10 a | ¥ By FILS DELISLE Tribune Berlin Correspondent BERLIN — Colonel Sigmund Jaehn, the first German to fly through space and engage in cos- Mic research, is a representative of the new generation raised by the GDR in the spirit of humanism, socialism and inter- Nationalism. Jaehn, who spent eight days in space with his com- - Mander, veteran Soviet astronaut Vladimir Bykovsky, and the team on the Soviet orbital station, is- now going through debriefing, Medical checks and the sorting out of his space research at Baikonur. A~ tremendous wel- come awaits him when he arrives in the GDR with his space com- Tade, Bykovsky. Jaehn’s road to fame was not a Hollywood story, a sudden stroke of luck. It took 41 years from the day he was born until the day he Streaked towards the heavens from Baikonur. It was the result of personal and political stead- fastness, long years of study, ' training as an aviator, service in the GDR’s airforce, work as a communist, and the close political _ and scientific relations developed between the GDR and the USSR. Jaehn was born in 1937 in the Small southern town of Rauten- kranz. He was the son of a saw- mill worker and a mother who took in sewing to help support the family. He absorbed a working Class attitude from his family from the beginning. In 1951, when the GDR was only two years old and had few of its present socialist facilities, he left school after his eighth term. He became a book printer, mas- tered Marxism-Leninism as a young worker and made his per- he maki PHOTO — TASS , Cosmonaut Sigmund Jahn of the GDR (right) during a chat with Soviet cosmonaut V.F. Bykovski. sonal response to the threats against the beleaguered GDR by joining the armed forces. His military career was meteoric. Hard work and study made hiin into a pursuit plane pilot: He was soon sent to of- ficers’ school, and in 1955 he applied for membership in the Socialist Unity Party at the age of 18. He was soon given high re- sponsibilities in thé work of polit- ically educating members of his unit. After a series of further promotions he was selected to at- tend the Soviet airforce military academy. There, from 1966 to 1970, he studied the latest Soviet ‘military knowledge and thinking. He concluded his studies at the academy with high honors. . Back in the GDR he: won the title of ‘“Merited Military Aviator of the GDR”’ for his work in the ng of a cosmonaut & AL. Pra, training of military cadres, in theoretical and practical ques- tions.-He also became a colonel. ~ Once again, however, he was selected to ‘‘go back to school’. This time. ‘‘school’’ was the “Yuri Gagarin Training Centre for Astronauts” in the USSR. Here, in more hard work, the woodworkers’ son perfected himself physically and in the sci- ences of the cosmic age. Jaehn’s wife also comes from the working class. A communist at the age of 20 she got her papers-as both a machinist and a_ technical draftsman. They have two chil- dren, Marina, 20-years-old, and, Grit, “12-years-old. Colonel Jaehn’s two great passions, apart from work, are reading and hunt- ing. He needs to immerse himself in nature, he says, to refresh him- self physically. and _psychically. New twist in Shcharansky case One of the more bizarre sides to the continuing campaign around Convicted espionage agent Anatoly Shcharansky being con- ducted in the West is the multi- nation tour of a woman claiming to be his wife. In past months she has turned up in such world capitals as Paris, Geneva and Washington. Last week she was in Ottawa and To- Tonto speaking with politicians and addressing meetings. She has engaged a Montreal lawyer to ap- Peal Shcharansky’s 13-year con- Viction. Some weeks ago the govern- _ Ment of Israel claimed credit for financing her travels. That is a Tare admission, but in this case Tel Aviv seems to believe it will get more mileage in its anti-Soviet Campaign by adopting her than it will lose by admitting she is, in fact, an Israeli agent. Her name, according to the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, is Natalya Shtiglits, a 27-year-old former Soviet citizen who emig- rated to Israel July 5, 1974. At the time of her departure, her “‘hus- - band’’, Anatoly Shcharansky was living with another woman, Lidiya Voronina. This question of Shtiglits’ mari- tal status also came up during tes- timony at Shcharansky’s trial.” Speaking there, Moscow Rabbi Yakov Fishman stated bluntly: ‘“‘Nataliya Shtiglits is not Shcharansky’s wife.”” Documents submitted to the court showed that the two ar- ranged a hasty, illegal “religious ee UN blasts multinationals -. Oper GENEVA — Major western Powers and multinational corpo- Tations are mainly responsible for South Africa’s resistance to Changing its apartheid policies, the chairman of the United Na- tions anti-apartheid committee, Stated recently. Leslie D. Harriman told the Opening session of an anti- apartheid conference, organized by non-governmental human iting in S. Africa rights movements, that Israel, : Uruguay, Paraguay and Taiwan had become South Africa’s “'sec- ond line of defense.’’ He added “Tt is the armed struggle and in- ternational action which forced Vorster and the Western powers to negotiate on Namibia. We owe no gratitude to the Western pow- ers which have been the cause of the long suffering ofthe Namibian people.” marriage’’ one day before Shtig- lits’ departure from Moscow for Israel. This was done, as Shcharansky admitted in court, not in a Synagogue, and not by a Rabbi. He referred to some “‘re- form current”’ in Judaism which, according to him, permits mar- Yiages outside Synagogues and without a Rabbi. Further evidence was submit- - ted showing that, in her applica- tion from Israel for Shcharansky to emigrate, Shtiglits claimed a non-existent son had been born. The totality of the entire ‘“‘mar- riage’ episode, it became obvi- ous, was to garner sympathy ab- road in pursuance of this carefully-orchestrated anti- Soviet campaign by a woman whose actions are directed and financed by the Israeli govern- ment. And carefully-orchestrated it is. She has had personal audi- ences with world leaders in the — West. Politicians large and small, from the president of France to the premier of Ontario have wept along with her. In Toronto last week she ques- tioned Canada’s participation in the 1980 Olympics and, strangely, so had Solzhenitsyn’s wife when speaking before a U.S. govern- ment committee recently as she urged the U.S. to do the same. It’s hard to believe that such busy Western politicians could be swayed by such _ individual “plight”. a 100,000 ISRAELIS DEMONSTRATE FOR ‘PEACE NOW’ TEL AVIV — More than 100,000 Israelis marched for peace here on the eve of the Sadat-Begin meeting in Camp David. They assembled under the ‘‘Peace Now’’ banner at city hall after.a two mile march. ‘‘Compromise is not a dirty word’’ read one banner, referring to - Begin’s stated determination to cling to occupied Arab lands. The Camp David talks are seen by many as an effort to freeze out the Palestinians and provide entry for a U.S. military presence in the Middle East. : : PORTUGAL PASSES ANTI-FASCIST LAW LISBON — Portugal Council of the Revolution has approved a new law banning activities of fascist organizations. The law was passed by parliament last June by a majority of the Socialist and Communist | deputies. ATTACK ON RIGHT ASKED AT AFL-CIO MEET WASHINGTON — Delegates to a two day labor conference on the ultra-right challenged the AFL-CIO to spearhead a mass democratic movement to defeat the ‘‘unholy alliance of big business and ‘the ultra-right.’’ The appeal came on the concluding day of a conference at the Capitol Hilton Hotel titled, ‘‘Threat of the Radical Right Wing in America,’’ sponsored by the AFL-CIO’s industrial Union Depart- ment. Delegates stepped to the microphones in a steady stream to appeal for militant action against the ‘‘new right.” WFTU CALLS ‘SOLIDARITY WITH VIETNAM’. DAY PRAGUE — The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) declared Sept. 2 a day of international solidarity with Vietnam. It appealed to all trade unions and their members throughout the world, as well as other progressive forces, to observe the day. It noted that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which celebrated its national holiday Sept. 2, is now under military attack from Kampuchea and under malicious attacks and provocations from China. The WFTU stated, ‘‘The Vietnamese gained the right to peace and independence at the price of the blood they shed for it, and nobody can . give orders to them on how they must build their new society.” FBI ROLE IN PUERTO RICO EXPOSED AT UN" UNITED NATIONS — A United Nations committee has heard the FBI charged with playing ‘‘dirty tricks’’ against the independence movement of Puerto Rico. Eneida Vasquez, president of the Puerto Rico Peace Council, told the UN decolonization committee that the FBI in recent months has intensified its activities on the island, aimed at disrupting and discredit- _ ing the independence movement. Much of the work, she said, has been in the counter-intelligence field. The FBI disruptions, she said, go hand in hand with stepped up repressive measures by U.S. authorities to intimidate the Puerto Rican people. ; HUNGARY SIGNS BLUE JEANS CONTRACT BUDAPEST — Hungary recently opened a new plant at Marcali to produce one million pairs of Levis annually. Levis are the well known blue jeans made by the Levi Strauss Company in San Francisco. The ist 2 companies have signed a five-year agreement with Levi trauss. Forty percent of the production will be sold in Hungary and 60% will be sold abroad, in other socialist countries. eh \ Almost two million adults are now involved in the campaign to erase illiteracy in the People’s Republic of Angola. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 15, 1978—Page 7 Tm | QUAL WM AOLUA T1011, 01 A LR _L__B_ ULL. Y_Le|,| MR T) U _ aD] eeeeeeentee==