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a012  2316  16 Aug 87
PM-Soviet Disinformation, Bjt,0893
Soviets Depict U.S. News in Harsh Light
An AP News Analysis
By BRYAN BRUMLEY
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Soviet media may be singing a different tune
on internal matters, but they are still playing harsh melodies about
America including what U.S. officials call ''disinformation.''
    The intent is to tarnish the U.S. image abroad, according to Soviet
defectors once involved in the campaign. American officials have
mounted an international campaign of their own to rebut the charges.
    Among recent Soviet media reports, all denied by U.S. officials,
were that:
    -The Defense Department developed the AIDS virus.
    -The CIA was behind the suicide of 914 Americans at Jonestown.
    -The Pentagon ousted President Nixon.
    -The assassins of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ''received
their ideological inspiration from the CIA.''
    -Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith's letters and visits to Soviet
leaders led U.S. intelligence agencies to murder her.
    Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of allowing more internal
criticism in official Soviet media ''seems to be having no effect on
Soviet international behavior,'' said Richard Perle, formerly deputy
defense secretary and now a fellow at the conservative American
Enterprise Institute.
    Soviet defector Ilya Dzirkvelov testified at a trial in London this
year that the Soviet Commmunist Party Central Committee decided in
1959-60 ''to increase our ideological influence in the West.'' He
said that involved ''active measures'' - planting fabricated or
distorted stories in foreign media.
    Herb Romerstein, a U.S. Information Agency specialist on such Soviet
activity, said, ''We have not noticed any reduction in the amount or
the intensity of Soviet disinformation'' since Gorbachev rose to
power in March 1985.
    Once the reports appear in the foreign press, they are picked up by
the state-run Soviet media, and fed abroad again by official radio
stations and news agencies, according to U.S. officials and defectors
such as Dzirkvelov Stanislav Levchenko, who worked for the KGB
disinformation campaign.
    ''The covert propaganda belongs to the KGB,'' Dzirkvelov testified.
''The KGB or the Soviet embassy's aide have to collect the real facts
that happened, and after that we can manipulate these facts ... to
compromise somebody or some measures by foreign governments.''
    The Central Committee secretariat sets the goals of disinformation,
and leaves the means to the KGB, according to Dzirkvelov and
Levchenko.
    The USIA, said Romerstein, coordinates efforts by U.S. diplomats
abroad to monitor Soviet disinformation, and to counter it through
statements either to foreign journalists abroad or by government
spokesmen in Washington.
    Among the most spectacular Soviet fabrications was the accusation
that U.S. Army scientists developed the virus responsible for AIDS,
the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
    ''Quite simply, these charges are untrue,'' said Pentagon spokesman
Fred Hoffman. ''Yet the story keeps going. It is obviously a
systematic campaign.''
    The story first appeared in the weekly ''Literaturnaya Gazeta'' in
October 1985 and was promptly denied by the State Department. But
since then, it has appeared in the news media of more than 60
countries, in more than 30 languages.
    The topic disrupted a meeting last spring between USIA director
Charles Wick and Valentin Falin, the head of Novosti, the
semi-official Soviet news agency that U.S. officials say is often
used as a vehicle for disinformation.
    Wick stomped out of the meeting after Falin insisted that the AIDS
story was true, and that the United States had also developed
''various exotic weapons, including so-called ethnic ones,''
according to an account published in the weekly ''Moscow News,''
which is published by Novosti.
    The alleged ''ethnic'' diseases supposedly afflict Arabs in
Israeli-held lands and blacks in South Africa, but do not harm Jews
or whites living there. Romserstein and other American spokesmen
dismiss the charges as ridiculous.
    Meanwhile, Moscow News is at the cutting edge of ''glasnost,''
Gorbachev's policy of allowing the media to carry sharper criticism
of corrupt and inefficient officials inside the Soviet Union and to
report more on social ills such as drunkeness and prostitution.
    Moscow News on March 1 reviewed a Soviet book called ''Death of
Jonestown - Crime of the CIA,'' blaming the agency for the suicide of
914 American members of a religious cult in Guyana in 1978.
    Reviewing another book on March 7, Moscow News said President Nixon
was forced to resign in 1974 because of a CIA and Pentagon
''behind-the-scenes struggle against the policy of relaxation of
international tensions.''
    The article, titled ''Brass Hats Against the President,'' flies in
the face of congressional and judicial investigation results by
alleging that ''the break-in at the Democratic headquarters in the
Watergate offices was a deliberately crude job by CIA operatives who
wanted to leave traces'' and thus sabotage Nixon's policy of detente
with the Soviet Union.
    The article failed to note that detente continued under Nixon's
successors, Presidents Ford and Carter, until the Soviets invaded
Afghanistan in 1979.
    The editor of Moscow News, Yegor Yakovlev, interviewed by The
Associated Press during a visit to Washington, defended the articles
as reviews of legitimate books.
    U.S. officials view such anti-American propaganda as the price
reformist editors such as Yakovlev pay to print articles that test
the limits of glasnost on domestic issues.
    ---
    EDITOR'S NOTE: Bryan Brumley was an Associated Press correspondent
in Moscow 1981-82.
    
