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Vol. 80 No. 165 USPS 045360 8 pages
College Station, Texas
Thursday, June 27, 1985
wo Russians
lead guilty
o conspiracy
Associated Press
I LOS ANGELES — A Russian cou-
■echarged with spying for the So-
Bet Union, along with a fired FBI
Bent, pleaded guilty Wednesday to
■ reduced charge of conspiring to
Bmmit espionage, thus escaping the
ossibility of life imprisonment.
In sentencing the 52-year-old Ni-
rlay Ogorodnikov to eight years in
risen, U.S. District Judge David
enyon said, “It seems to the court
at we’re talking about one of the
lost serious types of crimes that can
e committed.”
Ogorodnikov, speaking through
pi interpreter and pointing at his
life Svetlana, 35, cried, “I did every-
jiing so as to help her! 1 did every-
lingthat was required Of me. I did
Jven more than was required of me.
■became a sacrifice.”
J Ogorodnikov asked for the imme-
d te sentencing, but sentencing of
■is wife was delayed. She faces a rec-
|inmended maximum 18 years in
Irison under the plea bargain an-
lounced in court.
J The Ogorodnikovs, accused with
Brmer FBI agent Richard W.
filler, 48, of passing secret docu
ments to the Soviet Union, pleaded
guilty instead to one count each of
conspiracy. Miller will be tried later.
Kenyon said Ogorodnikov would
be eligible for parole after serving
one-third of the term. He has been
in prison since his arrest last Oct. 2 at
his West Hollywood apartment.
In a rambling discourse explain
ing his participation in the espionage
scheme, Ogorodnikov admitted con
ferring with his wife after every
meeting that she had with Miller and
every call she received from an un
identified person at the Soviet con
sulate in San Francisco.
He also said he gave her advice
about plane tickets to Vienna, where
a visit with Soviet officials was alleg
edly planned for Miller.
Miller testified against his two co-
defendants under an immunity
grant which prevented the govern
ment from using anything he said
against him.
Part of Miller’s defense has been
that he was trying to convince the
Soviets he was ripe for recruitment
in order to infiltrate the Soviet intel
ligence network and become a hero
to the FBI.
Playacting
Photo by ANTHONYS. CASPER
The MSC-Dinner Theater and the Aggie Players presented Neil Simon’s “The Star Spangled Girl” Wednesday night. Jeff Danish (left),
who plays Norman and Tim McEvoy, Andy, take a look at their food situation. See related story, page 4.
xperts discouraging military response to crisis
te
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Although the
Inked States may see several tempt-
targets in the Middle East, mili-
ry retaliation after the resolution
1 the Beirut hostage crisis would
obably spark, not stifle, future at-
Icks on Americans, experts on the
^•jdiddle East and terrorism said
Wednesday.
“Since the kidnapping of passen-
rs aboard TWA flight 847 by
ike Moslem gunmen, President
|eagan has chosen diplomatic
ther than military responses.
There have been calls around the
untry for tough action against the
Backers, however, and White
iHiiuse spokesman Larry Speakes
hid on Tuesday that the time for di
plomacy may be running out.
He mentioned a blockade of the
Beirut airport as a possibility and did
not rule out military action, in an ap
parent effort to tighten the pressure
on the hostage-holders.
A U.S. naval task force, including
the aircraft carrier Nimitz and a Ma
rine assault group, is in the Mediter
ranean Sea near Lebanon within
striking distance of many possible
targets.
Robert Neumann, former U.S.
ambassador to Afghanistan, Mo
rocco and Saudi Arabia, said that
talk about military action “is the hu
manly understandable reaction of
tired and exasperated men, but it is
the wrong reaction.”
Even vague warnings by the ad
ministration could backfire. They
could destroy the ability of Shiite
leader Nabih Berri to make a deal to
release the hostages by undermining
his authority with more radical el
ements in his faction, including
those who hijacked the jetliner, said
Robert Kupperman. Kupperman is
a terrorism expert at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown University.
The United States has identified
Berri as the key to the resolution of
the hostage situation, and raising the
stakes by talking about tougher ac
tion to solve the crisis “puts Berri un
der extra pressure to deliver,” Kup
perman said.
Nevertheless, there have been
many calls in the United States for
punitive action against the terrorists,
their bases or anti-U.S. nations in the
Middle East that support the Shiites,
once the hostage crisis is over.
Among the targets most often
mentioned by the experts are:
Shiite militia strongholds in
Lebanon, including individual
houses in Beirut, the Shiite-held
town of Baalbek and other sites
throughout Lebanon where Arab
groups opposed to the United States
and Israel train.
Kharg Island and other oil fa
cilities in Iran, which the United
States has said is the fountainhead
for Middle East terrorism by supply
ing weapons, training and safe ha
vens to hijackers, bombers and gun
men. Destruction of the oil business
court lets earlier ruling stand
A&M entitled to register logos
Associated Press
AUSTIN — “Old Sarge” and the phrase “Gig
Aggies” accompanied by a thumbs-up ges-
iireare the property of the Texas A&M Univer-
Jty System, the Texas Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday.
r l Without writing an opinion, the high court let
itand a Waco Court of A.ppeals decision that
■exas A&M is entitled to “service marks” on five
IqJI Brases or logos commonly associated with the
® "hool.
In an earlier interview with The Battalion,
lohn Raney, owner of the Texas Aggie
Bookstore, said the local merchants applied for
Be writ of error to the Supreme Court because
Boy do not think the students at A&M should
Bve to pay higher prices.
01
Registration gives A&M the right to use li
censes to restrict the use of the marks on T-shirts
and related souvenirs. The school collects 6 per
cent royalties on the sale of such items.
