European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 14, 1985 the stars and stripes 464 Page 7 Reagan tightens Security at embassies . Workers replacing soviets of counter hostile intelligence threat Washington a in a Security move the Reagan administration is replacing about half of the soviet Drivers guards mechanics and other workers at the . Embassy in Moscow with americans. Similar changes will be nude at other . Embassies in Hastern , also to counter a hostile intelligence threat the slate department said thursday. Officials said privately however that the soviet workers do not have Access to . Secrets and already arc hermetically scaled in the embassy s ground floor. The cutback demanded by some Mem Bers of Congress initially was resisted by the department As unnecessary and expensive. The soviet employees arc useful for their language fluency and Access to soviet travel and other services officials said. Some of the congressmen Don t seem to realize that said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. They All have to be considered As Poten tial soviet agents but they have no Access to secret information or to the places where it s stored another said. About Ico soviet workers at the Moscow embassy will be replaced. The Security move was announced by department spokesman Charles Redman in response to questions prompted by s los Angeles times report that president Rea Gan had ordered the elimination of All soviet nationals at the embassy the . Consulate in Leningrad and at . Embassies in the Eastern bloc. Redman said Secretary of stale George p. Sulu had authorized inc gradual re Slack mint of a substantial number of the evicts at the Moscow embassy and fewer in Leningrad and elsewhere. The department of state has Long been Active in efforts to take Strong and practical Steps to county the hostile intelligence threat against our embassies abroad he said. About 200 soviet nationals work at the . Embassy in Moscow and 21 work for the United slates in Leningrad. A second . Consulate May be opened soon in Kiev. In a preliminary Security move. Soviet construction workers last August were barred from inc . Offices at the new american embassy being built in the soviet capital. Similarly soviet workers were brought to Washington last Spring to construct a new soviet embassy Here. Both governments arc on the Alert for the planting of eavesdropping and other hidden surveillance devices the slate department  been under pressure from some members of Congress to dismiss All nationals Al the embassies and to replace them with . Cili ens As a Safe guard against espionage. The department resisted  it could cause severe personnel problems and Cost s7 million to is million no explanation was Given for the shift. Redman stressed that not All soviets who work at the embassy will be dismissed. These initiatives arc guided by one simple Standard every action must be justified by a positive contribution to Security he said. On a related subject the spokesman re fused to say whether Shult would submit to the lie Detector tests ordered b Reagan for thousands of . Government employees with Access to lop secret . An official old the  press on wednesday thai Shult W.I-. Upped to mandatory Pok graphs As   no Prin  Ferraro wont seek Senate cites Federal probe new York a Geraldine Ferraro. The former democratic vice presidential nominee said she will not run for the . Senate next year against Republican Alfonso d Amato. Blaming a still incomplete Federal investigation of her congressional financial reports. There was Only one Factor in this decision the former three term  told reporters. Had the . Justice department investigation been sex Navy radioman pleads innocent to new spy charges san Francisco a former Navy radio oper Ator Jerry Whitworth pleaded innocent thursday to new charges of Selling military aide secrets to the soviet Union for $332.000. Whitworth 46, was indicted on the new espionage charges tuesday by a Federal grand jury thai was reported to have heard testimony last week from John Walker a confessed spy and he Leader of a group that sold secret information to the soviet Union. . Attorney Joseph Russoniello has described the Case and particularly the new charges against Whitworth As representing one of the most serious Security breaches the United slates has suffered since world War  Whitworth s lawyers say Russoniello is crag Geraline and focusing on the wrong Man. Since Walker was the acknowledged ringleader. Walker pleaded guilty to espionage and agreed to testify against Whitwo Rah. His former Navy Friend in Exchange for a lighter sentence for Walker s son Michael. The younger Walker who also pleaded guilty to spying got a 25-year sentence. John Walker was sentenced to life in prison As was his brother Arthur who was convicted of espionage after a jury trial. Tuesday s 13-count indictment supersedes Ihrck earlier sets of charges against Whitworth who spent 18 years in Navy communications before his retirement in 1983 and had Access to secret information about code systems. Completed i would have been a  she said. Ferraro s decision not to enter the race capped months of speculation and left inc Field open for a democratic challenger to d Avalo. She was the most prominent Democrat known to be considering the race. It is with great reluctance that i have concluded not to be a candidate for the United states Senate Ferraro said. This is a final and unequivocal  what she s really saving is. That our whole family went through an awful Lui of harassment an Duful in of pm and apparently it s not Over " said Iov. Mario Cuomo. His reference was to the attention the 1w4 presidential Campaign focused on Ferraro s finances and those of her family. As one result of that scrutiny her husband. John Vecaro pleaded guilty in january to a Misdemeanour charge of scheming to defraud in a real estate transaction. What s the weather in space this is a drawing of the next generation of weather satellite under construction by Ford aerospace corp. Officials Hope it will provide added capabilities in weather forecasting in the 21st Century. It will be operated by be National oceanic and atmospheric administration to Monitor the nation s weather. The satellites Are called goes for geostationary operational environmental satellite. Up Ohn asks Fra Fook and badness drug Kalamazoo Mich. A Upjohn co. Has completed testing of a Dru louled As a cure for baldness and will ask the . Food and drug administration to approve prescription sales of the drug. Under the name Lonten the drug has been prescribed for years to control High blood pressure. As a baldness cure it s still expert Man Lal said Jan Ausec Rhedic an Upjohn spokeswoman. The company docs plan to file a new drug application b7 the end of the year and after that the Fra has to review the data sub milled with the application Auster hide said. It takes the Fra two years on the aver age to Rule on such an application she said. The baldness drug minoxidil has been tested on human volunteers and Upjohn hoped to Market it the drug As a prescription medi Cine under the Trade name regain. The drug has been tested As a remedy for both male pattern baldness which is the hair loss Many men experience with advancing age and Patchy baldness which is an unusual massive loss of hair All Over the body Upjohn said. Ausec Rhedic said the company had not decided when to publicly release the final results of its testing. Upjohn will expand an existing Plant in Kalamazoo and add 60 people to its work Force to make the anti baldness drug the company announced in August. The pharmaceutical company first suspected in the Early 1970s that minoxidil might help baldness when people taking the drug internally for High blood pressure reported hair growth on various parts of their bodies. Test subjects have applied the drug externally As researchers sought to localize inc hair growing effects. A Steep Rise in the Price of the company s Stock in May. From $80 a share to around slip a share in less than a month was attributed by analysts to rumours about inc anti baldness drug. A sell off in the company s shares this week occurring at a time of record advances in the Stock Market brought the Price Down from around si40 a share to si30. Analysts blamed the drop on investor worries caused by Upjohn s failure to give a specific Dale that it would apply to the Fra for marketing approval