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Former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger (right), with the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezh-
nev. The KGB's "Disinformation Section" alleged that Kissinger was a former secret service
agent working for Poland, a canard first uncovered, and scotched by the Chinese
3.
ive than any other lie-detector tech-
niques and the Israelis are also examin-
ing the application of Kirlian photo-
graphy in intelligence.
To monitor Soviet experiments in this
field is a tremendous undertaking and,
in the normal way, for any secret service
to attempt this would be so costly it
would hardly be worth while. The
Israelis have cut the cost by ensuring
that the monitoring Is only done by
:trained psychic researchers and by set-
ting up paraphysical laboratories where
Information passed through from agents
behind the Iron Curtain can be assessed.
"The agents gathering such intelligence
are themselves practitioners in this
field.
As my Israeli contact told me: "The
really big clamp-down on psychic and
paraphysical data in the Soviet Union
has not yet come. At the moment they
are still as anxious to learn from the
West as they are to guard their own
motives for research. Their policy
.seems to be that they are prepared to
leak a certain amount of information
to the West in the hope that they will
get something In return.
. "To some extent they are highly suc-
-cevarar in this, largely because tire
Western world as a whole is atill luke-
, warm towards the menace of psychic
espionage in the long term. So the
result is that this type of research is left
to scientists and others who have no
connection with intelligence. They see
no reason why they should not exchange
information with the Soviet Union.
Thus, at the moment, it is not too diffi-
cult to get a general picture of what
is going on in the USSR and East
European countries, providing the moni-
toring of such intelligence is conducted
solely by scientists in this particular
sphere or research.
"Our best sources are - in Bulgaria,
where the secret police use trained
clairvoyants to assist them in crime de-
tection. The Bulgarians have some of
the finest clairvoyants and telepathy ex-
perts in the game. They also have Insti-
tutes of Suggestology and Parapsycho-
logy in Sofia and Petrich."
Israel's own Uri Geller is, of course,
already world famous
through his
demonstrations of psychic phenomena.
The Russians set up a special committee
( Richard Deacon, 1977. Reproduction only
by arrangement with the author.
to study him and his experiments three
years ago. "We found out that they
were doing this In a roundabout way
from Paris," said my contact. "At the
same time we discovered that they were
developing a new form of music to help
induce and maintain a state of trance-
heliphonic music."
Israel is already far ahead of the
Western world in these techniques, but
this is in no small measure due to the
fact that during the past century Jews
have led the world in much of this re-
search and have shown a remarkable
talent for it. There is no better ex-
ample than the telepathist Wolf Messing,
a Polish Jew who fled from the German
advance in Poland in 1939 by escaping
to the Soviet Union hidden under a
. cart-load of hay. He had little to offer
the Russians other than his own tele-
pathic talents which, If somewhat re-
luctantly at first, they accepted as being
worthy of consideration.
Eventually, he was given personal
audiences by Stalin. By the 1950s he
was one of the best-known men in Rus-
sta and the one man who was able; to
use his telepathic talents to get through
the guards into Stalin's presence wah-
out being challenged. In his auto-
biography, "I am a Telepathist," Mes-
sing refers to the .occasion when he
managed to walk out of a bullding past
guards ordered to stop him at all costs:
"I am sure the guards would not have
let me pass if I had directed at them
the suggestion to let me pass as myself,
but, using my mental power, I made
them see in me the high official whom
they would Iet through without a pass.
Similarly, a man under hypnosis can
be told to shoot a rabbit. when, in fact,
he would be shooting at a man."
During the Second World War Mes-
sing was officially evacuated to Siberia
for his own safety, but he still offered
advice to the authorities and was on
countless occasions proved to be accu-
rate in his divinations. When his auto-
biography was published by Sovietskaya
Rossiya in 1967, the book was suddenly
withdrawn, though no official reason for
this was given. Messing is as cele- '
brated as a stage artist as he is a serious
telepathist and researcher and has given
many exhibitions of his talents.
