European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 13, 19bb the stars and stripes i burmese parliament sets elections Rangoon Burma a parliament on sunday yielded in weeks of massive nationwide protests and approved holding the first multiparty elections since 1960. The legislature appointed a group of ciders to supervise the polling and set a target Date Tor about three months from saturday when president mating Maung announced that the ruling Burma socialist program party would relinquish its 26-year monopoly on Power. It spite government concessions opposition leaders continued to press for an interim government to Cope with Burma s droning chaos and demonstrations continued . Mains milling issued a Hern warning to demonstrators who have taken to the streets by the millions since Spring in Shtir fight for democracy people art1 now fird up Wilh this Lawless do and Are Espil Ling the government to take exp Celic action mating Maung sail i Ihns Lintwarn those responsible Tor the  such  in some areas of Burma lie said students and Buddhist monks were setting up rival local govern ments creating a grave and dangerous situation for those  it is essential to remove them immediately he said. He called on demonstrators to gel Back to Workamn Chi " civil servants to reactivate Hie stalled Macpin Srof Gnu. Crement. In addition he attacked.  formation of a rival government by former prime Muu Ter u no. Mating making fall cd sunday s Slonic in burmese  of will be evident in 20 years time whether the Deci Sion was Correct or not he Lold the 4kl member parliament. While authorising elections in about three months the parliament also held out the possibility that they could be postponed or held As Early As november. The lawmakers empowered the Council of slate the highest government Orpin to change the Constitution to Perm it a multiparty system talc rec attic elections commission if necessary Ami formulaic election rules. Named to the elections supervision commission Wirg three re ired civil servants a retired army Briga to tar general and a former member of parliament. The men All Over 70 years of age Are generally regarded As Neutral although not especially prominent. At least four Are not members of the ruling party. The parliament session was held under tight Security and delegates slept in the building saturday night. The area was cordoned off with barbed wire fences id Road Blacks manned by troops.  elect ions would he the first i n Burma since face Ian i when u no s clean Anli fans isl people s Freedom  a massive Victory Over an army backed party. U nos ii overthrown by the military on March 2, 1962. The coup led by Gen. Be win. Ushered in rigid one party Rule. Stars find soviet Golf conditions below Par Moscow if l Golf the sport that often Trie men s souls officially tame 10 lie soviet Union sunday but the guests of Honor at the opening of the Moscow Tum a Golf club were so teed Orfi shout the Lack of crowd control that Icv refused to Lee off. The Golf club May not yet have a curs in is right now just a driving Range and a wooden clubhouse Shack hut any club that has soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev comedian Jerry Lewis. Doctor Sean Connery and Arnold Palmer As members can t be All bad. Hut. When it came to setting the guests of Honor to inc Lee. Well in was t even close. Roth heavyweight busing Champion Mike t j mob acc made doth decided apparently for their own safety to head Back to the clubhouse. I really wanted to learn something about Golf today but it just Ain t Safe Tyson laughed As he made his Retreat from hundreds of autograph seekers fathered at the site of the new Golf course in an area that foreign residents in mos cow simply describe As behind the new West Germany embassy. The area it formally known As the Gagarin District of Moscow Only a few Miles from Moscow University. The area is named after the first Man in space Yuri Gagarin. The club is the brainchild of former swedish ice hockey International Star Sven Tumba and is a joint venture of the Moscow slate sports committee Tumba International and the finnish firm fair Katerini Ngab there were very few things soviet about the first soviet Golf club. The celebrities were imported along with the balls the clubs the tech and the jargon. Even the grass was imported from Sweden just for the driving Range. Tumba International spokesman Leif tackling said inc Sod was brought in from Sweden in a Fleet of refrigerated trucks because the Quality of soviet grass was t up 10 Par. After All the club is intended to Cater to foreigners living in Moscow. It is Pelt left uti ii Mike Tyson arc mobbed by fans at sunday s official opening in Moscow of the soviet Union s first Golf club. Hoped the 400-Merobcr limit will be piled by diplomats businessmen and journalists. Buckling said the most interest in the club has been shown by the japanese Community in Moscow. The 2,600-Yard, Par j4, nine Hole course is to be fully operational by sep tember 1989. With double tech the course stretches to 16 holes Par 68 and 5,200 Yards. Tumba International is hop ing to attract a Large Field for a pro am inaugural tournament when the course opens next year eventually the clubhouse Shack will be replaced by a Multi storied clubhouse with restaurant according to the brochure. The fees and course rules arc still under discussion. Hackling said. Backing said the project is costing 2.7 million rubles about $4.32 million with the Moscow state spans commit tee own ing 51 percent. The Tumba course will be the first built in the soviet Union. Diplomats said construction on one in Tbilisi soviet Georgia was abandoned after presi Dent Eisenhower an avid golfer called off a i960 Summit with Nikita Khrushchev when an american us spy plane was shot Down in East Germany. Khrushchev had ordered the course built especially for Eisenhower but it was never completed. The Tumba course will include a Golf school Wilh russian speaking instructors. The corporation has agreed to train a group of More than a dozen soviet Chil Dren in the game. Golf is unknown in inc soviet Union but backing believes thai the country can produce a world class golfer within the next 10 years. He Suid Tennis was considered Only a minor and Una voted sport until a few years ago in the soviet Union and now soviet pros arc ranked in the lop 20 on both the men s and women s circuits. Prison population climbs to record 604,824 Washington a the Federal and state Pris on population grew by 4 percent in the first six months of 1988 to a record 604,824 inmates with female prisoners increasing at a far higher rate than male inmates the Federal Bureau of Justice statistics said sunday. The Justice department Agency said the six month increase of 23,240 prisoners would require adding 900 prison Beds every week. Lawrence Gruenfeld Bureau director of correctional statistics attributed the increase partly to stricter parole supervision with a higher number of parole Viola tors being returned to prison and a wider use of mandatory minimum sentences for repeat drug offences and other serious crimes. The gain in female prisoners reflects a trend toward More frequent drug convictions among women than men Cree Nidd said. He said the six month increase in All Federal and state prisoners fit the pattern of growth in the past two or three years resulting from revised sentencing guide lines by the Stales. The largest percentage increases from Jan. 1 through june 30 occurred in Rhode Island which reported 17.9 percent More inmates the District of Columbia which had 13.6 percent More prisoners and new Hampshire which recorded a 12.8 percent Rise the Bureau said. California which added 5.146 inmate for a 7.7 percent increase during that period accounted for 22 percent of the Nalic Nwude growth in the prison Popula Tion and housed nearly 12 percent of All Federal and stale prisoners the report said. Another record reported by the Bureau was the num Ber of prisoners with sentences of More than one year 237 per 100,000 . Residents compared Wilh 1v such prisoners at inc cud of 1980. The Bureau said the num Crof female inmalesgrew6.7 percent during the first Sis months of this year compared with 3.9 percent for men. Since 1980, the number of female prisoners has increased 130 percent to 30,834 last june 30. Male prisoners increased by 81 percent in the same period to 573.990, the Bureau said. During the year that ended june 30, slate prison populations grew by 6.2 percent reaching 355.666 in mates while inc number of Federal prison inmates increased by 3.2 percent to 49,158