European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday november 1,1990 a posters and old russian Empire flags Are carried by some members of a crowd rallying tuesday in Moscow. Thousands rally in Moscow to Honor labor Camp victims military Roundup army hospitals in Europe seeking civilian nurses by stars and stripes . Army hospitals and clinics in Europe Are hiring civilian registered nurses and licensed practical nurses. There Are about 75 openings for both types of nurses especially those with specially training in such areas As paediatrics obstetrics and gynaecology and intensive car said col. Thomas Pozniak assistant chief of staff for personnel for the 7th medical come in Heidelberg Germany. Civilians make up about 45 percent of the nursing staffs at army hospitals in Europe. The summer rotation of army personnel creates a nursing shortage every year As family members employed As nurses leave Europe. Family members moving overseas take time to get adjusted to their new surroundings before looking for employment said col. Nancy Nooney nursing consultant for the 7th medical come. A we feel we have nurses out there we can Call on a she said. Family members and other civilians interested in nursing positions should go to the civilian personnel office serving the medical facility where they want to work Nooney said. They should then talk to the chief nurse of the  on leadership Navy s accepting essays Annapolis my. A the . Naval Institute is accepting entries for its 17th annual leadership essay contest. The contest is open to Junior officers and officer trainees of the Navy Marine corps and coast guard. Entrants should focus on the topic of leadership in the Navy Marine corps or coast guard. Entries must be postmarked by feb. 15 and must not exceed 4,00b words. Prizes Range from $500 to $1,500. For a list of contest rules write to the . Naval Institute membership department Annapolis my. 21402.new appointee to head panel on servicewomen Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney has appointed Becky Costantino As chairwoman of the defense advisory committee on women in the services effective Jan. 1. She will succeed Meredith Meizer in the no salaried Post. It Rota volunteers distribute donations in Morocco Rota Spain a forty american volunteers and More than a ton of donated material arrived in Tangier Morocco last weekend on a . Navy cargo plane. The volunteers from naval station Rota Spain flew in the aircraft from the Fleet logistics support so 22 to the Northern moroccan port. There they distributed the donated goods to an orphanage a nursing Home a facility for the handicapped and a Home for abandoned newborns. The material was donated by Rotas american Community and included baby items Kitchen equipment clothes Candy canes and crutches. The Airlift was the third such operation since last november that was conducted by Rota volunteers. The volunteers also helped to Spruce up and repair the places they visited including a Hospital and a basement gym at a Home for the handicapped. Correction an article yesterday about the Usa eur youth services cheer Cading championships in Lan Stuhl Germany incorrectly identified one of the winning teams. The senior division Winner was Darmstadt and the Junior division Winner was Ramstein. Moscow apr thousands of soviets Many holding photographs of relatives who died in labor Camps marched to Kab Headquarters tuesday for the unveiling of a Monument to victims of repression. They held candles against a bitter wind exchanged stories of loved ones who disappeared and left piles of red and White carnations on the Monument outside the Lubianka the Security police Headquarters and site of the notorious former prison. A this building is a Symbol a a Symbol of lawlessness inhumanity and illegality a historian Yuri Afanasyeva told the crowd estimated at 3,000 to 6,000. The Monument is simple but eloquent a rough piece of Rock about 3 feet wide and 8 feet Long Hen from the harsh Polovetsky islands in the freezing White sea. Those islands were the site for one of the first and most infamous labor Camps. It was established for political prisoners in the Early 1920s. Until president Mikhail s. Gorbachev came to Power in 1985 and began releasing political prisoners dozens of such Camps dotted Northern Russia forming what author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called the a gulag  More than 10 million people Are believed to have been shot or died from hunger harsh weather and hard labor in the Camps Between 1918 and the mid-1980s. In All of Moscow a City with scores of monuments to wars poets and politicians the Monument outside the Moscow apr ethnic moldavian stormed Border checkpoints Early wednesday threatening to kill Border guards and their families unless soviet Security forces withdraw Tass reported. The More than 3,000 militants also set a Fence on fire and threw stones before being persuaded to leave the checkpoints on the romanian Border the official soviet news Agency said. It was the first report of violence in Moldavia since members of the Gagua minority launched a drive to secede from the Republic earlier this month and underscored the conflicts that have mushroomed since president Mikhail s. Gorbachev loosened the Kremlin a grip on ethnic groups. Moldavia is a microcosm of the soviet unions ethnic problems. Of its 4.3 million people some of the majority ethnic moldavian Are demanding the Republic secede Lubianka is the Only one to victims of repression. A this was my father a said Alla Krichevskaya crying softly As she held up a faded photograph of a Young Man in an old fashioned High Collar. A i never knew him. He was sent to Polovetsky after his arrest in 1932, a few months before i was bom and they shot him in 1937.�?� memorial a 3-year-old organization devoted to preserving the memory of those who perished in the Camps received permission from Moscow sgt Council to erect the Monument. Vyacheslav Ign nov one of memorials founders said the group initially had trouble persuading authorities that the Monument should be outside the Kab Headquarters on Dze Rohinsky Square a named for Feliks Dze Rohinsky who founded the Cheka the pkg by a predecessor shortly after the 1917 russian revolution. But memorial insisted on the location because a so Many political prisoners began their trip to the Camps  prisoners were interrogated and sometimes killed in the basement cells of the yellow Stone building said Ign nov a former dissident no was himself imprisoned in the mid-1970s. The soviet Union claims it no longer holds any political prisoners but memorial and some human rights groups claim there Are still about 20, including pro Independence activists imprisoned in the Ukraine and other republics. From the soviet Union and rejoin Romania. The a Gauz minority numbering about 150,000, wants to secede from Moldavia. A wednesday the militants demanded the withdrawal of the soviet troops that were sent to the Republic when a state of emergency was declared last week. A the militants pelted the Stoyanova checkpoint with stones and then set the Fence around it on fire a Tass said. Moldavian leaders flew to the scene and persuaded the militants to give tip the two checkpoints they were blocking Tass said without providing details. The Galgauz claimed control Over part of the Republic earlier this month and on sunday planned elections for an autonomous government. But ethnic moldavian opposed the move and the elections were called off. The Kremlin dispatched troops to the Region and imposed a state of emergency on Friday moldavian threaten Border guards