 
AP-NY-08-17-87 0155EDT
***************

a012  2316  16 Aug 87
PM-Soviet Disinformation, Bjt,0893
Soviets Depict U.S. News in Harsh Light
An AP News Analysis
By BRYAN BRUMLEY
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Soviet media may be singing a different tune
on internal matters, but they are still playing harsh melodies about
America including what U.S. officials call ''disinformation.''
    The intent is to tarnish the U.S. image abroad, according to Soviet
defectors once involved in the campaign. American officials have
mounted an international campaign of their own to rebut the charges.
    Among recent Soviet media reports, all denied by U.S. officials,
were that:
    -The Defense Department developed the AIDS virus.
    -The CIA was behind the suicide of 914 Americans at Jonestown.
    -The Pentagon ousted President Nixon.
    -The assassins of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ''received
their ideological inspiration from the CIA.''
    -Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith's letters and visits to Soviet
leaders led U.S. intelligence agencies to murder her.
    Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of allowing more internal
criticism in official Soviet media ''seems to be having no effect on
Soviet international behavior,'' said Richard Perle, formerly deputy
defense secretary and now a fellow at the conservative American
Enterprise Institute.
    Soviet defector Ilya Dzirkvelov testified at a trial in London this
year that the Soviet Commmunist Party Central Committee decided in
1959-60 ''to increase our ideological influence in the West.'' He
said that involved ''active measures'' - planting fabricated or
distorted stories in foreign media.
    Herb Romerstein, a U.S. Information Agency specialist on such Soviet
activity, said, ''We have not noticed any reduction in the amount or
the intensity of Soviet disinformation'' since Gorbachev rose to
power in March 1985.
    Once the reports appear in the foreign press, they are picked up by
the state-run Soviet media, and fed abroad again by official radio
stations and news agencies, according to U.S. officials and defectors
such as Dzirkvelov Stanislav Levchenko, who worked for the KGB
disinformation campaign.
    ''The covert propaganda belongs to the KGB,'' Dzirkvelov testified.
''The KGB or the Soviet embassy's aide have to collect the real facts
that happened, and after that we can manipulate these facts ... to
compromise somebody or some measures by foreign governments.''
    The Central Committee secretariat sets the goals of disinformation,
and leaves the means to the KGB, according to Dzirkvelov and
Levchenko.
    The USIA, said Romerstein, coordinates efforts by U.S. diplomats
abroad to monitor Soviet disinformation, and to counter it through
statements either to foreign journalists abroad or by government
spokesmen in Washington.
    Among the most spectacular Soviet fabrications was the accusation
that U.S. Army scientists developed the virus responsible for AIDS,
the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
    ''Quite simply, these charges are untrue,'' said Pentagon spokesman
Fred Hoffman. ''Yet the story keeps going. It is obviously a
systematic campaign.''
    The story first appeared in the weekly ''Literaturnaya Gazeta'' in
October 1985 and was promptly denied by the State Department. But
since then, it has appeared in the news media of more than 60
countries, in more than 30 languages.
    The topic disrupted a meeting last spring between USIA director
Charles Wick and Valentin Falin, the head of Novosti, the
semi-official Soviet news agency that U.S. officials say is often
used as a vehicle for disinformation.
    Wick stomped out of the meeting after Falin insisted that the AIDS
story was true, and that the United States had also developed
''various exotic weapons, including so-called ethnic ones,''
according to an account published in the weekly ''Moscow News,''
which is published by Novosti.
    The alleged ''ethnic'' diseases supposedly afflict Arabs in
Israeli-held lands and blacks in South Africa, but do not harm Jews
or whites living there. Romserstein and other American spokesmen
dismiss the charges as ridiculous.
    Meanwhile, Moscow News is at the cutting edge of ''glasnost,''
Gorbachev's policy of allowing the media to carry sharper criticism
of corrupt and inefficient officials inside the Soviet Union and to
report more on social ills such as drunkeness and prostitution.
    Moscow News on March 1 reviewed a Soviet book called ''Death of
Jonestown - Crime of the CIA,'' blaming the agency for the suicide of
914 American members of a religious cult in Guyana in 1978.
    Reviewing another book on March 7, Moscow News said President Nixon
was forced to resign in 1974 because of a CIA and Pentagon
''behind-the-scenes struggle against the policy of relaxation of
international tensions.''
    The article, titled ''Brass Hats Against the President,'' flies in
the face of congressional and judicial investigation results by
alleging that ''the break-in at the Democratic headquarters in the
Watergate offices was a deliberately crude job by CIA operatives who
wanted to leave traces'' and thus sabotage Nixon's policy of detente
with the Soviet Union.
    The article failed to note that detente continued under Nixon's
successors, Presidents Ford and Carter, until the Soviets invaded
Afghanistan in 1979.
    The editor of Moscow News, Yegor Yakovlev, interviewed by The
Associated Press during a visit to Washington, defended the articles
as reviews of legitimate books.
    U.S. officials view such anti-American propaganda as the price
reformist editors such as Yakovlev pay to print articles that test
the limits of glasnost on domestic issues.
    ---
    EDITOR'S NOTE: Bryan Brumley was an Associated Press correspondent
in Moscow 1981-82.
    
 
AP-NY-08-17-87 0155EDT
***************

a261  1850  19 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Peltier,0215
Soviet Radio: American Indian Seeking Political Asylum
    MOSCOW (AP) - An American Indian imprisoned in Kansas for killing
two FBI agents is seeking political asylum in the Soviet Union, Radio
Moscow reported Wednesday.
    The request from Leonard Peltier is being considered by appropriate
authorities, the radio said, quoting Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly
L. Adamishin.
    Peltier, 41, was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents during
a gunfight two years earlier at the Pine Ridge indian reservation in
South Dakota. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms at the
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
    Earlier this year, the human rights commission of Spain awarded
Peltier its international human rights prize. Commission officials
said he was chosen because ''he was defending the historical and
cultural rights of his people against the genocide of his race.''
    Soviet media also have cited Peltier's case as an example of human
rights violations in the United States. Radio Moscow on Wednesday
repeated standard allegations here that Peltier was jailed ''on
charges fabricated by the FBI.''
    The announcement of Peltier's request for political asylum follows
the visit earlier this year of a group of Soviet eye doctors to
Kansas to treat Peltier, who has a disease affecting the nerve
endings of one eye.
    
 
 
AP-NY-08-19-87 2144EDT
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a080  0810  20 Aug 87
PM-Soviet-Japan-Espionage,0392
Kremlin Expells Two Japanese, Charges Espionage
    MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union today ordered a Japanese military
attache and a businessman out of the country after accusing them of
espionage.
    Another Japanese diplomat also was suspected of espionage but was
not expelled, said Gennady I. Gerasimov, chief spokesman for the
Soviet Foreign Ministry.
    Gerasimov told reporters at a briefing that Japanese defense attache
Tomohiro Okamoto, an air force colonel, and naval attache Nobuhiro
Takeshima ''were involved in espionage activities'' while in the
Soviet port city of Odessa on the Black Sea on July 29.
    Soji Takao Otani, a Moscow representative of the giant Mitsubishi
manufacturing company, attempted to obtain commercial secrets from
the Soviet foreign trade ministry, engaged in illegal speculation and
violated Soviet travel restrictions, Gerasimov said.
    Takeshima and Otani were ordered to leave the country, but a
Japanese Embassy official said neither man has left yet.
    Gerasimov said Japanese Ambassador Yasue Katori was summoned to the
Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, where Soviet officials protested the
activities of the Japanese and demanded that steps be taken to
prevent such actions in the future.
    A Japanese diplomat, authorized to speak for his embassy but only on
condition his name not be used, flatly denied the military attaches
were engaged in spying.
    ''We deny it completely and believe it is totally groundless,'' the
official said of the Soviet espionage charge.
    He said Okamoto and Takeshima were in Odessa on an official trip in
connection with their duties at the embassy.
    There was no immediate explanation why only one of the two diplomats
was being expelled. Nor was there any indication Otani was being
formally charged with criminal activity, although Gerasimov accused
him of violating Soviet laws.
    The Soviet spokesman also accused the Japanese government and press
of engaging in an ''anti-Soviet campaign.''
    A Japanese official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said
the latest charges were not directly linked to, but appeared to stem
from, a dispute over a Japanese investigation into an
intelligence-gathering operation in Japan.
    Several weeks ago, when Japanese authorities sought to question some
Soviet officials in connection with a Japanese ring suspected of
trying to buy or steal technology and defense secrets, the Soviets
were abruptly recalled rather than face questioning, the official
said.
    
