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12B SILOUiS POST-DISPATCH Yelena Bonner Returns To 'Prison' Of Soviet Union tyevo Airport But a fourth friend awaiting ber arrival was detained by police. "I don't know how I feel." Bonner told about 50 Western reporters who crowded around her. "It's difficult I left my whole family" in the United States, "but my husband is here as you well know." "My heart is good. My plan is to rest, to sleep if only for one night." said Bonner, who looked tired after the flight from Milan. "And then I will go to Gorky in two or three days." Gorky is the closed city 250 miles east of Moscow where Sakharov has been exiled without charge or trial since January 1980.

During her stay in the West, Bonner was received by world leaders, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Bonner said she had last talked to Sakharov on May IS by telephone from the United States. "He just said be is waiting for me," she reported. In 1984, Bonner was sentenced to five years of exile In Gorky on charges of anti-Soviet slander. She was allowed to leave for medical treatment in Italy and the United States after her husband went on three hunger strikes in 18 months.

Bonner. 63. had coronary bypass surgery in the United States. After a news conference at the airport in Milan, she spent her last moments in the West with her son. Alexei Semyonov.

who lives in Newton. Mass. Her daughter, son-in-law and mother also live in Newton. Two members of the VS. Congress.

Rep. Barney Frank. and Rep. Dan Lungren. accompanied Bonner on ber flight from Milan.

They left the airport in Moscow with ber in the car of a VS. diplomat Richard Sobol of Cambridge, and Robert Arsenault of Washington accompanied Bonner to Moscow because her children were denied Sovi- et visas. They said they hoped to be allowed to travel with ber to Gorky. But this appeared unlikely, since the city is closed to foreigners. Gorky is believed to be a center for the defense industry.

One woman who greeted Bonner at the airport in Moscow was Lyudmila Yevsukova, whose father, Serafim Yevsukov. was detained by police at the airport The Yevsukov family has been trying to emigrate since 1978. Yevsukov's 24-year-old son was sentenced May 20 to three years in a labor camp for refusing the compulsory military draft Yevsukov had served 2 years in camp on the same charge from 1980 until late 1981 Bonner left Moscow Dec. 2 and flew to Italy. She was met by Semyonov, who is her son from her first marriage, and by ber son-in-law, Efrem Yankelevich.

After checks by an eye surgeon who treated her glaucoma. Bonner went to the United States for a reunion in Newton with her daughter, Tatiana. and her mother. In Milan, Bonner repeatedly assailed what she called "disinformation" spread by Soviet authorities about ber and Sakharov. She criticized Western news media for disseminating videotapes of Sakharov.

Covnp4d Ffom News Stoncos MOSCOW Yelena Bonner, wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov. returned to the Soviet Union on Monday after six months in the West She said her only reason for returning borne was that "he is waiting for me." "I have not the slightest desire to return," she had said in Milan, Italy, before boarding a plane for the Soviet Union. "I think anyone in a sound mental state would not want to return from freedom to prison." Three Soviet women greeted Bonner with hugs and pink roses when she emerged from a 25-minute customs check at Moscow's Shereme- Secret Chili Ingredient Caused Athlete's Death t- I'm' -c, "Vj" iJ-A ri i A i' IS n.v i 'r, i AP Compiled From Utwi Semcts PROVIDENCE, R.L A restaurant chili thickened with peanut butter caused a severe allergic reaction that killed a freshman at Brown University in February, an autopsy completed Monday revealed. Katberine Brodsky, 18, of New York City, had a known allergy to peanuts but was apparently unaware that the chili she ate Feb. 18 at a college tavern contained a secret ingredient peanut butter.

