European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday november 29,1968 Britain to buy . Tanks paper reports London a the government is to re equip the British army with a new generation of .-Buill Bailie tanks a decision Hal could destroy the British Lank Industry the daily Telegraph re ported monday the London daily quoting unidentified defense Industry sources said the mia1 Abrams tank built in Michigan by general dynamics has been chosen Over the challenger 1 tank manufactured by Vickers pc in Northern eng land. The. Newspaper said inc order for More than i billion pounds about s1.83 billion Tor 500 tanks to replace Britain s aging homemade chieftains is expected to be announced on dec. Is in on at tempt to Lessen the controversy. On the following Day the House of commons is scheduled to break for the Christmas recess. Government Otti Ciufu said the Cabinet tailed to resolve its dilemma Over buying British or american at a meeting Las thursday but added a decision was Likely to be made before Christmas. Vickers. The sole British Lank Malcer says that if prime minister Margaret Thatcher s government buys american it will Knock Britain out of the tank Industry with the losses of 10,000 jobs and Export orders Worth $22 billion. The defense ministry has refused to comment on reports that British Mili tary chiefs have doubts about the challenger s fire control system and prefer the Abrams tank on Ero Undi of sophistication and off the shelf Avail ability. Character actor John Carradine Dies in Milan Hospital at 82 Milan Italy a John Carradino an american actor who appeared in More than 500 films has died at age 82, a spokeswoman at a Milan Hospital said Mon Day. The spokeswoman at Fatebene Fratelli Hospital who declined 1o give her name said Carradine died Sun Day. She said he had been hospitalized since thursday but she would not disclose the cause of death. She said two of his sons actors Keith and David had come to Milan. Tony Runis. An italian pop Singer who said he is a close Friend of David Carradine called the associated press from a Milan hotel and said David is Here with me. He docs not want to talk to the press immediately. He confirms thai his father died yesterday in  Carradine appeared in such classics As Stagecoach with John Wayne and grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda. He also played leads in numerous a movies often horror films and portrayed count Dracula three times on the screen. John Carradino was Bora Richmond Reed Carra Dinc in new York City s Greenwich Viloce on feb. 5, 1906. His father was an attorney poet and Printer who become an associated press correspondent in London. His Mother was a surgeon As a Young Man Carradine hitchhiked his Way across America drawing sketches of people he met to pay for food and he ended up in los Angeles aboard a banana train. He achieved Fame As  character with gaunt features who strolled Hollywood Boulevard in a velvet suit and Cape reciting Shakespeare to anyone who would listen. He was known As the Bard of the  he made his film debut in 1930 with the talkie re make of Tol Able  by 1935, he had changed his name to John Carradino and his voice attracted the attention of John Ford and other directors. In the years that followed Carradine be Cradine came one of Hollywood s busiest character actors. I never made big Money in Hollywood i was paid in hundreds the stars got thousands he said in a 1986 interview. But i worked with some of the great est directors in films and some of the greatest writers. They gave me Freedom to do what i can do Best and that was  he always returned to Shakespeare touring the country with his own  gave this advice to the four of his five sons who became actors read All the Shakespeare you can. If you can play Shakespeare you can play anything.". H is acting sons Are David Best known for playing a half chinese priest in the television show rung fun Robert Keith and Bruce. Only Christopher Carradino an architect is not an actor. Britons like Gorbachev poll finds London up a majority of the British Public admires soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev Over All other foreign leaders in the world a Survey published sunday in the observer indicates. Asked which foreign Leader they admired most 44 percent picked Gorbachev while president Tugan received the Praise of Only 23 percent of those surveyed by the Harris research Center for the newspaper. The newspaper said the results were a startling Indi cation of Gorbachev s Success in projecting his personality to the West. The soviet Leader is to arrive in Britain for a two Day state visit on dec 12. Asked to choose whether Gorbachev or president elect George Bush would make a greater contribution to world peace 60 percent picked Gorbachev while Only 18 percent chose Bush the poll showed. The poll also found people divided on we Cher Bush would be a better president than Reagan with 29 percent saying they thought he would 29 percent saying he would not and 42 percent saying they did not know. The poll also revealed an overwhelming majority of people believed Queen Elizabeth should accept an invitation to visit the Sov Clunion. The Survey found 81 percent of those polled thought the Queen should go to Moscow if the soviets extended a formal invitation compared to 11 percent who were against such a visit. The poll was taken last week following reports that