 
AP-NY-08-20-87 1101EDT
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a093  0943  20 Aug 87
PM-Soviet-Japan-Espionage, 1st Ld, a080,0377
Kremlin Expells Two Japanese, Charges Espionage
Eds: UPDATES, EDITS throughout with Japan expelling Soviet trade
official
    MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union today ordered a Japanese military
attache and a businessman out of the country after accusing them of
espionage.
    Japan denied the charges and ordered a Soviet trade official to
leave, but said the expulsion was not in retaliation for the Soviet
move.
    Gennady I. Gerasimov, chief spokesman for the Soviet Foreign
Ministry, said in Moscow that a third Japanese - also a diplomat -
was suspected of espionage, but was not expelled.
    It is the first time since World War II that the Soviet Union has
ordered a Japanese diplomat to leave.
    Gerasimov told reporters at a briefing that Japanese defense attache
Tomohiro Okamoto, an air force colonel, and naval attache Nobuhiro
Takeshima ''were involved in espionage activities'' while in the
Soviet port city of Odessa on the Black Sea on July 29.
    Soji Takao Otani, a Moscow representative of the giant Mitsubishi
manufacturing company, attempted to obtain commercial secrets from
the Soviet foreign trade ministry, engaged in illegal speculation and
violated Soviet travel restrictions, Gerasimov said.
    A Japanese diplomat, authorized to speak for his embassy but only on
condition his name not be used, flatly denied the military attaches
were engaged in spying.
    ''We deny it completely and believe it is totally groundless,'' the
official said. He said Okamoto and Takeshima had been in Odessa on an
official trip in connection with their duties at the embassy. He also
said neither man had left yet.
    There was no immediate explanation why only one of the two diplomats
was being expelled. Nor was there any indication Otani was being
formally charged with criminal activity, although Gerasimov accused
him of violating Soviet laws.
    The Soviet spokesman also accused the Japanese government and press
of engaging in an ''anti-Soviet campaign.''
    The Japanese Foreign Ministry said the expulsion of Yurii G.
Pokrovskii, a Soviet vice trade representatives in Tokyo, was not
linked to the expulsion orders issued in Moscow. The ministry said
Pokrovskii was ordered out after he refused to answer police
questions about alleged Soviet purchases of information stolen from
an aircraft instrument maker.
    
 
AP-NY-08-20-87 1232EDT
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a080  0810  20 Aug 87
PM-Soviet-Japan-Espionage,0392
Kremlin Expells Two Japanese, Charges Espionage
    MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union today ordered a Japanese military
attache and a businessman out of the country after accusing them of
espionage.
    Another Japanese diplomat also was suspected of espionage but was
not expelled, said Gennady I. Gerasimov, chief spokesman for the
Soviet Foreign Ministry.
    Gerasimov told reporters at a briefing that Japanese defense attache
Tomohiro Okamoto, an air force colonel, and naval attache Nobuhiro
Takeshima ''were involved in espionage activities'' while in the
Soviet port city of Odessa on the Black Sea on July 29.
    Soji Takao Otani, a Moscow representative of the giant Mitsubishi
manufacturing company, attempted to obtain commercial secrets from
the Soviet foreign trade ministry, engaged in illegal speculation and
violated Soviet travel restrictions, Gerasimov said.
    Takeshima and Otani were ordered to leave the country, but a
Japanese Embassy official said neither man has left yet.
    Gerasimov said Japanese Ambassador Yasue Katori was summoned to the
Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, where Soviet officials protested the
activities of the Japanese and demanded that steps be taken to
prevent such actions in the future.
    A Japanese diplomat, authorized to speak for his embassy but only on
condition his name not be used, flatly denied the military attaches
were engaged in spying.
    ''We deny it completely and believe it is totally groundless,'' the
official said of the Soviet espionage charge.
    He said Okamoto and Takeshima were in Odessa on an official trip in
connection with their duties at the embassy.
    There was no immediate explanation why only one of the two diplomats
was being expelled. Nor was there any indication Otani was being
formally charged with criminal activity, although Gerasimov accused
him of violating Soviet laws.
    The Soviet spokesman also accused the Japanese government and press
of engaging in an ''anti-Soviet campaign.''
    A Japanese official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said
the latest charges were not directly linked to, but appeared to stem
from, a dispute over a Japanese investigation into an
intelligence-gathering operation in Japan.
    Several weeks ago, when Japanese authorities sought to question some
Soviet officials in connection with a Japanese ring suspected of
trying to buy or steal technology and defense secrets, the Soviets
were abruptly recalled rather than face questioning, the official
said.
    
 
AP-NY-08-20-87 1101EDT
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a093  0943  20 Aug 87
PM-Soviet-Japan-Espionage, 1st Ld, a080,0377
Kremlin Expells Two Japanese, Charges Espionage
Eds: UPDATES, EDITS throughout with Japan expelling Soviet trade
official
    MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union today ordered a Japanese military
attache and a businessman out of the country after accusing them of
espionage.
    Japan denied the charges and ordered a Soviet trade official to
leave, but said the expulsion was not in retaliation for the Soviet
move.
    Gennady I. Gerasimov, chief spokesman for the Soviet Foreign
Ministry, said in Moscow that a third Japanese - also a diplomat -
was suspected of espionage, but was not expelled.
    It is the first time since World War II that the Soviet Union has
ordered a Japanese diplomat to leave.
    Gerasimov told reporters at a briefing that Japanese defense attache
Tomohiro Okamoto, an air force colonel, and naval attache Nobuhiro
Takeshima ''were involved in espionage activities'' while in the
Soviet port city of Odessa on the Black Sea on July 29.
    Soji Takao Otani, a Moscow representative of the giant Mitsubishi
manufacturing company, attempted to obtain commercial secrets from
the Soviet foreign trade ministry, engaged in illegal speculation and
violated Soviet travel restrictions, Gerasimov said.
    A Japanese diplomat, authorized to speak for his embassy but only on
condition his name not be used, flatly denied the military attaches
were engaged in spying.
    ''We deny it completely and believe it is totally groundless,'' the
official said. He said Okamoto and Takeshima had been in Odessa on an
official trip in connection with their duties at the embassy. He also
said neither man had left yet.
    There was no immediate explanation why only one of the two diplomats
was being expelled. Nor was there any indication Otani was being
formally charged with criminal activity, although Gerasimov accused
him of violating Soviet laws.
    The Soviet spokesman also accused the Japanese government and press
of engaging in an ''anti-Soviet campaign.''
    The Japanese Foreign Ministry said the expulsion of Yurii G.
Pokrovskii, a Soviet vice trade representatives in Tokyo, was not
linked to the expulsion orders issued in Moscow. The ministry said
Pokrovskii was ordered out after he refused to answer police
questions about alleged Soviet purchases of information stolen from
an aircraft instrument maker.
    
