European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday March 12,1967 thrives soviet paper says alcohol and ethnicity. ,. Mocha Hii been i part of Ihben woo my Norm , or thirs by not m who twi 22 pram Bra my 19 8 in 0 irony Beth not Chi four Al Thuoi Wlna Moscow a soviet cil i Zens most of them women Are making More Moonshine because of the crackdown on drinking and have turned a Rural custom into an evil Industry that thrives in cities Izvestia reported tuesday. The government newspaper said the profile of the typical Cadogon Suchik or Moonshiner also has changed with the traditional Village supplier joined by. University graduates and communist party quoted Interior minister Al expander Vlasov As saying 200people have died from drinking homemade liquor in the past i months and More stills Are being prevalence of this evil has not lessened but on the contrary is growing in Many regions of the country he said about 900.000 stills have been confiscated or voluntarily surrendered and 2,6 million liners of Moonshine or raw brew Bave been destroyed during the is months since soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev launched the Anil drinking Campaign. Last year alone he said 130,000moonshiners were tried in courts and 70,000 punished by administrative measures. Gorbachev s drive against drink ing is part of the Effort for better work discipline and increased productivity that he has pursued since gaining Power in March 1985,it has encountered much Resis Tance in a nation where drinking Isa traditional social rile and a bottle of Vodka has been an affordable accompaniment to social gather in the official press say that people frustrated by the Anli drinking policy higher prices and restrictions on Supply have tried dared to Izvestia. Everything from alcohol base medicines and hair tonics to tooth paste containing Interior minister remarks indicated that Moon shining has be come a Large commercial operation turning out Cadogon that often is i Chally tainted with hydrochloric acid chemical additives or Metal oxides. He said about 40 percent of the illegal distilleries now Are in towns Ana cities reaching from Siberia i soviet Asia to the Baltic republics in the said 61 percent of the Moonshiner known to police Are women and 4,700 card carrying members of the party or its Kom Somol youth league have been prosecuted for illegally manufacturing alcohol. A bottle of Moonshine often i Standard pay for goods and serv ices in villages he said citing the Tula Region South of Moscow where More than half the people taken to court for Moon shining made the illegal liquor to pay for everyday needs. In the kursk Region a woman bought a compact car and fattened her savings account with proceed from illegal liquor and police raid ing her Home found t i tons of raw brew Vlasov said. A ukrainian built a Tower atop his still deep in the Forest so he could Walch for unwelcome Visi tors according to Vlasov s report. He said authorities were no doing enough to discourage people from making their own liquor but tougher legislation was not the answer. Existing Laws provide fines corrective labor at lower pay and prison sentences he who buy Moonshine should be punished with the loss of such benefits As Job bonuses subsidized travel passes and govern ment assigned housing Vlasov de Izove University students in Beirut strike to protest arrests by syrian troops tie Iol it i a i. It Tail a tin am to Fcui-ih1 of Iota pc Tel Anna lit a Fri Mig Anh Lebanon up students at the am can University of Beirut went on strike wednesday to protest the arrest of 15 colleagues by syrian troops Bent on restoring Law and order to the once militia dominated institution. The strike action came a Day after syrian troop entered the University Campus searched the men s dormitories and arrested 15 students suspected of belong ing to various moslem militia groups. While All students stayed away from their class rooms there were mixed feelings Over the strike action. What happened yesterday violates the University Freedom of thought and expression. We cannot accept syrian soldiers entering the Campus and arresting who they want one of the striking students said. Another student disagreed saying i am glad the syrians did what they did. They taught these trouble makers a lesson they Are not Likely to forget. The Situa Tion at the University had become unbearable with students and professors being University in moslem West Beirut has Long been a hotbed of often armed agitators who derived their strength from the moslem militias that controlled the City until the arrival of 7,000 syrian troops More than two weeks ago. The University strike coincided with sporadic clashes around two palestinian refugee Camps in Bei rut British official criticized for ferry joke London a environment Secretary Nich Olas Ridley on tuesday made a joking reference to the British ferry disaster out raging members of parliament and prompt Teg demands for his Resig later apologized for making what he called an inappropriate Inopportune and insensitive re Mark. At a news conference Ridley was asked by a re Porter what Progress was being made to push through legislation to create Britain s 1 Ullh National Park. Turning to the architect of the Bill Environ ment undersecretary William Waldegrave Ridley said the Bill was going full steam ahead. Although he is the Pilot of the Bill he has no got his front doors open Ridley added. The British ferry Herald of free Enterprise Cap sized off Belgium on Friday killing More than 130 passengers and Crew members. The vessel was swamped by water that poured through its open Bow doors. The reason for the Accident is not yet known. Ridley later said i deeply regret this inadvertent error and apologize the labor party s environment spokesman John Cunningham said Ridley s remarks display a crass and appalling insensitivity. He is no longer fit Lobold world today quake forces Ecuador to cancel debt payments Quito Ecuador a the government cancelled payments for the rest of the year on ill $8,2 billion foreign debt following Strong Earth quakes and mudslides that Cut or its main Oil pipeline killed an estimated 300 people and left about 4.000 others missing. Air Force planes and helicopters wednesday continued to search the Remote Jungles of Eastern Ecuador where provincial officials said Village were buried by giant mudslides triggered by the quakes last thursday and villages could not be reached by land because roads and Bridges were washed mudslides also destroyed a 25-Milr stretch of the nation s main Oil pipeline forcing Hall to Oil production and exports. Bomb kills 1 after Ira lures police to store Belfast Dpi Irish Republican army guerrillas lured police to a store by staging a Decoy robbery and then triggered a bomb by Remote control killing one policeman authorities Saint wednesday. Police said two masked men one armed with a crowbar ransacked a Candy store in a Roma Catholic Section or the City tuesday night and were called to the store and when hey got out of their armoured land Rover guar Rillas apparently watching nearby set off the bomb placed in a nearby blast hurled an officer identified As Peter Nesbitt 32, into the Road and he was pronounced dead. Responsibility was claimed by the outlawed Ira. . Ambassador misses making speech in s. Africa Johannesburg up an adminis Lra live foul up caused . Ambassador Edward Perkins to miss a corporate banquet where hews to be the guest speaker an embassy official said was in no Way a snub . Embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Pryor told s business Day in a front Page report wednesday said Perkins did not show up monday night at a function arranged by the lib erty life insurance , the first Black . Ambassador to South Africa failed to keep another social engagement recently. Business Day reported but the newspaper did not Liberty life official said the company raised the Issue with the , embassy in Preto Ria. Vow says $280 million lost through forged documents Wolfsburg Germany up Volks Wagen a said tuesday it lost at least 480 Mil lion Marks $280 million through foreign cur Rency manipulations that it suspects were illegal. Volkswagen said documents supposedly hedging part of the company i huge foreign income against a decline in me Dollar had been forge the company did not give details of the manipulation but it apparently involved Dollar options on International currency changes. The German automobile company said it a asked authorities to investigate the matter and might bring changes of embezzlement and Forg Ery of documents against unidentified persons. Indian villagers forbidden to worship deity in nude new Delhi India a police kept3,000 residents of a Southern Indian Village in Doois and put up roadblocks tuesday to enforce government ban on nude worship of a hindu Are police everywhere the worshippers Are scared. It appears the government is serious in imposing the ban,1 said. Nagraj a United news of India reporter in Bangalore the capital of Kamala a state
