European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday september 8,1977 watergate Mastermind g. Gordon Liddy hands his wife Frances a Box to be put in the trunk of her car As he leaves the Federal correctional inst soviet cops beat baptists Over protest Moscow up soviet police and Kab secret police clashed with members of a Baptist religious Community protest ing the closing of a prayer House in late August and scores of worshippers were beaten. Religious sources from the Christian committee on the defense of rights of be Lievers told Western newsmen that the clash took place on aug. 30 in the town of Bryansk about 250 Miles Southwest of Moscow. They said that the Baptist Community had hardly completed the building of a new prayer House which had been legally registered with the authorities when they were suddenly ordered to halt the work. In response 62 Young members of the Community who had helped build the prayer House refused to leave it and announced they were going on a hunger strike the sources  police cordoned off the prayer House for two Days by which time a Force of some 300 militiamen and Kab police had been  Large number of baptists virtually the entire Community arrived and there were clashes Between the people and the police the sources  said about 150 persons including women were severely beaten by club wielding police in the confrontation. The sources said Deacon Vladimir vis Yatin was knocked Down and police beat his head against the ground and that others badly beaten included Church offi Cial Pavel Kozorezov choir Leader Pyotr Kravchuk and youth choir Leader Pavel  sources said they did not believe anyone had been arrested but were not cer Tain because they had had no further word from Bryansk since the initial report. Liddy freed on parole tute at Danbury Conn., after being paroled. Liddy served 52 a months More time than anyone else convicted in the watergate Case much of it because he refused to cooperate with watergate prosecutors. He refused to answer when reporters asked him if he would now break his Long silence. A photo watergate plotter Liddy leaves prison still silent Danbury Conn. Up muttering German g. Gordon Liddy who plotted the third rate burglary that Shook a nation and toppled a president strode from prison wednesday still silent about his role in the 1972 watergate break in. The onetime Law enforcement Swash Buckler who served More than four years in prison and is now officially a pauper ignored reporters and photographers swarming around him As he emerged with his wife from the Danbury Federal correctional institution. Liddy who has never spoken publicly about the nation s biggest political scan dal refused to answer All but two questions from reporters. Asked How he Felt Liddy uttered a adult Motel now even More adult Miami up the owner of the Aloha inn an adult Motel equipped with waterbeds ceiling mirrors an dirty movies is changing it into an old folks Home this  Feldman said he decided to make the transition to a retire ment residence for the elderly after trying to find a similar establish ment for a relative. He also said he is tired of having to defend his Motel against the Legal efforts of his neighbors to shut i Down. Miami s More for older people than for younger people he said. The people in the area did t wan the place the Way it was and a cleaner operation will be better for us. Weddin t need All that  German phrase apparently meaning it does t really  asked where he was going Liddy re plied East of the Sun and West of  the phrase which originated with a 19th-Century fairy tale by norwegian folklorists Peter Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe was also the title of a song in a Princeton College revue in the 1930s. Mrs. Liddy who has supported the Cou ple s five teen aged children and maintained their Oxon Hill md., Home by teaching elementary school in nearby Washington d.c., parked the family s Brown compact car 50 feet from the prison Entrance about 9 . And went into the facility to Greet her husband. Liddy staring straight ahead and look ing slim and healthy walked out of the prison pulling a cart filled with half a dozen Brown cardboard boxes containing his belongings. A former Fri agent disbarred As an at Torney after watergate Liddy now 46, was imprisoned Jan. 30, 1973, and has served by far the most time of any watergate figure 52 vie months. He was released Osbond for three months in 1975. Liddy once told presidential aide John Dean he would rather be gunned Down on the streets of Washington by a sniper than divulge the details of watergate. His Resolute silence Cost him additional time in prison because he refused to testify before the watergate grand jury refuse to be sworn in As a witness before the Senate watergate committee and refuse to talk to a House subcommittee investigating whether the Cia was involved i watergate. Liddy took a pauper s oath tuesday  pa., where he told . Mag Istrate William h. Askey he could not  a$40,000 Fine before leaving prison because he owes $275,000 in Legal fees and has assets of Only $310. . Returns 97 who fled Haiti Washington up almost All of the 101 haitians who sailed through shark filled Waters and sought Refuge last month at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Cuba have been returned to Haiti a state department spokesman said tuesday. The department said it has an Assurance from the government of Haiti that there will be no reprisals taken against the returnees. Department spokesman Hodding Carter Iii said that 97 of the original group were flown to Haiti aboard five flights of Navy  others who requested political Asylum Are still at Guantanamo Accord ing to Carter. The 97 who were returned Carter said left Haiti in an overcrowded Leaky boat because of the Bleak economic conditions  the badly overloaded wooden vessel which is now sitting under four feet of water in Guantanamo Bay arrived on aug. 10 with 69 men 28 women five of them pregnant and four children  department officials interviewed the refugees on their motives for fleeing and those who had no political reasons were returned to  of the refugees told american re porters who happened to be visiting the base at the time last week that they feared retaliation if they were returned. If we went Back with the americans to Haiti the president Jean Claude Duva Lier would come out to Greet us and two or three weeks later they would shoot us the refugee said. The return of most of the group and consideration of Asylum for the remainder solved a delicate question As to their even Tual Fate because of the unique status of the Guantanamo base which is still technically cuban territory. It also posed a logistical problem for the base which has to import everything except its locally produced water by ship and air. Navy officials told reporters in Guantanamo that if All had remained the floodgates might have been opened to boat loads of refugees from Haiti and other Caribbean islands. Acquittal of sex nazi upheld Kaiserslautern Germany up the West German supreme court has upheld the acquittal by a lower court of former nazi police officer Wolfgang  66-year-old Abel had been charged with complicity in the murder of More than 150 jews in nazi occupied Russia. 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