European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday december 23. 1987 Gorbachev oks cease fire in War of words Wick says Charles Wick Washington a Kremlin Leader Mikhail s Gorbachev has told american official1 he wants 1o tone Down he propaganda War Between the superpowers says Charles z. Wick inc head of Floc . Information Agency. It looks like we Are now abolishing a whole class of weapons in the War of ideas disinformation Wick said in a Telephone interview. Gorbachev and top aides agreed in principle during the dec. 8-10 Summit in Washington to help arrange meetings a Cal year in which the two sides could discuss alleged propaganda excesses by either nation. Wick said. Wick has comp inc in meetings with Kremlin officials lha. Inc slate run soviet Media carry disinformation about the . Government. American officials define disinformation As fabrication and cite soviet re ports that the . Government devel oped aids has an ethnic weapon that kills Only non whiles and played a role in the assassination of Indian Leader Indira Gandhi and others. Secretary of state George Shultz has suit lie had a Good heated Exchange with Gorbachev last fall in mown Over a state department pamphlet which de tailed charges hat soviet Media carried disinformation. He had it and so he went after me about in and said How could anybody think ill of the soviet Union Shult said after he returned from Moscow. I said Well or. General Secretary it s easy. You re spreading All this Burn dope about aids and the United Stales pushing  that encounter apparently led to a High level review of soviet propaganda and in october the government newspaper to Vystia quoted two senior soviet scientists in refuting earlier stories that aids was developed by the . Govern ment. Gorbachev and his deputies said Dur ing the Summit that they wanted to Cool i i propaganda War. Wick said Wick a close Friend of president Rea Gan sat Down on dec. 9 with Sergei Losev head of the official Tass new Agency Aleksandr Aksyonov head of 3p Viet radio and television and Valentin liberate planned to wed actress biography says los Angeles a entertainer Lihi Ticic nearly married an actress in an attempt to mask his homosexuality but her father intervened to Block the wed Ding says a new Book about the pianist. Liberace died at age 67 last february of complications brought on by aids. A new Book discloses that Eddie Rio a vaudeville Veteran intervened to Blockis daughter s intended marriage to the glittering pianist in the late 195ps. According to Liberace a biography by Bob Thomas the actress father after no castigating re mors of lib crack s Homo sexuality told his daughter that a show business Friend confirmed his suspicions about the entertainer s sexual Orienta Tion. The actress who had performed As double for Elizabeth Taylor was first unbelieving then inconsolable Thomas wrote when liberate next visited the Rios los Angeles Home the father invited him for a walk. His Arm around lib crack s shoulder Eddie Rio said you re a wonderful per son and i know you re going to have a magnificent career. But you can t marry my daughter inc Book says. Joanne Rio s father went on to say i want to have grandchildren i wan her to have a family of her  they resumed to inc House Liber Ace was crying softly. Soon after he and Joanne Rio broke their engagement. Jibe me Bowen found in contempt of court Denver a a Federal judge has found Secretary of health Otis Bowen i contempt of court for failing to set Ade quate standards Tor inspecting nursing Homes. . District judge Richard Matsch handed Down his ruling monday and gave Owen until Jan. 25 to remedy he matter. The action follows a Eon Lempel hearing last week the latest hearing in a Legal Battle that began almost 13 years ago when Michael Patrick Smith and several residents of heritage House a Lakewood nursing Home filed suit. The plaintiffs alleged they were deprived of their rights and mistreated under Barbaric conditions. Smith a mus Cular dystrophy victim died 12 years ago. Heritage House later was sold and went into bankruptcy after striking Down the National Nurs ing Home inspection system on March 24, Matsch ordered the . Department of health and human services to develop pal enl cell Rcd standards that could withstand Legal challenges by nursing Home operators said John Holland who has represented the plaintiffs. Malsch ruled that Bourn s most re cent Effort did t comply and he technically was in contempt. The refusal of the Secretary to be bound by methods guidelines and procedures is a dereliction of his duly Matsch said. Matsch disputed the department s Contention thai Quality health care can not be legislatively  Falin head of the Semi official no Vosti news Agency. We. Had a surprisingly agreeable meeting Wick said. They were echoing in amplification Gorbachev s statement to the president and others that we have to have new thinking now " in subsequent meetings during he Summit Gorbachev and Aleksandr Yakovlev. The politburo member with Over All responsibility for the soviet Media and propaganda agreed in principle to the series of meetings Early next year to discuss propaganda excesses said Wick. Herb Romer slim. The Usia official i charge of responding to soviet disinformation said the Kremlin has slopped anti american disinformation although it continues to broadcast propaganda. Romerstein. In a Telephone interview Drew a careful distinction Between disinformation and propaganda. They say a lot of Nasty things about us and that is not really of great concern to us he said. He objects mainly to forged letters and other forms of disinformation. Court upholds conviction in Pelton Case Richmond a. A a Federal appeals court tuesday upheld the espionage and related convict ions of a former nation Al Security Agency technician convicted of Selling . Electronic eavesdropping secrets to the soviet Union. Ronald w. Pelton 46. Was convicted in Baltimore in june 1986 of espionage conspiracy to commit espionage at tempted espionage and unauthorized Dis closure of classified information. He Wai sentenced to three life terms plus 10 years. On Appeal he contended that incriminating statements he made to the Fri Ina november 1985 interview should have been excluded from his trial As involuntary. According to Pelion. He talked to the Fri because agents led him to believe that he would not be prosecuted and would be employed in a counterintelligence operation. A three judge panel of the 4th . Circuit court of appeals said the Fri agents who questioned Pelion acted Well within the Bounds of constitutional  Pelion appears 10 have made a calculated decision in talking and attempting to bargain with the  the panel said in a unanimous opinion. Irs drops some late penalties Washington a the inter Nal Revenue service after struggling All year with problems in its tax with holding forms  tuesday in will not impose late payment penalties on americans who have had too Tittle in taxes withheld from their paychecks this year. Irs commissioner Lawrence  said a preliminary estimate was that the decision would Cost the government about $86 million in penalty payments that otherwise would have been collected. Gibbs said the confusion generate from the new w-4 tax withholding forms was a primary reason behind the decision to waive the penalty fees he said the Agency recognizes the confusion when we initially designed a Correct but complicated w-4 form and then redesigned an easier  the commissioner said the waiver of penalties would apply Only to under payments of Tan s covering wages. Twill not apply to underpayments of taxes from other income such As inter est and dividend payments. As pan of the big tax overhaul last car. Congress directed the irs to pro Duce a w-4 form thai would More accurately permit taxpayers to balance their la withholding with their lax liability. The w-4 form allows taxpayers to claim inc Correct number of withholding allowances. In striving for accuracy the irs ended up conceding that its instructions and work Sheet were too com plex. After complaints about the initial w-4 form were raised in february the Agency brought out a Shorter w-4a form and taxpayers were Given the option of using either. Gibbs said that next year Only one w-4 form will be used. Gibbs announcement that with holding penalties on Ages would bewailed for i9k7 lairs was made at a part a briefing Ai which hi1 outlined irs procedure for this car s Tan filing sea son. More than 49 million americans will receive i hair in Federal income tax form packages in the mail begin Ning saturday