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more Marine guards recalled
for questioning in spy scandal
| WASHINGTON (AP) — The investigation of
espionage scandal (hat has rocked the Marine
vrps’ elite embassy guard force broadened
Tuesday with the announcement that four
ards formerly stationed in communist-bloc
untries were being recalled from Austria for
Questioning.
K Robert Sims, chief Pentagon spokesman, said
,the Marines, now assigned to the U.S. Embassy in
Vienna, were suspected of possible improper
fraternization with foreign citizens while posted
| other embassies in Warsaw Pact nations.
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A fifth Marine is being replaced for unrelated
Jolations of “local security regulations” in
Vienna, Sims said, and a sixth was recalled to ap-
parasa witness at a pretrial hearing Wednesday
irSgt. Clayton J. Lonetree, the guard whose ar-
st touched off the current investigation.
Sims also said the Marine Corps has tightened
j screening procedures for new guard recruits,
nd he confirmed that an internal Pentagon
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study had recommended changes in the supervi
sion of embassy guards.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger,
meantime, said the Pentagon might consider as
signing more married Marines, accompanied by
their wives, to guard duty instead of relying on
young, single servicemen.
Sims told a news briefing he could not release
the identities of the Marines who had been re
called nor disclose at which embassies the men
had served before Vienna. He stressed that none
had been formally charged with wrongdoing.
Lonetree, who has been charged with espio
nage, was arrested in December at the Vienna
embassy. He had transferred to the Austrian cap
ital last fall after working in 1985 and 1986 as a
guard at the Moscow embassy.
The Marine Corps has formally accused Lone
tree and a second former guard, Cpl. Arnold
Bracy, of allowing Soviet agents inside the Mos
cow embassy on numerous late-night spying for
ays last year.
Lonetree also has been accused of breaching
security at the Vienna facility by providing floor
plans and office assignments for the building.
Sims declined to say whether any of the four
Marines returning for questioning might have
served with Lonetree in Moscow, although he ac
knowledged they had been targeted as an out
growth of the Lonetree investigation. He said his
information indicated only that they had worked
in Warsaw Pact countries.
Pentagon sources have said Lonetree and
Bracy became involved sexually with Soviet
women in Moscow, who in turn introduced them
to Soviet agents. A third Moscow guard has been
charged with improper fraternization with Soviet
women but is not facing any espionage charges.
The Marine Corps has also arrested a fourth
man, Sgt. John J. Weirick, on suspicion of espio
nage while he worked at the U.S. consulate in the
Soviet city of Leningrad in 1981 and 1982. Wei
rick is also suspected of having become involved
with Soviet women.
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CBS contract
NEW YORK (AP) — The ne-
ptiating committee of the Writ
ers Guild of America announced
Tuesday that it was recommend
ing approval of a CBS contract
proposal to end a G'/z-week strike
Igainst the network.
"We are pleased that the nego-
ating committee has recom-
[nended acceptance of the pack-
” said CBS spokesman
Jeorge Schweitzer. “We look for
ward to its ratification by the
bembership and their return to
vork.”
Terms of the proposed set-
pementwere not revealed.
About 525 writers, editors and
raphic artists went on strike
gainst ABC and CBS on March 2
in a dispute over job security is-
ues, not wages.
Talks are continuing with
BC, said guild spokesman Mar
in Waldman.
If the CBS contract proposal is
Ipproved by the membership,
employees could return to
ork.
The guild announced Monday
at CBS had put forth a compre-
Siensive settlement offer, and
aldman called it “the first on-
he-record, complete proposal
hat the company has made since
Ihe beginning of the strike.”
Schweitzer said Monday the of-
jfer “reflects the needs and inter-
|ests of the company and we are
hopeful the guild and its mem-
ership will find it a fair and
workable formula for the future.”
The 50-page document was
utlined to the guild’s full nego-
iating committee at a daylong
eeting.
ABC spokesman Tom Mackin
eclined to comment, saying only
hat ABC was meeting with the
uild Tuesday.
Kremlin leader offers to axe
missiles in new agreement
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail S.
Gorbachev offered Tuesday to elim
inate short-range nuclear missiles
now in East Germany and Czecho
slovakia as part of an arms-control
agreement with the United States.
The proposal, reported by the So
viet news agency Tass, could remove
a major roadblock to a treaty ridding
Europe of medium-range rockets.
Gorbachev “expressed the read
iness to record an agreement on me
dium-range missiles (including) the
Soviet Union’s obligation to elimi
nate its shorter-range missiles within
a relatively short and clearly defined
time frame,” Tass said.
But the Tass account said Secre
tary of State George P. Shultz, who
met with Gorbachev and other So
viet officials for more than 10 hours,
insisted on a U.S. right to match the
shorter-range missiles, which have a
350- to 600-mile range, that would
still remain in the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev’s proposal seemed to
go beyond his previous offer to ne
gotiate the withdrawal — but not the
dismantling — of the SS-12 and SS-
23 rockets now in the two East Euro
pean countries.
