European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday december 10, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 panel says us a employees of Fen unprotected Washington up overseas employees of . Information Agency often arc not properly protected from terrorists because of on the part of the state department a presidential commission said sunday. In a report the . Advisory commission on Public diplomacy also criticised the slate department s Lack of action in response to the special needs of the Usi a which is charged with bringing the . Message overseas. The state department which has begun a $4.2 billion five year program to beef up Security around All .overseas installations has policy supervision Over the in formation Agency. The report criticized some state department rules for anti terrorist Protection including the suggestion that Usia libraries be moved to hardened embassy com pounds. Such a move would make the libraries inaccessible and therefore useless the report said. The commission concluded that there is always some risk that Usia employees and installations abroad must accept but added it is impossible to conduct Public diplomacy from behind barred especially in Eastern Europe where foreign citizens take some risk to go to a . Library the commission said the United states should not increase that risk or repel attendance by the kind of heavy anti terrorist precautions recommended by the state department. The Usia told the commission that As . Embassies become better protected against terrorist attacks it is possible that Usia libraries and other installations will be targeted More often but it is important that Protection docs not jeopardize the Agency s ability to fulfil its mis Sion. The commission noted that the state department has ordered some measures that would make the Usia libraries More Likely to be attacked by terrorists. One state department directive told the a Sia to find secure 10-acre site in the suburbs of , ind a for a new installation. A Usia officer said Sci Wever that an isolated . Building is a perfect target for a mortar or rocket attack. I argue that the Usia is safer that is. Less Likely to be targeted when located As we arc in a downtown congested people filled the officer continued. My underlying Assumption is that terrorists do not want the resultant Public reaction and Host government hostility. That bombing a diplomatic installation in downtown bum Bay would cause. While maybe cynical it May be that having crowds of people in and around. Is a better deterrent than sitting like the proverbial Duck in the commission said reasonable Protection for the Usia is complicated by a bureaucratic dilemma the tendency of a Large Ami authoritative organization with political and budgetary clout such As the department of state to ignore and to second guess a smaller and less potent partner when it comes to engaging in joint Ven come on make my Day this Omni robot 2000 appears ready to the items for Sale in a new store called eel Lough Wilh the criminal element in the daily planet which Sells outer new York As ii holds officer Phil space items like lasers meteorites hoi Nolan s Nightstick. The robot is one of Grams and Bio Hedback machines. Juror s thumbs Down sign prompts defense motions in trial of la. Governor new Orleans a a juror in gov. Edwin Edwards Federal racketeering trial hashed a thumbs Down sign at television Cam eras saturday prompting defense attorneys to demand that he be thrown off the panel. . District judge Marcel Livaudais said he would hear arguments on the motion monday. The jury quit deliberating saturday without reaching a verdict. No deliberations Are scheduled sunday. Juror Clifford West made the gesture As he climbed aboard a Van that took jurors from their hotel to the courthouse to begin the fourth Day of deliberations in the trial of the governor his brother and three other people. Livaudais told lawyers in a hearing hat he had seen a videotape of jurors leaving the hotel but he did not comment on it. James Neal. Chief defense Al Gorncy asked for time to prepare full arguments on his motion. A juror can be removed for just cause including erratic behaviour the motion said. . Attorney John vol said he docs no expect West to be removed. Frankly the motion is so baseless and groundless it should t take too Long to dispose of it he said. West 31, an unemployed electrician from new Orleans had observers and anxious defendants speculating All Day about what the gesture meant. Volz and Neal had said earlier it was impossible to know what West meant. We re paying More attention to this jury than has Ever been paid to any jury in this City that i can recall Volz said. Camilla gravel another of Edwards lawyers said i saw a and or. Neal saw it and we discussed it Wilh the governor and he did t have any specific reaction to it. But he said do whatever you think should be done we made the motion because we think there might be some rights at this time that we want to Edwards his brother Marion and their business associate Ronald Falgout. James Willic or. And Gus Mijalis arc accused of abusing their political Power in a $10 million Hospital investment scam. The 13-Weck-old trial was highlighted by Edwards own testimony which included tvo Days of intense Cross examination by vol. Each defendant was charged with Violat ing the conspiracy Section of the complicated Federal racketeer influenced and corrupt organization acl. All but Mijalis also faced 49 counts of mail and wire fraud. Mijalis was charged with three counts of mail fraud. The indictment accused the defendants of scheming to illegally obtain state certification for Hospital and nursing Home projects in which they held interests. Edwards acknowledged that before he look office in March 1984 he made almost $2 million on the deals which he insisted v re Legal. He said he broke tics with the venture when he became governor. Prosecutors said his $2 million profit constituted a bribe from Wyllie and Falgut. None of the More than 70 witnesses said Edwards conspired Wilh the others. Bui they testified that Edwards Afler he look office approved or had a role in approving projects owned by Wyllie and Falgout. Defense lawyers said the nursing Homes and hospitals were needed in the areas for which they were approved. Each Rico count carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison a $25,000 Fine and forfeiture of All property acquired in the criminal Enterprise. Each mail and wire fraud count carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison and a $1,000 Fine. Edwards was the Only defendant who did t show up at the courthouse. He said wednesday he would remain in new or leans while awaiting the verdict and would hold a news conference soon after one is reached. Texas panel oks quarantine of some aids victims Austin a the Texas Board of health sat urday rave tentative approval to a Rule allowing the qua wine of incorrigible aids victims who become a he tart Ltd 12-5 to publish the proposed Rule an take Public comment at a hearing on Jan. 13. The measure would allow the isolation or separation of aids victims who refused to curtail sexual activity or Oug use thai can spread the fatal disease said or. Robert Bernstein state health , state Neami. Inc docs not Deal with the average aids patient. Chairman or. Ren Anderson of Dallas voted against the measure. It s not really scientifically what will help us very much he said. The Rule would add aids to the list of diseases for which a texan can be quarantined but the quarantine Power would be used Only As a last resort and Only with the permission of the state health commissioner Bernstein said. The panel also tentatively approved a Rule that would require tags on the bodies of people killed by aids or certain other contagious diseases. The toe lag which would remain in place until just before burial would be intended As a warning for medical personnel and funeral Home workers who handle the body. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome crippler the body s immune system leaving the victim vulnerable to infections and other diseases including cancers. Researchers say aids is most Likely to strike homosexuals no users of in Citable drugs and Haemophiliacs. Ii is spread by sexual Contact contaminated Needles and blood transfusions but not by casual Contact. The quarantine proposal was sparked by a Houston Case in which an aids victim refused to Stop working As a prostitute. The Man later died. We have a moral obligation to protect the people of Texas against a disease that is 100 percent fatal said Board member or. Barry Cunningham a round Rock dentist. Bernstein acknowledged that the scientific Community has said this is not the Way to reduce the incidence of
