European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday june 17, 1977 . Welcomes soviets attitude at Belgrade meet  up the . Thurs Day welcomed what it said has so far been a constructive and positive soviet Atti tude at the preparatory stage of the Bel Grade conference on application of the 1975 Helsinki accords. . Delegation chief Albert w. Shererjr. Also said the signs Are Good that a shouting match can be avoided at least during the preparatory session will last four to six weeks. Soviet delegation Leader Yuly Vorontsov. In a Brief statement on the second Day thursday of the preliminary meeting said Moscow wants to stick to the guidelines Laid Down at Helsinki for the follow up review conference. The russians made a very constructive statement Sherer commented after the 90-Minule meeting. They were very  he said the preparatory session which opened As soviet and other East european delegations asked for More time to consider a Spanish proposal for the organization of the preliminary talks. Sherer said the Spanish procedural suggestion complemented the More detailed proposal made wednesday jointly by the . And nine european Community nations for the organization of the main con Ference in the  . Dec proposal Calls for a Thor Ough review at the main conference of the Helsinki agreement meaning a full Dis Cussion of implementation or Lack of it of the human rights clauses. Anticipating inevitable soviet anger the West also said the Agenda could include of Poilu Pizics for new proposals on european Security and cooperation which is some thing Moscow wants. Many of the Neutral and nonaligned nations feel that Security and cooperation has if anything deteriorated since Helsinki with arms buildups by both nato and the Warsaw pact Montgomery s sword sold London a the sword that Field marshal lord Montgomery carried in world our 1 has been sold for $595 at an auction. All 35 nations All the europeans except Albania plus the . And Canada Are playing the preparatory session in the lowest of keys. But Sherer said the . Will be adman about rejecting the soviet wish to have a firm Cut off Date placed on the main review conference expected to Star around oct. 1. Sherer told a news conference before thursday s Brief meeting that Washington would have liked a completely open ended conference but decided to go along with the european Community s desire to set Christmas As a target Date for conclusion meaning a 12-week conference. Sherer said the . Will however firmly oppose Moscow s desire for a fixed ending Date because we Don t want to leave Belgrade until we Complete the work which we came to  at the morning session. Sherer also delivered a two Page general statement in which he called on All participants to avoid polemics and delays in the inter est of Security and cooperation. The third meeting at the preparatory conference was scheduled for Friday morning. No upturn in sight Monarch resurfaces after disappearing from Public View for More than a Century this portrait of the French King Charles do painted by Franccois Clouet. Is again hanging in a London gallery. The King died in 1574 at the age of u. A photo Recd is pessimistic on West s Economy Paris up Western industrialized nations will face continued High unemployment sluggish economic growth and widening deficit in 1977 and Early 1978, according to an assessment of the Organiza Tion for economic cooperation and development. After a two Day session ended wednes Day the oked s key economic policy com Mittee reached the conclusion there was urn and a among Little Prospect for a business upturn faster Rise in the living Standard Prince Charles Steps in As mediator of protest London a Prince Charles acted As an Impromptu mediator wednesday for a group of Black pickets protesting against alleged police brutality outside a project Center visited by the heir to the British throne. When Charles first arrived at the Moon shot project Center he ignored chants from a nearby crowd of placard waving demonstrators protesting the recent arrest of 24 Black youths on mugging  Prince toured the Center and listened to Calypso singing and afterwards asked local Black leaders about the protest. He then said he wanted to find out about the incident in person. As he crossed the Road the chanting stopped and Kim Gordon the group s Leader stepped Forward and explained the Blacks  Are Here because of continued police harassment of Black youths in the area said Gordon but in response to Charles question he admitted the protes ters had not discussed the allegations wit police officials. I am sure there is some truth on both sides but could t you come together and discuss it the 28-year-old Prince of Wales asked Gordon. Don t you think it would be a Good thing for you to discuss this with them see if you can sort things out further. You cannot go around like  Prince then accepted a leaflet from the demonstrators and. As he left the scene. Police cmdr. Douglas Randall and Gordon were meeting to agree on a place to