Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1989, Tokyo, Japan NOVEMBER News PACIFIC STARS AND STRIPES 3 Allied control crumbled along with Berlin Wall BERLIN AP The World War II Allies still have an official grip on but there was little evidence of that during a tumultuous weekend of wild No one asked permission from the United the Soviet England or France to punch holes through border bar although security and sovereignty are strictly the affair of the occupying the exclusive Allied matter of access to the city was ignored during the emotional exchange that brought hundreds of thousands of East Germans to West Reflecting the upset of order inflicted by the crumbling bor Army Terry Ram sey said his unit had suspended patrolling of the Berlin where the were Theres no reason to go be cause we gather information German soldier peeks through the about the guards and the tow said who has been stationed in Berlin for three Theres no one But the control does have effects for forcing a wide detour in what would have been a short flight for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl from Warsaw to Berlin last And the Allies would legally have final say over the tion of Under the Potsdam agreement of the four victorious pow ers of World War II parceled out defeated Nazi Germany and the for Sovereignty was granted to the new West German state created out of the British and American occupation zones in and the Soviets followed by setting up the Communist state of East Germany in the remain ing Berlin has remained under Allied Daytoday administration of the Western sectors was deeded to a West Berlin and the Soviets gradually relin East Berlin to the instal led Communist Mission spokesman Anthony Sariti explained that the powers officially remaining with the Allies are over access and provision of services and facilities for the occupying The controls define air corri dors into the city that limit commercial aviation access to carriers from Britain and the United and high way access is also officially mon by the foreign That cumbersome air corridor stipulation forced Kohl to detour through Hamburg on Friday when he flew from the Polish capital of Warsaw to It also prevents the West German national from flying into one of the nations most important Berlin Wall From Page 1 We need a Central Committee that can carry the full responsibility and enjoys full Krenz was quoted as telling Krenz said the current Central Committee would meet Monday to approve holding of the Also East ment is to meet to name a Cabinet to replace the one that resigned Tues The party chief of Hans was ex to be named Since Krenz replaced hardliner Erich Honecker as party chief 10 full members of the ruling 21 member Politburo have lost their There has also been pres sure for the 163member ting Central chosen under to The Wall will never be what it used to It remains a memorial to West German Presi dent Richard von Weizsaecker said in a speech in West Berlins Kaiser Winter is at the the ailing have to be taken care von Weizsaecker alluding to the near ruin of parts of the East German economy and the severe shortage of medical personnel as a result of the recent exodus of East Germans to the More than East Germans have left East Germany since Septem There have been reports that medical students have been drafted to work in hospitals to make up for the loss of doctors and Weizsaecker later went through the new Berlin Wall crossing at Potsdam er took several steps into East Berlin and exchanged a few words with some border guards as he was mobbed by hundreds of West Berlin Mayor Walter and his East Berlin Erhard met at the Potsdamer once a vibrant city center but now a bleak no mans land bisected by the Berlin Wall and flanked by concrete Their highly symbolic handshake represented the start of a new era of optimism on closeness for the Ger man although Krenz and other officials have flatly ruled but reunification of the thousands of people cheered as East German border guards used jackhammers to bore a hole in the wall at Potsdamer It was the fourth opening created in the wall since Its a great day in our history and the history of the said Tor sten a 20yearold East Ger man border Giscard calls for EC summit PARIS UPI Former President Valery Giscard dEstaing called Sun day for an extraordinary European Community summit so that Euro peans can assess events in Berlin before they are discussed at next months It is unacceptable that the first analysis of events in Berlin be a matter for the Americans and Soviets and not Giscard He urged President Francois Mit terrand to convoke such a summit rapidly so that its conclusions could be conveyed to President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gor when they meet in the Mediterranean next Giscard said it was time for Bush and Gorbachev to recognize one can no longer talk without Europe about Moldavian activists want government to resign Mayors and Krack meet at a border MOSCOW AP Activists in the Moldavian capital of Kishinev canceled a rally planned for Sunday and instead circulated petitions calling for the local leadership to members of the southwestern republics Peoples Front Peoples Front leader Ion spurred the petition drive with a speech on Moldavian televi sion Saturday demanding removal of con servatives in the top government also denied the Peoples Front was to blame for a brawl Friday between police and protesters that left nearly 200 Natalia the groups said in a telephone Conflicting accounts of the clash aggravated a growing confrontation between local government leaders and the Peoples a group formed last year to press for the rights of ethnic Moldavians in the republic of million that borders The republics Communist Party Politburo charged that the Peoples Front was a serious destabilizing factor which aggravates the situation in Soviet and it accused the groups supporters of joining in an open struggle to topple the legitimate Peoples Front members say they tried to stop the Fridays injury count was raised from 83 police to said Fyodor director of the Moldavian news in a telephone interview from Fortysix protesters were also injured and four of the police were in critical he More than security troops were brought in by bus and plane to Kishinev and armored personnel carriers could be seen on the citys Pascal Trouble in Kishinev began the day marking the 1917 Bolshevik revolution that brought the Communists to Protesters blocked the military part of the traditional and a Peoples Front spokesman charged that police beat many wouldbe On Friday a crowd of several thousand gathered outside the Interior Ministry ters in downtown Kishinev demanding the release of about 20 people arrested The crowd threw stones and gasoline bombs at who responded with truncheons and water Police finally used tear gas and fired into the air to break up the
