European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday november 5, 1985 hunger strike Over Sakharov tells . Relatives Newton mass. A soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov monday told his relatives in the United Stales that he  ended a hunger strike that May have spurred soviet officials to Lei his wife seek medical treatment in the West. Sakharov speaking to his stepchildren and Mother in Law for the first Lime in six years said he had lost 44 pounds and weighed Only about 132 pounds when he abandoned the fast. He said he ended the hunger strike when his wife Yelina Bonner was told she would be granted a visa that would allow her to leave the soviet Union and return within three months. Bonner. Who also spout during the Tele phone Call suffers from an Eye ailment. Reports that she would be permitted to leave her Home to receive treatment began surfacing recently. They want to to know he is alive that s quite Clear said Tatiana yank Clovich Sakharov s stepdaughter referring to soviet authorities who have placed the dissident physicist in internal Eile in the soviet cily of Gorky. She said the Call came As a Surprise. It was the first Lime in 18 months that Bonner has talked with relatives by phone. Sakharov is regaining weight he and his wife said. His Only problem now is his heart Efram Yankelevich Aid after talking with his wife s Stepfather. Bonner told the family that late this month she will leave for Siena Italy where she fill undergo an operation on her Eyo and that she will travel o the United stain Whei she has recovered. The family said it it not Clear whether she will seek treatment in the United states for a heart ailment. The family members planned Mother phone conversation on nov. 18 to discuss final travel plans. We believe the will know by then when she is leaving for Moscow mrs. Yank la Vich said. Sakharov Winner of the 1975 Nobel peace Pri was exiled to Gorky in 1980 Fler criticizing the soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Bonner we exiled to Gorky in 1984, ending her Freedom of travel in the soviet Union. Monday s conversation ended speculation about Bonner s plans since a wet German newspaper reported More than a week ago that she would be allowed to leave he soviet Union. Last week Bonner sent a Telegram to a Friend in Moscow outlining her plans but her family Here said they could nol place any Faith in the report until they had spoken to her. The family tried unsuccessfully twice last week to Call Bonner. Informed that Mon Day s rail would be allowed reporter were Given permission to record she lint few minutes of the conversation conducted in Ruzian. For unspecified reasons mrs. Yank see Vich did soviet officials wanted Bonner to leave n soon As  Bonner said she would leave As Toon As she was Able to provide care for Sakharov through the Winter. My. Yank Clovich said much of the 25 min ulc conversation with her Mother and Stepfather concerned family affairs and included talking and joking with grandchildren. Black policeman reported killed in s. Africa Johannesburg South Africa a police monday reported a Black Constable was killed in Soweto while guarding the Home of a Black councilman. Meanwhile in Cape town. Nelson Mandela s wife said the imprisoned Black Leader was due to be up and around following prostate surgery. Police said they were nol sure the 28-year-old Black policeman was killed for political reasons. Resident at Soweto the huge Black township outside Johannesburg disagreed. They said they believed he was killed Over the weekend because he was viewed As a sellout in the Black struggle. Police said the Constable s two handgun and 60 rounds of ammunition were missing. Police could not say precisely when he was killed. Black police and township Council members Are regular targets since Many Blacks View them As tools of White domination. In a report on unrest that covered incidents from Sun Down sunday to just i or Dawn monday police for the third Day listed no new deaths in riot related violence. But police Laid they wounded four Tacki among a crowd throwing rocks near Kroon stud 70 Miles South of Johan Nesburg. Soweto residents said gangs of youngsters barricaded the Dic Kloof Road and looted a delivery truck Offish and chickens after chasing off the Driver. In Cape town Winnie Mandela said monday that her husband appeared Well after undergoing an operation to remove a swollen prostate gland sunday. We saw him yesterday sunday before and after the operation. He s Fine. The doctors say everything went very Well. He s expected to be up and around this morning she said by Telephone from her hotel room. Mandela 67, has been imprisoned since 1964, under a life sentence for planning sabotage to try to overthrow the government. He is generally acknowledged As the Leader of South Africa s 24 million Vole less Blacki. I m very Happy said met. Mandela. The operation was a Success. No idea How Long hell be in  Mandela helped found the armed Wing of the african National Congress the main guerrilla organization trying to topple the while led government. The Mandata family lawyer Ismail ayob said Mande la entered the Hospital in Cape town from Pou Moor prison for the operation. A government appointed urologist a doctor chosen by the Mandela family and a urologist from a British univer sity performed the surgery said prisons department spokesman it. Col. Abri Vanvuuren. He declined to Fht the doctors names. Ayob said the surgery was Only for the prostate Tod not the liver and