European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday january 31,1988 polish rights group seeks tribunal on soviet crimes Warsaw. Poland up a human rights group Friday urged creation of an International tribunal tory soviets who allegedly murdered thousands of poles Between 1939 and 1955. In a letter to the Heads of six nations and United nations Secretary general Javier Perez do Cullar the group said crimes of soviets under orders from dicta Tor Josef Stalin were no less than those committed by Nam under Adolf Hitler. The letter from the polish league of human rights distributed to Western news agencies said we know everything about the nazi crimes including the names of the criminals. Soviet crimes of homicide arc not smaller than the nazi  the organisation suggested a tribunal similar to that used in Nurnberg to try nazi War criminals after world War ii. Nazi Germany invaded Poland sept. 1. 1939. Begin Ning world War ii. For 17 Days the germans moved from the West to the Center of Poland. Then the soviet moved into the Eastern territories and millions of i of were forced into the soviet Union. Thousands worked in labor Camps until 1955, when the soviet communist party under soviet Leader Nicita Khrushchev revealed the crimes committed by Sta Lin against the poles. About 1.5 million poles including 15.000 officers never returned Home. According to unofficial estimates about 2.5 million poles remain in the soviet Union. In 1942, Germany uncovered More than 4.000 Bod ies of polish officers in a mass grave in the Forest of Katyn. They had been shot in the Back of their Heads. At least 11,000 people detained in the Camps of Staro Bielsk and Koz Ilsk were never found. An International tribunal could be held following the investigation the group said. About 6 million polish citizens died at nazi hands during world War ii. And a special commission investigating nazi crimes in Poland operated for years. Authorities never published figures on the number of poles killed by soviets or How Many died in labor Camps. The Jan. 28 letter was sent to soviet Leader Mikhai Gorbachev. President Reagan British prime minister Margaret Thatcher West German president Richard  French president Francois Mitterrand and polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. Chiang funeral held in Taiwan As its citizens pay last respects Taipei. Taiwan a throngs of mourners Knelt in respect saturday As a Flower bedecked Hearse carry ing the late president Chiang c Hing Kuo slowly passed by in a funeral procession on its Way to Bury the popu Lar Leader. Sirens wailed throughout inc Island at 9 . For one minute during which taiwanese stood at attention to pay their respects. Tearful mourners Many holding Sticks of incense or chrysanthemums lined the funeral procession route. The Hearse made its Way along Taipei s main streets toward inc to Liao Ciu est House in Rural Tarsi about 31 Miles Southwest of the capital for the burial. The guest House is just a few Miles from Tochu where the late president s father. Nationalist party Leader Chiang Kai Shek was buried in a similar Cere Mony 13 years ago. Chiang c Hing Kuo died of heart failure at age 77 on Jan. 13. Midway through his second six year presiden tial term. In his final cars. He began a political liberalization program that included lifting the martial Law his father instituted and allowing opposition political panics. The nationally televised ceremonies narrated by a weeping commentator began with a Christian memo rial service attended by Chiang family members Chiang s successor. Lee Teng Hui other top Taiwan officials and foreign dignitaries at the Martyr s shrine in suburban Taipei. Chiang s wife Faina. Was seen on the television broadcast As mourners left the Martyr s shrine to begin the procession to Tarsi. Madame Chiang Kai Shek the elderly Stepmother of the late Leader was not shown. The nationalist government fled from inc Mainland to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil War to the communists. It still claims to be the rightful ruler of All China. Fewer than 30 countries were represented at the Fune ral because most nation s maintain diplomatic ties with inc rival chinese communist government in Beijing. A photo taiwanese officials place Flag on late president s casket. World today Kenya Beer Export to . To top 1 million bottles Nairobi. Kenya a Kenya will Export 1.2 million tallies of Beer to the United state this year a Kenya breweries official has said. The East african nation has earned More than $402.000 since november 1986, when it introduced its Tusker Premium Beer on the . Mar Ket said Peter bunies. The brewery s transport sales and marketing director. The Beer which features a trumpeting elephant an its Label Sells in 48 slates. Buru Musaid. Kenya has earned $13 million from Beer exports in the last three years. Royal Navy Force to join Australia s Bicentennial London a the Royal Navy is Send ing a six ship task Force Rode named Outback 88, to help Australia celebrate its Bicentennial of european settlement. Armed forces minister Ian Stewart announced Friday. The task Force will sail from Britain on june 13. Led by the aircraft Carrier Ark Royal. The task Force also includes the destroyer Edinburgh whose Crew is to be joined in the Spring by Prince Andrew the Duke of York. Andrew and his wife Sarah the Duchess of York arc due la visit Australia eve though the Duchess is expecting a baby in August. A special Welcome is assured Down under for the frigate Sirius that was the name of the British flagship that escorted the first Fleet to the new australian Colony 200 years ago. The ships arc expected to return to Britain in december after also visiting the far East. Mexico to destroy 41 tons of tainted milk powder Mexico City up the mexican government will destroy 41 tons of imported pow dered milk reportedly contaminated with Radia Tion from the 1986 chernobyl nuclear disaster environmentalists and officials said Friday. Ernesto Cost mall director of the stale owned National Public subsistence co., told re porters 41 tons of powdered milk which he said was imported from Ireland will be destroyed because of High Levels of radioactive contamination. Forty one tons of the 7,000 tons of powdered milk from Ireland exceeded internationally recognized toxic limits and thus will be destroyed Cost mall said. Thatcher to liberalize Britain s secrecy Law London a prime minister Margaret Thatcher s government Friday revealed plans for a major liberalization of Britain s secrecy Law which makes it a crime to leak any official information no matter How trivial. In a taped radio interview Home Secretary Douglas kurd proposed that Only information affecting National Security be classified. Under the 1911 official secrets act. It is a criminal offence to leak any official information even the number of cups of Tea drunk by civil " servants. That is  Hurd said. No reason Why that should be protected at  ., . Aspirin studies different yet consistent London api a six year study of More than 5.000 British doctors finds no evidence that aspirin can Cut heart attack risk but does not directly contradict a american study that found aspirin could Cut heart attack risk in half researchers say. The reason said the director of the american study is that the British stud included too few participants. You Don t have enough heart attacks in the group to distinguish with great Assurance whether nothing is going on or whether there s a Small to moderate of  said or. Charles h. Hennekens of Harvard University in Cambridge. Mass. The British study was published Fri Day in the British medical journal. The american study published thurs Day in inc new England journal of Medicine included 22.000 . Doctors. It found that an aspirin taken every other Day can Cut the Rist of heart attack by 47  British study Hennekens said docs no show that aspirin offers no Protection. It concluded that aspirin could produce at most a one third drop in heart attack risk. The . Study estimated a 47 percent drop in heart attack risk but allowed that the reduction in risk might be As Low As 30 percent. Thus there is overlap be tween the findings of inc two studies. Hennekens said. That is what the researchers mean by saying the studies Are consistent he  British study involved 5,139 Doc tors Over a six year period from 1978. Among the 3,429 who took aspirin daily. 148 died from heart attack or stroke. Among the 1.710 who did not Lake Aspi Rin. 79 died of cart attack or stroke. The British researchers pointed out that the . Study found about three times As Many non fatal heart attacks Ashe British study. So the positive result from the United Stales carries More weight than the result from the United kingdom they wrote. For that reason the collective results indicate the Benefit to Middle aged men of taking aspirin daily might be to reduce the risk of non fatal heart attacks by about one third the Oxford team said