prime minister Margaret Thatcher would advise the Queen to decline any invitation from the Kremlin. " this evidence of mass Public support for a Royal visit is bound to further Embarrass the prime minister the news paper said. Last week Thatcher was understood to have apologized to the Queen for the fad that her supposedly confidential advice found its Way to the Media. -., results of the poll were based on interviews with 1,052 adults at 99 sampling Points conducted Between nov. 21-24. ,. Soviet paper attacks Stalin Era writer Moscow Dpi a soviet newspaper launched a bitter attack sunday on Maxim Gorky father of soviet literature and the doctrine of socialist realism for the Way he treated a visit to a Tabor Camp As a business in. The unusual attack on Gorky the leading soviet writer under despot Josef Stalin was made in the daily Moscow Komsomol Els. Diplomats said the. Article reviewing a stalinist labor Camp film to be shown dec. 5 on soviet television was possibly the first such attack in the official press on a literary figure who helped Mold the minds of generations of soviet communists. The film which it said opens with a 1918 poster Reading with an Iron hand we will drive Mankind to happiness deals with the cruelty and torture in a prison Camp called Solouki. 11 cited Barbaric tortures of inmates execution by being lied to a log and rolled off a Cliff live burials and a mass drowning of weak inmates. What happened in the Camp is beyond comprehension. When one inmate escaped to England and the truth came out they sent the famous soviet writer Maxim Gorky to Check the Story out and Calm the Public. They put on a big show and it remains a mys Tery As to whether Gorky Ever found out about the torture there the paper said. It said his june 20-22,1929, visit described the Beautiful scenery and that he spoke to some inmates. When did he have time to get a handle on Alt the or tics of political prisoners in less than three Days the proletarian writer s conclusions answered pc Ciscley the goals of his Short business trip it seems to me the conclusion is dear Camps such As Solouki. Are essential As arc such labor communes in a Olshev this is the Way for the government 10 achieve one of its goals to get rid of  the account followed an article last thursday in the weekly Moscow news in which historian Roy Medve Dev estimated that at least 17 million people died in the Camps during the Stalin Era. World today Indonesia to turn away new foreign missionaries Jakarta Indonesia a Indonesia is now closed to new foreign missionaries the ministry of religious affairs has said. A ministry spokesman said Indonesia has sufficient number of indonesian missionaries to serve the country. Foreign missionaries who have been working in Indonesia for the past 10 years will be allowed to work in this country for another year and then they must decide whether they want to re main in Indonesia the spokesman Laid if they decide to stay they will be Given the Hance to become naturalized indonesian Citi Zens inc spokesman said. The ministry said there Are 700 foreign missionaries in Indonesia. Dali s condition improved after his hospitalization Figueras Spain a Spanish surrealist Painter Salvador Dali was resting monday after a quiet night in Figueras Hospital where he was taken a Day earlier suffering from pneumonia and a heart condition his doctor said. Or. Carlos Posati said the 84-year-old Dali condition although serious because of his advanced age was stable. He spent a Calm night and his fever has gone Down since his Hospital ration sunday Posati said. Dali has lived in seclusion since the death of his wife. Gala in 1982. Since then his physical Condi Tion has required constant medical supervision. Welsh extremists claim responsibility for blasts London a a Welsh extremist group claimed responsibility monday for incendiary bomb attacks that damaged rive London real estate agencies. More attacks will follow unless the English leave Wales a Man claiming to represent the sons of Glendower warned in a Telephone rail to inc office of a National newspaper in the Welsh capital of  sons of Glyn Dower named after a Welsh hero have claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on real estate agents near the Welsh Bor Der to protest against the Sale of Rural Welsh property to English buyers the organization says that most English buy ers arc part Lime residents who Are nol part of the Community and that they push up House prices driving local people out of the Market. Police said the five crude devices that exploded in London were pushed through the letter boxes Atic offices of rear estate agents in the neighbor hoods of Mayfair Chelsea and Nollin Hill. Liberia s fiscal condition declining us. Team says Monrovia Liberia a a team of . Financial experts scheduled to leave Liberia at the end of the year has reported extensive act negation in the. Fiscal situation of the govern ment caused mainly by uie failure of Authon. Ties to cooperate ,.,."", in a 34-Page report made available Over the weekend the team said that the government has failed to streamline its financial management. T we feel thai despite our efforts inc govern a ment of Liberia has not improved its ability to manage ill deficits undertake a meaningful Bud l get process regulate expenditures procurement contracting foreign Exchange transactions and other kinds of commitments the report said