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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, July 1, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 terror threat prompts Security Bee up Washington a an upsurge in world terror ism and a murder suicide near Secretary of state George Shults office has prompted tighter Security at the state department and a warning to nuclear weapons plants to beware of possible terrorist assaults or Senate leaders Are reviewing protective measures at the and a few government agencies Are consid ering requiring visitors to display entry passes for the first for president reagans there Are snipers and portable missiles on the White House roof and Concrete barricades along Pennsylvania but Many Federal agencies boast Little More than a Friendly guard waving visitors through the front after the june 14 hijacking of a trans world airlines plane by shiite moslem the Energy depart ments 16 nuclear weapons production facilities across the country were told to be particularly observant in guard ing against possible terrorist attacks or sabotage said assistant Energy Secretary William the state department tightened its Security five Days after 20yearold Edward Doster entered department Headquarters june 21 and fatally shot his Carole in her seventh floor office just Down the Hall from the suite where Shultz was the Young Dos Ter then killed last for the first All state depart ment employees were ordered to Wear identification badges at All times inside the building and to pass through Airport style Metal now installed at All four Headquarters entrances and at two Annex buildings at suburban in said spokesman Frank every occupant of a vehicle entering the state departments underground garage must either display a special identification card or get out and walk through a Metal Detector to gain entry to the concern about terrorist heightened by the Twa hostage crisis and an apparent explosion aboard an air India jetliner that killed 329 people last week off the Irish led Senate leaders to consider whether additional Security precautions Are needed at the at the request of Senate majority Leader Robert the Senate sergeant terms submitted a status report on Security arrangements at the Security at the Capitol was tightened considerably after a still unsolved bomb blast outside the Senate chamber in november staff reporters and lobbyists were required to Wear identification Metal Detec tors were installed throughout the and traffic was restricted on driveways to the no chances Are taken at the White where Secu Rity has tightened dramatically since the 1981 assassination attempt against Reagan and subsequent terrorist bombings of embassies and military Pri Marily in the Middle All White House including must undergo bag searches and pass through Metal and no one is permitted to enter the White House grounds without a secret service trained dogs Are used to sniff for bombs in every vehicle before it approaches the White the rooftop sniper team has been equipped with surface air missiles to thwart an Aerial at the Metal detectors at every Entrance reinforce an elaborate system of building passes for visitors and the people who work there every late this guard stations and Gates were installed at the two main driveways to the with Access restricted to motorists carrying special the officials is to prevent any bomb Laden cars from reaching the build Sand and shuttle a photo silhouetted against a rising the Kennedy space Center in space shuttle challenger makes the challenger is getting ready for a three mile trip to launch pad 39a at scheduled july 12 firms ant spy measures Dod report says new York up an internal de sense department report obtained by the new York times says Security programs at most of the nations military contractors Are so weak they do Little to prevent espionage a supermarket employee May encounter far More difficulty stealing a loaf of according to the report quoted in the new York times sunday the times said the known in the Pentagon As the Harper has not been made but the defense depart ment gave copies to some members of con the yearlong study of Security at the nations military contractors was or dered by defense department senior officials after the arrest of James Harper on espionage the times Harper was arrested for taking classified documents from a Small California military contractor and Selling copies to polish intelligence he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last the 250page study does not make specific but says the de sense department should make wholesale changes in its Security it says even if present regulations were fully in they would not effectively Stop spy the times said the report also says there Are Only about 225 agents nationwide to police the and although the agents must inspect All contract 95 percent of the classified documents Are concentrated in 200 it also found defense contractors have no controls Over the use of classified materials at night and this allows employees to bring even soviet to work where they could copy or steal Sensi Tive stealing classified material is Only slightly More difficult during work ing defense department regulations focus on securing documents and setting up alarm systems to avoid surreptitious entry to the although most recent espionage cases we rent the result of Many contractors request and get secret or to secret Security clearance for employees who perform toilet paint ing and similar maintenance or service oriented convict gets Tor Good behaviour a a judge suspended the last three months of Reginald Good owes oneyear sentence for a drug conviction and then imposed a life sentence of a work release inmate with an excellent appeared Friday before circuit court judge Lynwood Smith with Thurman work release Mccormick told the judge that Goodlowe and his Girlfriend had opened a convenience store and were working so the judge suspended the rest of his and then Goodlowe asked the judge to perform his wedding Goodlowe and Deanna were married in the it is Good to see something on a positive note Smith it was a change of from nine months to a Happy and successful i faucet Man splatters record at spitting contest up Jeff faucet Man Barber puckered up in Billy John Crump tons pasture saturday and spurted a wad of Brown juice More than 28 feet to become the Al time tobacco spitting its just said after winning both the distance and accuracy crowns in the 31st annual National tobacco spitting the double barrelled win gave Barber 13 one More than George Craft of who dominated the event Between 1954 and 1961 before his records Are made to be said the jubilant a 23yearold Ocean Springs restaurant i just Hope i can keep mine As Long As the legendary besides the big several thousand people gathered at Crump tons farm to enjoy a mule country and Western arts and crafts and eats but As the main attraction was the in the accuracy who uses the two Finger pucker and open hit the Bullseye three straight times from 15 feet to easily defeat Mark Wilks of then he captured the distance title with a spurt of 28 will he be Back to defend his titles next year you can bet on said who holds the contest record with a spectacular spit of 33 the inches in ill spend the next 11 months then till be Back to in the women Peggy Woods of Johns Defeated her defending Champion Nancy Newland of eur Woods had a bests it of 19 4 inches while the Best her older sister could do was 12 10 i have been trying to Best her for two Woods now i have done in the Junior Mark Stewart of Mize won the 10 and under age group with a spit of 14 Shane Grant of Stringer captured the 11 to 15 age group with a spit of 26 9  
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