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BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.
^(AP) — A military judge on Thurs-
By sentenced to 25 years in prison
an airman found guilty of passing
classified Air Force documents
■out his spy plane unit to FBI
agents posing as Soviets.
’■Lt. Col Harold Sweeney also re-
Qf duced Airman 1st Class Bruce Ott to
ILBe lowest in rank in the Air Force,
ordered forfeiture of pay and gave
dii ii a dishonorable discharge.
mi M Ott will be imprisoned at Fort
. Bavenworth, Kan. Sweeney gave
hi n 259 days’ credit for time already
Hrved.
The conviction and sentence will
reviewed by Lt. Gen. James E.
Height Jr., commander of the 15th
pHir Force, headquartered at March
A r Force Base in Riverside, Calif.
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Defectors: Reaching U.S.
like ‘a walk on the moon’
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■ The case will also be reviewed by
He Ait Force Court of Military Re
view in Washington, D.C.
If the conviction is upheld, the
rv Htse then will go to the U.S. Court of
OlSHfiliiary Appeals in Washington.
MIAMI (AP) — A husband-and-
wife team of Soviet tightrope per
formers who defected to the United
States said their lirst step on Ameri
can soil Thursday was like Neil Arm
strong’s walk on the moon.
Nikolai Nikolski and Bertalina
Kazakova, stars of the Moscow Cir
cus, slipped away from their hotel
Monday to the U.S. Embassy in Bue
nos Aires and flew to Miami awaiting
an answer on their request for asy
lum.
“We like America,” said Kaza
kova, who learned to speak broken
English by reading books and listen
ing to radio broadcasts. “It’s our
dream to live in America, dream all
our life.”
The 35-year-old high-wire artists
kept their intentions secret from Ka
zakova’s brother and his sister, who
are part of the five-member troupe
led by Nikolski.
Their only possessions in America
are a black briefcase, two photo bags
and two plastic shopping bags. “Not
a lot of our things, and a lot of
hope,” Nikolski said through an in
terpreter.
Esther Shatkhin, a Soviet emigree
who acted as their interpreter, trans
lated, “They said that when they
stepped the first time on American
earth, they don’t know what Arm
strong felt when he walked on the
moon, but they thought they felt the
same.”
The couple toured Cuba three
years ago with the circus and “knew
Florida was across the water,” said
Shatkhin, who was summoned by
the Immigration and Naturalization
Service. “They would dream about
going to Florida some day, and their
dream came true.”
Their immediate plans were to
find a hotel, await word from Wash
ington and contact a circus to begin
performing again. Kazakova said
they had read about the Ringling
Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus
when the America circus toured
Moscow about 12 years ago.
Ringling Bros, is interested in in
terviewing the couple, and Perry
Rivkind, regional director of the im
migration service, said, “a bunch of
circuses have called — half a dozen,”
adding that the performers “are
thrilled beyond belief.”
Kazakova said, “We want to be
free, free people. We don’t like our
Soviet life. I don’t like the political
Soviet Union.”
She added in an interview before
leaving Buenos Aires: “We don’t
have the right to decide in what cities
we live. We can’t negotiate our con
tracts, we can’t even decide what acts
we are going to perform.”
“That’s on the professional side,”
said Nikolski through the inter
preter. “On the personal side, in the
Soviet Union, the only way you can
live is think one way, speak another
way and act a third way.”
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Dow Jones shows moderate advance
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market staged a moderate ad
vance in quiet trading Thursday.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials rose 6.75 to 1,786.28,
bringing its gain since the start of ing.
the week to 22.64 points.
Analysts said hopes were ap
parently increasing among trad
ers that the market could gather
strength after the completion of
the Treasury’s quarterly financ-
FDA OKs dyes causing cancer in rats
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Food and Drug Administration
gave final approval Thursday to
external, commercial use of two
drug and cosmetic dyes known to
cause cancer in laboratory ani
mals.
It agreed with an industry peti
tion that the actual risk to the
public “is, indeed, trivial.”
A public health organization
said that the FDA decision would
be challenged in court as a viola
tion of the federal Delaney
Glause which bars agency appro
val of cancer-causing ingredients.
