European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday october 7,1991 report says soviet official admits to Wii massacre London apr a former soviet secret police commander has admitted his Rote in the murder of More than 6,000 polish officers in world War ii according to a report in sunday s editions of the observer newspaper. The report said Vladimir to Kaziyev 89, made a videotaped statement describing How the a kid police Agency killed 6,925 polish officers in april 1940. He said 250 poles were killed every night in the secret police Headquarters in Kalinin about 100 Miles Northwest of Moscow. The report was written by Nicholas Bethe la historian and conservative member of the european parliament who has also translated russian literature including Alexander Solzhenitsyn a the cancer Ward. Bethell said he had obtained videotapes of statements by Tokarev and Pyotr Suprunenko 83, who was identified As the a kid officer in charge of polish prisoners. Suprunenko told of receiving an order from the politburo signed by Josef Stalin ordering the executions Bethell said. Prosecutors say Tokarev and Suprunenko Are the Only men still living who so far have been identified As having a Case to answer. A under present legislation they probably wont be Able to proceed. But there will need to be a piece of retroactive legislation making mass murder of this sort a limitless crime a Bethell said in an interview sunday. The soviet Union has a 15-year statute of limitations for murder the report said. While there is no limit on trying a crimes against humanity a the soviets apply this Only to crimes committed in the name of nazi Germany. Bethell said he obtained the tapes two week ago in Moscow where he met with military prosecutors. A year ago president Mikhail s. Gorbachev directed them to investigate the killings of some 15,000 polish officers including 3,897 poles at Katyn and 4,403 near Khary Kov. Tokarev said the murders at Kalinin were carried out at night by about 30 a kid men led by an officer named Blokhin. The bodies buried near the Village of myed Noye about 20 Miles outside Kalinin Are now being disinterred in the presence of polish observers Bethell said. Bethell said the soviet prosecutors expected to recommend charges against Tokarev and Suprunenko. Bethell said the investigation has been hampered by the suspension of maj. Gen. Alexander Katy Sev because of his a a inactivity during the August coup attempt. On the Day of the coup attempt Kab officers in Kalinin attempted to Stop the exhumation of polish mass Graves Bethell reported. A they told us that our work was unnecessary and that they would not guarantee our safety. Still we carried on a a soviet investigator was quoted As saying. Gorbachev  Cut plan praised by world leaders London apr Western leaders on sunday hailed soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a pledge to reduce nuclear weapons dramatically. A Good news for the whole world a said president Bush who one week earlier had announced unilateral . Nuclear  cuts. Gorbachev said saturday the soviet Union would disarm All Short Range nuclear weapons and Cut the number of ballistic missiles below a limit allowed under a recently signed .-soviet  control treaty. He also announced a one year moratorium on testing and said he would ask other nuclear Powers to do the same. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Quot emphatically welcomed the soviets initiative. Quot with this the soviet Union has positively responded to disarmament proposals announced by president Bush a week ago a Kohl said in a statement. A for Europe it is of special importance that the soviet Union is ready to withdraw and destroy its atomic Battlefield  British prime minister John major also welcomed Gorbachev a stunning announcement but said Britain would continue with plans for a modernized strategic deterrent. A if it is what it seems to be then there May be a unique Opportunity to see a dramatic de escalation in nuclear weapons a major told reporters outside his 10 Downing St. Office. Britain announced last week that following Bush a Lead it would remove tactical nuclear weapons from Royal Navy ships and reaffirmed its decision to phase out Battlefield nuclear weapons in Europe. Major said however that Britain still planned to deploy four new nuclear armed Trident submarines. A we have made reductions in our nuclear weapons Over recent weeks and we have announced this he said. A the Trident is the essential minimum defense that we need in this country and we must maintain  major did not respond directly when asked whether Britain would consider a testing moratorium but he said a we will St Udy very carefully All the proposals in the soviet Union plans. I think at this stage it is Wise to examine them carefully before we  Gen. John r. Galvin natos supreme Allied commander in Europe called the news a marvelous a but also gave a measured response. Despite the disintegration of the soviet Union a the threat Isnit really Over. Everyone overestimates. There a still a Large military Force on both sides a he said while visiting Allied troops near Istanbul Turkey. France had no immediate response