European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. April 1. 19bb the stars and stripes / Page soviets offer afghans Asylum . Says w Astl Miido h l la soviet officials Pri  i a a 5 i1 Elln Dumal Fri a in tartan and the Pruha blk tall of their puppet Kabul government. Hae begun offering Asilum to lop afghan political leaders Caird it to Cajan administration official then Elvn Are intelligence reports in ii some a stir afghan communist officials already Hii r kit the country under diplomatic a nor and will not return the off Ciak Vik Admir Misikin sources described a number of Sone Mcpip already in incr Way to prepay for the withdrawal tentatively Ann Nunice thursday in a joint statement b smut Kadar Mikhail Gorbachev and afghan communist party chief si1, id Muhammad Najibullah the Wurn s said the Only remaining Roadblock in ending the 9-year-old soviet occupation n the Licking in Geneva of an agreement Between Pakistan and Afghanistan setting a firm evacuation timetable. An Accord would guarantee a Neutral non aligned Afghanistan and leave unresolved the question of Ait interim Govch Mai sources said. As pan of withdrawal preparations . Officials said the soviets already have begun moving their civilians closer to the soviet embassy compound in inc afghan capital for safely reasons and have started to close base in soul him Afghanistan. The soviet1. Lui appear to expect the downfall of the  . Are stockpiling fuel and ammunition to sus Tain the puppet regime until the withdrawal has been completed sources said. Sources also did that the afghan government has stopped renewing contracts for Eastern european military advisers hired to train and Sharpen Lite afghan army and lha those advisers arc preparing to leave. According to the official soviet news Agency Tass. Soviet foreign ministered Uard Shevard Imd a and Najibullah hew from Kabul to Tashkent in soviet Cen trial Asia to meet with Gorbachev administration specialists said that at inc Tashkent meeting. Gorbachev and Shiv Arnadie offered political Asylum in the soviet Union for Najibullah and other senior afghan communist parly leaders. A stale department official said the soviets have been reported to be pass ing out keys to Dachau luxury Homes in the soviet Union reserved for privileged parly members. Congressional staffers confirmed that the soviets also arc airlifting fuel and ammunition for the Najibullah regime into Kandahar. There Are reports that Many top officials of the Puppel government Are pre paring to leave. Najibullah has created a lot of new ambassador ships to Eastern Illic countries such As f  we expect that wine of these officials will decide to Settle Down in those Host countries thanks to soviet enc our Abc ment and arrangements the analyst said. Congressional sources said that Sovie civilian and military personnel Are being relocated to houses near the soviet embassy compound in the Darul Aman Sec Tion of Kabul. Administration officials could not confirm japanese press reports thai the Kabul regime has gun to reassign Secu Rity guards at the residences of its ministers to Man defense perimeters around the capital City. But a congressional staffer confirmed that the soviets have extended inc Secu Rity limits from three 10 five Miles around Kabul. Staffers also said there were signs Lylial the soviets Are preparing to return offices and facilities used during inc occupation that began in 1979. Stocks Are being inventoried and Oiler indicative measures Are being taken they said. Military forces and support echelons Are already being moved in a Way that indicates withdrawal one staffer said. Administration officials said the Sovi ets refused to give up supplying Aid to the afghan government because they want it to survive during the period of withdrawal. One administration Wurch said thai prior la the Tashkent meeting. Shevardnadze spent four Days in Kabul and reportedly was very severe with Najibullah Over his attempts to sabotage the Geneva talks. This source said Najiullah had asserted hat the afghan Pakistan Border needed to be redrawn a demand thai angered Pakistan and threatened to Scullin the talks. Administration officials said the Sovi ets have improver the command control and communications of their soviet bases North of Afghanistan where forces will be massed after the evacuation in an area around Mazari i Sharif in Ajluni Stan. Doth the United states and so1, it Union have said they plan to continue to Supply their rival afghan allies at equal Rales. But. Because that arrangement will violate the original Geneva Accord de manding a halt to . Aid to the afghan rebels congressional staffers said a Side Ici Ier will be required to resolve inc apparent contradiction. Administration officials expressed sur prise that the soviets made no attempt to preserve their bases in Southern Afaga Nissan. They simply decided to move every thing North one specialist said. Santa Maria replica returns the Mariau int a mexican replica of Christopher Columbus Santa Ajril returns la the Pacific Cossitt resort of Acapulco Mexico after a Sis month Good will tour that took it to Spain. Drug smugglers placed profits in works of Art Bologna Italy Dpi mafia gangs smuggling heroin and other drugs into the United states invested huge amounts of the profits in paintings and other artworks investigators said saturday. The investigators said Don Lorenzo Zorza. 46, a roman Catholic Piricsi arrested near Bologna wednes Day Appier onily was heavily involved in the acquisition and Sale of stolen artworks. Zorra who Lias lived in new York for Many years was one of 69 suspects sought in inc United states in the crackdown on mafia heroin Lra Licking gangs announced by attorney general Edwin Melesc in Washington on March 31. Italian police arrested Tana at the Villa of Art restorer Adria san Union. 65, in the mountains South of Bologna. Police also arrested Sani Union and her Hus band Vittorio 64. Zoraya is Curry Nelly being held in Rome where he is being interrogated by magistrate Margherita gerunds in charge of the Rome Enouf the investigation. He is charged with association to commit mafia crime involving drug smuggling and also with Selling stolen an treasures in the United slates. Investigators said Zorza had Long established connections Wilh Art experts in Italy. In schiember 1982 he was tried in new York on charges of trying to smug Gle two i6lh-Ccnlury Oil paintings into the United slates but he was Given eight months probation. The italian investigators said the mafia gangs in Sicily and Calabria thai ran inc italian end of the he Roin smuggling Racket invested huge amounts in Art works hoping to be project cd by the prestige sur rounding Art dealers and collectors the italian investigators were concentrating on a meeting that Zor. The san Unione couple and some other suspects had Wilh Art cup crts in Zurich Switzer land about a month ago among those believed to have Lakin part in the Zurich meeting was Raffacla Fumara. A member of the calabrian mafia believed by the Fri to be a i y link Between the italian Anil american mafia gangs in the multimillion Dollar drug traffic. Among the paintings Zorza and his friends exam ined in Zurich was a vanished treasure by the venetian Painter Lilian investigators said. The painting was stolen by the emperor Napoleon s troops in the Laic 18th century1, but it was later resumed to Venice.  it disappeared again after a fire in the Venice Church where it was kept. At time the Titian masterpiece surfaced in various european countries but ii had nol been heard of for some Lime the investigators said