European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 sower who detected defends his Book Washington a Arkady a Cia spy and the highest ranking soviet official to defect the United has labelled absolutely ridiculous an article charging that his bestselling memoirs Are a i always have a great respect for Freedom of the press in the Western Shevchenko said wednes Day at a news but its amazing the Way that Freedom is used or and i am amazed by what some people in the press can its what i Call terroristic the former United nations undersecretary general said he did not mean to Point a Finger at Edward Jay author of the july 15 attack on his breaking with Epstein article appeared in the new Republic its a phenomenon of american Shev Chenko Epstein among other that Shevchenko fabricated car re motives and espionage activities to create a spy who never he said the Cia concocted the super mole and he cited various chronological discrepancies to discredit the it seems to me he didst read my Shevchenko there were so Many people in the government and in Congress who knew my Story and now someone is coming and saying it is no Story at that is absolutely Shevchenko conceded that in some i was a Little bit mistaken or the human memory is not a perfect he called the lapses minor and rejected suggestions that the Book glorified or falsified his Shevchenko acknowledged mistakes in the dates of a dinner party with the Kab head in new York and his first discussion of defection with a As for the car he said the Book made Clear the Chase was an imaginary Shevchenko said the Cia did not review his Manu script and provided no assistance except to recommend they read it after it was he breaking with which has sold copies to was rejected by Simon and Shuster and readers digest before Knopf agreed to publish Epstein said the first two firms found initial chapters of the manuscript Boring and said they were a far cry from the dramatic Book ultimately published by but Shevchenko said he has a very Dull soviet style of writing and had to learn How to write an american Epstein also challenged a chapter that reconstructed detailed conversations Between the Young Shevchenko and the Premier Nikita but Shevchenko said the conversations made a deep impression on he said they were reconstructed rather than Para phrased in order to add life to the i think its pretty he it gave exactly the ideas he expressed and the Way he expressed who said Epstein never contacted him about the said he does not plan to take action against Epstein or the new May spark new Price War big airlines to try Basing their fares on distance new York a several of the nations big airlines plan to change their fare structures later this month in a move expected to raise ticket prices for Many some observers said wednesday that the Strong presence of discount carriers like people express and Continental airlines leaves doubt about whether the increases will the move was started last week by the nations largest United it announced plans to use a fare system that ties the Cost of a ticket to the mileage of the United chief american said it would adopt most of the changes planned by United beginning trans world airlines and pan american world airways said they also planned to adopt the new system on Many routes where they compete with United and while the new system will result in some lower airline officials estimate that fares on average will climb Between 3 per cent and 5 keeping the picket line tidy up photo a management supervisor sweeps nails Bers More than car haul from the driveway of Ryder commercial ers Are striking nationwide in their first carriers in As teamster me walkout since for United said the regular coach fare for a one Way trip Between new York and Chicago will drop to from the coach fare Between Dallas and new York will climb from and Between san Francisco and new York the fare will Rise to from at the same United and american plan to add each Way to the Price of their deepest discount which will lift those prices by Between 7 percent and 26 those fares require tickets to be purchased 30 Days in among other the change represents another attempt by the airlines to curb Price wars that frequently have erupted since the Industry was deregulated in while Many airlines want higher prices to help bolster their they have been forced in the past to match Price cuts initiated by one or More rivals in order to remain particularly on heavily travelled the system of Basing prices on the Dis Tance of flights Matching prices More closely to in the airlines View is similar to one american introduced two years ago but that soon evaporated As Price wars flared this some analysts think the in creases stand a better Chance of mainly because they Are the two largest airlines both adopted the plan and the Industry Overall is enjoying Strong traffic Mark Daugherty of the investment firm Dean Witter Reynolds estimates that traffic for the 20 biggest airlines Rose 14 percent in the first half of 1985 com v pared with a year the Load the percentage of available seats actually climbed to percent from he fare increases that May result As these new programs catch on will not drive away a significant portion of that said Timothy Pettee of the brokerage firm several major airlines clouding Eastern and Republic have not yet matched United posing the possibility that they might undercut the higher fares and trigger a new Price the presence in the Market of discount carriers people express and Continental also makes it very difficult to predict whether the new fare programs at United and Ameri can can be said Lee executive vice president of airline economics a Market research firm in Pettee said he expects most of the new higher fares to stay intact even though there will be some Chipping away of prices in some he said the ability of american and the others to keep their higher prices will be determined by the not the grandmother who tried to bilk Reagan sentenced los Angeles a a 76yearold grandmother who admitted trying to bilk president Reagan on the Sale of his million Pacific Palisades Home has been sentenced to three years and four months in Ann Yarbrough waved to reporters wednesday before being sentenced by Superior court judge Everett Ricks she likes to bask in the Dep Uty District attorney Al Botello she was Able to trick and Fli Flam not Only common but intelligent people who run banking Yarbrough and her 61yearold Hus were involved in the but Botello said she was the the couple failed in their attempt to buy the Reagan Home with a fraudulent Finan Cial statement and two worthless checks used to open an escrow Yarbrough posed As a wealthy Hei Ress to obtain up to in Loans from Banks and individuals in the Reagan fraud and two other escrow Botello the Reagan family did not lose any and their valued at later was in a plea bargain agreement with los Angeles county the Yar Broughs pleaded guilty in february 1984 to conspiracy to commit grand theft in the 1982 ten other charges were James Yarbrough received three years Yarbrough won several de and while awaiting she was charged in october with trying to pass a bad she pleaded guilty to that offence in de Botello consolidated both cases for