European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d mystery writer John Macdonald Dies at 70 Page 5 d a december Day in Tel Aviv Page 14 d giants place 4 players on Apall pro squad Page 23 vol 45. No. 255 authorized unofficial publication for tuesday december 30, 1986 Tom go a 0 armed forces d 8693 a m Hift in soviet Porky free dissidents London a to unday times of lond reported that soviet  Gorbachev will release thousands of  next car a major change of Kremlin pm jct toward dissidents. See related stories on pages a a the newspaper s Moscow correspond in Edmu Stevens quoted unidentified senior soviet-"1 Moscow for his Story. Soviet officials could not be imm comment on the report. According to the newspaper a  con sisting of representatives of the Kofl secret police the communist party and the Vern mint s Lega department has been set god organic the mass release. Of. ,.the newspaper said Jgr first sign of the policy change was last Wick a Kease from internal exile of Andrei Sakharov a a physicist and human rights activist. I Clarissa Chut Aryeva a dissident jailed this year for peace can Gning is also being freed it  i Phis sources Are normally authoritative and App Elf o be talking with official  said there is widespread and open de Bale Pong soviet intellectuals and scientists the two of the soviet elite who most favor a relaxation Over i rights that Gorbachev intends to launch the most dramatic reforms since the Days of Nikita Khrushchev the former soviet Leader who launched re forms after the death Oftos Costalin. Stevens said that in the past. Western experts on the soviet Union argue there could be no rapid and fundamental Chang because any move to Ward something approach ing free speech would threaten the Basic concept of centralized Rule by a Gorbachev party backed by the ," he went on Loviet sources insist that the Kab will do As it is Tolda that Gorbachev understands Well How to handle insecurity agencies. Pressures on the soviet Economy also to such liberalization  Hun the report quoted its sources As saying dress of prisoners jailed for economics corruption will also be released soon. 1 vulnerable says Sakharov soviet dissident and renowned physics Natl Sakharov said in an inter View he believes that Coth to Ifa Star wars anti missile system is possible to p could be counteracted. Related Story Abc reporters in Washington interviewed Sake by Remote Hookup in Moscow on saturday and Aske him about Star  j0 in the Distant future this will be  ability he said speaking . But it will always be impossible ppm military strategic Point of View since an Gorg opponent with a sufficiently High  can always overcome the tech Cal  of the other Side at All pm Cwon l even have to invest As much or As sources As arc being invested by the creator of sol earlier this month a panel leading researchers  reported they could tricks  Star wars defense system a Jujj up mation of orbiting mines lasers wind other devices. Of agreed that Star wars would not deter but Hon wac disc soviet negotiating position which is to imlmfeks5. On Otner Asp Cis of arms control to limits on so he said some research of nil a ram must be permitted. It is impossible to Cape cow pc enunciation of research on these questions since top Mcd. I intimately connected with the  for i technology of the next  soviets train spies in u.k., study says London up1 the soviet Union i sending tourists truck Drivers and ship and air Crews into Britain to train As special forces to espionage missions that could paralyse the coun try in Advance of All out War a British military expert said sunday. Col. Michael Hickey former member of the ministry of defense general staff identified the trainees As members of pc Snaz  troops of special designation recruited and run by the soviet Kab Andru intelligence branches. In a study compiled for the Institute for euro Pean defense and strategic studies the colonel said training of pc Snaz conscripts is Given to priority in the soviet Union. But he conceded hard intelligence on the subject was difficult Roget. The surveying soviet publications and rus Sian defector debriefings has provided some use Ful information. Targets would include Britain s North sea Oil installations electricity generation and distribution system nato bases military and regional government Headquarters radio stations radar Sites and communications Cen ters he said. A Xvi pc Snaz might Start its work in Advance Oft any War Hickey said. At a Given signal and not necessarily after the outbreak of hostilities the Spe Snaz network would be fully activated. The aim of s9viet diversionary operations he said is to Divide and disperse the enemy sowing confusion and inducing a military  Hickey said Britain s inadequate Home de lenses make it vulnerable to Spe Snaz style sub version and attack. The country s civilian de fens resources Are shrinking in terms of trained Inan Power he contended. I Hickey said the risk of a total breakdown of Ilaw and order would be very real  Tome on Alert Vatican tells . Cardinal against terror to cancel israeli meetings Roult not Security forces Are on Rrt Patleon Aroda Vinci Airport and other pot eoral terrorist Targen around Rome government Nicias said sunday. The  arc a resort be to recent terrorist threats a tast Italy the of girls said. The Security ideas urls Jere stepped for the Christmas Holiday Send a airways plane in , officials Sai a message deliver a Agency we Unesda for t cells threatened Italy if certain released. Other this demand the release Josephine Abd Sarkis Andl Abdallah Mansouri in a for smuggling explosive Finto Italy in 1984. They Alf suspected accomplices of Georges Ibrahim  Lead ebb the lebanese armed revolution release from a French jail was Sci Bing Campaign in Paris in september. The crash of an iraqi a during a Hijack attempt Beirut to an italian news armed revolutionary now up a Ity Hall somewhere unnamed polish prisoners Are note presumed factions ded in a Amman Jordan not Cardinal John o Connors id sunday that he had considered calling off his trip to Israel because of the embarrassment caused by his last minute decision under Vatican orders to cancel meetings with Israel s president and prime  o Connor the archbishop of new York said he concluded after talking with israeli officials in Newyork that calling off the trip would have been a fool ish thing to  made a mistake and it resulted in some embarrassment for some government officials he  i would have to be naive to think that prime minister Shamir and president Herzog have never been in an embarrassing position that they would not be sensitive to a mistake made by someone they know to have great respect for  the Cardinal said that if his relationship with jew sin new York depends on my doing everything perfect and never making a mistake then it would be a Shal Low relationship. The Cardinal had originally scheduled visits wit prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and president chasm Herzog but was forced to cancel them at the last min Ute on wednesday because Vatican officials reminded him that its protocols forbid cardinals to visit Israel chiefs of state in Jerusalem. The Vatican does not recognize israeli control Over Jerusalem and it believes the City should be run under International  Cardinal said he would be willing to meet with Shamir and Herzog outside Jerusalem but he expressed doubt that they would agree to such a meeting