 
AP-NY-08-20-87 1232EDT
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a226  1343  20 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Japan-Espionage, Bjt,0568
Moscow and Toyko Announce Expulsions
By MASHA HAMILTON
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviets said Thursday they were expelling a
Japanese diplomat and a businessman for alleged espionage, and Toyko
ordered out a Soviet for refusing to answer questions about the
purchase of stolen documents.
    It was the first Soviet expulsion of a Japanese diplomat since World
War II and appeared to signal a sharp escalation in a dispute over
Tokyo's allegations that Soviet officials in Japan illegally bought
classified American documents.
    In announcing the expulsions, the Soviet Union criticized Japan for
launching and intensifying a ''propaganda campaign hostile to this
country.'' Japanese officials warned that the expulsions would deeply
damage Soviet-Japanese relations.
    The Soviets accused Japanese diplomat Nobuhiro Takeshima of
espionage during a visit to a Black Sea holiday resort, while Tokyo
said the Soviet official, Yuri G. Pokrovsky, may have handed over
nearly $69,000 for stolen documents during clandestine meetings on
railway platforms.
    Soji Takao Otani was the Japanese businessman expelled.
    Relations between the two countries plummeted this summer when the
U.S. Senate voted to ban for two years the import of products built
by Japan's Toshiba Corp. because of allegations that a Toshiba
subsidiary illegally sold Moscow equipment which helped the Soviets
build harder-to-detect submarines.
    Two Toshiba machine executives were arrested and both the president
and the chairman of Toshiba resigned because of the illegal sales.
    In a separate case, Japan recently stepped up efforts to question
Soviets suspected of involvement in a spy ring that bought or stole
U.S. and Japanese defense and technological secrets, including U.S.
data on a new Boeing E3C Hawkeye fighter jet.
    Three Soviets sought for questioning were recalled abruptly from
Tokyo this year rather than face interrogation, according to a
Japanese official in Moscow who spoke to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity.
    The Soviet ordered expelled Thursday was summoned on July 20 for
police questioning in connection with the case but refused to
respond, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
    Pokrovsky, a Soviet vice trade representative in Tokyo, was wanted
for questioning about purported Soviet purchases of information
stolen from an aircraft instrument maker, the ministry said.
    Japanese officials indicated that Pokrovsky bought the stolen
documents for $68,900 during secret meetings on railway platforms and
in restaurants with a top official in the Tokyo Aircraft Instrument
Co.
    The Foreign Ministry stressed the decision to expel the Soviet was
not made in retaliation for Moscow's ordered ousters. But Tokyo's
announcement followed quickly the Soviet statement accusing three
Japanese of illegal activities.
    Gennady I. Gerasimov, the chief Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman,
told reporters that Japanese defense attache Tomohiro Okamoto and
naval attache Takeshima ''were involved in espionage activity'' while
visiting the Soviet port city of Odessa on the Black Sea on July 29.
    Otani tried to obtain commercial secrets from the Soviet Foreign
Trade Ministry, engaged in illegal speculation and violated Soviet
travel restricitions, Gerasimov said. He said Otani was the deputy
chief of the Moscow office of the Mitsubishi Manufacturing Corp., a
major Japanese trading house.
    Gerasimov said Takeshima and Otani were ordered out of the country.
He did not say why Okamoto was not expelled.
    In Tokyo, the Foreign Ministry dismissed as ''groundless'' Moscow's
charges that the three engaged in espionage or tried to obtain
commercial secrets.
    
 
 
AP-NY-08-20-87 1630EDT
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a021  0023  22 Aug 87
PM-BRF--Publishing Accord,0137
U.S. Publisher, Soviet Union To Have Joint Publication
    FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) - A leading publisher of computer trade
publications says it has reached agreement with the Soviet Union to
publish a Russian language magazine covering developments in personal
computers.
    The formal agreement calling for the bimonthly publication of P.C.
World U.S.S.R. will be signed Monday in Moscow, IDG Communications
said in a statement Friday.
    Initial circulation of the magazine, to begin publication in the
spring of 1988, will be about 50,000, with about 60 percent of the
magazine being used for editorial content and 40 percent for
advertising, said IDG Communications, which said the publication's
headquarters would be in Moscow.
    IDG Communications, a subsidiary of International Data Group, has
more than 90 publications in 33 countries. Its leading U.S.
publications are PC World, InfoWorld, and PC Resource.
    
 
AP-NY-08-22-87 0317EDT
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a077  0841  22 Aug 87
PM-Baltic Rallies,0441
Big, and Unauthorized, Rallies Expected in Soviet Baltic
    MOSCOW (AP) - The Kremlin is bracing for massive protests expected
in the Soviet Baltic on Sunday, with the official media accusing
Westerners of smuggling in propaganda and inciting people with lies.
    Activists predict thousands will gather in Baltic capitals to mark
the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between Germany and
the U.S.S.R. that cleared the way for the Soviet takeover of the
republics of Lavtia, Lithuania and Estonia.
    Moscow's response to the demonstrations, which would be the second
such protests in the Baltic this summer, is likely to be carefully
watched by the West as a further test of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy
of ''glasnost,'' under which limited criticism has been permitted.
    A group of 20 U.S. senators has already sent a letter to the Soviet
leader via the Soviet Embassy in Washinton calling on Moscow not to
interfere in the demonstrations.
    But the Soviet media has taken the offensive, representing the
protest organizers as ''foreign falsifiers'' and ''bourgeois
outsiders.''
    The official news agency Tass accused the West of ''interference in
the internal affairs of the Baltic peoples,'' and noted that the
expected rallies have been mentioned here on Russian-language reports
on foreign radio stations,
    The daily Pravda said the Voice of America and the British
Broadcasting Corp., were ''providing detailed instructions about what
street and at what hour these demonstrations should take place.''
    ''One of the principal roles has been given to the CIA, which has
been coordinating subversive activities and fabricating all kinds of
mendacious pamphlets and leaflets smuggled into the Soviet Baltic
region through agents,'' Tass said in one of dozens of reports on the
subject issued in recent days.
    Similar reports were carried by most Soviet newspapers and the
evening television news ''Vremya.''
    In a demonstration June 14, a crowd in 5,000 rallied in the port
city of Riga in what organizers said was the biggest unauthorized
protest since World War II in the Latvian republic.
    The rally was to commemorate the 15,000 Baltic citizens deported to
Siberia under Josef Stalin's reign two years after the Red army moved
in. Eleven people were arrested, but police did not break up the
demonstration.
    Since then, Soviet authoriites have allowed the most visible Baltic
activisits to emigrate or forced them into exile over the last few
months in what was seen by some activisits as an effort to still
voices of dissent in the region.
    Among those who left was Rolands Silaraups, a 21-year-old machinist
who was one of the leaders of the June demonstration.
    
 
AP-NY-08-22-87 1127EDT
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a264  1654  22 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Baltic,0570
Soviet Accuses Western Media of Inciting Baltic Rallies
By MARK J. PORUBCANSKY
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Union has issued a barrage of reports
accusing Western news media of inciting large nationalist rallies
planned for Sunday in the Baltic republics.
    Reports Saturday sought to counter what the newspaper Selskaya Zhizn
said were ''direct instructions about how to conduct a
demonstration.'' The newspaper, radio and television reports followed
more than a dozen dispatches by the official Tass news agency over
the last three days.
    The Soviet media accused Radio Free Europe, The Voice of America,
the British Broadcasting Corp. and Vatican Radio of stirring up
ethnic trouble, adding that the CIA was behind much of it.
    The government newspaper Izvestia said in a front-page editorial
Saturday that it was swamped with calls from readers asking about the
Western broadcasts, which the paper said told Baltic residents ''what
day, what time and on what squares'' the demonstrations would take
place.
    ''If this is not interference in the home affairs of another state,
then what is it?'' Izvestia asked. ''If it is not a crude violation
of the rules and ethics of inter-governmental relations, then what
can it be called?''
    Tass accused the Reagan administration of trying to ''sling mud at
our restructuring drive and the democratization policy pursued by the
(Communist) Party and actively backed by the people.''
    Such a campaign is rare for the Soviet media, which in the past have
tended to ignore such protests.
    In recent months, apparently under the influence of Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev's campaign for more openness, the Soviet media
generally have issued short reports after the fact.
    Emigre groups of Lithuanians and Latvians in Rome, Stockholm and
other cities have said Sunday's protests will commemorate the 48th
anniversary of the non-agression pact between Nazi Germany's
dictator, Adolf Hitler, and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, signed
prior to World War II.
    That treaty led to the Soviet takeover of of the Baltic states -
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia .
    The three small republics, with a total population of about 7.75
million people, are in the northwest corner of the Soviet Union on
the Baltic Sea.
    The party newspaper Pravda on Saturday did not mention the protests,
but devoted a quarter of its front page and its entire third page to
photos and letters from readers in the Baltic republics.
    National television broadcast an hour of programming Saturday
evening on historical and current events in the republics.
    The United States never has recognized the assimilation of the
republics into the Soviet Union, and still recognizes independent
exile governments that retain missions in Washington.
    The Baltic republics are the most Western-oriented of the 15 Soviet
republics. They long have been a source of ethnic discontent,
although many Russians have been resettled there since World War II.
    In June, about 5,000 people gathered in Riga, the capital of Latvia,
to mark the deportation of 15,000 people to Siberia by Stalin two
years after Red Army occupation, organizers said.
    Eleven people were arrested during the protest, but police did not
break up the rally. Since then, some of the most visible Baltic
activists have been allowed to emigrate or forced into exile.
    Among those who emigrated was 21-year-old Rolands Silaraups, a
leader of the Riga rally.
    
