European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 r the stars and stripes tuesday december 16,19b6 so let tender Mikhail Gorbachev greets san. Guy hut a Colo prior to their meeting in Moscow monday. Hart says Gorbachev urges . To reduce political propaganda Moscow a sen. Gary Hart d-cplo., said monday he was told by soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev that reduction of political propaganda fro Washington on human rights issues would go a Long Way toward resolving family reunification cases. Hart said Gorbachev s response followed Hart s urging that the Kremlin free soviets involved in a dozen divided family cases including one involving a mos cow woman stricken with cancer. The iwo also discussed arms control issues and eco nomic affairs. Hart told reporters after his Kremlin meeting which lasted three hours and 20 minutes. Hart said he raised 12 family reunification cases and particularly pressed for emigration permission for . The 53-year-old wife of Nauru Merman a founding member of the now disbanded Helsinki watch group on human rights. Kilo Mikaya suffers from cancer of the neck and has had four operations since the fall of 1983. She has been invited repeatedly to West for treatment she anther husband say she needs but she cannot get out of the soviet Union. Meiman s daughter lives in Colora do. The discussion of these human rights issues has gotten Down to o kind of Standard rhetoric on both sides i m afraid Hart said. I tried to break through thai by suggesting that the two countries look at the human rights Issue differently and that for us these freedoms and particularly family reunification arc extremely Gorbachev replied by assuring Hart that the soviet leadership is trying its very Best to work out these family reunification cases and that he thought that the reduction of propaganda political propaganda on the Issue from the United states Side would of very help Ful in this Hart who made an unsuccessful bid for the demo cratic presidential nomination in 1984, said he was impressed with the length of time Gorbachev was will ing to spend with him and thai the soviet Leader greeted him warmly. Hart declined to stand for re election this year Andis exploring the possibility of another run for the presi Dency in 1988. He was asked whether the topic of his political future came up during the conversation with Gorbachev. Yes and no he said laughing. Let s say i did t gel any no new proposals came Forth during the talks concerning arms control Hart said. The soviet Union s former ambassador to the United slates Anatoly Dobrynin also took part in the meeting. Gorbachev and Dobrynin reiterated the soviet views Laid Down during the october mini Summit in Iceland Hart said Ana the Kremlin is apparently clicking to its insistence that any arms control agreement cover All three Fields currently under negotiation Pace arms medium Range missiles and strategic weapons. It s Safe to by from their Point of View that the want a comprehensive agreement of the sort discussed at Iceland Hart said. The senator said he urged Gorbachev to work hard for an arms limitation agreement and that he was pleased to learn that the soviet leadership has not lost Lope of an Accord with the present administration. He said they were going to continue to work As hard As they could through the next couple of years for an agreement and i wholeheartedly endorsed that approach Han said. The controversy Over the american arms Sale Toiran and subsequent delivery of proceeds to Nicara Guan counter revolutionaries did not come up Hart said. He said the situation in Afghanistan was discussed but he declined to give details until after his meeting scheduled for tuesday with foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Hart arrived in Moscow sunday with his daughter Andrea and political aides for a tour Day visit at the invitation of a soviet parliamentary group. Greeks ease measures on Energy conservation Athens Greece up the socialist government has brushed aside Energy saving Mea sures for Christmas allowing greeks to smash plates dance to Bouzouki music and tip ouzo Lor two extra noun every Day. Bouzouki music and nightclub will legally bellowed to remain open until 4 �.m. Attica prefect Thanassis Tsimbouki said sunday. Alt establishments including the traditional tavernas and nightclubs featuring live Bouzout music and plate smashing had been forced to close at 2 . As part of Energy saving measures in the late 1970s. The new Christmas measures win be valid through january 1987 and will be relaxed further on Christmas and new year s eve allowing establishments to remain open All night. Plate smashing was banned by the previous conservative but we rein inc diced by the incumbent socialists. Pink algae destroying Cathedral s frescoes Orvieto Italy a humidity in ome to s gothic Cathedral has pawned creeping algae and causing the slow destruction of an important Cycle of frescoes by Renaissance matter Luca Signorelli an italian newspaper reported Sun Day. The Pink algae As it has been dubbed is eating away the colors of the frescoes in the Chapel of the Madonna of san Brizio consid ered one of the most important Renaissance chapels according to the Rome newspaper la republics. Among biblical scenes depicted by the endangered frescoes Are the blessed entering the resurrection and the Day of Signorelli painted he frescoes from 1499 to 1504. Construction of the Cathedral in Orvieto a Central umbrian City began in the 13lh Century. The gothic facade was not completed until the beginning of the 17th Century. Iran arrests Canadian on charges of espionage Athens up Iran a Ca Nadian citizen Engineer Philip angles on charges of espionage the official iranian Newt Agency Irna Laid. The news Agency quoted information min ister Mohammad or Hammadi re Shahri assaying angles was arrested on May 1 on charges of taking photographs of key military centers in Iran and smuggling classified documents out of the re Shahri who was speaking at a televised press conference in Tehran gave no other de tails. The minister coordinates Security affairs in Iran. He said the authorities have also arrested former iranian ambassador to Moscow Moham mad Mokri after he was found to have bad links with some East bloc Walesa says polish economic crisis worsening Warsaw Poland up Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said sunday Poland is sinking in an economic crisis live Yean after the government declared martial Law and outlawed the Union. Walesa in a strongly worded statement distributed to Western report ers said the country is in worse shape than when the government declared mar tial Law to quell social and labor unrest on dec. 13,1981. He vowed Solidarity activists would continue their struggle for democracy and pluralism in spite of the danger of imprisonment. Our country ii sinking Laid Walesa. The outlawing of Solidarity and the communist party controlled organizations and repression did not Stop the crisis but made it even sharper he said. Faced with the perspective of return ing to jail i and our activists maintain our stand we want democracy and pluralism in our country Walesa said. Walesa also hinted thai Solidarity will Mark the anniversary of the 1970 Baltic coast food riots during which More than so workers were lulled we shall never forget them the workers. Solidarity would not exist without them he said. The Rev. Henryk Jankowski a priest who supports Solidarity said in a ser Mon in Gdansk that poles should have the right to associate freely in various organizations including Independent unions. We demand the right to associate freely because the polish nation is Plura Listic in its views Jankowski Laid draw ing an ovation from toe crowd. Walesa was among the celebrants. Dissident sources said Jankowski praised inc role of the Catholic Church saying the Only authority that remain sin Poland is the authority of the at tall 70 percent of Polo we Catholic sin the nation of almost 38 million peo ple. Jankowski spoke one Day after the fifth anniversary of the imposition of martial Law which crushed Union a outlawed a year later. Solidarity supporters held relatively few commemorations of the martial Law anniversary. Dissident source said Catholic Church officials persuaded activists in the Solidarity movement not postage More even is. Church officials arc trying to keep from angering authorities to time when Bishops Are negotiating the Birthe third up i trip in Poland in june next year
