European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday september 7, 1978 state dept. Denies charge by Nicaragua Washington a the state department on tuesday dismissed Asun founded the allegation by a business associate of nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza that two top department officials Are pro marxist. The United states totally rejects the unfounded characterizations and the aspersions cast on these officials said state department spokesman Hodding Carter. The allegation was made by Ray Molina a cuban american with business ties to so Moza. Molina is director of the american nicaraguan Trade Council which critics of the Somoza government say was set up As an apologist organization for Somoza regime. Cuban sympathy charged Molina contacted by Telephone in Miami on tuesday said that in a press briefing in Managua last saturday he described two state department officials As pro cuban and  the two he named Are Patricia Derian assistant Secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs and Mark Schneider an aide to de Rian. He said he described another state department official Robert pastor a nation Al Security Council adviser on latin Amer Ica As not Friendly to the Somoza government but did not say he was pro marxist. Somoza said tuesday that Molina was not speaking for the nicaraguan govern ment. Molina agreed saying he made the remarks As director of the american nicaraguan Trade Council. Asked Why he described the two state department officials As pro marxists Molina said that Derian and Schneider have been making repeated human rights de mands upon the Somoza government while ignoring the Lack of human rights in Cuba. State department spokesman Carter expressed concern tuesday about the reported arrests of a number of opposition Politi Cal leaders in Nicaragua. He said the United states believes repressive Mea sures cannot contribute to the goal of a peaceful and democratic solution in Nicaragua. Atom physicist defected to Russ in 50 Pontecorvo visiting Italy Rome a Bruno Pontecorvo the nuclear physicist who defected to the soviet Union in 1950, returned wednesday to his native Italy and said he had never worked on a nuclear bomb. Saying he considers himself a very peaceful Man Pontecorvo told reporters at the Airport ill Tell you a secret. I have never worked on the atomic Hydrogen or any other bomb in the West in Russia or in  he said he is very moved and very Happy to be Back in Italy and Hopes to return again in the future. The Genius returns from the cold said the Magazine Domenica Del corriere in re counting the career of one of Italy s top scientific brains who fled to the soviet Union after working in the United states Italy France Canada and Britain. Research associates now a highly decorated soviet physicist Pontecorvo 65, arrived by plane from Moscow to attend a 2-Day meeting begin Ning thursday in Honor of italian scientist Edoardo Amaldi on his 70th birthday. Amaldi and Pontecorvo were research associates More than 40 years ago. Domenica Del corriere says Pontecorvo is remembered by Many As the one who brought the secret of the a bomb to the so Viet  but this has never been con firmed and except for a 1955 news Confer ence at which he called for an end to nuclear experiments nothing is known of Pontecorvo s 28 years in the soviet Union. He is visited occasionally by his brother Gillis the leftist film director whose Best known work is the Battle of  but Gillis has never Given any indication Why his brother left the West. A doctor of physics at 19, Pontecorvo in the 1930s was a member of the nuclear re search team assembled by Nobel prize Winner Enrico Fermi. It also included Amaldi and another Nobel laureate Emi Lio Segre. The group disbanded in 1936 because of fascist anti semitism. Pontecorvo who is jewish went to Paris and in 1940 to the United states where Fermi and Segre had settled. After doing research for . Oil Compa Nies Pontecorvo moved to Canada in 1943 and became a member of the joint Anglo Canadian atomic research commission and the Chalk River atomic project work ing with Alan Nunn May on the latter. Nunn May was convicted of espionage in Canada in 1946. Meanwhile Pontecorvo moved on to Britain took up British citizenship and started work in 1949 in the Harwell atomic Center. Klaus Fuchs an associate of his there was convicted of spying in 1950. After 18 months at Harwell Pontecorvo resigned to become a professor at the University of Liverpool but never took up the Post. In the summer of 1950, he and his swedish wife and their three children left on an italian Holiday. He went secretly to the soviet Union in August via Stockholm and Helsinki. Domenica Del corriere said Pontecorvo left Harwell because  under close surveillance after the arrest of Fuchs and could no longer pass information to the so Viets. But Pontecorvo has never been charged officially with spying and has never Given any reason for his defection. Italian newspapers say he was a dedicated communist