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World and Nation
Court-martial decision avoided
for Marine in Soviet spy scandal
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pre-
Irial hearing for a Marine embassy
guard accused of espionage recessed
(Wednesday without any decision on
whether he should be bound over
lor court-martial.
J Lt. Col. John Shotwell, a Marine
■iorps spokesman, said the pre-trial
Jiearirig for Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree
lecessed at about 3:30 p.m. CDT.
lie said proceedings would likely be
lompleted Thursday morning “be
cause they only have one or two wit
nesses left.”
Lonetree, 25, is a former guard at
he U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He has
en accused of becoming involved
tmantically with a Soviet woman
hile working in Moscow and then
llowing Soviet agents to f requently
bam the embassy late at night last
ear.
Lonetree and his defense attor-
ieys went behind closed doors at 9
a m. Wednesday to hear prosecuting
aitorneys present witnesses and
other evidence in a bid to justify the
start of a court-martial.
During a break in the proceed
ings, one of Lonetree’s defense at
torneys told reporters his client had
not denied having a relationship
with a Soviet woman who worked at
the embassy, Violetta Seina.
But Michael V. Stuhff, the attor
ney, added he was prepared to pre
sent evidence that such fraterniza
tion was “a very common, accepted
practice.”
“Among the things which will be
introduced in evidence, we’ll have
photographs from the Marine Ball
in November of 1985 showing the
NCO (non-commissioned officer) in
charge with two Soviet women, one
under each arm on a sofa, one of
them being a KGB colonel, as well as
a State Department official with an
other Soviet woman,” Stuhff said.
Lonetree “has been grievously
and dangerously chastized, den
igrated for engaging in something
that he quite f rankly was encouraged
to do,” the attorney said.
“We’re very confident that if we
have an opportunity to present the
facts fairly, it will be clear to every
body, to the American people, to the
public, to the media, to the Marine
Corps, that Sgt. Lonetree is a patri
otic, young Marine,” Stuhff said.
William Kunstler, another Lone
tree attorney, said the defense had
offered two legal motions on
Wednesday, both of which were
denied by the hearing officer. The
first was a motion to open the pre
trial proceedings to the press and
public. The second was a bid to ob
tain Lonetree’s release from the brig
on grounds he had been unconstitu
tionally held for more than 90 days
without starting a trial, Kunstler
said.
The hearing was held at the
Quantico Marine Base in Virginia,
just south of Washington, where Lo
netree has been held behind bars
since the end of December. The Ma
rine Corps imposed a news blackout
on the proceedings.
Lonetree’s arrest sparked an in
vestigation that has unraveled a ma
jor sex-and-spy scandal. Two other
Marines have been charged with es
pionage as a result of the probe and
another has been charged with im
proper fraternization with Soviet
women.
In a related development, the
New York Times reported Wednes
day the Marine Corps was having
trouble gathering evidence to pros
ecute Lonetree and an alleged ac
complice, Cpl. Arnold Bracy. The
paper said much of the case against
the two men was based on conflict
ing statements given by the two.
Officials who weren’t identified in
the story were cited as saying the
Reagan administration was now di
vided over whether to grant immu
nity from prosecution to Bracy to
improve the case against Lonetree.
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KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Rob-
rt Gray told his mother he
ouldn’t bear a long stretch in
^^^^irison, but she’s as puzzled as
lt0 FM anyone about why he brought a
asdetol bomb into the county courthouse
tnd killed himself in the blast.
Fifteen other people, including
he sheriff and Gray’s defense at
torney, were injured Tuesday.
t"the [b Hours earlier, a judge had sum-
toned attorneys to discuss re-
orts that Gray had threatened
filicide.
His mother, Betty McKinley, of
larion, said, “1 don’t have an
Idea about what went through my
ion’s head.”
Gray, 42, was on trial on two
ounts of selling LSD, and faced a
laximum prison term of 10Q
ears on each count if convicted.
i\n autopsy on his body was being
onducted Wednesday.
Police said they had not deter-
e( j f nined where Gray obtained the
xplosives.
McKinley received a letter
from her son on the day of the
ilast which said in part: “I love
ou. . . . I’m sorry but I couldn’t
the rest of my life in prison.
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nt intended to detonate the
)omb in the Howard County
ourtroom, but changed plans
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Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman
innocent of protest charge
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) —
A jury found Amy Carter, Abbie
Hoffman and 13 other protesters in
nocent Wednesday of charges stem
ming from a demonstration last fall
against CIA recruiters at the Univer
sity of Massachusetts.
The six-member jury announced
the verdict to a courtroom packed
with 130 spectators about three
hours after it began deliberations.
Hampshire County District Court
Judge Richard Connon cleared the
chamber after the reading of the
first verdict was greeted with thun
derous applause.
