European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday May 21.1989 2 soviet Reform crusaders face charges Moscow a a top level com Mission on Friday found evidence of Gross violations of the Law by two anti corruption crusaders and turned the charges Over to the National prosecutor s office for investigation. The report by a commission that included minister of Justice Alexande Sukharev and Kab chief Vladimir Kruchkow brought to a head the dispute that started a week ago when one i the investigators said the names of politburo member Yegor k. I Gachev and other lop officials had surfaced in their probe. This kind of accusation not based on any kind of objective evidence is a Gross violation of the Honor and dignity of the individuals which is protected by Law said the commission which was formed by the presidium of the supreme soviet the country s highest executive body. It said complaints and evidence from defendants of the corruption probes As Well As other investigators and govern ment officials accused Tylman Gzlyan and Nikolai Ivanov of threatening the defendants inducing them to implicate others arresting defendants relatives without evidence holding suspects for months without questioning or charges and carelessly handling valuables they seized. The commission said it was acting on accusations made by the Kab the jus Tice ministry the supreme court and other top National bodies. Gzlyan has been removed As head of a corruption investigation in the Uzbekistan Republic. Accusations against Gzlyan were turned Over to the soviet Procura Tor general s office for careful verification the commission said. Ivanov said in a pre election debate broadcast May 5 on Leningrad television that the names of i Gachev. Former Polit buro member Mikhail s. and other top officials had come up in his corruption probe. Two Days later he won 61 percent of the vote in a race with More than two dozen candidates for a parliamentary scat representing All of Moscow. Migachev and Solomont Sci released statements that denied any wrongdoing Labelling Ivanov s statement a political provocation. They demanded that an investigation of the claims be carried out and that the results be made Public. I Gachev is considered by Many to be a conservative opponent and potential rival of soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev on the politburo. He is particularly unpopular among Radical Reform ers. Solomont Sci retired from the politburo last september. Gzlyan won a parliamentary scat March 26 with about 87 percent of the vote in a Moscow District. Both men have become famous throughout the country for their investigation of corruption in Uzbekistan which led to convict Lions of top local officials including Yuri Chur Banov the son in Law of former president Leonid 1. Brezhnev. Chur Banov was convicted of taking bribes in december and sentenced to 12 years in a labor Camp. Gzlyan also is under investigation for his handling of an investigation of a Well known estonian scientist Johannes hint who was jailed in 1983 on corruption charges and later died in jail. The soviet supreme court earlier this month rehabilitated hint and several other co defendants and told the procurator general s office to review whether Gzlyan should keep his Job As a top criminal investigator. In London with British Leader Margaret Thatcher Are in caulk members from left Mikhail Malachow Robert Swan aned Fuchs Graeme Joy tiros i onishi Darryl Roberts and Rupert Summerson. American who walked to pole wants to inspire youngsters London a the youngest person to walk to the North pole said Friday he wants to inspire kids in places like Harlem where he grew up to believe in themselves and accomplish their dreams. Darryl Roberts suffered frostbite blisters and pain for most of the 56-Day journey but he said he never thought of giving up because i believe so much in being Able to go Back and Tell these kids the Story hoping that it will inspire five Days after he set fool or More appropriately skis on the North pole the 23-year-old instructor in outdoor education was in Balmy Lon Don with the other members of the Arctic team. Seven of the eight posed with prime minister mar Garet Thatcher outside no. 10 Downing Street. The group walked 480 Miles from Cape Aldrich the northernmost Point in Canada and encountered huge ice Walls numerous cracks in the ice an temperatures As Low As minus 67. The message they delivered to Thatcher s one Roberts said he wants to get across to american youngsters the pollution dangers facing the Arctic arc symptomatic of environmental dangers facing the world and Young people must take responsibility for the planet they will inherit. Roberts said however i think i have to Start with helping them to develop greater self esteem greater self Confidence because when you do that you want better things around you and you work toward sandals because of a Blister on his Heel and still having a few patches of the frostbite he suffered Roberts said he has Learned Many things from the first International walk to the North pole. One of the things i Learned is that regardless of language barriers skin color differences cultural differences when human beings get together with a common goal in mind. They can gel that thing done regardless of How difficult the conditions he s exactly what we wanted to prove to the world that world Powers like the soviet Union and the United slates can As a child in the new York City neighbourhood of Harlem Roberts said. I always knew that there was something More outside of where i was world today Paris Church bombed damage minor no injuries Paris a a Small bomb exploded saturday in a Church Here breaking windows and chairs but Caus ing no injuries police said a leaflet found at the scene a Chapel off the St. Pierre de Chaillot Church near the champs Ely secs claimed responsibility for the attack in the name of the previously unknown gracchus Babeuf gracchus Babeuf was a French revolutionary considered a precursor of communist theory. He was executed in 1797.police said no one was in the Chapel at the time of the explosion at about 1 30 . Andes bus crash claims at least 50 lives in Peru Huancayo Peru a a bus tumbled 90 feet Down an embankment and landed upside Down in a River in the Andes mountains Friday killing at least 50 people and injuring about 11, police said the 52-scat bus overloaded with extra passengers picked up along the Way had left Lima on a route taking it through winding Mountain roads to the City of Huancayo 140 Miles cast. Officials with the Republican guard the police unit sent to the disaster site said that Only passengers crammed into the aisle were known to have survived. Passenger Nelly Suarcz said the Accident occurred when the Driver slammed on his brakes to avoid a pile of construction material blocking a Bridge Over the. Mantaro River. Students also reported among Tbilisi Gas victims Moscow a schoolchildren in soviet Georgia have mysteriously fallen ill with symptoms similar to those suffered by protesters who were gassed in a demonstration last month the official news Agency Gru inform said saturday. The Agency confirmed an earlier report from activists thai children from five or six schools in Tbilisi got sick weeks after a april 9 clash Between demonstrators and troops in the georgian capital left 20 protesters protesters were hospitalized with nerve dam age that doctors attributed to the Gas used by officials however deny using nerve Gas _ an editor at Gru inform said the latest victims including Small children in kindergartens suffered mild versions of the illness and none were hospitalized. He did not have the number of children involved or the dates they became sick. Public gets charge out of Maggie s Bat time secrets London a prime minister mar Garet Thatcher s office refused Friday to comment on a . Magazine report that the Leader keeps her looks by taking electrically charged Baths but London s tabloid plunged into the Story with gusto. Indian guru keeps her switched on Maggie s Bat time secrets screamed Bola daily Mirror headline. The switched on prime minister s amazing secret said the daily express. The newspapers quoted a Story in vanity fair Magazine written by Newyork writer Gail Shehy As saying that Thatcher visits an Indian woman who is a practitioner of an ancient therapy called ayurveda. The writer said the prime minister pays 600 pounds $960 a session for treatments that include mud therapy natural herbs and oils and the Baths which Are charged with 0.3 amps of electricity the tabloids said. Asked about the reports a spokesman for no. 10 Downing Street the prime minister s office said we re not saying anything about it at All because its a personal matter. That s As far As it goes. Several tabloids warned readers not to attempt such a treatment themselves. The daily express reported that it had vanity fair profile calling it in a head Iscove Rcd the Indian woman whom it line a Shock revelation on the source of her As a woman named Veronique. The reporter claimed she spoke with Veronique by Telephone in an attempt to make an appointment with her but re ported that she refused to take clients except on recommendation. One of Britain s More serious no spa the guardian quoted from the Illin said Shehy did not name. It identified mrs. To