Brodsky, a nationally ranked squash player, went into shock after swallowing two spoonfuls of the chili and died 90 minutes later at Miriam Hospital in Providence. "The peanuts have been identified chemically as the culprit responsible agent for the death," said Dr. William Stumer, Rhode Island's chief medical examiner. "It caused a swelling of her upper air passages near the vocal chords." The autopsy showed Brodsky died from angioneurotic edema, an allergic reaction that closed off her entire larynx and caused her to suffocate. Brodsky was always "very, very careful" about what she ate because of her allergy, according to her father, David.

She was stricken while eating at Montana's, a popular college restaurant and tavern near Brown, an Ivy League campus. John Bullock, a chef at Montana's, said the chill remained on the menu but that the peanut butter had been removed from the recipe. A second Brown student, Morey Stettner, 21, of Los Angeles, also suffered an allergic reaction to the chili two months before Brodsky's death. Stettner was treated at a hospital and suffered no lasting effects. Last year, Montana's chili won first place in a statewide food contest restaurant owner Jon Rosenblatt said.

Labeling Endorsed An organization of food scientists endorsed on Monday new labeling standards proposed as an effective means of warning consumers that food has been treated with sulfite preservatives, which can cause potentially fatal allergic reactions in rare cases. A panel of the Institute of Food Technologists, an organization representing 22,000 food scientists, said labeling "is without doubt the most logi-cal means of protecting sulfite-sensitive asthmatics." But the scientists also say their research indicates that the number of people who may be susceptible to sulfite reactions is much smaller than previously believed. The Food and Drug Administration has estimated that between 500,000 and 1 million people, most of them asthmatics, may run the risk of sulfite reaction. But Robert K. Bush and Steven Taylor of the University of Wisconsin said the risk appeared to be limited primarily to severe asthmatics who are dependent on steroid medication, or about 180,000 people.

About 19 deaths have been linked to potential allergic reactions to sulfite preservatives, Bush said. 1 Bujak Has Spy Links, Poles Say WARSAW, Poland (AP) The government accused Zbigniew Bujak, the captured Solidarity underground leader, on Monday of having links to Western intelligence services. His arrest should paralyze the outlawed labor union movement, the government said. The accusation was carried in the Communist Party newspaper Try-buna Ludu and was attributed to Gen. Henryk Dankowski, deputy chief of Poland's secret police force.

The communist government has tried to discredit political opposition by maintaining that it is financed by Western spy agencies to carry out subversive activities in Poland. The paper says that Dankowski was applauded when he announced at a Warsaw Communist Party conference that Bujak had been arrested. The Polish leader, Gen. Wojciech Jar-uzelski, and other high-ranking party officials attended the conference. Bujak, 31, had eluded arrest since December 1981, when the government crushed Solidarity in a martial-law crackdown, "The operation (to arrest Bujak) should paralyze the activities of illegal structures all over the country," Dankowski said.

Bujak's arrest was a blow to the union federation and bolstered the government just a month before a key Communist Party congress. The party conference will be the first since the labor upheaval of 1980 and 1981. Bujak, the elected chairman of Solidarity's Warsaw chapter during the union's 16 months of legal existence, headed the underground Provisional Coordinating Commission. The group organized anti-government protests after martial law was imposed. Dankowski said Bujak "inspired nationwide, illegal publishing activities, strikes street clashes and other excesses" after going into hiding.

"As a result of his actions, a lot of tragic events in our state took place," Dankowski said. "His activity was directed and inspired by Western special services and centers of ideological diversion." Dankowski did not elaborate about the allegations that Bujak has links to Western intelligence services. But he said police who captured Bujak also had seized "modern communication equipment," Western currencies and "interesting and important" underground documents. Solidarity activists said that Bujak's arrest was a severe setback but that underground activities such as the extensive clandestine publishing operation were decentralized and would withstand the blow. Rescue In Texas Police officer Steve Flanagan (right) of Dun-canville, Texas, reaching to rescue Sgt.

