From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 11/10/92
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:17:00 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

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RFE/RL Daily Report                 No. 217, 10 November 1992

U.S.  ENVOY CONCERNED OVER "DNIESTER" HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
Interviewed in Moldova Suverana of 5 November, the U.S. Ambassador
to Moldova, Mary Pendleton, expressed concern over "extremely
serious violations of human rights" by the "Dniester republic."
Pendleton focused on the detention of individuals for political
reasons and condemned the "Dniester" authorities' refusal to allow
the International Red Cross to visit the detainees.  She also
called attention to cases of kidnapping and murder of political
dissidents by the "Dniester" authorities. In the same interview
Pendleton praised Moldova's performance in observing human rights.
(Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

"DNIESTER REPUBLIC" CELEBRATES BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION.  The
Russian-ruled "Dniester republic" in eastern Moldova celebrated the
Bolshevik revolution anniversary on 7 November with rallies and
demonstrations. Addressing a rally at the Lenin monument in
Tiraspol, the "republic president," Igor Smirnov, praised Soviet
achievements and chastised other parts of the former Union for
renouncing them, Reuters and DR-Press reported. Smirnov also
pledged a continued buildup of the "Dniester" armed forces.  In a
commentary on the occasion, the "Dniester" press agency said that
the "republic"'s very existence strengthens the political forces in
Moscow that seek to restore a "Greater Russia." DR-Press also
reported from Moscow that communist demonstrators there on 7
November passed out leaflets proclaiming that "Dniester's struggle
against Snegur" reflected a "determination to restore the USSR."
(Vladimir Socor, RFE/RL, Inc.)

ROMANIAN OPPOSITION LEADERS BACK CALL TO OUTLAW ETHNIC HATRED.
Opposition and minority leaders voiced support on 9 November for a
proposal by chief rabbi Moses Rosen to pass a law against inciting
ethnic hatred.  Although there are only about 15,000 Jews among
Romania's 22.5 million people, they have been frequently targeted
by extremists in several chauvinistic publications.  But the most
severe nationalist tensions involve the ethnic Hungarians in
Transylvania, whose number is put at between 1.6 and 2 million.
Radio Bucharest reported that leaders of eight opposition parties,
including the Party of Civic Alliance, the National Peasant
Party--Christian Democratic and the Hungarian Democratic Federation
of Romania backed Rosen's call to outlaw inter-ethnic hatred. (Dan
Ionescu, RFE/RL, Inc.)

ROMANIA'S NATIONAL SALVATION FRONT REAFFIRMS POLITICAL IDENTITY. In
a statement released through Radio Bucharest on 9 November, the NSF
reaffirmed its Western-type social-democratic orientation. The
communique defended the NSF's right to join other democratic forces
in the parliament, despite ideological differences.  It also
expressed fears that the rival Democratic National Salvation Front
might conclude post-electoral alliances with extreme nationalists
parties.  The DNSF, which broke away from the NSF in April, emerged
as the strongest party from recent general elections, but failed to
win an outright majority in the legislature.  The NSF ranked third,
after the DNSF and the Democratic Convention.  (Dan Ionescu,
RFE/RL, Inc.)

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