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STATE EOmOH A2 The Arizona Republic Saturday, December 30, 1989 News In Brief In Focus They looMike machines A summary of today's news compiled from Arizona Republic staff reports and wire services. WV (ft streets moved and shifted their deLJJ fenses to deal with what they thought NATIONAL The U.S. Postal Service plans to pay for an elaborate funeral for a family's pet dog that was shot to death by a postman. A4. Police in Texas arrest a school drug counselor found with items considered drug paraphernalia in his pickup truck.

A5. Federal authorities say they have received a few calls offering clues about the group claiming responsibility for a series of mail bombs. A8. INTERNATIONAL Thousands of secret-police officers loyal to Nicolae Ccausescu's shattered Romanian regime are reported in custody. B8.

The body of a French citizen killed when a relief plane was shot down in Sudan explodes just before it is to be flown to Paris, sources say. B12. VALLEYSTATE A Phoenix real-estate investor has become the focus of an investigation into the slaying of two of his relatives in Indiana, court documents show. Bl. The victim of an alleged rape and kidnapping is jailed at the request of a prosecutor after she fails to appear to testify.

Bl. II .1 i 1 i i i Eric GaillardReuters A soldier in Bucharest, Romania, peers down the entrance to a bunker near the Communist Party Central Committee building, where soldiers are on duty. Jose GoitiaThe Associated Press An unidentified passenger (right) cancels his reservation at the Northwest Airlines office in central Paris after the American company took the unusual step of alerting passengers to a bomb threat on a scheduled flight from Paris to Detroit. Bll. EDITORIALOPINION Given the example of Eastern Europe, demands for full-blooded democracy in the Soviet Union are certain to increase.

Editorial, A10. If Romania can't lay claim to the legitimate defense of "justifiable homicide," then no government can. Jeff Greenfield's column, All. Ceausescu's killer guards spur fear, awe By Charles T. Powers Los Angeles Times BUCHAREST, Romania Three levels below the basement of the Romanian Communist Party's Central Committee building, there is a bunker built strong enough to withstand a nuclear attack.

One room of its command center contains a wall of Japanese- and American-made equipment. It now has been shot to pieces, its wiring and circuitry ripped loose. That is where Nicolae Ceausescu's Praetorian Guard, the fanatical presidential-protection unit of the Sccuri-tate, was prepared to make its' last stand in defense of its leader. It did not work out that way. The three levels of the bunker now are occupied by soldiers of the Romanian army and volunteers of the Civilian Guard.

At midday Friday, on the uppermost level of the bunker, weary soldiers slept on rows of folding chairs or on the floors of interconnecting rooms. Some ate quietly from opened cans of food, their assault rifles close at hand, as they rested from their shifts of tense guard duty in the passageways, which are interrupted by hatchway doors Vh inches thick. The doors are painted battleship gray, labeled with coded letters and numbers, and each weighs 1,000 to 2,000 pounds. Each is closed by four massive latches. The soldiers on duty in this underground maze know that on the other side of those doors, a network of tunnels leads into the city.

There is only one other thing that soldiers know about those doors: that somewhere beyond them are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of trained and fanatical killers, Ccausescu's last gift to the Romanian people. The mood in the bunker is taut. The soldiers and their officers move cautiously and quietly and speak in low tones. They take no visitors to the lowest depths of the bunker. It is difficult to tell whether the tension arises from a sense of imminent danger, the strangeness of the setting or the experience of spending the last week in combat against a force of fighters whose lethal fanaticism seems a creation of science fiction.

The soldiers in the Sccuritatc's underground bunker are amazed and mystified by their opponents. A young army major and a 22-ycar-old Civilian Guard member for the safety of their families, they asked that no other identification be used told of the Securitatc bunker and of the men they had been fighting. The Sccuritate fighters, they believe, were part of Ccausescu's crack presidential guard. In the first three days of the battle, when fighting went on across the Parliament PARLIAMENT, from page A 1 program, the details of which are to be announced New Year's Day, the state news agency CTK reported. Havel's election is part of a sweeping scries of accords between the opposition and the Communists that are to lead to free elections next year.

It came one day after Alexander Dubcck, an ousted Communist Party chief who led the "Prague Spring" reforms that were crushed in 1968, was named chairman of the Federal Assembly in another stunning rebuke to the repression of the past. It also comes two days after the Bulgarian government agreed to talks with the opposition, seven days after the government was overthrown in Romania, seven weeks after the Berlin Wall was opened by East Germany, five months after a Solidarity activist became prime minister of Poland, seven months after Hungary opened its borders to the West and eight months after the Soviet Union held its first competitive elections in 70 years. During his somber inauguration, Communist Prime Minister Marian Calfa praised Havel as "a man who is faithful to his beliefs despite persecution." "He never accepted offers from his friends or recommendations by his enemies to emigrate where the condi SECRET POLICE: Thousands reported in custody, B8 palace square in front of the Central Committee building, the Sccuritate fighters were wearing black jumpsuits with a red silk stripe down the right side. They wore black berets. They used submachine guns and high-powered rifles with infrared sniper scopes.