He is not an Orthodox Jew, but he has
retained a devotion to his race, as was
exemplified before the Second World
War when he refused a reward from a
Polish count for locating some missing
family jewellery, but asked for the
count's influence to be used with the
Polish Government to have a law in-
fringing the rights of Jews to be annul-
led. This was, in fact, done.
"Just as there was a space race be-
tween the super-Powers, eventually
there will be a race in PSI," my Israeli
contact continued. "The West hasn't
woken up to the urgency of this yet.
All we can hope is that that race ends
in a stalemate. Only then will there
be any safety.
"We must somehow ensure that we
attain the same kind of deadlock in the
sphere of psychic espionage that we
have in nuclear warfare, with no side
daring to run the appalling risks of re-
leasing this type of secret warfare to
the full. Certainly, our aim is to make
sure that there is such a deadlock and
stalemate and that the Western world
as a whole, and not just Israel, benefits
from this."
This digression into what is still
largely an unexplored area of espionage
and counter-espionage as far as the
Western world is concerned is yet an-
other example of how the Israel! Secret
Service is very often not only diligently
trying to ensure the survival of her own
people, but doing much of the work
which is essential to the survival of the
whole Western world.
There are many who will take a con-
trary view and equate Zionism with mili-
tant nationalism, and not all who do
this are necessarily pro-Soviet. Therein
lies Israel's dilemma: she Is beset with
the problem of living with enemies in
both camps-the Western world and the
Soviet Union's orbit. Yet it is hard to
see how Western civilisation as we know
it can survive in the long run without
the co-operation of Israel's Secret
Service.
Already the West has benefited to a
remarkable degree from a certain
amount of co-operation in this respect,
just as Israel has acquired certain
advantages from the assistance
Western intelligence. What should be
of
borne in mind is that the work of a
Soviet spy placed inside Israel is direct-
ed not only against that country, but
against the West as well. The greatest
Soviet espionage success, so far as is
known, was the placing of a top agent
in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and
it was the Western world, perhaps even
Uri Geller practising spoon-bending and mind bending. The Russians set up a special
committee to study him and his experiments
Davidovitch Kirlian and his wife using their
revolutionary system of photography
this.
The man, a Swiss Jew, had formed
part of Leopold Trepper's Rote Kapelle
("Red Orchestra") network in Belgium
before the Second World War. After
having been thoroughly trained in
Russia, he was sent to Israel as a
"sleeper agent" after the war and his
talents were so remarkable that two
Israell Ministries fought over which
should take his services. Eventually,
and disastrously, it was the Israeli Mini-
stry for Foreign Affairs which secured
him. When he was finally caught,
enormous damage had been done.
One thing is certain: persecution of
the Jews continues today as virulently
inside the Soviet Union as ever it did
in Nazi Germany. There is only one
difference-the Russians are prepared
to tolerate the Jews as long as they
prove themselves to be good Soviet citi-
zens. This may seem a distinct advance
on the Hitlerian attitudes, but there are
no accurate figures on how many Jews
have been eliminated in the USSR.
Worse still, the Soviet Secret Service
goes to the most bizarre lengths to
plant anti-Jewish propaganda round the
world. One of the most mysterious of
these operations is the attempt to show
that it was the Jews who smuggled the
Tsarist millions and jewels out of Russia
during the Revolution and that it was
a Jew, Aaron Simonovitch, secretary to
the notorious Rasputin, who not only
organised this, but enabled the Russian
Royal Family to be rescued from
Ekaterinburg.
Nor do the Russians just rely on rum-
ours; they back them up with forged
coded messages (of which a number
have come into my possession) purport-
ing to show how the Tsar and his family
were not murdered by the Bolsheviks,
but enabled to escape by a diabolical
American-Japanese-British-Jewish plot.
The notorious "Chivers Papers," which
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are alleged to be in American CIA
archives, include all manner of faked
telegrams, alleged accounts of rescue
operations and "proofs" that members
of the Russian Royal Family are still
alive today.
That there was an attempt to rescue
the Royal Family is now undoubted and
it is equally certain that the events at
Ekaterinburg were not as described in
the "White Russian" report by Judge
Nicholas Sokolov. But the detailed dos-
sier on the bogus rescue concocted by
Soviet intelligence is just blatant pro-
paganda, though sufficiently clever and
semi-factually manufactured as to have
provoked exhaustive inquiries into the
subject in both the USA and Britain.
