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Volf 82 No. 132 (ASPS 045360 12 pages College Station, Texas Thrusday, April 9, 1987
Officials widen
embassy probe
after 3rd arrest
WASHINGTON (AP) - A third
Marine who worked as a security
guard in Moscow and Leningrad
and in the U.S. Embassy in Rome
has been arrested on suspicion of es
pionage, causing American officials
to broaden their investigations into
security breaches in American diplo
matic missions.
Sgt. John Joseph Weirick, 26, of
Kremlin calls
bug charges
fabrications
MOSCOW (AP) — Charges that the
KGB has bugged the new American
Embassy are “dirty fabrications” in
tended to ruin next week’s visit by
secretary of State George P. Schultz
ind poison U.S.-Soviet relations, the
Kremlin said Wednesday.
Vladimir F. Petrovsky, a deputy
foreign minister, also accused Presi
dent Reagan of making “hostile re
marks” about the Soviet Union dur
ing a White House news conference
Tuesday, but he did not say which
remarks he meant.
“Such lowly tricks are used when
ever serious things are in the of
fing,” Petrovsky said at a news brief
ing.
Reagan told reporters he had or
dered his intelligence review board
to determine whether the uncom
pleted new embassy was so compro
mised by Soviet listening devices that
it must be torn down and rebuilt.
Schultz is due here Monday.
His three days of talks with for
eign Minister Eduard A. Shevard
nadze and other Soviet officials are
expected to focus on a possible
agreement to scrap medium-range
missiles deployed in Europe.
His visit also could set the stage
for another summit between Reagan
and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorba
chev, whose second meeting took
place last October in Reykjavik, Ice
land.
Petrovsky told the briefing: “It is
an open secret the objective prereq
uisites are taking shape for headway
in resolving the issues which deter
mine Soviet-American relations and
for reaching accords in the key area
of security.
“It appears that some people in
Washington are displeased with such
a prospect, so they are working up
psychosis in a bid to poison the at
mosphere in which Soviet-American
talks are to be held.”
He said Kremlin officials will hold
a news conference today to reveal
See Kremlin, page 12
Eureka, Calif., was arrested Tuesday
night and held in the brig at Camp
Pendleton, Calif., said Robert Sims,
chief Defense Department spokes
man. He is suspected of espionage
while working as a security guard at
the American consulate in Lenin
grad in 1981 and 1982, Sims said.
Sims declined to elaborate on the
specific nature of the allegations
concerning Weirick beyond saying
the Marine had become involved
with Soviet women while posted in
Leningrad.
But other Pentagon officials,
speaking anonymously, said military
investigators now believe that Wei
rick “got some money from the Rus
sians” and “may have allowed access
to the consulate; more limited than
Lonetree, but access.”
The arrest of Sgt. Clayton J. Lo
netree in December triggered the
current military investigation, which
so far has led to three other arrests.
Lonetree and Cpl. Arnold Bracy,
who worked together as Moscow em
bassy guards in 1985 and 1986, have
been charged with espionage.
Staff Sgt. Robert S. Stuffiebeam
was charged Wednesday with three
counts of improperly fraternizing
with Soviet women. He has not been
accused of espionage, but was ar
rested as a result of the Lonetree
probe.
Pentagon sources have said Lone
tree and Bracy allegedly became in
volved sexually with Soviet women
while working in Moscow. The
women then introduced the two
guards to Soviet agents, the sources
said.
The Marine Corps has accused
Lonetree and Bracy of allowing So
viet agents to enter the U.S. Embassy
on numerous occasions and escort
ing them through high-security of
fices and communications facilities.
One source said Wednesday that
Weirick’s arrest indicated that the
spy scandal that has rocked the Mos
cow security force over the past four
months might really be symptomatic
of a much deeper breakdown in em
bassy security around the world.
Sims said Weirick worked briefly
at the Moscow embassy before being
posted in Leningrad and later as a
guard at the embassy in Rome. As a
result of his arrest, the security of
the Leningrad and Rome facilities is
under investigation, he said.
The Marine Corps said Weirick
also had worked at the U.S. Embassy
in Geneva, Switzerland, before he
went to Moscow. But the sources
said they knew of no investigation
being directed at the Geneva facility.
