European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june 1985 spy ring probe could Lead anywhere7 Washington up the governments investigation of a family spy ring accused of passing secrets to the so Viet Union has expanded and is liable to take us an Fri spokesman said but spokesmen for the Fri and the Navy declined to discuss reports that at least nine people Are under surveillance and that Navy Secretary John Lehman is considering having two of the three men already accused of spying recalled from retirement to Active Navy duty so they can be Navy officials said they could not con firm a Washington Post report that leh Man was reviewing suggestions John Walker a former Navy communications and his brother a thur a retired lieutenant be recalled to Active duty for Fri spokesman Dave divan said he was not going to confirm or deny that several California men Are under surveil Lance because of their associations with John the accused Leader of the spy its liable to take us divan its part of our investigation to watch i dont want to mislead whether or not that entails electronic surveillance or any we really cant discuss what were i dont want to identify any partic ular the new York times reported sat urday that the nine people under surveil Lance worked in the Navy with John but the report said it could not be determined if any of the men was still in the the paper quoted sources As saying at least three of the men Are still in the one is a former Navy Man now living in Northern California either near Sacramento or san Francisco who was identified by Walker As d in secret documents recovered by invest the times but the paper said officials would not be specific about when and where the Man supposedly met nor would they say if he had been an enlisted the government has said John Walker began spying for the soviets in John walkers Michael a Sailor on the nuclear Carrier in also has been jailed on spying John Walker is believed to have been the Linchpin in the alleged espionage con but a Navy official said that his son and his brother May not have known the other was allegedly involved in spy the Fri which was initially alerted to walkers activities by his former Barbara of West is receiving information from friends and associates of a source Sam deploring the loss of government secrets to soviet called on president Rea Gan Friday to reduce by half within two years the number of people who have a Cess to classified the ranking democratic Mem Ber of the Senate armed forces commit said about million including 53 percent of All government employees and some defense Industry Are cleared for Access to Classi fied numbers Are overwhelming the whole weve got to Cut Down dramatically on the number of people who have and that will give us the Chance to have better personnel Security clearance Nunn said in an interview on abcs Good morning weve got to tighten got to Cut Down the amount of classified Nunn said in calling on Reagan to reduce by half the Security clearances within the next two government outlaws says drug May cause brain damage Washington up the govern ment Friday outlawed the psychedelic drug ecstasy because of research suggesting it May cause permanent brain damage to its who Are mostly College students and Young Gene head of the drug enforce ment administrations office of diversion said the will join Ltd and other hallucinogens july 1 in the mos restricted drug Haislip said the Dea invoked emergency Powers to outlaw the drug because its popu Larity has skyrocketed Over the past Tew it is available in 21 states from the Northeast to the mid West and As Well As Canada and West he he said the published Friday in the Federal was sparked by re search from the University of Chicago soon to appear in the journal science showing that a closely related drug called already can cause brain damage in the reports principal author and Dea researchers agreed that the study results could be extended to humans using known on the Street As Adam and Haislip the used mostly by College Stu dents and Young has been linked to two deaths in California and May be dangerous in amounts As Small As 100 to 150 the usual he some users have experienced psychotic episodes after Only one proponents say mama can enhance communication and increase a users sense of but does not usually cause it was used experimentally by doctors and psychiatrists before the animal Evi Dence became Haislip but it now has no legitimate medical Haislip expressed optimism that mama manufacturers would quit but later said it was difficult to Tell whether they would move on to another drug and whether users would continue to try to obtain the whether the problem will go away is impossible to Haislip said during a Dea news mama is7a designer a class of substances with actions similar to banned drugs but designed to be chemically differ ent to escape the or is sold in tablets or capsules for to per 100milligram dose and is a stimulant and William