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Civic Forum spokesperson Jiri Dienstbier said Wednesday night that the opposition wanted a civilian Communist in charge of the Defense Ministry and a non-Communist over-seeing police forces at the Interior Ministry...
Government spokesperson Marcel Jansen said the Interior Ministry was asked yesterday to start immediate removal of "technical equipment" along parts of the Czechoslovak-Austrian border. Such equipment includes concrete pylons linked with barbed wire and some electronic wire to detect trespassers...
Urbanek also asked the Czechoslovak premier and the premier of the Czech republic to submit proposals on changing the functions of their interior ministries--which are responsible for the police--in the wake of police brutality against peaceful Prague demonstrators November 17 that touched off the past nine days of mammoth anti-government rallies...
Iran's Rafsanjani is believed by Washington to be anxious to dispose of the hostage issue quickly so he can open his war-ravaged country to the outside world. But powerful hard-liners still want to block any contact with the West. Former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami, one of the most intransigent of the revolutionary mullahs, was excluded from Rafsanjani's government earlier this year. He can still get mobs out into the streets, however, as he proved by leading large anti-American demonstrations in Tehran earlier this month to mark the tenth anniversary of the seizure...
...would stay home. "Anyone who wants can come," said Mayor Momper, but added, "Please, even with all the understandable joy you must feel being able to come to the West, please do it tomorrow, do it the day after tomorrow. We are having trouble dealing with this." In Bonn, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble warned would-be refugees that with a cold winter coming on, the country is short of housing. Hannover Mayor Herbert Schmalstieg, who is also vice president of the German Urban Council, called for legal limits on the influx -- an act that federal authorities say would be unconstitutional...