European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                ". To read the news you would think there were no accidents. Time there were no earthquakes. In Russia the newspapers Seldom write about aircraft  Sci or i. They Don t want to admit failures. Who is he Call him the Man in the Brown suit.1 by James Gunter is Munich Bureau chief reihe Man in the Brown suit spoke j. Earnestly in russian to a class of americans at a strange Little school conducted in Sheridan Cavern at Gar Misch Germany. He wears a Yul Bryn Ner haircut but he has no Public name of his own. Until recently he was a newspaper editor and radio program manager in Russia. He did not like what was going on so he fled. He is one of the remarkably talented instructors who live in the Little bavarian town at the foot of Germany highest Mountain and teach in a school which turns out american experts on Russia. He was Reading Between the lines of Astory from the stars and stripes about a plane crash in Russia. The Story said soviet officials refused to give out de  had to smile about that. In Russia the newspapers Seldom write about aircraft accidents he said. To read the news you would thin there were no accidents. In Stalin s Day there were no earthquakes  Don t want to admit  the Man in the Brown suit answered questions put to him in fluent russian by his american students. He used his hands expressively and often laughed. He said he worked for two weeks none article for his newspaper then the local party Headquarters telephoned an said they wanted to see the Story. They Are still looking at it he said with a Grin. The Man in the Brown suit was hired to teach at the . Army Institute for advanced russian and East european studies in Garmisch where the faculty includes a former Russia ambassador and a former regimental commander in the red army. When the school was founded in 1947, Only seven teachers were taken from among1,000 persons interviewed formerly known As detachment a the school is one of 22 scattered around the world in the Pentagon s foreign area specialist training program. All fast schools Are in the countries wit which they Deal except for the one in  soviets Haven t yet invited the . Army to come Over and stud them said it. Col. William h. Patter son commanding officer of detachment Page 12 civilian Ronald Roth is typical of students attending army Institute. R since 1966. We had to establish it inthe West with a sem controlled Environ  from the moment a student sets Foo inside the building he is in another world. Portraits of russian heroes line the Walls. Lenin is shown holding a bottle of american cola in a snack bar poster. Ill signs Are in russian. The Stu dents listen to classes in russian an then Chat in russian during Coffee Breaks. About half of the faculty Mem Bers have not yet Learned English. Even at night the students do no leave their russian atmosphere they live in a Little Community set apart from the rest of the Garmisch housing area and there they continue to speak russian after school hours to play chess which is the russian National pastime and to study russian culture. A faculty member recently played 14of the Best chess players in the area at one time and beat them All. One group meets twice a Mont to sing russian songs under a conductor who comes Down from Munich. A dance club meets on fridays to learn russian Folk dances. Patterson formerly supervised the Moscow hot line in Washington. His executive officer is maj. Roger Viehland the director of instruction is it. Col. Frank  r had 21 students this year in rank of Captain through lieu tenant colonel or under age 37 if civil ians. Every course presented by the school provides an intensive study of some " characteristic of the people geography culture language economics politics and armed forces be Hind the Iron curtain. More than 340 men have graduated from the Garmisch school since it was founded. Past classes have produced several general Sand at least two ambassadors. The state department usually sends few foreign service officers to the school and each class contains depart i Institute librarian Iwanka Rebet was born in the Ukraine keeps tabs on vast of defense executives As Well a slicers. Their wives often learn Ige and sit in on classes to themselves for a possible to Russia. Military officers fro services picked for future As attaches at. The . Pm in Moscow now attend the school. 1 students first have a year of la Page study at Monterey comes a year of graduate in russian and slavic studies a University Indiana Kansas t a i Trussi an the stars and stripes Friday Columbia or Georgetown. When the arrive for two years at the Garmisch school they already have mastered the language and have a master s degree. The students practice simultaneous translation from russian to English in tape recording Booths in the  spend much time in individual conferences with their professors. He school has a Fine Russia Library of 11,000 volumes. Patterson Aid it is probably As Good a collection of soviet material As is held by any . School. The Library operated by pretty mrs. Iwanka Rebet who was born in the Ukraine also subscribes to every russian newspaper and Maga Zine possible. We try to cover every aspect of russian daily life Patterson said. Our Mission is to produce competent specialists who fully understand the user Eastern Europe and the people and who Are capable of formulating sound estimates and proper  scholars on russian affairs often lec Ture at the school As guests and a closed circuit television system has been installed to tape lectures for col Leges and universities in the states. Pat Terson said the circuit also will be used to show russian films. An efforts being made to get copies of russian television programs on film. The payoff after hard study comes each summer when students make a seven week tour of East european countries and the soviet Union. They travel As tourists by bus train an plane. Everywhere they talk to rus  majoring in russian at the army air Force and naval academies go along on these summer Tours after a three week orientation in  said the tour goes to Latvia Lithuania Estonia Leningrad Moscow the old cities in the South and even a place called Bratsk in Siberia where the temperature Falls to 40 below in  summer we travelled to Kha Barovsky Only 30 Miles from the chinese order on the trans siberian railway Patterson said. The russians had been on that train about a week from Moscow and they were bored an wanted to talk. We exchanged neckties Stamps and even bottles of Vodka an Cognac. No russian Ever gets on a train forbore than 24 hours without a  a. Student copt. Robert Stevens meets prof. N. S. Masur in game of chess under russian poster which reads Well stay in the service re up that is. Is photos by Victor Damon the stars and stripes Page 13