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OR I n AND NATIO Tuesday August 6, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5 , I i.i ■■.u.iii ■.Mi.in 11 ■ hm ■ I ■■■i.i rnmmrnmmmmmmmmm SHOE rrWUAT *mE OU' UOROSCOPE 5AV6TMI6 MORNING... Today quite possibly Could, he the lousiest day of your whole rot ten,pathetic life. by Jeff MacNelly |_Qvy OffiCGtS scour U.S. for cannabis Espionage trial begins for former Navy officer Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. —Arthur J. Walker’s admission of funneling secrets to the Soviet Union should seal his conviction on espionage charges, a prosecutor said Monday as the non-jury trial opened, but the defense argued that there was no proof the data ever reached the Soviets. Walker, 50, a retired Navy officer of Virginia Beach, is the first of four defendants in the alleged family spy ring to stand trial. He faces seven counts of espionage in the trial before U.S. District Judge J. Calvitt Clarke J r - Walker is charged with passing documents from his employer, defense contractor VSE Corp. of Chesa peake, to his brother, John A. Walker Jr., an alleged So viet agent. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tommy E. Miller told the judge Arthur Walker admitted his involvement to the FBI after his brother was arrested May 20 in Maryland. Arthur Walker is accused of copying classified docu ments on Navy ship repair for his brother in September 1981 and April 1982 .and being paid $12,000 for his role. J. Brian Donnelly, one of Arthur Walker’s two court- appointed attorneys, said the government does not have enough evidence. He also said the government cannot prove the docu ments handled by Arthur Walker ever reached the So viets. John F. Wittman, security officer for VSE, testified that company records show Arthur Walker had checked out the documents in question. Walker’s supervisor, Emil Popa, testified he never authorized Walker to photograph any classified docu ments or give them to his brother. Popa said Arthur Walker oversaw one to three other employees and knew a great deal about Navy ship re pair. “I thought he did an outstandingjob,” he said. Walker listened quietly and conferred occasionally with his lawyers. For the first time in court, Walker did not wear his toupee. This created a brief stir when Popa testified that he did not see Walker in the courtroom. Popa fi nally recognized the defendant after Miller asked if Walker wore a toupee to work. As the trial began, Clarke granted a defense motion to waive Walker’s right to a trial by jury. Defense attor ney Samuel W. Meekins said Sunday that Walker be lieved he would receive a fairer trial from the judge than from ajury. Also charged with espionage in the case are John Walker; his son, Navy seaman Michael L. Walker; and Jerry A. Whitworth, a former Navy friend of John Walker’s, of Davis, Calif. Arthur Walker is a retired Navy lieutenant com mander and his younger brother, alleged to be the mas termind of the ring, is a retired chief warrant officer. John Walker and his son face trial in Baltimore and Whitworth is awaiting trial in San Francisco. Bounty Survey says Americans favor offering money for capture or killing of terrorists Associated Press NEW YORK — Two-thirds of Americans would favor the offering of a bounty for the capture or killing of terrorists such as those , who hi jacked the TWA jetliner in June, a Media General-Associated Press poll says. Respondents in the nationwide telephone poll were asked, “do you think it is a good idea or not a good idea for the U.S. to offer a substan tial bounty — dead or alive — on kidnappers and murderers such as the recent hijackers of TWA Flight 847?” Sixty-six percent said it was a good idea, and 24 percent said it wasn’t. The rest were unsure. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said last month the Reagan administration considered offering $500,000 for the capture of the Shiites who took over the flight and killed Navy diver Robert Dean Ste- them. Speakes said he didn’t know if the offer would be available to some one who produced the hijackers “dead-or-alive.” The poll was conducted July 5-13, shortly after Speakes made his an nouncement. The hostage siege ended June 30. If the American government got directly involved in efforts to cap ture the terrorists, the actions could endanger other Americans, includ- “in a way, we'd (Ameri cans) like someone else to do our dirty work , . , ^ -rr Robert H. Kupperman, an expert on terrorism at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and Interna tional Studies. 