European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday december 17, 1991 soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev Center right wife Raisa and Gorbachev s aides pose saturday with the scorpions during the German Rock band s visit to the Kremlin in Moscow. German Rock band scorpions give $70,000 in Aid to soviets world Russia reverses stance on Honecker s status from wire reports Moscow a the russian information Agency reported monday that former East German Leader Erich Hon Cockcr will not be arrested if he leave the safety of the chilean embassy. The news Agency paraphrased russian foreign minister Andrei Kozarev As saying that Russia a is not enforcing its order that Hon Cockcr leave the Republic by monday. It gave no explanation for what would be a sudden turnaround in the russian governments attitude toward the 79-Ycar-old Honecker who sought Refuge in the Home of Chile a ambassador last wednesday. Russia had supported Germany Scalls for Honecker to be returned to face criminal charges for ordering the shooting of people trying to flee former East Germany. Kozarev according to the Agency said that Germany and Chile together must decide Hon eckers Fate. A the russian federation has nothing to do with it altogether Quot Kozarev was quoted As saying a it would be a matter for Germany and Chile to  on sex Stasi spies Berlin a about 300 former East German spies Are now working in United Germany for the russian republics secret service a newspaper reported sunday. Berlin s Kurrier am sonntag attributed its information to an unnamed former colonel in the defunct East German intelligence service known As the Stasi. The sex agent said that the 300 former Stasi agents Are scattered throughout various German ministries businesses and the German intelligence service. A they do that out of professional ambition out of financial necessity and out of rage that they Are All now considered criminals Quot the former Stasi colonel said. The Stasi was one of the most skilled foreign intelligence services and one of the most feared Domestic Security networks. It kept a suffocating cloak of surveillance intimidation and oppression on the former  mayor to resign Moscow a citing policy disputes with russian president Boris n. Yeltsin the controversial mayor of Moscow announced his imminent resignation sunday in a reflection of the mounting opposition to the Yeltsin administrations impending economic reforms. A i can to work under conditions in which i can t fulfil what i promised to my voters a said mayor Gavriil Popov. A i did t come Here to hold onto my seat and sit in a fancy office and drive Lovely cars a the rotund 55-year-old economist said. A i took on certain obligations in the elections. 1 should fulfil them. If 1 can to do that my obligation and duty arc to step  draws big audience Tirana Albania a More than 2,000 albanians evidently driven by curiosity and a fascination with things american packed a former communist party Headquarters Hall to see a religious movie saturday night. It was the first time that a religious movie had been shown in Post communist Albania where religion was officially banned by former communist dictator Enver Hoxha in 1%7. The film was Jesus produced by the inspiration film corp. Many potential viewers were turned away and police had to control the crowd outside the Hall. Rep. Robert Mcewen a Ohio. Present at the premiere told the crowd a Jesus is the answer to the worlds problems. America loves  tickets Cost about $1, equivalent to a Days average wages in Europe a poorest country. Moscow up a it was an unlikely meeting one that until recently would have seemed incredible. The leather suited heavy Metal Rock band scorpions entered the inner Sanctum of the Kremlin for a private meeting with soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev presenting the Leader with $70,000 in Aid to the soviets. A we know that or. Gorbachev is facing very difficult times right now a scorpions Lead Singer Klaus mine told a news conference sunday disclosing that members of the five piece German band chatted mostly about music with Gorbachev and his wife Raisa. The world renowned band boasted of being the first Western Rock stars to meet the soviet Leader. For his part Gorbachev received two checks totalling $70,000 at the saturday night meeting a royalties from the scorpions song wind of change. The song was inspired by Gorbachev a perestroika and written after the band performed in Moscow for the 1989 music peace festival. The Money will be spent for medical equipment at children a hospitals in several cities according to soviet news agencies. Half the Money was donated by the band members the other half by their record company Mercury poly Gram said the company a european president Wolf Gramatky who accompanied the band on their hour Long Kremlin visit. Most of the talk was about music Meine said voicing Surprise that Gorbachev a and especially Rais soviet papers shed Jerusalem a Long hidden soviet documents from world War ii have disclosed that the nazis May have killed a Quarter million More jews in the holocaust than first believed israeli researchers said. The documents Are now being studied at Israel s had Washem holocaust memorial. They include testimony from jewish survivors of the nazi occupation in the soviet Union nazi records and soviet War chronicles. Shmuel Krakowski head archivist at had Washem and himself a survivor of the Lodz ghetto in Poland said the material uncovered by israeli researchers about two years ago showed the a cruelty mostly of the germans went beyond anything we knew of from other  a massive searches after every jew who was hiding the Many less people ready to help the jews a death punishment for anyone w to dared help and organized groups of local collaborators All created a situation where the chances of survival were close to Zero a he said. A Krakowski said the new material could increase by 250,000 the estimate of the number of jewish victims of the holocaust now estimated to be 6 million. A however. We will Only be certain when the research is Over Quot Gorbachev a seemed to know about the scorpions and their songs. The Gorbachev said they asked their children about the band Meine said. However the conversation turned briefly to politics when Meine told Gorbachev about his childhood memories of former soviet Leader Nikita s. Khrushchev pounding his shoe on the table at the United nations a one of history a great footnotes and certainly one of Khrushchev a a most memorable acts. Gorbachev a reaction seemed to fit the musical mood of the conversation Meine quoted Gorbachev As saying a ooh that was heavy Rock. Did you like that a the musicians who said their first attempt at performing in Moscow in 1988 was turned Down by the authorities said they planned a Moscow concert this summer and invited the Gorbachev. A Kremlin Leader meeting a hard Rock group a no matter How famous a would have been incredible not Long ago. Other Western celebrities such As Madonna and Bob Geldof have reportedly sought meetings with Gorbachev but were told the soviet Leader was too Busy. However Gorbachev apparently received the scorpions with open arms. A a it a not because we Are group no. 1,�?� Meine said. A it s much More because of the song that hit the spirit of the time perfectly. Wind of change blew us into Kremlin.light on holocaust he added. A it turns out also that the evacuation before the germans came was less successful than we thought. And so that Means More jews than we thought were caught by the germans a he said. Originally researchers thought most soviet jews were killed by German firing squads known As the nazi Ein sat Gruppen. In the initial stages of the War the squads lined jews up at the Edge of huge pits killed them then buried them in the pits. It was believed that after the Einset Gruppen massacres Only the Minsk ghetto and possibly a few others remained. But the new documents show that a there were a dozen ghettos left. Where jews lived and were later murdered a Krakowski said. The new documents show ghettos existed in the Eastern Ukraine in byelorussian a Gomel in russians Smolensk and in Many other places he added. Israel was first allowed Access to the files when Krakowski and had vase my a director Yitzhak Arad visited the soviet Union in 1989. They were then permitted to take the material Back to Israel for research. Krakowski said Access was granted by the head of the chief Archive administration of the soviet Union Fyodor m. Vaganov