Dan Robertson, who had fallen into a creek Sun- day afternooon while searching for a 13-year-old boy who had been swept away. The boy is presumed drowned. Soviets Revamping Higher Building Trades Enjoy Productive Contract Talks MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union has announced sweeping changes in what it described as its obsolete higher education system that produces doctors who cannot diagnose and engineers who know little about computers. "Materials and techniques are obsolete," the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said Sunday in announcing the changes. "That is why there is a need for the profound restructuring of higher and secondary specialized education." No Sale, Bargain-Hunters Told At Parkway North High School By Tim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Two more building trades unions have tentative or formal agreements for new three-year contracts, continuing a pattern of relatively swift contract renewals in the area's construction industry this year.

"We've been happy with the outcome," said Richard Mantia, executive secretary and treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Council of St. Louis. "We've had pretty reasonable negotiating sessions, and pay increases have been reasonable. We hope it continues." Since December, the contracts of 13 local construction workers unions have expired. Twelve more are due to expire this summer and fall.

"Al but two of those now due for renewal have reached at least tentative agreements. The three-week walkout in December by the Painters District Council has been the only strike. Roofers Local 2, which was out briefly in a recent lockout, remains the only local in a protracted dispute. Its members voted on Sunday to reject an offer by contractors, and the roofers may go on strike Wednesday, Mantia said on Monday. But tentative or final agreements have been obtained for the three trades whose contracts expired on Sunday.

Mantia said Pipefitters Local Afghan Air General Defects, Reports Some Rebel Success Education dents lack the incentive to learn, it said. "Every second specialist with higher education in industry works at a job that does not require his qualification. Medical school graduates are not able to diagnose and to prescribe the correct treatment, because of insufficient clinical training," it said. Neither refresher nor retraining courses on medical techniques are available, it said. "Young specialists and engineers are not ready to use new-generation techniques and technology and do not receive the necessary skills to use modern means of automation and technological processes like computers," it said.

"The level of training and education do not fully correspond to the tasks of the acceleration of the socioeconomic development of the country. The quality of teaching does not meet today's standards." Among the changes that have been proposed are three-month mandatory refresher courses for scientists and engineers every five years; a differential in entry-level salaries for graduates with higher grades; higher salaries and larger apartments for teachers; and. computer and foreign language courses for the public. The package is a series of recommendations for the ruling Central Committee of the Communist Party. The recommendations call for more emphasis on the teaching of Marxist economic and social theory.

the U.S. Post Office, at 1720 Market Street. Shortly after 8 a.m. Monday, a man reached over the counter of George's Cigar Store and snatched money from a cash box. Betty Von Seelen, who is legally blind and who operates the store, began screaming, and two U.S.

Postal Service police officers grabbed Mathews and held him for St. Louis police. Court Docket St. Louis A warrant charging a 35-year-old woman with vehicular manslaughter in a hit-and-run accident outside a South Side tavern was taken under advisement Monday by the circuit attorney's office. A grand jury is expected to decide whether to charge the woman.

Stanley Claspill, 40. was run down by a car in the 2600 block of Winnebago Street about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Claspill. of the 4000 block of Shirley Avenue in Bel-Ridge, died a short time later at The University Hospital.

St. Charles County James Lee Coddington was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison for the murder in June 1984 of Frank James "Frog" Williams during a robbery. The sentence was imposed by Circuit Judge C. Fred Rush of St. Charles County.

Coddington, 20, of Lucerne, had pleaded guilty of second-de- murder. A second man. Glen Rogers, 23, of St. Charles County, is serving a 50-year prison sentence after pleading guilty of murdering Williams, 45, of St. Charles.

A witness testified in a preliminary hearing that Coddington and Rogers had set fire to Williams' body and car after the killing. Pravda said the changes would affect 2 million students and set up thousands of computer-equipped work places to make Soviets "computer "The specialist of today should have a thorough Marxist-Leninist training, active methods in the use of computer technology, a high awareness of general culture and history, and knowledge of a foreign language," Pravda said. But high schools and universities lack computers, and teachers and stu- high school, which is at 12860 Fee Fee Road in an unincorporated area of west St. Louis County. The ad included a number for a pay telephone that is in the school's commons, Hugo said.