From the same "Disinformation Sec-
tion" of the KGB has also come the
smear on Henry Kissinger, alleging that
he was formerly a secret service agent
working for the Polish intelligence!
Naturally, the Russians are clever
enough to use Right-wing organisations
and personnel to spread these stories,
always providing sufficient bogus factual
detail to give them some substance.
It was the Chinese Secret Service which
first scotched that canard, informing
both the Americans and the Israelis of
its origins.
But the propaganda of hate, the
spreading of false information, will con-
tinue, just as It did under the Tsarist
régime, under the Nazis and today under
the Brezhnev administration, as long as
there are sufficient fools in the world
to accept the nonsense about the Proto-
cols of the Elders of Zion, about the
rescuing of the Tsar and the stories
about Henry Kissinger. Only when
sanity prevails over romantic credulity
will the propaganda cease and perse-
cution stop. Until then Israel will need
CONCLUDED
to have one of the world's finest secret
services.
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nal processes of espionage and
espionage. Any nation which
; to acquire a distinct lead in
tre could achieve something like
periority in a war. So far no
has acquired this lead, not even
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edge in the extent of its re-
ind experimental work. But the
have taken this sufficiently
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Union and other Communist
:9 are doing in this field. What
pressed the Israelis is the fact
is not only Soviet Russia which
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le, but her Eset European
Wall.
ersatility of the Jews In scienti-
well as cultural fields is well
but thelr pre-eminence in what
eferred to as PSI is not generally
.ted. One of the most remark-
their early practitioners In
and paranormal experimenta-
s Stefan Ossowiecki, who was
Russia in 1877, and who found
psychic gifts, which he de-
with the aid of a rabbi. In
ssowiecki was imprisoned for
crimes and in 1921, when he
free, he went to Poland. There
loped his psychic talents to the
' carried out a number of tele-
xperiments, including one long-
. transmission. A journalist in
made a drawing at his home,
opy of it to scientists at Marien-
bad while, at a distance of 400 miles,
Ossowiecki telepathically drew the same
picture in the sand.
Ossowiecki never accepted any mone-
tary rewards for his work and during
the Second World War he used his
talents to help the Polish underground.
"Documentary accounts speak of him
locating specific bodies in mass
graves. .... On the day of the Warsaw
Uprising he remarked, 'I see that
I shall shortly die a terrible death.
But I have had a wonderful life!' "
Before the end of the war he
was executed by the Nazis. In the
annals of the Jewish , underground
movement the name of Stefan Osso-
wiecki is still honoured and one [secret]
paraphysical laboratory inside Poland
today is named after him and services
Terael with Intelligence gleaned through
PSI 'techniques. So highly is the PSI
work carried out by this agency re-
garded that, in case it is eventually
located by the KGB, a duplicate labora-
tory working on parallel lines has been
set up in Western Europe.
Such work is more effectively carried
on outside of Israel for a number of
reasons. First, there is the undeniable
fact that Israel is not only a democracy,
but a small and compact nation where
gossip spreads as fast as it does in a
village. Anything unusual or bizarre in
the realm of intelligence needs to be
experimented with outside Israeli terri-
tory. A great deal of this experiment-
ation can fairly easily be conducted
under the guise of other aspects of the
paranormal-faith healing, psychometry
and extra-sensory perception.
But there are other reasons for work-
ing outside Israeli territory: psychic re-
search is still a comparatively new
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An original drawing contained in a sealed
envelope and copied telepathically by Stefan
Ossowiecki, a Russian Jew who was one of
the earliest practitioners in psychic and para-
normal experimentation
science and it can only be developed by
a free exchange of ideas with inter-
national bodies. American research in
this field is nowhere near as advanced
or intensive as in the USSR, but at least
American scientific studies are freely
available for others to study. It is also
fairly certain that only among the
East European Communist States is
psychic espionage being developed and
put on a military basis. So Israel's
espionage in this field Is mainly direct-
ed to that quarter.
