European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday september 15,1989 of the Road Royal Canadian mounted police St. Val King of Ottawa poses on a Swiss police motorcycle near Walden soil Switzerland As he prepares to go on patrol with a Zurich policeman. King is one of sever Al foreign Law enforcement officers on temporal duty in Switzerland to study police procedures. World today 90 injured during Melee at crowded Bingo game Brasilia. Brazil up1 ninety people were treated in hospitals monday for injuries suffered at an overcrowded Bingo game that degenerated into a Brawl officials said. Civil defense officials in Brasilia attributed the tumult to improper management by organizers who sold too Many tickets to sunday s festival of the first millionaires. Organizers sold 89,000 tickets to the Bingo extravaganza in the mane Garr Incha stadium which has a maximum capacity of 40,000 people the officials said. The event was held to Benefit the Gama soccer club. Police said the Melee started when a firecracker went off panicking gamblers playing for the fifth Auto Mobile and starting a Stampede. Most of the victims suffered injuries to the feet legs and Ankles caused when the crowd rushed staircases leading to the stadium exits medical officials said. Hong Kong May return most vietnamese refugees Hong Kong a about 88 percent of the vietnamese boat people languishing in this Colony s fetid detention centers face forced repatriation the government said in figures released tuesday. Over the past year just 424 vietnamese among the 3,455 cases reviewed by the government won the right to stay in Hong Kong until they can be resettled else where the figures said. Government officials said they expect further re View would follow the pattern of the first year and that about 88 percent of the refugees will be denied the right to stay temporarily in the Colony. Francis Blackwell chairman of the Refuge status review Board one of two agencies supervising the screening process said most of the vietnamese arc economic migrants and not political refugees. As such they should be returned Home he said. Soviet film on Kab portrays modern Cheko Man. .,.�,. I t. A do of a Chr Kfir hid not violate flow if Moscow a the Kab showed off its spirit of openness and change wednesday with the premiere of a new documentary film but a meeting with reporters that followed indicated glasnost goes Only so far. Officers of the soviet secret police denied they routinely Bug the telephones and apartments of dissidents and foreigners working in Moscow and told a news conference the Kab had done nothing illegal in pursuing dissidents since the 1960s. The 55-minute film the Kab today and a Short film of an interview with Kab chairman Gen. Vladimir a. Kryuchkov painted a portrait of what the secret police chief called the modern Cheka Man a Well educated professional whose work increasingly encompasses the struggle against smuggling organized crime and drug trafficking. Cheka was the name of the original bolshevik secret police organization. At present we re trying to create an objective image of our organization in the soviet Union and abroad Kryuchkov said in the film which was shot by the government news Agency no Vosti. Novo Sli officials billed the film As the first documentary about the Kab. They said they hoped it and More to follow would be seen widely in the soviet Union and distributed outside the country. Kryuchkov who took Over from Viktor m. Chc Bri Kov As Kab chief last year has opened up the top secret organization somewhat during his almost one year As chairman. He has granted interviews to foreign reporters and said the feared organization should be subject to legislative oversight. But he was greeted with snorts of laughter when he told National legislators at his confirmation hearing injury that the Kab docs not tap telephones of soviet citizens. In the spirit of openness the Kab gave filmmakers Elena Kovaleva and Stanislav Bali Antinov Access to Kab martial arts training target practice and the Inte rior of Kab Headquarters and of Kcf Ortolo prison in Northeast Moscow. The film devoted several minutes to Kim British secret service officer who spied for the Kab and included a recreation of the apprehension of a . Diplomat on spying charges six years Aco. The Diplomat. Vice Consul Lon David Augusten Borg of the Leningrad consulate was expelled sept. 12, 1983. Officials said the Kab had agreed to cooperate in a British made film about Philby who fled to the soviet Union in 1963 and died in May 1988 in Moscow. Kryuchkov and other Kab officials acknowledge that the Kab s predecessor Josef Stalin s a kid broke Laws in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. But they said the Kab did not violate any Laws in pressuring dissidents. Virtually every soviet dissident of the past Quarter Century has stories of Kab harassment ranging from searches and seizure of Manu scripts to interrogations and beatings. The number of such reports has dropped in recent years under president Mikhail s. Gorbachev s reforms. Many dissidents have left the country and others have found that the critical viewpoint that once made them pariahs now Are Well within official Bounds. Those still Active in dissident activities say the Kab is less Active but still unmistakably present. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s the Kab did not violate the Law it abide by the letter and the spirit of the said Kab spokesman col. Igor or com. It s not us who adopted the Laws. We made decisions based on the westerners and Many dissidents in Moscow assume that their telephones and apartments Are bugged. Pressed by one Western reporter to discuss bugging Kab chief of investigations col. Olog Dobrovolsky said i Don t think you re right saying we tap Tele phones that we listen to what you say Over telephones. You be got to prove that first before you ask that question. Sometimes if it is in the interest of state Security we May listen to telephones but that s not an established practice you know he said. Palestinian pleads guilty to killing 16 on bus " i of. To i Jerusalem a a palestinian accused of slaying 16 jews by forcing a crowded bus into a Ravine pleaded guilty to murder thursday but innocent to a separate charge that the crime was pre meditated. The july 6 bus plunge in which a american and two Canadian tourists died along with 13 israelis was the worst attack on jews during the 21 month old palestinian uprising against israeli occupation. Abdul had Ghanem 23, from Nus Sci rat refugee Camp in the occupied Gaza strip entered the Picas in Jerusalem District court. Authorities maintain Ghanim acted out of palestinian nationalism and Rode the bus route repeatedly to find the most dangerous spot to attack. He reportedly told investigators he wanted to avenge the beating of a Friend by soldiers. Defense lawyer Jonathan Kuttab brought to court thursday a paralysed palestinian in a wheelchair Radwan Abu Shammah whose injury he said motivated Ghanem s attack. The court agreed to Kuttab s request for an Independent psychiatrist to exam Ine Ghanim. It postponed the trial for three months. We Are pleading not guilty As far As the planning and the intent Kuttab told Israel radio outside the court we Are going to get full evidence later to try and see what in fact motivated him to do something like this when he was not a politicized person at police say Ghanim grabbed the steer ing wheel of a Jerusalem bound bus on the main Highway from Tel Aviv forcing it into a deep Ravine As he shouted Alia he Akbar a religious Call meaning god is great that has become a Battle cry of the palestinian was reported later that Ghanem May have instead screamed the name of his Friend who was beaten. Kuttab Saidon thursday that the defendant shouted Radwan Radwan As he wrenched the steering wheel from the bus israelis responded to the bus attack by stoning cars driven by Palestin ians. One palestinian was killed in Suchan attack near the Gaza strip
