European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Rosenthal trial of soviet prisoner cries out for publicity r fat or a i. A  to i tint nil it Tiki 1rm"l �r1 in unit to. It Bah by Cimfe in % t. Jib & m4k a this week a trial is scheduled to take place inside a prison in a City called Perm in the soviet ural mountains. It is not a very big Story but it could be. The Man who will face the Justice of the soviet prison system has been imprisoned More than 13 years. Now Mik Hail Potrovich Kazachkova infuriates his jailers by refusing to have his head Sha Ven or submit any longer to prison labor. He insists correctly that both Are against International regulations on the treatment of political prisoners. For these violations of prison rules he will most Likely be sentenced to an even tougher place of incarceration or have a few More years added to his sentence probably both. Only a few people know that the prison trial of Mikhail Petrovich Kazachkova will Lake place. His fellow prisoners know some human rights fighters in the soviet Union and the United states and of course the officers of the Kab know. The men of the Kab Are paying attention. Most political prisoners in the soviet Union have been released by Mik Hail Gorbachev s government. But at least 100, scattered throughout the soviet Union arc believed to be in cells Only the Kab knows the full list. Resistance by Katib officers is one Rea son the Kazachkova arc still imprisoned. They Are a vivid reminder that the Power of the Kab has not diminished. I heard Kazachkova s voice on dec. 8, 1988. The soviet Union allowed me to be the first foreigner to visit Perm 35, one of the most notorious political Pris on Camps in the soviet system. Kazachkova was convicted on a variety of political charges in 1975. The Lenin Grad Kab tacked on espionage for talk ing about emigration with american consular officials. That charge is often handed out to the political prisoners the Kab hates most wants to keep longest and squeeze hardest under the threat of the death penalty. On my visit the Camp commandant said Kazachkova and a half dozen other prisoners were out of touch in the Hospi Tal suddenly ill Tom Wicker As i walked by the locked Hospital Ward an upstairs window was thrown open and a Man shouted we want to see you then he was dragged away. "kazachk9v." said the commandant without looking up. I never saw him. Soviet officials prom ised there would be no reprisals against any prisoner but have refused to reply to the new York times inquiries about him. But prisoners gel the word out. They say in some ways treatment slowly got worse poorer food Little or no mail More time in punishment cells showers out of order week after week. It but they say the first visit was Essen tial because those in the soviet govern ment who want to crack open the prison system used it As a lever for More visits. A soviet commission was assigned to visit the Camp. Soviet and French to were allowed in. Earlier this month two Republican representatives Frank Wolf of Virginia and Christopher Smith of new Jersey accompanied by Richard Stephenson of the state department were allowed in. Since that first time Kazachkova has never stopped sticking his head out of the window. About a year ago he and a half dozen of his fellow prisoners told the jailers they were going to Monitor prison conditions As part of the human rights agreement signed by the soviet Union in Helsinki. Then Kazachkova told the congressmen jailers had to handcuff him and put him in a straitjacket to shave his head. He and others who insisted that political prisoners could not be forced to work were thrown into punishment cells. Kazachkova has spent five years in All in solitary confinement. Not a big Story but it could be if Moscow opened the prison trial to foreign and soviet journalists. There is still time for individuals and Washington to ask. An open trial would be a step Forward and not Only for Kazachkova and other political prisoners remaining in soviet Camps. It would also be a Triumph for All in the soviet government who struggle to open the windows. C now York times they put me a Here seven years to for criticism Bra they predicting that we p be a51e 10 v0te Foff sakhar0/ ii am elect Many  up with soul most we can t Wash our hands of this fish Story Rochester it. In this Fisherman s state it s shocking to learn from the estimable White River Valley Herald that every species of fish in Waters used for food is now fished at or above its capacity to replace  that depressing information suggests again that the degradation of our planet is not just a matter of burning rain forests in Distant lands or irresponsible industries dumping toxic waste. The destruction of our a Janet s resources touches every one of us and each of us is in some Way responsible not always irresponsibly. Harold Baker the sportsman s columnist for the her Ald Points out for example that if nothing is done sea food consumption will use from 15 pounds per person per year to 25 pounds by the year 2000, one reason is that dietitians have convinced us that eating fish is Good for our health but even Well motivated demand could drastically reduce the Supply the South coast air Quality management District has issued regulations just approved by the califor Nia air resources Board to eliminate gasoline powered cars within 20 years that also will reach Ordinary Ameri cans. In response Arco the leading Gas marketer in South pm California already has announced a reformulated fuel to replace leaded gasoline and sharply Cut pollution from older cars and construction machines methanol fuel can Cut new car emissions pollutants by 50 percent so the new Arco product is not Good enough. But it shows the company s concern even if economically motivated about one of the single most damaging pollution issues. Or consider the new special Issue of scientific Ameri can managing planet  the table of contents provides a Short but chilling guide to the variety of plane tary concerns the changing atmosphere the changing climate a danger. Serious enough to warrant prompt action threats to the world s water most precious of All re sources threats to biodiversity a moral scientific and economic tragedy the growing human population rates of increase decline absolute numbers soar strategies for agriculture strategies for Energy use exotic new Energy sources., cannot meet the Challenge Strate gics for manufacturing sustainable economic development governments North and South will have to. Follow these alternative paths to development. To Deal with that grim Catalon of impending disaster writes William d. Ruckelshaus in a summary article will require a modification of society comparable in scale to Only two other changes the agricultural revolution of the late neolithic and the Industrial revolution of the past two  but Ruckelshaus the first administrator of the environmental Protection Agency notes that those precedents were gradual spontaneous and largely  the environmental revolution if there is to be one will have to be a fully conscious operation guided by the Best foresight that science can provide an undertaking that would be absolutely unique in humanity s stay on  the Crossroads analogy so often used either do this or do that does not fit the emergency Ruckelshaus suggests the More appropriate idea of a canoeist shooting the rapids when survival depends on continually responding to information provided by science and economics with Correct steering represented by governmental and private policy. The task is not impossible. Improving Energy efficiency by 2 percent a year for example could keep the global average temperature increase below one degree celsius and Many industrialized nations already arc close to that rate of improvement. New . Appliance standards will keep 342 million tons of Carbon out of the atmosphere by the year 2000. But Ruckelshaus also Points out deficient building standards mean that More Energy passes through the windows of buildings in the . Than flows through the Alaska  and though the rhetoric of world leaders is improving action does t always follow the annual budget of the in. Environmental program is Only a Token $30 million. Besides environmental dangers arc not always visible or even provable. We re not confronted with world War ii fishermen Don t think globally when they Hook a Trout it s hard As Ruckelshaus understands for people to change their behaviour in order to possibly Avert threats that will otherwise probably affect a world most of them will not be alive to  .