Friday, November 22,1985/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
Defense secrets
Study makes suggestions for U.S. protection
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After a study
that included a talk with Soviet dou
ble-defector Vasily Yurchenko, a
Pentagon commission said Thursday
that protection of defense secrets
“falls short” and recommended ex
panded use of lie-detector tests for
military personnel and civilian con
tractors.
Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger
immediately moved on one of the
panel’s recommendations, ordering
a “one-time, top-to-bottom security
inspection” throughout the Defense
Department to see that security poli
cies are being observed and en
forced.
The commission’s study, trig
gered by revelations of the Walker
family spy ring, recommended an
array of measures to tighten controls
on classified information. “In
creased priority must be accorded
(defense) security efforts,” it said.
“While no system of security can
provide foolproof protection against
espionage, it can make espionage
more difficult to undertake and
more difficult to accomplish without
detection,” the report said.
Retired Army Gen. Richard G.
Stilwell, who headed the panel, said
that given the millions of people
with security clearances and the
enormous number of classified doc
uments, “the state of security was in
reasonably good shape.”
Without referring to specific re
cent cases where military secrets
were passed to the Soviet Union, the
report said: “Known DoD losses
have been relatively few. Some
losses, however, have proved gravely
damaging.”
The panel recommended further
reductions in the number of people
with access to classified material, in
creased and more thorough back
ground checks on people with secu
rity clearances, and a requirement
that all briefcases and other belong
ings be subject to search when enter
ing and leaving defense facilities.
It urged restrictions including
travel limitations for Warsaw Pact
diplomats at the United Nations,
and suggested tougher steps be
taken against civilian defense con
tractors who allow security viola
tions. It proposed monetary rewards
for tips on people passing secrets.
Waite still hopeful, delayed
by heavy fighting in Beirut
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Terry
Waite, the archbishop of Can
terbury’s envoy who is trying to free
American hostages in Lebanon, was
pinned down by gunfire between
battling Moslem militias Thursday.
But m a message for the hostages’
families, he said he is still optimistic
about the kidnapped Americans’
chances for freedom. He urged their
relatives to be brave.
“Have courage, keep calm, we’re
making progress,” Waite said in an
interview in The Associated Press of
fice as fighting raged in the streets
below.
The street batdes forced Waite to
delay a news conference and his de-
Armor-piercing bullets
chipped the walls and
shredded curtains as
Waite and others in the
The Associated Press of
fice in Beirut crouched on
the floor.
plane to Larnaca, Cy-
tnere, he planned to fly
York for meetings with
parture by plane to Larnaca,
prus. From
on to New
U.S. officials and church leaders on
the hostage crisis.
Waite met the Americans’ kidnap
pers last we^k, flew to London to
talk to U.S. officials and then re
turned to Beirut Tuesday for more
contacts with the Shiite fundamen
talists holding the hostages.
Waite was sent to Lebanon by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert
Runcie, Nov. 13 after four of the six
missing Americans wrote to the An
glican primate for help in securing
tneir release.
The burly 6-foot-7 Waite came
face-to-face with Beirut’s violence
Thursday when a bullet smashed
through a wall only feet from where
he was standing in the AP office. Ar
mor-piercing bullets chipped the
walls and shredded curtains as Waite
and others in the office crouched on
the floor.
Men convicted in Greenpeace ship bombing
Associated Press
AUCKLAND, New Zealand —
This nation’s highest judge sen
tenced two French secret agents to
10 years in prison today for man
slaughter in the bombing of the
Greenpeace flagship Rainbow War
rior. He said the punishment was
meant to deter terrorism.
Maj. Alain Mafart, 35, and Capt.
Dominique Prieur, 36, also received
seven years each for willful damage
to the ship, which was blown up and
sunk in Auckland Harbor on luly
10.
“The courts must make it plain
that persons coming into this coun
try cannot expect a short holiday at
the expense of the government and
return home as heroes,” said Sir Ro
land Davison, chief justice of the
Auckland High Court.
Davison ordered that the sen
tences be served concurrently.
The Rainbow Warrior was sunk
by mines and a Greenpeace photog
rapher, Fernando Pereira of the Ne
therlands, was killed in the blast.
Greenpeace had sent the ship to
New Zealand to lead a protest flotilla
against French nuclear tests in the
Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.
Brad Giles, one of three defense
lawyers for the agents, told reporters
it is “much too early” to talk about
whether there will be an appeal.
“We must sit down ana assess it in
a ouiet and reasoned way,” Giles
said.
The defendants have 10 days to
appeal.
They would be eligible for parole
after serving five years.
The two Trench agents stood im
passively in the dock as the sentence
was pronounced.
Tney were immediately led
througn a trapdoor in the floor to
cells below the courtroom.
They were then taken by police
van back to the prison where they
have been held since their arrest.
During the hearing earlier this
month, Solicitor General Paul Nea-
zor told the court that the agents
were not personally responsible for
the placing of explosives on the ship
and had no intention to kill.
He said the identities of the per
sons who planted the explosives on
the hull of the Rainbow Warrior had
not been established, but there was
no doubt it was done by trained ex
perts in underwater warfare.
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