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BERLIN - Bast Germany's em· battled Communist leaders said Thur day they would throw open western borders and allow citizens to travel freely anywhere for the first time since the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. The move would end decades of fencing in East Germans to prevent their flight to the West and could leave the wall - a symbol of the differences between East and West - as a mere monument to the Cold War. Since 1961, 191 people are known to have died while fleeing to . the West from East Germany. ''Open the gate I Open the gate!•• chanted about 100 East Berliners who gathered Thursday night at the Brandenburg Gate, the huge monument just over the Berlin Wall in East Ber11n. New Communist leader Egon Krenz also urged a law ensuring free and democratic elections in a desperate attempt to gain control of his country. More than 200,000 East Germans have fled West so far this year; more than 50,000 have left since Saturday alone. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand democratic reforms and the end of 40 years of one-party rule. Guenter Schabowski, a member of the ruling Politburo, said East Germany's heavily fortified frontier with West Germany would be opened as a provisional step until a law is passed to allow East Germans greater freedom of travel. Schabowski did not say when the law would be passed and it was not immediately clear when the borders would be opened. He also said East Germany was not yet ready to tear down all its barriers. The decision, made during a Central Committee meeting, means all East Germans "can travel over all East German border checkpoints,'' including through the Berlin Wall, Schabowski told reporters in East Berlin. The Berlin Wall has divided Berlin and the two German nations since 1961. Communist authorities built it to stop an exodus to West Germany . It became a symbol of the differences between East and West, differences that Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has sought to erase by urging reforms in the Soviet bloc. Every U .S. president since John F. Kennedy has urged the East Germans to tear the wall down. President Bush hailed the announc~ment as a "dynamic development" and said it was "clearly a big development in terms of human rights." "We welcome it," Bush said. On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said the decision amounts to ''the symbolic destruction of the Berlin Wall," and he urged the Communists to ''take the final step and tear that wall down.''
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The Huntsville-based physicist and engineer also said he will ask the federal government for about $256 million in 1990 for rci,earch and development on the project and about $116 million in additional con truction and operating funds . . , .• ~.' "Those figures will change in negqtiation," he id. Speaking to the second graduating class of Leader-
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By MARK LEGGETT Daily Journal Jackson Bureau
JACKSON - Legislative analysts predict a lottery would bring Mississippi about $10 million from in-state and $27 million from Memphis, New Orleans and Mobile. But members of Gov. Ray Mabus' staff disputed the figures . Rep. Dorr Grist of Vardaman requested the Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee estimate. Mabus has proposed. a state lot-
Education Reform tery to provide $180 million of the
$500 million in three-year start-up costs for his education reform package. He projected the lottery would bring in $55 million the first year and increase by $5 million each of
ing in revenue of $65 million.'' Grist said he hasn't made up his • The Senate Education Committee begins work with mind on how he would vote on a teachers. lottery and is "still looking into it." · -See Page 2A A two-thirds vote of both houses of the state Legislature would be re. quired to put the issue before the the next two years before leveling low as PEER's. " votes in the form of a constitutional off. · Gri st said from the figures he's amendment that would allow a Cecil Brown, director of the De- seen, the lottery "does not appear to state-operated lottery. partment of Finance and Adminis- be" _a n adequate funding source. John Turcotte, PEER Committee tration, said "I think our numbers "When you compare the population director, said the projections show a are every bit as good as theirs . . . I with states like Iowa and the revehave not seen a single estimate as nue from lotteries there is not bringTurn to LOTTERY on Page 11A
Moslem fundamentalists win major victory anonymity: " What we are speaking about is a substantial opposition to the king from the right. ... This might bring a problem for the king. " In the vanguard of the fundamentalist campaign was the Moslem Brothe rhood . Its 26 declared and several allied candidates called for social justice, stricter Islamic morality and the destruction of Israel. In Washington , State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher applauded the renewal of the electoral process in Jordan . " We f u l l ~ort the process of poliitcal reform that accompanies it. We note that the polling proceeediB,g peacefully and in a fair and orderly fashion, ''he said.
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AMMAN, Jordan - Islamic fundamentalists took more than one-third of the Parliament seats in Jordan's first general election in 22 years and many former officials won narrowly or lost, according to results Thursday. The outcome appeared to be a setback for King , Hussein, who had urged voters not to mix religion with politics. It also was a disappointment to the women who. ran and voted in their first national election. None of the 12 women among 647 candidates for the Parliament won a seat. Victors included several men once imprisoned on political grounds and one convicted in an attack on an Israeli airline office in Athens. The new SO-seat Parliament seems certain to, be more assertive than the often passive legisla-
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ture dissolved last year. Hussein retains ultimate power, however, and martial law in effect since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war continues. Parliament must approve all laws and can dismiss governments, but the king can dissolve the legislature and rule without it, a$ he has done for much of the past 15 years. Israeli officials, who regard Hussein as a moderate Arab leader, expressed some concern about the election results. One said, on condition of
He added that the United States looks forward to working with the new government in Jordan once it is installed .
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ship Prentiss County Thursday night, Zoller cautioned members not to view the massive fedend project as a cure for all the area's ills but to use it as a steppingstone to market the area to other projects. "If you look at it as an end unto itself, your vision will be stunted,'' said the 53-year-old administrator.
By MARTY RUSSELL
BOONEVILLE - Lowell K. Zoller, NASA's project manager for the advanced solid rocket motoi: plant, said Thursday night he anticipates having a contract signed with Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. by Dec. l so work can begin on the $1.3 billion plant early next year.
31. The bill contains $121 million for research and development and $90 million for construction · on the plant that will build a new generation of solid rockets for the nation's fleet of space shuttles. The project will pump more than $1.3 billion into a tri-state area including Tishomingo County, which has the highest unemployment rate in Mississippi. About 2,000 jobs will be c reated during the construction phase expected to take 39 months to complete. Between 1,000 and 1,500 permanent jobs will follow with an annual operating budget of about $100 million .
Work on plant may begin early next year Daily Journal
President Oeorge Bush Thursday signed an appropriation that will enable work to begin by March on one of the largest manufacturing plants tarted in the nation thi year, the advanced . olid rocket motor plant in Tishomingo County. A spokesman for Missi ssippi 's I st District Rep . Jamie Whitt en confirmed Thursday afternoon that Bush had signed the measure approved by the House and Senate Oct .
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Deng gives up last formal party job ..... 12A De ng Xiaoping, Chin a' s sen ior leader, passed his last formal leade rship post to his chosen s uccessor Thursday and the Communist Party laid out an austere economic plan for the next two ye ars. Deng, 85, resigned as chairman of the party's powerful Central Military Commission in favor of party chief Jiang Zemln.
A plan to scare pigeons from the State house steps by using inflatable owl s w as strictly for the birds. "It w as a total failure, " said Administration Secretary Chuck Polan in Cha rleston, W. Va. "Maybe not a total failure, but it didn 't work." The pigeons are a nuisance at the Ca pi tol because they eat grass seed and splatte r the porches with the ir droppings. Some parts of the Capitol accumulate up to 1 inch of droppings every two days, said Bob Plantz, director of general services for state government. "It's getting worse than asbestos," Plantz zaid. "I may see if it can be declared a health hazard." Plantz's office purchased about a half-dozen of the inflatable owls, at $6.95 each, a t a discount store in September, hoping they w ould frighten away the flocks of pigeons that make the Cap itol complex their homes. Theoretically, pigeons would mistake the plastic owls for predators and flee in terror. The owls apparently flustered some pigeons but not enough to make a difference.