From: msirbu@next5.cs.umr.edu (Mihai Sirbu)
Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 9/7/92
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:56:21 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

 RFE/RL DAILY REPORT          No. 171, September 7, 1992



ILIESCU BARRED FROM RUNNING FOR THE SENATE. Following a suit filed
by the Democratic Convention against President Ion Iliescu's
candidacy, the Bucharest Municipal Tribunal has barred him from
running for a Senate seat on the slate of the Democratic National
Salvation Front (DNSF), Western agencies report from Bucharest.
The court said the law does not allow independents to be on the
lists of parties running in the elections, and Iliescu could not
be a member of the DNSF because the law prohibits the president
from being a member of a political party. The decision was made by
a majority vote of two judges to one. The ruling does not affect
Iliescu's presidential candidacy. The DNSF said it will appeal.
(Michael Shafir, RFE/RL Inc.).

BISHOP TOKES'S PROTEST FAST. In an open letter addressed to
Iliescu on 6 September, Bishop Laszlo Tokes said that he would
agree to meet him, Radio Bucharest reports. Tokes thus reversed an
earlier refusal to meet Iliescu.  A spokesman for the bishop said
on 5 September that six more people had joined his protest
fast--four ethnic Romanians plus the former mayor of Cluj,
Octavian Buracu. On 6 September, the Democratic Convention urged
Tokes to give up his protest fast, Radio Bucharest reported.
While expressing support for Tokes's aims, the convention
cautioned that it is vital not to create "any pretext that could
be used by the enemies of democracy to create diversion." Tokes
celebrated Sunday services at a church in Timisoara attended by a
crowd of some 1,000 people, Reuters reports. (Michael Shafir,
RFE/RL Inc.)

ROMANIAN MILITARY DELEGATIONS IN HUNGARY, BULGARIA.  A Romanian
military delegation led by 4th Army commander Col.  Gen.  Paul
Cheler arrived on 3 September at the Hungarian Army's ground
forces headquarters in Szekesfehervar, MTI announced.  During the
visit, held within the framework of the two countries' bilateral
military cooperation agreement, the Romanian delegation will look
at a number of military installations and units in eastern Hungary
and hold talks on 7 September with the commander of the Hungarian
Army. On 6 September Romanian State Secretary and Chief of General
Staff Lt.  Gen. Dumitru Cioflina ended a three-day visit to
Bulgaria, BTA reports.  Cioflina had discussions on military
reform with Deputy Premier Nikola Vasilev, Deputy Defense Minister
Nikola Daskalov, and the Bulgarian Chief of General Staff Col.
Gen.  Lyuben Petrov.  Before leaving on Sunday, Cioflina told
reporters a planned agreement between the defense ministries would
lay a solid basis for the further development of bilateral
military relations.  (Alfred Reisch & Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL
Inc.)

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