European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday june 17,1983 truth replacing lies in soviet textbooks Moscow a president Kennedy a Mur dered in a plot by Texas oilmen. The red army won world War if virtually alone. These and other lies have fatally flawed soviet textbooks according to he official Media and educators. Huge immeasurable is the guilt of those who deluded generation after generation poisoning their minds and souls with lies the government daily Izvestia thundered recently in an unusually Strong attack on distortions and omissions in the school books and on the authors who wrote them. History lexis used by 45 million soviet school pupils Are so out of Lune with Mikhail s. Gorba Chev s Campaign for Guu nost or openness that 160 teams of authors have competed to write new textbooks and this month s history exams have been cancelled for students in their 10th and final year of school. The written tests would have required 16 and 17-year-Olds to Parrot material at Odds with recent disclosures about the country s past including the misdeeds of dictator Josef Stalin. What Stalin did in the 1930s, All the illegal acts Are not mentioned in the textbooks said Igor a. Par Abrin editor of International relations Lor the educational newspaper chit Ekkana Gazela. There is a Lack of information a Lack of truth and sometime just Plain  for example Par Abrin said textbooks still depict Stalin s foes such As Nikolai a. Bukharin As Onmi. Nals or traitors or do not mention them at All. Bukharin a lop ranking bolshevik who was shot in 1938 after being convicted on trumped up charges of spying was judicially rehabilitated this year. The textbooks even those printed As recently As 1986, spotlight soviet Victory in world War ii an the 1957 launch of the first sputnik but avoid trag Edies such As the 1934-38 great purge in which Western historians estimate at least 8 million pc what Stalin did in the 1930s, All the illegal acts Are not mentioned in the textbooks Igor a. Par Abrin soviet editor pie were killed or sent to labor Camps under Stalin. Here is a Sampler from soviet textbooks printed in the last three years on Kennedy s assassination in 1963 International opinion viewed this crime of the Century Ashe deed of utter rightists linked to the Cia and Fri who were carrying out the will of the Oil magnates of  on Bourgeois lies about world War ii the falsifies of history try to decrease the significance of the victories of the red army to minimize the decisive role of the . In the rout of the hit verite  on the soviet Union our country will be come even Richer even stronger even More Beautiful. Because the soviet people under the leadership of the party of communists Are working Well and Are building a new Happy life. And that new and genuinely Happy life is communism instead of the scheduled written exam students finishing the Idith Grade of soviet school will be Given Oral tests. Offences from Page 1 rape someone in the do Tilory or someone they be been seen with been Drin Usa eur drug Offe from 2,657 to 2,000 it from 508 to 285. The biggest reason is analysis program and that is very hard Ciman new ill or  s reflected the biggest drop Safe drug offences fell in increased use of the Uri is know. Thai the policy. You gel caught you re   in i Uroic Don l seem 10 have joined the cocaine and c ack craze thai has been Mak ing its Way through come unities in the United slates. Marijuana including hashish is still the drug of Choice said Mai. Cor Jamison a Safe Law enforcement official. T. Overall military of ii Ial said they feel that Resi dents of military Corrini unities Are not exposed to a great Deal of crime. If i were to make a c Parison Between living in a civilian Community of to same size either Oil base or Back in the states 1 would feel safer from crime in a military Community Haman said. Added Edwards the fact that we have a More controlled environment a people Safe from crime in a general  1 the figures included it the reports were from crimes reported to air Force so airily police or army military police. Similar Navy Figi is were not available include crimes increased slightly 8,328 in 1987. Murder in i to 14 last year. Robbery was and 92 in 1987. Simple As 4,633 to 4,952. Sex offences 604. Spouse abuse offences 1,163 and child abuse followed from 139 in 198 737 soldiers were caught driving under the info Uncle of alcohol in 1987 compared with 759 the year a cot. Safe Overall statistics posted a slight drop with 2,612 report Felc offences in 1986 compared Wilh 2,380 in 1987. There was one murder in bold 1986 and 1987. Robbery ases fell from 32 to 23, As did simple assault which dropped from 1.270 to 1,084. Sex of lenses showed i decline from 228 to 187. Domestic disturbances lit air Force category that includes child and spouse abuse fell from 414 to 325. Suicide talc Nils also showed a downward trend froml70tol5i other off Sci against people Rose from 381 to 470. Burglaries Rose if Cal 1. From 588 to 590, while larceny figures showed Figuni Vicant decreases. Larcenie of 150 or More were Down from 4,782 to 3,900 and Larcenie of less than $50 dropped from 2,310 to 1,756. The air for Fin Europe reported 44 Accident Fatali ties in 1967 compared with 50 in 1986. Air Force personnel driving under the influence dropped from 968 in 1986 to ii8 last