European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 09, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 8 the stars and stripes user May close unofficial journals Leningrad. User up soviet authorities arc threatening to close Down All unofficial publications and put on Ria their principal officers the editor of one of the publications said sunday. Emilia Zolnikova. 30. Leningrad editor of jews in the user said soviet writer David Dar was told by a soviet official sat urday that we Are going to shut Down All publications which Are not officially sanctioned. I will set you either in the Dock or in the witness she said the 69-year-old Dar was told this by an unidentified Man at the soviet visa office while he was seeking an exit permit for Israel after denouncing the Union of soviet writers of which he had been a member of for 29 also released a letter he wrote to a group of prominent world authors including Saul Bellow Arthur Miller Jean Paul Sartre Heinrich iw1i and Gunter grass asking for their Heip in keeping jews in the user from being closed Down. Jupen Liz at the smiles As she chats with Stanley sear owner Driver of a Rolls Salute to a Queen 1905 fails Royce one of some 900 Vin Tage Rolls from All Over the world that participated in a Parade in Windsor i Honor of her Silver Jubilee. A despite two massacres resistance reportedly is escalating in Ethiopia Cairo i up i the killing of about 500 ethiopian students and Young persons opponents of the regime of strongman Mengistu Llamile Mariam by government troops in Addis Ababa april 2 30 was the second massacre of its kind in three months the Middle Kast news Agency said sunday. Despite the carnage British Catholic writer Hollis Dies London a Christopher Hollis leading Hyntish roman Catholic writer historian of the jesuits and conservative puny legislator from 1945 to 1955. Has died at a Home in Somerset. Ife was 75. Lot Lis. Son of an anglican Bishop was educated at Eton school and Balliol col lege Oxford. He converted to catholicism when he was 22 and taught history at the Catholic Ston Hurst College. He did eco nomic research at notre Dame University. Ind., from 1935 to 1939, and served in the Royal air Force during world War 11. He was chairman of the publishing firm Hollis and Carter and was a member of the editorial boards of the Catholic weekly Tablet and the humorous weekly punch Hollis wrote 35 books including biographies history novels and autobiography in which he recalled his Oxford contemporaries among them the writer Evelyn Waugh. Leaflets Are being distributed on a wide scale in the ethiopian capital and the activity til the opposition is constantly Esca the Agency said in a dispatch from Addis Ababa giving further details the Agency said army and police forces opened fire april 29 on Stu dents gathering outside their schools kill ing at least 181 bodies were sent to the morgue and each was turned Over to Kinsmen on the payment of $50. The Agency said. The following Day government troops stormed the Homes of suspected students and opened fire on 51 families who. Authorities claim had in their Possession antigovernment the Agency said hospitals were so crammed with wounded that Many of them had to be placed in corridors for Lack of room bodies of 40 students and workers were thrown by army troops into an irrigation canal which runs close to the Spanish embassy in Addis Ababa the Agency said. It said the Overall number of those killed during the two Days. April 29-30, is Esti mated at 500. A similar number of students and other persons were massacred by gov soviet rail crash reported Moscow api an intercity Passen Ger train collided May 2 with a suburban electric train near Minsk. Byelorussian killing 19 people and leaving others injured according to newspaper report reaching Moscow saturday. Ern ment troops feb. 11-14. The Agency said. By these massacres the ruling clique in Ethiopia is attempting to liquidate the opposition and ensure the survival of the regime but leaflets Are being distributed on a wide scale and the activity of the opposition is constantly is the Agency said. First news of the massacre filtered out of Ethiopia May 3. Sotnikova whose apartment has been searched by soviet secret police Kab several times said she has been Suin Money to appear at the Leningrad prosecutor s office on tuesday. There Are Only two major unofficial publications in the soviet Union jews in the user and the chronicle of current events a Moscow publication put out by the russian demo cratic movement. If these two publications Are closed Down it would sever the last links of the Active unofficial movement in the soviet Union Sotnikova said. Our publication jews in the user is Dar s foreign writings have appeared in the Chicago review russian literary quarterly and the new his letter of resignation from the Union Dar said he was not a communist hit actually i appear to be involved in a staff of workers of a pure political party department which Calls itself the Union of soviet my View this department has become a dam blocking an inexhaustible powerful Stream of russian literature. Be cause of this reason i ask you not to con Sider me a member of the Union of soviet first such resignation dissident sources said it was the first time in memory that a member voluntarily resigned from the Union of writers. In the letter to world authors Dar says that jews in the user helps jews in the soviet Union resist the powerful Shower of anti semitic propaganda which is car ried on by All Means of mass even the word jew is either Cut out of soviet books and periodicals or used As a synonym of zionism or racism. The official soviet press not Only puts jews in one rank with racists but runs allegations that All the biggest and most influential newspapers in the United states Britain and Many other countries Are published by Means of jewish he said the authors and compilers of the typewritten monthly have been exposed to searches questionings and repressions. At present the Only manifestation of jewish culture in the soviet Union is under direct he said. Dar wrote that Sotnikova is permanently under surveillance of the state secret police. In the last months she has been continually Undi a shadowing. It is now prohibited fur her to appear in thus in is duing everything possible to bring an end to the Magazine s life by Means of threats blackmail and provocations against people participating in this Dar said. The situation is so critical that at any moment a trial can i apply with tins letter just to you be cause i am sure that the voice of an honest writer is louder than voices of All politicians and generals and you much More than others can help with your sympathy and support my friends jewish writers to keep Freedom and that Means to pre serve our Magazine Dar wrote. Protesters police clash at Tokyo s new Airport Tokyo a More than 3.000 Stu dents and Farmers clashed with 4,000 riot police sunday at the new Tokyo International Airport and burned at least three cars and a House police reported. Fifteen radicals were arrested a poll e Man was wounded and do is of reside its were evacuated from near uie site 40 Miles East of Tokyo by noon when a Mattive rally against the opening of the Airport started they said. The rally was continuing and the number of protesters was increasing the said. Earlier in the Day. Radical students ind local Farmers sent two unmanned can running into a column of riot police. They hurled gasoline bombs setting the two cars and a police water spraying vehicle ire officials said. Police reported four other gasoline bomb incidents during the morning but said damage was Light. A chartered bus carrying 49 protesters to the Airport from Osaka about 300 Miles West of Tokyo to join the Airport Demon stration collided with a truck Early sunday injuring 13 of the passengers. A successful test Landing by a govern ment plane saturday prepared the Way or the opening of the $553 minion Airport serv ing the Tokyo Are
