European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday june 23,1986 scandal forces closure of Many soviet schools world today Moscow up soviet authorities have uncovered a major scandal in the state school system closing hundreds or educational institutions and bringing 111 teachers and school directors to court Tor padding pay Rolls enrolling non Wisent students and taking bribes t soviet newspaper said saturday. The Sovie Skaya Rossiya soviet Russia newspaper said the scandal entered on adult Extension counts and night schools funded by he government in the russian federation the largest of the country1 15 republics. Moscow is id the russian federation. The newspaper quoting the Republic s education minister Grigory Vaselov said Iii directors and teachers in adult evening schools have been brought to criminal and civil courts in recent months. No details of the sentences or conviction Rales of those prosecuted were Given. Another 173 school leaders and teachers were fired and 315 teachers and other employees were severely reprimanded. The newspaper said that As of june 15, to total of 668 adult education schools out of a total of 4,862 operating in the Republic have been closed and 611 of the 11,026 adult education Extension service centers were also shut Down. Heselov said school chiefs in collaboration with teachers were guilty of padding payrolls with of needs collecting salaries of non existent teachers and adding non existent students to the Rolls to collect and pocket government stipends. Besides the regular system of schooling the soviet government funds a vast network of adult education and correspondence courses. Because places in regular High schools and universities Are very limited the Extension classes  in popular with students unable to win spots in higher educational institutes. The newspaper said some teachers had also taken bribes to admit students into already full classes. Heselov said school leaders had tried to cover up the abuses within the system by forcing the investigation to move Al a slow Pace. He said that coupled Wilh the investigation into crimes the adult education system in the russian federation would be overhauled and standards improved. He said that beginning with the 1987 school year new textbooks would be introduced and new subjects would be added to the curriculum. The government has already announced plans for a major Reform of the school system in the country including better pay for teachers and higher entry level salaries for graduates Wilh above average grades. Military decides against full probe of report wives work As barmaids Tokyo up the . Military will not con duct a full investigation of reports thai american servicemen s wives in Okinawa Are working As bar hostesses claiming the problem is limited the Pacific stars and stripes reported sunday. But it also ran a second Story quoting several Ameri can wives who went As hostesses us saying Many go spouses work As barmaids but Only a few doubled As prostitutes. The newspaper quoting spokesman for . Forces i Japan Eaid a limited High level inquiry determined the problem could not be linked to financial pressures from the weaker Dollar. At the same time it reported that the Pacific come is title taking Steps to discourage such employment and that authorities on Okinawa have mounted a crackdown on off base work. . Military officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the report a team from the inspector general s office at Pacific omd Headquarters in Honolulu launched the inquiry i . Military bases on the Island 900 Miles South of Tokyo after a United press International report last month that hundreds of wives and some servicewomen were working off base As bar hostesses. Although japanese a american officials handsome of the women themselves did Many were bored or just needed work other Slid they were forced to seek employment to nuke ends meet because the fall ing . Dollar had slashed their incomes. The unauthorized work violates both japanese Immi Gration Law and a military policy barring dependent fro working in establishments that Terye alcohol the team of inspector after interviewing 400 peo ple from june 4 to june is determined that some wive were working at Hostetter but a number  be established the problem scope was limited and it actually could not be linked to the High yen. Rat against the Dollar the a per reported. The Pacific Comro Inder in chief adm. Ronald , has thus decided against a full scale probe but he has ordered that policy guideline on off base work be reviewed updated and publicized anew to All Mili tary personnel in Japan the spokesman said. The Story was accompanied by a second article quoting several american wives who work As hostesses at a bar in Naha Okinawa s capital City. The women said Only few doubled As prostitutes but said Many worked As to actin although Wey said some have been staying Home because of the publicity. Castro vows to Aid Nicaragua London a cuban Leader Fidel Castro was quoted sunday As saying his country would help Nicaragua make it virtual to impossible for the United states to militarily intervene there