European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stalls and stripes Friday april 24, 1987 residents near chernobyl in Good health soviets say Moscow a officials said thursday that most at least 31 people died Anil hundreds were injured in the april 26. 1986 explosion and Ore at one of four reactors at the Plant in the soviet Ukraine. The soviets wailed three Days before reporting the occident which forced the evacuation of 135,000 soviets und released a Cloud of radiation that spread worldwide. Leonid Lilyin. Vice president of the Academy of med ical sciences and director of the soviet Institute of biophysics told a news conference that 196 of the 209survivors diagnosed As having radiation sickness had recovered from the worst effects of the disease. Those people can come Back to work but they still have to follow certain restrictions about Contact with radioactivity in their work he said. Thirteen people have become invalids of different  lie said human skin suffered much and in some cases these people will have to undergo plastic reconstruction  Lilyin also told reporters that soviet doctors had not recommended abortions to any women exposed to the radiation and reported no cases of birth defects linked to the chernobyl Accident. The prospects for those diagnosed As having radiation sickness is quite Good Lilyin said but All these people for All their lives will be under close medical  Nikolai Lukonina minister of atomic Power Genera Tion said the current temperature inside the ruined no 4 reactor is 98 degrees celsius just shy of the boiling Point. He said it has fallen 42 degrees celsius i Nee november. The officials said farm products water and soil conditions in the Ukraine Are largely Normal. Asked whether the soviet Union erred in not report ing the Accident sooner Lilyin repealed that authorities initially lacked information on the extent of the prob Lem. The very fact of emission cannot prove this is a Large scale Accident he said. Lukonina said the soviet Union had decided prior to the chernobyl Accident to Stop building that Type of Graphite cooled reactor because of the High investment required. However plants under construction will be finished he said. The chernobyl explosion was the world s worst nuclear Power Plant disaster. Soviet authorities have blamed it on an unauthorized Experiment that went out of control. Abbas will leave Plo Council does t fit9 group s image now Algiers Algeria up Mohammed Abbas convicted of masterminding he Achille Laura Hijack ing said wednesday he will leave the governing com Mittee of the Palestine liberation organization in what officials said was an Effort to belter the group s image. He does t fit into the Plo image we want to project now said one official attending the Plo s parliament in exile known As the Palestine National Council. The 340-Membcr Council of newly reunited Plo factions this week will elect a new Plo executive committee he group s governing Board headed by Yasser Arafat. Abbas Leader of the Palestine liberation front said he has not split with the executive committee. Abbas said his departure from the panel was pan of a reorganization following the decision of hard tin syrian bused factions to rejoin Arafat s mainstream group. A court in Genoa Italy sentenced Abbas in absent a to serve a life sentence for masterminding the Hijack ing of the italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean in october i9s5. A us citizen was killed in the takeover. Algeria has allowed Abbas to come and go at will although the United states and Italy consider him a fugitive from Justice. Neither country hag an extradition treaty with Algeria Abbas said his Iraq based Palestine liberation front and the syr Ian based group of the Abbas same name headed by Taa Tat Yacoub have agreed to reunite and he will leave As general secretory. Soviet weekly prints Pasternak letters telling of pressure not to publish Book Moscow a novelist Boris Pasternak was pressured by soviet authorities to try to rail Publica Tion of doctor Zhivago in the West the author complained in a letter published by a weekly Magazine. I had some troubles 1 was under certain moral pressure which was Repul-1 Sive in its duplicity and i j had to submit partially i Pasternak wrote in dc-1 Comber 1957 10 poet Elena Biagini raft who Hud i sent hint a idler of sup-1 port. I had to take part in an attempt to Stop publication of my novel some where very far from her and in a Way so unreal that this attempt was Des tined to fail he wrote. The letter was Amon several published in the Pasternak current edition of oco Nyok As part of 1 Asir Nak s return to Poti tical favor Pasternak who won the 1958 nod prize  Litera Ture Wai Cupelle from the soviet write Union after writing doctor Zhivago and was forced to renounce his award. He died in disgrace in 1960. Soviet officials say the novel will