 
 
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Thousands Protest Pact that Allowed Soviet Takeover
LaserGraphic NY8
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin,
which delayed Russian fighting in World War II and deeded control of
the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 gathered at the memorial around noon.
    He said as many as 5,000 tried to reach the cordoned-off square
throughout the afternoon and that many of the elderly sobbed while
recounting the republic's suffering in the 1940s.
    ''Those who were bold managed to get through to the monument,'' said
Roskalns, 38. He said about 500 uniformed and plainclothes police set
up barricades and closed off a pedestrian underpass to the monument.
    Roskalns said authorities took away a man who held up a placard
demanding, ''Publish the facts about the Stalin cult'' and seized a
photographer believed to be a foreigner and smashed his video camera.
    A Western visitor who spoke on condition of anonymity reported from
Vilnius that about 500 protesters gathered at noon outside St. Anna's
Catholic Church. Police ringed the cathedral, but demonstrators
brushed by them and were allowed to assemble, the source said.
    The official Tass news agency declared the Vilnius protest a
''flop'' and set the number of participants at ''only 250-300.'' But
the agency disclosed that they were protesting the installation of
Soviet power in 1940.
    Tass said nothing about the protests in Tallinn and Riga.
    Details of the Tallinn protest were not immediately available in
Moscow, but Roskalns said Latvian activists learned it had taken
place.
    Sunday's demonstrations and Red Square protests last month by
Crimean Tatars who want to return to their Black Sea homeland
demonstrated a more lenient approach to dissent in line with Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of ''glasnost,'' or openness on
selected issues.
    The Baltic protests and the publicity given them by Western
broadcasters over the past few days prompted an out outcry from
Soviet media, which published at least 15 commentaries over the
weekend denouncing the broadcasts and explaining the Kremlin
position.
    Provisions of the Aug. 23, 1939, pact, signed by then-Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop, became public in the West after Germany fell. But until
last week the Kremlin rarely acknowledged the agreement and explained
it as a ploy to buy time to prepare for eventual war with the Nazis.
    A Tass interview with historian Herman Trukan disclosed to Soviets
that the agreement divided areas of Eastern Europe into Soviet and
German spheres of influence.
    Trukan restated the official Soviet version of the takeover: that
Baltic peoples voted to join the Soviet state and that Soviet troops
entered the small nations because the people wanted their protection
against the Nazis.
    Sunday's protests were announced in the United States and Western
Europe by emigre organizations that advocate a return to independence
for the three Baltic nations.
    A group of 20 U.S. senators wrote Soviet officials asking that
protests be allowed to take place without interference. That request
also drew fire from Soviet media.
    The Communist Party daily Pravda said Sunday, ''The senators'
message coincides ... with the overtly instigatory, anti-Soviet
campaign launched in recent weeks by Western radio voices
broadcasting to the Soviet Union, including those subversive radio
stations which are financed and directed by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency.''
    Radio Moscow and Soviet Television called the Western broadcasts ''a
crude provocation violating international law,'' and said such
protests were ''incompatible with the existing systems in Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia.''
    In what was widely viewed as an attempt to dilute nationalist
sentiments, some of the most prominent activists have been exiled to
the West.
    Roskalns was pardoned this year from a labor camp sentence for
alleged anti-Soviet activity. But he said he was ordered to leave the
Soviet Union and plans to go to West Germany next week with his wife
and children.
    
 
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Eds: UPDATES with Tass account of Tallin protest
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin,
which delayed Russian fighting in World War II and deeded control of
the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 gathered at the memorial around noon.
    He said as many as 5,000 tried to reach the cordoned-off square
throughout the afternoon and that many of the elderly sobbed while
recounting the republic's suffering in the 1940s.
    ''Those who were bold managed to get through to the monument,'' said
Roskalns, 38. He said about 500 uniformed and plainclothes police set
up barricades and closed off a pedestrian underpass to the monument.
    Roskalns said authorities took away a man who held up a placard
demanding, ''Publish the facts about the Stalin cult'' and seized a
photographer believed to be a foreigner and smashed his video camera.
    A Western visitor who spoke on condition of anonymity reported from
Vilnius that about 500 protesters gathered at noon outside St. Anna's
Catholic Church. Police ringed the cathedral, but demonstrators
brushed by them and were allowed to assemble, the source said.
    The official Tass news agency declared the Vilnius protest a
''flop'' and set the number of participants at ''only 250-300.'' But
the agency disclosed that they were protesting the installation of
Soviet power in 1940.
    Tass said a gathering in Tallinn's Hirve park was ''instigated by
the Voice of America, the subversive (Radio) Free Europe and (Radio)
Liberty radio stations, and also by a small group of persons
previously sentenced for anti-Soviet activity.''
    It said someone identified as Tijt Madisson headed the gathering,
which attracted several hundred curious onlookers.
    Tass also described drivers in Riga as ''seething with indignation''
as the protest there caused traffic delays in the center of the city.
    Sunday's demonstrations, 13th graf pvs
 
 
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Eds: UPDATES with emigre reports on Riga protest and arrests
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin that
deeded control of the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union. Germany
later invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania, and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 people gathered at the memorial around noon.
    Vilnis Zalkalus, a spokesman for a Latvia emigre group, told the AP
in Stockholm, Sweden, that the protests in Riga continued into the
evening and the number of demonstrators increased to 7,000. He said
police surveillance tightened, creating a ''very tense'' situation.
    Repeated telephone calls to Riga from Moscow late Sunday did not go
through, and Zalkalus' report could not be verified.
    In Washington, Olgerts Pavlovskis, president of the World Federation
of Free Latvians, said eight people were arrested in Riga, and four
were released later but four remained in custody. He said that in
telephone calls to Riga, witnesses reported the eight were seized
when police broke into an apartment where a poster had been displayed
opposing Soviet rule.
    Roskalns said as many as 5,000 people tried to reach the
cordoned-off square throughout the afternoon and that many of the
elderly sobbed while recounting the republic's suffering in the
1940s.
    ''Those who,'' 7th graf pvs
 
