Show NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune Afghan War Finally Ends For 2 POWs 0 l I t t ! t t 1 ' z i '- - ! t 1 t et Li' 1 ': - t itillt - ( V It r' 1 t ic : - l' - Y: 4- -- :v - r'''' t'i i 'z' - Ai I N : '1 it 1 ' vt - ‘ 41 ‘' 'Nr4-- ' I trti ' '' idlir- k: ' 4 ' La 4t N ''f-- Att4 1 - t y zA A t1k rIt 1 t i 4 Ex-Re- VA I ' I - r N '' N - ''''' 4 t ' it9 ' e E - 4 ''' F 4 The Associated Press Russian woman bangs pan to drum up opposition to Boris Yeltsin on International Women's Day AntiNeltsin Protesters: Russia Going to Pot - PRESS MOSCOW Banging empty pots and pans be' neath Soviet flags about 200 women and an even DI Writer Backs President Russia's greatest living writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is supporting Boris Yeltsin's bid against Parliament for strong presidential rule "The Russian Federation cannot exist without a strong presidential authority which should be no weaker than that of the United States" Solzhenitsyn wrote from his Vermont home larger crowd of men marked International Women's - Day on Monday with a noisy march against President Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms "Yeltsin wont do anything for us They all should resign" said Irina Politenkova 72 clanging a frying "March of the Empty Pot" to pan in the protest rising prices International Women's Day treated as a holiday in the former Soviet Union is little more than an ' extra day off now Stores were closed radio and television programs were aimed at women viewers and flower peddlers were doing a brisk business But opposition activists used the holiday to rally supporters About 500 people mostly men gathered at Oct°- ber Square around a huge statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin The crowd was dominated by Communists and Russian nationalists waving banners Z: promoting various political groups Speakers had to appeal to the protesters to let the I - women come to the front of the march The march was led by a protester dressed as Spartacus the famous leader of a Roman slave rebellion Protesters rapped on stew pots saucepans and skillets — some coated with Teflon and others with rust Placards had little mention of women specifically "Yeltsin — Enemy of the People" they read and "Down With Reforms" "Women need to live like we did before We need to return to the way it was before" said Politenkova a former photo technician t- - Anti-Peop- E le rvol 4-- 7 '1 'i dy 1 ar:407 ot ' ' l'i -kk 4r 14 - t:rtiNr) x k: - - 14 --' '7rl''''r-a)t:--':'2- - diers arrived home and were greeted by flowers and sobbing relatives Monday nine years after being taken captive by Muslim insurgents in Afghanistan Leonid Vylku and Viktor Nazarov were released from the northern city of on Saturday as a goodwill gesture by Afghanistan's Islamic governr ment Afghan Abdul Wahab Assefi said "Conditions were difficult but that's all over now" a weary Vylku told reporters after a flight from the Afghan capital Kabul "I just want to forget all the bad things and remember only the good ones" he said as his sister Irina pinned small flowers on his lapels wrapped her arms around him and wept Moscow sent an estimated 115000 soldiers into its southern neighbor beginning in 1979 in hopes of crushing the Muslim insurgency In February 1989 the former Soviet Union withdrew its troops in line with an accord brokered by the United Nations In April Muslim insurgents overran the capital and overthrew the Marxist regime Russian officials estimate Afghan groups hold as many as 100 prisoners of war (POW) Afghan guerrilla groups claim fewer than 50 soldiers are held Wahab As ‘1$ --- -tt - V 11 tt j i Ak‘' Two bewildered beardP1 former Red Army sol- r 4 ' - 14 1 i - t 9 - 1 I i 4 k' '' - Mazar-e-Shar- t '' 411-- r114': 41:cl''''14-''- : ' C V"- 6 q THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW ti 1 I 4 ‘a '1'1 4 I( 4 ' - 11- : tv--e- '" :- - 7 4— 0- - : ability benefits has more than doubled in the past three years the 5 representing : segment of the $23 billion Supplemental Security Income (SSD program for the poor Is Some of the 635000 children " receiving payments were born : prematurely or exposed to crack P cocaine alcohol or the AIDS virus e while in the womb and experts r expect they will need federal help for years to come The SSI program part of Social I Security long has been considered a safety net for the po west t of America's elderly and disabled adults Children always have been eligible but were only a fraction s of the recipients until recently In February 1990 the Supreme t Court threw out government reg tt fastest-growin- g m i Leonid Vy Iku gets a homecoming sefi said about 20 remain captive Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev greeted the former soldiers at the airport and said he was ready to visit Afghanistan "as soon as circumstances are normalized" in Kabul Fighting continues in Afghanistan despite a peace accord Looking stunned as he sat on a couch in the airport lounge Nazarov 26 gazed at photographers as flashbulbs went off He wore dark sunglasses an Islamic scarf was wound around his head Raised in Ukraine Nazarov said he learned the language and converted to Islam in Afghanistan He has no immediate plans for the future he said "I just can't believe you're here" Nazarov's mother Zoya said clasping his thin pale hand in her ample one Vylku 27 studied journalism in his native Moldova before going to Afghanistan where he wrote a book He hopes to become if white-face- d hug from sister Irina in Moscow "Conditions were difficult but that's all over now I just want to forget all the bad things and re- member only the good" Leonid N'y Iku freed POW a diplomat he said His sister Irina said she only learned her brother was alive in 1989 thanks to a letter passed on from a Red Cross worker She said she got an early indication that Vylku would be set free from her young son Zhenka "Zhenka told me he had a dream on Wednesday when someone told him he didn't know who that Uncle Leonya would soon be set free" she said using the Russian diminutive for Vylku's name "The next day I called authorities in Moscow and they told me a Ukrainian and a Moldovan prisoner would be released I knew it had to be Leonya" I 3! 11(7'":0‘0 i 10-17- 20 i 013 4 r t tt 04 !Ili ' ir:C rf 1 II li'lit 0--- 01 ' i !' 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