European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes today s Dollar takes a dive buys 1.93 Marks other conversion rates Page 2 7 d free beef program to continue without change Page 2 d mystery writer John Macdonald Dies at 70 Page 5 d chef Anton Mosimann guru of cuisine Nat Urelle daily Magazine o giants place 4 players on Apall pro squad sports Page 23 the Sims and stripes vol 45, no 255 tuesday. December 30. 1986 0 6693 a shift in soviet policy May free dissidents London a the sunday times of London reported thai soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev will release thousands of political prisoners next year in a major change of Kremlin policy toward dissidents. The newspaper s Moscow correspondent Edmund Stevens quoted unidentified senior soviet sources in Moscow Tor his Story. Soviet officials could rial be reached immediately to Airn Mcnol on the report according to the newspaper a commission con sisting of representatives of the Kab secret police Ilie communist party and the government s Legal department has been set up to organize the mass release. The newspaper said the first sign of the policy change was last week s release from inic Mal exile of Andrei Sake Rov. The physicist and human rights Cliv. Isl. Larissa Chuk Sayva. A dissed pm jailed this year for see dissidents on Page 28 1985 report was basis for Iran arms Deal by Norman Black a p military writer Washington in june 1985, an unusual Central intelligence Agency re port crossed the desk of defense Secre tary Caspar w. Weinberger. An analysis of the situation in Iran the document would help Lay the foundation for president Reagan s ultimate decision to sell Amis in Kopes of cultivating lies with moderate factions in that country. It was forwarded to Weinberger for comment by the while House s National Security Council staff. If Weinberger aides arc to be believed the defense Secretary and close Reagan Friend Small cd rouble from the moment he read the document. And if Weinberg or is to be believed the Pentagon subsequently avoided As much As it could any involvement in an operation that Lias burgeoned into the biggest political crisis of Reagan s presidency. Weinberger along with some other top Reagan aides has flatly denied any knowl Edge of How the iranian arms Deal was arranged How the weapons were transferred to Iran How much was paid for the weapons and the circumstances surrounding Ilie diversion of profits to  Nicara Guan Contra guerrillas he has pronounced himself horrified to Leam of the diversion of Money to the contras and has slated Hinl the president Ria in d some bad advice in the affair be ginning with former National Security adviser Robert Dud Mcfarlane.  s Public statements however have not provided the Pentagon a clean Bill of health in the affair. Congressional investigators and no the army s in Spector general As Well have opened in quiries in determine How the Pentagon fixed the Price of weapons that it transferred to the Cia for ultimate Sale to Iran. The administration has said 2,008 Tow anti tank missiles along Wilh spare parts for Hawk air defense mis Siles were drawn Forti Pentagon stocks for the Cia at the president s direction. Pentagon officials speaking on Coridi see report on Paga 28 carried away a stubborn member of the Atlantic life Community i Anil nuclear group is hauled off on the shoulder of a Washington policeman after the unidentified protester and fellow activists Alle pled la Block an Entrance to the Pentagon. The demonstration was in opposition to continued is. Nuclear it sting. Wrecked hotel fears another Gas explosion Garmisch a Kate Skirchen Germany a firefighters were working around the clock monday to prevent another Gas explosion Al the German Alps resort hotel where seven people were killed Over the weekend. Authorities said the danger of another blow up was very  the firemen were burning off the liquid propane Gas remaining in two Large tanks a few Yards away from the rubble of the pics Versee hotel Garmisch Parten Kirchon police spokesman Kurt Fuchs told the associated press. Twelve people Are still hospitalized Wilh injuries from the devastating explosion at the hotel saturday caused by a Gas leak from a pipe leading from one of la tanks to the building. Three of the injured Are in critical condition Fuchs said in a Telephone interview. Fuchs said the firefighters May have to work for the rest of the week burning off the 34,000 liners of liquid propane Gas in the tanks about 10 Yards from the badly damaged hotel. He said in was the Only Way to try to prevent another blowup. There is a very great danger of another explosion Fuchs told the a. Police had tried at first sunday to neutralize the Gas by combining it with nitrogen bul that Effort was unsuccessful Fuchs said. The 250 guests who were not injured by the explosion saturday have been moved to other hotels. The area around the damaged hotel is roped off and closed to the Public. Fuchs said Only a few firefighters arc working there at a Lime. The saturday explosion caved in the roof of the hotel s Northern Wing and reduced ill indoor fitness Center and Pool to rums. In seriously damaged the Orcsi of the Complex at one of the posh esl hotels in this Alpine resort Community. Police have refused to give an official damage Coli see explosion on Page 23