European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday february 5,1989 40 million were victims of Stalin paper reports Moscow a a soviet tabloid said saturday that 40 million people were arrested executed or otherwise repressed under Josef Stalin and it gave the most detailed breakdown of the dictator s victims re ported in the official press. The figures were not new for Western readers but their appearance in arguments and facts a weekly with a circulation of 20 million marked another at tempt to fill what soviets Call Blank spots in their history. Historian Roy Medvedev gave the 40 million figure in an interview with arguments and facts and said it included All victims of  he said he base the number on his own calculations of the number arrested executed and otherwise punished. The figure was much higher than the vague official estimate previously Given. Soviet Leader Mikhail  said in a november 1987 speech that Many thousands of people. Were subjected to wholesale repressive measures under Stalin. Western historians believe about 20 million soviets died under Stalin who ruled from 1924 to 1953. Many soviets have heard the figure from underground publications or other sources. The estimated death toll com piled from Medvedev s article is 15 million. The Histo Rian wrote that 6 million to 7 million people were killed in the famine of the Early 1930s, 5 million to 7million were executed or died in labor Camps during a period of mass arrests in the late 1930s and 1 million died during forced relocation of ethnic minorities during world War ii. Col. Gen. Dmitri a. To Logonov a military historian has said a biography he is writing of Stalin will give an unofficial estimate of the number of people killed under the dictator. The biography titled Triumph and tragedy is the first comprehensive soviet review of Stalin. It s scheduled for release this year. In another article about possible victims of Stalin the daily newspaper Sovie Skaya Rossiya reported sat urday that a mass grave had been discovered in Gorno Altai 1,900 Miles Southeast of Moscow in the russian Republic. It said that construction workers came upon human remains and that so far 50 skulls often aged 30 to 50 years old shot through the Temple or Back of the head had been found. Parking car Nival style Venice during carnival rime can be a dangerous place for its owner when they parked it in the canal Grande a car. Pranksters showed no mercy for this oldster or on Friday during the merriment before Lent. Experts unsure if greenhouse effect caused 80s global worming trend London a the average global temperature last year was the highest of the Century and six of the20th Century s hottest years have occurred in the 1980s, a British study said. Meteorological officials however said it was to Early to blame the greenhouse effect in which heat from the Sun is trapped in the Earth s atmosphere by gases that act like the Walls of a greenhouse. While a warming of this amount is consistent with the greenhouse effect caused by the Rise in the Levels of Carbon dioxide and other Man made gases in the atmosphere the Earth s temperature fluctuates consider ably due to natural causes and no unambiguous connection can yet be made said David Parker of Britain s meteorological office in Bracknell. Their work showed that 1988 s global average temperature was 57.2 of 0.5 of a degree higher than the 30 year global average ending in 1979. Since 1979, the succession of tiny increases has Bee too steady for the meteorologists to ignore Parker said. The six warmest years in the Century have All been in this decade he said. They were 1988, 1987, 1983,1981, 1980 and 1986, in descending order of warmth. Global temperatures have risen by about 0.8 of degree since the beginning of the Century Parker said. It could take 20 years of temperature rises before the greenhouse effect could be detected with much certainty he said in a recent interview. The apparent warming trend was revealed in Analy ses of global weather records by the meteorological office and the University of East Anglia in Norwich Southeast England. Britain has had a mild Winter with temperature averaging 5 degrees above the Normal temperature of 40 degrees in december and january. Spring Flowers Are shooting up and Blooming. . Scientists said last week that they could find no evidence of any Overall temperature increases for the United states from 1895 to 1987. But they stressed that the United states makes up Only 6 percent of the Earth s surface. World today number of jews leaving soviet Union slips a bit Geneva a the soviet Union allowed 2,616 jews to emigrate in january a decline from december but still Well above last year s monthly average the Agency that helps resettle them said Friday. Only 108, or 4.1 percent of the january emigres chose to make Israel their new Home said Regina Bou Cault spokeswoman for the intergovernmental com Mittee for migration based in Geneva. The committee said that it Only keeps count of the jews it helps resettle in Israel but that most apparently go to the United states. The monthly emigration figure reached an eight year High in december at 3,510. In All 20,082 jews were allowed to leave the soviet Union last year. The largest annual figure 51,328, was recorded in 1979, before the soviet intervention in Afghanistan chilled East West relations. 50 nations fail to reach toxic waste agreement Luxembourg a officials from 50 nations failed Friday to Settle disputes blocking agreement on the world s first treaty regulating the transport and disposal of toxic wastes. But Mostafa k. Tolba executive director of the United nations environment program which convened the meeting remained hopeful that the treaty could be signed in Basel Switzerland on March 22. 65 lose . Privileges in embezzlement Case Nairobi up diplomatic immunity has been lifted from some 65 United nations workers in Nairobi following charges that More than $300,000 had been embezzled from the International organization a . Official said. The . Spokesman who refused to be named also confirmed that an accounts clerk with the Nairobi based . Development program undo appeared in a kenyan court last week to answer charges in connection with the investigation. A newspaper said More than 30 kenyans were stripped of their . Status As were citizens of the United states West Germany Canada Belgium nor Way Sweden Spain Egypt Tanzania Uganda and Ghana. Scuba diver in Italy killed in shark attack Piombino Italy a a Man scuba diving off the tuscan coast was killed by a 20-foot-Long shark italian Media reported Friday. The Man Luciano Costanzo 46, was accompanied by his 19-year-old son Gianluca and a Friend on a fishing Outing thursday the reports said. Milan s corriere Della Sera gave this account Quot ing the son minutes after entering the water about a mile off the coast Costanzo came up and shouted help there s a shark the two men saw a shark Circle twice around Costanzo and then attack and pull him underwater. After a fruitless search they returned to port to get help. I clearly saw my father in the Mouth of the shark the son was quoted As saying. Large dangerous Sharks Are extremely rare in the Mediterranean. The last verified attack off the italian coast was nearly 30 years ago. Cook at school wins damages for injury London a school Cook Felicia Jones was awarded 20,000 pounds $35,000 in damages in the High court on Friday for Strain suffered when she lifted a heavy roasting tray out of the oven to Baste thereat. Judge sir William Macpherson approving the dam Ages against the inner London education authority said Jones 44, Felt a Sharp pain in her lower stomach and left leg and had to leave her Job in a London school after the Accident in May 1982