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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, February 10, 1978

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1978 the stars and stripes re Druary allies1 rights stand criticized by u Prili Elzo nato All o Washington api the slate department is criticizing human rights poli cies of some of the United Stales Olaui Chesi including which is said to use extreme pressure in interrogating prisoners in its occupied in a report released the department said the israelis run a Model democracy in their but not in occupied Arab there Are documented reports of the use of extreme physical and psychological pressures during and in stances of brutality by individual interrogators cannot be ruled the report it also cited instances where israeli troops used excessive Force against Arab demonstrators and destroyed the Homes of arabs suspected of complicity with terror the criticism of Israel was Howe in comparison to evaluations of authoritarian regimes like the the government of president Ferdinand Marcos was accused of torturing political prisoners and of corruption so pervasive As to hamper Aid to the some of the nations most often criticized for including South Uganda and were not evaluated in the 426page which covers Only the 106 nations that receive arms or economic Congress requires the reports under a i97fr amendment to the foreign Aid supposedly to help in allocating american the reports were completed last week and furnished to Congress and the coun tries state department speaking have indicated that they consider the reports to be an unnecessary irritant in foreign relations because Many nations consider in arrogant of the United slates to evaluate human rights in no her several including Brazil and Al told the United Stales in 1977 Taylor Selling Burton gift Tokyo a a s3 Diamond Given to Elu Abath Taylor by Richard Burton in 1969 is up for Sale with a Price tag of at least Alisa a for Charles Anthony Dia mond said Taylor plans to use the proceeds from the Sak to build a childrens Hospital in denies using funds thai they would rather do without already this Cyprus has protested that the department whitewashed turkish human rights violations in the occupied Section of the Island to pave the Way for renewed military Aid to will be released later this month informed sources have said that of All the countries Only Nicaragua will be Cut off from All military in other like the Taiwan and Indonesia All Zoiaw ered u allies Security considerations e said Gratifying decision Antoinette of widow of Eddie the Only Ameri can Soldier shot for desertion in this is pleased by a decision made by president Carter will sup port a move in Congress to give her the her husbands insurance would be Worth Slovik my Pray ers Are then he May have political a irs claims Liddy owes Washington Upil Gordon the Nixon Campaign official whose intelligence opera ton included the watergate owes More than in income taxes and the internal Revenue service the convicted watergate conspirator argues he was a Mere conduit Tor the Ninon reelection Money and never diverted to personal use any of the j37ijoo the irs alleges he received i in 1972 from various persons and the finance commit tee to reelect the the dispute Over Lddys 1972 lax liability is before inc tax a trial May be scheduled by fall at which time the most tight lipped watergate figure would have to detail where the Money went or face payment at Back taxes and penal Liddy consistently has refused to Dis cuss How he disbursed the Money or any other details of his role in watergate he emerged from Federal prison uu4 septem Berun saying Only in German what dues not destroy me makes me Liddy served longer in prison for a watergate crime than anyone More than four years for his conviction on charges stemming from the breaking at the nation Al democratic commutes Headquarters and the office of Daniel Ells bergs psych a Lddys original sentence of 20 years plus if months for contempt of Congress was reduced by president Carter to eight making the former Fri agent Eligi ble for but a s Fine remained Liddy claimed he could not pay the Fine and look a paupers oath in which he claimed he owed in Legal fees and had Only 1310 in a magistrate accepted Lddys Liddy agreed la apply a veterans administration service life insurance policy valued at to the he said his a school supported herself and their children while he Wax in the is contends buddy re ms7 the balance of is taxable income to the irs argues in Docu ments on file at the tax court criticize nato All of Western or in new zealand and India which moved to restore demo Tibel Doms lost were singled out i Cial Here Art capsule summaries of jail ports on countries playing a foreign policy syst Egypt was praised for the a dismantling of the police state m carnal Abdul egyptians to enjoying civil and political Freedo Aiji unprecedented the report i called the limits on strikes and ten Lions imposed after food rials but tangible Iran does not provide due Law in military which try accused of Security but it said the number of of torture in Iran have Dii last year and the department do Lleve torture has been used timoted that iranians Are for state Security saudi an Oil Rich like was treated gently in 1 that noted the influence of harsh i codes on the saudi Justice there was no evidence that jailed for their political the Philippines were accused 4 luring political prisoners and de hundreds without charges or the Marcos regime was corrupt i mass Media have been purged of and Independent it took no real Steps in 1977 to Taiwan was described As t state operating under martial liw whereby the does charge critics of Basic nation p with sometimes holding the comm Nicado for months without to fill South Korea made the report by Parolino of political it estimated fewer than Iso political prisoner it the country is Stilt tightly Contaj by president Park Chung we posed martial Law in the report nit Panama improved its human f record in 1977 by restoring the right o for All offences and by relaxing the Lions on Public assemblies and the report it that Panama has an an political Nicaragua was also Given improvements in president Anastasio Somoza state of seige in september and i Freedom of the the report no accusations of torture and arb True m have diminished in the past m j corruption still plagued the historic pattern of violations 1 Somoza family have helped i growth of Radical and guerrilla the report Franklin Institute aide Philadelphia api a prominent by and 59year member of the Frankum Tut a Board of has Indian fights Irving Berlin musical a a Chippewa Indian has launched a petition drive to Stop a Junior High school from producing the musical Annie gel your on grounds it portrays indians in a negative they  put on Little Black Mambo in this said Joseph Rob who started the 1 Donl know Why this should be any different and Frederic director of the native american strategic an Indian civil rights said the Irving Berlin musical about Annie Oakley in the West presents indians As Drunken cutthroats and we will be the Robinsons 14yearold had Lac the presented m March at Adams Junior concerned Wayn Westland Community school District officials said wednesday they want to use the musical to ans have been but Robinson does not want the j go on at they say they can use this As m ing but theres a subliminal will surface in the kids later hos Lynn a Sauk and pot t who directs the areas Indian said before the curtain a narrative would be read saying this is the negative Way Noo have always presented Indian  
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