European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pa0o 8 the stars and stripes wednesday May 6,1987 Waldheim says he May file lawsuit Over defamation Vienna Austria a president Kurt wild Vienna s Independent conservative an spar presiden Heim Laid he May sue unidentified people in the United states and Austria Over what he celled outrageous Deta Matitu conceiving his role in the German army in world War ii. To an austrian television interview monday Wald Heim said he had ordered attorneys in both countries to determine in which Concrete form we can file lawsuits Over allegations he bad a role in nazi executions and deportation of jews and partisans in the Balkan. The . Justice department last week barred Waldheim from the United Stales saving it had Evi Dence be was involved in wartime atrocities. Outrageous defamation have been advanced and it ii time that one takes Steps against these defamation by Legal Means said Waldheim a former . Secretary general who repeatedly has denied such charges. He did not specify who he might sue. Asked if the news Media might be a target of Possi ble lawsuits he replied that will become Clear to the course of Contact i have with my Legal advisers in America and of course also in Austria. I will not hesitate to take Steps against defamation also in Austria because i am nut willing to accept that any longer he said. The mass circulation Vienna daily Kurrier tuesday said politicians Are debating whether the government should finance a costly lawsuit. Vienna newspaper die Presse said Waldheim was seeking to have parliament adopt a Resolution backing him. Waldheim served a lieutenant in the German army in the Balkans during much of the War. Follow ing repeated charge by jewish groups the . Justice department last week said evidence demonstrated he had assisted or otherwise participated in. The Transfer of civilian prisoners to she is for exploitation As slave labor the mass deportation of civilians to concentration and death Camps and the deportation of jews from greek islands end the town of banja Luka Yugoslavia to concent Stion and death  Waldheim monday said tit Wauls Chancellor Franz Wranitzky to appoint a commission of military historians to investigate his wartime activities and announced plans to take Legal action in the United states and possibly in Austria. Earlier monday the Austria press Agency quoted Waldheim As saying he wanted to pick the commission members himself but Hii spokesman Gerald Chris Tian later said this Wai a misunderstand tag. In the television interview Waldheim said we will decide who ii selected for he commission. I would like representatives from abroad to Lake part in such a commission of military historian americans britons frenchmen germans Alj who know the military Hierarchy he said. Gorbachev s reforms not Means to impress Wessex Voy says Washington a soviet Leader Mikhai Gorbachev s policy of greater openness or Ajas nost ii intended Lor Domestic consumption rather than to impress the West the recently retired . Ambassador to the soviet Union said. The policy is primarily a Means to mobilize the intelligentsia around the communist party because the party has failed Arthur Hartman said in recent interview. He admits that the party failed. To get things organized. Bigot corrupt. What be wants now is Lor uie intelligentsia some of whom were party members to play the role. That the party is supposed to play to produce solutions because he really has t produced any solutions Hartman said Gorbachev s liberalization policy is tuning the most racist acc from Middle Jive managers who Lor years have dominated the centrally planned econ Cit Rybin have nothing to ddwitbmaldrigaproducc1 the most influential group in the military i think want change he said. They have reached the conclusion that if the soviet Union Falls behind visibly and perceptibly they Are a weaker world Power for All of the military strength that they  the Koft secret police have not challenged Gorba Chev because they probably have the most accurate picture of How bad things Are on another Lopie Hanman a 61-year-old career Diplomat who retired in March says he u angered by the hostile reception he has received from americans bemused of Security breaches at the Moscow embassy. It if not Happy Welcome. I am not very Happy about the accusations that Are being made har Toyiaa Saulte bad 40 Yean of ervice Andave years of it spent in that Godforsaken place. I deserve a better Deal americans overestimate How much privacy you can have in the soviet Union he said. You can have very Little. It is a closed society. It is a police state he said. My wife and 1 could not have t private conversation unless we went deep into the Woods or on a Street where we did not normally  All foreign. Jovici unum Are spied upon especially am x Are considered the greatest threat to Cal a a rown paranoid Tyler centuries of invasion ast and West lays Hafl Man and no amount t Midi nation is Likely to change the russian Banc. It to very difficult to change 300 or 400 year of Rutt Stan pct the the Way they at foreigners in their capital he  arrived a Motcow a october 1981 after Termini Ai ambassador to France from 1977-81 and assist ant Secretary of stale for european attain from 1974-77. He had a dose View of four Kremlin Leaden Leonid