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Mazowiecki, whose refusal to accommodate the testy Nobel laureate caused a deep rift within Solidarity, last week went most of the way toward meeting Walesa's demands. In a major Cabinet reshuffle he dismissed three prominent former Communists and two other non-Solidarity ministers. The major casualties were Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak, who interned thousands of Solidarity activists during the martial-law crackdown in 1981, and Florian Siwicki, Defense Minister since...
Treason charges against Honecker were dropped last March. Nonetheless, the ousted leader, who is receiving treatment for kidney cancer at a Soviet hospital in East Germany, is still under investigation for corruption and abuse of power. Late last month new potential charges surfaced: East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel announced that Honecker had given safe haven to Red Army Faction terrorists. Honecker and a few senior officials may eventually stand trial, but the vast majority of party members seem unlikely to suffer much. For example, Diestel has hired back, as an act of "Christian charity," 12,000 former State...
...arrest of nine suspected members of the notorious Red Army Faction. All were caught in East Germany. Last week the trail reached all the way to former Communist Party boss Erich Honecker, who is accused of personally giving safe haven to the terrorists. East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel said that Honecker and former Minister of State Security Erich Mielke knew exactly how the now disbanded ministry had provided R.A.F. members with false papers, jobs and protection...
...morning, five hours after the polls had closed, Algeria's Interior Minister stepped to the microphone at the government press center in the capital city of Algiers. Speaking in a monotone, Mohammed Salah Mohammedi delivered the startling news: the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front was ahead in Algeria's first multiparty election since the country's independence from France in 1962. Eventually the scope of the victory became plain: the Islamic party took a majority of the municipal and provincial councils, while the ruling National Liberation Front (F.L.N.) captured only one-third of them...
...Albrecht, 39, one of some two dozen R.A.F. members on West Germany's most wanted list. Albrecht, who is married to an East German scientist, is accused of taking part in the 1977 killings of Jurgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank, and industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. East German Interior Minister Peter- Michael Diestel said the arrests provided evidence of a "devilish connection" between the R.A.F. and the Stasi -- a connection that is now certain to be further investigated...