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I I Page 12 The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, December 5, 1985 WORLD HEWS Sakharov 'was force-fed while on hunger strike Soviets drop toy bombs on Afghans NEW YORK, Wednesday: Violations of human rights have become widespread in Afghanistan since Soviet forces joined the flghting there nearly six years ago, according to a report presented on Monday to the United Nations. The report, prepared for the UN Commission on Human Triple pay to Bhopal gas workers BHOPAL, Wednesday: Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary has agreed to pay nearly three times the legal compensation to workers who lost their jobs when its Bhopal factory closed after poison gas leaked and killed 2,500 people. The settlement between the 627 workers and the subsidiary ended a sit-in by the workers at the pesticide plant in central India and was the first sign of compromise on compensation issues. A joint statement made yesterday said the workers would get a total of 22.4 million rupees Rights, says violations include indiscriminate mass bombings and killings of civilians; mutila tions and routine torture; the imprisonment without trial of tens f' Mr Semyonov also' said video film which reached the West during Dr Sakharov's fast showing him looking healthy had actually been taken much earlier. Bonner, 62, flew from Moscow to Rome yesterday in a blaze of publicity, but disappointed reporters by refusing to discuss her husband's health or their life in Gorky, in case the Soviet authorities barred her from returning.

Bonner spent her first full day in Rome yesterday resting from her trip and from a reunion with her relatives that stretched into the small hours of the morning. She will go to Siena for treatment of her eyes this week, and then fly to Boston for heart treatment Mr Yankelevich said she had to rest frequently because of her weak heart and that she had aged since he last saw her in 1979, "but psychologically she has not He said Bonner sent a telegram to her husband on Monday during a stopover in Milan, saying, "the three of us are drinking coffee in Reuter, The New York Tunes him 10 days ago it had recovered to 74 kilograms. During a shorter hunger strike last year, Dr Sakharov suffered a minor stroke, which has left him with a twitching lower jaw. "This time he was on strike for nearly six months; his condition is certainly very precarious, though no further stroke has occurred," Mr Semyonov said. "His heart condition has deteriorated.

Nevertheless, he says he feels good, he does exercises every day and has resumed his scientific work," he said. During the hunger strike both Dr Sakharov and Bonner, who is also exiled to Gorky, made attempts to tell friends in Moscow of the situation, including sending telegrams, Mr Semyonov said. "None of the cables reached the people they were intended for in the original form on the contrary each of them was changed or forged to give the impression that all was going well in Gorky," he said. This even happened to "foto-cables" where the original writing was transmitted. ROME, Wednesday: Relatives of Soviet dissident physicist Dr Andrei Sakharov said today he had staged a hunger strike for nearly six months this year while Soviet authorities doctored his messages to friends to hide the fact Dr Sakharov's stepson, Mr Alexei Semyonov, and stepson-in-law, Mr Yefrem Yankelevich, who had both travelled from the United States to meet Dr Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, on her arrival from Moscow, told a news conference in Rome they had learned this through recent telephone conversations with him.

They said Bonner had corrected some details of what they had previously learned. But she had added nothing of substance, they said, and in their opinion had not broken the agreement she made with Soviet authorities not to talk to the Western media during her trip. Mr Semyonov and Mr Yankelevich, both Soviet emigres, said Dr Sakharov told them he began bis hunger strike on April IS to push the demand that Bonner be Dr Sakharov force-fed. of thousands of political prisoners and religious intolerance. The report by Austrian law professor, Mr Felix Ermacora, was based on two visits to Pakistan.

He says toy bombs shaped like pens, birds, harmonicas, radios or matchboxes were being dropped from helicopters to maim children. 0 Radio Kabul, monitored in Islamabad, said today 3S9 Muslim rebels from the Jamiat-i-Islami Party had defected to the Soviet-backed Government near the western city of Herat. Reuter, The New York Times allowed abroad for treatment Dr Sakharov has been living in internal exile in Gorky since 1980. Apart from a break from July 1 1 to 25, he continued his hunger strike until October 23, when he was told Bonner could go, they said. During the fast, he was force-fed in hospital in Gorky, 400 kilometres east of Moscow.