Brezhnev who died in 1982 Yuri Andropov who died in1984 Konstanin Chernenko who died in 198 and Mik Hail Gorbachev. He is sceptical about gorbachev1 re  see a lot of surface change bul i have a feeling. That people had been waiting for a new Type or soviet leadership for so Long that they Are Reading All their Hopes and desires into this Man before he has actually  is a believer in the marxist Leninist system and he believes that what has been wrong with in up to now is that the brightest people in the country have not been working to modernize it and that be can find ways to make it work without changing the Basic doctrine Hartman  or four years hence he said somebody a going to come into the leadership of the soviet Union and say hey. All of these changes Are not really doing what we need. We Are falling further behind in key Fields at that Point they have a Choice of going in a authoritarian direction or in a liberalizing direction. My Reading of russian history is that they will try t More authoritarian sol Ulion before they go to liberalism a order to improve the Economy he said Gorba Chev needs a period of Calm in his foreign relations. To bring in More technology to have More Trade with the outside  said the proposed treaty on medium Range missiles in Europe would be enough of an agreement to give Gorbachev breathing room. Vorla today Southern come chief meets with Pinochet Santiago Chile a army Gen. John Galvin chief of the Ujj. Southern come met monday with president Augusto Pinochet and said they talked Soldier to Soldier apparently skirting Touchy political and diplomatic roue. Galvin and Pinochet an army Geik Al met in private at the presidential Palace in Central san Tiago. Later Calvin flew off to tour a military base in the southernmost City of Punla Arenas. It was Galvin s last scheduled visit before giving up his pan Antt based command to assume the Post of supreme military commander of the nato. Rare British wildflower attracts admiring crowds London a crowds of admirer ire flocking to a farm in Suffolk Eastern England to see a rare British wildflower the snakes Heid Fri Tquary. The drooping exotic Flower opens in late april and lasts for one or two weeks almost always in a Field kept for a Bay crop. It cannot tolerate artificial fertilizer to Carre arc Only 17 known riot when it grow com pared to 16 in 1930, says the Royal society for nature conservation the society keeps an Eye on the tites All year round and invites people to set the Dowel under supervision Ai a Way of protecting the Planti from collectors. Former communist Leader of Afghanistan in .s.r. Islamabad Pakistan a sex afghan communist Leader Habrat Karma who was re ported jailed Over the weekend is in the soviet Union for medical treatment. Radio Kabul said monday. The broadcast monitored in Islamabad Taid Karmal left for care and rat at the invitation and advice of  a Day earlier China s official Xinhua Newt Agency reported that Karmal who ceded Afghanistan s communist leadership to Nawib on May 4, 1986, bad been arrested and put Intai however neither diplomatic nor unofficial sources in the pakistani capital could confirm the report 2 men land ultralights at top of the world Paris a two French pilots landed monday on the ice pack at the North pole be coming the first men Ever to by la the top of the world in ultralight air planes the organizers of the expedition announced. The organizers in Paris said Hubert de Chev Igny and Nicolas Hulot landed their tiny Ultra Light planes at the pole at 3 2 . The pilots announced their arrival by radio to their base Camp at Resolute Bay in Canada s Northwest territories but radio communication then was broken off. For the final leg of 55 Miles de Chevigny in the avid flyer and Hulot in the mistral were left with just 18 liners of fuel apiece the organizers said. Once they arrived at the pole the pilots had to wait for a larger plane carrying fuel sup plies so they could begin their return. New race against time to help children in 88 London a sport Aid s race against time the Charity event run last year by about 20 million people in 89 countries will be repealed in september i9sb on a grander scale to help deprived children worldwide. This time we Hope of involve Ever country and inhabited territory in the world. We understand there Are 218,"sport Aid spokesman Nick Cater said tuesday. Irish Rock Singer Bob cold of the brainchild of the anti famine band Ai drive begun in 1984 that spawned sport Aid will be absent. He has gone Back to his career Cater said. He said after the last race that in was Lime now for someone else to do some  sport Aid said it has raised j35 Mil lion for famine victims in 25 african countries from several sporting events Over the past year. From the West african tropics to the Foothills of the Himalayas and the Capi tals of Europe millions of Young and old crowded the streets and sidewalks of 279 cities for the 6-mils global race on May 25,1986. Another yearlong program to raise pledges donations and merchandising to help needy children in mainly undeveloped countries will begin sept 6, when children representing six continents will Light a symbolic lame at the end of the world track and Field championships in Rome Cater Aid. The Campaign will culminate with a second global jog on sept. 11,1988