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The Israelis have found that there is
widespread indifference and scepticism
in Western Europe about the develop-
ment of psychic espionage, even if in
the USA there is a little more enthus-
lasm. But Dr Milan Ryzi, a scientist
who lived in Prague until 1967, when
he went to the USA, has made it quite
clear that he regards Soviet experiments
in this direction as menacing: "The
military and the secret police in the
USSR display an unusual, disproportio-
nate interest in parapsychology. Some
years ago a project was begun in the
USSR to apply telepathy to indoctrinate
and 're educate anti-social elements.' It
was hoped that suggestion at a distance
could induce individuals, without their
being aware of it, to adopt the officially
desired political and social attitudes ..
The dangers of possible misuse of PSI
should not be overlooked."
The Israelis have not overlooked this
and they probably now have a closer
insight into what the Russians are
doing in psychic espionage than any
other nation. "This isn't just a question
of telepathy or ESP alone," my Israeli
contact told me. "The USSR is spend-
ing vast sums of money in developing
research and experimentation in some
very sinister directions. Their telepathic
research, for instance, is being devoted
to what they call the transference of
behaviour impulses-the subliminal con-
ditioning of a person's character. We
know they are concerned with develop-
ing this technique to try to control
agents and even to create traitors.
There is some evidence that they have
experimented with this technique in the
Middle East.
.
"One young Israell who was studying
at a European university was marked
down by the KGB as a possible candi-
date for 'subliminal control.' He was
invited to various telepathic seances
organised by a Bulgarian and he at once
suspected something devious was being
practised on the participants. In these
seances a third person was Introduced,
known as 'the Interpolator." He was
not only bugging the lol putting onditleve
of the two people involved in transfer-
ring messages by ESP, but, one suspects,
trying to distort this work in some way.
"The young Israeli then recalled that
when he had first been recruited to
come along to these meetings with other
young students, he had been questioned
quite a lot about his home, family and
background. One of the questions put
to him concerned his father and he
realised that he had supplied the infor-
mation that his father worked in a mili-
tary establishment in Tel Aviv.
"This proves nothing, you may think.
Well, the young Israeli reported his sus-
picions. He couldn't in any way con-
firm them, because he was not know-
ledgeable in this field. But we followed
up his report by making inquiries from
agents in Sofia and Leningrad. Surprise,
surprise, we found that the Russians
were working on means of monitoring
-or bugging, if you like-telepathic
communications, and one of the aims
of this was to distort the flow of mes-
sages. You can compare this to radar;
'the Interpolator,' as they call him,
creates a kind of jamming of the thought
waves. But, of course, it can also be
used for playing tricks with the sub-
conscious mind.
"This is the kind of way in which
psychic espionage could be applied in the
case of a man like Lee Harvey Oswald,
who murdered President Kennedy. I am
not saying this was the case then, but
Oswald had been to Russia. What we
are now convinced of is that some of
the extremist terrorist and anarchist
groups of young people have been sub-
jected to a kind of telepathic control."
Another aspect of Soviet development
of PSI is that of Kirlian photography,
so named after Davidovitch Semion
Kirlian, its 78-year-old inventor. This
is a revolutionary form of photography
which investigates the supposed human
"aura" and the energy field emitted by
all living things. The Russians have
experimented with Kirlian photography
in various ways, for detecting diseases
in the early stages, for selecting better
seeds for planting, and also as a new
means of lie-detection in interrogation.
It has proved more accurate and effect-
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Wednesday, July 12, 1978
A13
Prosecution Witnesses Say Scharansky
Passed Soviet Intelligence to the West
By Kevin Klose
Washington Post Foreign Bervice
MOSCOW-A parade of Soviet
prosecution witnesses accused Jewish
dissident Anatoly Scharansky at a se-
cret session of his treason trial yes-
terday' of gathering and sending to
the West intelligence on Soviet space
research, "classified" sociology and
parapsychology data, and defense fac-
torles.
