June 1989

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Thursday the 1st er June 1989

Bulgaria: Within the framework of the Bulgarian “perestroîka”, any citizen not “holder of secrecies of State”, which does not have debts and which is in rule with the law, can obtain a passport allowing him to leave the country and to return there freely. This freedom given first of all for only one destination, the Turkey, will be extended as of September first to all the citizens for all the countries. In fact, it is about a measurement of which the goal is to expel the populations turco-Moslem women refusing the assimilation. Turkey had to accommodate an important flow of refugees, assembling itself on average to 4.000 per day.
the Vatican: The pope Jean-Paul II goes in official trip and pastoral visit in Norway, in Iceland, Finland and with the Denmark.

Friday June 2nd 1989

Japan: The democratic Liberal party appoints its new president, Sosuke Uno which is elected Prime Minister by the Parliament. A press campaign develops against him exploiting its relations passed with a Geisha.

Saturday June 3rd 1989

Iran: The Ayatollah Khomeini (89 years) dies. According to his/her Zahra daughter, its last words would have been: “ Extinguish the light, I will sleep ”.
Peru: with Lima, 8 people are killed at the time of an armed attack carried out by a terrorist commando against the presidential escort.

Sunday June 4th 1989

South Africa: The writer Richard Rive is assassinated.
China: The Chinese army represses the revolt of the students on the Place Tian' anmen with Beijing. The event is covered on line on television. The intervention had started as of the night of the 3 to the 4 with the arrival of the armoured tanks of the 27e army corps. On the whole, at the end of several hours of cannonade and corrosion of crowd, it more than three thousand would have died there, for the majority of the students, but also of the workmen. In the night of the 4 to the 5, new reinforcements are necessary to reduce the immombrables hearths of agitation and resistance. Tens of thousands of arrests will take place.
France: At the time of partial cantonal elections, the National front is in important rise, of which Perpignan (Pierre Sergent (FN), 31,3 % with the 1st turn, 42,6 % with the 2nd turn, UDF Jacqueline Amiel-Donnat is elected with 53,7 %) and Saint-Raphaël.
Iran: The Assemblée of the experts chooses the ayatollah Ali Khamenei, president of the Republic, to succeed the Ayatollah Khomeini, as a guide of the Revolution.
Ouzbékistan (Soviet Ex-Union): Beginning of inter-ethnic confrontations taking place enters the Uzbek - ethnos group majority, Turkish, of religion sunnite - and the Meskhètes - minority ethnos group, géorgienne, of religion Shiite (77 000 people). The first brawl took place on a market on June 2nd.
Poland: First legislative elections very partially free for the Diet and the Senate. With the Diet, 65 % of the seats are reserved to the official candidates of the Communist party (POUP), but Solidarność gains 160 seats out of 161 the left free ones (1 ballotage). With the Senate, Solidarność, gains 92 seats out of the 100 (8 ballotages). Second turn planned for on June 18th.

Monday June 5th 1989

France: The National Assembly votes the bill of Amnistie for the freedom fighters inhabitants of Guadeloupe and inhabitant of Martinique of the Caribbean revolutionary Alliance.

Tuesday June 6th 1989

Iran: State funeral of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Nearly three million people absorb the funeral procession. Scenes of Collective hysteria are filmed and several tens of people die trampled. Fallen with ground, the skin of Khomeini is lacerated by fanatics seeking to carry a relic. Confusion lasts several hours and finally the corpse is evacuated by a military helicopter.

Wednesday June 7th 1989

Thursday June 8th 1989

China: The Prime Minister Li Peng, equipped with a “metallized gray Mao costume”, appears for the first time on television Chinese since the May 20th, day of the introduction of the martial Loi, he congratulates the army for his hard labor and of his efforts to preserve safety.

Partout in the country opens “offices of denouncement” and phone lines to accelerate the call campaign to the denunciation. The people stopped are obliged to subject itself to public self-criticism before disappearing definitively. Television shows tens of thousands of young people to cranium shaven and handcuffed.
In the slides of the capacity, two men appear like the true organizers of this repression, they are Qiao Shi (65 years), former chief of the secret services and president of the Audit Board of the discipline of the party, and Jiang Zemin (62 years), mayor of Shanghai.

Friday June 9th 1989

China: Deng Xiaoping, at the time of a short speech on television Chinese, congratulates the generals responsible for the maintenance of law and order and thanks the troop, “bastion of steel of the State”.
France: The six leaders of the principal lists to the European elections, discuss on the television channel, TF1.