years before leaving the West. They suggest he defected because of the convictions of Nunn May and Fuchs and the arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosen Berg who were later executed in the United states As spies. Scientist welcomed atom physicist Bruno Pontecorvo left puts a hand on the Arm of his brother Gillo welcoming Pontecorvo to Rome. Pontecorvo defected to Russia 28 years ago. He returned to his native Italy for an International meeting. A copter Pilot became suspicious terrorists flunked test As film camera Crew by Wellington Long Bonn up West Germany s terrorists know How to fool police by changing their appearance and doubling Back during a Chase but they have a lot to learn about the Way film cameramen work. Their ignorance almost tripped up thereof terrorists in August when the woman Pilot of a helicopter they chartered note that they did not speak in the jargon commonly used by film camera Crews. Furthermore when the flight ended the purported film team tried to pay in Cash. The three apparently did not know that any professional cameraman disdains Cash using instead a bulging Wallet of credit cards even to pay his bar Bills. The woman told her Fiance also a Heli copter Pilot who had been approached by the same group. He told the Federal Crimi Nal police that they thought the two men and a woman might be terrorists. Acting on this information police observed the three during and after their next helicopter flight coming close enough to take pictures of them. Police could have arrested them then but did not. To their Chagrin police later established that the three included the most important German terrorists still at Large. Interior minister Gerhard Baum revealed details of the Story tuesday when he gave the parliamentary committee on Interior affairs a report prepared by Horst Herold director of the Federal criminal police. The tale Herold unfolded told much about the terrorists and about life in West Germany today. The German terrorist movement grew out of the student revolt of the sixties. The Young rebel in those Days wore Long unkempt hair and generally dirty clothing. When hauled into court both male and female often exposed themselves or defecated on the floor. No longer. Today s terrorist wears the same clothing As the rising Young executive. Both men and women trim their hair Short. The women use a lot of makeup. Both helicopter pilots stressed the neat appearance of All three. Police interviewing the woman helicopter Pilot who first suspected that her customers might be terrorists found her reluctant to talk. She said that she did not want her employer to know that she was engaged to a Pilot employed by a rival. Initial police attempts to Check the ownership of a car the terrorists used failed because they tried to Call the owner on a sunday. They had trouble getting through or understanding him because due to the Low rates on sunday hundreds of thou Sands of germans Call their relatives then overloading the lines to a much greater degree than on any Ordinary business Day. Finally when the terrorists realized they were being followed by five police cars they used a classic ruse probably Learned from an old Hollywood comedy Chase scene. Reaching a Small town they simply turned off the main Street drove around the Block waited until All five police cars had swept past and then drove Back the Way they came. A police pursuer saw the terrorists in their Auto As he drove along the Street. But stopping was forbidden and the Street was too Small for a u turn. By the time he did find a place to whip around the terrorists had disappeared. Bomb terrorist sentenced in death of 15 Belfast a a Northern Ireland protestant guerrilla Robert Campbell who confessed remorse fully to killing 15 persons with a bomb in Belfast in 1971, was sentenced wednesday to 16 separate life sentences. He also received two sentences of 20 years three of 14 and one of three. Besides a bombing at Mcgurk s pub Campbell admitted a 1976 sectarian assassination fire arms and explosives offensives and membership in the Ulster Volunteer Force uhf the terrorist organization that claims to represent the protestant Side i Ulster s 9-year gang War. The judge recommended that he serve at East 20 years in jail. Campbell 43, was a uhf company com Mander when he was pulled in for questioning in july 1976 shortly after a gang at tack on a Van in which the Driver one of Ulster s roman Catholic minority was killed. He confessed to leading the five Man hit and also to being one of the squad that bombed Mcgurk s. His confession read in court said As we drove away we heard the bomb go off. It was such a Small parcel and such a big bang. The next Day i read that All those people were dead. I am glad i am going to jail. The bomb exploding in a doorway took out a Wall and brought Down the upper floor demolishing the building. Mechanical diggers had to be used to Rescue the survivors. Northern Ireland s nine years of Vio Lence have taken at least 1,861 lives