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The reasons for the growing ef fectiveness stretch from the less glamorous, such as better trained and more experienced investigators and prosecutors, to the highly dra- Specialists promote toy safety Associated Press WASHINGTON — Wrap chil dren’s gifts in love and safety, a panel of government and industry toy specialists urged holiday shop pers Tuesday. Consumers must be informed and • use good judgment in buying toys to help reduce injuries and deaths, Chairman Terrence M. Scanlon of the Consumer Product Safety Com mission said at the agency’s annual toy safety news conference. Douglas Thomson, president of the Toy Manufacturers of America, stressed the importance of parents reading age labels on toys and choos ing items that are appropriate for their child. When contacted later at his office, Commissioner Stuart M. Statler, who skipped the meeting, con tended that the nation’s toymakers do not go far enough in their age-la beling on toys. “The basic message (of toy safety) is fine,” he said. But he said he would rather see the agency’s effort go into finding dangerous toys and getting them off the market. As to age-labeling, manufacturers now only list the ages for which a product is or is not recommended, Statler noted. He said labels should say why the recommendation is made — such as that a toy contains small parts a tod dler might choke on, or sharp points that could injure an eye. “Consumers must make the ap propriate toy selection at point of purchase, must supervise children while at play to ensure safe habits, must assure proper storage of unused toys, and must regularly ex amine toys — repairing or discard ing broken ones,” Scanlon said. Scanlon warned of the hazards of balloons and toy chests. Balloons, if broken or deflated, can suffocate small children, he said, urging adults to remove balloons and pieces of broken balloons after parties. Toy chest lids can drop onto a child looking for something in the box, Scanlon said, citing some 30 deaths caused by this type of acci dent over a decatie. He urged buying toy chests with spring supports for the lids, and purchasing the supports separately for chests already in use. Dawson warned about crib toys, which can strangle children who oe- come entangled in them. Scanlon noted that the commis sion conducted 78 recalls of danger ous children’s products last year, in cluding 40 toys. malic, such as spy swaps on bridges in Germany, he said. Martin, 48, a former FBI coun terterrorism agent, has supervised spy cases as a Justice lawyer for 12 years and has headed the internal se curity section since 1980. He has been at the center of the action dur ing the dramatic turnaround in es pionage during the last decade; he’s in charge of catching and convicting spies here. Between 1966 and 1977, there were no successful espionage pros ecutions in the United States. But in the past 10 years, 47 people have been charged with espionage in this country. The most arrests, 14> x came in 1984, and there have been 10 so far in 1985. Virtually all the decided cases have resulted in convictions or guilty pleas. “Before 10 years ago, we didn’t turn them, we didn’t trade them and we didn’t try them," Martin said. “A lot of guys were let go. Not many cases were brought, and those were lost or reversed on appeal.” The first change came during the Carter administration when Attor ney General Griffin Bell decided to start prosecuting spies. The Carter team added legal weapons. The current chief of Jus tice’s criminal division. Assistant At torney General Stephen Trott, cites two laws: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ana the Classified Information Procedures Act. The first law helped facilitate a le gal doubling til wiretaps for intelli gence-gathering, and allows such in formation to he used in criminal trials. The second law allows judges to decide in a closed hearing what se crets a defendant really needs to dis close to get a fair trial. This helps stop defendants from "grayniailing" the government into dropping pros ecution for fear of additional disclo sures. Finally the Reagan administration added money for bodies and equip ment. Assistant FBI Director Jim Gear, who heads the intelligence di vision, said, "In the last three or four years, we’ve seen alxiut a 25 percem increase in the amount of resources devoted to foreign counteiintelli gence.’’ Neither C.1A sources norGearbe- lieves there is any large increase in trained intelligence officers spying here under diplomatic cover. But they do I relieve there have lx*en more spies in the past five toll) years due to businessmen and trade delegations, since they have the free dom to travel and attempt to smug gle out or steal high technology equipment. GAO report faults staffing, computers for IRS problems Associated Press WASHINGTON — At some tax-processing centers, taxpayer letters were destroyed, refund checks were mutilated, some peo ple put in 80-hour weeks, and tax forms were left in restrooms and on loading docks, the General Ac counting Office reports. In reports being distributed on Capitol Hill this week, the GAO, an investigating arm of Congress, pointed to inadequate staffing and a changeover to a new com puter system as primary reasons for what Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., said Tuesday was “the worst tax filing season in history.” More