“The people of Northampton, a
jury of six in Northampton, have
found the CIA guilty of a larger
crime than trespassing and disor
derly conduct and decided we had a
legitimate right to protest that,” the
daughter of former President
Jimmy Carter said as she left the
courthouse.
“I don’t know what is in the fu
ture, but I am sure I am going to be
involved in this sort of thing for the
rest of my life,” she added.
She called her family from the de
fendants’ headquarters, where jubi
lant supporters and defendants
doused each other with champagne.
She said her father, who had been
following the trial in the Atlanta
newspapers, was “really excited.”
Carter, who was appearing at
Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga.,
said later that he was a “very proud
father tonight.”
“Amy is a very shy girl, contrary to
the image you see projected in the
news media,” he said. “But she be
lieves very strongly in what she’s
doing.
“She has been, reluctantly I would
say, involved in issues of importance
to her. Amy’s been arrested four
times, three times for protesting
apartheid and this last time for what
she considers, and I consider, illegal
activity of the CIA in Nicaragua.
“I’m very proud of Amy, and
eager for her to get back in the class
room and make up for lost time.”
After the verdict was announced,
Hoffman said, “It feels very good,
very good. I am proud of what we
did. It’s good for the country. It’s
good for democracy.”
Shultz soys agreement
on missile bon possible
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Sec
retary of State George P. Shultz ex
pressed optimism in Moscow non
Wednesday about reaching an
accord on eliminating medium-
range nuclear missiles from Europe
and flew to Brussels to consult with
NATO allies.
“We will consult and, I am sure,
come to a good conclusion,” Shultz
said before leaving Moscow, where
he held three days of meetings with
Soviet officials, including Kremlin
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who
made new arms proposals.
A senior official in the Shultz del
egation told reporters here at a mid
night briefing, “We are very close to
a deal. It all depends on how the dis
cussions come out tomorrow (Thurs
day) and afterward.” The official
spoke on condition of anonymity.
In Moscow, Shultz said Soviet For
eign Minister Eduard A. Shevard
nadze told him the Soviets would
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Idle steel plant draws politicians, promises
I HOMESTEAD, Pa. (AP) — The Rainbow
Kitchen, a Depression-style eatery for the jobless,
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J But when Gary Hart took a turn Wednesday
(erving up compassion for down-and-out steel
workers, he encountered skepticism from people
who have heard promises again and again.
B “Since 1980, there have been three presi-
ctential candidates through Homestead and doz
ens of congressional candidates,” said Michael
Stoudt, a grievance officer at United Steelwork-
ildreipWs Local 1397, who confronted the Democratic
corp n ' i: |presidential candidate outside the gate of the
j shuttered U.S. Steel Homestead Works.
“We’re just as unemployed,” Stoudt said.
jfVe’re just as broke. We’re just as bankrupt. Are
fm going to do anything?”
■ Hart, standing in the rain on a plywood plank
supported by concrete blocks, said, “I’m not
ig>ing to make promises like everybody else. If I
get elected in 1988, you’re going to see the steel
mills of this country come back up.”
Joseph Michel, 75, of nearby West Mifflin,
wasn’t buying it.
“He can’t do it,” Michel said. “The mills are
never coming back. It’s just a political strategy to
get the people interested. It’s not going to hap
pen. It can’t happen. It’s impossible.”
The soup kitchen and cadaver of the steel mill
stand in stark contrast to the glory days when the
Mononagela Valley was the heart of the U.S. steel
industry.
Terry Chalich, a pyschiatric nurse at the Vet
erans Administration Hospital and president of
the kitchen, said, “It’s an attractive backdrop po
litically.”
“The people don’t see any concrete change,”
she said. “There’s no big job creation, no major
industry has come here, no concrete solutions.
People feel like the Mon Valley is being forgot
ten.
Robert Anderson, 42, a laid-off steelworker
and founder of the kitchen, argued that Hart’s
visit had its value.
“He’s sort of using us, but we feel we’re using
him,” Anderson said. “We want to keep the issues
out in the open. The whole point is to try to get
help for people. Things just continue to get
worse around here.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a 1984 presidential
candidate, has handed out food at the kitchen
that took its name from his Rainbow Coalition.
Former U.S. Rep. Robert Edgar, beaten in a
U.S. Senate bid last year, washed dishes and
served plates last year. And Walter Mondale rep
resented Jimmy Carter’s 1980 re-election cam
paign with a stop in Homestead.
The soup kitchen opened in 1984 to feed the
jobless. A hot lunch is provided for 75 to 150
people a day, five days a week. About 1,000 fami
lies a week get bags of groceries from the kitch
en’s pantry.
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siles in the Soviet Union within a
year, apparently meaning, within a
year after Senate ratification of a
proposed treaty to rid Europe of
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