European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday february 10, 1992 All gulag dissidents free officials say Moscow up the 10 men freed from a notorious siberian prison Camp were the last political prisoners being held in the infamous gulags russian officials said. But human rights groups contend that More remain behind bars. Gulags once scattered across Russia were used to imprison opponents of soviet authority. President Boris n. Yeltsin said last week during his . Visit that russian jails would no longer hold political prisoners. The Warden of the notorious gulag Perm-35, Andrei Rotinov told the news Agency Tass that the 10 men freed Friday were the last dissidents at the prison. But Yelena Sadikova a human rights activist who works with the Helsinki group in Moscow said her group has a list of 25 political prisoners still imprisoned in various russian Camps including two in the Perm-35 facility. And Alexander Goldovich a former political prisoner released after the failed August coup said he believes that up to several Hundred political prisoners May be languishing in russian prisons. He said the confusion May Stem from a common practice of soviet authorities to fabricate Ordinary criminal charges such As theft As a  for sending political dissidents to prison. On paper they appear As Ordinary criminals said Goldovich and it is difficult if not impossible to prove otherwise. Thus political prisoners remain a hidden a he said. A no one can Ever know that their world crimes were fabricated a Goldovich said a a Ftp a very difficult to find these  the 10 prisoners released Friday from Perm-35 a which was reserved for political dissidents a were pardoned by a Yeltsin decree. The longest serving had been there since 1983. The most recent was sent to Perm-35 in 1990 under then soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Some of the prisoners including two soldiers were sent to the Camp after being caught trying to flee across the soviet Border into neighbouring China and Afghanistan. Others committed More elaborate offences. A one Yuri Pavlov 57, was charged with espionage after he claimed foreign Patent rights for his idea of producing artificial diamonds using underground nuclear explosions. Another Vladimir Potas Hov 43, was arrested for expressing his personal views on superpower detente to the Cia. Two soldiers were convicted of hijacking airliners in a desperate attempt to flee the soviet Union. Most of the 10 were also charged with treason under the infamous article 64 of the soviet criminal code. Those deemed traitors could be punished by years in prison or the death penalty. Human rights activists argue that article 64, which is still on the books should be abolished because the offence is ambiguous and still could be used to punish political dissent. The 10 political prisoners leave the gulag carrying their meager belongings. A they talk about the need to change the criminal code they be been talking about it for five years but they done to do it a Sadikova said. Russian legislators have drafted a More Liberal criminal code though it retains provisions for treason that make some human rights activists nervous. Meanwhile Perm-35, which contained Over 100 political prisoners As recently As 1988, wont be going out of business. Goldovich who spent 6 a years in Perm-35 for trying to flee across the Black sea to Turkey in a Small rubber boat said the facility was new being used to House Ordinary  Leader shot dead outside s. African eatery from wire reports Durban South Africa a an african National Congress Leader was shot dead outside a restaurant in Pietermaritzburg in Natal province an apparent retaliation for a spate of attacks on regional leaders of the inkatha Freedom party the South african police said sunday. Sikh Buzo Ngwenya of the Ancus i Bali Branch and a member of the Ancus regional National executive committee was shot to death in his car in a parking lot outside a restaurant where he had dined saturday night said police spokesman capt. Henry Budhram. In the past week More than 22 people have been killed As a result of violent political conflict Between supporters of the Anc a leading anti apartheid group and followers of the inkatha Freedom party in natal.2 charged in n. Ireland Belfast Northern Ireland a a woman was charged saturday with firebombing 12 stores in Northern Ireland and a Man was accused of murdering a Catholic taxi Driver in Belfast. They appeared separately in Belfast magistrates court and attorneys for both said they would plead not guilty. I Rances Patricia Symington was accused of planting incendiary devices in do it yourself furniture carpet and textile stores in Belfast and four other towns Over the past year. William John Mckay 31, also appeared before a magistrate on a charge of murdering 52-year-old taxi Driver Paddy Clarke last sunday night in front of his wife and Young  refinery working Nicosia Cyprus a the Dora refinery near Baghdad is processing 95,000 barrels of crude Oil daily equivalent to its prewar capacity the state run iraqi news Agency said saturday. The Agency monitored in Cyprus quoted Kamel Jafar director of the refineries department As also telling the state run Al jump Oriya daily the facility had reached a full  Allied bombers heavily damaged the strategic Dora refinery during the persian Gulf War. Party Leader May have endorsed abandonment of Mussolini troops by the Washington Post Rome a three italian historians Are heading for Moscow in the next few Days to verify the authenticity of a letter in which former italian communist party Leader Palmiro Togliatti reportedly supported the abandoning of tens of thousands of Mussolini a soldiers leaving them to die in soviet prison Camps. Italian president Francesco Corsiga ordered the Trio of historians to examine the newly opened archives of the communist International comintern in which the letter was found. News of Togliatti a alleged role has shocked italians and is dominating the italian press. As an italian Corsiga said a i desperately Hope the letter is not  the february 1943 document which came to Light last month As another italian historian was carrying out research in the Moscow archives apparently was signed serbian Leader urges prompt . Presence Belgrade Yugoslavia apr Serbia a foreign minister said saturday that . Peacekeepers could Start arriving within Days suggesting the United nations should not wait until the last serbian Leader in Croatia agrees to the deployment. The 15-member United nations Security Council voted unanimously to move toward deploying up to 10,000 peacekeepers but said the resistance of Milan Babic Leader of the serb enclave Krajina in Croatia was an obstacle. Vladislav Jovanovic Serbia a foreign minister told Belgrade radio that a the arrival of the . Peacekeepers has become a question of Days not weeks because All conditions were met political strategic psychological and  a the last obstacle that remains is Babic and that Only in psychological terms a he added. The United nations still regards Babic a was one of the factors in the yugoslav crisis which cannot be easily written off a he said. A the United nations have to overcome their psychological problem of not sending peacekeepers until the very last local Leader completely agrees to  by Togliatti one of the founding fathers of the italian communist party. Togliatti who is still widely revered in Italy spent much of world War ii in exile in the soviet Union to escape imprisonment by italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He died in 1964. In the letter Togliatti apparently turned Down a request by fellow italian communist Vincenzo Bianco to intervene on behalf of italian prisoners of War in Russia saying their deaths would help persuade the italian people to reject fascism. As part of the Axis War pact More than 200,000 italian soldiers went to the russian front Between 1941 and 1943, on the orders of Mussolini to fight alongside nazi troops. Nearly 90,000 of them never came Back. Some 26,000 died in Battle ill fed badly equipped and fighting in temperatures of 25 degrees below Zero. Of the remainder tens of thousands died in the soviet pow Camps most from hunger disease and  Bible top seller at Havana Book fair Mexico City apr christianity a sacred Book the holy Bible is the top seller at the fifth International Book fair in officially atheistic Havana the mexican news Agency no Timex reported saturday. The Book fair also Marks the first time in 20 years that the Bible is widely available in Cuba. Also popular Are illustrated dictionaries and encyclopedias by the famous Spanish publisher aristos. In a nation where paper has become scarce and electric lights to read by Are severely rationed 20,000 people have thronged to the fair since it opened feb. 4 and have bought 2,400 books and pamphlets. The report did not say How Many copies of the Bible had been sold. Although Many cubans continue their Catholic Faith they have no Freedom to practice it. Churches were closed and clerics were expelled from the county after Fidel Castro came to Power in 1959