European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 4 the stars and stripes Kim re Points go Richan crisis thursday May 2, 1968 russians emphasizing s a by Hob Hoy kits a London Bureau chief London is the soviet Union has Boon reshaping its military policy with a now emphasis on sea Power and Airlift capacity an Export on russian military planning said Here. Or. Otto pick told University of Southern California graduate students that the switch in strategy has Boon evident for two years. But he said the change from a massive nuclear deterrent Toa Blond of nuclear and conventional Power May have sprung from the cuban missile crisis. It seems evident that this crisis caused the russians to do some fundamental rethinking he said. The experience must have been somewhat traumatic for them and As a Conse Quence they have turned to Ward an increased role at , from the University of Surrey England made his re Marks As a finest lecturer to graduate students at South rules lip air station. He pointed to recent soviet writings which support the continued stress on conventional arms and the maintenance of Strong ground forces by the Warsaw pact nations. Pick described the soviet Union s new s t r a t e g y As a cautious move away from the Joyride it s up for gis of the smiles and thumbs air c a div As they ride atop a capture Din the a Shau Valley russian built truck the gis found the truck and assorted weapons while on operation Delaware in the Valley. Up you beat me every Day czech prisons probed on to by Hans Benedict Prague a the Bull necked police officer s weal streaming Down his unshaven face yelled in angry despair i never tortured quickly the camera swung to a Man in filthy prison clothes who mumbled Between broke Teeth of no you did to you Only beat me every the scene in the grim Minko vice prison where inmates recently staged a Short lived re Volt flashed a Cross Czecho slovak television screens bring ing Back nightmares of secret police terror and prison brutal Ity which the new communist regime has promised to end. But the authors of inquisitive camera a documentary series with on the spot re porting keep probing relent Lessly. For t w o decades Czecho Slovakia s s l a t n i be Pec nost St has been wielding total Anonymous Power As a regime within the regime As one communist official described it. Modelled after Stalin s dreaded Gnu and nov the St is re Jip Onsbie to the Interior ministry and the communist party. I maintains police and tens of thousands of informers i factories offices neighbor hoods tourist centers and Polit ical and social organizations. It also runs a prison. Premier Oldric ii Cernik Snew government program presented to the National As Sembly last month contains a set of proposals purportedly designed to restore democratic1 rights and it includes sweeping revision of Laws to place the political Security apparatus under direct govern ment and parliamentary control. A special commission of the National Assembly and the state prosecutor s office has opened inquiries into Security police activities since the late 1940s, involving an estimated15,000 cases of citizens arrested an imprisoned or executed on Polit ical charges brought against them by the St the Security police was More powerful than any judge any court and any Cabinet minister an investigator said. A Confes Sion obtained through their methods automatically brought a verdict of methods of physical and psychological torture used by the St were said to have been even More refined than those of their soviet teachers. Jiri Hoci Mann Liberal columnist of the communist party daily rude Provo says political trials were stage managed by the St As late As 1966. Former inmates of the Bory Mirov and Leopoldo prisons give accounts of re education methods the official term fora system of degradation through Rotten fowl brutal treatment and an absence of hygienic facilities. A psychiatrist described police officers and guards at Leopol Dov which houses mainly Polit ical prisoners As mentally More deranged than even Long term according to unofficial Statis tics 21,072 people were serving terms last month including 682 sentenced on charges of anti state activities. They comprise former members of the postwar anti communist underground which was Active until the 1950s, peo ple sentenced for espionage and an estimated 200 caught in at tempts to escape through the Iron curtain. The Basic element of Czechoslovakia s Renaissance is abolition of All forms of political feuds save for political polemics Hochmann says. This re quires the abolition of the term political prisoner no democracy and certainly not our socialist democracy must persecute people for their political beliefs. Short of War mongering and racial hatred Al political views must Corne under one fire Only the fire of massive retaliation concept " hut to pointed out that Iii does not imply any weakening of the soviet ability to produce massive strikes and quoted in. Ures which show the russians May achieve parity with to. United states in by no
