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He and others defended the new KGH chief's decision to keep the files closed, saying millions of informers could he exposed to retribution If the "Approximately a dozen of those present in this room would probably ire Interested in never seeing the archives opened," Parkhomenko said as a ripple of nervous laughter erupted among the t>() Soviets and foreigners attending the conference The lingering uneasiness ulxnit the KCB is just one of the difficulties far ing Soviet media during the current transition from Communism to deinot ra i V The topli was raised during the opening session of a two day conferem e sponsored by the World Press freedom Com mittee "Current and future genera tions must learn the whole truth about the dark periods of 20lh-centurv history," said Eu gene Pell, director of Radio documents were made avail able. Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which has broadcast unccm sored news to the Soviet Union for dcs ados Pell ur^ed a 38-natlon human rights conference meeting here to ask the Europe's former Communist nations to preserve the archives of their state, par ly, and secret police and open them to all researchers. Hut Parkhomenko and other journalists defended the deci sion of KCB chief Vadim Rakatin to keep KCR files shut. Swedish journalist Mika Lar sen recalled that when the same question was raised in Po land. President Lech Walesa said the country had no time or energy to waste on revenge. "We demand so much more of Eastern Europe and Commu nist countries than we would ever demand in our own coun tries," she said Her response received the only round of applause during the session Russian President Boris Yelt sin has offered to give Munich based Radio Liberty u Moscow office (>ecause of its key role in keeping Soviet citizens in formed during the coup. Pounded and initially funded by the CIA, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe ure now fi ll,mi isi by tlie ll.S. Congress After several other protests, Pell returned to the micro phone to explain that his pro posal would not give journal ists access to KCB fib s and his key proposal was to have the archives preserved But us the session broke up, l! you want to moot all your banking needs, enroll at Weserve l ■'llst Interstate Bunk ot (tre^on. We have a sjx'tial paeka^e designed to help students ^udeiit Line van better manage your expenses. Student I.t»ans. It paying for sehtxil is a eon eern, we ean help you with a student loan. Student loans allow make it through those trying college wars the Student Fine Account. It has all tht* products and services you nml: C hecking Account \\ it h no minimum balance. Write up to Id checks a month for one low monthly fee. And cash your jx*rsonaI checks at over 1.1(H) First Intel state offices in L’l states and the I )istnet of C olumbia. 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University Branch 1380 Villard 465 5945 Two Day & Night Teller Machines also available at Kaufman's 840 E. 13th 18th and Oak Branch 95 18th Ave E 465 5849 First Interstate Bank several Soviet journalists said the problem was opening the files at all, not who had actress Anatoly Pankov, editor of the radical newspaper Kurantv published by the Moscow City Council, said there were prob lems for the media hectauso the dictatorship of the Communist Party "has now been replaced by the dictatorship of certain democratic forces." The printing presses that once belonged to tho party now belong to the Ministry of Press of the Russian Federation, he said, referring to the Russian re public’s increase in power since the central government lost power in the wake of the failed August coup. Anatoly Krasikov, deputy di rector of the news agency 'Pass, noted that for 70 years, the So viet government opposed a free press and the media was still coming to grips with freedom of information The two-day conference is being held in parallel with the Conference on Security and Co operation in Europe, which monitors the 1975 Helsinki Fi nal Act on human rights. Iraqis pondering startup of petrol production, export CIliNLiVA (A!5) — Iraq could probably begin soil ing oil abroad “at any time," although it is still studying whether it will accept the strict IJ.N. rules by which it could export oil. the country's oil minis ter said Monday. Osama Abdul Ka/./.ek Al Hili told reporters at a meeting of the Organiza tion of Petroleum Import ing Countries that Iraq's present output was about 500,000 barrels a day. Of that, 45,000 barrels are ear marked lor Jordan under a noncommercial arrange ment. If the IJ.N. trade embargo on Iraq were lifted, he said, Iraq could immediately be gin exporting 1 million to 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, provided it bought some spare parts to replace equipment damaged in the Persian Gulf war. “Technically, I think Iraq could start at any time," ho said. Before the invasion, Iraq was one of the world's big gest oil producers, pump ing more than 5 million barrels of crude daily. But it has been prevent ed from selling its oil un der an international trade embargo that was imposed after its August 1990 inva sion of Kuwait. Under the IJ.N. rules. Iraq could sell $1.6 billion for humanitarian supplies over six months, but would have no control over the sale or proceeds. The United Nations would use up to 30 percent of the money to compen sate victims of the Gulf war, and would tightly control the rest to keep it from being user! by the Ira qi regime for military or political ends. RECYCLE THIS PAPER. - A