European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 23, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 9 soviet dropouts have Many comrades reporter tells Story of outcast hobos to suit \ thousand of people  dropped uni of Simit a society to become Hobus living on he fringes of the Law in freight cars and a Mimi pics and surviving off Odd jobs such As Berry picking and Lumberjack ing. A Schici weekly reports. The expose in Ogo Nyok Maga inc the result of an undercover investigation by reporter Alexei lab Dev. Was in stunning contrast to official claims i Iii the problems of unemployment and homelessness have been virtually Solu d in the soviet a Nimit. The Story published in the Maga inc s latest cd lion. Was Clearl linked to soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s policy of  or openness thai permits Sulci discussion and debate on selected social issues Ogon Jok pointed a Bleak picture of the life led by Many thousands of vagrants who Drift from nne Corner of the Smitt Union to another in starch of food shelter iini.1 Piirto Lime work. Some it said have Insi All self respect and the ability to hold a Job and they exist by foraging through garage heaps fur hunk s they Ean sell Back to stores. Medical i Peris have established that tuberculosis and venereal diseases in the soviet Union Are largely spread by the vagrant population. Ogo Nyok said. La noted thai since vagrants do not carry the inter Nal passport required of All soviet Citi ens they cannot receive medical care in male run clinics. Doctors Are end . Old to Liberia Kennedy asks Washington Dpi sen he Ivard Kennedy a mass. Accusing Lihe Rian officials of Fini King themselves Wilh . Aid. Called saturday for a Cut off of economic and military Assi Lanir to the african nation. Kennedy cited a report by the general accounting office that said . Eco nomic and food assistance 10 Liberia has faced a High risk of diversion and or misuse since i jxu1," when Gen. Samuel Doe look Power in a coup. La is dear Hal  Doe Lias used his position to Enikh himself and his associates at the expense of the Ameri can taxpayer Kennedy said. The Gao has determined Hal there has been substantial misuse and continuing diversion of i , funds by officials in the government of Liberia at the very highest  the report by the Oao the investigatory Arm of Congress cited evidence that ". Controls Oxer assistance were inadequate and in some instances assistance was not used for  intended purposes particularly in the food for peace pro Gram. During the. Imm fiscal year the government of Liberia failed to Deposit a required $16.s million in counterpart fund generated from the Sale of Rice Kennedy said in another ease the internment failed to make Back payments totalling s3.9 million owed under the Bod program and the government owned Bank Man aging the counterpart funds made unauthorised withdrawals of approximately j 1.7 million the Gao said. Tin report sail development assist Ance funds of the Agency for International development have been less vulnerable to misuse of diversion because the Aid Mission has avoided disbursing much of in car funds through the Liberi an government Kennedy said he will seek to have All . Economic and military Aid halted until his abuse of . Funds ends and until free and fair presidential i in Lions Are iced in  we should nol be in the business of supporting corrupt regimes that abuse our tax dollars he said. Often unable to save ailing vagrants because their Dis eases Are Loo far advanced when they Are finally exam ined the report said. God forbid Hal the aids virus break out among Idem Ogo Nyok added. Soviet officials have said Hal then arc Only 20 people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the soviet Union and thai at Are foreigners. For six months. Lobed cd wrote he donned old clothes and went on the Road in search of the soviet Union Bichi social outcasts and Bro Yagi tramps. The geography of the on Casl is the whole coun try lab Cdv wrote. He said soviets from the frigid far North to the Central asian republics arc living with out official papers finding shelter in basements attics boiler rooms cemeteries Railroad cars and Public dumps. Among the ramps he met. Lab Cdv wrote were educated people a seventh play adv list minister a russian orthodox Clergyman a zen a Buddhist and members of the Hare Krishna Sec. The vagrants Raveling by rail and on anything with wheels slip in rough the fingers of soviet authorities because there Are employers who Are willing to hire them illegally on a Jan time basis the article said. Those who decide finally to forsake seasonal work As Cranberry pickers or woodsmen and take regular jobs Are often shunned by managers who arc reluctant to hire them he Magazine said. Government officials detain \ Grauls and beggars in Al v in towns and at railway stations to screen them for possible criminal backgrounds Ogo Nyok said legislation authorizes detention of up in a month for Pur poses of verifying vagrant1, identity. Officials must provide vagrants referred to them with a stale sanctioned Job the Maga inv said. But it said that As soon As a vagrant receives a new passport and a certificate authorising him for a Job. He is often caught up in a bureaucratic tangle and is referred from one Agency to another in a Clear attempt to get rid of him. Because of at Ilia Hassl i. Some soviet tramps and hobos strike Oul again for the open Road preferring  hardships to bureaucratic runaround and social Ostra cism the Magazine said. I be lived for is years without any papers and i m going to live for is More without any  one soviet tramp who gave up attempts to Sci a regular Job was quoted As saying As he cast his newly obtained documents in id a hobos campfire. Ogo Nyok called on local government councils to do More to provide tramps and hobos with proper jobs and housing and it said that a newly created state Bureau on social problems might devote one of  meetings to the problems of vagrancy. These outcasts Are not a silent Gray mass but people first and fore most inc Magazine said. The first step toward solv ing the problem of the outcasts is to look at them through different  philippine president Cariuda Aquino talks with he survivors of n in Murri cum milled by Jovi a mint troops Aquino meets massacre survivors vows incident will not be repeated Nam i Landa Van Philippines i l 1 Iasi Donl Corazon Aquino sat urday Iii ted survivors of a massacre committed by government troops and promised that this incident will no �. Repeated Nyu firc else. Aquino described by her press Secre tary As visibly moved Rod relatives of 17 civilians who were killed. She then hew to a military Camp to meet Wilh the sol Diers Unur investigation in the inc ii a. Aquino met for nearly two hours in an abandoned i Ilju with the relatives Many of whom wore Black dresses and wept As they told what happened press Secretary Teodoro Benigno said. I am Here to find out what the govern ment can do so that tins incident will nol be repeated. Here or an where else in the country Azumo told the lil Latys. The incident began two Days after the feb. To expiration of the cease fire Wilh the communist new people s army. A military patrol was attacked in Namu Landayan 90 Miles North of Manila and cd changed gunfire with about 70 guerrillas Over a two hour period a lieutenant and 17 civilians were killed and eight civilians were wounded local officials said. A military spokesman said seven rebels also died but no bodies were found. The pro Iii Ial gun error told Aquino survivors reported a at least i i civil tans were rounded up and shot by sol Diers after the rebels fled. In the latest fighting Between govern ment forces and she rebels seven soldiers were killed and 11 wounded in the Livorsi fighting in two weeks military officials said saturday. Two rebels also were killed in fighting thursday