European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 4 the stars and stripes monday february 17,1986 Sakharov letter tells of Force feeding says Kab tormented him in Hospital new York a in a letter smuggled out of the soviet Union soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov describes How he was subjected to torture and Force feeding at the hands of the Kab secret police in 1984. The Force feeding methods included the most excruciating clamping his nose while food was poured into his Mouth so he would not be Able to breathe if he did no teat the letter was quoted As saying. What happened to me in a Gorky Hospital in the sum Mer of 1984, the Handwritten letter says is strikingly reminiscent of George Orwell s famous anti Utopia novel even Down to the remarkable coincidence of the Book s title m984." he was referring to the passage in which a torturer sought to make a Man betray the woman he loves it says. Sakharov Winner of the i97s Nobel peace prize was exiled to the closed City of Gorky 400 Miles from Moscow in 1980 after he denounced the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He is not permitted to communicate with the outside world. The letter was to be published in monday s Issue of Theus. News & world report and at the same time in the observer of London by arrangement with relatives of Bak Zharov s wife Yelena  was in a packet of documents received recently at the Newton mass., Home of Bonner s daughter Tatiana anther husband Yefrem Yankelevich. Yankelevich said he could not reveal How the documents were smuggled out of the soviet Union but we Are convinced of their authenticity . News said. The dissident wrote the letter dated oct. 15, 1984, tothe president of the soviet Academy of sciences to Appeal for intervention in his wife s application for a visa to go abroad for medical treatment the Magazine said. She was Given a 90-Day visa a year later and is now i Massachusetts recovering from bypass surgery. In 1984 Bonner was arrested and Sakharov was seized by Kab men disguised in doctors White Coats and forced to go to Gorky regional Hospital where he was treated for four months his letter is quoted us saying. From May 11 to 27, Sakharov who had started a Hun Ger strike to press for his wife s visa writes that be was subjected to the  degrading process . The doctors. Were acting under orders from the Kab. They wanted to maximize my Dis Tress in order to make me give up the hunger strike the letter  was fed intravenously and later through the note and on the last three Days they used the most excruciating degrading and barbarous method it says. A tight Clamp was pushed Down on my nose so that could breathe Only through the Mouth. Whenever i opened my Mouth to take a breath a spoonful of Broth containing trained meat would be poured into my Mouth. Some Iroe my jaws were pried open by a lever the letter says. Sakharov finally broke Down and promised to at if the nose Clamp was removed but unfortunately this mean my hunger strike was Over it says. Congressman refused of fake Garwood of Vietnam Bangkok. Thailand a the head of a congressional task Force on americans missing in action from the Vietnam War said sunday he refused sex Marine Bobby Garwood s request to travel with the group to Vietnam because of Garwood s tarnished military record and his refusal to cooperate with the . Government. I told him i would not ride on the Sam plane with him said rep. Gerald Solo Mon . I am a former Marine and Idon t like marines who collaborate with the enemy and abuse fellow  Solomon and eight other congressmen re turned saturday from a two Day trip to the vietnamese capital of Hanoi to obtain More information about missing is.  delegation said the vietnamese govern ment has adopted a More open attitude on the possibility of americans still being alive in Remote areas of  was court Martiale and convicted of collaborating with the vietnamese while he was a prisoner of War and of assaulting a fellow prisoner. He has claimed he saw As Many As 70 americans who were being held alive by the vietnamese in Chelate 1970s, years after the Hanoi govern ment said the last is. Prisoners of War had been released. Vietnam has consistently denied it i holding any americans. Garwood now an Auto Mechanic i Northern Virginia wrote to Solomon asking to join the task Force on its trip to Vietnam. I feel that due to my understanding and my intimate knowledge of the Viet namese language that i can led you when the Vietnam communists Are trying to lie to you he wrote the congressman. In an interview with the associated pressing january Garwood said he wanted to show the congressmen where he last . Prisoners alive and to help bring Home five  i Solomon said in a Telephone into lie sunday Garwood asked me if he Eodald come along but he said he was t Tore if would want him along and be we ritjrt., he said Garwood continues to air nil claims of seeing live americana but retort to take a lie Detector test or testify before the congressional Mia committees or Ike defense intelligence Agency. We need to find out if he is credible Solomon said. News update 2 salvadorans guilty. San Salvador Al Salvador a two former National guardsmen have been convicted of Hom Icide and face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for the 1981 killings of two americans and a salvadoran involved in a land Reform  five member jury announced the guilty verdicts after deliberating