Saturday June 10th 1989

France: The movement of the Renovating of RPR and UDF organizes a two days top to Saint-Pierre-with-Chartreuse (Isere). One of principal, Philippe Seguin is absent.

Sunday June 11th 1989

France: At the time of partial cantonal elections, the National front is in important rise, whose Saint-Raphaël (Pierre Barisain (FN), 48,4% with the 2nd turn, various the line Michel Gaillard is elected with 51,6 %) and with the first turn with Mulhouse, Gerard Freulet (FN) obtains 31,4 %.
New Caledonia: At the time of territorial legislative elections, RPCR obtains 44,6 % of the votes cast (27 seats), FLNKS, obtains 28,6 % (19 seats) and the National front, 6,6 % (3 seats).
Ouzbékistan (Soviet ex-Union): a thousand of Uzbek armed which tried to take by storm a refugee camp Meskhètes and who did not hesitate to attack the Soviet soldiers, is pushed back after hard and long combat who make a hundred dead and several thousands of casualties. Soviet the Prime Minister Nikolaï Ryjkov speaks about a “ political operation éléborée of long time, planned well and carefully implemented, intended to destabilize the situation in the area, but as in the republic and the whole country ”, specifying as the rioters are openly anti-Russians and islamist.

Monday June 12th 1989

West Germany: Triumphal official visit of the Soviet president Mikhaïl Gorbatchev (12 June 15th).
Argentinian: The president of the Republic, Raúl Alfonsín, announces his resignation anticipated to allow the new president Carlos Menem to quickly take his functions.
France:

Adoption by the National Assembly of the law on the dénoyautage of the privatized companies.
Jacques Chirac, evoking her “intuitive” fear of new terrorist attacks declares that it would be convenient to release the terrorist Anis Naccache at the time of the next presidential pardon of July 14th - Naccache Anise had been condemned to the life imprisonment for its attempted murder against the former Iranian Prime Minister, Chapour Bakhtiar. The Prime Minister, Michel Rocard request with Jacques Chirac to give information which it has with the authorities.

India: with New Delhi, 7 people are killed and about fifty others are wounded, in an bomb attack made by extremists Sikhs.
Ouzbékistan (Soviet Ex-Union): In response to of inter-ethnic confrontations between the majority Uzbek and the minority Meskhètes, the central government of Moscow envoit 12 000 men of the special forces of police force and Soviet the Prime Minister, Nikolaï Ryjkov.
Poland: Official visit of the French president François Mitterrand (12 June 16th) at the time which he announces a plan of assistance of a billion FF.
Zaire: Death of the cardinal-archbishop of Kinshasa, Joseph-Albert Malula (72 years), he was the initiator of the Zairean rite.

Tuesday June 13rd 1989

West Germany: The Soviet president Mikhaïl Gorbatchev pays an official visit. He states to want “to contribute to overcome the division of Europe”.
Hungary: Roundtable enters the communist capacity and the opposition.

Wednesday June 14th 1989

Poland: The French president François Mitterrand pays an official visit. He announces an important economic aid for the country.

Thursday June 15th 1989

China: to Shanghai, the first three demonstrators are condemned to death; they are three young workmen. June 21st, they will be carried out, in public, with knees of a drawn ball with bearing end in the nape of the neck.
France: with the French Academy, election of the lawyer Jean-Denis Bredin (16 vote) with the armchair of Marguerite Yourcenar against the writer Jean Raspail (11 votes).
Ireland: At the time of the anticipated legislative elections, the nationalists of the Fianna Fail, left the Prime Minister, Charles Haughey, lose the majority of government, with 77 elected officials out of 166 seats.
European Union: The European elections proceed with the Denmark, in Spain, Great Britain, Ireland and with the Netherlands.

Friday June 16th 1989

France:

Émeute with Cagnes-sur-Mer, where after the arrest of a “young person” who circulated on a stolen motor bike, a band of several tens of young Maghrebians invest the police station, encircles the police officers, the insults, covers them spittles, obliging them under the threat to let set out again the stopped delinquent.
All the accused of the Business Luchaire, relating to sales of weapons to the Iran, profit from a generalized withdrawal of case.

