European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns William f. Buckley West must Stop funding soviets military buildup people sit around wailing to see what s going to happen now that we have perestroika. Everything is supposed to gradually change. And we see the most conspicuous exhibits of perestroika for in stance the permit inn granted to Andrei Sakharov to Cost to this country to denounce ski. Bui what is going on Back Home and How docs the West figure in it All. Andrew Goldman is he senior re search analyst for defense and foreign affairs for the House Republican re search committee and collects valuable material in an article dollars & Sickles in the current National review Goldman begins by telling us what in t happening under per Stroika. Kamciy disarmament. And of course disarmament is the feature of Pyrc Stroila that naturally interests the West the most. That the cold War should cease to pose threats to the survival of scars Roebuck co. In Chicago we care a lot about. That scars Roebuck should be permitted to open in Moscow we care less about Nice though it would be. But scars Moscow has got to mean thai Money currently being spent on weapons with which potentially to blow up Sears Chicago be otherwise deployed. Here is a rundown published by the sunday times of London on oct. 23 in the past 12 months alone the soviet Navy has commissioned one Victor 111 nuclear submarine one Svorc Mcneny de Stroyer and two Daloy destroyer development of the new Long Range super sonic Blackjack bomber has continued apace 10 have now been built and May already be operational soviet air defense troops have just received 500 new a 10 missiles and the air Force has replaced 200 aging Mig-27s with zoo Su-l7s and 150 Mig-23s. And mjg-25s with the new Mig-29 most threatening of All for the West. Soviet ground forces on the Border with West Germany have received 300 new t-80 main Battle tanks along with hundreds of new missiles troop carriers guns mortars and Mobile  according to preliminary in Cussi . Rosenthal former of car Pri open the door of the Bare office on Wisl 30th Street. Across the room a Man stands up moves for Ward. Walk toward him shake hands embrace. Pyotr Ruban on West 30lh Street Twenty two years eating the mean bread of imprisonment in soviet poll. In jails finishing one sentence for speaking his mind. Arrested again incarcerated again exiled re arrested and imprisoned isolated from family and world for More than two decades and Here is Pyotr Vasilovich Ruban on Wisl 30th Street smiling and walking for Ward and hugging v1.-.- can this be later other men come into the room. You know their names and suffering but not their faces or the Way they walk or talk Here is Vladimir Dahldoff imprisoned in the pay. Chi Atric hospitals prisons where jailers Wear while coals and drugs Are used to give pain nol kill it. Here is Aleksei Murz Hynko 1.1 years of prison. Over there is Aleksandr Savlovich layout sent into eight years of exile working As a Cook on a fishing Crew. He is in the United Stales just for a few Days along with six other dissidents. Andrei Sakharov in. Sis cd they be part of his journey to the United Stales. Everybody drinks Coffee and smokes. They talk about Many of their friends who lived in the cells and some who Are still there or in the cold villages of exile. They ask themselves what will convince them that the movement toward some Liberty will endure and not be tied 10 the Fate  of one Man. They say that the taws must change so that thinking and speaking never becomes a crime again and they say Here must be moral restitution the history of the find intelligence estimates writes Gold Man soviet military spending grew by about 3 percent in both 1986 and 1987, almost double the growth of the 1981 1986 period  It is hardly to poke one s nose into inc private affairs of the soviet Union to ask the question Are we in the West in any Way responsible for the financing of what is going on under perestroika the answer is yes. To the tune of almost 59 billion at this writing. A consortium of West German Banks $1.6 billion. London Banks preparing a line of credit $2.6 billion. French Banks on the verge of extending j1.9 billion. Tokyo s2 billion. Those arc private Banks. Meanwhile a group of italian Banks led by the stale owned Modl Credito centrals is ready with $766 million qualify ing tar the big Gest official loan from a Western country to the soviet Union since 1979. What s More this came with a Call from the ital Ian prime minister for a Marshall plan for the soviet bloc. Now most of these funds Aren l tied in any Way it is up to the soviet Union to spend them As they like. And we have More. Some of our allies relieve the soviet Union of a part of the pres sure it bears in financing its imperialist ventures. In 1987-88 Sweden sent $30 million in the sandinista and Norway is expected to Send $23 million. Our allies Are helping directly to finance soviet for eign policy. Now the idea of Banks lending Money is to make additional Money. That quaint tradition has been substantially strengthened by various Lien of Guaran tees in the United states which at this Rale make lending Money about the Saf est single activity this Side of Bowling europeans who Deposit their Money in All those private Banks lending it out to the soviet Union Are entitled to ask How is inc soviet Union going to pay it Back the writer Tom by Thuli covering a meeting of potential . Investors in the soviet Union addressed by ambassador Dobrynin and others reports that. John Kisr a specialist in cast to Wesl Trade told of american businessmen coming Back nol with profits but with moldavian Tomato paste and russian  the soviet Union can t pay with rubles which would expose their free mar Ket value. And where is their hard currency in i486, Moscow earned less than $11 billion from its Oil and natural Gas exports a drop of 40 percent from 1984. George Bush has yet to select hit Trade representative. The first order of Busi Ness is to remind our allies that we Don t really want to finance the economic rehabilitation of the soviet Union so thai in can better lubricate its aggressive Poten tial. The second is thai there is a limited. Appetite in the West for moldavian to Mato paste.". L pm by Deil. Gulag faced clearly and Ibe guilty called to account. They spell out the names of those still imprisoned to be written Down. Sometimes it is hard to sort Oul the talk in the Small office of the Center for democracy a group of soviet and american citizens who struggle for soviet prisoners and other Freedom  mostly that is because your own mind is grappling with the one stunning fact thai these men so familiar and yet so unknown Are Here not in the ural and siberian prison Camps but Here in this very room on West 30th St. You know in would nol have happened without Mik Hail Gorbachev s Rise. Prisoners were locked up for decades for saying some of the things about tyranny and failure that he now says himself. And All those people in the soviet Union and the United states who keep the names of the prisoners alive they helped make in politically embarrassing for the Gorbachev regime to keep the celts full. -.,.but Only inc prisoners themselves Mailer so later search out Ruban again this time at the office of Helsinki watch which fights for political prisoners every where. This is How heroes look a atlatl Sharansky is Short and Bald. Sakharov s shoulders Droop. Pyotr Ruban is is Ighland wiry and his moustache sags. Ruban is a ukrainian nationalist. He knows thai there were collaborators with the germans in the movement. He says those in the Ukraine were shot and that there arc few now in America. He demands full ukrainian political rights and freedoms but no longer fights for secession. ". He was arrested once for a bungled robbery to get funds for the movement. Bui mostly the years of arrest and incarceration were for speaking and writing about brutalities of the whole soviet system. His last indictment in 1985, condemns him for opposing inc soviet invasion of Afghanistan praising polish Solidarity denouncing International terrorism. Claiming thai soviet agriculture is in a bad Way and promoting nationalist feelings in the soviet republics today it reads like a summary of the new in pravda. He got nine years in the special hard time Camps and four More in exit. On May 23, 1988, Ruban was in the punishment cell of a political prison in the urals his 47lh Day this time. He was taken but brought to the Warden who told him he was being released and put out his hand i do not shake hands with murderers Ruban says was his response. Seven Days later. Ruban was is a dinner in the american ambassador s residence in Moscow sealed next to George Shuller. On july 13 he arrived in the United states. He spends his Lime speaking to ukrainian american groups and setting up a company to gel financial help for private Enterprise cooperatives in the soviet Union lie thinks they Are a Good Way to keep on fighting the system. Pyotr Ruban now lives in the town of Irving Iota in inc state of new Jersey