European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday october 26, 1988 . Assails false reports aides killed in Afghanistan world today isl Mallad. Pakistan a . Officials and Western diplomats tuesday claimed that soviet and afghan government reports or . Advisers killed and Capi Rcd in Afghanistan Are false propaganda aimed Al inflating Ilie communist image. Moslem rebels also Rejc Clad an Appeal for peace talks by resident Najib. Afghanistan s official news Agency Bakhtar and National television reported that three american advis ers were killed and four captured inside the country Between oct. In and 21. The soviet news Agency Tass run the stories later. They alleged on oct. 16 thai two . Citizens were killed near he Eastern afghan City of Garde. On oct. 20. Kabul television said one More . Alien some Tijay Picans and pakistanis were killed when their vehicle nil a mine in Southeastern atm province. The following Day. Bakhtar claimed Lour such advis ers had been captured around the country the Agency repealed in Wilh some changes on oct. 22. . Embassies to Afghanistan and Pakistan promptly challenged the afghans for proof since there Are no . Advisers whatsoever in Afghanistan All of these stories Are fabrications the . Embassy in Islamabad said tuesday. The United states arming and training of the guerrillas on pakistani soil is Well documented but the United states refuses to discuss details. It has always denied the presence of . Military personnel in Afghanistan. Other Western diplomats said the series of reports appeared to be propaganda from a government whose Security is threatened by increasing rebel pressure. One source said Afghanistan s communist Leaden have the objective of gaining the propaganda High ground Over the resistance As the afghan conflict moves toward the end  about half of More than 100,000 soviet troops with Drew from Afghanistan Between May i5 and aug. 15 under a  Accord signed last april. The rest Are to be out by next feb. 15, the rebels have claimed he capture of five of some 30 provincial capitals since May and the siege of sever Al More. Deaths9 in Paris hundreds of parisians fell dead sunday on he the symbolic dying was directed by inc French Tele venue Keh to make a Point about the number of vision station Antenne 2, which u making a film to people Nhu Are killed every month on French roads. Be used in a Campaign against Highway deaths. Murder for hire plot prompts investigation of Green berets Tokyo Ai the . Army said tuesday it is investigating members of the Green berets after a Mili tary court convicted a sergeant of plotting to kill a or Van Here Captain in Thailand. The . Military court on Okinawa convicted sol. Maj. Edward j. Gleason or. Of solicitation to commit murder and sentenced him Friday to seven years in prison reduction in rank to private and forfeiture of All pay and allowances. The general court martial found Gleason. 45, a View dam Veteran Wilh 26 Yean in uniform Gustiy of plot Ting to kill capt. Paul Dumpson. A fellow member of inc Okinawa based 1st in 1st special forces group. The Pacific stars and stripes published the first news of the coun martial and said the Case fuelled rumours Here that special forces soldiers were smug gling guns Gold and  asked 10 comment on the report the . Army Headquarters i n Japan Deli nud logo into detail. There is an ongoing investigation into other Alleg edly criminal activity said capt. Don Longfellow a Deputy Public affairs officer. To comment further could prejudice the inquiry he said. The several Hundred Green Beret troops headquartered on Okinawa the Southern japanese Island where some 30,000 . Troops Are based often go on rain ing i cruises in Friendly asian countries like Thailand where the murder plot look place. The Siars and stripes account of the rial said Glea son of new Orleans offered James Bonard Fowler an american in Thailand s50.000 to kill Dumpson. It said Gleason called off the Pool when he suspected it had been discovered and that he was arrested in july. Fowler was not further identified. The army said Dumpson whose Hometown identification a unavailable continued on duty Wilh his unit. Gleason was Noi Given a punitive discharge so he retained his retirement benefits. Czechoslovak to publish stories letters of Kafka Prague Czechoslovakia a the government will publish some of Funni Kafka s works and correspondence a cultural weekly said. The Magazine Kmon Organ of the official Union of czech writers said part of Kafka s correspondence was purchased from a second hand bookshop in Pra gue two years  inc stories to be published Are his last completed novel the Castle published in 1926, and amerika which came out in 1927, the Magazine  s works arc highly acclaimed in the West but have been barely acknowledged in Prague where he was born in 1883-thc communists have rejected Kafka because of what they called his morbid pessimism and Aliena  they allowed the Loolah Anniv Crary of Kafka s birth and the 60lh anniversary of his death to pass with Little fanfare in the 1980s. Bears invading towns in Japan to find food Tokyo a bears have invaded owns in West Ern Japan to search for food and residents have been told to carry whistles and Bells and play radios to scare them  of Toyama a state about 160 Miles West of Tokyo have seen More than 30 bears foraging through towns said Minoru Arakawa a spokesman for the state. Nine of inc animals were killed or captured this  said this year s sparse crop of inc wild fruit the bears eat in their Mountain Hubi Ial drove the Ani Mals Loward residential areas. Authorities have told people to throw Hals or other clothes on inc ground to divert the attention of bears they May encounter. Desert locusts spotted in Caribbean for 1st time Rome a the sighting of desert locusts in the Caribbean Marks the first Lime on record the species has crossed the Atlantic and reached the islands the . Food and agriculture organization reported  swarm of the locusts pushed by Easterly winds managed to travel 3,100 Miles in just five Days to reach the Caribbean on oct 13, an Fao statement said. The locusts have been sighted on the islands of bar Bados is. Vincent and inc grenadines Antigua is. Kutts and Nevis St. Lucia Dominica Trinidad and Tobago Grenada Suriname. Martinique puerto Rico and if . Virgin islands. Fao exports said this is the first Lime that desert locusts have been sighted in the Caribbean even though other Locust species have reached South Ameri Ca in the past. British hiker on Crete missing after flood canes Crete a soldiers and local mountaineers on tuesday continued to search for a British hiker missing after a Flash flood gushed through the Samaria Gorge in southwestern Crete police said. The briton Giles Hill. 2i, from Portsmouth in Southern England disappeared monday during a six hour irek through the 11-mile Gorge. A everybody s out there looking for the tourist from army helicopters to fishermen. He could be trapped by fallen rocks and Earth said a police offi cer speaking by Telephone from Canca. The provincial the body of another briton identified As John Gra Ham 41, from London was found in the sea by Fisher men a few hours after inc Flash flood struck. The two Ramblers had been part of a group of 286 British dutch and Wisl German hikers trekking Down the Gorge. S. African censors ban last temptation of Christ Cape town. South Africa a government censors tuesday banned the last temptation of Chrisl from South Africa saying the controversial film would offend people s religious convictions. Professor Abraham Coe Tecc chairman of the publications directorate said his censorship committee had been inundated Wilh letters telegrams and petitions from Church and civic groups urging that the film be banned