European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes William Safire be s t go r b a he v f o r be t Freedom f urls he n g e r London members of the Cen iral committee of the communist f Fly met in Moscow for intense poli Licker to his past weekend preparatory to an extraordinary session called for tuesday. At a similar session last september convened even More hastily Mikhail Gorbachev ringed the capita with red army divisions Loyal to him and staged what amounted to a coup his not so Casl. Anli Purson Lily cult opposition was shunted aside As the Gorbachev faction took Complete charge of the so Viet Union. Liis time however. Western Diplo Mats and intelligence sources Tell me that the pressure for the sudden Gath ering came from Gorbachev s desire to stay ahead of the Power curve perhaps to Avert 3 meeting called against his wishes or behind his Back. The subject is not the Good news in he Kremlin Campaign to Divide nato. West German Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl Laic last week caved in o the gun Scherill appeasement bloc and split Wii i Mic americans arid British on retaining a serious european mis Sile defense. Nor is the Kremlin meeting primarily about the news troubling to Moscow   been covered in the Western press i the bloody crushing of demonstrations in he soviet Republic of Georgia where troops used Gas to kill and quell georgians calling for Freedom from russian ethnic Rule and 2 the open Call for Independence in the Baltic Stales genuinely captive nations which were annexed against their my ski will As u result of he Molotov rib bin drop pad an aggression by two dictatorships in 1940 that has never been legitimized in International Law topic a in the Moscow Central committee h the trouble brewing in the Ukraine Here is the Grain Rich breadbasket of the soviet Union one in six soviet citizens is a ukrainian pcs pile the Mur Der of millions in Stalin s purges. The feeling of nationalist ukrainians toward domineering russians is fairly described As hatred and is not shallow rooted hit Ler s invading troops were welcomed As liberators. Front Kiev  East to Lvov u City snatched from Poland in the West the Ruk a ukrainian nationalist move ment talking autonomy but thinking in dependence is gathering strength the ukrainian puppet who serves on the Leon Daniel Central committee Vladimir Sticher Bilsky. 71, a apparently can no longer keep the patriotic poetry societies churches and  in line. Moscow is determined not to allow. The nationalist Fervour hat exploded in Georgia to do the same in the Ukraine.  in the Central committee is probably along these links ,. Gorbachev not to be put on the defensive charges Sheho Brilsky with fail ure to Perc Stroik with losing control because he represents the old think ing and cannot identify with he intelligent Sia s wavers of the future. He moves to have the., insufficiently charismatic. Ukrainian assigned .10 limbo,.As he did Migachev in september Shchur Binisky supported " if opportunism looks opportune by his Voltl ally from inc Dnepropetrovsk mafia. Viktor Chubrikov counter charges that glasnost has got out of hand that it has produced neither a burst of productivity nor West Ern help and that Gorbachev is to blame for the unrest and the threat 10 the very integrity of the soviet Union. He urges a cessation of Glas Oslic party bashing and a crackdown on those talking advantage of glasnost to whip up nationalism. Be your own.  and choose the outcome 1 Gorbachev wins  is ousted a Riore popular ukrainian is chosen to restrain he resentment of Moscow 2 Shch Brilsky Chubrikov Migachev wins the dissidents Are rounded up and the rut is outlawed thoughts about curtailing glasnost at next month s Congress of people s deputies and agrees to let the red army crack Down hard on demonstrations inside the soviet Union. Of yes 4 bog sat just a Bunch of Guys sitting around a table. Whatever the outcome of this week s meeting i pick he third but the second is not so improbable the Gorba Chev miscalculation has become apparent he thought he could use a limited glasnost to help inc new pow Crau push out the old party apparatchiks and there by pave the Way for the efficiency of per is troika the Gorbachev clique counted on its ability 10 direct dissent to tolerate Glas nost for a limited period of economic overhaul. The great miscalculation was this because dissent by its nature is in Dirc Cable u taste of Freedom stimulates a voracious hunger for much More. New Yak time Good news asteroid did t collide with Forth 1 Hope readers who grumble thai the Media Only report bad pcs noted the extensive coverage last week of i he big asteroid that did t crash into Earth the new Vork times headlined its front Page Story by Warren scary big asteroid passes near Earth unseen in rare close  it certainly was Good news that it missed us a month ago by 500,000 Miles which cosmically speaking was indeed a near miss. The asteroid a half mile or More in diameter had been barrelling toward Earth at 46,000 Mph. If it had collide a with our plane scientists said the Impact would have been equivalent to the explosion of 20,000 Eric Magalon Hydrogen bombs which Ltd have wiped out entire cities. I enjoy Reading much of what the times considers fit o print but his basically was a to hum news Story. Leary should be commended for making a silk purse from a sow s ear. Alicr Alt who needs to know a month after he fact that something did t happen. In the Media business. Old news is a non starter. On he other hand anything from space that actual ly1 is threatening Earth is a  a Story. Had my science sources not failed to tip me off that the asteroid was bearing Down on us f could have scooped even the supermarket tabloids on Whai could have been a sensational yarn. My fast breaking scoop quoting my exclusive Sci ence sources would have slopped presses and led net work newscasts around the world. I can Sec the Banner headlines now Earth awaits killer asteroid subsequent headlines and stories could have warned that if the asteroid hit an Ocean it would create killer tidal Waves thai would Wash Over vast coastal regions. This would be the ultimate environment Story. The Toadstool nuts would find it As riveting As the tabloid readers. Even a near miss by the asteroid comprised of Rock and dim could leave Ca Rillings hacking in its Wake of billowing Clouds of killer dust. Included in my coverage would be scary background stuff on the theory that an asteroid which struck Earth 65 million years ago killed All inc dinosaurs the asteroid cams came within 4 million Miles of nailing us in 196s. Scary reported in the times that a 1982 scientific conference m Colorado prompted some heavy thinker to consider the possibility of firing a missile with a nuclear warhead at an asteroid in the Hope of deflect ing it from Earth scientists say the asteroid that missed us last month l y a half million Miles is orbiting inc Sun once a year on an elliptical path that regularly brings it Back to Ward Earth or. Henry Holt the Northern Arizona University Astro ecologist and astronomer who discovered the object in photographs told the. Times that sooner or later it should collide with the Earth the Moon or  _ i dont know How Lowig sooner or later is in cosmic terms but the nest Lime a big. Asteroid threat ens Earth Trust my science sources will phone me a up Iii of Odin