According to a press statement is-
sued by the court-the only informa-
tion source for yesterday's session-11
witnesses testified against Scharan-
sky. The witnesses included the prin-
cipal accuser, Dr. Sonya Lipavsky, a
physician who ministered to dissi-
dents and who has turned out to be
both a KGB informer and a one-time
"volunteer" for the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
The official court account gave lit-
tle information on. Scharansky's re-
sponses to these accusers, as the trial
completed its second day amid contin-
ued strong reaction from the United
States and other Western countries to
this trial and that of Alexander Ginz-
burg, a longtime human rights activ-
ist.
The anger and frustration in Wash-
ington especially constitutes a factor
in the strategic arms limitation talks
scheduled to begin in Geneva today
between Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko.
At the Ginzburg trial, also in its sec-
ond day in Kaluga, a provincial city
south of bere, Arina Ginzburg, Alex-
and er's wife, was ejected after she
stood up and protested that one prose-
cution witness'. testimony was "lies
from beginning to eind."
The witness way Arkady Grado-
boyev, an artist friend of Ginzburg's
who reportedly testified that Arina
Ginzburg had threatened him after he
testified Monday.
Prosecution witnesses finished yes-
terday, alleging that reports Issued by
the Moscow group to monitor Soviet
compliance with the human rights
provisions of the Helsinki accords
slandered the Soviet state. Ginzburg,
Scharansky and Yuri Orlov helped
found the group, one of several set up
around the county. Orlov has been
convicted of anti-Soviet agitation, the
same charge lodged against Ginzburg
and against Scharansky, whose addi-
tional treason charge carries a maxi-
mum penalty of death.
The Ginzburg accusers sought to re-
but reports of the Helsinki group that
alleged psychiatric imprisonment of
political prisoners and inhumane con-
ditions in Soviet labor camps. They
also alleged that a relief fund for po-
litical prisoners that Ginzburg admin-
istered from Western royalties earned
by his friend Alexander Solzhentt-
syn's works "has been set up specially
to finance hostile-minded persons,"
the official court report said. The
money went to enemies of the state,
they said.
Ginzburg, 41, who suffers from
heart and stomach Illnesses, was made
to stand throughout the proceedings,
his wife said.
Much of yesterday's prosecution of
Scharansky, 30, a computer program-
mer who was refused an exit visa to
Israel and became a pivotal figure in
the Moscow human rights movement,
apparently centered on his relations
with Robert Toth, a former Los Ange-
les Times correspondent here.
The court statement did not men-
tion Toth by name, but Leonid Schar-
ansky, Anatoly's brother, who at-
tended the opening session Monday,
reported then that the prosecutor,
Pyotr Solonin, had identified Toth as
an American intelligence agent posing
as a journalist. Toth denied the alle-
gation.
Scharansky was aided, according to
the official account of the prosecution
evidence, by Vitali Rubin, a former
Soviet who now lives in Israel. Rubin
was a spy who sent Scharansky
"through. the diplomatic mail of one
of the embassies a written assign-
ment" to collect Information on the
-role, staffing and location of various
defense enterprises, the court state-
ment said.
According to the official account, "a
number of witnesses asserted that
Scharansky, guided by ambitious, self-
ish aims," and "through an agent of a
military intelligence
service who
worked in Moscow as a correspondent,
[passed] on the information collected
to the West."
The account asserted that "the wit-
nesses also gave evidence on other
concrete facts of Scharansky's subver-
sive activity," saying it was "paid
from the outside and the defendant
himself did not work anywhere and
was comfortably off being fully sup-
ported by the West in recent years. gov.
Witnesses alleged that Scharantky
"repeatedly assisted" Toth "in the
course of 1976-77 in establishing on a
conspiratorial basis, contacts with;
bearers of secrets from among Soviet
scientists and experts in various
fields."
Toth was accused of "worming out
information that is not subject to pub-
lication in the open press, on Soviet
space research, classified Information;
in the field of sociological research
and parapsychology."
On Toth's personal instruction'
Scharansky is said to have personally
questioned a Sovier scientist on the.
development of engineering genetica,
and also obtained Information on gene
researchy institution."
Toth has denied ever spying any-
where and said that the information
Scharansky helped obtain was used
only in articles for the Los Angeles
Times.
