European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse A Najfi 10 columns the stars and stripes thursday june 26. 1986 George Willuck tic tourists fear of terrorists rearing an ugly face 17 not of 4tt.1 if Del i . .j-., _. _ ,.u_u._llb&fc.uthe delicate verbal embroidery docs not disguise the message of the Eastern airlines television commercial that says. This summer like no other summer there s no face Lite the commercial overflows will faces Disney facts Alligator faces and implies with Laboured semis Bulkly this summer is like no of her because of terrorism so May in America. Perhaps Eastern cannot be blamed fur Irving to urn a profit from the Public s panic. However the Public i blameworthy for panicking. sunday evening Hist can s commercial helped pay Tor newscasts that included stories about Navy Pilot i returning Home from Carrier duly i f , and Aboul use Security Altro at English Channel Pons in response to reports of a plot u bomb a ferry. The aim of Sudi a plot would he to kill tourists especially americans in a British Selling. Suth an Mack targeting tour iils would show hat terrorists know they Are sowing panic. Americans Are handing terrorists .1 huge Victory by allowing them selves in of frightened Univay from european travel. The american Public has emerged blinking into the sunlight from the latest rambo movie Anil is ambling Down the Street to Sec top gun a movie celebrating Navy Avinion. The Public is rightly proud of Hie presi Dent who ordered and the aviators who the. Strike a Libya. Cyl a portion of his Pul cd up with prick Public is making the american Ali Ort seem con Imp Lilc. In the process it is giving tie a relish Public which has a i rung Appi Asemena rcflc.1 Aniway an economic incentive to deepen its resentment of i rime minister Thatcher s cooperation with the , raid. The Sharp reduction of foreign travel by americans is hurling Many British businesses and the reduction is Irr Aliu Nal. Irrational risk perception is a fascinating facet of modern life the chernobyl nuclear Accident brought out anti no Oscar forces hat Are nimble at the Art of piggybacking their cause on a passing Hys Luria. Never mint that it is safer to live near a nuclear Power Plant than a Coal burning Plant. Newspapers pleased to fill pages wild cigarette ads smoking Rel Ald deaths per Yean 350,000 editorialist about the unacceptable risks of nuclear Power a technology dial has an As . Safety record Zero deaths. There Are White knuckle passengers who writhe in agony during the Light to los Angeles where they heave a sigh of Relief Assi by Sag Inlo a poorly mail aimed cab that is driven by a stranger who speeds off Inlo the roaring River of Metal called the san Diego freeway on which on any Given evening about 20 percent of the Drivers have alcohol in their systems and upward of 10 percent arc seriously impaired by it. William Buckley think we be 60t for our european people who irrationally fear the Friendly skies More than the freeways do no Public harm. But the cowed american who allows terrorists to shape his or her Ravel plans hurts the nation its reputation and its staunches allies. The new Republic in an editorial tilled please go away notes that Arn Crinan avoidance of Europe might be defensible were it motivated by a desire o protest european appeasement of terrorist nations. But eur phobia cypresses fear no principle. And he two nations suffering most Are those with the Best anti terrorist records Britain and Israel. Worse Jurist bookings 10 the soviet Union Are up 50 percent be cause that police state is Safe terrorism there is an Export commodity. The new Republic notes that in 1985, 23 americans were killed by terrorists 1he same number As in 1972 and less than in 197 42. In the first four months of 1986, five americans were killed by terror ism in Europe fewer than the number of vacationers who will die in America in the nem three months from allergic reactions to Bee stings five terrorist victims in four months is a rate of 15 a year. Last year 15 americans were killed in elevator accidents in the first four months of 1986, 464 americans were murdered in new York City. So. You arc going to drive 43,500 dead on highways Las year away from Urhan mayhem to the Lake in 1983, 6.600 americans drowned. Last year More americans died in bathtubs than at the hands of terrorists As a scholar has noted we can predict statistical effects of a risk an the population at Large but not on individuals which is Why Fortune tellers never become As Rich As insurance companies. But we can gauge the risk to this nation that