Sims said Weirick was arrested
Tuesday night at the Marine Air Sta
tion in Tustin, Calif, where he was
working as a helicopter mechanic.
Coalition pledges
to acquire taxes
for school rooms
AUSTIN (AP) — A coalition of
43 groups worried about the fu
ture of Texas’ public education
said Wednesday it would work
for any kind of taxes, even in
come taxes, to keep school rooms
open.
“We must make sure that pub
lic educaton funding has enough
revenue to maintain the commit-
“As members of the
symposium we are will
ing to support taxes.
Any kind of taxes are
acceptable to us . .
— Will Davis, Sympo
sium chairman
ments made by the Legislature to
school reform, and to cover costs
associated with enrollment
growth,” said Will Davis, chair
man of the School Finance Sym
posium.
The organization is staging a
“Save Our Schools” drive April
17-27 when local school boards,
teachers and parents will try to
impress upon their legislators
that public education is in a crisis.
“We have concentrated on
three severe consequences (if
schools are not property
funded),” Davis told a news con
ference.“The first area is job loss;
the second area, program loss
and the third is the actual closing
of schools.”
Davis said the 17 percent cut
proposed for public education by
some could mean the elimination
of one out of every four jobs,
about 60,000, in school district
personnel.
Reducing programs could
mean districts would be forced to-
delete essential services such as
kindergarten, bilingual educa
tion, special education, vocational
education, and programs for the
disadvantaged or gifted.
“If a district did not want to lay
off employees or curtail these
programs, it would have the alter
native to ignore the required
school year and just close the
school early," Davis said.
Davis said recent reports show
Texas is 34th among the states in
its per capita tax burden.
“As members of the sympo
sium we are willing to support
taxes,” he said. “Any kind of taxes
are acceptable to us, including the
income tax.”
Come And Get It!
Photo by Doug La Rue
Erik Dietz, a freshman mechanical engineering major, and Andy Wil- dinner crowds at Sbisa Dining Hall as they take a flying leap from the
liams, a freshman general studies major, try to get a head start on the steps of a Hart Hall ramp early Wednesday evening.
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Shultz to seek monitoring agreement
with Soviets during talks in Moscow
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State
George P. Shultz, acting on a new Soviet over
ture, will seek agreement in his Moscow talks
next week on tighter monitoring of under
ground nuclear blasts.
Tfye purpose is to set the stage for a new U.S.-
Soviet treaty to limit the only kind of tests the su
perpowers have been permitted to carry out
since 1963, U. S. arms control director Kenneth
L. Adelman said Wednesday.
A policy shift by the Soviets opened the door
to Shultz’s overture in his scheduled meetings
with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze.
“It shows that on nuclear testing the Soviets
may be buying on to our agenda,” Adelman said
in an interview.
In the shift, the Soviets offered to postpone
their demand for a ban on all underground tests
and to concentrate first on setting new limits on
the number of tests or the explosive force.
Treaties concluded in 1974 and 1976 imposed
a ceiling of 150 kilotons on U.S. and Soviet un-
dergound blasts. President Reagan, in reports to
Congress, has accused the Soviets of exceeding
the ceiling and venting radioactive material into
the atmosphere.
All other tests — underwater, in the atmo
sphere, and in outer space — were banned in
1963.
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who
sought to induce Reagan to join in a total ban,
was turned down and thus ordered tests resumed
after a 19-month suspension. The third Soviet
explosion was reported last Friday.
The United States, meanwhile, has continued
to set off nuclear devices underground in Ne
vada. One aim is to test weapons that might be
part of a “Star Wars” system to shoot down Soviet
missiles.
Adelman said the Soviets informed the United
States that they no longer were insisting on an
immediate and total ban at the meeting in Ge
neva last month between specialists from the two
superpowers.
“We do welcome that,” said Adelman, director
of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
But, he said, the United States wants to “put
first things first” and would concentrate on get
ting better verification of the tests that are con
ducted.
Referring to Shultz’s talks- with Shevardnadze
and possibly Gorbachev in Moscow next Monday
through Wednesday, Adelman said, “They could
agree in Moscow.”