Vance, in Geneva for Gromyko Talks,
Sets Meeting With Scharansky's Wife
VANCE, From A1
concern." Vance sald the meeting, ex-
pected to take place tomorrow after-
noon after the last of Vance's sched-
uled meetings with Gromyko, was ar-
range at Avital Scharansky's request.
The senior official said Vance hopes
to obtain from Gromyko "further
elucidation of what they (the Soviets)
are doing and why they are doing it"
in the human rights field.
There is no consensus among U.S.
officials in the Vance Party about
why the Soviets chose to begin the
Scharansky and Ginzburg trials only
two days before the Vance-Gromyko
meetings here. One official suggested
that the Soviets do not expect the
present talks to produce a finished
SALT agreement and so decided to
go ahead with the controversial trials
despite the cloud they cast on the dis-
cussions.
Both Vance and Gromyko, in sep-
arate arrival statements here last
night. said the main focus of their
discussions is to be the nuclear arms
negotiations. There was no indication
from Gromyko that he is willing even
to discuss the Soviet dissident trials
with Vance.
In a brief airport statement, Gromy-
ko said his side is ready for discus-
sions of the SALT question "as well
as others" with good will. He refused
to answer any questions.
In the current low state of Soviet-
American relations, there was little
optimism in the Vance party about
the talks that are to begin this morn-
ing. Seldom in recent years have the
leaders of two nations been in such.
open and heated conflict on such a
broad range of questions.
The two principal SALT issues to
be discussed here, according to the
senior official, are limitations on new
types of strategic missiles and the lim-
itations to be applied to the Soviet
Backfire bomber. He added that there
is more likelihood of progress on the
missiles than on the bomber.
Officials accompanying Vance said
the United States will inform the So-
viets that it reserves the right to go
ahead with a plan to dig thousands of
new silo holes to permit deceptive
basing of the U.S. land-based intercon-
tinental ballistic missiles. The senior
official said that no decision has been
made by the United States to adopt
the multiple-hole system but that the
option is kept open in the negotiating
documents for the new treaty.
Another U.S. official, who has been
keeping close tabs on the progress of
the SALT negotiations, said rapid
progress could be made on the remain-
ing technical issues if the broader
political questions between the two
sides could be solved.
In addition to SALT and human
rights, reporters were told by the U.S.
side that the Middle East and other
questions would be taken up with
Gromyko. Officials did not rule out
discussing conflicting policies in Af-
rica with the Soviet foreign minister.
The Vance-Gromyko meetings
scheduled to take place alternately in
U.S. and Soviet buildings here.
The first meeting is scheduled for
an office building on the edge of Ge-
neva's botanical gardens that was
started by financier Bernard Cornfeld
as headquarters for his speculative se-
curities empire, but taken over by the
U.S. government after he went bank-
rupt.
Virginia Receives
Bids on Road Work
RICHMOND (UPI) The Virginia
Department of Highways and Trans
portation received yesterday bids for
construction, repair and maintenance
on roads in the state, including one
for construction of another section of
Interstate Rte. 66 in Arlington County
between Spout Run Parkway and
North Veitch Street.
r
Meanwhile, the state highway and
transportation commission said it has
approved for award 21 contracts total-
ing $15 million for projects affecting
state roads.
The contracts include paving the
final 5:1 miles of I-66 in Prince Wil-
liam County and erecting travel ser-
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Beirut's Hopes for a Normal Life Fade
By Thomas W. Lippman
Washington Post Foreign Service
BEIRUT-An alr of anxiety and
helplessness reminiscent of the worst
summer of the civil war two years ago
chas settled over Beirut.
The country's political leaders seem
Unable to come up with a formula for
defusing the explosive military situa-
Jion, and the patterns of the city's life
"which had been well on the way
back to normal-have crumbled again.
Some Lebanese say they expect a
new round of full-scale fighting to
erupt any minute. Others believe that
the latest crisis is petering out-but
that this only means the explosion
they fell is inevitable has been defer-
Ted for a time,
:"It is hard to find anyone who fore-
Bees an early end to the country's tor-
ment.