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entists have heated a rarified gas
to a record 10 times hotter than
the core of the sun, a big step to
ward harnessing the “fusion” nu
clear reaction that powers the
stars, researchers said Thursday.
The gas temperature inside a
doughnut-shaped reactor in seve
ral mid-July experiments reached
360 million degrees Fahrenheit,
said Harold Furth, director of the
Princeton University plasma
physics laboratory.
Advances slow artificial heart program
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)
Once on the forefront of heart
research, Dr. William C. DeVries
is having trouble finding patients
for his experimental artificial im
plant program because of ad
vances in technology.
But DeVries and other doctors
don’t expect the artificial heart to
fade away and say it has stimu
lated research that eventually will
help keep people with ailing
hearts alive longer.
Because of medical im
provements and more available
donor hearts, patients who at one
time would not qualify as heart
transplant candidates are being
accepted with success. That
means fewer patients are avail
able for artificial hearts.
Congress ‘can’t meet’
Gramm-Rudman in ’87
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gon-
gressional economists on Thursday
projected a record $224 billion bud
get deficit this year that is below the
Reagan administration estimate, but
said the 1987 shortfall will be worse
than the White House predicts.
The Congressional Budget Office
said Congress will miss its Gramm-
Rudman deficit reduction targets in
fiscal 1987 even if every promise in
the budget is carried out.
The new CBO prediction is $6 bil
lion below the White House estimate
but $12 billion above the record set
last year.
CBO director Rudolph G. Penner
said part of the problem was that the
anticipated rebound in the economy
was occurring later than expected.
“We thought we saw the light at
the end of the tunnel,” he said. “Un
fortunately, the tunnel moved on
us.”
The Reagan administration on
Wednesday issued its prediction that
the 1986 deficit would balloon to
$230 billion, up $27 billion from its
earlier projection. But its economic
estimates for next year were more
optimistic than CBO’s. The CBO
said the budget Congress passed in
June to meet the deficit target would
now yield $161 billion in red ink.
Letting current spending and tax
policies continue would push the
deficit $40 billion over target, to
$ 184 billion, the CBO said.
Jury finds tobacco heir guilty
in murder of mother, brother
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A to
bacco heir was found guilty Thurs
day of setting pipe bombs that killed
his mother and adopted brother and
wounded his sister in a bid to gain
control of a $10 million family for
tune.
The jury returned after U/a days
of deliberation in the month-long
trial and found Steven Wayne Ben
son, 35, guilty of all nine counts: two
counts of first-degree murder, two
counts of felony murder, one count
of attempted murder and four
counts of arson.
Benson, 35, will receive either the
electric chair or life in prison with a
minimum of 25 years before parole.
Benson was convicted of killing
his mother, Lancaster Leaf Tobacco
Co. heiress Margaret Benson, 63,
and her adopted son, Scott Benson,
a 21-year-old aspiring tennis pro.
Donahue TV series sidelines religion
NEW YORK (AP) — Questions
posed on the program — “Who are
we?” “Why do we act this way?”
Why do we love?” “Why are we so
;violent?” “Can we change?” — are
typical religious queries about hu
manity.
But a five-part NBC-TV series
that explores these puzzling aspects
of human nature mostly sidelines
the religious impulse of the human
species.
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Phil Donahue, planner and com
mentator for the series, “The Hu
man Animal,” based largely on his
best-selling book of that name, said
the programs “probably would have
benefited” from insights from reli
gious scholars.
But none was among the nearly
50 behavioral and other scientific
consultants used in the wide-ranging
inquiry into the human condition,
scheduled nightly for Aug. 11-15.
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Donahue says that even so, the schol
ars participating enhanced “my own
sense of the divine.”
“For millions of Americans, faith
is a central part of their lives and
should be reflected in popular cul
ture more than it is,” Donahue said.
Donahue, a Roman Catholic, said
in an interview that his 20 years of
tackling social issues in front of a
participatory studio audience had
helped shape the series.
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the entertainment media for pre
senting a shallow, distorted image of
American life that can have harmful
effects.
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and a rock-song appeal to “give me
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