European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 24, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 9 Warsaw Poland up the soviet Union which for decades denied that its secret police killed 15,000 polish officers during world War ii is now actively cooperating in investigating the Katyn massacre a polish official said tuesday. Deputy polish prosecutor Stefan Sniezko also said both sides now share the View that the 1940 crime constitutes genocide. / Sniezko who held talks with soviet prosecutors in Moscow from april 15 to 20, said it is not known when the investigation will be concluded because a new documents Are still being  the polish official said his soviet colleagues showed him 90 volumes of documents. A a a after seeing the documents we can say the problem is being treated seriously and the investigation is going in the right direction a he said. A there is no slightest doubt now that the a kid soviet secret police committed the crime Quot Sniezko said. A both sides share the opinion that the crime was  although the crime was known to pol ish citizens Many of whom had relatives who were slain it was a taboo subject under communist Rule. The soviet Union officially admitted for the first time in april 1990 that the a kid the predecessor of the soviet Kab during the stalinist years was responsible for the crime. German troops first detected the Mur Ders As they advanced deep into soviet territory in 1943 after declaring War on their soviet partners they found a mass grave in the Forest of Katyn that contained the remains of some 5,000 polish officers who had been kept As prisoners of War in the Camp of Kozielski near the russian City of Smolensk. R some 6,000 were murdered in the of Taskov Camp near the soviet City of Kalinin about 100 Miles North of Moscow and another 4,000 in , near the ukrainian City of Kharkov. Among the victims were one Admiral 12 generals 200 colonels 300 lieutenant colonels and 1,000 captains As Well As thousands of other officers who were outstanding lawyers doctors and University professors a the Cream of the polish intelligentsia. A Sniezko said that evidence obtained so far gives a reliable picture of the crime. Following the soviet invasion of Poland on sept. 17, 1939, and the seizure of its Eastern territories where some 300,000 polish soldiers were captured the soviets designed a plan to annihilate the Best of the Best. The soviet Union invaded Poland 17 Days after Germany a attack which triggered world War ii. A in March 1940, All the a kid regional commanders were summoned to Moscow to inform them that polish officers were sentenced to death because they were enemies of the soviet Union a he said. A a a a. A a a a a a a a. A helping hands firefight cars help an elderly Man from a window at the shorts Chib in Miami a Cali a. About 100 people were evacuated monday during a tire at the club. No serious injuries were  n. Plan would Send Force to Western Sahara United nations a Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar has recommended sending nearly 1,700 . Peacekeepers to the Western Sahara to oversee an end to the 16-year War Between Polinario guerrillas and Morocco. If approved it would be the ninth Active . Force. Two weeks ago the Security Council established a 1,440-member peacekeeping Force to Monitor the iraqi kuwaiti Border under the terms of a cease fire in the persian Gulf War. Copies of the Secretary general a $200 million Western Sahara plan were officially released monday diplomats said. The 35-Page plan Calls for sending peacekeepers and civilian officials to Monitor a cease fire and referendum for the territory s inhabitants on Independence or Union with Morocco. The vote could occur 20 weeks after a cease fire takes effect. A a. Among the 1,695 peacekeepers would be 550 military observers an infantry Bat Talion of 700, an air support group of 110. Airmen for four planes and eight Neli cop ters a signals unit of 45, a medical team of 50, 40 military police and a logistics battalion of 200. The Force would be called min Urso / the French acronym for the . Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara. It would be similar in Many respects to the 1989-90 . Supervision of Namibia a transition to Independence from South Africa. The namibian Force Cost about $383 million. The marxist Polinario liberation movement has been fighting a guerrilla War since the 1970s  Campaign for an Independent Western Sahara. After conquering the former Spanish Colony in 1975, Morocco sent in hundreds. Of thousands of settlers and about 185,000 troops. Neighbouring Mauritania renounced its claim to the territory in 1979. Morocco has had Little trouble a control Quot Ling most of the Mineral Rich territory. But fighting the guerrillas has Cost up to $2 million a Day. Morocco and the Polinario liberation movement agreed in August 1988 to the framework of the peacekeeping plan and it was later approved by the Security Council. However haggling Over details delayed the drafting of a detailed proposal until now. One key dispute concerns How Many moroccan troops would be allowed to remain in Western Sahara during the transition period. Under the Secretary general s plan Morocco would have to Cut its troop strength to 65,000 within 11 weeks of a cease fire a Compromise Between Polinario and Morocco. Polinario has about 7,000 fighters. All remaining moroccan troops would be confined to a Static or defensive positions along the Sand Wall that Morocco has built to Divide the territory it holds from Polinario areas. . Observers would Monitor the moroccan troops along the Sand Wall and would a conduct extensive patrols by land and air to ensure Observance of the  Polinario guerrillas would Retreat to Camps of their choosing where they Wou d he monitored by . Officials. A i weapons would be kept in locked safes and even . Personnel would Only carry arms when authorized by the territory a police commissioner on the order of the . Chiefs personal  an election commission with offices in Geneva or new York would decide who is eligible to vote in the referendum. The 1974 Spanish census listed the 110,000-Square-mile territory a population at about 76, Polinario claims about 165,000 saharan live under its administration in and near the algerian Oasis at Lindouf but Morocco says they Are not eligible to vote.  stealing soviet space Model Moscow apr a soviet commentator lashed out at the United states on monday for refusing to return to Moscow a display Model of a spacecraft nuclear reactor calling the action  the working Model of the Topaz 2 reactor was brought to a scientific convention in january. A . Research consortium announced it would buy a working Topaz 2 to help develop a similar sys Tern in the United states. The Deal was made with the Federal strategic defense initiative organization. When the soviets tried to take the display Model Home the . Nuclear regulatory commission said they had unwittingly exported it to the United states. The . Agency maintained monday that returning the Model would be considered an illegal Export under the atomic Energy act and said it will not Issue an Export License to allow it to leave the United  we cannot Issue a License to Export the reactor Back to the soviet Union because there is no agreement for cooperation in nuclear matters Between the United states and the ussr.,�?� arc spokesman Frank Ingram said in  in a commentary on the incident the official state news Agency Tass described the incident As a a regrettable breach of agreements.a such actions smack of piracy a wrote Tass International analyst Albert Balabanov. A your country has never done anything of this sort even in the worst periods of soviet american  the United states previously had guaranteed the soviet Union that the Model would be returned he Saida Quot a \. Balabanov suggested the arc May have been a guided by other reasons particularly by the fact that the soviet space Power Plant displayed in the United states is far ahead of similar american  a if this is so the commission s decision is an attempt to misappropriate intellectual properly a he said. Balabanov also raised the possibility that the incident could have an Adverse effect on an agreement that was signed last year on .-soviet cooperation in the area of nuclear Energy. A the soviet Union will apparently have to reconsider the expediency of such cooperation a he said