European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 29, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 . Adviser told Fri he knew of plot to kill Jesuit chinese turn selfless Soldier info role Model Beijing apr. Chinese soldiers have been told for nearly three decades to Model themselves after a Young army Driver who died when he i backed his truck into a Telephone pole. On monday they got a new  a a 23-Ycar-old Sauad commander who died saving another Man during a training exercise. The communist party newspaper the people s daily and the Beijing daily ran front Page articles urging readers to learn from Cao Weiss life until now the main role Model for soldiers has been Lei Feng the army Driver. After his death in 1962, authorities claimed he had spent his life secretly doing Good deeds for others. Educated chinese doubt the authenticity of both and said the main lesson to be Learned from Lei Feng is to avoid Telephone poles. Enter Cao. / a. A a a a a. A a a. A a a. When his unit was billeted one Winter in a Tunnel through which a bitter wind howled Cao placed his cot at the tunnels Mouth to keep the wind off everyone else giving him severe arthritis they added. On March 7, Cao was watching from a Bunker As new soldiers practice tossing live hand grenades from a Hilltop outside Beijing. One Soldier Fang Zhenfeng dropped his grenade at his feet after pulling the pin. Cao threw himself on Fang. The grenade exploded. Fang lived but Cao died. A iranians beginning Muslim pilgrimage Tehran Iran apr the first of 2,000 iranian pilgrims on monday left Iran for holy cities in saudi Arabia for the annual Muslim pilgrimage which Iran had boycotted the past three years. Tehran radio said 115,000 iranian pilgrims would be flown to saudi Arabia Over the next 20 Days for the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. In the last pilgrimage attended by iranians in 1987, about 400 people mostly iranians died in clashes with saudi police. The clashes erupted when police tried to quell demonstrations staged by iranian pilgrims condemning the saudi ruling family and the West. The following year saudi Arabia severed ties with Tehran accusing it of terrorism and subversion. At the time Iran slate revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Riyadh and said he would never forgive the saudi ruling family for its treatment of the iranian pilgrims. A the iranians then boycotted the Hajj demanding the pilgrims be allowed to stage demonstrations and that the saudis scrap a quota system that limits pilgrims by nation to 1, x 0 people per 1 million population. The Issue strained tics Between the two major countries in the Muslim world until this year when Iran gained hefty political Points by remaining Neutral in the War Over Kuwait. Tehran and Riyadh resumed ties in March in the aftermath of the War. Iran whose contingent of pilgrims is limited to 55,000 under the saudi quota system was Able to win permission for 115,000 iranians this year. About 2 million muslims from around the world gather in the saudi holy cities every year for the occasion. San Salvador. Al Salvador up a . Military adviser once admitted to having prior knowledge of a plot to kill six Jesuit priests Anil said he would have approved the murders As an act , court documents revealed monday. A you know in be been struggling with this for a while mow do you win these kinds of wars if you re Nice All the time you re going to get your butt kicked Moj. Eric Warren Buckland told an Fri investigator during a videotaped interview held Jan. 12, 199 1. In Washington d c. K for 10 months . Officials withheld the videotape and Buckland a assertions that he had prior knowledge of a plot to kill the jesuits Buckland later retracted his admissions however. Last week a salvadoran judge accepted the transcript of Buckland a initial statements As evidence in the trial of nine members of the salvadoran military charged with the murder of the six priests their House keeper and her teen age daughter the priests including University of Central America Rector Ignacio Ellacuria advocated a political settlement to the country a civil War and criticized the military for human rights abuses. A a a a Fickland told the Fri that salvadoran col. Carlos Armando Aviles told him of a plan to kill Ellacuria several weeks before the nov 16, 1989, slayings. But Buckland kept the information to himself. Buckland claimed to have forgotten about the plan until a week or two after the murders. Even when Aviles told him on dec. 20 that salvadoran col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides was responsible for the killings Buckland withheld the information from his superiors for two weeks because he feared Thuc . Govern ment would a pull the Rug out from under Quot Al Salvador and its military by cutting . Aid to the country. Buckland said in the transcript obtained monday by United press International that he was torn by competing loyalties to the salvadoran military and his own country. Quot everything just kept eating and eating and eating at me because i knew i had an obligation As a . Army officer and As an american to pass this and i sat on  he  a a. A a. A. A a a a in addition to protecting his salvadoran military friends Buckland said he empathized with them. Quot i can honestly say that i had no love for any of the leftist people Quot Buckland said. "1 loved Al Salvador. And i can honestly say i knew the ramifications of any of those kind of murders to the country but i did t think a whole lot about somebody getting killed. Only that it to Ujj Hurt the  v a you would have accepted it Quot the f by investigator asked. Quot yeah Quot Buckland answered. A week later Buckland retracted his original claim to prior knowledge of a plan to kill the jesuits and .  the state department decided to keep the majors videotaped statements secret they note that  under a lot of stress and that he claimed to be a on the verge of a nervous breakdown Quot when the interview was made. A a a a but experts following the Case say Buckland was too Clear on details to have made the Story up. One lawyer close to the Case said the state department officials covered up parts of Buckland s testimony because they were embarrassed that a . Allicer would go along with brutal human rights abuses in the name of winning the War. Gorbachev Bush have substantive discussion Moscow apr soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev and president Bush have had a Quot substantive and constructive Telephone conversation about their planned Summit meeting this summer Tass reported tuesday. The Brief dispatch by the official news Agency said mondays talk focused on arms control and economic cooperation. Gorbachev a office refused to comment on the conversation the second Telephone talk the two leaders have had this month. The first one was held May 11. The Summit was to have been held in Moscow in february but it was delayed because of the persian Gulf War arms control disputes and Gorbachev a Domestic woes particularly the military crackdown in the secessionist Baltic republics. E it was later rescheduled for what . And soviet officials said was the first half of 1991. Gorbachev a Deputy spokesman Sergei Grigoriev said earlier this month that such a meeting seems Likely to be held in late june or Early july. Gorbachev is trying to allay Western concern Over actions the soviet military has taken since signing a 22-nation agreement nov. 19 in Paris to sharply Cut conventional armies in Europe. Western leaders say the soviet military circumvented the spirit if not the letter of the treaty by turning some ground units into naval forces and transferring some armaments beyond the ural mountains the Eastern Boundary of the area covered by the treaty. A. Tass said that during their Quot substantive and constructive discussion the presi dents expressed satisfaction Over tin work that is being done Ami said the wanted it done As soon As  the Telephone conversation came at time when key advisers to Gorbachev am russian federation president Boris n Yeltsin Are in Washington to layout Foi the Bush administration their plan to finance Reform in the soviet Union with massive Western Aid. Protest for homeless demonstrators set fire to garbage along Avenue a in new York City As police and advocates for the homeless clash in Tompkins Square Park. The bottle and Rock throwing Melee wounded seven officers and 12 people were arrested for disorderly conduct. Police spokesman sgt. De Burns said the fight began about 8 30  monday in the lower East Side Park the site of prot Vious fights Between police and homeless rights act its. Officials estimated 400 to 500 people had Crowde into the Park for memorial Day festivities