Prominent religious leaders and pol-
Sticians, for the most part the same
men who were powerless to halt the
catastrophe of 1975 and 1976, continue
fo go up the hill to the presidential
palace at Baabda to urge President
Ellas Sarkis not to resign, fearing the
Chaos that might ensue.
...
With yesterday's announcement
That a Cabinet meeting scheduled for
today. had been canceled,
the
`betting was that Sarkis would not
Carry out his threat to step down
since speculation here had his resigna-
tion following that meeting.
But privately, many Lebanese seem
ta agree with Beshir Gemayel, mill-
tary boss of the Christian Phalangist
milita, who told a Paris newspaper
that it made little difference whether
Sarkis stays or goes because his
government "has been disintegrating
for the past two years."
Sarkis, who argues that he cannot
accept responsibility without power,
continues to say that he wants to re-
sign and he continues not to do it.
Political observers say the longer he
leaves his resignation threat on the ta-
ble, the less impact it has. The initial
shock has already worn off with no
sign that the Syrians or the Christian.
News. Analysis
factions are going to make the conces-
sions that would enable Sarkis to act
effectively.
Syria has again issued stiff warn-
ings to the Christian "gangs." In the
words of the ruling Baathist Party's
newspaper al-Baath, "Those gangs
have prevented the legitimate au-
thorities from doing their duty. To
this day the authorities have not been
able to develop a formula for a nation-
al army free of sectarian fanaticism.
The authorities have been prevented
from presenting any national accord
formula because those gangs want a
sectarian formula, not a national one."
The Christians, led by former Presi-
dent Camille Chamoun, are as defiant
as the Syrians ate determined. Cham-
oun's latest blast called the Damascus
government a tool of Soviet commu-
nisam.
In that atmosphere, there seemed
little prospect of a breakthrough as
the speaker of the Lebanese parlia-
ment, Kamel Assad, Shiite Moslem,
went off to Damascus yesterday on
what he called a "personal initiative."
Nor did there seem any realistic
hope for adoption of a formula
drafted by some prominent Christians
-- including
newspaper
publisher
Ghassan Tueni and Beshir Gemayel's
brother, Amin-that reportedly calls
for the militias to get their weapons
off the streets of East Beirut and the
Syrians to pull back from the Chris-
tian area after a period of calm.
"Everybody went too far," one Leb-
anese observer said. "The Syrians
went too far in their shelling of East
Beirut. Sarkis went too far in saying
he would resign. The Christians went
too far in exposing their connection
with the Israelis."
The reference to Israel, which has
pledged itself to prevent the annihila-
tion of the Lebanese Christians by
Syria, brought up one of the great un-
derlying fears in the present situation
-that Israel woul step in, touching
off a war with Syria.
As a fresh reminder of Israel's in -.
terest in the current situation, Israeli
warplanes streaked across southern
Lebanon yesterday- creating sonic
booms over the port of Sidon, some 26
miles south of here.
But there is a corollary to the fear
of Israeli intervention-a deep-seated
concern that if the Syrians let up on .
the Christian factions, the Christian
leadership will push for outright par-
tition of the country.
"They will declare their own state,
you watch," a Moslem government of-
ficial said of the Christians. "They
have lost a lot of their territory in the
northeast, but they will still do it."
Meanwhile, all flights out of Leba-
non are booked full. The capital is
again a divided city, with only a deter-
mined few willing to risk sniper fire
to cross from the Moslem to Christian
side or back. Government ministries
on the Moslem aide are functioning
fitfully; those on the Christian or
eastern side not at all.
Postal service has been out for
nearly two weeks. Telephone lines
were cut. Water and electric supplies
have been erratic, and a heat wave
has left the city breathless. The main
banks are closed, as is the port.
Public transit is at a halt. It is hard
to say when it will be restored, since
the Christian militias used many
bright new postwar buses as road-
blocks during the fighting, and they
are now only burned out shells."
The government has only now be-
gun to assess the extent of the eco-
nomic blow dealt to Lebanon by this
latest round of fighting - the second
economic bolo punch of what was sup-
posed to be a recovery year.
