European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday february 10.1986 sistine Chapel restoration continues the Vatican has distributed test photographs fro current restoration of Michelangelo s frescoes of Selling of the Shotae Chapel. The head of the Hethe delphic Sibyl b Skipwi before restoration right andante artwork on tie Jeff if began in 1984 and will be completed in 1988. Handwritten letters by Sakharov Tell of Kab torture paper says London up the observer newspaper said sat urday that Handwritten documents obtained from soviet dissident physicist or. Andrei Sakharov showed he had been subjected to systematic torture by the Kab. Details of his ill treatment were contained in two batches of letters mailed from a Western country very recently to Tatyana and Yefrem Yankelevich. The Daugh Ter and son in Law of Sahara of s wife. Or. Yelena Bon Ner the paper couple lives in Newton mass., where Bonner 62, is recovering after undergoing heart bypass surgery in bos ton. How they were got out of the soviet Union i cannot say the paper quoted Yefrem Yankelevich As saying. But i know the source and the source is reliable. The have been carefully examined by he whole family and we Are convinced of their observer a sunday newspaper with Early editions available saturday said the documents were mostly Handwritten letters with recent photographs of or. Sakha Rov and his wife and contained one of the most vivid testimonies of human suffering Ever to have emerged from the soviet reveal that Sakharov 65, has been subjected by the Kab to intermittent but systematic torture including Force feeding mental torture and physical violence the 1 observer said. In an interview with the French communist part taper l humanity soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said saturday Sakharov lived in the City of Gorky in Norma conditions but had committed criminal acts and could not leave the country because he knew stale and military secrets. Sakharov was exiled to the City of Gorky without a trial in 1980. He has reportedly been in poor health and wants to emigrate to the West with Bis wife. The observer said the main document it held was a 20-Page letter written by Sakharov in october 1984 to or. Anatoli Alexandrov president of the soviet Academy of science appealing for his wife to be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment. In the letter Sacharov detailed his alleged ill treatment in the cardiac department of Gorky s Semashko Hospital to support his claim that his wife could not expect to be Given proper treatment in the soviet Union. In another letter he said he was seized by Kab agent sin 1984 and tormented for four months in a Gorky regional Hospital. My attempts to flee the Hospital were always blocked by Kab men who were on duty round the clock to bar All Means of escape Sakharov said. The paper said it would publish full details of sakha Rov s letters next sunday. Pope tells indians to use set control Bombay India up Pope John Paul ii told on of the world s poorest and most populous nations sunday that self control was the Only moral Way to fight the population explosion. The pontiff waited until the next to last Day of his 10-Day pilgrimage across India to mention the roman Catho Lic stand on birth control a Touchy Issue in a country where competing religions often View numbers As strength. John Paul quoted the late hindu Leader Mohandas to support the Catholic Church s total opposition to artificial birth control sterilization and is the suspension of procreation to be brought about the Pope quoted Gandhi As asking. And he Gandhi answered not by immoral and artificial checks but by a life of discipline and self control John Paul who has made the Church ban on artificial birth control a personal crusade has never before hesitated to speak out on the subject during his foreign Tours no matter How poor or overpopulated the country he is during his Indian visit his first major tour of a non Christian nation the Vatican tried to make the unpopular message As palatable As possible. Experts agree India is on the verge of a population disaster and even major birth control efforts will not Stop it from passing China sometime in the first half of the 21stcentury to become the world s most populous nation. Some 63,000 babies Are born each Day for an annual population growth of 14 million. John Paul also defended his Church s ban on divorce an abortion saying Christian spouses Are indissolubly bound to each other and it is the task of All Mankind to reject whatever wounds weakens or destroys human life " threats by militant hindus to protest the Pope s visit to Bombay have so far failed to materialize. Thousands of police were deployed m the City to provide Security earlier in the Day John Paul met with the archbishop of Canterbury spiritual Leader of the world s 65 million anglicans. Archbishop Robert Runcie in India for a monthlong visit had asked the Pope for a 45-minute meeting to Dis cuss substantive ecumenical issues. The Vatican rejected the idea saying it was neither the time nor the place for such Tato and jilted Runcie should come to the Vatican world today Justice ministry begins probe into suicide of bullied teen Tokyo a the Justice ministry has begun formal investigation into the Case of a 13-year-old student who committed suicide after his teachers allegedly joined classmates in bullying him. The investigation was disclosed by ministry official who spoke on condition they not be identified further. Hirofumi Shirakawa a second year student Al the a Leano Fujimi Junior High school in Western Tokyo banged himself feb. 1 and left behind a suicide note accusing his classmates of making him go through a living hell it was one of the latest cases of Jime or the sustained bullying of an individual by a group of classmates which has become a National Issue. Yugoslavia protesting decision by Swiss to expel Diplomat Belgrade Yugoslavia a Yugoslavia has lodged a Strong protest to Switzerland Over the Swiss government s request to recall a yugoslav Diplomat from Switzerland for alleged spying. The yugoslav state run Tan Jug news Agency said the protest was made to Swiss ambassador Alfred Hobl at the foreign ministry for Hal was described As the unfounded and arbitrary decision to expel a Secretary of the yugoslav embassy in Bern Switzerland. " the yugoslav note said the crude action was contradiction to the Type of relations existing be tween the two countries and the declared intention of the Swiss government to promote these relations Tan Jug said. East Germany reportedly easing rules on visits to West Germany Hamburg a East Germany has eased restrictions regulating visits to West Germany by its citizens toe weekly Spiegel Magazine has reported. Spiegel without citing its sources said the lifting of certain restrictions became effective this month. The new regulations allow East germans to visit family relatives and friends in West Germany in certain humanitarian cases the Magazine reported. The regulations allow Many East germans previously banned from visiting West Germany to travel there according to the Magazine. Swiss expect 30% fewer tourists from . Because of terrorism Zurich Switzerland up the Swiss tourism Industry expects up to 30 percent fewer american vacationers this year because of the terrorism scare. Swiss tourist association figures showed that a record1,2 million . Tourists visited Switzerland in 1985, accounting for More than 3 million overnight stays. But leading tour operators interviewed by the soon tags lick newspaper said . Package tour bookings began falling off after the hijacking of the Achille Liuro cruise liner. Cancellations then dropped sharply after the december attacks at airports in Rome and Vienna Austria they said. On the basis of the current trend we have to count Ona fall of 30 percent it tourists from the United states said Melchior Frei of the Large Kuoni tour co. Soviet farm researchers assailed by communist party newspaper Moscow a the communist party daily pravda has published two separate reports blaming agricultural researchers in Siberia and the breadbasket Plains of Kazakhstan for Many of the perennial shortfalls in soviet farm production. In Kazakhstan the Republic s communist party a. Yunaev was criticized by name for inertia and failing to attend key meetings. Mistakes such As poor personnel training Lack of mechanization Lack of seed development and a Host of other faults have become characteristic for Many state and collective farms in Siberia according to the reports