Miller wasn't amused. Miller said he had called the telephone number early Monday and had received directions from a young male on how to get to the school. But he said that when he arrived at the school at 7:30 a.m., a woman in the main office told him the ad was a prank by seniors. Hugo learned of the prank at about 6:45 a.m., when he arrived at work and met several people waiting. PoliceCourts The following incidents were among those that were reported to departments in the St.

Louis metropolitan area or that involved action in one of the area courts: Assaults St. Louis Stanley E. Hughes, 16, was in serious but stable condition Monday at St. Louis Regional Medical Center with gunshot wounds of the right cheek, right hand and the left side of the neck. Hughes was shot in the 1600 block of Carr Drive, in the Carr Square Village housing complex, shortly after 9 p.m.

Sunday. A loaded pistol was found in the grass near the shooting scene. Robberies St. Louis County Two armed men wearing ski masks took about $1,500 about 3 a.m. from a Taco Bell restaurant at 9225 Gravois Road, in South County.

County police say the men had blue steel revolvers and made employees open cash boxes. A man took $200 in a robbery Monday of a Citgo service station in North County. The man walked into the station, at 1173 Dunn Road, about 4:45 p.m. and pointed a blue steel automatic pistol at the owner, police said. After taking the money, the robber ran into a field just east of the service station.

County police unsuccessfully searched for the man by helicopter. Thefts St. Louis Donald Mathews, 23. of the 4000 block of Delmar Boulevard, was charged Monday with stealing $148 from a store operated by a blind woman in the main branch of Judge Agrees Parent Union Can Run Striking Hormel Local 562 had a tentative agreement that members are to consider this week, and the mason tenders within the Laborers' union already have a new contract. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1, which also had contracts with contractors' groups that expired on Sunday, has extended its deadline to June 12 while negotiations continue, Mantia said.

Due for renewal on July 1 are the contracts of plumbers, plasterers and plasterer tenders. The iron workers are the largest union up for renewal Aug. 1, and the Teamsters also are due for a new contract this year. "I think we're over most of the big ones now," Mantia said. Under their previous contracts, union construction workers in the St.

Louis area earned from $15.50 to more than $19 an hour. Generally, Mantia said, new contracts this year have brought an increase the first year of about 60 cents an hour, with increases in the second and third years of as much as 4 percent, depending upon cost-of-living formulas. "I think these have been acceptable because there is a lot of work in the area," he said. "We want to continue to encourage new development by trying to keep demands down. The increases have been reasonable, and they're within the realm of increases across the country." U.S.

District Judge Edward Devitt said Local P-9 and its officers must recognize Joseph T. Hansen "as the legally appointed trustee of Local P-9 and to deliver to him custody and control of all Local P-9 assets and to permit him peaceably to manage them and to conduct Local P-9's affairs as trustee." The legal issue was whether the union had authority under its constitution and federal labor law to appoint the trustee, Devitt said. Officials of Local P-9 filed suit on May 6 against the international to block the takeover. The suit alleged that officials of the international had carried out a "malicious, willful and bad-faith" effort to undermine Local P-9 in Austin, and force an end to the strike. For Trucking Firms ance," Danforth wrote in a letter Monday to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth H.

Dole. Danforth asked Dole to start the rule-making process and to allow truckers to insure themselves in the meantime under temporary regulations. The Interstate Commerce Commission also has issued no regulations to allow self-insurance, although it has approved interim rules. Nationally, the liability crunch has hit truckers hard. The industry has predicted that it would lose up to 20 percent of its carriers because of the increasing cost of insurance.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (A?) An Afghan air force general who has defected to anti-government guerrilla groups says the insurgents have destroyed 40 aircraft in fighting in Afghanistan in the last year, according to a report Monday. The Pakistan Times, a government-owned newspaper, reported Monday that Brig. Gen. Mir Alam Khan recently defected to the rebel forces and crossed into Pakistan. The report cites Afghan exile sources in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar.