The first was the Israeli invasion of
southern Lebanon > hardly men-
tioned these days - which destroyed
houses, shops and orchards, and drove
thousands of 'refugees from their
homes.
Black Man Held by S. African Security Police Dies
By Caryle Murphy-
Washington Post Foreign Service
JOHANNESBURG-A
20-year-old
black man plunged to his death from
the fifth floor of a police station Mon-
day, becoming the 23rd person to die
since March 1976 while in the custody
of South African security police.
A statement released yesterday by
Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger said
Lungile Tabalaza jumped from a fifth-
floor window of the Sanlam building
in Port Elizabeth.
The building houses the same secu-
rity police offices where black con-
sciousness leader Steve Biko received
the head injuries that resulted in his
death last September.
The police announcement yesterday
that Tabalaza, 20, had committed sui-
cide was greeted by blacks with open
disbelief.
Opposition members of Parliament
called for an urgent investigation of
Tabalaza's death. Opposition spokes-
woman Helen Suzman termed it
U.S .: Legislators Told in '75
Pretoria Was Paying for Trip
United Press International
The State Department says five con-
gressmen were warned the South Af-
rican government and not their pri-
vate host was paying for a trip they
took to South Africa in 1975-76.
Spokesman Tom Reston confirmed
a CBS-TV report Monday involving
Reps. John H. Dent (D-Pa.) Richard H.
Ichord (D-Mo.), Harold .Runnels (D-
N.M.) and Bob Wilson (R-Calif.) and
| Son. Carl T, Curtis (R-Neb.).
CBS said the cash value of the trip
was estimated to be $3,000, and that
ice." Doles is now assigned to the U.S.
embassy in Wellington, New Zealand.
Reston confirmed that account, say-
ing that in 1975, department officials,
"in the course of briefing several
members of Congress who were about
to visit South Africa, told [them] that
. . . we, the department, had obtained
information indicating that the trip
was not being paid for by the ostensi-
ble host for the visit but rather was
being funded by the South African
government."
Reston said he could not "render
"particularly . significant" that the
he gave to police who came to stand
death had occurred at the place Biko - around the body.
had been detained.
"This alone calls for special investi- - back to my shop," pretorius said. Ta-
gation into the methods used by the
men in charge," she said.
Kruger said an inquest would be
held as soon as possible at which rela-
tives and their representatives could
be present.
Kruger also said he had appointed a
senior police officer to investigate Ta-
balaza's death "with a view to possibly
disciplinary action ... in view of the
strict instructions that police should
do their utmost to prevent detainees
from committing suicide."
In his statement, Kruger said Taba-
laza was arrested Monday by the uni-
formed police in connection with
three incidents involving arson and
robbery that he was not being held
under South Africa's security laws,
which permit indefinite detention
without trial, and that he would
have been formally charged within 48
hours.
Nevertheless, Tabalaza's death oc-
curred after he had been handed over
to the security police for further in-
vestigation, Kruger' related. He said
Tabalaza jumped to his death about 3
p.m.
An eyewitness, Marthinus Pretorius,
who was working in his offices under-
"I was ordered [by the police] to go
balaza died in an ambulance on the
way to the hospital, Kruger said.
The justice minister's response to
Tabalaza's death contrasts sharply
with his attitude after Biko's death,
when he initially reported that the
black leader died of a hunger strike.
cism domestically as well as interna-
Kruger later came under severe criti-
tionally for his handling of Biko's
death and for remarks belittling the
event.
Last May, Kruger issued new rules
to security policemen instructing that
interrogations should be conducted in
strengthened rooms unless they were
on the ground floor. The rules explic-
itly stated that f'everything possible
had to be done to prevent detainees
from jumping out of buildings."
Tabalaza is the first detainee to die
since the inquest into the death of
Biko last November.
The verdict in that inquest exoner-
ated the police, who said Biko's head
injuries were suffered during a scuf-
fle. Biko's lawyer charged that the
dead black leader had been beaten by
police, and then dented proper medi-
cal treatment. : '
The Biko verdict drew criticism at
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