results from panic that tells terrorists thai terrorism is working. Americans who say Home from Europe to hide from terrorism Are not just asking for trouble for i hair nation they Are pleading for i. The world has a Way of herding such pleading. Washington full Vyrl hrs g Piip sex prisoner s Book details life in Castro s jails on the same Day that Kurt Waldheim was elected president of aus Tria Ricardo Montero Duque. Arrived in Miami after 2s years in Fidel Castro s prisons. How did he gel out Well sen. Edward Kennedy arranged it. He asked Fidel Castro and Fidel gave a Seigneur i Al response. Thai morning Ronald Radosh a pro Fessor of history Al City University of new York reviewed for the new York times a Book by a sometime fellow Pris Oner of Montero Duque. The difference being hat Armando Valladares was in prison Only 22 years not 25. And How did he get out president Francois Mitterrand asked Fidel Castro to let him out and Fidel gave a Seigneur Al response. For some reason professor radish announces that it has taken us 25 years o find out the terrible reality or. Castro has created a new despotism that has torture As a mechanism of social it is not Clear Why it took us 25 years to find out that Castro has been systematically torturing people. Some of us have known this for about 24 years reporting on such Tor lure regularly for instance in National review. But Back to or Valladares Book which is called against All Hope the prison memoirs of Armando Valla Valladares was a Young employee of the postal savings Bank in Cuba when Castro came to Power and he expressed misgivings about the communication of Cuba and was therefore arrested. That was when it began. In prison he was tortured. Here is How professor Radosh paraphrases life in the prison of Fidel Castro or. Valla dares and other prisoners who refused political rehabilitation1 were forced to live in the greatest heat and the dam pest cold without clothes. They were regularly beaten shot at and sometimes killed they were thrown into punishment cells including the dreaded drawer Celles specially constructed units thai make South Vietnam s infamous Tiger cages seem like Homey he tried once to escape but unsuccessfully. Retribution was Swift. We quote now directly from the author. Guards returned us to the cells and stripped us again. They did t close the cell door Ana thai detail caught my at Tention. I was sitting on the floor outside i heard the voices of several approaching soldiers. They were going to Settle accounts with us collect what we owed them for having tried to escape.,. They were armed with thick twisted electric cables and truncheons. Suddenly every thing was a whirl my head spun around in terrible vertigo. They beat me As 1 Lay on the floor. One of them pulled a my Arm to turn me Over and expose my Back so he could beat me More easily. And the cables fell More directly on me. The beating Felt As if they were branding me with a red hot branding Iron but then suddenly i experienced the most intense unbearable and brutal pain of my life. One of the guards had jumped with All his weight on my Bro Ken throbbing Back to professor Radosh that treatment was typical. In the punishment cells prisoners were kept in total dark Ness. Guards dumped buckets of urine and fees Over the prisoners who warded Oft rals and Roaches As they tried to sleep fungus grew on or. Valladares because he was not allowed to Wash off the filth sleep was impossible. Guards constantly woke the men with Long poles to insure they got no rest. Even at the end when the authorities were approving his release or. Valladares was held in Soli tary confinement in a Barren room with fluorescent lights turned on 24 hours a Day. By Ihen he was partially paralysed through malnutrition intensified by the Lack of medical Valladares speculates that when the truth is known about Castro s political prisoners Mankind will feel the revulsion it Felt when the crimes of Stalin were brought to professor Radosh evaluates this it is not too Tough a the world is aflame at Austria s hav ing elected As president a Man suspected of having cooperated with a German nazi War criminal in Yugoslavia 36 be a ago. Much of that world accepts Fidel Castro with equanimity some of the world with enthusiasm. To do so it the equiv Jeni of Wail ing until every jew was killed by Miller before discovering the evils of nazism. Diplomats who present their credential to Ridel Castro should spend toe evening before Reading Valladares Book. The Man they will meet he governor of Cuba is the Hiller Stalin of today. Cd univ rail Tost synth us
