European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes june state department assails soviet crackdown on jews stateside Washington up the state department Fri Day detailed a soviet crackdown on jews and said the persecution constitutes a real obstacle to improved relations with the United we Call upon the soviet Union to end this tragic and needless soviet commitments freely undertaken at Helsinki and elsewhere require and simple human decency demands a department statement the statement referred to the 1975 Helsinki accords signed in by 35 including the United states and soviet supporting fundamental freedoms including the Freedom of religion or the department said at least 14 jewish cultural Active including three hebrew teachers this have been arrested by soviet authorities since last we wish to emphasize the extreme seriousness with which we regard these the continuation of this Campaign constitutes a real obstacle to the constructive relations with the soviet Union that the United states the statement the 14 jews who have been arrested Are the chief victims in what appears to be an official soviet Campaign against the current revival of jewish culture in the soviet the statement to 10 of these men have been several on crudely trumped up criminal charges specifically de signed to discredit two were savagely beaten follow ing their we have also heard disturbing reports that a Yuliy is being subjected to repeated beatings at the labor Camp in Siberia where he is serving a three year in addition to arrests and Many jews have been fired from their have had their apartments their phones their mail articles have appeared in soviet newspapers and pro Grams in soviet television branding hebrew teachers and other jewish cultural activists often by name As zionist zionism has been equated with nazism and world War ii jewish leaders accused of helping the nazis round up jews for the death although soviet authorities claim that their Campaign is directed solely against those they Label As there is no doubt that repeated irresponsible charges like these can fan the ugly flames of it agent tells court of weekend of liquor with russian Lover los Angeles a it was after a weekend of liquor and broken promises by his russian Lover that Richard Miller said he suspected his Fri career was and i had been totally and completely Compro the first Fri agent Ever indicted for Friday recalled the deterioration of a love affair that he said he considered a Golden Opportunity to save his Job by allowing him to infiltrate the soviet intelligence net it was his fourth Day of testimony against co defendants Svetlana and her All three Are accused of attempting to steal to secret documents and sell them to the soviet who is scheduled to continue telling his Story will go on trial after the District judge David Kenyon set a tentative Date of 6 for his the government contends Miller agreed to pass Classi fied documents to the soviet Union for in Cash and Miller told the court Friday that he and Ogorodny Kov travelled together to san Francisco on a weekend in the summer of three months after he met Stop Ping in motels along the Miller said he had tried to convince her he was a willing dupe who might be converted to the soviet but he insisted at the same time he never anticipated that she would Tell officials at the soviet consulate of their assistant attorney Bruce Merritt you thought when she went to the soviet consulate she want going to mention that she had spent the previous night in bed with an Fri agent to be honest with said i didst think about i blocked it he said he was stunned when Ogorodnikova re turned to their hotel room from the soviet consulate and they told me that i cant see you he said she told him they had been secretly photo graphed in their hotel i that All i to be photographed in an intimate Miller at one Point during the on the weekend of Miller i this is not going to work at i this is the end of my career As an Miller said his memory of the weekend was Cloudy because he was he said he could not remember whether he gave Ogorodnikova his Fri credentials to take with her to the soviet although he had previously said that he Honor students Mother Calls fatal shooting police brutality in f a i pm new York a police say a 17yearold Honor student was shot and killed by a plainclothes officer he tried to but a lawyer and the youths Mother called it part of a pattern of brutality against Edmund a june graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in was shot wednesday night by officer Lee Van Houten after Perry and another youth tried to Rob the police Perry died thursday Van was knocked to the ground and beaten by two said officer Joseph a police he Drew his gun from an ankle Holster and fired three hitting one of the China planning space program peking up China has announced it is capable of carrying out manned space flights and said it is launch ing a commercial space program that will offer satellites and Carrier rockets on the International China started its space program in 1956 and launched its first Carrier rocket in it sent its first satellite aloft in april 1970 and has launched is More since the latest in april three were launched with one Carrier and at least five of the satellites were later recon the other youth fled and has not been police in numbed with official police versions of this kind of and i dont accept that version of what Hap said Perry family attorney Vernon Mason know this cd speak very highly of the facts will come perrys Veronica joined Mason at a news in Here because of the injustice done to my who had such a Bright and shining White men hated to see his because he was so that the Only Way i can figure they wanted to wipe him she Deputy police chief David second in com Mand of the Manhattan North patrol confirmed that who is had no previous record and that no weapon was found on Van who is had been working with a sergeant and two other officers on robbery detail around Morningside Mcconville Van Houten was on foot the others were in a car one or two blocks away said i saw blood and bruises on the officer that would be consistent with the injuries that can be sustained in a he investigators have found nothing to dispute the officers he National study under Way in Effort to predict lightning Washington a a network tying together lightning research and information programs across the country is being formed to help scientists improve their ability to predict when and where the deadly bolts will scientists say a growing population that exposes More people to danger and the threat to sensitive electronic equipment from sudden electrical discharges have heightened the need to coordinate about a dozen Public and academic groups Are expected to be involved in the William Federal coordinator for meteorological services and support ing an Independent government operation based in Barney is heading the project California Energy commission oks geothermal Power Plant a the Pacific Gas and electric has won approval to build what the Utility claims will be the worlds largest geothermal Power the state Energy commission gave the Utility its of to construct the 140megawatt facility near this Small Lake county Mountain the approval of the capable of delivering enough electricity to meet the Power needs of will allow to Start site preparations this summer and to have the facility operating by april commission approval came after residents questioned whether visual and water Quality monitoring sys tems would be Farmers in Lake county have complained that possible contamination of creeks could have a drastic effect on their the commission ordered the company to make annual water Quality checks for 10 Minneapolis police chiefs wife pleads guilty to trespassing Minneapolis a the wife of the cites police chief has pleaded guilty to trespassing during an anti weapons demonstration at Honeywell Headquarters in it was the third time Erica wife of police chief Tony was arrested on similar and she could have been sentenced to up to 90 Days in she and 20 other defendants pleading guilty in Hennepin county municipal court were ordered to perform 10 hours of Community in 1983 she was arrested twice and served 10 Days in the Hennepin county workhouse for trespassing at Honeywell during two she and other demonstrators were protesting the company manufacture of nuclear weapons nations top students getting certificates from Reagan Washington a president Reagan is sending pins and certificates to pupils who proved their academic fitness by getting plus averages or the education department the in its second is modelled after the presidential physical fitness awards program that former president Johnson began in the new presidential academic fitness awards Are for students graduating from Junior High or High schools who have maintained at least a plus average on a 4point scale or 85 out of 100 and scored at the 80th percentile on any National achievement High school seniors must also have completed at least 12 courses in academic last when Only High school seniors were the government gave out third graders think president should be just another citizen West a bag the Limo for president what our chief executive really a class of third Grade pupils is some cheap they think he ought to get a bulletproof and he ought to drive it the Jalopy was the overwhelming vehicle of Choice for prs tent to the 25 children in Nan dots class in West Tisbury school on marthas they think such a vehicle appropriate for a head of state theore is just another Doty the students have the very american sense that any body in the United states has the Chance to become presi regardless of she they thought Reagan should act like a regular person and ride in a regular Doty