be published for the first time in the soviet Union next year. Ogo Nyok said it published some of Pasternak s tet ters in connection with the new interest evoked by the Book s upcoming publication. It described the Post world War ii period during which the novel was written As one of extreme administrative and ideological  in an apparent reference to an ideological Campaign against some writers in the postwar years under Josef Stalin Pasternak wrote of the  it caused him and his wife. At the beginning All this which happens now did not affect me at All he said. But More often and often Zina started coming Back from the City nil unhappy suffering and even old because of the feeling of damaged Pride for myself he said. When the novel was finished according 10 agony of the manuscript was sent to novy Mir new world Magazine and the stale publishing House. But those plans got postponed and then were frustrated because a number of very influential writers spoke out against  Ogo Nyok said. A ravage Campaign of political denunciation then started. The Moscow Rili is Union called for him to be stripped of his citizenship. In the 1957 letter to do Ginina Pasternak wrote. If the Hook had been really published in Short ened and censored form the past or the present Trou Bles would not have  world today Nicaragua complains of salvadoran telecasts Managua Nicaragua u i the telecommunication and postal ministry said Here wednesday thai two salvadoran television stations arc sending transmission signals to Nicaragua of news reports thai distort regional events. Telecommunications minister col. Loop Otto Rivas said channels 4 and 12 from Al Salvador arc invading Nicaragua airwaves with anti sandinista programs and form part of . Aggression against  he told the pro government Al Nuevo Diario newspaper the programs intend to show the some Dola past was better and nicaraguans wish its  the Bandit Meta front came to Power in july 19 79 during a popular uprising thai toppled the 45-year-old dictatorship of the .-Backcd Wornom family the programs distort the reality that the country is going through Rivas said. In san Salvador the director of one of the salvadoran stations denied the charges saying the Channel had problems broadcasting pro Grams to Eastern sections of the country. Divers retrieve treasures from sunken Medina London a divers say Tiev Are daily recovering thousand of dollars Worth of jewels and Art treasures from the wreck of the British steamship Medina at the Bottom of the English Channel. A German submarine torpedoed the 2,000 ton passenger vessel in 1917 during world War 1, sending it to the Bottom with treasures Sajt by some experts to be Worth millions of dollars. Independent television news said in wednesday evening report that the wreck might contain  Indian Bronze Buddha figures Worth millions the ship Sank carrying gifts from Indian Maha Rajah to British Royalty and jewels and Indian Art treasures owned by oct. Sir Charles Carm cruel Monro the army s commander in chief in the then British Possession of India from 19l6to 1920.itn quoted the divert As saying that so far they have recovered bout 6,000 item of jewel by and Oriental Art from the wreck. One of the first significant finds a Gold Chain was reported on Marco is. Esther the fallen elephant gets a lift from air bags Dudley England a when Esther an african elephant fell on her Side firemen toed airbags to help her get Back on her feet and escape possible suffocation by her own 2-ton weight. The staff at Dudley zoo tried for nearly an hour to help her but eventually had to Call the West midlands fire brigade. The firemen forced airings under the 11-year-old elephant and rolled her on to her stomach when the bags inflated. As soon As she got on to her stomach she was Able to get up on to her feet. We arc All very relieved said zoo curator Chris round. An elephant lying on in Side is rather like a beached whale. If they lie there too Long the eventually suffocate because of the weight of the body compressing on the lungs round said. 3 major japanese airlines hit by 24-hour walkout Tokyo f a pilots from three major Jap anese air carriers and some flight attendants went on strike after wage negotiations broke Down spokesmen for the airlines said thursday. The 24-hour walkout began at Midnight wednesday when about 1,500 pilots and 141 flight attendants from the flagship Carrier Japan airlines left their jobs. Jal spokesman Mazulo a Mamolo said thk-1 strike could continue for another 24 hours if negotiations failed again thursday. Domestic flights were most affected. Jal also Cavil eld nine overseas flights from Tokyo to san Francisco new York Singapore Hong Kong Moscow London and other cities. Pilots unions Jil Jal All Nippon airways and air Nippon joined by Jal s Cabin Crew Union called Leif strikes Hirn annul negotiations on Spring wage hikes Colb pull Laic