European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 11, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 West Point set the stage for artist s career by Dave Diehl . Bureau London while his one time West Point classmate commands the european theater. Bob Dean is Busy in London s West end doing a Little stage work of his own. Dean a graduate of the . Military Academy and a buddy of Gen. John r. Galvin is nervously preparing for the opening of his first play in the risque Soho District of London. The play. Russell Dorky and the mushroom  is a sometimes goofy look at artist Dorky a Painter of abstract chickens who is plotting the murder of his wife. The playwright said the play had no direct parallel to his own life certainly not the part where Dean joined Calvin and 510 others to form the West Point class of 53. Still the 60-year-old widower conceded it was the Point that gave him the discipline he needed to follow a career that mixes sculpting jazz piano and the theater. I think it is one of the greatest and Best influences of my  he said of his military education. What it taught me. If nothing else was to gel up in the morning and go to  while Calvin went on to earn four stars. Dean s military career fizzled four years after graduating from the Academy. He d chosen the air Force and and a career As a Pilot. But Eye trouble grounded those dreams and Dean ended up As a financial consultant in new York and later As a financial journalist in Mexico City. Dean s wife an artist who died five years ago persuaded him to turn those bad eyes toward sculpting i Don t think i m naturally talented but i keep at sculptor and playwright by Dean who prefers Bronze Over military brass has followed a career in the arts.  Dean said. If i had to describe myself in one word i guess it would be persistent " that persistence has paid off. From his studio in Florence. Italy Dean has built a following and a comfortable living from his Art. Americans arc most familiar with Dean s larger than life bronzes of Dwight Eisenhower that stand at West Point and in front of the . Embassy in London s Grosvenor Square. Dean got into writing on a dare. He d seen the movie fatal attraction and told a Friend he thought he could write a better mystery plot. The Friend challenged Dean to do it. And Russell Dorky which opens tuesday for a three week run at the Boulevard theatre was the  Dean prefers his european digs he Hopes the play will do Well enough in London to Merit a shot in the United states. If not. It s Back to sculpting in  either Way. Dean said he still prof Rcd Bronze to military   he said military life does t stimulate artistic  re radio Liberty helping new Europe by Steve Taylor Munich Bureau Munich. West Germany East europeans and the soviets arc still Raven Bush hungry for information As they struggle to work out their democracies officials of to . Radio stations say. To fill this need. Radio free Europe and radio Liberty plan to broadcast programs on How democracy and free Enterprise work said William w. Marsh executive vice president of radio free Europe. They have no experience with democracy said or. Lain Elliot radio Liberty s associate director. We Are doing what we can to facilitate this  pc Hack who directs radio free Europe s czechoslovak broadcast ing said leaders in the East arc looking to the stations for  recently talked to Vaclav Havel the new president of Czechoslovakia. He quoted the playwright Lur cd pc Sidcot As saying we Are not a free Europe but a new Europe. It s your role now to gel us Back in  radio free Europe s target audience lives in the countries of Eastern eur Iupe. While radio Liberty directs its messages to the soviet  radio Liberty the changes in the soviet Union have also brought about changes at the  unofficial reporters. Called stringers now can come out into the open. Before it was very dangerous to collaborate said Dmitri Volchuk. A so Viet Stringer visiting radio Liberty in Munich. Now. Stringers arc allowed to use their own names and provide fre quent reports to radio  years ago just listening to radio Liberty could be considered a dissident activity leading to trial and confine ment Volchuk said. But Freedom of the press still Hus a Long Way to go in the soviet Union said Volchuk. Who is an editor at a new mos cow Magazine called glasnost. He said there were still White  or topics that could Only be written about if the followed the party line. Such stories involve the soviet army the kgi1 or Reli Gion. The sister radio stations. Which share the same Headquarters in Munich were once propaganda outlets of the Cia. But. Since the Early 1970s, they have become Independent corporations and use professional journalists. They arc funded by Congress. The budget is nearly $200 Mil lion this year and the two stations employ about 1,700 people. Arafat criticized for not censuring attack on bus Cairo. Egypt a a journalist closely tied to president Hosni Mubarak chastised Plo chief Yasser Arafat on saturday for failing to condemn a terrorist massacre of nine israelis on a bus in Egypt. The new criticism escalated a War of words Over the attack Between the Palestine liberation organization and Egypt jeopardizing efforts to organize Israel palestinian peace talks. The article by editor Ibrahim soda on the front Page of the mass circulation weekly Akbar cd yom was the third article criticizing the Plo since the attack a week ago. But it was the first that blamed Arafa himself. All three articles appeared in state owned newspapers and were written by their top editors All known to be close to Mubarak. The Media onslaught signalled strains in relations Between Egypt and the Plo. Such tension imperils american efforts to organize palestinian israeli peace talks because Egypt has been relaying Plo positions to both the United states and Israel. Israeli outrage Over the attack has also made Organ izing such talks More difficult. Mubarak sent a message to Arafat last week that sources close to the government said was believed Mohave voiced displeasure Over the Plo s reaction to the attack. The Plo said last week in Tunisia that the incident should be placed in the context of the hundreds of palestinians who died in the 26-month-old uprising against israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip. In his article soda called the statement Flimsy and silly for omitting a denunciation of the terrorist at tack and comparing i with the violence in the occupied lands. The bus carrying 31 israeli vacationers was attacked by two gunmen who showered it with automatic fire and hand grenades on a desert Highway Between Cairo and the Suez canal City of Ismail a. Newspapers have quoted Security officials As saying the gunmen were palestinians but that no arrests have been made. We expected Yasser Arafat to react by flying to Cairo immediately to declare to the world his personal and the palestinian people s condemnation of this criminal act soda wrote in his weekly which claims a circulation of More than i million. He said Arafat should at least have broadcast a statement in his own voice censuring the attack and vowing to help the egyptian Security apparatus uncover the palestinian terrorist  the Plo s Cairo representative. Saced Kama told the Middle East news Agency on saturday that his organization was cooperating with egyptian Security authorities passing to them any information it had about the ambush. Kamal said however that he could not Rule out the possibility of israeli responsibility for the attack aiming to obstruct peace talks. The chill in egyptian Plo relations was the worst since Mubarak shut Down seven Plo offices in Egypt for seven months in 1987 after the Palestine National Council the organization s parliament in exile criticized Cairo s 1979 peace treaty with Israel. Another stale owned newspaper Ai ashram. Reported saturday that the ambush was plotted inside Israel or the occupied territories. The newspaper quoted an unidentified Interior ministry official for the report