 
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a210  1011  23 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Baltic, Bjt,0759
Thousands Protest Pact that Allowed Soviet Takeover
LaserGraphic NY8
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin,
which delayed Russian fighting in World War II and deeded control of
the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 gathered at the memorial around noon.
    He said as many as 5,000 tried to reach the cordoned-off square
throughout the afternoon and that many of the elderly sobbed while
recounting the republic's suffering in the 1940s.
    ''Those who were bold managed to get through to the monument,'' said
Roskalns, 38. He said about 500 uniformed and plainclothes police set
up barricades and closed off a pedestrian underpass to the monument.
    Roskalns said authorities took away a man who held up a placard
demanding, ''Publish the facts about the Stalin cult'' and seized a
photographer believed to be a foreigner and smashed his video camera.
    A Western visitor who spoke on condition of anonymity reported from
Vilnius that about 500 protesters gathered at noon outside St. Anna's
Catholic Church. Police ringed the cathedral, but demonstrators
brushed by them and were allowed to assemble, the source said.
    The official Tass news agency declared the Vilnius protest a
''flop'' and set the number of participants at ''only 250-300.'' But
the agency disclosed that they were protesting the installation of
Soviet power in 1940.
    Tass said nothing about the protests in Tallinn and Riga.
    Details of the Tallinn protest were not immediately available in
Moscow, but Roskalns said Latvian activists learned it had taken
place.
    Sunday's demonstrations and Red Square protests last month by
Crimean Tatars who want to return to their Black Sea homeland
demonstrated a more lenient approach to dissent in line with Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of ''glasnost,'' or openness on
selected issues.
    The Baltic protests and the publicity given them by Western
broadcasters over the past few days prompted an out outcry from
Soviet media, which published at least 15 commentaries over the
weekend denouncing the broadcasts and explaining the Kremlin
position.
    Provisions of the Aug. 23, 1939, pact, signed by then-Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop, became public in the West after Germany fell. But until
last week the Kremlin rarely acknowledged the agreement and explained
it as a ploy to buy time to prepare for eventual war with the Nazis.
    A Tass interview with historian Herman Trukan disclosed to Soviets
that the agreement divided areas of Eastern Europe into Soviet and
German spheres of influence.
    Trukan restated the official Soviet version of the takeover: that
Baltic peoples voted to join the Soviet state and that Soviet troops
entered the small nations because the people wanted their protection
against the Nazis.
    Sunday's protests were announced in the United States and Western
Europe by emigre organizations that advocate a return to independence
for the three Baltic nations.
    A group of 20 U.S. senators wrote Soviet officials asking that
protests be allowed to take place without interference. That request
also drew fire from Soviet media.
    The Communist Party daily Pravda said Sunday, ''The senators'
message coincides ... with the overtly instigatory, anti-Soviet
campaign launched in recent weeks by Western radio voices
broadcasting to the Soviet Union, including those subversive radio
stations which are financed and directed by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency.''
    Radio Moscow and Soviet Television called the Western broadcasts ''a
crude provocation violating international law,'' and said such
protests were ''incompatible with the existing systems in Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia.''
    In what was widely viewed as an attempt to dilute nationalist
sentiments, some of the most prominent activists have been exiled to
the West.
    Roskalns was pardoned this year from a labor camp sentence for
alleged anti-Soviet activity. But he said he was ordered to leave the
Soviet Union and plans to go to West Germany next week with his wife
and children.
    
 
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Eds: UPDATES with Tass account of Tallin protest
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin,
which delayed Russian fighting in World War II and deeded control of
the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 gathered at the memorial around noon.
    He said as many as 5,000 tried to reach the cordoned-off square
throughout the afternoon and that many of the elderly sobbed while
recounting the republic's suffering in the 1940s.
    ''Those who were bold managed to get through to the monument,'' said
Roskalns, 38. He said about 500 uniformed and plainclothes police set
up barricades and closed off a pedestrian underpass to the monument.
    Roskalns said authorities took away a man who held up a placard
demanding, ''Publish the facts about the Stalin cult'' and seized a
photographer believed to be a foreigner and smashed his video camera.
    A Western visitor who spoke on condition of anonymity reported from
Vilnius that about 500 protesters gathered at noon outside St. Anna's
Catholic Church. Police ringed the cathedral, but demonstrators
brushed by them and were allowed to assemble, the source said.
    The official Tass news agency declared the Vilnius protest a
''flop'' and set the number of participants at ''only 250-300.'' But
the agency disclosed that they were protesting the installation of
Soviet power in 1940.
    Tass said a gathering in Tallinn's Hirve park was ''instigated by
the Voice of America, the subversive (Radio) Free Europe and (Radio)
Liberty radio stations, and also by a small group of persons
previously sentenced for anti-Soviet activity.''
    It said someone identified as Tijt Madisson headed the gathering,
which attracted several hundred curious onlookers.
    Tass also described drivers in Riga as ''seething with indignation''
as the protest there caused traffic delays in the center of the city.
    Sunday's demonstrations, 13th graf pvs
 
 
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AM-Soviet-Baltic, 2nd Ld,a235,0334
Eds: UPDATES with emigre reports on Riga protest and arrests
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin that
deeded control of the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union. Germany
later invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania, and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 people gathered at the memorial around noon.
    Vilnis Zalkalus, a spokesman for a Latvia emigre group, told the AP
in Stockholm, Sweden, that the protests in Riga continued into the
evening and the number of demonstrators increased to 7,000. He said
police surveillance tightened, creating a ''very tense'' situation.
    Repeated telephone calls to Riga from Moscow late Sunday did not go
through, and Zalkalus' report could not be verified.
    In Washington, Olgerts Pavlovskis, president of the World Federation
of Free Latvians, said eight people were arrested in Riga, and four
were released later but four remained in custody. He said that in
telephone calls to Riga, witnesses reported the eight were seized
when police broke into an apartment where a poster had been displayed
opposing Soviet rule.
    Roskalns said as many as 5,000 people tried to reach the
cordoned-off square throughout the afternoon and that many of the
elderly sobbed while recounting the republic's suffering in the
1940s.
    ''Those who,'' 7th graf pvs
 
