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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1978
Page 5
PUU. United Press International
MOSCOW — The prosecu-
in the trial of Anatoly
()l ti haranksy has introduced a
yjj emcnt signed by American
^ respondent Robert Toth as
, 110| , t of its espionage ease against
Soviet dissident.
panel of experts testified
/ t information Sheharanksy
(||1) e Western reporters included
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ri .A;t the trial of activist Alexan-
s u Ginzburg in Kaluga, 110
lht ^'es way, the court spent much
he day wading through the
j ]f ious process of identifying
* entering into evidence some
^0 d( >c uments.
^ t Tinzlnirg s wife was barred
, n the trial for a second day,
his mother, who was allowed
attend, reported the docu-
nt processing was so boring
ctators were falling asleep on
I Ilf benches.
)uring the closed session of
l haransky s trial, the court
f [i d a reading of transcripts of
summer s KGB interrogation
d’oth, a veteran Los Angeles
;sr s correspondent.
1 heharansky, who faces a pos-
irmine death penalty, was accused
wo^assing information about sen-
| nt f'e Soviet defense industries
litdt/'othj The Soviets claim Toth
(Jgnjj an agent for U S. military in-
jof^genbe.
^. heharansky has denied the
s ^ t; ionage charges — and Toth
2g | t , denied the Soviet accusations
1U I Mnst both him and
,,, haransky.
jjoth w as arrested in Moscow
rj^uP 11, 1977, and interrogated
for 13 hours by KGB officials at
Lefortovo Prison on June 14 and
15. He was forced to sign inter
rogation transcripts before being
allowed to leave the Soviet
Union at the end of his three-
year tour of duty in the Times’
Moscow bureau.
A panel of security experts —
presumably from the KGB —
was called in to examine
documentary evidence of the in
formation Shcharansky provided
Toth and other reporters.
A court spokesman said, “The
experts then read out the text of
their written conclusion saying
that the information on the de
fense industry of the U.S.S.R.
and its installations which
Shcharansky is said to have for
warded to the West is absolutely
secret and constitutes a state se
cret of the U.S.S.R.”
The afternoon session, which
was open, was devoted to evi
dence on a second charge against
Shcharansky — that of anti-
Soviet agitation and propaganda.
At the Moscow courthouse,
Shcharansky s relatives waited
outside until a court official
summoned his brother Leonid
and escorted him inside.
The defendant’s mother, Ida
Milgrom, rushed to the bar
ricade and asked that she also be
allowed inside but was told “not
House resolution protests
Soviet dissidents’ trials
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
House gave final congressional
passage Wednesday to a resolu
tion deploring Soviet trials of dis
sidents, rejecting attempts to tie
the issue to arms limitations
talks.
The Senate had approved the
resolution Tuesday.
The resolution reminded the
Soviet Union that it signed the
Helsinki accord on protection of
human rights, and continued:
“‘It is the sense of Congress
that the trials of Anatoly
Shcharansky and others who
have defended the Helsinki final
act are matters of deep concern
to the American people; that
these deplorable events inevita
bly affect the climate of our rela
tions and impose obstacles of the
building of confidence and coop
eration between our two coun
tries. ”
A persistent bipartisan effort
to strengthen the resolution to a
demand for a suspension of arms
talks lost.
Rep. Clement Zablocki,
DWis., chairman of the House
International Relations Commit
tee and floor manager of the reso
lution, said the Soviets’ actions in
trials of Shcharansky, Alexander
Ginzburg and Viktoras Petkus
“raise a question of the credibil
ity of the Soviet Union.
today — maybe tomorrow.
Mrs. Milgrom told reporters:
“I regard this as a mockery of a
mother not to be allowed into
this courtroom.
"I cheered for joy when I
heard my son was going on trial
because I thought I would finally
get the chance to see him.”
Shcharansky, fighting for his
life against charges of “high
treason” because of his contacts
with Toth, has been held in
communicado for the last 17
months.
About 20 other relatives and
friends stood vigil outside the
courthouse, including Boris and
Natalia Katz, two friends who
have been refused permission to
send their baby daughter, Jes
sica, to the United States for
treatment of a rare digestive sys
tem ailment.
In Kaluga, Mrs. Irina
Ginzburg Wednesday pleaded
with the court to allow her back
inside to witness the* third day of
the trial of her husband. She was
expelled from the court twice
Tuesday — once for shouting
“it’s a lie at a prosecution wit
ness.
Mrs. Ginzburg sent two notes
to the judge Wednesday asking
permission to attend the trial
again. There was no response
from the court and at noon Mrs.
Ginzburg was still outside, stand
ing and talking to the wife of im
prisoned dissident Yuri Orlov.
Shcharansky faces possible
death by firing squad. Ginzburg
faces a maximum 10-year prison
term.
Most U.S. disasters occur
in thirteen Sunbelt states
United Press International
ATLANTA — William H. Wilcox,
head of the Federal Disaster Assis
tance Administration, said Wednes
day that more than 50 percent of all
the disasters in the United States
occur in 13 Sunbelt states.
Wilcox said such disasters as flash
floods, hurricanes and tornadoes
cause more destruction in the states
of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
New Mexico than in all the remain
ing 37 states.
