European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 25, 1988 the stars and stripes pm Fase 9 Good Samaritan recovering off Taii Heaser is comforted by grandson Alfun and wife Hewer 41, of Stafford it Tud slopped to asst so a my to jump Ore a go Irinel in the dark a jump that Marilyn As he recovers from his Many broken Bones. Motorist involved in an Accident. A pc Ednaj car told took Olmom he Edge Era 115-Fwt-Blgh brings. . Message to Romania we Are not amused London up Britain has pro tested 10 Romania for faking an enthusiastic birthday message from Queen Elizabeth i to president Nicolas Mccau a Csc Anil publishing it in a foreign ministry weekly widely read by diplomats a govern men spokesman said saturday. So Mill d were he British thai for eign office minister David Moil or summoned romanian ambassador Sian scare to his office on Friday to make it quite Clear How dimly Wiilam views the affair. Or. Mellor told or. Soar the Mes Sage was false and thai the government considers it an instill to her  the spokesman id id. A Diplomat said it seemed the East bloc Leader needed a suitable message in the columns of the weekly Lucca to help make sure his 70th birthday on tuesday would be a Happy one. A message from one of his Peers a crowned head of Europe would have been appropriate for the occasion. But because such a tribute was lacking some one in the romanian bureaucracy made it up and primed it in Lumea. A foreign ministry International affairs weekly widely read by diplomats based in the romanian capital of Bucharest. We in great Britain arc impressed with inc determination with which you affirm your Independence and the consistent Way in which Romania has main mined a distinct position and plays an important role in world affairs. You Pinon Nelv or president Are a statesman of world stature with widely recognized excellence experience and in fluence the fake message said. Her majesty did nol Send any such message the foreign office spokesman said. But it is nol inc first time the romanians have tried to exploit the Queen s prestige. Officials recalled thai when the romanian foreign minister visited London Lasi year he urged the Queen to bless British romanian relations by making a stale visit to Bucharest. The Queen How Ever has so far not undertaken the trip. It also appeared that Bucharest had nol Learned from a similar Case that involved a faked message from prime min ister Margaret Thatcher. In february last year soar was summoned to the foreign office and lot that an alleged message by Thatcher about the achievements of Romania and Ceausescu was a fabrication. At the t inc soar told British authorities that it had been gleaned from Var ious statements by Thatcher on Roma Nia. London dismissed inc explanation As unacceptable. The foreign office spokesman said Mellor had told soar this Lime to pass on a message to Bucharest demanding that its official Media Stop publishing phony tributes from leading figures in Britain. Probe reveals rampant corruption under Brezhnev Moscow a a five yur probe has uncovered bribery and corruption that col the Uzbekistan re Public at least $6.5 billion and involved High ranking officials including the son in Law of Leonid i. Brezhnev pravda said saturday. The official communist 1 arty newspaper did the corruption was institutionalized and that it involved officials and millionaire entrepreneurs in the Central asian Republic hired bodyguards and bought police Protection. Together with another recent article and the Renam ing on Jan. 6 of a City town squares and a Moscow neighbourhood that had been named for Brezhnev the Story appeared to be a stiff message that Mikhail s. Gorbachev s leadership will not tolerate the corruption stagnation and bureaucracy of Brezhnev s Era. Brezhnev ruled the soviet Union from 196-1 until his death in 1982. Pravda said the corruption in Uzbekistan involved the soviet Union s first Deputy Interior minister a Post held from 1980-1985 by Yuri Chur Banov Are inner s son in Law. Pravda did nol identify Chur Banov by name but the reference was Clear because in arc had been no other first Deputy Interior minister during the period. Soviet officials announced last february that Chur Banov had been arrested and accused of corruption and accepting bribes but they did nol lie him to the investigation in Uzbekistan. Chur Banov was married to Brezhnev s daughter Galina. The paper said officials arrested included inc pre Mier and a Deputy president of the Central asian re Public and top communist party officials at the Republic and local Levels. At least j6.s billion of stale Money disappeared from the Central asian Republic s Cotton Industry but authorities have found Only a Small percentage of a inc report said. Not one question was decided without bribes. He who gave bribes got everything. The question stood this Way either leave your Post or live according to the Law of criminals investigators were quoted As saying. The investigation swept up Many minor officials who had Little Choice but to participate in the corruption pravda said. In addition blackmail and extortion groups in Uzbekistan pressured those who made illegal millions and the underground millionaires responded by hiring gunmen for personal bodyguards the newspaper said the pravda article was printed several Dayi after the weekly literal Krnaya Garcia revealed that aka made Han Adylov the head of an agricultural Complex in Uzbekistan had built a fiefdom with a private court system and an underground jail that was built by up to 1,000 workers. The two articles striking for their detail even in the atmosphere of greater openness fostered by Gorba Chev apparently were a signal that those found guilty of corruption would be treated harshly Al least two officials already have been sentenced to death. A Nivea revealed that investigators sent from mos cow u Uzbekistan arrested Abdu Nakhid Karimov the head of the Bukhara communist i any after an All night party at his country House. They were forced 10 change License plates on their car to avoid Kerimov j bodyguards and corrupt police the paper said. Soviet Media reported that Karimov had been sentenced to be shot for corruption. In August 1986, Valtah Bozman Usmanov. The former Cotton minister of the Republic also was sentenced to death