 
AP-NY-08-23-87 1931EDT
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a210  1011  23 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Baltic, Bjt,0759
Thousands Protest Pact that Allowed Soviet Takeover
LaserGraphic NY8
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin,
which delayed Russian fighting in World War II and deeded control of
the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 gathered at the memorial around noon.
    He said as many as 5,000 tried to reach the cordoned-off square
throughout the afternoon and that many of the elderly sobbed while
recounting the republic's suffering in the 1940s.
    ''Those who were bold managed to get through to the monument,'' said
Roskalns, 38. He said about 500 uniformed and plainclothes police set
up barricades and closed off a pedestrian underpass to the monument.
    Roskalns said authorities took away a man who held up a placard
demanding, ''Publish the facts about the Stalin cult'' and seized a
photographer believed to be a foreigner and smashed his video camera.
    A Western visitor who spoke on condition of anonymity reported from
Vilnius that about 500 protesters gathered at noon outside St. Anna's
Catholic Church. Police ringed the cathedral, but demonstrators
brushed by them and were allowed to assemble, the source said.
    The official Tass news agency declared the Vilnius protest a
''flop'' and set the number of participants at ''only 250-300.'' But
the agency disclosed that they were protesting the installation of
Soviet power in 1940.
    Tass said nothing about the protests in Tallinn and Riga.
    Details of the Tallinn protest were not immediately available in
Moscow, but Roskalns said Latvian activists learned it had taken
place.
    Sunday's demonstrations and Red Square protests last month by
Crimean Tatars who want to return to their Black Sea homeland
demonstrated a more lenient approach to dissent in line with Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of ''glasnost,'' or openness on
selected issues.
    The Baltic protests and the publicity given them by Western
broadcasters over the past few days prompted an out outcry from
Soviet media, which published at least 15 commentaries over the
weekend denouncing the broadcasts and explaining the Kremlin
position.
    Provisions of the Aug. 23, 1939, pact, signed by then-Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop, became public in the West after Germany fell. But until
last week the Kremlin rarely acknowledged the agreement and explained
it as a ploy to buy time to prepare for eventual war with the Nazis.
    A Tass interview with historian Herman Trukan disclosed to Soviets
that the agreement divided areas of Eastern Europe into Soviet and
German spheres of influence.
    Trukan restated the official Soviet version of the takeover: that
Baltic peoples voted to join the Soviet state and that Soviet troops
entered the small nations because the people wanted their protection
against the Nazis.
    Sunday's protests were announced in the United States and Western
Europe by emigre organizations that advocate a return to independence
for the three Baltic nations.
    A group of 20 U.S. senators wrote Soviet officials asking that
protests be allowed to take place without interference. That request
also drew fire from Soviet media.
    The Communist Party daily Pravda said Sunday, ''The senators'
message coincides ... with the overtly instigatory, anti-Soviet
campaign launched in recent weeks by Western radio voices
broadcasting to the Soviet Union, including those subversive radio
stations which are financed and directed by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency.''
    Radio Moscow and Soviet Television called the Western broadcasts ''a
crude provocation violating international law,'' and said such
protests were ''incompatible with the existing systems in Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia.''
    In what was widely viewed as an attempt to dilute nationalist
sentiments, some of the most prominent activists have been exiled to
the West.
    Roskalns was pardoned this year from a labor camp sentence for
alleged anti-Soviet activity. But he said he was ordered to leave the
Soviet Union and plans to go to West Germany next week with his wife
and children.
    
 
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a235  1414  23 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Baltic, 1st Ld,a210,0434
Eds: UPDATES with Tass account of Tallin protest
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin,
which delayed Russian fighting in World War II and deeded control of
the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 gathered at the memorial around noon.
    He said as many as 5,000 tried to reach the cordoned-off square
throughout the afternoon and that many of the elderly sobbed while
recounting the republic's suffering in the 1940s.
    ''Those who were bold managed to get through to the monument,'' said
Roskalns, 38. He said about 500 uniformed and plainclothes police set
up barricades and closed off a pedestrian underpass to the monument.
    Roskalns said authorities took away a man who held up a placard
demanding, ''Publish the facts about the Stalin cult'' and seized a
photographer believed to be a foreigner and smashed his video camera.
    A Western visitor who spoke on condition of anonymity reported from
Vilnius that about 500 protesters gathered at noon outside St. Anna's
Catholic Church. Police ringed the cathedral, but demonstrators
brushed by them and were allowed to assemble, the source said.
    The official Tass news agency declared the Vilnius protest a
''flop'' and set the number of participants at ''only 250-300.'' But
the agency disclosed that they were protesting the installation of
Soviet power in 1940.
    Tass said a gathering in Tallinn's Hirve park was ''instigated by
the Voice of America, the subversive (Radio) Free Europe and (Radio)
Liberty radio stations, and also by a small group of persons
previously sentenced for anti-Soviet activity.''
    It said someone identified as Tijt Madisson headed the gathering,
which attracted several hundred curious onlookers.
    Tass also described drivers in Riga as ''seething with indignation''
as the protest there caused traffic delays in the center of the city.
    Sunday's demonstrations, 13th graf pvs
 
 
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a254  1640  23 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Baltic, 2nd Ld,a235,0334
Eds: UPDATES with emigre reports on Riga protest and arrests
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved
police barricades Sunday to protest the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that
allowed the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,
sources said.
    Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin that
deeded control of the Baltic republics to the Soviet Union. Germany
later invaded the Soviet Union during World War II.
    Some Western nations, including the United States, regard the
Baltics as ''enslaved nations'' under Soviet control.
    Baltic residents told Western reporters in Moscow that hundreds of
police turned out to control demonstrations in the capital cities of
Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania, and Tallinn, Estonia.
    Janis Roskalns, a Latvian nationalist who laid a wreath at Riga's
monument to war victims, told The Associated Press by telephone that
at least 2,000 people gathered at the memorial around noon.
    Vilnis Zalkalus, a spokesman for a Latvia emigre group, told the AP
in Stockholm, Sweden, that the protests in Riga continued into the
evening and the number of demonstrators increased to 7,000. He said
police surveillance tightened, creating a ''very tense'' situation.
    Repeated telephone calls to Riga from Moscow late Sunday did not go
through, and Zalkalus' report could not be verified.
    In Washington, Olgerts Pavlovskis, president of the World Federation
of Free Latvians, said eight people were arrested in Riga, and four
were released later but four remained in custody. He said that in
telephone calls to Riga, witnesses reported the eight were seized
when police broke into an apartment where a poster had been displayed
opposing Soviet rule.
    Roskalns said as many as 5,000 people tried to reach the
cordoned-off square throughout the afternoon and that many of the
elderly sobbed while recounting the republic's suffering in the
1940s.
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a247  1635  24 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Baltic,0392
Police Cordon Off Riga Monument To Prevent New Protest
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - A Latvian dissident said police cordoned off a
downtown Riga monument Monday to prevent a second demonstration by
protesters recalling the Hitler-Stalin pact, which led to the Soviet
takeover of their homeland.
    Janis Roskalns, who was detained by police during the initial
protest Sunday, said people were allowed to approach the monument in
the Latvian capital during the day Monday. But he said police
returned and sealed off the area in the evening.
    ''No one is allowed to approach it,'' he told The Associated Press
in a telephone interview from his apartment overlooking the monument
to World War II dead.
    Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Riga and the capitals of
the two other Baltic republics - Vilnius, Lithuania, and Tallinn,
Estonia - to mark the 48th anniversary of the non-agression pact
between Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef
Stalin. The 1939 treaty paved the way for the Soviet takeover of the
three small states along the Baltic sea.
    In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
    The demonstrations appeared to be the largest unsanctioned protests
in the Baltic republics since Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were
annexed to the Soviet Union 47 years ago.
    According to reports from witnesses, the Riga protest was the
biggest.
    Roskalns, a member of the Latvian republic's Helsinki Watch human
rights group, said as many as 7,000 people demonstrated Sunday. He
said many protesters were roughed up or detained by police.
    Asked how many people were detained, he said, ''they are talking
about hundreds,'' but could not give a firm estimate. He did not know
if anyone was seriously hurt.
    Eleven people were detained in all. Most were released hours later,
he said. But he said four members of the group were unaccounted for
and presumed to be still in custody.
    The official Tass news agency and state-run Radio Moscow accused
Western radio broadcasts and emigre organizations of orchestrating
the protests, which reportedly included about 2,000 protesters in
Tallinn and about 500 in Vilnius.
    The United States has never recognized the assimilation of the
republics into the Soviet Union, and still recognizes independent
exile governments that retain missions in Washington.
    