"They used Romanian-made, Soviet-model rifles," the major said. "They used small machine guns and other German, English or Italian weapons, all of the highest quality. They were very good shots. They shot only at the head." The tunnels the Sccuritate fighters used have been explored only a short distance from the bunker, the major said. "We've blocked them off," he said, "to prevent them coming in.

They can was another battle, the Sccuritate fighters opened up on them. at It is strange to most Romanians! that the Securitatc kept fighting long after Ceausescu fled the capital Dec. 22, and stranger still that some have continued to hold out even after his1 body, riddled by the bullets of a squad, was shown on national televH sion. For most of the soldiers, as for the general population, the description 6f captured Securitate fighters paints the" eeriest picture of all. Not many, the major said, had been-f( captured alive.

Most apparently pre-i nr' ferred to use their last bullets on themselves. Of the few that have beej, captured, he said, "some looked they had been drugged." "They had no fear at all. they were captured without they attacked, they used anything thev could pick up to fight with, even it they knew they could be shot. 'I' immediately. "These captured terrorists refused completely any food or and refused to talk completely.

They say nothing." "i All of them, they say, are large and' muscular, and in the few cases of hand-to-hand fighting, demonstrated their skill in karate or some other martial-arts system. Who they are and how they have been trained are subjects of intense speculation to the officers and sol- diers. "There are several opinions," major said. "They do not look like1 intelligent men. They look like ma- chines." He confirmed that many think the Securitate fighters are, in fact, 6r-" phans, raised from childhood to devote their lives to the defense of Ceausescu.

That may be little more than fantasy there is not a single fact to support it but it is hard to find a Romanian who docs not hold that belief. It is as prevalent among the soldiers who fought them as among the general population. Personnel at the city's main emergency hospital have stories that support the descriptions offered by the soldiers and are, in their way, equally bizarre. Dr. Andrei Firica, the director of the hospital, and another senior staff physician say 12 men admitted during the violence were suspected -of being Securitate men.

"In general, their comportment was very strange," the staff physician said. "The pupils of their eyes were dilated. They had a fixed look, their eyes staring. Whatever story they came in with, they stuck to. Some of them had no reaction whatever to normal dosages of sedation.

To make them sleep, they were given heavy sedatives." All but one denied being in the Sccuritate. One, however, identified himself as a major in the unit and said he was sorry only that he had failed in his duty and that he should have killed more people, Firica said. Western investors. President Bush was among foreign leaders sending congratulations to Havel. He pledged U.S.

support for democracy in Czechoslovakia, and the White House said his election "marks a fitting end to a year of astonishing change in Eastern Europe." In Warsaw, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa welcomed "with great joy" Havel's election and wished him strength in his new responsibilities. Immediately after Havel's election, students declared an end to their strike, which began in It was the students who sparked the revolution when their peaceful -march on Nov. 17 was brutally crushed by police. The violence prompted mass protests, forcing the Communists to negotiate their own demise over the next several weeks with the democratic opposition group Civic Forum, led by Havel. Talks that lasted until last Saturday among Communists, opposition leaders and other political forces led to the creation of a new reform government that included several former dissidents.

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"Also in the bunker is a bomb shelter that we think could stand in a nuclear attack," the major added. "It has a sophisticated air-purification system and stores of food and water. There is a control room with instruments, communications equipment, covering one entire wall. There are telephones and televisions. At the moment they left, most of this equipment was destroyed.

It was shot up or ripped out." The officers said that through the heaviest of the combat last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Sccuritate fighters sent men into the city in disguises, sometimes in army uniforms, to report on the positions of the army in the streets. They rigged up a loudspeaker and tape-playing device that broadcast sounds of heavy gunfire. When the soldiers in the 1948 to attend the Roman Catholic Mass, traditionally part of the inaugural ceremony. Havel's appearance at the nationally televised Mass was significant for the country's 9 million Catholics, who suffered repression under the Communists for their faith. After the brief Mass, the towering vaults of the cathedral filled with the voices of the Prague Philharmonic Choir singing Antonin Dvorak's Tc Dcum, After dark, Havel briefly joined several thousand people waiting in the cold in Prague's Old Town Square.

The blond, mustachioed president wore a dark-blue overcoat, blue suit and striped tie rather than his usual cardigan and corduroy slacks. He made no speech, but smiled and waved from the castle balcony to those below in the baroque square. Strangers grabbed each other and danced, while others broke out in spontaneous song. Folk groups played and danced on the stage and in small groups around a giant Christmas tree. Among the Czech flags waving on the square was one with 12 gold stars on a blue field of the European Community.

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