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Officials: Guards in embassy knew safe combinations WASHINGTON (AP) — Marine guards at the U.S. Embassy in Mos cow were provided with combina tions for all secure rooms and safes, making the penetration of sensitive areas much easier for KGB agents alleged to have prowled the building at night, intelligence sources said Thursday. Rooms in which CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency operatives worked, as well as the communica tions vault, were closed at night by steel dopes with combination locks, said one intelligence source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. A State Department source also said that until 1983, a code expert was stationed in the communications vault 2T hours a day, but that after that, no one was assigned to the room between midnight and 6 a.m., another development which would make it easier for the KGB to pen etrate the area. Congressional and administration investigations continued into the al leged penetration of the old em bassy. the hugging of a new U.S. of fice building being erected nearby, and the American decision to allow the Soviets to construct an embassy complex on a hill in Washington. Among the developments: • A pre-trial hearing was held at the Marine base in Quantico, Va., for one of the guards accused of al lowing the KGB into the embassy, Cpl. Arnold Bracy, 21. Attorneys for the other accused Marine, Sgt. Clay ton Lonetree, 25, say Bracy signed an inc riminating statement at the be hest of investigators, hut later with drew it. They say that left prosecu tors without any hard evidence against Lonetree, who has denied al lowing agents inside the embassy. • Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said he would co sponsor legislation introduced by Sen. Steve Symms, R-Idaho, to move the Soviets off Mount Alto in Wash ington. Intelligence experts say the high vantage point allows the Soviets to eavesdrop on sensitive U.S. gov ernment communications. • The State Department said Sec retary of State George P. Shultz has rejected a House subcommittee sub poena seeking documents concern ing security problems at the Moscow embassy. Spokesman Charles Red man said Shultz had returned the subpoena to Chairman Dante Fas- cell, D-PTa., of the House Loreign Affairs Committee. Redman denied that any documents were being with held and said “there was absolutely no justification for the subpoena.” • Attorney General Edwin Meese III said the Justice Department is looking into whether State Depart ment personnel could be prosecuted for negligence in the espionage scan dal, although there was not a full- scale criminal investigation into the matter. • The Senate Appropriations Committee tentatively approved lan guage that would prohibit spending of any money on the new U.S. Em bassy office building in Moscow “ex cept as necessary to demolish the building.” The Senate Intelligence Commit tee recommended in a unanimous 15-0 report Wednesday that the building be demolished. Mother still leads fight to locate new organs following son’s death PITTSBURGH (AP) — Even af ter bet son Ronnie died while wait ing for his fourth liver transplant, Maria DeSillers refused to give up her fight for children needing life saving organ transplants. “The nation will keep on hearing Ronnie’s name,” she vowed less than two hours after the 7-year-old’s death Wednesday night at Chil dren’s Hospital. “The nation will keep on hearing about organ dona tion — and I don’t care if 1 have to travel to the ends of the earth to get that message across to people. “II there’s one thing that will come of this, it’s that maybe other parents and other children won’t have to go through what I’ve been through. They won’t have to go through what Ronnie has been through.” DeSillers, 31, a former public rela tions consultant, decided she “was not going to lake it sitting down” when she learned her son, born with defective bile ducts, needed a liver transplant. She never gave up her public prayers and pleas. She comforted others while promoting organ dona tion in a campaign that touched the While House and challenged the na tion’s transplant system. Desperate to give her son a chance to become “a leader of tomorrow,” DeSillers campaigned in southern Florida early this year to finance the costly transplant. She is divorced and lost her medical insurance when she quit work to be with her ailing son. “I turned to the vehicle I knew would get my message across to the people, which was the media,” she said. “People saw Ronnie and fell in love with him. It just really blos somed.” The hoy gained national atten tion, and $1,000 from President Reagan, after $4,000 raised by class mates at his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., parochial school was stolen in Feb ruary. Ronnie underwent his first trans- plant Feb. 24, but a viral infection damaged the organ, necessitating a second transplant April 3. That or gan failed, too, and a third trans plant was performed April 23. That organ also failed. Despite the fact that she was going through a family tragedy, DeSillers never shied from the spotlight. She and her fiance, Jose Castillo, made photographs for newspapers and poignant videotapes for tele vision from Ronnie’s bedside. Prices close high in rally on Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market staged a broad advance THursday, following through on Wednesday’s rally amid hopes for an improvement in the dollar’s perfor mance in foreign exchange. The Dow Jones average of 30 in dustrials rose 32.10 to 2,286.36, add ing to its 22.30-point gain Wednes day. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange came to 183.06 million shares, against 173.59 million in the previous session. The market’s recent rebound trimmed the Dow’s loss for April to 18.33 points. Nevertheless, it went into the books as the market’s first down month in 1987. Analysts said stocks benefited from hopes that the dollar might be stabilizing, reducing upward pres sure on interest rates. Study: Obesity increasing among American children BOSTON (AP) — The propor tion of American children who are overweight has increased more than 50 percent over two decades, and the nation is facing an epidemic of childhood obesity, say the authors of a new study. Their research documents a strik ing increase in weight problems among both grade-school children and teen-agers. Obesity is particularly common among white youngsters, although blacks are quickly catching up. The study estimates that nearly a third of all white boys in their pre-teen years are overweight. The researchers found that from 1963 to 1980, there was a 54-percent increase in the prevalence of obesity among children ages 6 to 11, and there was a 39-percent rise in obesity among adolescents 12 to 17. “Childhood obesity is an epidemic in the United States,” said Dr. Wil liam H. 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