European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday january 30, 1986 James Reston . Consideration of nuke proposals is Good news the main news in Washington now in that president Chafian is inking Sci flume maybe for the first time Mik Hail s Blest proposals Jbf the Len Rul of nuclear weapons. 1 May not so car so. The Shadow boxing p Cun Reagan has sent aircraft carriers into the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya and in the spirit or Grenada has dared khad Afy to behave or Cima but and fight neither of which that sawdust dictator is in cry to do. Meanwhile. Vice president George by h has been shaking his fist no All Ter Robims and trying to ambush gov. Mario cd Nam of new York by calling him. In effete a wimp. Hut the president who Dixon i have la run Ijain has his mind in in Thor things not Only on the budget deficits which he can t resolve but on the nuclear surpluses which i in igbo. How he handles this latest series of proposals by Gorbachev May be the most important decision of his presidency. He would have preferred thai i in soviet Leader put Forward these complicated technical proposals in Geneva where the . 11 and soviet experts could Analyse them privately. In the storm and Thunder of Ilic cold War Over the years both Washington and Moscow have come to regard Public pronouncements As propaganda rather than As Crinus diplomacy. Nevertheless officials in Washington think they see in these latest Gorbachev Sug Elm ions not Only some hookers but also some Steps hat arc i to Creel and hopeful. Fob example they believe that Gorbachev has accepted inc principle of on site inspection far any agreement do might be readied. This has always been a sucking Point in the past with the executive and legislative branches in Washington. Second in dealing with the balance of nuclear missiles in Europe Gorbachev has indicated that this Issue should be settled on the principle of .-soviet Equality rather than As before an Equality Between Sovil and american missiles an the one hand and British and French nuclear mis Sites on inc other. Third in previous offers by Moscow to Mary Mcgrory remove its missiles from Europe it was never Clear whether Gorbachev meant merely to move them behind the urals into soviet Asia or to destroy them. This was a critical Point. For the thought merely of removing them disturbed Japan and China and did t reassure the nato allies since the missiles could Al ways be moved Back again. This time when asked to clarify Moscow replied thai it meant not merely to remove Trie missiles but to destroy them. Gorbachev s message did not remove the Central conflict Over Reagan s strategic de sense initiative. Al first there seemed to be some ambiguity in the russian word he used indicating that he might accept re search but not testing or deployment of such weapons but again upon inquiry Moscow insisted no testing or deployment of outer space weapons and no research. Here then at least in the present phase of negotiations the two sides Are in Funda mental disagreement. The soviet argument one responsible negotiator in Washington said is that the United Stales is engaged in purposeful research that the intention of this research is not just to look at scientific principles but is done with the intention of moving the arms race into outer in simpler words Moscow is asking what s the Point of such research if you Don t intend 10 do something with it space must be kept peaceful Gorba Chev said. Strike weapons must not be deployed there. They must not even be Cre and he added let there be the strictest verification in this Case which includes allowing inspection of the relevant the soviet Leader s offer to refrain uni laterally front testing nuclear weapons for another three months and Hii repealed proposal for a permanent comprehensive lot ban arc rejected by the Reagan administration making for another serious difference Between the two sides. The View in Washington is that Tho soviet Union is ahead on testing Suni that much of the testing in the United Stales would make nuclear weapons safer far example by developing ways to prevent the leakage of radiation into the Atmo sphere if planes carrying warheads crash anyway it s Clear that there Are Funda mental questions to be discussed in the Light of Gorbachev s proposals. They May be a i rap. Us some folks say bin that ii not Reagan s answer. He has said he in t sure exactly what Gorbachev is saying but let s take it easy and find hut. That has been he Best news around washing ton for a Long time. In York tymm new so Vici three iranian torture victims paint a Bleak picture the two women arc