Spain: The country decides to integrate the Peseta in the European Monetary System.
Hungary: with Budapest, funerals popular and main roads made with the memory of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister at the time of the insurrection of October 1956, condemned and hung, in 1958 on order of the communist dictator Janos Kadar. Its body had at the time summer thrown in a common grave.
New Caledonia: The provincial assemblies elect their president: Jacques Lafleur (RPCR) is elected president of the Southern province, Léopold Jorédié (FLNKS) is elected president of the Northern province and Richard Kaloï is elected president of the islands Loyautés.
the Vatican: Speech of the pope Jean-Paul II in VIIe assembled plenary of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

Saturday June 17th 1989

Bulgaria - Turkey: Turkish the Prime Minister, Turgut Özal, request with the Bulgarian government to open negotiations on the fate from the fifty to sixty thousand Bulgarian of Turkish origin which took refuge in Turkey to flee the policy of assimilation implemented by the Bulgarian government.
China: to Beijing, eight other demonstrators are condemned to death. June 22nd, seven among with will be carried out with knees of a drawn ball with bearing end in the nape of the neck.
France: The bicentenary of the French revolution and the centenary of the Eiffel Tower are celebrated at the time of a great festival “Paris 89” organized by the Town of Paris.
Kazakhstan (Soviet ex-Union): Demonstrations organized against the rise of the prices tranforment in riots.

Sunday June 18th 1989

France:

European Elections: List RPR-UDF led by Valery Giscard d'Estaing: 28,8% and 26 elected officials; List PS led by Laurent Fabius: 23,6% and 22 elected officials; List FN led by Jean-Marie Le Pen: 11,7% and 10 elected officials; Ecological list control by Antoine Waechter: 10,5% and 9 elected officials; List center control by Simone Veil: 8,4% and 7 elected officials; List PC led by Philippe Herzog: 7,7% and 7 elected officials; List “Drives out, fishing and tradition” led by André Goustat: 4,1%.
At the time of the second round of the partial cantonal election with Mulhouse S, the socialist candidate Jean Grimont (51,7%) beat the candidate of the National front, Gerard Freulet (48,2%).

Kazakhstan (Soviet ex-Union): Demonstrations organized since the day before against the rise of the Kazakh prices tranforment in affontements between and Russian. The central government envoit of the troops for the maintenance of law and order.
Poland: Second turn of the elections to the Diet and the Senate. Solidarność gains the last seat in ballotage for the Diet and 7 of the 8 seats in ballotage for the Senate. On the whole it gains the 161 free seats of the Diet over 161 and 99 of the seats of the Senate over 100.
European Union:

the European elections proceed in West Germany, in Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, with the Luxembourg and the Portugal.
the left becomes majority with 265 seats (including 180 Socialists, 42 Communists, 30 greens, 13 regionalistic) against 241 for the right parties (of which EPP, 49 liberals, 20 gaullists, 17 European lines).

Monday June 19th 1989

West Germany: with Osnabruck, a German civilian is wounded at the time of an bomb attack made by IRA-Provisional against hutments of the British army. Four other bombs whose manufacture was defective did not explode.
Greece: Following his victory with legislative and the resignation of the Prime Minister Andréas Papandréou, the chief of the New democracy, Constantinos Mitsotakis, is charged to form the new government.
East-West Negotiations: with Geneva, resumption of negotiations on the reduction of the strategic armaments with long range (START). They étaeint suspended since November 15th, 1988.

Tuesday June 20th 1989

Algeria: Associations of women, in a Joint Declaration denounce “ the attempts of the APN to remove the female sport… and the transformation of the school into an ideological place of bludgeoning ”, whereas the house of a divorced woman is burned with Ouargla and his/her three year old son perishes in the fire; coeds are attacked with Blida by the islamist ones who want to prevent them from leaving the evening, and which with Bou Saada; and the houses of five women who lived alone are burnt.
France: The Council of Ministers adopts a bill on the financing of the political parties and another on that of the electoral campaigns. It envisages also a broad amnesty for the infringements made before June 15th.
Soviet Union - Iran: The president of the Iranian Parliament, Hachemi Rafsandjani, is in two days official visit. With Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, it evoked the alarm clock of the Islam in Asia.

Wednesday June 21st 1989

France: The Senate rejects, by 218 votes against 94, the bill and the stay of the immigrants, presented by the , Minister of Interior Department Pierre Joxe.

