European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9freedom question splits kuwaiti liberals emerged from wartime exile in West a Young kuwaiti in a convertible gets set for a cruise tuesday evening through the streets of Kuwait City the nation s capital. By Neil Macfar Ajhar the associated press Kuwait a social customs have become a postwar Battleground in Kuwait dividing those who want More personal Freedom from those who fear granting it would tear at the social fabric. The iraqi occupation drove hundreds of thousands of kuwaitis into exile. Those who spent the crisis in the West generally returned More Liberal those who passed the months in saudi Arabia came Back More conservative. The split is coming More into the open. A teen Ager scandalized some people last week by telling a television interviewer she saw nothing wrong with hanging out with boyfriends in Public. On the other Side most fourth year students at Kuwait s medical school Are boycotting classes this week because professors barred women wearing veils from their lectures. Many kuwaitis spent More than a year outside their country after Iraq invaded in August 1990. The Broad trend among those who spent the months in the West or those who stayed and fought is a demand to run their own lives. Many teen agers for example want to Wear to shirts or Short skirts and to cruise in shiny new cars outside a waterfront strip of fast food restaurants. A we did no to have our Freedom during the occupation so we want our Freedom now a said Hamad Kanoon 17. But about 300,000 refugees the majority of those who fled spent the War months in saudi Arabia where much of Public life is regulated by strict islamic rules. Thousands returned More conservative. There has been an attempt in Kuwait to organize a religious police group similar to an organization in saudi Arabia that ensures everyone obeys islamic customs of modest dress and not drinking alcohol. It has not caught on. When one Mem Ber of the new organization told a kuwaiti woman she should could not go into a supermarket in jeans she told him to drop dead and breezed past. But it Isnit just the liberals who sometimes defy convention. At the Kuwait University medical school about six women students started wearing a Ninab a cloth that Hooks Over the nose and ears and when combined with a head Scarf covers everything but the eyes. It is not mandated by islamic tradition but is considered extra modest. University officials said the medical schools Dean or. Hilal Al Sayer reissued a 1983 Rule Banning the Ninab. A a it a completely unsanitary and unacceptable a or. Abdel Latif Al Bader vice Rector for the health sciences Center said in an interview tuesday. He said the Ninab also undermines doctor patient relations a you cannot have a curtain Between you and your patient to get the proper history and proper human Contact Quot he said. Most students even those wearing smaller veils agree with the ban in labs and clinic rounds. A a patient should feel relaxed with the doctor Quot said Majda Al Rattan 25, a student at the school where 60 percent of the students Are women. A to be a doctor there Are just some things you have to do to be  but some criticize the total ban As an attack on personal Freedom or worse religion. Students said All but five of the 70 students in the fourth year walked out of their classes when the professors enforced the ban sunday. A they arc just fighting religion. I see no Point where it interferes with a professors lecture Quot said Mariam m. Salah 28, a medical student who wears the Ninab. Mohammed Musaed Al Saleh a columnist at the newspaper Al Watan wrote that the order had nothing to do with personal Freedom and that if the women done to like it Quot they can leave the medical school and look for another one where studies do not contradict with the facial  helped Lockerbie bombers source says special to the Baltimore Sun Berlin a East Germany a secret police helped Libya organize the 1988 bombing of a jumbo Jet Over Lockerbie Scotland a former Stasi officer says. It is not believed that the nations leaders knew anything of this activity however. The former officer and experts in the Field also said they think that the Stasi a East Germany a secret police and intelligence service that was disbanded after the two Germany unified a made the attack and other acts of terrorism possible through years of organizational help training and logistics for libyan agents. The 1988 attack which members of Western governments say they think was directly planned by Libya resulted in 270 deaths when the pan am jumbo Jet was blown up. A we had knowledge of libyan activities that were pointing toward an air plane bombing. As a Friendly Agency they received certain help from us Quot according to the former officer. The former officer a lieutenant worked in the Sta Sims division 22, which was responsible for combating terrorism but also helped Western and Arab terrorist organizations. The stasis involvement in the bombing was part of its routine help for libyan agents he said. In 1987, when libyan agents were searching for an air plane bomb detonation device they used East Berlin As a base for purchasing trips to Western Europe and Drew on Stasi experience he said. The libyans Are suspected of having bought the detonating device in Switzerland a country that has seen heavy Stasi penetration. Although libyan agents probably did not receive direct Stasi Aid in buying the devices a Stasi run East Berlin import Export company with subsidiaries in Switzerland gave advice the source said. In 1986, the company Kom Mervielle to ordination also procured 4,767 assault rifles for Libya. Similar slash libyan cooperation is suspected of having taken place in 1986, when libyan agents working out of East Berlin Are believed to have organized the bombing of the West Berlin disco la Belle. The attack killed two people including a . Army sergeant and wounded 2 h people. The bombing prompted the . Ambassador to East Berlin to protest in 1987 to the communist regime that it had proof of cooperation. The stasis division 22, which was in charge of these projects had More than 500 officers and an annual budget of about $7 million. Although Many anti Western states received Stasi help and expertise Libya was among the top recipients said Karl Wilhelm Fricke an author of several by Xis on the Stasi. Stasi cooperation with Libya began after the 1969 coup that brought Moa mar Qadhafi to Power according to the former officer. But joint activities Only really started in 1979, when East Germany and Libya signed a treaty of Friendship. The Stasi trained libyan terrorists and organized and advised the Mukh Ahnrae libyans secret police and intelligence Agency. A Little of their activity would have been possible without the Transfer of the slash s organizational skills a Ericke said. I he Tor mar lieutenant said the intensive cooperation meant that even when the stasis direct advisory role in Libya was Over in the mid-1980s, it was Well aware of the Mukha Barat s activities. I he idea behind the cooperation he said was not Only to help renegade countries such As Libya destabilize the West but also to keep close tabs on them so they  turn against East German and soviet interests. Despite this involvement last Germany Stop political leaders did not have anything to do with such operations the source said. A this was a service from one Friendly Agency to another Quot he said and did not involve a major policy decision. Fricke also said he is sure that top East German leaders knew nothing of the attack. East Germany cultivated a Good International image and would not have wanted to see it tarnished for Sueh a questionable activity As bombing a civilian Airliner he said