year Canadian charged As spy Toronto 1iyt a Canadian arrested ones peonage charges was involved in an attempt to spy on a . Navy install lion in Newfoundland thai allegedly monitors the movements of soviet nuclear Subrina Canadian officials involved in the other crime statistics Usa eur ova from 8,317 in 1986 creased from 10 in i9i Down with 109 in 191 saults increased from dropped from 664 t dipped from 1,402 to lines according arrest. Stephen Salkai ing in Hungary r with obtaining could have been i . And Cana with a fall from 406 to 659. Burglaries increased from 463 to 476. Larceny figures showed almost no change at All Wilh thefts of More than $50 rising from 8, 1 76 to 8,182 and smaller i lifts increasing from 3,731 to 25, who has spent Long periods Liv. S father s native country is charged assisted military documents that Lefuel to the soviet Union Ian officials said Ratkai was seized the army had 1 13 Icci Donl fatalities in 1987, Down As a result of sur Illance begun two years ago by the . Naval inv i alive service and the Canadia intelligence scr c. They said the surveillance was begun Early Enoi in so that no damage was done to Western Security. The base is at Argentia on the Avalon Peninsula about 85 Miles so it West of St John s. Officially it is described As being engaged in oceanographic research. But according to Iblis had reports in Canada its main function has been collecting data from sensitive under sea listening Devil is that stretch from Newfoundland toward  Bermuda. Greeks turks soy meeting fostered Trust Voul Ijagmeni Greece a the premiers of Greece and Turkey said they have strengthened Trust Between the two nato allies at though icy have failed to solve Long running problems dividing them the truth is thai now n dialogue exists by when the two premiers Premier Andreas put Andreou or Greece said at a news conference wednesday. Papandreou made his comments shortly after Turk ish Premier Turgut Ozal left from Athens Airport. Oral landed in Ankara thai Day. We arc advancing the dialogue a course thai will continue and change non War to peace and All that peace Means the greek Premier said. Earlier in the Day Ozal told reporters our meet Ings took place in an atmosphere of  the process of dialogue continues in the right direction and i am confident that enhancing Mutual Confidence while respecting each others interests willbe pursued without any  he said. The premiers held private talks monday and tues Day at a heavily guarded luxury Seaside hotel set on Peninsula jutting into the Saroniev Gulf. Zal s visit to Athens was the lint trip to Greece by a turkish Premier in 36 years and the third recent encounter Between the two premiers. They met Indalos Switzerland in january and in Brussels in March. At Davos they launched a Long term plan to recon Cile their traditionally hostile nations. Greece and Turkey have Long standing disputes Over the division of Cyprus Aegean air space seabed min eral rights and the militarization of some greek is lands. In March 1987. Greece and Turkey verged on the Brink of War Over Oil drilling rights in the Aegean seabed. In their latest meeting the two made no Progress on the Cyprus problem or Aegean dispute and an expected agreement on a joint banking venture fell through at the lust minute. Papandreou echoed Ozal s remarks when he said that at these meetings it is natural not to expect any thing to be miraculously solved. They Are to establish what the problems  the greek Premier said the main topic at their Pri vate meetings was Cyprus. While conceding agreement was still a Long Way off he said i have to say without giving a picture of total optimism that some Light exists at the end of the  boost spending nato allies told the Hague Netherlands a Deputy Secretary of state John c. Whitchead says nato members must pay in proportion to the Cost of defending the West sharing defense costs is an important feature of the solidity or the Alliance Whitebead told reporters at a news conference capping a six nation tour through Eastern and Western Europe. And Burden sharing is the concept of keeping it continually Strong in the years ahead Whitchead said in a reference to the Issue of spreading More evenly the financial burdens within nato. Some members of Congress arc growing increasingly dissatisfied with what they see As a lopsided defense Effort saying the european allies spend less than they should. Whitehead said the United Stales spends seven per cent of its Gross National product on defense while Holland spends about three percent. He said the recently ratified .-soviet pact eliminating medium Range cruise missiles from Eastern and Western Europe never would have been achieved without a Strong nato  if we want to achieve other arms reduction agreements it is absolutely essential thai they the so Viet Union perceive the continued strength of the Alli Ance while had said. He praised the dutch contribution to resolving the medium Range missile question. After a six year Controvert marked by Strong grass roots opposition against the weapons the Center right government of Premier Ruud Lubbers in 1985 decide Din favor of missile deployment by 1988, a decision rendered obsolete by the superpower pact. His european trip which began on june 3, include Yugoslavia Hungary West and East Germany aus Tria and the Netherlands