 
 
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a252  1707  24 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Journal,0333
Soviets Seek Business Ties With Wall Street Journal Ad Section
Eds: Version moved financial wires
By SKIP WOLLENBERG
AP Business Writer
    NEW YORK (AP) - The Soviet Union made its case for business ties
with the United States in a nine-page advertising supplement Monday
in one of the best-known chronicles of capitalism, The Wall Street
Journal.
    The newspaper charged about $300,000 for the ad spread, which
appeared in its eastern U.S., European and Asian editions, said
Daniel Cates, managing director for Dow Jones International Marketing
Services. The three editions have a combined circulation of about
900,000, he said.
    The advertisement appeared on the same day that a Washington-based
group, the Atlantic Council, released a report saying West European
nations may be quicker than America to respond to Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev's bid for Western companies to enter joint
ventures in the Soviet Union.
    The Soviets have passed legislation allowing Western companies to
own 49 percent of any joint ventures based in the Soviet Union. No
firm agreements have been reached yet with U.S. companies.
    In Moscow, Yuri A. Pashin, deputy director of the ministry's
advertising section, said the ad supplement is part of a yearlong
series appearing in Western business publications to help develop
Soviet export trade and promote sale of Soviet goods.
    The supplement in the Journal, published by Dow Jones & Co.,
contained more than a dozen stories supplied by the Soviets on
changes in the Soviet economy and opportunities for foreign ventures
as well as ads for Soviet-made musical instruments, Baltic Sea jewels
and Soviet furs.
    A Soviet foreign trade official, V. Malkevich, wrote in the ad that
he hoped it ''will help Americans get a better understanding of the
Soviet economy and of the untapped opportunities for expanding
Soviet-U.S. trade.''
    Cates said the Soviets wanted the ad section to appear on the eve of
the U.S. tour of a Soviet-sponsored cultural-industrial exhibit,
which opens Tuesday in New Orleans.
    
 
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a070  0643  25 Aug 87
PM-Soviet-AIDS,0394
New Soviet Law Calls For Mandatory AIDS Testing
By MASHA HAMILTON
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - Soviets and foreign visitors suspected of having AIDS
can be forced to undergo testing, and anyone who knowingly infects
another person with the disease can be jailed for up to eight years,
under a government decree published today.
    The decree adopted by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, or
nominal parliament, provides for forced testing of Soviet citizens,
foreigners, and ''stateless persons living or staying in the
territory of the U.S.S.R. . . . (when) there are grounds for assuming
that they are infected with the AIDS virus.''
    The new law indicates Soviet officials' increased concern over AIDS,
although officials have said there are fewer than 40 carriers of the
deadly disease in the country. Officials maintain most of the AIDS
carriers are foreigners.
    Health officials already have opened clinics for voluntary AIDS
testing.
    A World Health Organization official who visited Moscow earlier this
month said he helped make an hour-long one-hour television program on
AIDS which was unprecedented in the Soviet Union for its frankness
about sex. The program has not been broadcast.
    The government decree on acquired immune deficiency syndrome was
published by the official Tass news agency.
    ''If they dodge taking the test voluntarily, the persons (suspected
carriers) . . . may be brought to medical institutions by health
authorities with the assistance in necessary cases of authorities
from the Interior Ministry,'' the decree said.
    Persons seeking to avoid the test may also be expelled from the
country, the decree said. It did not say if the Soviet Union would
expel foreigners found to have AIDS, but that has been the practice
in the past, according to international health officials.
    ''The infection of another person with AIDS by a person aware of
having AIDS shall be punished by up to eight years in prison,'' the
decree said.
    AIDS is a disease in which a virus attacks the body's immune system,
leaving victims susceptible to a wide variety of infections and
cancers. It is most often transmitted through sexual contact. Other
means of transmission include transfusions of tainted blood or blood
products, and the sharing of contaminated hypodermic needles or
syringes by drug abusers. AIDS can also be passed from mother to
child at or before birth.
    
 
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a247  1618  29 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Hare Krishna,0233
Police Break Up Hare Krishna Demonstration
    MOSCOW (AP) - Police broke up a demonstration by about 100 Soviet
Hare Krishna activists Saturday evening and took half of them away to
police stations in buses and cars, members of the religious group
said.
    Two of the activists, Lev Chernyak and Olga Kustriya, said the
demonstration in front of the Moscow City Soviet lasted no more than
five minutes before police waded in to disperse it.
    They said the group carried signs demanding that they be recognized
by authorities as an official religious group and calling for freedom
for Hare Krishnas they say are being held in jails or psychiatric
hospitals for their beliefs.
    Ms. Kustriya said authorities released her quickly, but that she did
not know how long others who were detained would be held.
    On Aug. 17, about a dozen Hare Krishnas were detained as they sang
prayers on an outdoor shopping mall.
    Hare Krishnas say Soviet authorities prevent them from openly
practicing their religion, which is an offshoot of Hinduism. Soviet
law does not forbid the practicing of religion but requires that
religious groups be registered with the state.
    The Hare Krishnas say authorities have refused to register them or
failed to respond to their requests for registration. They say about
25 Hare Krishnas are being held in jails or psychiatric hospitals.
    
 
 
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a257  1725  30 Aug 87
AM-Soviet-Baltic,0341
Vilnius Telegram Complains Of KGB Repression, Activist Says
    MOSCOW (AP) - A group of Lithuanian human rights activists sent a
telegram to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Sunday, saying the
KGB is harassing those who participated in a demonstration last week,
a dissident reported.
    Lev M. Timofeyev, a Moscow-based human rights activist, called The
Associated Press to say that the Lithuanian group sent the telegram
to the Kremlin from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
    ''In Lithuania in recent days there has begun a repression by the
KGB against participants in the peaceful demonstration in memory of
victims of (the) Stalin and Hitler (pact),'' the message began.
    The telegram referred to the Aug. 23 demonstrations in Vilnius, the
Latvian capital of Riga and in Estonia's capital, Tallinn, on the
48th anniversary of the non-aggression treaty between Adolf Hitler's
Nazi Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union. The pact paved the way
for the Soviet takeover of the Baltic states in 1940.
    Timofeyev is editor of the unofficial magazine Glasnost named after
Gorbachev's campaign for more openness in some spheres of Soviet
society.
    He said the Vilnius activists sent him a copy of the telegram, which
he promised to relay to foreign media.
    The Lithuanian telegram was signed by four human rights activists.
It said KGB agents had been harassing participants since the
demonstration outside Vilnius' St. Anna cathedral.
    It said Neyole Sadunaite, who participated in the rally, was seized
by authorities Friday and held for 30 hours. Two other participants
were taken away Saturday and their fate was unknown, it added.
    ''We ask for a stop to terrorism,'' the telegram concluded,
according to Timofeyev.
    Thousands gathered during the Aug. 23 demonstrations in the Baltic
capitals to lay flowers at World War II monuments and talk about the
turbulent days before World War II.
    A Soviet newspaper, the weekly Moscow News, said 86 people were
arrested during the Riga demonstration. That rally drew about 7,000
protesters, according to Latvian activists.
    
 
 
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