European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes sunday april 26,1987 George will Soldier statesman Taylor had the right idea the towns of Abilene kan., and Lark and Keyt Cuvillo mo., Are within a Circle Juil 220 Miles in diameter. The Yare he boyhood Home of Dwight Eisen Hower and the birthplaces of Omar Brad Ley and Maxwell Taylor respectively when Hitler was weighing the risks Orwar he did not give due weight to Hal Fertile Circle. Taylor the grandson of a Confederate Soldier was a Soldier statesman worthy of comparison with George Marshall his death Al age 85 has come Al a moment when the news of the Day the latest venture in arms control touches some of the issues shout which Taylor was years ago a prescient thinker and Lucid writer. Taylor a Man of thought and action who jumped out of air planes and quoted Polybius to Congress move quickly up Fife ladder. He was just 44 when. In september 1945, he became West Point second youngest superintendent. The youngest in 1919, was Douglas Macarthur 39. He was a Young general when a new form of fight ing airborne made him the first american general to fight in France. In the Book sin annies in Norman . Rosenthal  John pc can argues that each of the armies operating there in inc summer of 944 american Canadian British French polish and German was a Mirror of its own society and its  certainly those Brash american paratroopers were. Confusion is Normal in com Bat and was extraordinary among the Parachute forces dropped past the beaches on a Day. But the fluidity of the confusion suited a strength of the Ameri can character. As was the Case five months later during the crisis of the Bat the of the bulge where Taylor again played a Large Par american forces excelled when required to organize them selves into Small groups and then improvise their tactics. Keegan says that what Taylor paratroopers did was appropriate for americans like pioneers in an unknown land ignorant of its language and landmarks Uncertain of what the next Thicket or Stream Bottom might bold confident Only in themselves and their Mastery of the weapons in their hands the Best and bravest among them had stifled their fears marched Forth and planted the roots of settlement in the soil that was there for the  Many of today weapons arc As unlike those of 1944 As today transportation is unlike the mule drawn trolley in inc key Tasville of Taylor youth. But he insisted on the importance of the elemental the infantry even indeed especially in the nuclear age. In swords and Plo shares his 1972 Memoir he said my conclusions As to our future prospects As a world Power Are not encouraging we Are running the grave risk or permitting our democracy to destroy itself though its own sex  he was particularly concerned about preserving the ability Ofa democracy to resort to arms for reasons other than  the flawed execution of a flawed strategy in Vietnam did not he said re peal the fact that non coercive Means Are insufficient to Cope with the ideological and other motivations of International violence. And without the limited War option and the forces that go with it we have Little substance with which to de fend our interests Taylor a unifier of theory and prac Tice was author of the doctrine of flexible  it was primarily an at tempt to Cope with wan of National liberation such As North Vietnam War of Conquest against South Vietnam however his Point is germane to the current Rush to remove incr Mcdial Range missiles from Europe. They Are one component of the spectrum of . Options in containing the soviet threat. The spectrum extends from Reliance on conventional forces in which the  Viet Union has an overwhelming adva. Tags to the threat to use strategic nuclear forces a threat decreasingly credible in the face of growing soviet strategic superiority. Taylor who faced his share of danger understood that the world is not necessarily made safer by reducing the Range of choices that leaders of free nations have when responding to the use or threatened use of Force by aggressive totalitarians. To a communist enemy he said the cold War is a total unending conflict with the United states and its allies without formal military hostilities to be sure but conducted with the same discipline and determination As formal  if those words and hence the Man seem out of tune with the limes  much the worse for these times. 20 forgotten captives languish in soviet prison this is addressed to those Many americans who believe strongly that Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to Lead his country into a new pm of political and personal freedoms and thai we should do what we can to support him. There Are those myself included who have  the purpose of what follows is not to debate what is going of in the soviet Union but to Call out the names of 20 political captives in the soviet prison system who Are among the most suffering hoping that doing to now might bring heir liberation closer. Ii seems reasonable that if those americans who have Confidence in Gorbachev were to make them selves heard about these men it might carry special weight. They can do  by writing to Gorbachev who is responsible for. The Kab the political police army that has imprisoned them or to the prisoners themselves. The prisoners will probably never get the letters but their jailers will report to higher ranks in the Kab. Russian dissidents believe that signs of interest fro the outside can be of help. At least it will diminish the particular sadness of political victims who believe the world is indifferent. These prisoners an not guerrillas or terrorists or leaders of conspiracies against the soviet state. They have been imprisoned for what they said thought or wrote about the freedoms in which they believe. One prisoner was jailed because he carved a sculpture in Honor of american liberties. Their crime is called anti soviet  their address .r, 6 8263, pen Skaya oblast a Husovsky rain pos clock Kuching Chr vs-389-36 this is the address of vs-3b9, a targe prison in inc urals in the Perm area where Many prisons Are Situ ated. Perm is a vast District closed to foreigners. The last three numbers Are known to every soviet dissident they designate the special regimen Pris on within a Anson where political prisoners who have not been broken by previous jail terms arc sent to be locked up starved destroyed mentally and physically. These arc inc forgotten prisoners whose release the soviet Union will not discuss. Not one prisoner in 36-1 has been released under the decrees freeing other dissidents. Nor has their treatment been made More bearable. They War striped convict clothes spend much of their cell Lime in solitary and work Al hard Tabor. In the morning they arc fed bits of old fish and watery Gruel. 7 cant com Kaw russian a Mew about the Wenj 55ml in the afternoon entrails or lard and odorous soup in the evening the soup. It is a diet designed to keep the prisoners in perpetual starvation and nausea. They come from All Over the soviet Union. What they have in common is that they Are prisoners of conscience who could not be broken. Released they again offended by writing or talking about political or religious freedoms. Then they Are sent to 36-1. The Only time they leave 36-1 is for Whit is called special interrogation. Then they Are brought Back still unbroken. Ten escaped in inc last few years by dying in 36-1. Some have spent 10 years in political prisons. Balys Gajauskas is now 61 years old. He is a lithuanian who did not accept the absorption of his country into in soviet Union. His essays translations of Freedom writings into lithuanian including sol Heni syn have Cost him 35 ears of his life thirty five i Earp Kuban he was sent Back to prison for the third Lime for creating a wooden can ing depicting the statue of Liberty. That was in 9976 and it was sup posed to be a Bicentennial offering. These Are the other names listed for Honor take Azat Arshakyan Gunars Astra Leonid Borodin Mykola Horbal Mikhailo Horyn Vitaly Kalyn Chen to Ivan Kandyba lev Lukyanenko Vasil Mazurak Ashot Navasardyan. Mart Olav wiktus Vyacheslav Ostro Glyds Vasif Osienko Viktoras Pelkus Grigory Prikhodko Semyon Skalich Enn Carto Fyod Otruba of adv. Among them Are poets a psychologist teachers workers a philologist. Most of them were first imprisoned in Stalin into and remain imprisoned in Gorba Chev s., the . Helsinki watch committee set up to Sec i Moscow is living up to its promises of human rights has More information 36 West 44th Street. New York . 10036. So does the Center for democracy 3s8 West 30th Street. New York . 10001 if enough people write to the prisoners in 36 i somehow the word will gel through to them and they will nut feel forgot in. A now Vort to Hwi