European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 delegation made up of one lawmaker Washington a the defense after agreeing to Fly a delegation of five congressmen to Brazil on a fac finding dispatched a military plane last week with Only one congressman Pentagon insiders believe they were the victim of congressional subterfuge about the As a result of the change in Bill his daughter and several staffers were flown to Brazil in a the military equivalent of a the seven members of the party Are being attended by a doctor and four military in addition to the Normal Crew of the wife of one of the military escorts also went on the which left Washington on wednesday and is scheduled to return on at an operating expense of an the Cost of flying the plane one Way to Brazil is roughly the air Force has been told that Alexander and his party want to Fly to san Pedro after leaving at which Point the congressman and his daughter will leave the plane and return to the United states by other the plane will thus Fly Back to Washington without any member of Congress details of the trip were pieced together through inter views with Pentagon and congressional sources who insisted on the associated press also obtained several including an 7 letter from House speaker Thomas Oneill to the Pentagon that said Alexander would be leading an official delegation of four other congressmen and their efforts to reach alexanders party at their Rio de Janeiro hotel were and an William with the group in did not return phone Calls from reporters seeking comment Friday and in the letter to the pentagons legislative affairs Oneill said the Deputy House would be accompanied by Ronnie Butler Der Toby and Dan d the congressmen that they never planned on making the that what is so said an air Force official who spoke Only on condition of its bad enough that we take the grief for having to provide air planes for these but it looks like Here that there was a Little congressional subterfuge the Pentagon does not maintain a strict guideline on How Large a congressional party should be before a plane is provided for an overseas Chris a spokes Man for said that usually a minimum of four or five members Are needed for a trip in order to get a plane assigned by the Glickman says previous commitments forced him to decline alexanders invitation to join the he said he was pretty confident Alexander was Given that message before the other three members were not available for com but their spokesmen said they knew of no plans for their Bosses to participate in the one of a series that members Are making abroad during the current congressional derricks administrative Al said before the congressional recess began his Boss had turned Down several invitations from Alexander to join the asked about one ills endorsement of the mat thews responded i assume the names came from the Normal pattern is for the person putting the trip together to justify the trip and put the list of participants Judy alexanders said the purpose of the trip is to inspect alcohol fuel a major Industry in in connection with a Federal Grant recently Given the University of Arkansas to study the alter native Energy she declined to discuss the manner in which Alexander made arrangements for the documents obtained by the associated press disclose Oneill first wrote to Reserve a plane for Alexander on july he then followed that request with the 7 saying that the passenger list would include Alexan Der and his daughter the four other congressmen and their wives and Dorothy Thomas and Dwight aides or special assistants to when the plane left Andrews fab outside the travelling party included the alexanders the three aides Daniel the Deputy director of the Energy departments office of alcohol fuels and Lang Horne a former assistant Secretary of state who recently opened his own International business consulting Motley is a former ambassador to Brazil and was born in Rio de bbl hiring controlled by intelligence British newspaper says London a Britain mi5 intelligence service secretly controls the hiring and promotion of radio and television staff members at the British broadcasting the observer newspaper said the National weekly said a surveillance unit based at the abcs London Headquarters monitors the staff in the current affairs and news departments who Are regarded As having left Wing the newspaper said the unit also Black lists Job applicants suspected of having communist the Independent newspaper identified seven film editors and producers who it says were victims of mi5 interference when they applied for jobs at the the report came just 11 Days after bbl journalists staged a on Day strike when a documentary on Northern Ireland was banned under government the provoking cries of precipitated the worst internal crisis in the abcs 63year silencing its worldwide radio news service for the first the quoting several former bbl claimed the mi5 unit can make or mar the careers and lives of both bbl radio and television a bbl Leslie said she was unable to comment on the report until the appropriate people have seen the prime minister Margaret thatchers Deputy press Jean prizewinning writer Shiva Naipaul Dies at 40 London a Shiva a prize winning novelist and journalist who won acclaim for his stories of life in his native West has died of a heart he was Naipaul first was published in he followed with the Chip Chip a hot and North of South an african Naipaul bes known Book was Black and published in he also wrote for London sunday he was the younger brother of writer i dont know anything about so i cant comment on the observer claimed the surveillance unit unknown to almost All bbl from room 105 in an Sutof therway corridor at broadcasting the abcs the which has a sign saying Spe Cial duties management on its is supervised by a former British army Ronnie along with four acts As Liaison with the paper the paper said the chairmen of interview ing boards As Well As hiring producers at the bbl must submit the names of All applicants being offered jobs to Stonham the names of the applicants Are fed into computers containing the identities of it news and current affairs staff members applying for promotions but regarded As Media subversives a category which can include film even Are kept under continuous political surveil the paper some of Stonham files merely contain intimate personal the paper but most contain purported Security in collected by local special Branch often the word from mi5 that it regards a person As a Security risk is enough to Black list him or her it mi5 watches foreign spies operating in Britain and spies on britons regarded As the paper said one mi5 victim was television director Stephen whose brother a moved in 1950 to East who kept in Contact with his Broth was persistently turned Down for bbl jobs in the mid1960s until sympathetic executives tipped him off that he was being the paper he went to Kenneth then a member of Par who told the paper he consulted a government minister on Peets a sunday times Isabel was turned Down for a Job As a bbl reporter in Scotland because the mi5 unit claimed she had links with this proved to be a clerical the paper jazz in Rhode Island a photo Freddie Hubbard blows the trumpet jazz greats at the today ing his rendition of misty at the new festival included Sarah Spyro port jazz festival at Adams state Mccoy Tyner and