without paying a very High  in this raped i would say the nicaraguans Are getting themselves prepared for Loch an eventuality very much like we did he said. And i doubt any american adminis Talion will be willing to pay such a High  Castro was interviewed in Havana by Patrice bar no the interview was tamed by London s sunday times which did not further identify the writer or give the Dale of the interview. To the interview the cuban Leader was reminded thai three Yean ago he proposed a reduction of Mili tary adviser in Central America and declared Cuba wit oot a military Power. What would be Hii reaction if . Force intervened in nkangua.7 Castro replied we cannot unilaterally take a Deri Sion regarding our adv in in Nicaragua. We just i thai if Nicaragua wanted our Adriaen out and that the United state would do likewise with its own advisers we would Back this action. Regarding american military intervention in Nicaragua we Are really not equipped to neutralize such an american action. We know this and 10 do the americans. But Well do everything possible to Shore up Nicaragua defences now in peacetime to make it virtually impossible for the . To act militarily with out paying a very High  Castro was Alto asked if americans had reason Tor concern about the construction of a soviet designed nuclear Power station in Cienfuegos Cuba he was quoted a laying that the nation would he smaller and would have a different technology than that of the soviet nuclear Plant at chernobyl site of the world s wont nuclear disaster. Security Kyt Temi have been tripled for the Plant Castro said. The station will be Able to withstand a tidal wave 30 meters 100 feet tall a plane crash on the reactor and even an earthquake. I believe it will Leone of the safest stations in the world. I think we have Good reasons to be fearful about nuclear nation accidents in the United state. The northeasterly wind blow in our direction so the americana will never be radiated by this Plant China willing to discuss relations with Vatican Rome a chinese communist party Leader he Yanbang said saturday that Chin Awill be prepared to enter into talks with the vat ican after certain difficulties Are  has rebuffed repealed Salicati Over Tures for rapprochement in recent years on grounds that the holy see maintains diplomatic relations Wilh  stumbling Block for the normalization of relations Between China and the Vatican is the refusal of China s state supported Catholic Church to recognize papal authority. Taiwan s ruling party considering major reforms Taipei Taiwan a the Kuomintang or nationalist party which has ruled Taiwan Tor.37yean without serious opposition u considering Large scale political reforms a newspaper report  mass circulation United daily news said the party s Central standing committee headed by president Chiang Ching Kuo instructed a committee studying general political Reform to concentrate on several sensitive Long avoided  include permission to form new political parties ending of martial Law and replacement of aging legislators in the National and legislative assemblies. Most of the legislator were Taft elected to office on the Mainland shortly before the nationalists were Defeated by the common Nils in 1949. Indonesian Oil exports dropped 19.7% in 1985 Jakarta Indonesia a Indonesia crude Oil exports declined in 1985 by 19.7 per cent to 257.56 million barrels Down from 320.67 million barrels in 1984, according to department of mines and Energy report to leased  report said crude exports to Japan in Donesia s largest Market fell by 15.fi percent to 130.11 million  it said Export to the United slates Rose 60.6 percent to 49.10 million barrels up from 30.56 million barrels the previous  to South Korea plunged by 62.6 per cent to 4.8 million barrels and to Australia declined by 76.7 percent to 1.1 Molion barrels it said. Author buys photo depicting hero of French army scandal Paris a american author and Art col Lector Herbert Schimmel paid j530 at an auction saturday for a previously unidentified photograph of capt. Alfred Dreyfus hero of the19th-Century French army scandal. The photo of Dreyfus full lace waa said Mohave been taken moments after be was i inn de from the French army alter being convicted of treason for spying. Dreyfus an alsatian jew was acc aed at a time when there was Strong anti semitism in the French army. The documents a Init him Wen found to have been forged and he was finally cleared in 1906. The photograph will be exhibited in septem Ber 1987 at an exhibition on the Dreyfus affair at the new York museum of jewish Ait Septa Mel i agent said. President i Xian Man of China is hospitalized peking up chinese president Xian Nian has been hospitalized for the second time in a month officials said  the instructions of doctors. Presi Dent i needs to take a rot for some time after he had a cold,1 the foreign ministry said. The illness forced i to cancel it meeting will the president of Mali Mouraa Traore. It 77, also cancelled a scheduled meeting wit australian prime minister Bob a Wace late bit month after official said be became itt with a cold. He was hospitalized for a few Days the