That area includes the tornado
belt stretching across the South as
well as the vast Gulf and South At
lantic coasts which are usually the
first to bear the brunt of any hur
ricanes.
Tom Creedle, FDAA regional di
rector for the Southeast, said, with
the exception of Alabama, all the
states in the region have a disaster
plan.
“Alabama is working on one,” he
said.
Wilcox, who took part in a review
of disaster preparedness plans with
regional federal agency heads, said
although many governments have
emergency plans, most individuals
don’t.
“There has to be a high occurence
of flooding before people will even
buy flood insurance,” Wilcox said.
“Our experience in recent years is
about three-quarters of the damage
we reimburse for is caused by flood
ing, he said.
Wilcox said that even in hur
ricanes and tornadoes most of the
damage to property is from flooding
and not high winds.
“The FDAA has budgeted this
year some $1 billion to relieve all
types of disaster victims but this fig
ure doesn’t include relief from state
and local governments, insurance
companies and losses not covered
by any agency,” Wilcox said. “This
figure doesn’t even come close.’’
Wilcox also said there is enough
time before many natural disasters
such as tornadoes and flooding to
warn people.
“But with maxi-disasters such as
leaking gas from derailed trains, we
must depend on the people moving
as quickly as possible,” he said. He
said the FDAA doesn’t provide as
sistance until all state and local re
sources have been exhausted.
“For example, we recommended
that the President turn down the
Georgia shrimpers’ request for dis
aster aid because all state supplies
hadn’t been exhausted,” Wilcox
said.
Vietnamese doctors to search
for missing American soldiers
United Press International
HONOLULU — Vietnamese
doctors and government officials
who will try to account for Ameri
cans still missing in Vietnam have
arrived in Hawaii to be briefed on
techniques for identifying the re
mains of war victims.
The six-member group’s arrival
from Hanoi to inspect the U.S. Joint
Casualty Resolution Center and
Central Identification Laboratory is
the first visit by Vietnamese gov
ernment officials to the United
States since the war, except for ap
pearances at the United Nations.
The visit followed an announce
ment by Phan Hien, vice foreign
minister, that Vietnam is now ready
for establishment of full, uncondi
tional diplomatic relations with the
U.S.
The establishment of full dip
lomatic ties has been delayed by the
MIA problem.
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^UMpER, Colo. — A govern-
h | scientist said Wednesday a
\e solar flare expected within
ext 10 days would affect the
I^Qfled Skylab space station and
bly disrupt power and com-
//LM C atjons throughout the north-
hiited States.
.ie flare will definitely slow
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down Skylab,” said Gary Heckman,
chief of the Space Environmental
Services Center at the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis
tration.
“We can’t say what its exact im
pact will be, but the flare will slow it
down.”
The orbit of the 84-ton orbiting
space station has deteriorated more
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TLE ROCK — Reports that
cases of blindness may be re-
F to birth control pills are in-
ag, says an Arkansas eye doc-
% Chamologist R. Sloan Wilson of
M * Rock said the National Regis-
M Drug-Induced Occular Side
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> ide whose patients stricken
yCfbh'ndness were using “the
registry, part of the Univer-
■ Arkansas medical school in
■•Rock, does not have any way
ire the ratio of women with
tl problems to those who take
;ontroI pills, however, Wilson
“J" There also is no way to prove
—Jl is at fault, he said.
■Cve only thing we can say is that
does seem to be an incidence
people not prone to this be-
mf Wilson said. There have
* V number of reports in medical
are recently that have seemed
} it a little more authority that
is a connection between the
pills routinely are warned the pill
may cause vascular problems such
as blood clots, strokes and even
heart attacks. The eye is just one
part of the body where blood vessels
may be affected, Wilson said.
“From what we know, those who
smoke and the pill don’t get along
too well. Smoking heats up the cir
culatory system,” he said.
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rapidly than expected since the last
crew left it in 1974. NASA flight
controllers are attempting to keep it
in orbit until at least the 1979 space
shuttle flight.
Officials say unusual solar activity
may be partially responsible for the
station’s deteriorating 240-mile-high
orbit.
Heckman said next week’s solar
flare was expected to be similar to
Tuesday’s flare — the largest ever
seen on X-ray. That flare produced
record-breaking surges of ultraviolet
radiation and blacked-out high fre
quency radio communication in the
North Atlantic and European sec
tions.
“It principally affected ship to
shore communication and some avi
ation communication,” Heckman
said.
The government scientist also
said a magnetic storm from the
Tuesday flare was expected within
72 hours, but it was not expected to
cause serious power distribution
problems because it was “too far
from the East on the sun.
He said the magnetic storm’s
most noticeable effect would be the
appearance of auroral displays —
the Aurora Borealis or Northern
Lights — over northern states.
Heckman, however, said sci-
enstists were 70 percent certain a
second major flare would occur
within the next 10 days and would
cause possibly serious communica
tion and power systems disruptions.
“People operating communica
tions, power and satellite systems
will be aware of the flare,” he said.
“Those on the streets probably
won’t know what’s going on.”
Heckman said power companies
in Newfoundland would be crippled
by the anticipated flare as well as
electrical firms in the northeastern
United States.
“But it’s like the predicting the
weather, he said. “We can’t say
exactly when it will happen.”
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