European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 9,1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 Iran Bushido who said he hid out for 42 ears. Soviet reforms lure Recluse 68, ouf of the Woods Moscow a a Soldier who claims he a Cal into hiding from Stalin s secret police 42 years ago has emerged from the Woods con Vinced by reports of the Kremlin s reforms that it is finally Safe. Soviet Media reported sunday. Ivan Bushido was a 25-year-old decorated vet eran newly returned Home when he ran afoul of Josef Stalin s secret police in 1947, soviet to reported in footage showing the wrinkled but healthy looking 68-year-old adjusting to life in his Home Village in byelorussian. When his attempts to tight the injustices of the Security police put him in serious danger Bushido fled to the byelorussian Woods and lived off the land in primitive shelters for the next four decades. Soviet to said. He had almost no human Contact except for rare visits from close relatives the official news Agency Tass reported. None of the reports explained How Bushido could have survived the cold Winters and they did not say if soviet officials believed Bushido s talc. In an interview with the weekly news program seven  Bushido said it was reports about president Mikhail Gorbachev in newspapers that persuaded him to come Back. Asked Why he did t return earlier Bushido said i did t come out because i did t Trust  now 1 Trust Gorbachev. And Only  Bushido said he was never sick throughout All those years in inc Woods. He survived without a gun mainly by trapping and fishing and gather ing what the Forest would yield. Relatives occasionally brought him clothes food and newspapers Tass said. Bushido told soviet to it was knowing he was right that gave him the strength to survive. My truth gave me All the strength t needed the former peasant said. I am not a criminal. I was not hiding from Justice for some crime but for the  Irish 17-year in bomb threat Dublin Ireland a a teen Ager has been charged with making a false bomb threat that disrupted travel for hundreds of Delta air lines Passen Gers last week. Police said Colin Goodwin 17, of Dun Ohaughlin in county Cath had admitted to telephoning in the threat when the charge was read to Goodwin he re plied that s right. I made that Call detective sgt. Daniel o Riordan reported. Goodwin was formally charged sunday in a District court. He was released on $1,400 bail and ordered to surrender his passport pending a further appearance in court feb. 2. Delta said it intensified Security after receiving a threat thursday against its trans Atlantic operations which include flights to and from West Germany ire land England and France. Passengers were notified about the threat when they checked in Delta spokesman Bill Berry said in Allan old charged against Delta we had several Hundred passengers in this four Day period. Change their travel plans to another Carrier Berry said. He said Delta averaged 4,000 trans Atlantic Passen Gers a Day but even the loss of a few meant that we re really  Berry  Goodwin was arrested sunday morning at his Horn after he allegedly telephoned his most recent threat to Delta s Dublin office. A terrorist bomb explosion was blamed for inc dec. 21, 1988 crash of pan am flight 103 Over , killing 270 people. Pan am was criticized for no warning passengers although . Embassy officials in Europe had been warned of threats against i hairline. A week earlier Northwest airlines received a bomb threat against a flight from Paris to Detroit but Noth ing happened. Bhopal survivors stage protest during visit of key Indian official Bhopal India a hundreds of survivors of the 1984 Bhopal disaster blocked the motorcade of India s Deputy prime minister monday to protest Lack of drinking water in their shantytowns. Men women and children Sal on the Road taken by prime minister . Singh s Deputy Devi Lai. At a dozen or so places in this Central Indian City. Singh s National front coalition replaced Rajiv Gandhi s Congress party after november elections. It was Devi Lai s first visit to Bhopal after taking office on dec. 2 and the first by a representative of the new government. Devi Lai s tour which also included hospitals and rehabilitation centers came about a month after the fifth anniversary of the world s worst Industrial disaster. At least 3,598 people died and 20,000 were injured after Methyl Iso Cyanate Gas leaked from a pesticide Plant run by the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide corp., the .-Bascd multinational giant. Devi Lai who is also agriculture minister stopped his car several times during his one hour tour and talked to protesters. He said without elaborating that he would try to Speed compensation for victims held up because of litigation in the Indian supreme court. Union Carbide reached a $470 million compensation settlement with the Indian government in february 1989. Hut disbursement of the Mono was delayed by local litigation. When the Accident occurred most victims were Liv ing in shantytowns around the pesticide Plant on the outskirts of Bhopal. A City of about 1 million. Many suffer from breathing vision and other problems that have Hurt their ability to work. They called government rehabilitation plans an welfare Aid insufficient. Iran reviving its tourist Industry Nicosia Cyprus a Iran is ready to accommodate up to 300,000 tourists and earn More than$210 million annually under the first stage of a tourism plan a government official said monday. Mahdi Hashemi director if the tourism depart ment of the mosta Afan foundation told reporters in Tehran Iran s capital that the number could be Dou bled later the official islamic Republic news Agency said. The mosta Afan foundation is a government Wel fare Agency that operates its own tourist Agency and other businesses to generate income for distribution to the poor. The Agency monitored in Nicosia quoted Hashemi As saying the first Batch of foreign tourists will arrive from Italy Early in Spring and negotiations arc under Way for other arrivals from moslem and third world countries. A separate report by Tehran radio also monitored in Nicosia said plans for the Exchange of tourists be tween Iran and the soviet Union have been completed. The radio quoted an unidentified transportation ministry official As saying tourists will be shuttled across the Caspian sea. After a decade of self imposed isolation Iran launched a drive recently to revive its once flourishing tourist Industry to promote a belter image and earn badly needed foreign currency. Hashemi confirmed that the ultimate goal of attract ing tourists was to increase Revenue and achieve Politi Cal and cultural objectives. Mohammed Taha Abd Khodai the Deputy islamic guidance minister in charge of tourism also stated in a recent interview that we want to attract tourists to Iran primarily to expose them to our islamic culture and to refute the image created by Western news Media that we Are a nation of  moves to revive tourism followed the death of Iran s revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on june 3, but even the first Len Lalive Steps have been criticized by hard line radicals As a threat to islamic Purily. Attracting tourists at the Cost of losing the spirit ral values of society will be a great disaster parliament member Mohammad Razavi declared in a re can speech. He argued that planning should be so thorough that ungodly materialistic ideas will not replace our pure islamic  Khodai saw no problem provided visitors follow rules observed by our own  major travel agencies in Japan and Western Europe contacted by the associated press said they had no immediate plans to include Iran in their Tours. Thousands died in sri lankan revolts in 89 Colombo sri Lanka a at Casl 6.000 peo ple were killed in sri Lanka in 1989 As the Island Nalion was Lorn by a sinhalese uprising against the government and violence associated with a rebellion by militant tamils military officials said sunday. The officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said at least 500 people were killed during each month of the year As the sinhalese militant movement gained momentum and tamil rebels turned their guns against other members of their Community. The officials were speaking in response to a newspaper report published sunday which said Al least 12,000 people were killed during inc year. The sunday times newspaper said an average of 1,000 people died each month quoting unidentified military sources. The tamil separatist revolt which began in 1983. Has killed at least 11,000 people. The sri lankan army and then Indian peacekeeping troops have tried to quell the secessionist Campaign