It says that Khan commanded the Afghan air force's repair installation at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. The center repairs aircraft damaged in fighting and handles three or four planes a month, Khan is quoted as having said. The National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, one of several Afghan guerrilla groups based in Peshawar, confirmed Monday that Khan had defected about a month ago and had joined its organization. Gary Miller of south St. Louis thought that he was headed for a "huge rummage sale" at Parkway North High School.

But all he got was bad news about some frisky seniors. Miller and about 10 other people went to the school Monday because of a bogus classified advertisement in Sunday's Post-Dispatch. The ad was a prank that probably was committed by members of the senior class, school officials say. "We've got some ideas," Principal Don Hugo said, referring to likely suspects. "We'll be digging into it." The advertisement announced a sale from 7:30 a.m.

to 3:30 p.m. Monday in the main auditorium at the Seven main Islamic guerrilla organizations and dozens of smaller groups are fighting the communist government in Kabul. Khan said that 40 Afghan air force aircraft had been destroyed in fighting in the last 12 months by the guerrillas and that 40 had been damaged. He said he had been trained to handle MiG-17s and MiG-21s at courses in Kabul and the Soviet Union. The report says that Khan believed that Soviet aircraft losses were similar to Afghan losses, but that he had no specific figures.

The Soviet Union is estimated to have 115,000 Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, including numerous Soviet air force units that play a major part in the war against the guerrillas. Rebel commanders fighting the Marxist government say their lack of anti-aircraft defenses is their biggest weakness. But they manage to down a number of planes and helicopters with the few anti-aircraft guns and missiles that they have. group in Munich over the weekend and asked for asylum in West Germany, Bavarian state police said. In addition, police said, three Czechoslovaks, aged 20 to 56, ditched their tour groups during a trip through Bavaria, and a 56-year-old Czechoslovak asked for asylum while visiting Munich.

The communist governments in Poland and Czechoslovakia strictly limit emigration of their citizens. For Another Term Rep. Stanley Lundine. Delegates at the state party convention thundered their approval of Cuomo's administration, declaring their endorsement without a roll call moments after speakers praised him. 10 Poles, 4 Czechs Defect In W.

Germany ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) A federal judge ruled Monday that a trusteeship imposed by a parent union on a striking Hormel meatpackers local was valid and that the local must recognize the trustee as its legal head. Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union has been on strike against the main plant of Geo. A.

Hormel Co. since Aug. 17 in a contract dispute over wages and benefits. The Food Workers union ordered the trusteeship last month after a union hearing officer found that P-9 had defied the international's order March 14 to end its strike. The international has argued that a return-to-work offer is P-9's only chance to save jobs and keep the plant under union representation.

Self-Insurance Urged Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON In a move to ease the liability insurance crunch for truckers. Sen. John C. Danforth, has asked the Transportation Department to clear the way for trucking companies to insure themselves. The department has never adopted rules to regulate self-insurance by truckers, even though Congress agreed to the idea in 1980.

"As a result the motor carriers' premiums may be higher than necessary bee use insurance companies know carriers must maintain a certain level of insurance and currently do not have the option of self-insur MUNICH, West Germany (AP) Ten Poles, including a teen-ager taking part in a weightlifting meet, and four Czechs defected in West Germany over the weekend, police said Monday. Kristof Piorczynski asked for asylum Sunday after participating in a weightlifting competition for 16- to 20-year-olds in the southwestern town of Donaueschingen, police officials said. Nine Polish tourists, ranging in age from 10 to 54, left their tour Cuomo Is Nominated ALBANY. N.Y. (UPI) Gov.

Mario M. Cuomo won the unanimous Democratic nomination for re-election Monday. The Democrats also overwhelmingly ratified Cuomo's choice for lieutenant governor, U.S..