European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday february 17,1986 Sakharov letter tells of Force feeding says Kab tormented him in Hosnik new York a out of the soviet Union soviet dissident How he was subjected to torture and forced hands of the pkg b secret police in 1984. The Force feeding methods included " he most excruciating clamping his nose while food was poured into his Mouth so he would not be Able to breathe if he did no Cal 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 Obj Book s title 1984. " he was referring to the Pas sought to make a Man Betra apr fan he loves it says. Sakharov a Juke 1975 Nobel peace prize was exiled of Gorky 400 Miles from Moscow in denounced the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It was in a packet Newton mass., Home of her husband Efren he is not permitted to communicate with the outside world. The letter was to be published in monday s Issue of the news & world report and at the same time in to arrangement with relative cantly at Thea and could not reveal How juggled out of the soviet Union but we 1 of their authenticity . News said. Fac 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 in Massachusetts recovering from bypass surgery. In 1984 Bonner was arrested and Sakharov was seized by Kab men disguised in doctors White Coats and forced Hospital where he wat treated letter is quoted As saying. 11 to 27, Sakharov who had started a nun Der strike to press for his wife s visa writes that he was subjected to the excruciating and degrading process of Force feeding. The doctors. Were acting under order from the Kab. They wanted to maximize my Dis Tress in order to make me give up the hunger strike the letter says. Tie was fed intravenously and later through the note last three Days they used the most sex crucial Ingrani a and barbarous method it says. A Down on my nose so that could breathe on Tytle a burnout a. Whenever i opened my Mouth to Lake a of Broth containing trained meal would be poureo1flng�ijijayth. Sometimes my jaws were pried open by a lever Sakharov finally broke Down and nose Clamp was removed but unfortunately i my hunger strike was Over it says. Congressman refused to take Gary oof of Vietnam Bangkok Thailand a the head of a congressional task Force on Amer said sunday he refi 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 same plane with him said rep. Gerald Mon . I am a former Marina Don t like marines who Colla enemy and abuse be Tother congressmen re news update Ilva Dorans guilt idec 30yealtwo a solved a of guilty nearly the evicted of c a and of As a fellow prisoner. He has claimed lie saw As Many As 70 americans who were being held alive by the vietnamese in the late 1970s, years after the Hanoi govern ment said the last us. Prisoners of War had been released. Vietnam has consistently denied it i holding any americans. Garwood now an Auto Northern Viii no Fiji Lorce on its trip to show the congressmen where he last saw. . Prisoners alive and to help bring1" and my intimate namese language that i can Tell you act the Vietnam communists Are trying to Lieto you he wrote the congressman. In an interview with the associated pressing january Garwood said he wanted to sunday Garwood asked me if be Coa come along but he said he was t no of 1 would want him along and he was right he said Garwood continues to a us Plains of seeing live americans but a ctn test or testify before he Saa Sijub or tie defense Intel if we need to find out if he a Solomon said. Rebels claim american who was lolled i was . Military adviser san up leftist guerrillas vowing of other americans will flow in Al salvadot1peter Stryker Hascall gunned Down in i capita 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 Mas Call s death but said he was one of Many advisers working Are More than 52 . Advisers in Al Salvador the broadcast said add ing that Many Are undercover and passing themselves off As dead Gringo was accompanied two lieutenants from the Salva army and in our country an armed who moves with members of the j who has the rank of Captain ii he broadcast said. Every Gringo who coup Rio our country with War As a motive Man the intention of subjugating of raffle will have the sur answer that the Brgan izod people will see his blood pc in this honorable and rebel Lious hair Rosario go Chez de Paz who identified the body said that Hascall was Wear ing two pistols at the time of his death and Hal Strong traces of alcohol were found in Hascall was carrying a identification card a " Ladoran arms and Loument saying he Pevc for Swift ships a if mor Gan City Vla. Meta City said Hasps Geould have Rothsr business contacts the cod my while in Al in Galveston Texas before in to san Salvador about five years living with his common Law Salvac ran wife and Oku 4-year-old s wife Margarita Galea said he was not one of the 55 . Military adviser sin Al Salvador. He was a Sailor who arrived Here several years ago and found work repairing boats Tor the Navy but he never trained an troops or anything Galea said through her tears at the Al Eden funeral Home. She said Hascall wore a Tattoo bearing the insignia of the Atla Catl in an elite. .-trained army Nitshe also saidhjpa1nee company of Tan when be was , military Proa i said he could not confirm Kari s statements. As far As we know. Peter Stryker hot Call had nothing to do with our Navy Hernandez sources confirmed that of mail worked As a technician periodically Andone officer said he had served As an adviser the us. Embassy spokesman said it b Chc had some private Toi Vur but he is not linked to the Jbv eminent or Tossy of the United Sostoi. Hewasnmamemwiwtheu5.nvy." the United Stambas 55 military advis ers in Al Salvador in Lhito train the salvadoran army which a Liged in a guerrilla War with leftist the overthrow of the .-Backaof president Jose Napolean it Hascall is the 18th american the War that began in 1979. An e 60,000 salvadorans mostly non combat ants have lost their lives in the fighting. Lande a needs surgery paper reports Johannesburg South Africa a jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela needs surgery to remove gallstones a news paper reported sunday. But the department of prisons denied the report in City press a Johannesburg sunday newspaper for Blacks. His wife Winnie Hassid Mandela is in perfect health. A flurry of reports and rumours that Man Dela requires surgery to remove the Gall stones has followed president . Botha s announcement on Jan. 31 that he will con Sider releasing Mandela widely regarded Ashe nation s most influential Black Leader if two soviet dissidents and a South Africa captured in Angola Are released. There is no hint from the government that Mandela s release is imminent. Journalists Are sceptical that the White leaders Are ready to face the reaction of Blacks As a result of his release after 24 years in prison. City press quoted an unidentified source who it said had Access to prisoners in polls Moor prison near Cape town where Mandela is serving a life sentence for plot Ting sabotage. The paper also said that Mandela bad net minister of Justice Kobie Coetzee to freed but that the talks broke Dom when Mandela refused to go into exile. The Mandela family has said be has not met with any government officials recently. On Friday reporters thought they saw Mandela taken into a Cape town clinic Lor a checkup but the prisons department adamantly denied he Ever left polls Moor. R