Tass also said Gorbachev was pre
pared to eliminate battlefield tactical
missiles. The two sides have thou
sands of such weapons, which have a
range of up to 350 miles.
“We go further than this was
stated in Prague,” Tass said, refer
ring to the speech Gorbachev made
Friday in the Czechoslovak capital.
Tass also said Gorbachev insisted
that U.S. anti-missile or “Star Wars”
research be restricted to laboratories
and that the two sides draw up a list
of the devices that would not be al
lowed to be tested in space in the
course of this research.
In Santa Barbara, deputy White
House press secretary Dan Howard
said: “I can say that the ideas pre-
Finished with taxes? Group says
‘tax freedom’ won’t be until May 4
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just
when you had finished your 1986 re
turn and thought it was safe to for
get about taxes for awhile, the Tax
Foundation predicted Tuesday that
the typical American will have to
work another 19 days to pay up for
1987.
Tax Freedom Day 1987 is May 4
— two days later than last year.
Economists at the non-partisan re
search organization calculate that if
every cent a worker earned during
the first part of the year were ear
marked for federal, state and local
taxes, he or she would have to toil
for the tax collectors through May 3.
Viewed another way, an average
person will have to work two hours
and 43 minutes of each eight-hour
day to pay taxes.
“This year, the American tax
payer has returned to the same point
he was at prior to passage” of the
1981 federal tax cut, the foundation
said. Those across-the-board reduc
tions were wiped out by subsequent
federal tax increases and a growing
tax burden at the state and local lev
els, the analysis said.
The news came a day before the
deadline for filing federal tax re
turns — a chore that perhaps 10 mil
lion Americans were putting off un
til the last hours. Returns must be
postmarked by midnight today.
As the deadline approached, fi
nancial institutions were doing a
booming business in Individual Re
tirement Accounts, whicli — after
these returns — will no longer be
universally deductible. Professional
returns preparers had all the busi
ness they could handle and Internal
Revenue Service offices were
swamped with last-minute pleas for
advice.
The IRS expects 6.5 million cou
ples and individuals to avoid the fil
ing deadline by mailing a Form
4868, which will bring a four-month
extension. But that form must be ac
companied by a check for any esti
mated tax due.
•octor: Parkinson’s surgery needs more study
[NEW YORK (AP) — Brain sur-
Jry developed in Mexico to treat
trkinson’s disease is a dramatic ad
vance that could lead to new treat
ments for strokes and Alzheimer’s
Bsease, but it requires more study
:ause two of the 1 1 patients who
Iceived it have died, a U.S. doctor
Sid Tuesday.
■ Abraham Lieberman, chairman
of the medical advisory board of the
■merican Parkinson Disease Asso-
; ciation and professor of neurology
at New York University, went to
j|exico last week to examine the pa-
ents and said he was enormously
ficou raged.
"I think I witnessed history,” he
said at a news conference in his of
fice. “I think this is the approach
you’re going to take to Alzheimer’s,
to spinal cord injuries and to
strokes.”
He predicted that doctors in the
United States would rush to adopt
the procedure, in which nerve-like
cells from one of the patient’s own
adrenal glands, located above the
kidneys, are transplanted into the
brain to replace degenerating brain
cells.
Less than three weeks have passed
since the first report of the surgery
appeared in the New England Jour
nal of Medicine, and George Allen at
Vanderbilt University Medical Cen
ter in Nashville has already per
formed the operation on one patient
there. The patient is in satisfactory
condition, and no improvements in
her Parkinson’s disease have been
reported yet.
New York University is preparing
to do its first transplant in May, and
other hospitals will likely follow suit,
Lieberman said.
He warned, however, that hasty
adoption of the procedure could be
dangerous.
“My fear is that there will be a
number of deaths and the govern
ment or the states will come in and
say ‘What is going on here?’ ”
Lieberman said one Mexican pa
tient died from brain seizures 45
days after surgery, possibly as a con
sequence of the surgery. But a mem
ber of the Mexican transplant team,
led by Dr. Ignacio Madrazo, said the
death was not caused by the surgery.
The patient had a stroke at a site
in the brain distant from the area of
the transplant, said Dr. Rene
Drucker-Colin of the National Au
tonomous University of Mexico in
Mexico City. The seizures were a
consequence of the stroke, he said.
The second patient died in Cali
fornia, three months after surgery,
of a heart attack, according to au
topsy results that the Mexican doc
tors have just obtained, he said.
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sented in Tass are interesting, and
we would take them seriously if
true.” He said any such proposal
must be discussed with NATO allies.
A White House official, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said
Tuesday afternoon that Shultz had
spoken by telephone with President
Reagan’s national security adviser,
Frank Carlucci. He would not com
ment further.
Shultz, in a 4'/2-hour meeting with
Gorbachev, delivered a new invita
tion from Reagan to go to Washing
ton for a superpower summit meet
ing this year.
But the Soviet leader told report
ers that “generally, without reason, I
do not go anywhere, particularly
America.”
Shultz met Gorbachev, along with
their senior advisers, in Catherine’s
Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace on
the heels of a bitter public exchange
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