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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday december 27,1986 Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena Banner Friday talk with reporters in their Moscow apartment. Sakharov says he d like to meet Gorbachev to discuss things Moscow a Andrei Sakharov said Friday he would like 10 meet with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev to personally thank him for his Freedom and to Tell him what i think and Many other  Sakharov and his wife Yelena Banner on their first full Day Back in Moscow since their internal exile in inc closed City of Gorky was lifted spoke with report ers for about 20 minutes in their two room apartment on Moscow s Garden ring Road. They said their thoughts at Christmas arc with peo ple still jailed for their beliefs and they called for a worldwide amnesty for All political prisoners. Sakharov said he spoke with Gorbachev during their dec. 16 Telephone conversation about an amnesty for All soviets imprisoned for their beliefs. I believe that is especially important and especially necessary to the whole  Sakharov said. His voice trembled As he spoke of fellow dissident Anatoly Marchenko who died in Chi Lopol prison ear Lier this month reportedly after a Long hunger strike. Saying Farewell to this year i will always remember him and 1 want the next year to be the year of liberation for All prisoners of conscience so that tragedies of this kind will never happen again that this tragedy will be the last great misfortune befalling our friends he said. Of an eventual meeting with Gorbachev who in formed the physicist during their Telephone Conversa Tion that his internal exile was Over Sakharov said "1 would be Able to repeat to him personally what i Al ready said Over the phone and also what i think and Many other things and once More repeat my gratitude to Mikhail Serg Yevich Gorbachev for the change which occurred in our  under the policy of glasnost or openness Gorba Chev s Kremlin has Given publicity to selected social problems and encouraged Public discussion of some subjects that were once taboo. Those changes which Are taking place now seem to me very important although they arc maybe not deeply enough entrenched in Many respects Sakharov added. In their first comments to reporters since moving Back into their Home Sakharov 65, and his 63-ye.ir old wife spoke of their feelings at Christmas and the plight of people imprisoned for their beliefs. We Are just people like everyone else said sakha Rov seated on a sofa by the Kitchen table. We have the same kinds of thoughts about ourselves about those who Are near and dear to us and we of course think about those who arc in prison who Are alone. The physicist said he had resumed his scientific work the very Day he arrived Back in the capital at tending a seminar at the soviet Institute of physics on tuesday. Earlier one of Sak Narovl s colleagues said the h Uman rights activist had returned to his old office at inc Institute a Branch of the prestigious soviet Academy of sciences. Sakharov spent nearly seven years exiled in Gorky. Upon his return he immediately spoke out against soviet government policy on human rights and Afghanistan. Sakharov the 197$ Nobel peace prize laureate said tuesday he planned to visit the Academy of sciences to begin work in particle physics space research and controlled thermonuclear reactions. World today libyan envoy killed by gunmen in Beirut Beirut. Lebanon a unidentified at tackers in a speeding car kilted a libyan Diplo mat when they fired sub machine guns on his official limousine. The shooting occurred thursday in the Syri an controlled town of Taa Daycl in cast Leb anon s Bcka Valley police said. Police identified the slain envoy As mos Bah Mohammed Gharibi financial attache at the libyan embassy in Damascus. Another libyan  travelling in the car escaped injury police said. Several feared dead in sinking of freighter Ca Guari Sardinia Dpi As Many weight Sailor were feared drowned Friday after a cyp nol freighter Sank in Stormy seas on Christmas Day 20 Miles South of Sardinia port authorities said. Lifeboats a Navy ship lugs and two aircraft from the air Rescue Center at Rome s Ciampino Airport raced to the scene and picked up 10 of the is Crew who abandoned the 16,000-Lon stainless trader. But a ferry boat that joined in the search found the lifeless bodies of two sailors. Six other crewmen were missing. The freighter Sank in i gait around 10 . Thursday. The Crew of the shipwa1, made up of two greeks and 16 South koreans. American woman killed during party in Honduras Tegucigalpa Honduras a an american woman was shot in he head and killed Early thursday during a Christmas Cele bration at a nightclub police said. A police spokesman in Tegucigalpa said the woman a 30-year-old army sergeant was killed when a honduran companion fired shots Inlo the air at a nightclub in the Atlantic coastal resort of Tela about 100 Miles North of he capital. A . Embassy spokesman who demanded anonymity confirmed a female Soldier had died but declined 10 release her name pending notification of Kin. No Hometown was Given. The police spokesman said she was assigned to the task Force Bravo unit at Palmerola air base a honduran facility 25 Miles Northwest of Tegucigalpa. No other details were available. Methane blast in mine kills miners Tass reports Moscow a a methane Gas explosion rocked a Coal mine in the Don Basin of the Ukraine and some miners were kilted the offi Cial Tass news Agency reported Friday. Tass did not say How Many miners died in the wednesday blast at the a Osinovskaya Glubo Kaya mine in the Coal Rich Don area about s7j Miles South of Moscow. It said soviet authorities arc taking measures to give Aid to the surviving families and to re move the consequences of the  peking tightens rules in Wake of demonstrations Peijung a peking officials Friday clamped Down on student pro testers by issuing a ban on unauthorized demonstrations while sources in Nank ing said thousands of students have participated in pro democracy marches this week the official Media meanwhile backed students in their Call for greater democracy but said changes must be made through existing channels and that revolutionary Fervour would Lead to anarchy. Peking s people s Congress imposed the ban on demonstrations two Days after students in the capital staged a protest March from Yinghua University. The announcement was carried on the National evening news broadcast. Under the new rules those who want to demonstrate must Send an application to police five Days in Advance and submit their names the purpose of the demonstration the number of people involved the time and the route. Police must respond in writing with in three Days. The news broadcast said those who violated regulations would be punished but did not give further details. The broadcast said the ruling was passed to uphold the Legal right of Citi Zens to demonstrate and maintain pub Lic order in the  Shanghai imposed similar restrictions monday following weekend i Arches involving Lens of thousands of protesters. On thursday new pro democracy posters were seen at Yinghua univer sity one of the posters read where else but in China can you Only have demonstrations in the desert and wild areas it referred to the Shanghai ban. Students have demonstrated in at least nine cities this month demanding greater democracy human rights and Freedom of the press. Students at Shanghai s Tongji University said they gave City officials until saturday to meet their demands including greater press Freedom an acknowledgement that the protests were justified and punishment for police offi cers who allegedly assaulted a Marcher. However students said their rank were divided Over whether to resume demonstrating. Meanwhile the communist party newspaper people s daily carried an interview with Fei Siaotong a sociologist at peking University who urged Stu dents to air their grievances through existing channels. The people s daily also said the demonstrations in Shanghai created traffic problems and kept workers from getting to and from work on time. The workers daily warned against idealizing Western institutions. We arc implementing socialist modernization not capitalist modernization a worker was quoted s3 you 8 not All Western things Are Good. Their election system is in reality manipulated by a Tew financial   
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