formally talk about the grievances. Gordon a British citizen whose parents Are from Ghana is a full time official fur flame the Black Arm of the socialist workers party. He later described Prince Charles As  it was an experience for him said Gordon 21. I am sure he has t talked to Many people about police  the member nations in the months ahead. But no full consensus has been reached on How to Cope with the continued sluggish Ness of the Western economies that had set in when the Oil Rich nations quadrupled the Price of Oil in 1973, propelling the industrialized countries into the worst recession since the great depression of the 1930s. Recd experts said the 24 member nations of the Recd area will Sec their bal Ance of payments deficit Rise to $30 billion Liis year from last year s deficit of $22 Bil lion. The . Launched a drive in the com Mittee to prompt Japan and West Ger Many the two nations expected to run up a surplus of $6 billion and $15 billion in their balance of payments operations this year to relate their economics and thus drag along weaker Recd economies. But fearing resurgent inflation Japan and West Germany served notice they planned no major Steps to stimulate their economic growth ignoring . Warnings that protectionism in America might grow if the stronger partners refused to help nations facing balance of payments difficulties. The . Is expected to run up a balance of payments deficit of j10 to 12 billion Rais ing fears among some experts the Dollar May come under speculative attacks Onuiel Money markets. Findings of the Recd secretariat and the economic policy committee will be submitted to the june 23-24 annual ministerial meeting attended by foreign and Treasury ministers and Central Bankers. The Recd analysts cautioned that the Recd area will see an economic growth rate of 4 per cent in 1977, Well Short of the targeted 5.25 per cent. Inflation the experts said was spurting ahead at a 9 per cent annual rate up from the maximum rate of 7.25 per cent foreseen earlier for the area. Russ hold glorifier1 of . Washington up dissident soviet novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn said thursday soviet authorities have sentenced for anti soviet activity the ukrainian craftsman of a sculpture Honor ing the . Bicentennial. Peter Ruban. Who previously served 16 years in prison for advocating ukrainian nationalism was charged with engaging in private Enterprise and theft of state  made the disclosure through rep. James Jeffords Rvl. Jeffords released a Batch of documents from the Moscow committee for the de sense of human rights and from the Moscow Helsinki watch group two spontaneous Public groups. A report from the Moscow human rights committee dated april 30-May 4. Said the Story of this Ruban Case is particularly interesting. Ruban is a gifted woodcarver who worked in the souvenir department of a Large state factory in the town of Prilika. In the past few months he had dedicated his free time to carving a sculpture in Honor of the Bicentennial of the United states of America. Somebody obviously decided that such private initiative on his part was Crimi Nal the sculpture was stolen from him and he was charged with engaging in private Enterprise stealing state property mean ing the Wood from which he carved his sculpture and anti soviet propaganda. And he was sentenced. Thus he was punished for his National ism for having said the Ukraine should Lue its constitutional right to step out of the federation of soviet republics and for the desire to glorify the United  the documents also reported that a doctor named or. Mez Bukhina was beaten on a Kiev Street March 25,1977, apparently because two of her Brothers emigrated to Israel and she had applied to go. Her at tackers waved red Kab identification cards and were let go by citizens who stopped the attack. It must be difficult for people in the West to even imagine that such situations exist said the signers of one document Tatyana Hodorovich and Viktor Negipe Lov. One should not speak of violation of rights but of the total Lack of any and All rights they said. There is no violation of the Laws by the state Laws Are simply Dos. Appearing yielding their place to a Blind insane criminal  labor organization oks record budget Geneva up ii the International labor organization Ilo approved a record budget of $169.5 million for 1978 and 1979 on the Assumption that the ., it biggest contributor will remain member. The ., which gave a two year withdrawal notice in november 1975, abstained during the Vole. The budget compared with $160.8 Mil lion for the two previous years was endorsed by the 130 nations attending the 63rd annual Ilo session. The budget includes plans for cutting expenses by 25 per cent m certain activities officials said. The ., which is complaining about what it Calls the increasing  the organization contributes one Quarter of the budget. L"T8 Brown . Worker Delegate re of .fie,?2 ining to will leave unless the Ilo keeps politics out and stick to its principles