to Gorbachev a announcement. But president Francois Mitterrand last week hailed a the remarkable Effort made by Bush and announced that Britain France the United states and the soviet Union would hold a Summit on reducing their arsenals. Former French prime minister Michel Ricard said last year that France would reduce its underground nuclear tests from eight to six a year. China a state run Xinhua new Agency carried a detailed report of Gorbachev a announcement but did not report any official response. China also a nuclear Power responded the same Way initially to Bush s announcement. Speaking to reporters after talking with Gorbachev on the Telephone Bush said the soviets had a come a Long  in response to Gorbachev Scall for a superpower Summit on  control Bush indicated he was amenable to the idea but that a a there a work to do before we sit Down at a  he declined to comment on specifics including whether he would be willing to reverse . Policy and join Gorbachev a one year moratorium on nuclear testing. Overall however he said a we feel this is very Good news for the whole  people around the world he said were giving a a vote of gratitude to the soviet leadership for their approach i feel very Good about it. I think something positive is happening in the  world7 dead at least 36 Hurt As belgian train derails from wire reports Liege Belgium a a packed passenger train derailed saturday after its brakes failed on a downhill slope killing seven people and injuring Over three dozen police said. Five people were killed in the Accident and two others died during the night. About a dozen people remained hospitalized sunday according to a police official. Many of those aboard the trim leu steam train had taken advantage of a special weekend offer by the Public railway to ride the train at discount prices. But on the afternoon run the train stopped on top of a Hill leading to the mine museum in dal hem a suburb of Liege. The conductor had left the train to Call his superiors when he discovered problems with break system  rights Leader Dies Saskatoon Canada a Martin ennals the former Secretary general of amnesty International who helped build it into a leading human rights group died saturday after a yearlong Battle with ennals lung cancer. He was 64. Ennals led the development of the London based group As a major International Monitor of human rights during his tenure As Secretary general from 1968-80. In 1977, he accepted the Nobel peace prize on amnesty a behalf. A if he needs a memorial it will be amnesty International. He built it up from a very modest organization to one of enormous stature which now commands great respect a said his brother lord David ennals a former senior labor party minister in  troops kill 10 Srinagar India a ten people were shot to death sunday in the second Day of House to House searches by Indian  troops trying to contain the Muslim separatist insurrection in Kashmir police and witnesses said. The witnesses accused the paramilitary Border Security Force of opening fire on unarmed civilians who had been ordered out of their houses for the search. Ten people died the witnesses said speaking on condition of  spacecraft docks Moscow a a soviet spacecraft carrying the first austrian in space docked saturday with the orbiting Mir space station two Days after Blastoff from the Bai Konur cosm drome Tass reported. The soyuz tm-13 spacecraft reached Mir at 9 39 a.m., the soviet news Agency reported. Austria a first cosmonaut Franz Viehbeck will spend eight Days in space returning to Earth later this week with soviet cosmonaut Anatoly arts Barsky who has spent five months making repairs to Mir and conducting experiments. Soviet Media say Austria paid $7 million for the ride Down from $11 million from a japanese passenger in december and $10 million the British paid in  survives Indonesia air crash that killed 132 Jakarta Indonesia a one Soldier survived the crash of an indonesian air Force c-130 transport plane that killed 132 other people the air Force said sunday. The crash survivor reported in critical condition with massive Burns was identified As pfc. Bambang. Previously All passengers on the plane had been reported killed. Meanwhile military personnel were scouring the crash site to clean up any ammunition that might have been scattered when the plane crashed into a labor department training Center shortly after Takeoff saturday. All 132 of the dead were buried with military honors sunday in Cile Duk cemetery on Jakarta a outskirts. One was a Security guard at the train ing Center. The planets passengers were air Force men being flown from Jakarta to Bandung 90 Miles to the Southeast after joining in armed forces Day ceremonies in the capital. All remaining festivities for the armed forces 46th anniversary on saturday were cancelled because of the crash an armed forces spokesman said. President Suharto expressed his condolences to the victims families so the tragedy was a great loss to the Tion. Vice Marshall Sioen air Force of staff said the crash was one o biggest tragedies in the armed of history. Witnesses said some of the dead in Green military uniforms were f1 clutching their weapons