From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 10/15/92
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:31:56 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report                  No. 199, October 15, 1992

RUSSIFICATION, IDEOLOGICAL MEASURES IN "DNIESTER REPUBLIC." The
"Dniester republic" controlled by the Russian minority in eastern
Moldova has ordered the introduction of "Moldovan" language
textbooks in the Russian script in place of the existing ones in
the Latin script in Moldovan schools. The measure was taken
despite the fact that specialists considered the existing
textbooks in the Latin script (produced in Chisinau for all of
Moldova) as scientifically adequate and "de-ideologized," DR Press
reported from Tiraspol on 14 October. Last month the "Dniester"
authorities had imposed the Russian script on the "Moldovan" (i.e.
Romanian) language in various spheres of public life. Also on 14
October, DR Press reported again that "Dniester University" hosted
the founding conference of the "Dniester republic Communist
Leninist Youth," which called a constituent congress of the
"Dniester republic Komsomol" to be held shortly. The university
was formed recently through the takeover by the "Dniester"
authorities of the Moldovan Pedagogical Institute in Tiraspol, the
last Moldovan higher education institution on the left bank of the
Dniester. (Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL Inc.)

NO PLANS TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM DNIESTER REGION. In his interview
with Izvestiya on 15 October, Defense Minister Grachev stated that
the withdrawal of the 14th Army from the Dniester area will only
be possible when the conflict in the region is settled. He noted
that 14th Army units were manned by personnel from the region and
that they would refuse to withdraw unless the conflict was over.
(John Lepingwell, RFE/RL Inc.)


ROMANIAN OPPOSITION LEADER SETS CONDITIONS FOR COALITION TALKS.
Emil Constantinescu, the presidential candidate endorsed by the
Democratic Convention of Romania (DCR) in the elections held on 27
September and 11 October, said president Ion Iliescu and the
Democratic National Salvation Front had to dissociate themselves
from the "nationalist-communist" parties before coalition talks
with the DCR could begin. In an interview with RFE/RL's Romanian
service on 14 October, Constantinescu said that when he spoke
about the "national-communists" he had in mind in particular the
Greater Romania Party and the Socialist Party of Labor. Both
formations had endorsed Iliescu. (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL Inc.)

ROMANIA WELCOMES INITIATIVE TO RECONSIDER ITS MFN STATUS. Traian
Chebelu, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman, said that his
ministry welcomed the initiative of a large number of
Romanian-born and other US citizens to address an appeal to the US
House of Representatives to reconsider its 30 September decision
denying MFN status to Romania. He added that this was the first
action of such magnitude by the Romanian diaspora and expressed
the hope that it was, at the same time, just the beginning of
efforts by exiled Romanians to uphold the interests of their
country of origin. Chebeleu attacked US congressman Tom Lantos for
his role in the congress' decision. He released the text of a
letter written in 1985 by Lantos to the Romanian authorities, in
which the congressman expressed hope that the US would renew MFN
status for Ceausescu's regime. (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL Inc.)

ROMANIA AND THE EC. Traian Chebeleu, the foreign affairs ministry
spokesman, said the fifth round of negotiations on Romania's
association with the EC, which was held in Brussels on 12 and 13
October, produced agreement on a number of texts that would be
included in the agreement. Citing Chebeleu, Rompres specified on 14
October that agreement had been reached on the protocols of trade
concerning steel products, textiles, processed agricultural and
fish produce. (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL Inc.)

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