a psychology professor at Southern methodist University in said it was like taking cocaine and Ltd after having watered them Down As a schedule 1 production or Sale of mama would be punishable by up to 15 years in prison or up to a the Dea acted under authority the comprehensive crime control act of which allows the Agency to ban a substance for a Dea also is working with the food and drug administration on a longer including Public that will take nine to 18 months and could result in per manent the Fra has never approved it has no jurisdiction Over it As Long As the drug is not involved in interstate news update Greenpeace base London a the Environ mental group Greenpeace has announced plans to establish a Perma nent base in the Antarctic in a bid to claim the entire continent As Park Pete a Greenpeace Board said the Greenpeace Antarctic expedition would include four people a a a radio operator and a scientist and would leave for the continent some time in Hong Kongchin pact peking a China and Britain exchanged ratification documents in a formal ceremony that legally put into effect their agreement restoring Hong Kong to chinese sovereignty when the British lease expires in Britain ambassador to sir Richard and chivas Vic for eign Zhou who negotiated the joint declaration on Hong signed the Exchange the last step in the ratification process by both Iran suspected in attack on ship in persian Gulf Beirut up suspected iranian planes rocketed a panamanian registered merchant ship in the persian Gulf saturday and Iraq said its aircraft attacked Tehran Mehraban a town and two military Gulf shipping sources said the Oriental importer was hit by two rockets and set ablaze in an attack by planes off the saudi arabian coast saturday at least one crewman was reported the Oriental importer was the 16th ship hit in the Gulf by planes this the attack on the Oriental importer Fol Lowed what Iraq said was a devastating iraqi bombing raid on Tehran Mehraban Airport at Midnight Friday the second on the iranian capital in one an iraqi military spokesman said the planes scored devastating but iranian aviation sources said they missed their target and dropped their bombs on a nearby residential the Airport remained Iran official islamic Republic news Agency reported that iranian bombers inflicted heavy casualties and losses on the enemy in two predawn raids on military and economic Industrial installations in the towns of Ala Lizeh and in another iraqi military spokesman said three squadrons of eight planes each went on successful missions against the iranian Border town of Gilan garb and two military Camps at 11 eight planes attacked the military Camp at smashing military equipment and inflicting losses among their troops while eight other planes launched raids on the military Camp at destroying installations and military the spokesman there was no immediate iranian com ment on the which came after a rare Daylight raid on Tehran Friday the first since the latest round of attacks on civilian targets in both Iran and Iraq started a week army Grants clemency to 3 for weapons violations Washington up the army said Friday that it has cleared the names of a Captain and two other soldiers who stole five soviet automatic rifles from Grenada in 1983 by lifting their bad conduct All three received clemency on their Sec Ond submitted in the Case bore some similarity to an Ille Gal attempt by Navy vice Joseph Metcalf i to bring Home 24 of the soviet built ak47 assault rifles As Metcalf was the Overall commander of the an investigation of the Case against calf by the Pentagon inspector general was prompted by reports of the mild administrative reprimand issued to the Admiral in comparison to smuggling convictions and jail sentences meted out to the an army spokesman said the clemency granted the three soldiers of the 82nd airborne div bore no relation to the Metcalf what we have done or not done has Noth ing to do with what the Navy has done or not said the Craig the key Point is that this is the Normal function of the clemency the three soldiers Are John staff Allan Cassatt and Bruce Wil assistant army Secretary Delbert Spur lock suspended the dismissal of Dorsz for six the suspension will become Perma nent so Long As Dorsz does not commit further a Pentagon official the acting judge advocate Hugh dismissed the Badcon duct discharges Given Cassatt and the rather significant Black Mark of being dismissed or having a bad conduct discharge is removed from their records by this clemency Mcnab this is this is Dorsz served six months in prison and the other two were in jail for four months the army said Cassatt and Willard distracted a warehouse guard while Dorsz secretly obtained the weapons from two Ware House guards and thereafter hid the weapons in a the rifles were hidden in the aircraft that returned the soldiers to fort it Willard was arrested while trying to sell his Rifle and later told interrogators about the other the army