European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday july 9, 1991 soviets Kab school holds open House for first time Moscow apr pimply cheeked youths gawk at spy gadgets and curious parents scrutinize Job lists. Welcome to the Kab training schools first a open House a a kind of career Day for aspiring spooks. The soviet secret police opened its higher school in Southeastern Moscow to the Public sunday for the first time. It was the latest move in the pkg by a Campaign during the new age of glasnost to Shine up an image tarnished from its decades As the communist party a widely feared instrument for silencing dissident. The Kab also catches spies As Well As spying on the countries of the West whom Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov still considers the enemy. Not surprisingly the open House focused on the former role. A excellent people serve in the Kab people who love their motherland who love their land that a soaked with the blood of their ancestors a said Maya Vladimirova the 52-year-old Mother of a prospective student. A i would be proud if my son enrolled in this school a she said. Hundreds of families took advantage of the open House to pore Over pictures of famous spies look at exhibits of miniature cameras and listening devices and read about victories Over foreign subversion. Of instructors at tables explained their respective objects. Sign up for a a counterintelligence and learn now to catch foreign spies. Choose a a engineering and get a crack at the Best technology in the country. Down one corridor past portraits of the spy schools outstanding students visitors packed an auditorium to watch a film about the nefarious techniques used by westerners to spy on the soviet people. A i have always been interested in the activities of this organization and now 1 decided to see it with my own eyes a said Dmitry Smirnov 21. The eight Story Brick building two City blocks Long is the pkg by a biggest education and training Center taking students from across the country As Well As some foreign countries said spokesman Alexander m. Gorbachev. Enrolment in its five year program ranges from 300 to 500 per class with most applicants aged 17 to 25 years old said Gorbachev not related to the soviet president. For decades the Kab school depended on students from the soviet military. But open antipathy to the Kab in recent years has made recruiting difficult and prompted the once super secret organization to shed its cloak and turn on the Charm. A we need this because we need people a Gorbachev said of recruitment Day activities. A the Monthey know about us the More people will want to enrol. And the More people enrol the better for us because that gives us a Choice and we can select the Best  the school was founded in 1930 under dictator Josef Stalin to train members of the organization first called the Cheka then Gnu a kid and finally Kab. It teaches everything from radio engineering and computer science to political economics and philosophy. A before we let someone attach their name to the chemists its very important to be convinced thit the person wants to dedicate himself completely to the service of the people and the motherland a the schools director it. Gen. Leonid Postnikov told potential recruits. A today a Kab needs people who Are honest sincere and a capable of fulfilling huge intellectual and physical loads a Postnikov said. Never mind that old image of skulking goons arresting anti communist dissidents at the command of Kremlin leaders he said a to be or not to be a member of any party is the personal business of each person a Postnikov told the audience. A if you want to join a party that is going to fight the present constitutional system then you should decide for yourself. But outside our  l we. 1 it a i it Quot la. Wall sunbathers sunbathing in the 1990s on these blocks that once helped form the Berlin Wall would have been unthinkable for most of the past 40 years. But sunbathing it was monday at a site in the Eastern District of Pankow. Where pieces of the Concrete Wall Are to be Cut up into gravel and used for Road construction. World Volcano in Philippines spews Ash 9 Miles High. From wire reports Manila Philippines a mount Pinatubo spewed Ash nine Miles High on sunday and Shook with More than 260 earthquakes As the Volcano began a fifth week of eruptions. The philippine Institute of volcanology and seismology said an Ash ejection at 6 01 . Sunday sent a Cloud of debris Drifting West Northwest of the Volcano about 60 Miles Northwest of Manila. Mount Pinatubo began erupting june 9 after 600 years of dormancy. A series of massive explosions june 14-15 dumped tons of Ash As far As 375 Miles away and caused considerable damage to the  Clark a and Subic Bay naval facilities. Manager sentenced Frankfurt Germany a a German court monday sentenced the manager of Germany a former leading nuclear waste firm to vhf years in jail for embezzling company funds and bribing nuclear Plant employees. Peter Sygen was the last of four former employees of the trans nuclear waste management firm on trial for alleged involvement in Germany a radioactive waste disposal scandal. Two other suspects committed suicide. The company was forced to close Down and the government had to Start a major review of its nuclear waste policies. The presiding judge monday sentenced Sygen a the most prominent of the suspects a to 2vi years in jail after finding him guilty of embezzling 3 million Marks $1.7 million. Sygen used the Money to bribe workers at West German nuclear plants so they would agree to store falsely labelled radioactive barrels. Gunmen kill 5 Blacks Johannesburg South Africa a unidentified gunmen shot and killed five people and injured 14 in an assault on a bar in the Black township of Sebo Keng police said monday. The attackers got out of their car just after 10 . Sunday in the township 60 Miles South of Johannesburg and opened fire on patrons at a shebeen a traditional african bar said police spokeswoman capt. Ida Van weel. The shooting spree came Only Days after african National Congress president Nelson Mandela and South african president . De Klerk affirmed their commitment to ending township violence which has rocked South Africa since 1984. 2 Singapore jets collide Singapore a two Singapore air Force f-16 Jet fighters collided monday during training exercises Over the South China sea the state owned Singapore broadcasting corp. Reported. One plane returned safely to Singapore and the Pilot of the other ejected and was picked up by a passing australian naval vessel the broadcast quoted the ministry of defense As saying. It did not say what happened to the rescued pilots plane. A Rescue helicopter later flew him Back to Singapore it added. The ministry is investigating the Accident the broadcast  group returns to Prague after 52 years Prague Czechoslovakia apr by Nai by Rith the oldest and largest jewish service organization in the world re established its Prague Lodge on sunday after a hiatus of 52 years. A we want to fully renew the. Jewish life in Prague which was disrupted by the War and also by the totalitarian regime a said Zeno Dostal president of the Prague Lodge. Before world War ii there were More than 30 by Nai by Ritho lodges throughout Czechoslovakia but All were disbanded after the nazi occupation in 1939. Dostal said that at the beginning the Lodge s activities will be limited to an educational and cultural sphere because of the lodges a economic  a in the future however we would also like to renew charitable activities in Aid to the economically weaker people. We would also like to establish Here a jewish Hospital and an old age Home a he added. One of the lodges important tasks will be to combat growing nationalism and anti semitism. An estimated 12,000 jews live in Czechoslovakia mostly in the czech lands but exact statistics Are not available. Before world War ii. 315,000 jews lived on czechoslovakian territory. Prague traditionally was one of Central Europe a most important cultural centers of jewry. Another by Nai by Rith Lodge is to be established in the slovak capital Bratislava later this year and in the City of Brno in Early 1992