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Espionage
U.S. officials silent on details
of high-rank KGB defection
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A senior
Soviet diplomat reportedly famil
iar with KGB spy operations in
the United States and other coun
tries has defected to the West, a
Justice Department official con
firmed Thursday.
But the department official,
declining to be identified, refused
to provide any details on the case
of Vitaly Yurtchenko,- 50, who
was described in press accounts as
a high-ranking member of the
KGB, the Kremlin’s secret police
and intelligence agency.
, At the White House, Deputy
Press Secretary Edward Djerejian
refused to comment on the re
port, saying it was an intelligence
matter.
“I have a strict ‘no comment’
on that,” Djerejian said.
NBC News said Yurtchenko,
who dropped from sight in Au
gust during a temporary assign
ment to Rome, reportedly was fa
miliar with KGB operations in the
United States, Western Europe
and Latin America.
Yurtchenko could be the high
est-ranking KGB defector to the
West since the 1930s.
Citing unnamed U.S. intelli
gence sources, the newspaper
said Yurtchenko had been under
going debriefing by the CIA
somewhere in the United States
for the last six weeks.
Earlier, The Washington
Times had reported that Yurt
chenko was believed to be the
fifth-ranking official in the KGB,
but that could not immediately be
confirmed.
Officially, the Justice Depart
ment had nO comment on the re
ports of Yurtchenko’s defection.
Italian authorities on Aug. 8
quoted officials of the Soviet em
bassy in Rome as reporting that
Yurtchenko had vanished with
out a trace on Aug. 1.
According to the Los Angeles
Times account, Yurtchenko had
arrived in Rome on July 25 for
what was expected to be a 10-day
assignment and was staying at the
Villa Abamalek, the Soviet am
bassador’s residence on the city’s
western outskirts. He disap
peared after telling Soviet secu
rity agents that he was going to
visit Vatican museums, the Times
said.
On Aug. 30, the Italian news
paper Corriere della Sera carried
a front-page story reporting that
Yurtchenko’s disappearance was
believed to be directly linked with
the Aug. 19 flight to East Ger
many of Hans-Joachim Tiedge,
West Germany’s top counterspy.
Police brutality reported in CapeTown
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— A girl, 17, of mixed race whose
face was bruised and swollen said
Thursday that five officers, behav
ing like “real animals,” beat her for
no reason in a Cape Town police sta
tion.
The charges came the day after a
judge barred policemen from as
saulting prisoners in two other Cape
Province cities, Port Elizabeth and
Uitenhage, where other allegations
of brutality have been made during
more than a year of protest against
white-minority rule.
Cape Town police said they fired
on a crowd from which a gasoline
bomb was thrown at a police station,
killing a 15-year-old black youth. A
policeman in the Ciskei tribal home
land shot and killed a black man who
was in a threatening mob, authori
ties there said.
Police headquarters reported a
dozen riot incidents during the day,
mainly rock-throwing and arson,
and said 45 black men were arrested
for “public violence” in Queenstown
in eastern Cape Province.
Finance Minister Barend du Ples-
sis said in Pretoria that a leading
Swiss banker, Fritz Leutwiler, would
help the government renegotiate its
foreign debt of $24 billion and ma
jor creditors had agreed to Leutwil-
er’s role.
Foreign banks have refused to re
new loans to South Africa because of
the continued uprising against
apartheid, the race laws dial guar
antee privilege for the nation’s 5 mil
lion whites and deny rights to the 24
million blacks.
South Africa’s currency has plum
meted in value during the financial
crisis and the government post
poned repayment of principal on
the debt until January.
Cheryl Phillips, who lives in the
Bishop Lavis suburb of Cape Town,
told a news conference five po
licemen beat her at the Brackenfell
police station after her detention
Tuesday morning under the Inter
nal Security Act.
She belongs to the Westerns
Student Action Committee i
apartheid group and said sht
picked up at a roadblock on her
to a rally, apparently becaust
carried anti-governmentpampl
She said she was struck rep
until a senior police olficer,
she identified only asSteenkampi
ived from Cape Town. Ther
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officers then became courteouij
apologetic, she said.
She said she was released Wed^
day afternoon after being treatel;
a district surgeon, then was^
home by police. Her lawyer,!
deem H uman, said he wouldti
assault charges.
College of Agriculture enrollment lessening
(continued from page 1)
and has awarded approximately 350
agriculture students with yearly
scholarships of $2,000, Kunkel said.
The highest paying and most
sought-after students in agriculture
are in the Graduate College, whichi
has registered a 12 percent increase
in students since last year. But this is
the area Kunkel is most concerned
about.
“We’ve slipped at the graduate
level,” he said, because the increase
in tuition to $ 120 per credit hour for
non-resident students bites down on
50 percent of the graduate enroll
ment. Although the graduate pro
gram involves one-third of agricul
ture students, two-thirds of faculty
efforts are channeled there for tea
ching and research.
Kunkel said many gradual!
dents w ho can’t afford the hijkt
ition .ire registered forfourli
class this semester just to sat
rolled, but will soon have to I
out. f
No need to ban AIDS victims from classrooms
(continued from page 1)
lie,” he said. “It’s not all that sensa
tional really. But that’s not the way
the rest of the country seems to be
going.
“I don’t make light of it. It’s not
something you just summarily dis
miss. If the child was yours or mine,
we obviously would be more emo
tionally involved. But purely from
the health point of view, there has
been an over-reaction,” Bernstein
said.
He added that AIDS victims pose
no threat to other students unless
the afflicted child has an open
wound, is not toilet-trained or has
behavioral problems that n ;
cause him or her to bite aM [
child. i
“Other than that, the child ski
be allowed to go to
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