European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Afghan Leader stepping up War tuesday july 8. 1986 the stars and stripes f a 9 by the los Angeles times Kabul. Afghanistan the new Leader of Afghanistan. Najib is reaching for the sword not the Olive Branch in calling for a Sharp escalation in the War Aja Insi his country s rebels. Najib his whole name has ordered a buildup in the afghan army along with an end to draft exemptions for College students and a crackdown on draft Dodg ers and deserters. He has appealed to students workers and peasants o sign up for military duty in the War against the afghan rebels already in its seventh year and has urged Young women to serve As nurses. Civilians have been organized to Bol Ster Security against the guerrillas to Vil Lages near Kabul self defense militias have been formed of older men and women and boys As Young As 14. They Post guards even though they say there have been no rebel attacks for Many months. The soviet troops in Afghanistan Esti mated to number 120,000, Are stepping up their activity Loo employing elite commando units advanced weapons and new tactics in what is seen As a drive for an All out Victory Over the guerrillas. These developments appear to have doomed any Chance for an Early agreement in  talks aimed at hailing the fighting and Speed ing the withdrawal of the soviet forces. The governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan have been holding such talks in Geneva Switzerland off and on since 1982 in search of a political solution 10 end the War. A spokesman for the ruling people s democratic party said the talking and fighting May continue for Many years. Diplomats in Kabul say the guerrillas now seem to be less capable Nan they once were of mounting a major attack or of penetrating to the Northern part of the country. Poll finds 47% in . Oppose sodomy ruling new York a More americans disapprove than approve of the supreme court decision upholding a Georgia Law making sodomy Between consenting adults a felony according Toa Newsweek poll. Bui most of Hose questioned said they disapprove of homosexuality. Forty seven percent of those surveyed disapproved of last week s High court ruling 41 percent approved and 12 per cent offered no opinion Newsweek released the poll sunday. Among different age groups Ameri cans younger than 50 were most upset Wilh the ruling with 54 percent against in. Those above the age of 50 were More accepting of the decision with 48 per cent disapproving. Silly one percent however said they did not regard homosexuality As an acceptable alternative lifestyle 32 percent said they did and 7 percent were undecided. The Newsweek poll also said 57 percent of those surveyed did not believe the Stales should police private sexual practices be tween consenting homosexuals. Seventy four percent believed the stairs should not police heterosexual private sexual practices the Survey questioned 611 adults by Telephone july i and 2. The poll s margin of error was 5 percentage Points the Magazine said. Sis photo by Lyndi w  showed he cares for kids pfc. Angela Mcc it Rind Sec. Wil Liam Giltner give sgt. John a de Vore a Rubdown to prevent leg crimp after Devore finished his 35-mile run far the children july fourth. All three ire assigned to the filth air defense sign in Darm Slot Germany. The one Man Char Ity run for Darmstadt s child care Center earned $1,564.70 and Money la Itell coming to according to Sandy Mccoy of the Darmstadt recreation in Nett office. A Jevorne i time we 6 11 11. Former Navy officer acquitted in British spy Case London a a former Cia he tried to leave for Austria he was agent and Navy commander arrested in charged under the official secrets act Britain on an espionage charge was a with arranging for the communication Olf information calculated to be useful to an quilted monday after the prosecution said he had duped the soviets with use less information. The prosecution was ordered to pay $7,500 in court costs. Lawyers for the defendant former . Navy cmdr. John Bothwell for Merly of Narbeth. Pa., said later he was considering a lawsuit for wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution. The lawyers said the allegations ruined Bothwell i import Export business. Bothwell 59. An american who lives in Bath England was arrested feb. 16 As enemy. Prosecutor Michael Bibby told Bow Street magistrates court thai Bol Well was charged after police received a tip from a very Good source that he was passing nato secrets to the soviet Union. However Bibby said it had been Learned Bol Well was handing Over use less information thai he packaged to look like top military secrets. He was a Cia agent with he . Navy in Greece but left in 1972 to set up a shipping business Bibby said. He had legitimate business with the russians but pressure was put on him by them to Supply  Bibby said of Bol Well he has admitted passing informal Ion to the rus sians but dented it was information of a damaging nature. It could have been obtained by anyone but he packaged in up of make it seem authentic. He also admitted making dead letter drops to the russians but in is now con ceded thai any information he did pass was to dupe he russians Bibby said. At a hearing in March when Bol Well was granted bail he said he was a Proa Grante Ched by soviet agents but Only gave them information he obtained from Brit Ain s daily Telegraph newspaper and from Newsweek. A formal verdict of not guilty a Given after Bibby offered no evidence against Bol Well. Richard Lissack representing Bolh Well said Bothwell never had any intention of harming the state and he was conning the soviets All the time. These charges have mined his Busi Ness carefully built up Over 13 years and have affected his serious heart Condi Tion Lissack said. Outside court Lissack Laid we expect to Taring High court proceedings against the prosecution a ays a hangs 2 australians for heroin trafficking Kuala Bumpur. Malaysia up two australians were hanged at Dawn monday for heroin trafficking after last min ulc Teai from Australia Britain and amnesty International were rejected. Fifty five minutes after the hangings at pud jail the bodies of Kevin John Barlow 28, and Brian Jeffrey Chambers 29 were taken to a Hospital mortuary to be collected by next of Kin. Barlow a welder from Perth and Chambers a building contractor from Sydney were convicted in july 1985 of trafficking in 6.3 ounces of heroin then lost their Appeal to Malaysia s supreme court in december. Barlow s family had his remains Ere mated and Chambers family said they would return his body to Australia. Relatives spent about seven hours sunday with the doomed men and left Kuala Bumpur s Century old pud jail distraught. Barlow asked for one last visit of his brother Christopher and a woman Friend. He hoped until the last minute for a slay of execution. As the cry of the Muezzin calling the moslem faithful to prayers broke the morning stillness the condemned men went to their deaths. They were led in Handcuffs the few Short Steps to the wooden Gallows just before 6 . They were blindfolded and their legs bound and a noose was slipped around each Man s neck in the presence of a physician a magistrate and the Union superintendent the sole witnesses and the lever to the trap door was pulled. Malaysia a major transit Point for he Roin from the Golden Triangle nations of Thailand Laos and Surma has hanged 36 convicted drug smugglers since it imposed a mandatory death pen ally in 1975 for anyone found guilty of trafficking in More than 100 Grams 3.3 ounces of heroin. Australian prime minister Bob Hawke had appealed for a slay of execution to prime minister Mah Athir Mohamad and Penang gov. Awang Hassan and austra Lian High commissioner David Evans Lew to Panang on saturday evening to deliver the letter to the governor person ally but the Appeal was rejected. In London prime minister Margaret Thatcher also made a last minute Appeal to the malaysian government to Grant clemency on humanitarian grounds. Bar Low was bom in England and held dual British australian citizenship. Amnesty international1 Appeal to the government said the executions would violate a United nations Resolution be cause the condemned men still had appeals pending