The license also gives A&M the right to main
tain the quality and tasteful manufacturing stan
dards.
Four bookstores and a souvenir-maker sued
A&M after the school registered the marks in
1981. Bryan State District Judge W.T. McDonald
Jr. agreed with the plaintiffs and ordered the
service marks cancelled.
But the Waco Court of Appeals overturned
that decision last December. The appeals court
said the suit was an improper attempt to control a
proper action by a state agency.
In addition to “Old Sarge” and the “Gig ’Em
Aggies” marks, A&M has licensing fees on two
school logos and a “ring crest” emblem.
commemorate start of U.N.
yW Associated Press
J lsAN FRANCISCO — Diplomats
lom a troubled world on Weclnes-
ly commemorated one of the
• v '" |,^greatest peace efforts of the 20th
) %itury, the signing of the United
lations Charter 40 years ago.
I At a ceremony at the stately
IMerbst Theater, where the charter
nj.'IJas written and approved by 50 na-
jljnsonJune 26, 1945, U-N. Secre-
| o^rBj7 General Javier Perez de Cuellar
a °l Peru called the document a “mon-
\\ Biental achievement in the search
W a peaceful world.”
“In facing the conflict and vio
lence that have persisted during
these 40 years, no real alternative
has emerged to the design for peace
provided in the charter,” Pefez de
Cuellar said.
Four days of anniversary cele
brations have featured analyses of
the United Nations’ effectiveness
and future by ambassadors from the
Soviet Union, United States, France,
Great Britain and People’s Republic
of China.
Much discussion has focused on
terrorism, a chief international con
cern in the wake of the TWA hijack
ing by Shiite militiamen, a bombing
at a Japanese airport and specu
lation that a bomb brought down an
Air-India jetliner with 329 aboard.
In a speech to the diplomats, the
secretary general spoke of “repeated
instances of terrorism in the form of
bombings, hijackings and the taking
of hostages. .
“The victims have been hundreds
of innocent people who have
harmed no person and no cause,” he
said. “Mere condemnation of such
acts is insufficient. Effective.interna
tional action is required.”
He added “countries need not feel
that they are bending to the will of
another country or placing them
selves under an obligation to an
other power or powers” by accepting
the assistance of the United Nations.
About the role of the United Na
tions in the hijacking, he said: “I can
assure you that I am sharing with
you my . . . concern about the fate of
the Americans who are being held in
Lebanon.”
would theoretically cripple Iran’s
economy without massive casualties.
Military positions controlled by
Syria, which has major influence
over the whole Shiite movement in
Lebanon.
The ideal attack would spare all
but those who personally took part
in the kidnapping, but given the ur
ban setting of the crisis, “such a sur
gical strike is most improbable,”
Neumann said.
The only retaliation that works in
a terrorist situation, Kupperman
said, is swift retribution that quickly
follows the outbreak of violence and
is directly connected to the initial in
cident. Waiting several weeks and
then retaliating serves no useful pur
pose, he said.
The key to combatting terrorism
is improving intelligence about vio
lent groups and then striking before
they commit their acts, Kupperman
said. In this case, a strike would be
too late, he said.
The worse consequence of an at
tack in response to the hijacking
would be the radicalization of those
described by University of Virginia
scholar R.K. Ramazani as the “silent
majority” in the Middle East.
He said future trouble could be
expected from the large Shiite Mos
lem communities in Saudia Arabia,
Bahrain and other Persian Gulf
countries friendly to the United
States. '
Hundreds attend
Mdrines' funerals
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Hundreds of
mourners turned out Wednesday
for the funerals of two of four U.S.
Marine embassy guards slain by ter
rorists at two El Salvador cafes last
week.
A third Marine was buried in his
hometown in Wisconsin as about 650
mourners gathered there, and ear
lier this week the fourth serviceman
slain in the ambush was interred in
Alabama.
Marine units escorted the flag-
draped coffins and fired rifle salutes
at the funerals of Sgt. Gregory H.
Weber, 22, of Cincinnati, and Sgt.
Thomas T. Handwork, 24, of the
Dayton suburb of Beavercreek. The
two natives of Ohio were among the
four off-duty Marines and nine
other people killed in the June 19 at
tacks in San Salvador.
The principal of Weber’s Roman
Catholic high school praised Weber
as a hero in the eulogy before 800
people at St. Antoninus Church near
Cincinnati.
The Rev. Thomas Kuhn, princi
pal of Elder High School, said, “In
time I learned, in time Greg taught
me something I should have known,
that hard work and faith can ac
complish wonders. To me, he be
came a hero, because heroes do
things other people say can’t be
done.”
Weber was a Marine corporal at
his death. Wednesday, the Marines
posthumously elevated him to the
rank of sergeant.
At Handwork’s funeral service in
Beavercreek, Air Force Chaplain
Maj. Howard Meljott told 100
mourners, “We have seen you as a
family tell us how proud you were of
your son, and how he’d always
wanted to be a Marine. There is no
service that a chaplain or minister
dreads more than a service like this.”
Officers from Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base near Dayton stood
outside Tobias Funeral Home,
where Handwork’s funeral took
place, and accompanied the funeral
procession to the cemetery.
Also killed in June 19 ambush in a
Sal Salvador cafe were Sgt. Bobby J.
Dickson, 27, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. and
Cpl. Patrick R. Kwiatkowski, 2.0, of
Wausaw, Wis.
The Rev. Robert Monti praised
Kwiatkowski during the funeral as a
peacemaker who “was always first to
ask for a hug or say ‘I love you.’”
Kwiatkowski’s fiancee, family,
friends and local officials attended
the services at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church, where he had served as an
altar boy as a child. Like Weber,
Kwiatkowski was promoted posthu
mously to the rank of sergeant.