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H-12 Friday, November 28, 1975 HONOLULU ADVERTISER PRICtS EFFECTIVE FRi. NOV, 28 THRU MON DEC timr- Ant Mi 11 .77. on GUARANTEE Iff IP All Block Decker power fooll are Guaranteed for ONE 11 1 Vfre clyrfT) I YEAR from data of pureW a tool do not operate 83 I 1 lit IE to your complete wtisfaction, it will be replaced fre of fcj J'J X-f Or I charge when returned to your hardware dealer or to I 1 WK J'filL Block Decker Service Center. HI I Black protest again mounts in Moscow By ROBERT C. TOTH Los Angeles Times Service MOSCOW Black African students again are complaining about alleged racial discrimination here, with a public militancy not seen in the decade since several hundred marched through Red Square with signs charging that "Moscow is another Alabama." Given the rapid rise in third world students here from 134 in 1957 to about 20,000 this year and the cultural differences between theirs and Soviet society, it would be unusual if some incidents did not occur.

But few clashes involving Asian and Latin American students have come to light, the kind of Soviet remarks about black students that they are rude, -lazy, opportunistic suggests a special hostility to them. WESTERNERS HERE have seen incidents that give both Africans and the Soviet side grounds for com-( plaint. But the bitterness expressed by the blacks raises questions of how much friendship the Soviet I Union buys in providing free education to them in ordi- nary Soviet colleges and at the special Lumumba I Friendship University here. Two public protests by Africans occurred recently: In Lvov early this month, the African student union alleged that blacks there "have been beaten up on the streets, in the hostels, and in our own rooms, and told we have no right to complain," according to a state- ment to their embassies. Among eight violent incidents cited, it charged that three Nigerians were recently expelled for repelling a chisel-wielding Soviet drunk who attacked one of them while he slept in his room.

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The most publicized previous incident occurred in 1964. After a Ghannian medical student was found dead near Moscow, Africans marched through Red Square claiming he had been murdered. Then Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev reportedly told their ambassadors that if the students were dissatisfied, they should go home. A year later after a large group of Africans marched through Baku, 29 Kenyans were expelled and immediately flown home.

Once there, one charged that the university was "an indoctrination camp," and another said "all the people there hated us." "THEY JUST DIDN'T LIKE black people," said a third. "Waiters in restaurants ignored you and if you tried to dance with a Russian girl, you were beaten up." This kind of hostility still exists in Kharkov, according to an African student there. And a Lumumba Friendship University black student here said Africans have learned to avoid certain places. "We know where to go to stay out of trouble," he remarked, insisting that his name be withheld lest he be expelled. Blacks from newly independent nations tend to be very proud and very sensitive to slights, which may explain some of their allegations.

But with up to twice the allowances given Russians (90 rubles a month, or $120, versus 45 to 60 rubles for Soviet scholars), and with access to hard currency shops where foreign goods are sold, they usually dress more smartly, have more money to spend and are sometimes "sharp as one Western diplomat said. AFRICANS SHRUG off such criticism. "There will always be some students who don't work hard," said a Lumumba student, "and as for girls, there is a group who are available to us. We believe they work for the KGB (secret police). Ordinary Russian girls are afraid they will be punished if they go on a date with us." "Before I can take a girl to my room," he continued, "I must first fill out an application form, giving her name, date of birth and all that.

And she must show her documents to the guard he records her passport number, where she works, and so forth. It's obvi-' ously meant to discourage others." At Lumumba, reputedly the only university that trains Third World specialists, the Soviet Union offers a totally free education. All costs, including one round-trip plane ticket and one set of warm clothes, are covered. Ostensibly the university is an example of "selfless Leninism." It was founded 15 years ago and later named after the assassinated revolutionary of the former Belgian Congo (now Zaire). "We have no racial problems here," said its rector (president), Vladimir Stanis, "because this university conforms to its name the Friendship University.

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Many Chilean students who came when (Salvador) AUende was in power could not return," he said. In its graduation statement, Lumumba's class of '75 promised to remain loyal to principles learned at the school. While here, it stated, "we became convinced that in the Soviet Union, the developing countries have a reliable and true friend, a support in the struggle against imperialism and neocolonialism, against national and social inequality." MANY IN THAT class may have doubts about those words but the Soviet Union seems to feel that if a fraction really believed them, the expense was Mi HI Ili'Sil! Ml iI'VAfklifiiHllir 4 Mm LfUS.