European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday August 16, 1978 Russ give dissident exile term Moscow a Young soviet dissident Alexander Podrabinek who reported on alleged soviet abuses in psychiatric treatment was sentenced to five years internal exile tuesday on charges of anti soviet slander dissident sources reported. Podrabinek s conviction was the last in a series of trials of Moscow s leading dissidents that have strained relations. Western correspondents were barred from attending the one Day court proceed Ings which were held m Podrabinek s Hometown of Elek Rostal 40 Miles from Here in an area closed to foreigners. The 24-year-old chose to defend himself after the judge in the Case refused to allow his British attorney to represent him Podrabinek s friends told Western reporters by Telephone. Podrabinek 24, is one of the youngest and most energetic of the Moscow dissidents the driving Force in a group that monitored alleged abuses of psychiatric treatment. Smuggled oat Book he was arrested May 14 and faced a i maximum three year labor Camp term end foe charge. According to his soviet lawyer f. Yevgeny Shalman the trial was to focus on a Book called punitive Medicine which. Podrabinek smuggled to the West the 265-Page Book is the product of three r years work including a tour through sibe j to during which he visited mental Hospi tals once posing As a details what Podrabinek says is Evi f Dence that psychiatric incarceration Isu aed Here As a Means of punishing dissent ers such As Vladimir Bukovsky who was released from the soviet Union in 1976 and later met with president Carter. Orlov Case Podrabinek s arrest came on the eve of the trial of Yuri Orlov founder of a dissident group that publicized soviet not compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords. Orlov was sentenced to seven years hard labor plus five years internal exile for anti soviet agitation. Podrabinek s group investigating psychiatric treatment was a Branch of Orlov s group. Other Moscow dissidents sentenced this Stimmer were Anatoly Shch Aransky to 13 wars for espionage Alexander Ginzburg to eight years for anti soviet agitation an Vladimir Slopak to three years for creat ing a disturbance when he demonstrated or the right to emigrate. Kreisky asks Kos Girt to let Shch Aransky leave Russia Vienna a austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky said he has sent a personal Tettier to soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin asking to free soviet regime critic Vitai sic Haransky and to permit him to leave the soviet Union. Kreisky declined to reveal details say ing i prefer the method of getting some thing done without creating a Presley is big business by Richard Blystone London a thousands of britons arc donning Blue suede shoes and Satin shirts playing sentimental favourites and attending memorial services and movies to commemorate the death of Elvis pres Ley who is a bigger thing in their lives than the beatles Ever has always been the biggest and always will be the biggest said Vince Everett 38, whose London shop is Europe s Mecca for Elvis records and Memorabilia. The beatles rolling stones Elton John they can t touch him. The official Elvis Presley fan club of Britain had 5,000 members before Presley died and its gained 7,000 members in the last year said Everett. The Elvis Buff sometimes attracts a crowd of Gawker by putting on a wig and a glittering White jumpsuit and gyrating in his shop s front door mouthing the words to Heartbreak Memphis pilgrimage three or four thousand fans have gone out there to Memphis those that could afford it he said. But there Are dozens of observances Back Here. One in Deptford one in Southgate. And there Are lots of film shows. There s one in Cheltenham that i d be going to except that i be got All his films myself. A let of people have tried to Cash in on Presley since his death but at least the publicity has awakened a new generation of fans. The people who Are putting him in the top 20 now Are Brand new kids just turned on to Elvis Everett said. Why is Elvis so popular in England because Hes the most talented person there la Ever be Everett said with conviction. Everett whose ambition until he Ful filled it was to have a copy of every ver Sion of every Elvis record Ever Cut publishes one of three Elvis periodicals that thrive in Britain. Elvis Memorabilia his shop with a Juke Box full of Elvis tunes offers several Hundred of some 1,600 Elvis record releases along with Elvis pos ters badges movies bubblegum cards Sheet music magazines and Memorabilia ranging from a copy of the Singer s will to a december 1956 police Gazette with a Lead article entitled is Elvis Presley really a teen age menace we gel customers from All Over he said. One Man from Italy and there s one woman who comes All the Way from rho Desia and spends thousands of pounds to get items she needs for her right on Cue in walks Peter Van eve Len of Bergen of zoom Netherlands with his wife two Tow headed children and 72 year old Maher in Law who says yes like Elvis too the Van Oev Elens Are vacationing in England but one of their purposes in coming was to get hold of copies of lord you gave me a Mountain and Earl morning they left with two albums badges for still King in u. The kids and a necklace. " you could open a shop with the beatles rolling stones but you d never make it said Everett. But Elvis is so big you can never gel it Everett does t approve of the necklace and key Chain mementos but has to Stock them. You get kids coming in Here and they can t afford us $250 for a reel of Blue i pounds about $1,600 or a record editions from Chile. he says locket. That s not the unfit _ to sell. I want to keep him his memory lives on tribute to the King of Rock Flett the immense popularity 0 Presley still has among loaf people in Europe Bell puts the finishing touches on the first Wax statue of Elvis that was recently introduced into Madame tvs Saud s Wax museum in London. This seven Lincoln brigade v reunited at 40th Anni Versi Tarragona Spain a seven vet Erans of the Lincoln brigade from califor Nia joined Spanish civil War veterans from the Republican Side in a reunion at the nearby town of Villalba de los Arcos to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of the Ebro River. The Lincoln brigade was the american contingent in the International brigade that fought for the Republic against fran Ca s rebels in the 1936-39 War. The Republican air Force association presented an award to Milton Wolff of Al Cerrito calif., the last t. Lincoln brigade and a none Monolith also was us the other Lincoln brigade 1 tending were Frank Brown b clue Brown san Francisco .1 Bury. Richmond and Sid Kan. No Apice and Al Tao All of vast More than three Dozea civil a police Arm of Generalissimo Franco s dictatorship watched Ion. But the civil governor Oft Francisco Roberto grouper a and there was no violence. Only a Solomon could say which baby is which Haifa. Israel a a baby pm a to the Hospital commit in. T,.,�j ,., i. A couples involved has my " Muthe ministry of health to fan liable for damages cat anguish confusion and
