European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday. April5,1989 soviet advisers helped fight . In Vietnam paper says by the Washington Post Moscow military officials Here have acknowledged for the first Lime that a contingent of soviet advisers in Vietnam look part in combat against . Forces there and helped shoot Down american planes according to a Long account published thursday in the armed forces newspaper Krasnaya zvezda. One soviet officer who fought alongside Nonh Viet namese troops is quoted in inc article As saying he wont of medals for helping shoot Down 24 . Bombers inc order of Lenin and the red Banner. An army major identified As a. Tromba Cacayev said that 25 to 30 of the soviet Union s Vietnam veterans hold a reunion each april hear Moscow s Bolshoi the Alcor Bui they experience Little Joy from their Mem ories. For All of them Vietnam has the same mean  he told the interviewer. The horrible faces of vietnamese children and women so awfully scarred by napalm the bravery of the soldiers who vowed to die for their  the article is part of a series of reminiscences by soviet veterans who served in Afghanistan. Vietnam Egypt Syria Korea and elsewhere. Until recently the soviet press and Public paid Little attention 10 veterans of military actions after world War it. In the last Ninny is of the soviet troop presence in Afghanistan however the press began a widespread Campaign to lend More Aid As Well As sympathy to veterans of that War and other foreign engagements of the past 30 Jeara. Although the article is predictably laudatory of North Vietnam s Victory in Vietnam and written in a Leader in Tokyo a the bribery Scanda shaking the japanese government widened Friday As the second. Most powerful Leader of the country s ruling party admitted his wife had been paid about 8 million yen 160,000 by inc firm at the scandal s Center. Scinlaro Abe Secretary Genera of the. Ruling Liberal democratic party acknowledged earlier news reports that his wife Boito had been paid 300,000 yen about s2.30d monthly As  fee Between february 1986 and August 1988, i put my Secretary entirely in charge of my fund raising affairs and neither my wife nor myself knew Aru Lhing about it said Abe in a news conference on Friday morning. But i have found such a Deal took place and i admit in was a result of my  Abe refused to give any further details. He said the 8 million yen had been deposited into a Bank account belonging to his Secretary who has been sick and has tone of heroic internationalism it docs not sound a particularly aggressive tone toward the United Stales. In fact the soviet Union has displayed a certain sym Pathy toward . Veterans of the Vietnam War and even allowed a group of them to come Here several months ago to meet with a group of soviet veterans of the afghan War -. Using excerpts from soviet veterans diaries the Krasnaya zvezda article describes How in 1965 they helped set up anti aircraft units to defend against , aircraft. One officer col. G. Lubi Nitsky wrote that he and his men helped fight planes that were attacking Hanoi North Vietnam in two Waves. The division alongside us was the first to Start firing and they immediately scored hits. Two attempts and two hits Lubi Nitsky s account said. Our rockets hit their targets too. Later we hit an unmanned spy  one sergeant described the . Pilots As cocky and said they became vulnerable to ambushes set up by the North vietnamese and soviets. We hit four planes with just three rockets he said. The americans thought they could just do anything and flew alongside one another. They were so close that the shrapnel from one exploding plane caused another one to  the highest ranking officer quoted in the article maj. Gen. G. Eclov described How a vietnamese aide risked his life to save him during a bombing raid. When the danger had passed and both men found themselves still alive the vietnamese aide told him you came Here to teach us How to fight not to die in. A foreign land. ,. World today auction bidding Falls Short Turner painting withdrawn London a a painting of a grounded warship by Joseph Mallard William Turner thai once Hung in the new York Public Library was withdrawn Tram an auction at Christie s Friday when the bidding ended is $3,4 million. The auctioneers had been expecting in excess ofs7 million. V at the moment we have no idea Why it did not sell mid William Hanham the auction House spokesman. Dealers in the Saleroom said that while the picture of the ship in a fiery Sunset looked wonderful in the Catalon and in other color photo graphs like so Many of Turner s masterpieces the Oil colors had faded because of his constant experimenting with pigments. 1 1 billionth chinese born amid dire warnings Beijing a China marked the birth of its  billionth citizen Friday with warnings that its attempts to keep population growth Down arc failing. Chinese leaders in meetings held to publicize the new population data emphasized these Riou Ness of the population problem and said China will have difficulty feeding and housing its population if the growth rate is not stemmed Cadi Nada Iljas reported. Vitalized  v Abe the second most powerful Liberal Democrat after prime minister Noboru Takishita was foreign minister and Secretary general of the party when his wife was paid inc Money by recruit co. His disclosure followed statements by Tak Shila in parliament tues Day that he had received a total of 130 million yen about i million from the firm. In the scandal which has engulfed 17 politicians and 150 other influential people recruit sold at Dis count prices hundreds of thousands of unlisted shares in one of its subsidiaries transactions that generated substantial profits when the share Price soared alter Over the counter trading began. Recruit also paid hundreds of millions of yen to do ens of influential politicians As political contributions raising suspicions that it was seeking favors in return so far 14 people including two former vice ministers and an i chairman of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone corp., a powerful communications conglomerate that was once Szalc con role have been arrested on bribery charges and securities law., Viola Lions in connection with the affair. Three Cabinet ministers including former finance Minista Kiichi Miya Zawa have been forced to resign because of their connection to the scandal. Friday s disclosure showed Abe continued to receive funds from recruit even after the scandal surfaced last summer. The Liberal democratic party earlier this year had said that no member of the current Takishita administration had received donations from recruit after last summer. Opposition parties have demanded Takishita appear in parliament to answer questions about the scan debate on the National Al stale mating parliamentary i budget for the fiscal year that Berigan april 1. Dea is regrouping anti drug Force in Peru Lima Peru a the . Drug enforcement administration has reduced its operations in Peru s cocaine producing Jungle for Security reasons . Officials said. The  two months ago after the Security chief of inc . Embassy received a minor pkg wound in Jan uary by gunmen tiring at a . Helicopter from the ground said embassy spokesman Charles Loveridge the violence occurred in the upper Hua Llaga Valley near tingo Maria 240 Miles Northeast of Lima. Officials say More than 60 percent of the world s coca the raw material of cocaine is grown in the Region. Operation Snow Cap under which Dea agents advise Peru s civil guard on eradicating coca Fields and cocaine producing laboratories was suspended in mid february said Catherine Shaw of the department s office of International narcotics matters in Washington. They re regrouping looking for ways to make the base Camp More secure she  United slates has been slowly building up its anti drug Force in the re Gion the last two years but violence stemming from an Alliance Between drug traffickers and maoist shining path guerrillas has recently increased Security risks u a officials said. Loveridge said the United states was temporarily halting in orca eradication program and interdiction efforts to allow Lime to Analyse inc effectiveness of the anti drug Effort. He declined to say exactly How Many . Official have been withdrawn but said about 12 still Are stationed in the  certainly is not an cad to our efforts. We will be out there and fighting drugs for a Long time to come Loc Ridge said Dea spokesman Cornelius Dougherty said in Washington thai the decision docs not mean a reduction in the number of . Agents in Peru Only a reassign ment there Are other kinds of work that can be done Down there such As Intelli gence that sort of thing to said. Loveridge said construction is Contin using on a fortified helicopter base near tingo Maria and . Agents arc continuing to train and advise peruvian police in Ami drug operations. Prim minister mail incl Thatcher on Friday does her part in the beaut talc tort of London s streets by blasting Pigron dropping off the sidewalk. Cleanup detail using a Mobile cleaning machine Britain s Leader launched the West Minster  devised by the City Council to Turtle Lilter