European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april in. 1938 the stars and stripes Page 9 afghan rebels vow to continue fight Peshawar. Pakistan a of. Ghon rebel leaders told 75,000 supporters saturday they will fight on despite an Accord to withdraw Sovil troops from Afghanistan. But Aff Ian president Najib speaking in Kabul warned the rebels that they Grill face inc Iron will of his people after the soviet troops leave. In Islamabad Pakistan s acting for eign minister returned from Geneva sat urday and predicted that Afghanistan s communist government will fall quickly after the soviet withdrawal. On thursday in Geneva the pm cd states Ovici Union Pakistan and Afghanistan signed an agreement to begin withdrawing an Nii mated i  Sovi Geneva Accord is  of afghan refugee children in new Delhi India saturday or flounce Oil Geneva Accord on Sawtel troop withdrawal m experts divided on cause of soviet epidemic i troops from Afghanistan on May 15. Fak isun represented inc guerrillas Al the talks but he insurgent Nave vowed 1o oppose any agreement without i ctr participation. The soviets have been helping the marxist government tight the moslem insurgents since 1979. The guerrilla known As Mujaheddin Are believed to number about 200.000. They arc Bawd in Pakistan and receive support from thai country As Well As the United Stales China Iran and other nations. Hie guerrilla leaders lord the insurgent and refugees in a stadium in the Border City of Peshawar that they will Light until they topple the afghan government. Ahmed Shah a guerrilla designated by the rebel Alliance to head an All rebel interim government stood in the 95-dc Gree heat and told the crowd his administration soon would move into Afghanistan. He gave no deadline. Well slay with you in Afghanistan in the caves and Snow not in Pakistan he said. Despite the withdrawal agreement the United slates and Pakistan have vowed to continue supplying arms to the rebels until the soviet Union ceases ils Aid to the Kabul government. The Kremlin says it will continue supporting the Kabul government. Pakistan s acting foreign minister Tain Noorani said he expects the afghan government to fall soon after the soviets withdraw. I do nol have any doubt about it. Ithe Kabul government has been rejected by the people of Afghanistan he was quoted As saying by the official pakistani news Agency App. Noorani said afghan guerrillas control More than 80 percent of their country. Washington a a detailed explanation by soviet officials of a mysterious anthrax outbreak in 1979 has left . Experts divided Over longstanding allegations thai the epidemic stemmed from an Acci Dent Rclark d to biological warfare experiments. According to a lecture and slide show presented by soviet health officials Over the last week in washing ton Baltimore and Cambridge mass., the outbreak stemmed from a Batch of contaminated Bone meat fed to livestock whose meat in turn caused the deaths of 66 people in Sverdlovsk a City of 1.2 Mii inn in inc ural mountains. The Long awaited soviet explanation leaves Many questions unanswered said Gary Crocker a slate department analyst specializing m questions relating to soviet military use of biological and chemical weapons. It does not fit with the evidence and fact we have collected on the Issue he said. The Carter administration had demanded a full accounting from he soviets in 1980, saying it had disturbing indications that the epidemic was caused by some sort of lethal biological  and. In 1986, the Pentagon s defense intelligence Agency released a report alleging that the anthrax came from the microbiology and virology Institute a top secret military research facility in Sverdlovsk. The Pentagon report said a pressurized system probably exploded at the Institute spewing As much As 22 pounds of anthrax spores into the air and that hundreds Ofsow Ici Iii Zens died. Anthrax an infectious disease which occurs naturally is considered a deadly candidate for use in biological weapons. A 1975 treaty signed by both superpowers bars Possession of biological weapons and significant quantities of biological agents but allows research ostensibly aimed at Bio warfare defences. James Oburg author of the recent Book uncover ing soviet disasters said he believes he soviet health officials arc telling the truth in blaming inc outbreak on a Batch of contaminated meat rather than germ warfare experiments. But they arc not telling the whole truth said Oberg. The soviets had Long denied the . Allegations but had offered Little evidence to refute them. The More detailed rebuttal last week came from or. Pyotr n. Burgason former Deputy soviet health minister or. Vladimir n. Nikiforov chief infectious disease specialist at the Moscow Institute for the advanced training of physicians and or. Vladimir p. Sergeyev of inc soviet health ministry. The heart of their argument bolstered by autopsy slides was thai the victims suffered sever damage to their intestines indicating they ate rather than inhaled the anthrax. But the Dia report said Shunil rods of soviet citizens died from inhalation of anthrax and that others suffered after eating the meal of animals who had inhaled the deadly spores. The soviet officials declined to answer questions about the work performed at the Sverdlovsk research lab. Bui. In circumstantial refutation of the . Allegations they said no one at inc lab became ill during the outbreak. Moreover the soviets denied thai any military personnel were involved in efforts to contain control and clean up the epidemic a Contention that contradicts . Intelligence reports thai soldiers were among the first victims and that military chemical warfare cams May have been called in 10 fight the contamination. A number of american scientists who saw the presenta Tion said the soviets Matte a Good Case. Or. Philip drachma to of Emory University called it a landmark report or. Alexander Langr Muir. The former chief epidemiologist at the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta said he found the soviet act Sion credible. Despite radiation soviets returning to Homes Moscow a Aboul 100 people evacuated from their Homes near Cher Nobyl after the nuclear disaster two years ago have sneaked Back into the area where radiation Levels still arc above nor Mal Tass said saturday. The official news Agency said they arc mainly elderly people who never fully adjusted to relocation after the april 26, 1986, nuclear reactor nil onion. The Accident resulted in the death of at least 31 people Lrtil caused radiation ski Ness in More than 200 others. About 13 5,000 people were evacuated from an in nil zone around the Plant. Two of 180 settlements evacuated have been deemed Safe for re habitation but most evacuees still arc housed in settlements outside the danger zone. Tass quoted Alcich dam Chenyek Dep Uty head of the Interior department of the Kiev Region As saying people Are re turning to their houses and Fame by going around checkpoints. Tass did nol say to which settlements the people Are resuming. We do not have either a moral or Legal right today o Force them to leave the Lone  told Tan. Militiamen not Only discharge their imme Diate functions to maintain Public order. But also help elderly people to Cut fire Wood repair houses and Del incr  Tass reported that there had been several cases of theft in abandoned Homes and Public buildings Over the two years. Demche nyuk said some people had at tempted to smuggle 17th and 1 Gib Cen Tury icons out of the contaminated re Gion. The radiation level of these cultural treasures exceeds somewhat the permitted radiation Standard. Therefore the scientists and restorer summoned to chernobyl now work on How to decontaminate and preserve them dem Chen Yuk said. Chernobyl is about 80 Miles North of the ukrainian capital of Kiev. Tass said that 21.000 houses and 1,500 apartments were built for the evacuees in other parts of the Ukraine and thai $1. Billion in compensation was i Tea to the evacuee. To did nol say How Many militia patrols arc assigned to the area but that they m responsible for keeping watch Over the radiation Lone. Decontamination measures have reduced the Radia Tion level task said but it Hill is higher than Normal. The report did nol specify How High the radiation level is