than seven months after the April 15 federal income tax filing deadline, the Internal Rev enue Service said Tuesday that 1.9 million tax returns remain unprocessed because of taxpayer or agency error. Speaking to reporters in Phila delphia, Heinz said the GAO re port on problems at the Philadel phia Service Center “confirms the center was unprepared, poorly staffed and incompetently man aged. “The picture drawn is of a “The picture drawn (of the IRS) is of a quirky, er ror-prone, even hopeless high-tech sweaf shop where the choice . . . was either to quit or try to do an impossible job. ” — Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa. quirky, error-prone, even hope less high-tech sweat shop where the choice if you are an employee was either to quit or try to do an impossible job,” he said. Spokesman Ernie Acosta said the IRS is reviewing GAO’s find ings. “We worked closely with the GAO during their investigation so we are aware of the situations,” he said. “In many cases, we have already taken corrective action," he said. Worker turnover and inexperi ence were keys to problems in Philadelphia and in IRS centers in Fresno Calif, and Austin, according to the reports. In Austin, the agency hired 3,270 people from September 1984 to May 1985 but “most of these employees had little experi ence for the work they had to do,” the GAO said, and the attri tion rate for temporary workers reached 80 percent. In Philadelphia, a unit that cor rects tax return errors lost 45 tax examiners from mid-February through April 1985 due to resig nations, firings, reassignments or voluntary furloughs, the GAO said. IRS Commissioner Roscoe L. Egger J r. told a Senate panel last week the government has paid $47 million in interest this year on tax returns not processed by the agency within the required45 days after the filing deadline. For the same period last year, the fig ure was $27 million. A major section of the GAO’s report on the Philadelphia center focused on nine alleged incidents of “lost” lax documents from July 1980 to June 1985. It said seven of these incidents were substan tiated by the IRS, including: Prelates propose sharing pope’s responsibilities Associated Press VATICAN CITY — U.S. and Scandinavian prelates proposed at a synod Tuesday that local bishops and their national organizations share with the pope responsibility for running the Roman Catholic Church. Bishops from the Third World, addressing issues of their own re gion, called for increased church support of clerics working for the poor and oppressed. The proposals came in speeches on the second day of a two-week synod assessing the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II. Vatican II, held in four sessions between 1962 and 1965, made re forms in Catholic liturgy, ecume nism, seminary education, religious life and church government. Pope John Paul II sal through all 21 speeches Tuesday, taking notes and reading texts, said the Rev. Di- armuid Martin, the synod spokes man. Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, president of the U.S. Bishops Conference, said he be lieves there are good grounds in the Vatican II reforms to justify some extension of collegiality to the direc tion of bishops. In church parlance, collegiality refers to the collaborative relationship between the pope and bishops in Christian teaching ami in governing the church. The issue of shared responsibility between the pope and bishops is considered a major one before the synod of 165 bishops from around the world. Bishop John W. Gran of Oslo, Norway, representing the Scandina vian Bishops Conference, went fur ther. He asserted that the Vatican II goals on collegiality hardly have been realized according to expecta tions. “If anything, a tendency is felt to ward the return to the idea of dioce san bishops as representatives of Rome rather than administrators in their own right,” he said. Gran said the Scandinavian bish ops also have noted signs of a return to centralization. He said the pope and the Vatican should allow local bishops to seek their own identity without causing damage to church unity. He also called for a greater joci say in the pope’s appointment of bishops. Before coming to Rome, Male® repeatedly called for darificationsol the Vatican II pronouncements <*• collegiality. On Monday, Archbishop Max® Hermaniuk of Winnipeg, spiritui leader of the Ukrainian Cathoffl| Canada, called on the pope to grad legislative powers to the synod as! concrete gesture of power-shariif with bishops. But Vatican spokesman Joaquit Navarro said the proposal waS n* likely to be given serious atterp because a legislative body already^ ists in ecumenical councils such* Vatican II. Russell Shaw, spokesman for il* U.S. Bishops Conference, said bis! ops in the United States saw nonied in Hermaniuk’s proposal. The synod has only advisory po*' ers. The synod meetings are dosed 11 the public. Excerpts of the speech are made available by spoReslnt 1 and in news releases issued by p Vatican. TM The Flying Tomato is a registered trademark ©1985 Flying Tomato Inc. The Boot Bam JUSTIN ROPERS $79 00 Largest Selection Lowest Price in The Brazos Valley 2.5 Miles East of Brazos Center on FM 1179 (Briarcest Dr.) Mon.-Sat 9:30-6:00 776-2895 Mary^\ 846-0534 Ua dies wear Cancr Creek Center 4001 E. 29th Street V— / 1 Le st< SHER imagine civil war anon. 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