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Tuesday, February 17, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Soviet dissident may not be free although official claimed he was
MOSCOW — The family of jailed dissident Yosif Begn, whose release was announced by a top Soviet official, said yesterday that they were told he is still in prison and had no concern that he was caught in a power struggle between the government and the secret police.
After a week of protests for the release of the 54-year-old Hebrew teacher, sentenced in 1983 to 12 years in prison for anti-Soviet agitation, Soviet Central Committee member Georgi Arbatov told CBS News on Sunday that Begun was now free.
But the dissident's wife, Ima, and his son, Boris, said yesterday that officials from the Ministry of
Internal Affairs, which oversees the penal system, said they had no information on the prisoner's release.
"They say they have received no papers on him, there has been no authorization on my husband's freedom." Begun said.
"I don't know what to think," she said in a telephone interview. "The problem seems to be that Arbatov is a representative of the government and my husband is in the hands of the KGB." The KGB is the Soviet secret police.
"I hope that this is just a bureaucratic problem," Boris Begun said. "It just cannot be possible that Aratov would tell the world he is now free if he is not."
Ohioan on trial in Israel for Nazi war crimes
JERUSALEM — Retired Ohio automoter John Demjanjuk went on trial yesterday on charges that he ran gas chambers at a Nazi death camp where 850,000 Jews died.
Demjanjuk, who says he is not guilty, could face execution if convicted.
He is only the second man to be tried in Israel on Nazi war crimes charges. The government prepared for a showcase trial to teach young Israelis about the Holocaust in which six million Jews perished in German-run death camps.
During the session, Demanjuk sat hunched over, his face expressionless, as he faced a capacity crowd of 400 journalists and spectators in a movie theater that had been converted into a courtroom for the trial.
The indictment charges that Demjanjuk, 66, was the notorious guard "Ivan the Terrible" who beat and tortured victims before turning on the gas chamber engines at Treblinka, a death camp in German occupied Poland, in 1942 and 1943.
Across the Country
Administration charged with McCarthyism
WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official has resigned with a parting blast at Assistant Secretary of State Eliot Abrams, saying that the administration is practicing a form of McCarthyism to punish those who say the contras are not performing well.
Francis McNeil, 54, a former ambassador to Costa Rica and a deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence, resigned from the foreign service last week after a distinguished 30-year career.
As McNeil left, he sent Abrams a letter that said, "I am leaving the
Foreign Service in response to your exercise in McCarthyism. Confusing candor with disloyalty is a disservice to American interests and tradition."
Abrams, who has played the leading public role in the administration's drive to support the anti-Sandinista forces, was not available to comment on McNeil's charges, but a senior aide said the charges of McCarthyism were "nonsense."
McNeil said, "They are looking for classified cheerleaders."
Intelligence committee to question Gates
WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee will closely question Robert Gates, nominated to be CIA director, about the Iran-contra affair, a committee aide said yesterday.
The panel has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow into President Reagan's nomination of Gates, now the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director, to succeed William Casey, who had brain surgery Dec. 18 and resigned Feb ?
Hart and Dole campaign in New Hampshire
A committee vote on the nomination is not expected until early March. If confirmed by the full Senate, Gates, 43, would be the youngest man ever to be head of the agency.
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SOMERSWORTH, N.H. — Democrat Gary Hart, campaigning in New Hampshire exactly one year before the state's first in-the-nation primary, said yesterday that he savored a prospective 1988 White House race against Vice President George Bush.
tender for the GOP presidential nomination.
Elsewhere in the state, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole criticized conservative Rep. Jack Kemp of New York, another con-
Dole and Hart had the state to themselves yesterday, but at least three other announced or likely contenders were expected to make appearances by midweek. They are: former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and former Delaware Gov. Pierre DuPont, both Republicans; and Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo.
From Kansan wires.
LAWRENCE FORECAST
Weather
From the KU Weather Service
WEATHER FACT: Billings, Mont., broke a two month-nine day record drought last Friday.
Conditions will remain cold today as the high reaches only 34 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. There is a chance for flurries today and tonight as the low drops to near 20 degrees. Tomorrow, skies will be mostly
cloudy again with the chance for flurries remaining. The high should be in the low to mid-30s.
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