European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse unofficial publication Foh the Ahmed of macs of if 21855 a vol. 36, no. 19 Friday May 6, 1977 sex employee of Cia guilty of espionage it used to be a Home a family in pleasant Hill mo., pick Sway through the wreckage of a Mobile Home after a twister zeroed in on the town with devastating ferocity. Scattered tornadoes skipping across West Ern Missouri wednesday were blamed for at least four deaths and heavy prop erty damage. A photo Baltimore api a Federal jury convicted former Cia employee Edwin g. Moore ii thursday of stealing secret Docu ments and trying to sell them to the soviet jury of nine women and three men found Moore 56. Of belch sea md., guilty on twp counts of espionage and three counts of unlawfully possessing classified government documents. Jurors received the Case late wednes Day and deliberated for four hours before . District judge Frank a. Kaufman excused them for the evening. Moore sat quietly As guilty findings on help sought for newsmen Zaire Case stirs diplomats Kinshasa Zaire a the ambassadors of four West european nations began diplomatic moves thursday to try to head off a Public spectacle involving seven Western journalists arrested by Zaire authorities. Four Spanish to newsmen and English French and German reporters were arrested last week by military authorities i Shaba province which was invaded by a Tangan rebels from Angola two month Sago. The government news Agency Aza said the reporters would be presented to the International press and the ambassadors of their respective countries on Friday so the press and diplomats could determine whether their the journalists presence in Shaba was journalism or espionage. The reporters were not picked up together. The spaniards and Colin Smith chief roving correspondent of the observer i London were arrested in Mut Satsha after they drove in a borrowed land Rove through the Bush into Zaire from a Remote area in Northwestern was not yet known where and when on Friday the group would be arrested in Mut Satsha were detained april 27, two Days after the Railroad town was recaptured by Zaire and moroc can troops without a Frenchman. Regis Bossu. And the German Eric Follath both working Forster Magazine in Germany were arrested in Lubumbashi when they presented themselves to the authorities. All seven Pressman had entered Zaire without visas diplomats said. Official Zaire news organs said the re porters left Europe to make secret contacts with opponents of president one Diplomat said the cases of the re porters were different As the the two work ing for Stern had not been in rebel areas and had presented themselves to the authorities. Journalists have been barred from the conflict area unless they arc accompany ing Mobutu who has been visiting Shab for the past two weeks. The arrest of the group Points out the difficulty in obtaining reliable reports in Africa. Journalists must rely on official news coming from government information channels. Scattered reports from the rebel Side come via Angola from where the rebels who have been in exile forbore than a decade launched their inva reports must be viewed critically. One european Diplomat said. It s a Spe Cial War. It s an information War. Some times i hey put out information to confuse the last week the government reported 100paratroopers were dropped behind rebel t continued on Page 2s.col.tt top Navy nurse wants women on warships Brussels a rear adm. Maxin Condor director of the . Navy nurse corps said wednesday she Hopes women Wilt serve aboard combat snips but that it will take an act of Congress to make it pos told an interviewer that she sees no reason Why women should not move int any military command Job to the very top she has the top rank among 35 women attending a conference of senior women officers this week at the Headquarters of the North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion. The . Delegation is speaking for 115.000 servicewomen out of the 145,000being represented by officers from 10 the 15 nato countries 12 have women in their services but Greece an Portugal do not have any considered to be of sufficient rank to attend the is considering recruiting women but not Luxembourg and Iceland has normed forces male or female. In addition to Conder the american sent another rear Admiral and four Gener als All of them other countries do not have women Flag officers except for France which do shave a medical general. She did not sent two brigadier they out rank colonels but do not count As was brigadier Eileen Nolan director of the women Royal army corps who i chairing the meeting. We do not want to push women into she told a news conference. We want women to fill jobs they re capable of dog. We believe that a lot of women have the capability for higher All five counts were delayed sentencing pending a pre sentence report. Moore s lawyer said he had not decided whether to Appeal. Moore faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for the espionage counts and 10 years in prison and a $10,000 Fine on theother counts. Moore was arrested last december aftera package containing photocopies of a Cia Telephone directory was found on the grounds of a soviet residence in washing ton. A soviet employee fearing the package contained a bomb notified authorities. Testifying in his own defense Moore said he had acted under orders from a Cia operative he identified Only As Joe whole said recruited him for the assignment at his family s North Carolina Home Las summer. The government said the evidence clearly showed Moore to be a disgruntled Agency employee who was caught trying to sell the russians stolen material and who concocted a cover Story afterwards to protect himself. The defense introduced psychiatric Tes Timony portraying Moore As a paranoid psychotic but the jury refused to acquit him on that ground. Nixon show did t change Carter s mind London up president carte said thursday he thought former presi Dent Richard Nixon had been Frank i saying that he lied to the american people during the watergate crisis but doubted the Public had been enlightened by the current Nixon television told reporters in route to the London Summit that he had watched the first is minutes and the isl is minutes of Nixon s interview wednesday night with David Frost. Asked what he thought of it Carter said Well. I did t change my mind. I think he was Frank in saying that he lied to the american people on some of the state ments that he think Nixon has convinced himself that he did not violate the Law. It was an interesting discussion but i doubt if the american people were enlightened by reporter pressed Carter As to whether he thought Nixon had violated the , i Don t know Carter said. In response to another question the president said he May ask Nixon for advice when Secretary of state Cyrus continued on Page 28, col. It