Mr Semyonov said the physicist's weight had fallen from 82 kilograms to 62 kilograms over the six months, but when Bonner left million) for compensation, wages and gratuities due to them since authorities officially shut the plant on July 11. The statement said that under the settlement, the workers agreed to end all "intimidation and Gas leaking from the Shriram foods and fertiliser plant, which produces sulphuric acid, triggered panic and injured more than 250 people today in north Delhi. Choking white fumes engulfed the bazaar districts where about 200,000 people live and work. PTI said fumes escaped for 90 minutes after a 40-tonne tank containing oleum overflowed and collapsed. The oleum flowed into the drains and formed gas on contact with water.

Three company officials were arrested on charges of negligence, the agency said. The Delhi Lieutenant-Governor, Mr H.L. Kapoor, ordered an inquiry and the factory was closed until further notice. At least 250 people were treated in hospital for breathlessness, violent coughing and sore eyes. Fourteen were in a serious condition, a hospital spokesman said.

Renter Thousands of torch-bearing protesters in Bhopal bear an effigy of Union Carbide head, Mr Warren Anderson, to be burned, a year after the gas leak. Investors need time to regain confidence 'niwtorW Head of UN and Fretilin leader may hold talks LISBON, Wednesday: A leader of a separatist group fighting Indonesian rule in East Timor has said he is willing to meet the head of the United Nations to discuss the future of the disputed territory, a spokesman for the group said today. Mr Olimpio Branco, spokesman in Lisbon for the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin), said Mr Xanana Gusmao, Fretilin's military commander, was ready to meet the UN Secretary-General, Mr Javier Perez de Cuellar, in East Timor or elsewhere. Mr Branco said Mr Gusmao's initiative was in response to a campaign by the president of the Human Rights Committee of the British Parliament, Lord Avebury, to help achieve a negotiated end to the conflict in East Timor, a Portuguese South-East Asian colony annexed by Indonesia in 1976. An unemployed Indonesian has been jailed for 10 years for his part in three Jakarta bomb attacks last year which killed two people, the official news agency Antara said today.

Muhammad Umar Alkatiri, 34, procured and helped assemble the timer and remote control device used in the Chinatown bombings in October, the judge said. A Muslim extremist who admitted masterminding the bombings has already been jailed for life, and eight other people have been sentenced to terms from 10 to 19 years. Reuter shares, but gave no details. r-A key element in the new measures is an agreement by four major local banks to lend SSI 80 million (SA121.4 million) to bail out stockbrokers hit by the crisis. The SES would guarantee- the loan and its disbursement.

The managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Mr J.Y.Pillay, said last, night that new laws would be" introduced early next year for a "fairly radical revamp" of the securities industry. He gave no details, but said the planned legislation would not affect traditional close links between the SES and the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (K.LSE) in neighbouring Malaysia. Mr Pillay said the crisis had affected Singapore's status as a financial centre but the new-measures would avert future turmoil. The stock exchange would be supervised by a new body comprising members of the four banks arranging the financial facility for cash-strapped brokers. Industry sources said this would mean brokers would no longer run the exchange themselves, as they had done since it was formed.

Mr Pillay said financial institutions, both foreign and local, would be allowed to own ordinary shares in broking firms which so far had remained a closed industry. The MAS, however, offered no new rescue plan for Pan-Electric, which has 68 subsidiaries worldwide in shipping, property and electrical manufacturing. Reuter By FRANCIS DANIEL SINGAPORE, Wednesday: Bankers and stockbrokers, expressing relief at Singapore's decision to resume share trading after a record three-day halt, said today it would take some time for investors to recover confidence in the stock market. The resumption of trading tomorrow follows a package of measures aimed at restoring public and business trust in the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES). The closure followed the announcement that the industrial conglomerate, Pan-Electric Industries, had been put into receivership with debts of SS390 million (SA289 million).

"The market is not expected to return to normalcy for some time. Many investors just want to get out at least for the short term," a share analyst at a major broking firm said. Brokers said one measure, a ban on buy-now, pay-later arrangements, would drastically cut trading volume on the SES. "Everyone has accepted the curb at this stage. But over the long term, speculation is a necessary part of any healthy market Let us hope the authorities will stop here and not go overboard," one senior broker said.

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