European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes tuesday february 24, 1987 cheering friends m Moscow Greef freed dissident begun jewish activist Josef begun is curried by friends. A photo Moscow a jewish activist Josef begun tame Home monday to a Welcome by cheering friends after More than three years in prison for his political activities. Begun was hoisted onto the shoulders of some of the dozens of friends and supporters who turned out at the Kazan train station where he arrived from Chi Lopol prison 500 Miles East of Moscow. He said he was insanely Happy and vowed to do All in my Power to Sec that All jewish prisoners Are freed As soon As  begun 5s, was Given a seven year sentence in 1983 on charges of anti soviet activity stemming from Arti cles he wrote on the teaching of hebrew he was pardoned last week by the supreme soviet the country s nominal parliament and was released from jail Friday. On monday he called his Freedom a sign that the Kremlin is trying to present a More Liberal image to the world. Bui he said Only Freedom for All political prisoners and a lifting of emigration barriers will show How real is the process of democratization hat is so widely declared in the soviet Union. Begun was freed As part of what soviet officials have said is an ongoing review of sentences for dissidents who were sent to Tabor Camps and prisons under Law that prohibit anti soviet agitation and propaganda and anti soviet  the supreme soviet has released about Iso dissidents this month. Officials say another Iso eases arc being reviewed. Begun s release came one week after five straight Days of protests in Moscow organized on his behalf by his son Boris and his wife Inna. Emerging from the train in his Blue prison coat and a Brown fur hat. Begun was surrounded by friends a dwelt wishers who tossed him carnations and tulips and shouted the hebrew greeting  he appeared gaunt and tired after what he called inhuman conditions at the prison where he had been on a two week hunger strike for his Freedom. Survivor identifies demo Cmuk As death Camp s sadistic guard Jerusalem a sobbing in his chair a survivor of the Treblinka death Camp monday identified John Demjan Juk As the sadistic nazi guard known As Ivan the terrible who beat prisoners with pipes and bayonets and mutilated their corpses. That l him silting Over there said Pincha Epstein pointing to Demjan Juk after being asked to identify a picture of Ivan from an album of photos. Epstein 61, was the drat Camp survivor to testify in the trial. Demjan Juk born in the Ukraine settled in Cleveland after world War ii. He is accused of being one of two guards who turned on the Gas Cham Ber engines to  jews Al Treblinka in nazi occupied Poland from 1942 to 1943. This is he Man the Man Silling Over there. Age has of course changed him but not so that be would become unrecognizable Epstein said Hil lace turning red. He pounded the stand repeatedly and sometimes shouted. Some spectators who applauded were silenced by the presiding , 66, who was stripped of his . Do ii ship before being extradited to Israel last year denies the charges. He says that he never was in Treb Linka and that he is it victim of mistaken  convicted he could receive the death penalty. Demjan Juk s american attorney Mark o Connor questioned Epstein about the specifies of Demjan Juk s appearance. O Connor has based his defense on the Contention that the actual Ivan was killed in a Camp uprising in 1943. Epstein who now lives in Israel told o Connor he watched Demjan Juk disembarking from an air plane Al Ben Gurion Airport in february 1986 when he was extradited to Israel. When he got off the plane i saw the Way he walked. I saw Nis movements As i remembered them from Treblinka Epstein  Are certain features which after so Many years Are marked in one s memory said Epstein. I Sec Ivan every night he is imprinted in my mind. 1 cannot rid myself of these  Epstein said that while imprisoned Al Treblinka he was responsible for removing corpses from the Gas Cham Ber. This Ivan would come out of the engine room and beat us mercilessly he recounted. Sometimes he would have a Bayonet sometimes a sword sometimes a Metal  Epstein managed to escape from Treblinka during an uprising on aug. 3,1943. 2 East germans escape through Snow Munich a two East German men camouflaged themselves in White costumes and escaped safely across the Snow covered Border lowest Germany monday bavarian Border police said. Police said the men aged is and 29, reported they had set off alarm sirens while climbing Over a Border Fence into Northern Bavaria state. Bui communist Border guards were apparently unable to spot them because of their White costumes which were ankle length tunics made from . Early morn ing fog also must have helped the bavarian police said. The East German guards have orders to shoot escapees. The men were picked up by a German driving along a country Road near the Border. He took them to a bavarian Border police station police said. Police said the men were not injured in the escape although they were cold and tired and their White tunics were upped from clambering across the Border barriers. Some of the Snow they had waded through . They were not identified in keeping with West Ger Man policy on East German escapees. The escape brought to 16 the number of East Ger mans who have led across the East German Border to West Germany or into West Berlin since the beginning of the year. One week ago a 29-year-old East German Man fled Over East German Border fortifications to escape into West Germany s lower a ony state. World today marxist civilian regime will govern Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopia not twelve years after military officers overthrew emperor Haile Selassie this country sunday became the people s democratic Republic of Ethiopia with marxist party As the go id ing Force of the stale the changes went into effect is Ethiopia s Leader a col Mengistu Haile Mariam announced that 81 percent of voters who took Partin a National referendum on feb. I had approved a Constitution providing for civilian Rule Ming Isle said 18 percent of the voters voted against the Constitution and i percent of the ballots were  said % percent of Ethiopia s electorate of 14 million took part in the referendum the first of its kind in Ethiopia s 2.500-Ycar history. Salvadoran saboteurs suspected in 4 blazes san Salvador Al Salvador up fires that razed three of the capital s largest supermarkets and an empty Cinema probably were caused by incendiary bombs at two of the Sites a fire inspector said  of the capital s largest supermarkets ail belonging to the Todos Chain simultaneously burned Laic saturday causing thousands of Dol Lars of damage but injuring no  hours earlier the Regis theater near the presidential Palace was set ablaze when in was empty authorities said. Although no group has claimed responsibility Tor the actions authorities believe saboteurs started the blazes. East German scientists hold Public forum on aids Berlin a state employed virus re searchers and doctors conducted East Ger Many s first Public forum on aids sunday with More than 1,000 citizens jamming into a lecture Hall to get advice on the deadly illness. Until Early this year aids an Issue Mak ing almost daily headlines in the West was not acknowledged to exist in this soviet bloc slate. Bui the official silence was broken earlier this month when the stale run Media reported the first known death from  sunday East Berlin citizens crammed into a clinic lecture Hall with scores of others huddling near loudspeakers outside to hear the first stale sponsored forum on aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Report of foreign troops in North Korea denied Tokyo a North Korea sunday said there Are no foreign military personnel on North korean soil and it is not rapidly building up its armed  commentary in the official communist party newspaper Rodfong Shimun said de tense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told a .congressional hearing that foreign military personnel Are in North Korea and the communist nation has rapidly reinforced its military  is a whopping lie totally contradictory to the facts said the commentary carried in part by North Korea s official korean Central news Agency. Tie commentary was monitored in  said North Korea has made sincere efforts to remove the military and political confrontation on the korean Peninsula Noi to invade the  officials agree to remove Convent from Auschwitz Geneva Switzerland a senior euro Pean roman Catholic Leaden agreed sunday after months of controversy to Honor a jewish request to remove a carmelite Convent from the grounds of the former concentration Camp of Auschwitz in Poland a joint declaration from the meeting of 18 jewish and roman Catholic leaders said that within two years the Convent will be removed and a new Catholic jewish Center will be established outside the grounds of the former Camp it urged Bishops from other european coun tries to assist in the project