kidney cysts also found in medical examination in september. The prostate gland located just below the bladder produces a fluid that mixes with semen to carry sperm inflammation of the prostate is common in men Over 50. A swollen grand interferes with urination which can Lead o kidney disease. The South african government beset by 14 the outta of persistent b ack riots has offered to set Mandela free if be renounces violence. Mandela has refused saying that apartheid Legal race segregation must first do abandoned by the government. Play postponed again in Frankfurt because of anti semitism charges Frankfurt up theater Man agers monday bowed to jewish protesters pressure and postponed the rescheduled premiere of a play which has sparked inter National controversy amid allegations it is anti semitic. They delayed the already postponed pre Miere from monday for 10 Days and said the play by the late film director Rainer Maria Fassbinder would open in Frankfurt nov. 13. The Security of audience cast and pro testers cannot be ensured without a real fuss said a theater spokesman of the Deci Sion to allow a Cooling off period. Jewish demonstrators prevented the play from opening on schedule thursday night by occupying the stage. It was then re scheduled for monday night but protesters said they would Stop it again. Dicker Weirich a Christian democratic spokesman called sunday for cancellation of the piece and appealed to Guenther Ruehle director of Frankfurt s City run Heaters not to try to stage the play called trash the cily and  Weirich said the dispute Over the play which u about an evil housing profiteer referred to Only u the Rich jew hat deeply upset German jews and seriously damaged the reputation of West Germany. He disputed Ruehle s Contention the play that Fassbinder wrote seven Yean before his death in 1982 u not anti semitic. The picture of the evil jew that this play conjures up u so dismaying that it justly causes indignation and sadness in All humane people he Taid. Thursday night about 500 jews and christians demonstrated outside the Muni Cipal Kammen Piel theater and inside about 30 jews occupied the stage and refuted to leave. Fassbinder who died at 36 of an Over dose of drop and sleeping Pili wrote in 1976 in defense of the play the jews have been taboo in Germany since 1945. This can rebound on them u taboos Lead to dark Nett secret fears and finally enemies. Naturally there Alto Are anti sem inca in this play. Unfortunately they exist not Only in this play but also in Frankfurt for example in the play the Rich jew buys old Bouses lean them Down and builds new ones in their place at a great profit. The City protects me he says. It Hatto because i am a  a character in the play expresses regret that the Rich jew had not been gassed Bihe nazis. Several israeli politicians have protested the staging of the play. In messages to Frankfurt mayor Walter Wallmann Fred Mossinger former Karlsruhe principal Dies Karlsruhe Germany Sas Fred h. Mossinger until recently principal of Karlsruhe elementary school died of cancer sunday in the army Hospital in Hei Delberg. He was 49. Mossinger held a doctorate in education and served in department of defense de Pendents schools in Japan and Germany for 21 years. He was principal of Karlsruhe american elementary for 10 years through the end of last school year and resumed partial duties at the school this year follow ing medical treatment in the United states. Louinger started innovative health and Reading programs for Dodds including a run for your life program that involved students in heart and lung exec itch and a Reading program known at a step in the right  he also supervised major construction at Karlsruhe elementary and Haj a schools. The elementary school gymnasium currently under renovation will be named in hit Honor. Louinger a native of Whittier Calif., received Bachelor s and master s degrees from Whittier College. He received his Doc of he it survived by hit wife Judith and three children Jeff a Junior at Karlsruhe High school Scott a student at the Unive so s Chrisline. Who married and living in the United slates. A memorial service will be held at 4-30 Jursy. A ""-.h"5T118 North Hapel. The family asks that in lieu of news update kidnapper convicted Redwood City Calif. A a former Mill worker a deem convicted of abducting t Young Hitchhiker at knife Point and hold Lam her in bondage for seven Yean u hit Tex slave. Cameron Hooker was convicted of 10 of 11 felonies one count of kid napping six count of rape and tone counts of sex related arts. He we acquitted on one rape count. The 31-year-old Hooker who facet up to 75 Yean in prison appeared stoic As the verdict via announced. Judge Clarence Knight act bail at $5 million and Tenten Cong for nov. 22. Mexico tourism drive san Diego up Mexico has launched the most extensive Tou rum advertising and promotional Campaign in the nation s history in response to a projected $200 million Low in tourism Revenue blamed on l devastating earthquake. Mario Salomon Pineda the con try newly appointed International marketing director said the s10 Mil lion Campaign is aimed at changing the Public perception of Mexico. Unfortunately most of be information about the earthquake we about the areas that were de troyed Salomon said at k news conference. It s important to know thai most areas were  tourism is Mexico s second larg est source of income with Petro Tettam the first. Salomon said about 87 per font of Mexico s tourists come from the United Stales and Canada