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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, July 2, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july s. 1987 the stars and stripes photos show life in siberian labor Camp brought ouf by sex Mafe Toca from siberian it or Tomt to soviet Wien a Wing on it All terrain vehicle before storting on Hunt. New York a a former so Viet political prisoner has arrived in he United Stales with hundreds or photographs taken in a siberian labor Camp where he was exiled for collecting and exhibiting underground Art. Physicist Corgi n. Mikhailov 42, said he spent three years in three siberian Camps after his exile to the Northeast Corner of the Region in1980. He said he was released from the Camp in 1983, and Carre Slid two years later and jailed in Leningrad. Mikhailov said he was released Fol lowing the a torts of amnesty International and moved to tie West. The pictures ill a labor Camp near the Village of Ararat we re taken in 1982-83 at the Camp with the approval of villagers and policemen who resented the Kab the soviet secret police he said. They portray prisoners fishing and logging the Camp Walls and Snow Cov ered land beyond and the changing of the guard among other things. Socialist party retains control of Spanish cities Madrid Spain a despite important to bide in recent municipal and regional elections the socialist party managed to retain control of City halt to Spain major Witiw tuesday through a tacit a in Anent with the United left party. Tic socialists who hold a comfortable majority in the National parliament won 37.2 percent of the vote in be june 10 polling Well Down from their 43.4 per cent in 1983 municipal election. The setback Wai a Clear indication of voter dissatisfaction in the we of five months of strikes and labor Petett Over the economic austerity policies of the government or prime minister Felipe Gonzalez and Europe highest unemployment Rale 21 a percent in an editorial following the june 10 poll the country leading newspaper Al pais said the drop in socialist votes would inevitably affect the ruling party s behaviour i parliament where the automatic application of its absolute majority can t continue without jeopardizing the stability of municipal and regional  of july 3, members of 13 of the country s 17 autonomous regional parliaments arc to elect regional presi dents. The socialist Are expected to retain control of 10, but they ate in danger of losing leadership in the Canary islands where a conservative Independent coalition could take the  weeks of negotiations among the country s four major parties failed to result in deals to keep the socialists out of Power. Political analysts say Suarcz preferred not to have his party become too closely identified with the prob Lem plagued popular Alliance. In Barcelona mayor Pascual Mara Gall a major pro Moter of the City s successful bid for the 1992 summer olympic games retained his Post when the two coun Eitzen of a Liny catalonian Independence party abstained giving the socialists a plurality Over the popu Lar Alliance and the regional convergence and Union  the popular Alliance dropped from 25.7 per cent of the vote in the 1983 poll to 20.3 percent the cd moved into third place nationwide ahead of the United left with 9,8 percent of the vote and at least one mayor in Segovia new zealand sets elections aug. 15, Lange announces we14jngton, new zealand up new zealand will hold National elec Tion on aug. 15, prime minister David Lange said tuesday. Lange made the announcement after a meeting with governor general sir Paul Reeve who agreed with the Date and he dissolution of the 95-seat single chamber parliament. Lange said he expects to win against the main opposition National party and suggested that labor which currently has a 15-seat majority could win an additional six seals it will be sufficient he said when asked about the is of any Victory he might expect. Opposition Leader Jim Bolger said tuesday that his National party will not make the labor government s ban on nuclear ship visits a major Issue during the three week election Campaign. Bolger s party has said it wants a full return to the suspended Australia new zealand United slates anus Alli Ance including restored ship visits. Bui in welcoming the election Bolger said it would be fought on economic and Domestic issues. The labor nuclear ban would not be Central to National s Campaign he said. I Don t believe that s the Issue the Public is going " make their  National party strategists have openly stated that their pledge to restore ship visits is an electoral liability among Vot ers. Bolger said the anus Promise would be very firm in his party manifesto but would not a featured strongly in the Campaign his prediction for the aug. Is poll is that his party will win by a comfortable majority despite trailing by 26 per cent in the latest opinion pols. Parliament will continue sitting until mid july before being dissolved so the election Campaign can get under Way. Its Mansea new zealand / Rio South Island. Chaco tit Imp the socialists were Able to re elect mayors on councils in 40 percent of Spain s 8,500 cities and towns including Madrid Barcelona Seville Valencia and Zaragoza either As the party with the most votes or through an arrange ment with the communist oriented United left. The popular Alliance retained control of 24 percent of the nation s cities including Santander and la Coruna. In Madrid Juan Barranco was re elected mayor when the three councilman of the United left abstained leaving the socialists with a plurality with 24 scats. The rightist popular Alliance got 20 seats and the centrist democratic social Center cd of former prime minister Adolfo Suarcz obtained eight. Barr fico told Spanish National radio Rne the new composition of Madrid s City Council would demand much More dialogue and  Down from its 8.2 percent in 1983, the United left obtained 7 percent of the vote on june 10, retaining control of the Southern City of Cordoba held by the communists since the first democratic municipal elections in 1979 following the death of Gen. Francisco Franco four years earlier. . Embassy in Rome has car bomb scare Rome up a car bomb scare prompted the closing of a Side Entrance to the . Embassy tuesday but it turned out to be a false alarm embassy officials said. An embassy spokesman said police re Quested the temporary closing of the embassy Side Entrance after finding a suspect car with West German License plates parked near he  car was parked near the site on the via Boncompagni where a terrorist car bomb exploded june 9 during the Summit conference of the West s leading Industrial Powers in Venice the spokesman said the car appeared to have been abandoned by ill owner. After police experts examined it and found no explosives they towed the car away to a police controlled garage. In the june 9 attack on the embassy a car bomb smashed windows in a nearby building and wrecked several parked cars but it d id no damage to the embassy. Aug Urdl North Island j South Oam 100 my  
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