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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 11, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 9 poll finds Char is smartest Dana we. London Cap the British think Prince Charles ii the smartest member of the Royal family and Princess Diana the Lent intelligent according to i poll published tuesday. Queen Elizabeth ii is inc hardest working least outspoken and most serious member of the family and Prince Andrew s wife Sarah is the. Most pleas and and most fun mid the nationwide Survey published by London s daily express newspaper. Asked which of the nine Best known members of the Royal family ii us most told Lignel 47 percent chose Charles and 38 percent the Queen. Diana came in Ian at 3 percent one Point behind Sarah. Sixty seven percent thought the Queen the most hard working ahead of her daughter pro Mccu Anne 50 percent and Charles 4t percent. Andrew the Duke of York got 3 percent and Sarah the Duchess was last with i percent. Sarah topped the most pleasant list with 37 per cent edging out Queen Mother Elizabeth 36 per cent. The Queen s husband. Prince Philip and her youngest son Edward hired last place with 6 per cent. Sarah also was rated As the most fun with 55 percent ahead of Andrew 50 percent and Diana 35 percent. Only 3 percent thought the Queen the most fun and 4 percent Prince Philip. Philip was judged the most outspoken with 6 percent ahead or Anne at 40 percent. The Queen and Edward both with 1 percent were considered the least outspoken. The poll was carried out Lail month by Market opinion research International among 1,062 people Over is years old no statistical Martin of error was stated. 5 cultural activists go on trial in Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovakia a five cultural activists accused of making $40.000 during two years of illegal pub Lishing went on trial tuesday in what one dissident called an attack against free Dom the five Are leading members of the jazz Section an Independent publishing and musical organization that claims 7,000 members. The trial has drawn Strong criticism from human rights groups and Western governments. Jazz Section Leader Karel Srp so and Vladimir Kouril were escorted into the courtroom in Handcuffs. Defendants Josef skalnik Tomas Kii Vanek and Cestmir Hanal who were re leased from jail in december and Jan uary tending the results of the trial also Sercu court tuesday. Vlastimil Drda and his son Milos were arrested with the other defendant on sept. 2, 1986, but were excused from the trial on health grounds. Jazz Section the War in Afghanistan Legal adviser Josef Praia monday said he expected their Case to be separated from these proceedings. An observer of the trial commenting on condition of anonymity tuesday said the Case against the Dordas was formally separated from the others and the father and son would be tried later in its report on the Start of the trial the stale run ctr news Agency said the five Are charged with committing the criminal act of unauthorized  it said that Between oct 22, 1984, and september 1986, they organized and secured without the necessary per Mission continued production and distribution of  according to the official report the live defendants made an illegal prom of about $40,000. If convicted they could be sentenced to two to eight Yean in prison. Srp Kouril and skalnik also Are charged with preparing to damage socialist property a crime punishable by one to six years in jail. Playwright and dissident Vaclav Haver was among the approximately 200 supporters who jammed the corridor outside the courtroom. Havel and five other human rights activists were sentenced on oct. 23, 1979, to prison terms on charges of subversion. This trial is an attack against them an attack against Freedom Havel said. A Man with a camera escorted by two other men in plainclothes walked through the crowd taking pictures of those present. Three Western reporters including the Vienna Austria Bureau chief of the voice of America were issued passes to attend the trial but Western diplomats who have regularly attended human rights trials in past years were barred from the proceedings. In Washington the state department on monday urged the czechoslovak government to cease its persecution of the group saying that the trial had been contrived. To limit further Independent cultural activities on the part of the country s  Hanal told reporters the judge had Dis missed an Appeal by him and Krivanek to have Prusa appear on their behalf in court. The judge said Prusa probably would appear As a witness Hanat said. The jazz Section was one of the few groups in the 1970s that managed to function within Czechoslovakia s official structures while producing innovative music books and pasters not accepted by government run publishing House. The group wot formed in 1971 within the official musicians1 Union with he aim of promoting jazz and other modern music in Czechoslovakia. After Banning an annual jazz festival involving several non conformist groups in 1981. In 1983 the culture ministry created another jazz organization the czech jazz society to attract away peo ple from the jazz Section. These efforts failed and in 1984 the musicians Union was abolished. 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Western analysts estimate that the soviet Union maintains More than 110,000 troops in Afghanistan to help fight moslem guerrillas backed by the United states China and Iran. The diplomats quoted reliable sources As saying that a total of six battalions of afghan paramilitary troops would be deployed at Mazar i Shane 215 Miles Northwest of Kabul and Gunduz 17$ Miles North of the capital both towns Are located about 40 Miles South of the soviet Border. They said the afghan troops numbering about 2,500, would replace an unspecified number of soviet troops being withdrawn to the soviet Union. One Diplomat said there is speculation an announcement that those soviet contingents will be with drawn will be made on Afghanistan s new year s Day. March 21, following the latest round of talks in Geneva Switzerland. Delegates from Afghanistan and Pakistan Are currently holding indirect talks in Geneva to end the civil War and repatriate about 5 million refugees living in Pakistan and Iran. A settlement is said to hinge on timetable for a full soviet troop withdrawal and on whether the afghan communist party would share Power with other factions. The diplomats also said that on feb. 28. Guerrillas clashed with soviet and afghan forces at Taj Kargar in Northern Namangan province near the soviet Border. Several afghan soldiers As Well As an afghan and a soviet officer died in the fighting the diplomats said. They said that on the following Day the resistance forces attacked the nearby town of Lazarati Sultan killing Between 30 and 35 afghan soldiers and sustain ing four casualties. The diplomats gave no further details. In another development a Diplomat said afghan troops on saturday fired into the air to disperse a rally organized by parents protesting the drafting of their sons into the army. Norse envoy s chauffeur accused of Selling cocaine new York a the chauffeur for the norwegian ambassador to the United nations sold cocaine by the Pound from the ambassador s Lincoln Continental according to Federal authorities Rolando. A. Vicerra is of Queens was arrested monday afternoon As he drove in Midtown Manhattan allegedly to deliver a Pound of cocaine to under cover agents officials said. Vicerra a filipino living legally in the United states and two other Queens men in the car were arrested said Robert Slang spokesman for the drug enforce ment administration. The car has diplomatic License plates but none of the men has diplomatic immunity Slang said. Ambassador Tom Vraa Lsen his staff and the norwegian government were not involved he said. The arrest took place around the Corner from the norwegian Mission to the United nations about half a mile from the in. Headquarters. During a six month undercover opera Tion Vicerra tried to get undercover buyers to come onto the grounds of the United nations apparently to evade police scrutiny but the agents refused. Strong said. Investigators believe Vicerra did most of his alleged dealing from the car he said. The Bottom line is that when he was t driving the ambassador he was doing these other activities Strang said. We know that they be been dealing in Multi pounds dealing in Pound Quanti ties on a weekly  the ambassador was off duty monday when sought for comment according to his Secretary Crete Ranberg. He won t be Happy she said. Erik Tellmann Deputy ambassador at the norwegian Mission confirmed that Vicerra drove for the ambassador but he declined to comment further. Ranberg said Vicerra had been working at the Mission since before she started there in 1982, according to Slang undercover agents posing As drug dealers first bought an ounce of cocaine from Vicerra. They later bought a Pound of the drug. The arrest was made alter officer arranged to buy another Pound he said. The other two men arrested were Moreo Lopez Molina 37, and Alejandro Rodriguez 28, both of Queens and both colombians living legally in the United slates Slang Saidt the three were charged with posses sing cocaine with the intent to sell it  
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