Thursday June 22nd 1989

Angola: with Gbadolite (Zaire), reconciliation under the aegis of the Zairean president Mobutu, between Jonas Savimbi, the chief of the Unita, Resistance anti-Marxist and the president Eduardo Back Santos. Fidel Castro which did not want to withdraw its cuban combatants, is constrained there, by the Russians. Angolan aviation is nailed on the ground by the rockets “Stinger” provided to Jonas Savimbi.
France: In the Business SORMAE-SAE, four people are accused being added to the 28 others previously accused.
Greece: The chief of the New democracy, Constantinos Mitsotakis, charged to form the new government fails in his negotiations. The first outgoing minister Andréas Papandréou is pointed out, but he is hospitalized of day even for “disorders of the respiratory system”.

Friday June 23rd 1989

Saturday June 24th 1989

China: The Central committee of the Communist party dismisses the general secretary, Zhao Ziyang and names to replace it, Jiang Zemin, the mayor of Shanghai.
France: with Lyon, the Renovating of RPR and UDF meet in convention.
Hungary: PSOH, the Hungarian Communist party, creates a collegial direction chaired by Reszo Nyers and names Imre Poszgay like candidate with the presidential election of 1990.
Romania - Hungary: Beginning of the dismantling of the “iron curtain”. It had been set up, the previous year, on order of the Rumanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu to prevent the escape of the Hungarian minorities of Romania.

Sunday June 25th 1989

China: Jiang Zemin (62 years), mayor of Shanghai and one of principal organizer of repression, is promoted general secretary of the Communist party.
Filipino: 37 people are massacred at the time of an terrorist attack of the Nouvelle army of the people against a Protestant temple.
Sri Lanka: Beginning of a wave of 542 bomb attacks until July 15th.
With Saint-Sever (France, department of the Moors), alternate of Stephan Meca, Matador French.

Monday June 26th 1989

the United States: The Supreme court authorizes from now on the States of the Union to carry out the execution of the old minors from sixteen to eighteen years and of the mentally handicapped persons.
New Caledonia: The presidency of the territorial Parliament goes to Simon Loueckhote (RPCR) like five vice-presidencies, whereas FLNKS obtains three from them.
European Union: The European Council meets in Madrid during two days. A governmental conference will be charged to coordinate the economic policies and monetary. However, British the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, obtain the provisional abandonment of any reference to a monetary union.

Tuesday June 27th 1989

France - Namibia: The chief of SWAPO, Sam Nujoma is in official visit with Paris. He declares: “ France always was at our sides at the most difficult times of our fight ”.

Wednesday June 28th 1989

France: The former president of the Republic, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, which had carried out the list of union RPR - UDF, gives up his mandate of deputy of the National Assembly and chooses to sit at the European Parliament while remaining at the District council of the Auvergne.

Thursday June 29th 1989

France: With Lyon, the special Court of Assizes, after 32 days of audience, its verdict makes relating to the lawsuit against the Lyons branch of the terrorist group of Extreme left, Direct action: Andre Olivier (perpetuity including eighteen years of safety), max Frérot (perpetuity including eighteen years of safety), Emile Ballandras (perpetuity including sixteen years of safety), Bernard Blanc (twenty years including twelve years of safety), Joelle Crépet (eighteen years including six years of safety).
Ireland: Following the anticipated legislative elections of June 15th, the Fianna Fail, left nationalist the Prime Minister, Charles Haughey, having lost the majority of government, this one is obliged to resign.

Friday June 30th 1989

France: Bomb attack missed against the train Puerta LED Ground, made by the separatist movement Iparretarrak.
Sudan: The general Omar Hassan Ahmad to el-Bechir shift capacity by a coup d'etat and the Prime Minister Sadek el-Mahdi.
Soviet Union: The Union of the Soviet writers vote unanimously for the restitution of the Soviet citizenship with Alexandre Soljenitsyne and authorizes the publication of its book the Gulag Archipelago.

During the month

German Democratic republic: The distress of German of the East increases. The central committee of the East-German Communist party excludes any easing from the mode, and sends a message of sympathy to the Chinese leaders.
Belgium: with Brussels, the Egyptian driver of the Saoudi embassy in Brussels is assassinated by a commando of the Liberation organization of the Arabic peninsula, attack asserted since Beirut.
Ivory Coast: with Abidjan, assassination of Pierre Chirol , French colonel of DGSE and adviser of President Houphouët-Boigny, are assassinated. Treaty officially like crime of common right, it could be that this crime was perprété by the Hezbollah which uses Coast-in Ivoire as bases logistic for the preparation of its attacks on Europe.
Israel: with Gaza, the Israeli police force dismantles a terrorist group of the Hamas while carrying out several arrests.
Kazakhstan : with Novy-Uzen, eight days of riot against the minorities.

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