8wjN ing seven who remain hostage in Lebanon, said Robert H. Kupper man, an expert on terrorism at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. A bounty may be seen by Ameri cans as a “cheap way out,” Kupper man said. “In a way, we’d like someone else to do our dirty work, and a bounty says, we’ll give you the one thing we can give you — cash,” Kupperman said. Speakes never confirmed whether the idea was accepted or rejected but suggested that a decision might be made only when and if the hijackers were captured and convicted. When it comes to dealing with ter rorists, Americans are. about evenly divided over whether officials should negotiate for the release of hostages or not, the Media General- Associated Press poll found. Forty-four percent of the respon dents said they believed the United States should negotiate for the re lease of American hostages “even if it means giving in to terrorist de mands.” Forty-two percent opposed negotiations “even if it means sortie Americans taken hostage are injured or killed.” Young people were more likely to favor negotiations than older peo ple, blacks were more likely to favor negotiations than whites, and women were more likely to favor ne gotiations than men. The poll also found: • Fifty-two percent of Americans consider the possibility of terrorist acts when they decide where — or where not — to go on vacation. • Six in 10 said they believe de veloping nations hate' the United States. • Fifty-one percent said they wor ried about terrorism at home, while 42 percent believe it is a problem only overseas. Respondents in the Media Gen eral-Associated Press poll included a sampling of 1,517 adults across the country July 5-13. As with all sample surveys, the results of Media Gen- eral-AP telephone polls can vary from the opinions of all Americans. Associated Press About 2,200 law enforcement of ficers Monday joined in a nation wide marijuana- search-and-destroy mission that Attorney General Ed win Meese III hailed as a govern ment effort to eradicate “a gateway narcotic” that leads users to harder drugs. Federal, state and local agents and police officers across the country used helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and four-wheel-drive vehicles to lo cate marijuana crops and destroy the cannabis plants with fire or ma chetes. , There were no early reports of vi olence in connection with the large- scale raids coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Agency spokesman Con Dougherty said in Washington that by late af ternoon, some 50>000 to 60,000 cul tivated marijuana plants had been eradicated in 12 states. Dougherty also said there, had been 15 to 20 arrests, although he stressed that the figure was “very preliminary.” An estimated 7.1 -million mari juana plants were discovered in northern Indiana by state and fed eral authorities, but this huge esti mate involved wild marijuana. The raids, which are expected to continue for several days, were less productive in other states. Authorities said before the op eration that they had a dual mission: to eradicate marijuana crops and to emphasize the Reagan administra tion’s determination to enforce drug laws. Authorities had said in advance of the operation that roughly 12 per cent of the 15,000 to 17,000 metric tons of marijuana consumed in the United States last year had been grown in this country. Springsteen performs in U.S. capital Associated Press WASHINGTON — Bruce Springsteen was rocking the nation’s capital Monday on the home stretch of a global “Born in the U.S. A.” tour that has made the blue-collar trouba dour from New Jersey the undis puted Boss of rock ’n’ roll. The town was gripped by a frenzy for Springsteen tickets, with scalpers running classified ads demanding $100 to $200 for tickets in a 55,000- seat Robert F. Kennedy Stadium that originally sold for $ 18.50. Springsteen performed at the same time Tina Turner played in the Capital Centre, an indoor arena a few miles from the football sta dium. Springsteen* who has lionized laid-off steelworkers and factory workers in his songs, may face a di lemma Wednesday in Cleveland, his next stop, where stadium workers were threatening to strike over man agement threats to cut their wages $2 to $3 an hour. There were conflicting reports from the local concert producer and a spokesman for Local 85 of the Service Employees International Union in Cleveland over whether Springsteen would cross picket' lines to put the show on. Bomb (continued from page 1) killed when the “Fat Man” bomb hit Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on Aug. 14, ending World War II. Pennsylvania activists kicked off six days of observances late Sunday By whitewashing shadows on Pitts burgh sidewalks, a reminder of the black shadow-like outlines left on streets and buildings in Japan by those vaporized by the bomb. Other “shadow projects” were planned in 13 Oregon cities and in San Fran cisco. Church bells were to toll in Phila delphia at 6:15 p.m. Monday — the hour. Eastern Standard Time, that the bomb fell. In New York, Chris tian and Jewish leaders planned to toll church bells and blow ram’s horns for 10 minutes beginning at 7:15 p.m. Churches in Portland, Eugene and other Oregon cities planned to ring their bells 40 times at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday. Artists, musicians and dancers gathered Monday in New York’s Central Park for the second annual Universal Peace Day, to end with the lighting of 1,000 candles at 7:15 p.m. The Soviet Union marked the an niversary Monday by citing Mos cow’s initiatives to limit nuclear test ing and criticizing the West’s “absence of readiness” to eliminate nuclear arms. Communist Party Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said in a letter to a Jap anese group representing victims of the Hiroshima afid Nagasaki bomb ings that “The Soviet Union will not start nuclear war,” according to the official news agency Tass. 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