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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. Dietz Jr. of New England
Medical Center, a co-author of the
study. “The implications are that
there is going to be a major rise in
the prevalence of adult obesity and
its consequences.”
The study, directed by Dr. Steven
L. Cortmaker of the Harvard School
of Public Health, is being published
in the May issue of the American
Journal of Diseases of Children.
The study did not examine what’s
causing the increase in obesity, but
the researchers believe lack of physi
cal activity may be an important cul
prit.
The study found that the likeli
hood of obesity varies among social
classes and regions of the country.
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