The United States and the Soviets already had
agreed that the first step toward new limitations
should be Senate ratification of the 1974 and
1976 treaties that set the 150-kiloton level for
both military and civilian blasts.
FBI chief Webster says he forgot
memo speculating about North
October note expressed suspicion before story broke
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Jus
tice Department official expressed
suspicions as early as last October —
nearly a month before public disclo
sure of the Iran-Contra affair — that
Lt. Col. Oliver North eventually
could come under criminal investi
gation, FBI Director William
Webster told Congress Wednesday.
Webster acknowledged reading
an Oct. 30 FBI memo which out
lined speculation by the Justice De
partment official concerning the ac
tivities of North, who later was fired
from his post as a National Security
Council aide at the White House.
But Webster said he had forgot
ten about the memo by Nov. 21,
when Attorney General Edwin
Meese III, declining Webster’s offer
of FBI help, undertook an informal
inquiry into secret U.S. arms sales to
Iran.
By the time the Meese probe
turned into a formal criminal inves
tigation on Nov. 26, documents cru
cial to the inquiry already had been
destroyed or altered, according to
government investigators.
Webster made his comments at a
Senate Intelligence Committee hear
ing on his nomination to be head of
the Central Intelligence Agency.
During Wednesday’s testimony,
Webster pledged to keep Congress
informed of CIA covert activities.
He said holding back on matters
such as the Iran arms deal — as the
Reagan administration had — vio
lates the spirit of a law on the sub
ject, and he said he would resign
rather than go along with such a sit
uation as CIA director.
He also said he would not be a
member of the president’s Cabinet,
unlike former CIA Director William
Casey, on grounds that the agency
should be a gatherer of intelligence
rather than an advocate for any par
ticular policy.
As for the Meese investigation,
senators asked Webster if, in retro
spect, it would have been better if
the attorney general had called the
FBI in the first place.
Webster said that he had thought
at the time there might be criminal
activity involved, he “absolutely”
would have gotten the FBI involved.
However, he asked, “Could the
FBI agents have done a better job of
conducting such an inquiry or
looking for materials? I’m not sure
I’m in a position to answer that.”
At the White House, spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater said he didn’t think
President Reagan had looked into all
the legal actions that Meese had or
might have taken during the period
from Nov. 21-25, but he said Reagan
believes that Meese “did the right
thing and was very helpful . . . that
Ed Meese did an excellent job.”
The memo, which is in the posses
sion of the special counsel investigat
ing the Iran-Contra affair, was dis
closed by the Senate committee as it
opened Wednesday’s hearing.
The memo was written after dis
cussions between a Justice Depart
ment official and the FBI, and
Webster said his initials on the paper
show that he read it. It outlines de
partment concerns that certain un
related information not be routed to
North because of “speculation” that
he might come under criminal inves
tigation by a special prosecutor, Bo
ren said.
The department official was not
named during the hearing, but
sources close to the matter, com
menting on condition they not be
named, said the memo was based on
conversations with Mary Lawton,
head of the Office of Intelligence
Policy and review at the Justice De
partment.
Such a memo potentially could
have alerted the FBI to the possibil
ity that criminal activity might be oc
curring with regard to the Contras,
but Webster said he “really did not
have that in mind” when he talked
with Meese.
“I didn’t remember that piece of
paper, or have it in my mind,” re
sponded Webster. Pressed on the
matter later, he said the memo was
only “speculative comment" and was
“not taken seriously by anyone else
who was actually working the investi
gation.”
Webster said that while the memo
did not alarm him, some in the ad
ministration had concerns about
what they felt was North’s “gung-ho”
personality and lack of judgment.
Meanwhile, Meese’s chief spokes
man, Terry Eastland, said Wednes
day that the attorney general had
known nothing of the memo.
“There was no reason for him to
know,” he said. “This was handled
through the normal channels in the
appropriate way.”
Meese conducted his inquiry the
weekend of Nov. 21 with the help of
a few top political aides rather than
with career Justice Department
criminal attorneys. The interviews
were not under oath and no formal
transcript was made.
Because of troubles with the
AP wire hookup, few breaking
state and national stories appear
in today’s issue of The Battalion.
The stories on the front page
were provided by the Bryan-Cof-
lege Station Eagle. The Battalion
regrets any inconvenience.