. A senior police official said that police deployed to enforce a curfew blocked the march in Sumbal, 15 miles north columns, red velvet drapes, extensive gold ornamentation and diamond-studde- d chandeliers, including one said to be the biggest in Europe, in Column Hall. Ushers urged visitors not to touch the elegant furniture. The massive building, built entirely with local materials, was meant to house the leading bodies of the state and Communist Party, and included imperial suites for the dictatorial couple, Ceausescu and his wife, Elena. The municipality has not yet decided what to do with the building, which has cost $1 billion over six years of construction. One of the reasons for the open house, which is to last two months, is to solicit suggestions from the public. So far, according to Chief Engi- I 15 if C. i - "The most popular suggestions are making it an international conference and exhibition center, or a sort of home for Romania's artists." Some people, finding the building's extravagance offensive in this impoverished country, have also proposed destroying it. But Baumgarten, who headed the building's quality-contr- ol team until construction ceased when Ceausescu was overthrown Dec. 22, is lobbying hard for the building to be finished. He said it can be completed in two years with another $200 mil- - ,.jVy of Srinagar. "They were forced to return back," said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Witnesses contacted by telephone said the demonstrators wore the shrouds to symbolize their willingness to sacrifice their lives for the movement demanding independence d for Kashmir, a region of India. The police officer said at least 49 people were killed and between 45 and 100 were injured Thursday when Indian forces fired on two separate processions marching toward Srinagar, demanding secession from predominantly Hindu India. In both cases, some marchers tried to seize guns from soldiers and paramilitary police and the troops opened fire, according to witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity. An estimated 1 million people participated in Thursday's demonstrations in Srinagar. A curfew confining people to their homes was imposed at 4 a.m. today in Srinagar and other towns in the northern Kashmir Valley. The government in neighboring Pakistan, which is mainly Moslem and has fought two wars with India over Kashmir, today condemned the killings as "wanton shooting by Indian security forces." --"""""Xi 800-se- at neer Alexander Baumgarten, About death shrouds tried to march to Srinagar today, one day after troops opened fire on rallies in Kashmir and killed at least 49 Moslem-dominate- nA 1 AP Laserphotos Romanian citizens view the splendor of Helena Ceausescu's office in the House of the People in Bucharest Thursday. lion to $250 million. "In addition to food and shelter, we need beauty in our lives. What would the world be without art museums and palaces?" "We admit the exterior is less attractive, because the former president imposed his views on the architects," sighed Baumgarten. "But if you take an architecture textbook and inspect the ornaments and columns in the interior, you will see that this is, in fact, a monumental work of art." 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