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United Press International
MOSCOW — The Rev. Billy Gra
ham returned to Moscow Sunday for
a 12-day tour and defended his con
troversial statement made during a
1982 Soviet trip that there was “a
measure of religious freedom” in the
officially atheistic nation.
The American evangelist, upon
arrival at Moscow’s airport, told re
porters he had been misinterpreted
two years ago during his first trip to
the Soviet Union to preach.
“I said then that 1 found a mea
sure of religious freedom in the So
viet Union, more than the average
American has been led to believe,”
Graham said. “I still hold to that.
“People said I was naive and was
not fully briefed about the Soviet
Union but that was not true. I was
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woefully misinterpreted.”
The remark cost the 65-year-old
Baptist preacher some credibility but
he made a comeback in Britain ear
lier this summer when he addressed
huge crowds in several provincial cit
ies and, despite fatigue and illness,
pressed ahead with a trip to South
Korea.
He also accepted another invita
tion to the Soviet Union from Rus
sian Orthodox and Baptist churches,
which asked him to visit Moscow, Le
ningrad, Tallin and Novosibirsk in
Siberia.
Graham will be allowed to preach
— but only inside churches — in the
Soviet Union, where there are be
tween 500,000 and 1 million Baptists
and as many as 60 million Orthodox.
Asked in London whether he was
concerned the churches would be
packed with KGB security agents,
Graham replied: “No, they are the
people I’m trying to reach.”
Asked if he hoped to convert So
viet citizens, Graham replied that
“whether you call it conversion or re
dedication,” he hoped they would
receive Christ into their hearts.
Graham was greeted at the airport
by Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk, a
senior member of the Russian Or
thodox hierarchy dnd by Andrei Kli
menko, president of the All Union
Council of Evangelical Christian-
Biiptist Churches.
Both Orthodox and Baptists have
been affected by official restrictions
on religious practice, which range
from harrassment to overcrowded
churches.
Inmates
paroled
too early
United Press International
DALLAS — Every month some
Texas prisoners go free before their
sentence is served because officials
do not enforce a law that requires
felons who used deadly weapons to
serve at least a third of their sen
tences, a newspaper reported.
The early release of prisoners
who committed violent crimes stems
from a record keeping problem that
prison officials concede they rou
tinely overlook, reported the Dallas
Times Herald in a story published
Sunday.
State representatives passed a law
in August 1977 that required violent
criminals to serve at least a third of
their sentences and have extensive
supervision upon release.
The law applied to all inmates
whose crimes were committed after
the law was passed.
However, incomplete prison re
cords are allowing some inmates to
be released early and allowing others
to avoid the close supervision law
makers intended.
Prison officials do not have an ac
curate count of the number of such
violations but concede they happen
frequently, the Times Herald re
ported.
During the past five months, at
least 21 armed robbers or other
criminals who used deadly weapons
since 1977 were paroled earlier than
the law allows, the newspaper re
ported.
Prison officials say the lack of
standardized county criminal re
cords and limited personnel prevent
them from contacting state courts to
obtain the dates of inmates’ crimes if
the data is missing from prison files.
“That would be the logical thing
to do,” said S.O. Woods, director of
classification for the Texas Depart
ment of Corrections. “But I don’t
have the staff to do that.”
The unwarranted releases — and
the explanation given for them — do
not sit well with some Texis officials.
State District Judge Ron Chap
man of Dallas, who recently alerted
parole officials that they were about
to release a murderer four years
early, said Woods’ explanation
“doesn’t impress me very much.”
He said parole and prison officials
“are kind of making a farce of the
entire (sentencing) process ... by ig
noring the law as it’s written in Aus
tin.
“Any time a public official or
agency is not following the law, it’s a
problem.”
John Byrd, the executive director
of the Texas Board of Pardons and
Paroles, said he would study the
cases of premature releases found in
the Times Herald study and issue
warrants to re-imprison any former
inmates he believed were paroled
before they were legally eligible.
“Maybe we need to be more pre
cise in this particular area, but I’m
assuming at this point that there’s
not a major problem here,” Byrd
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