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Wednesday August 7, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 5 on ^a, chair, 3bles. Re^ ur lowes 1 OUTLET nancy? ■ we help ■y tests nselors ' Service! vy hr. Hotline hCARE 5SS-SS! Judge cautions jury Trial begins for accused spy Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Fired FBI gent Richard W. Miller, facing a ury 10 months after his arrest, card a judge Tuesday outline harges that he had been willingly led to espionage by a seductive fe- ale Soviet emigre. Still, the judge cautioned jurors hat Miller, the first FBI agent harged with spying, is to be pre- umed innocent until proved guilty. ■ “He begins the trial with a clean slate, with no evidence against him,” ‘ S. District Judge David Kenyon aid. Opening arguments, scheduled for the morning session, were de layed until the afternoon by a con ference in chambers. During lengthy instructions to the jury, Kenyon read the seven-count indictment against Miller accusing him of passing classified documents to the Soviet Union for an offer Of $65,000 in cash and gold. The heavyset Miller, clad in a three-piece gray suit, scribbled notes on a yellow, legal-size pad. The prosecution says Miller, a 20- year FBI veteran, was willingly led to spying by Soviet emigre Svetlana Ogorodnikov. During the recent trial of Mrs. Ogorodnikov and her husband, Ni kolay, they abruptly pleaded guilty to conspiracy at the end of the pros ecution case and were sentenced to prison. ecause in immotatl mil be heldtmi iler's cost. ww no s uj3 Wednesday US: is meeting at. 7 p.m. in 102 l eague. A&M CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: is meeting in 10 i Soil and Crops Sciences. There will be music, refreshments and skits. Items for What’s Up should he submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de sired publication date. utane lighter made especially for Yuppies Associated Press BRADFORD, Pa. — After 53 1% E OUTLET ;ria years of making the same basic ciga rette lighter, Zippo Manufacturing Co. has unveiled a trendy, upscale butane model aimed at status-con- sdous yuppies. Zippo will still make the tradi tional windproof lighter with its un conditional guarantee. But starting in September it will also market a re- fillable butane lighter called “Con- tempo,” geared to the quiche-and- Volvo crowd. “It’s the new generation,” Jones said. “It’s for the young, the up wardly mobile. Call them yuppies or baby boomers or whatever. They want something that’s fashionable and functional. They seek and buy quality.” Zippo president Robert Galey stressed that the company has no in tention of abandoning the “old reli able” product as it added the new one. The young, upwardly mobile may be into yogurt and jogging, but many still smoke, according to Zippo market research. Mrs. Ogorodnikov, Miller’s for mer lover, has been mentioned as a potential witness against him. During the Ogorodnikovs’ trial. Miller testified he was a counterin telligence agent with “a James Bond fantasy,” when he became involved with the Soviet woman. He maintained that he never in tended to pass classified documents to the Soviets for payment. Instead, Miller Said, he was trying to convince his lover that he was ripe for recruitment in order to infiltrate the Soviet spy network. “I thought maybe I could ac complish something that hadn’t been accomplished before, to Infil trate a Soviet intelligence service,” he said. First Lady to take anti-drug crusade to UN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Nancy Rea gan, taking her campaign against drug abuse to the United Nations, is inviting the spouses of other govern ment leaders to an anti-drug confer ence she is planning to hold Oct. 1 during a U.N. meeting in New York, the White House announced Mon day. It will be a “non-policy, mother- to-mother discussion on prevention and education issues” — a follow-up to a drug abuse conference held April 1 in Atlanta and attended by the first ladies of 17 nations, said a statement by Mrs. Reagan’s press of fice. Invitations for the meeting are be ing conveyed by U.S. embassies in those countries that have indicated they may be attending the 40th anni versary ceremony of the U.N. Gen eral Assembly. 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