European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes s tuna boats use Fine mesh Nef Oise Cut canal treaty Washington up environmental groups applaud the tuna Fleet which this season reduced accidental killing of dolphins and porpoises by almost so per but the Industry int exactly taking a according to environmental defense fund lawyer William Butler said the Industry has reduced its Mil to one porpoise for every four tons of yellow Fin thanks to required new the pressure of observers on Board and a caution which Skippers Are sex he said the Industry will stay easily within the yearly quota of a porpoise kill taut still wants to return to its quota of from last the Industry has done better than its wildest yet they Are Pooh pooling their Success and scrambling around to find excuses to return to the same old saying there Are few porpoises this year for some reason or the porpoises have become he Butler also said peer pressure is Start ing to come into forcing a few care less Skippers to clean up their he said five tuna boats were responsible for 45 per cent of the observed porpoise kill in the certain air breathing Mam Mals Tike swim above yellow Fin tuna and Lead the fishermen to their the get caught in the nets and drown they Are unable to come up for they arc not used As food in the and Are thrown More than 6 million of these Friendly animals have been drowned or otherwise mortally injured in the nets of the Ameri can tuna fishermen since according to an environmental we cant be pleased by the tens of thou Sands of porpoise killed every but its far better than the the Industry killed last said noting the figure exceeded the official this year for the time fishermen used tin mesh nets which do not snare porpoise regulations Are pending to require the fishermen next season also to use an apron like net which will allow porpoises to ascend with the net to the surface and hop Over the top while trapping the Dee swim Ming Cia chief says Russ Trail in military technology Washington up Cia director Stansfield Turner has told Congress that the is Well ahead of the soviet Union in military technology while China is is to 20 years behind the Turner gave his assessment to the joint economic committee june a summary and some direct testimony were released presidents present a Juliun Carter shows a Crystal dish she received from president Carter in Atlanta on her 79th the presi dents Mother got a cake foreground from a Busload of friends from she was in Atlanta with daughter Gloria Spann to autograph her new a photo other parts of the presentation were made Public earlier this William asked the Cia director whether it was a fair statement that the soviet Union trails the in All aspects of military Turner replied i would be a Little loathe to make a categorical statement that they Are not ahead ofus in they Are certainly ahead of us in some areas of Turner in some areas of control of communications of military i would say they arc ahead of us in application More than in technology that they put More resources into that but Turner an Overall assess ment would be that we arc Well ahead of them in military with brute Force they do achieve about the same end result in Many areas that we do with much More sophisticated he for they will put multiple computers in a each of much less sophistication than the one we put in on the basis of Turners Proxmire said the chinese rely on copies of soviet weapons developed in the 1930s and added they Are about 20 years behind the soviet let alone our int that so Turner replied i would say 15 to 20 Tonry arrives for prison term api former Louisiana Richard Tonry surren dered at a Federal prison Camp Here monday to Start serving a sentence for Campaign financing Tonry drove to the prison Camp at Max Well fab with his said Warden Robert he arrived More than two hours ahead of the a former Seminary student who Rose rapidly in the political world after becom ing a Tonry is to serve up to a year in confinement after pleading guilty to Campaign financing among other inmates at the gentlemen prison on the base is former us ally John a watergate conspire a is the first econ Gressman sentenced to prison or violating a new provision of the Federal Campaign act one forbidding a candidate to accept an individual Campaign contribution exceeding he also Drew a to be served at the same after pleading guilty to promis ing Federal Juta in Exchange for political Tonry leaves behind his five children and a Legal prac Tice my of Kissinger Washington Carter Henry Kissinger on the new Panama canal treaty the former Secretary of state said he was inclined to support it Long As the can defend the waterway and its approach that defense might involve troops in Case of a and cuban congressional quoting a report that Kissinger gave to Dick last speaking in Iowa during the past few has been stressing the vulnerability of the and has referred to the Kissinger it is still very valid one of Clarks aides told lunched Wilh Carter who resumed the stalled Panama negotiations in had lunch with Carter monday at the White they discussed the Panama canal Neotia and the president promised to have Kissinger briefed on the Carter also phoned former president Gerald Ford to discuss canal on the basis of what the president has told me about these in inclined to support them Kissinger i want to make sure the United states has the possibility and the right to defend free and uninterrupted Access to the canal 1 believe Neutral Access through the canal is essential for Ameri can Security and the United Stales should have the right to guarantee unrest cited on ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and sol Linowitz acknowledged on a television interview that canal operations might be hindered by panamanian unrest and possible sabotage last years Kissinger report says the Panama canal can be defended even in a hostile the continuous operation of the canal could not be insured in that the canal Complex is susceptible to varying degrees of sabotage and the canal zone is vulnerable to attack from forces or weapons located outside the area of United states the report said the army brigade stationed in the canal zone could Deal with sporadic attacks on dams and other key a concentrated commando operation might need the of time 1947 Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und whose Industrial Empire of Coal and steel holdings and munitions plants nude possible three German and 10 officials involved in the Krupp were charged in Numberg with exploitation of slave abuse of prisoners of War and foreign nations and other War 19s7 a Hollywood producer testified be was blackmailed by agents of confidential Magazine who demanded to prevent publication of a Story about a film land party attended by Robert Charles Laughton and Elsa Lan president Johnson and West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kle Singer pledged to maintain the strength of the Atlantic Alliance and avoid on sided weakening of natos military