wearing head scarves that cover All their hair. The Man is dark eyed in a dark suit. They arc Young but not Youthful. They speak in Liisi their escort interprets. They have come to Tell about life in inc hell of past revolutionary Iran which has gone from the dark night of the Shah to the dark Ages of Khomeini. They solemnly sit Down. They pass around a Large paper bound boo pointing out pictures exclaiming to each other. It might be a High school yearbook. But its Tilc is list of names and particulars of the 10,000 victims of the Khomeini regime s their interpreter is a i Safvi local representative of the people s Mujaheddin organization a cans based resistance group. The state department does t think much of it Hul the politics in this use is not important. What matters arc their sickening stories and their scan. They display them quite Matler of factly. They have been through it several times before the . Human rights commission and the european parliament both of which have condemned ran for human rights violations it seems an understatement. Amnesty International puts the number of executions at 6,108, but estimates thousands More. The Mujaheddin says the total is 50,000 and counts no Las than 140,000 political prisoners. Homayo Ansar a 24-year-old math teacher is in a wheelchair. She paused in her appalling account. She decorous by lifts her skirt pulls Down a White Cotton slacking to show an artificial fee. Her leg was hacked off she says by a Machete wielding Revo they took me to a Remote urea. They were going to kill me. I recognized one of the guards and i called his name. He lifted his Machete and brought it Down hard. I Felt nothing. 1 looked Over and they were playing with an object throwing it i each other. I realized it Washy she was left for dead. A passing car picked her up and took her to the Hospital. Seven weeks later Slid in a cast she was taken to the notorious Evin prison. Her Jailhouse trial lasted is minutes. Her sentence is months in solitary is years in torture. Her crime distributing Ami Khomeini leaflets. The guards Are is Savak she says they use the torture techniques of the Shah she found five childhood friends in prison. One was Blind another deaf a third paralysed. She had no cast no Cane. She got about Fry crawling. Hamayo Ansar was released in 1985, when she contracted tuberculosis. The resistance smuggled her out tothe West through Pakistan. She finds a name and a picture in the Book of the dead and passes it to nargis Shay such a 27-year-old High school physical education teacher and part time Bookstore manager. See this is the Ping Pong Champi on of o a Shayesteh quietly Ells of being arrested Karaj. In her Bookstore site sold books critical of Kho Meini. In interrogation her nose was broken twice she Points to a scar on her lips to Knuckles beaten out of shape. Gravely she opens her Blouse and shows a ring of livid round scars. They Are cigarette Burns. Her Tor they Are living in an Ocean of blood she Wye. Khomeini has a Mullah in every prison the Mutton rapes women before the others. There is nothing More humiliating. Khomeini is Tram the dark Ages. He -. She was taken to the office one Day. Her 2-Yenr-old Niece was there to be tortured in a final attempt to is a j Down momentarily icel atone she seized the child and told a strange guard that she had come 10 tee her sister got a ride to Tehran was sheltered for a year of the resistance. She finally escaped through a Luchu Ian into Pakistan. Apoplectic Over the . Condemnation of Iran on dec. 13, the speaker of the iranian parliament minuted against her for Baring her Chest before the e is of perverts and strangers at the ." she says bitterly they took off Ray clothes when they did this to the Man Hosslin Dodic Sah s 29-year-old electrical Engi Neering Studym from Isfahan had protested the closing of he University. He was seized on dec. 17, 1982, Takra to Evin prison and tortured before his wife and in month old child. His feet were beaten with electric cables. He takes off his socks and shows his mangled docs. Docks a escaped during a Transfer to anole or prison he fled through Pakistan. When he told his Story his wife was executed. He shows a snapshot of nor and his child whom he has not seen for 18 Moisha. Amnesty International says that one third of inc world s governments use torture As National policy to Luli onary guard the night she was seized in september tuners wanted her to go on television recant Fri dissent. Khomeini is different Only in thai he 1931, As she was walking Home. Khomeini deny there was torture in the prisons does h in his god s name. In univ Arul Prthu Sefl Ducalo
