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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. of
ficials were fully aware as long ago as
1979 that the Soviet KGB was bug
ging the Moscow Embassy during its
construction, but believed they had a
strategy for finding the spy devices,
a top State Department official said
Wednesday.
“I think the supervisory people
knew that the embassy was being
bugged,” said Robert E. Lamb, assis
tant secretary for diplomatic secu
rity. “They contributed information
to us about the bugs that were com
ing in.”
Lamb told a hearing of a House
Foreign Affairs subcommittee that
U.S. personnel were placed on the
embassy site to intercept listening
devices. “We had a strategy for find
ing it,” he said.
“Where this strategy was weak was
in the sense that the Soviets used
parts of the structure itself as the
bugging. These are the kinds of
things that are going to be difficult
for us to neutralize.”
Investigators have said large com
ponents of the building were fab
ricated away from the construction
site by a Soviet contractor and away
from the eyes of U.S. inspectors.
Those problems cannot now be
remedied without fundamentally
damaging the building’s soundness,
said Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., a
member of the committee.
“We’ve continued to underesti
mate the Soviets’ advances in intelli
gence-collecting technology,” Be
reuter, who has a background in
military counterintelligence, said in
an interview.
“We should have understood that
they had the capabilities to employ
advances in tecnnology which are
more complex than simply inserting
bugs in the construction features of
the embassy,” he said. "It is not a
matter of us going over the embassy
with a fine-toothed comb. . . . We
have a greater problem. It is a fun
damental structural concern.”
Bereuter said rather than tear
down the eight-story brick office
building, which has cost $23 million
so far to build an unfinished shell,
the State Department should con
sider building a separate
where all classified businessei
co nd ucted u nder completes#
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Air raids, guerrilla attacksni|
raise death toll in Sri Lank
hurs
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) —
Government planes bombed Tamil
rebels and the guerrillas attacked
soldiers Wednesday, adding more
than 100 dead to a toll that has
reached nearly 400 in six days of
civil war.
The attacks by both sides came a
day after a car bomb tore Colombo’s
main bus station apart, killing at
least 106 people and wounding 295.
The government said 80 Tamil
rebels were killed in an air raid. A
military source reported at least 36
soldiers and police slain in guerrilla
raids and said eight rebels were
killed.
Government and military figures
put the death toll since Friday at 374
on this island off the tip of India,
where Tamil extremists have fought
the Sinhalese majority for a separate
nation since 1983.
Tamil terrorists stopped vehicles
in eastern Sri Lanka last Friday,
been killed in the air raid and shel
ling Wednesday on the Tamil-domi
nated Jaffna Peninsula in the north.
The government said civilians
probably were included in the Jaffna
casualties, which it estimated at 80
dead and 80 wounded.
It warned residents of the area to
stay away from obvious targets of
military action.
Tilak Ratnakara, head of the gov
ernment’s Media Center, said: “We
will continue to strike at ie
H<-ts until the civilian bt
stopped and peace negc
sume."
1 he government said it
lory air strike wasainiedti
of the Liberation Tigent
Eelam and the Eelam Reis
Organization of Studetfie :
blamed for the busstais**
Both issued denialsfromi 1
headquarters in southern!:.
Fetal lead exposure
affects mental grow
pulled passengers out and opened
fire, killing 127 people, most of
them Sinhalese.
On Monday, Tamil guerrillas
killed 15 Sinhalese at a village in the
same region.
Friday’s attack abruptly ended a
government cease-fire aimed at re
newing peace talks in the conflict,
which has cost more than 5,500 lives
since Tamils began fighting for an
independent state in northern and
eastern Sri Lanka.
Unofficial sources said the num
ber of deaths since Friday could sur
pass 500 when final tolls from the
bus terminal bombing and air raid
are known.
A Health Ministry official, speak
ing on condition of anonymity, said
the count from the car bomb might
reach 200. Tamil sources said an
equal number of people may have
BOSTON (AP) — Exposure to
very low levels of lead before birth
appears to slow children’s mental de
velopment during their first years of
life, a study concludes.
The study found that youngsters
advanced more slowly than ex|>ected
if they had prenatal exposure to lev
els of lead that are thought to lx? safe
for children. This could mean that
fetuses are more sensitive than ba
bies to the toxic effects of lead.
“I think it should be regarded as
an indication that something is going
on that may be quite worrisome,
said Dr. David Bellinger, who di
rected the study at Children’s Hospi
tal in Boston.
Even though the children’s men
tal growth was slower than expected
by age 2, they were not considered
retarded in any way. The study will
continue to see if the prenatal lead
exposure is linked to poor mental
performance later in life.
“If we see these effects in pre
schoolers and school-age kids, then
we do probably have quite a signifi-
(.mi •health problem,ami'i p
eliminate all sources of:
sure, particularly (on
women,” said Dr. Kimfa
is conducting similar r«
University of Cincinnati
Earlier studies found ti
dren with high bloodcooctf I
of lead have developn
lems. But the effect (
amounts is controversial.
The U.S. Centen
(lontrol considers lead krai
unacceptable for children if i|
higher than 25 micrograra
dec iliter of blood. A iffij
one-millionth ofagramafcl
a tenth of a liter, whidtifl
pints.
In tlfe Boston study,horl
scare hers found that mdl
opment is slowed if fetuseikl
levels above 10 micrograc||
liter of blood.
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