for nearly three hours in the one Day trial. The two defendants former National guard corporals Santiago Gomez Gonzalez and Jose dimes Valle had confessed to the killings after their arrests in 1982.mark David Pearlman of Seattle Wash. Michael p. Hammer of Poto Mac my. And Rodolfo Viera were slain Jan. 3, 1981, by gunmen who opened fire with automatic weapons As the three sat in the Coffee shop of the Sheraton hotel. Israeli inflation Down Tel Aviv Israel a is Rael s monthly inflation rate was negative for the first time in 14 years Ashe Price Index fell by 1.3 percent in january the Central Bureau of statistics has announced. The Price fall followed a trend of falling inflation since the israeli government imposed an austerity policy last july which imposed severe controls on prices and wages As Well a devaluing the shekel by 19 percent against the . , which reached a record 445 percent in 1984, fell to 185 percent forthe whole of 1985 As monthly Price rises slowed Down dramatically toward the end of the year. The monthly inflation was 0.5 percent in november and 13percent in december. January s statistic indicated a fur ther fall in the 12-month inflation rate to about 175 percent. Rebels claim american who was killed in Al Salvador was . Military adviser san Salvador d Salvador up leftist guerrillas vowing that the blood of other americans will flow in Al Salvador said Peter Stryker Hascall gunned Down in the capital at Dawn saturday was an american military adviser with the rank of Captain. In a saturday night broadcast Over their Clandestine radio Venc Eremos the rebels did not take direct responsibility for has Call s death but said be was one of Many advisers working under  Are More than 52 is. Advisers in Al Salvador the broadcast said add ing that Many Are undercover and passing themselves off As  dead Gringo was accompanied by two lieutenants from the salvadoran army and in our country an armed Gringo who moves with members of the army an who has the rank of Captain is no tourist the broadcast  Gringo who comes to our country with War As a motive with the intention of subjugating our people will have the sure answer that the organized people will see his blood flow in this honorable and rebel Lious  Rosario go Chez de Paz who identified the body said that Hascall was Wear ing two pistols at the time of his death and that Strong traces of alcohol were found in his blood. He said Hascall was carrying a  Marine identification card a salvadoran permit to carry arms and a document saying he was a representative for Swift ships a shipbuilding company in mor Gan City la. A spokesman for Swift ships in Morga City said Hascall could have been making advertising or other business contacts forthe company White in Al Salvador. Hascall lived in Galveston Texas before coming to san Salvador about five years ago. He was living with his common Law Salvado ran wife and their 4-year-old daughter. Hascall s wife Margarita Galea said hews not one of the 55 is. Military advisers in Al Salvador. He was a Sailor who arrived Here several years ago and found work repairing boats for the Navy but he never trained an troops or anything Galea said through her tears at the Al Eden funeral  said Hascall wore a Tattoo bearing the insignia of the Atla Catl in an Elit ju5.-trained counterinsurgency army qts he also said he was in the company of two salvadoran lieutenants when be we Kok col. M Mauricio Hernandez military press spokesman said he could not confirm of Lea s statements. As far As we know Peter Stryker has Call had nothing to do with our Navy Hernandez said. Navy sources confirmed that Hascal worked As a technician periodically and one officer said he had served As an adviser in the past. The is. Embassy spokesman said it of possible he had some private arrangement with the Navy but he is not linked to the my  or embassy of the United state the wasnotamemberoftheu5.Navy." ,3 the United states has 55 military aim ers in Al Salvador helping to train the salvadoran army which is engaged in a guerrilla War with leftist rebels seeking Iho i overthrow of the .-backed government ? of president Jose Napolian  is the 18th american killed to the War that began in 1979. An estimate 60,000 salvadorans mostly non combat. Ants have lost their lives in the fighting. Scares elected portuguese president t Fod Tler d,._d__f Turnr r _ _ Lisbon Portugal up former socialist prime minister Mario scares making a spectacular political comeback won Portugal s Runoff presidential elec Tion sunday to become the country s first civilian head of state in 60 years. An official electoral statistical serv ice forecast of final results gave scares 51.7 percent of the vote to 48.3 percent for Christian Democrat Diogo Freitas Amaral the portuguese news Agency re ported. The forecast indicated that More than75 percent of the 7.6 million electorate Tail of them literate Els peaceful election marred. Heavy Rains and winds across the country that regained democracy in am ithary coup 12 years ago appeared to have Hurt Freitas Amaral s chances analysts said. The bad weather especially affected the More conservative North and the at lactic azores islands. Scares 61, a three times prime mintes Rand Strong defender of Portugal a membership in nato and the european eco nomic Community had suffered my de feats in parliamentary and local elections inthe past four months at the hands of the ruling centrist social democrats