European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page s Pentagon tightens Security procedures evaluations briefcase checks travel clearances planned Washington a defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger on tuesday ordered an overhaul of Security procedures including a reliability program for holders of lop secret clearances. The new reliability program ordered by the defense Secretary will be applied to employees in especially sensitive programs or assigned to top secret positions of High Crit Mcalily the Pentagon said. In essence the program will require the supervisor of such employees to conduct his own evaluation of individuals moving into such jobs As Well As periodic re evaluations instead of relying on formal background checks. The program will be modelled after the department s personnel reliability pro Gram a similar Effort that has Long been applied to men and women with Access to nuclear weapons. Also approved on tuesday were orders to begin periodic unannounced briefcase inspections at defense department facilities including the Pentagon requiring cleared employees to report foreign travel plans in Advance an annual clean out Day that would be devoted to the removal and destruction of outdated classified materials and the creation of uniform rules requiring All employees and defense contractors to report contacts by foreigners. The Pentagon will also make greater use of its authority to withhold payments on classified contracts in order to enforce compliance with 09? Security require ments establish minimum Levels of required training for both military and con investigation conducted on individuals applying for a secret clearance. All told Weinberger approved 48 specific changes to Security procedures and or dered their prompt  Pentagon spokesman Glenn flood said Many of the changes would require months to implement and that it is impossible to predict when All will be made. The 48 changes were among 63 recommendations. Urged by a special Pentagon commission formed in the Wake of last sum Mer s so called Walker spy scandal. Four men three from the same family have been convicted or accused of passing Navy communications secrets to the soviet Union for almost 20 years. The commission which was headed by retired Gen. Richard g. Stilwell released its report last nov. 21. Weinberger promptly accepted three recommendations and said he would study the rest. Those three involved an expansion of the Pentagon s lie Detector program the institution of unusually tight controls Over so called crypt Access communication materials and a special one time command inspection of All units which handle Sensi Tive documents. Until tuesday however when the Penta gon released the Brief one Page statement the Fate of the remaining recommendations had been unclear. Weinberger also accepted a recommendation that individuals being reviewed for a secret clearance undergo a More stringent background Check. Instead of stopping with a Check of Fri and other Federal records Weinberger directed that investigations for secret clearances include a credit Check and written inquiries to present and past employers. He also established a Billet control sys tem for top secret clearances under which individuals holding such a clearance would automatically lose it upon leaving a specified Job that requires one. As for Pentagon employees they will be required to rep it to their Security office All personal foreign travel in  Weinberger also approved a related requirement that such travel records be maintained for a five year period. The Secretary also ordered the establish ment of a new general policy subject to Only limited waiver prohibiting employees from working alone in areas where top secret documents Are maintained. Weinberger further approved a new policy specifying that immigrant aliens foreigners admitted to the United states As permanent residents but who Are not naturalized citizens be denied regular Clear ances. Such individuals will be eligible Only for limited Access authorizations to material for a specific purpose and if the information is stamped secret Only if they agree to a polygraph examination. As for the remaining 12 recommendations the Pentagon said tuesday they were still under review but would require further staffing or other action prior to approval and  most of those 12 would require some Type of congressional approval or additional Money to hire More investigators or Purchase More Security equipment. Tylenol poisoning is called a Case of murder7 Yonkers . A a woman who died of cyanide poisoning after taking tylenol capsules Lead ing thousands of stores nationwide to take them off their shelves was killed by someone who put the Poison in the package within the last 10 Days a county official Aid tuesday. We Are dealing with a Case of murder Westchester county executive Andrew o Rourke said at a news conference. No one has been charged in the slaying of Diane Elsroth 23. Of Peekskill who died saturday at her Boyfriend s Home after taking tylenol from a newly opened bottle there. Officials did not pinpoint when the cyanide was introduced into the capsules which left the factory in August. The potassium cyanide would cat through a Gelatin capsule in eight to 10 Days said county chief medical examiner or. Millard Hyland who appeared with o Rourke an Fri investigation turned up no evidence that Poison had been placed in any packages of tylenol other then the one used by Elsroth said Joseph Vali Quelle an Fri spokesman in new York. Three other capsules in the bottle she used contained the Poison officials said. Hyland said the Type of cyanide used is difficult to Purchase a dangerous substance and is used in photography and the manufacture of tools and dyes. Johnson & Johnson has been sealing the necks and Caps of tylenol bottles and packing each bottle in scaled boxes since the unsolved Case in which seven tylenol users were killed by cyanide in the Chicago area in 1982. Fri spokesman Bob Long said in Chicago there s no evidence to indicate any link Between the new York death and those in 1982. Yonkers Deputy police chief Owen Mcclain said there were no suspects in i Solh s killing and added there is no reason to believe the victim was the tar get but we have not ruled out the  John t. Walden senior vice president of the proprietary association the Trade group for non prescription drug manufacturers said that unlike the 1982 Chicago poisonings this incident appeared to be a single Iso lated Case of  tylenol capsules were removed voluntarily from 1,000 a a stores in 25 states and the District of co Lumbia and regional chains in Michigan Wisconsin and Maine did the same. K Mart corp. Did not remove tylenol from its 2,180 discount stores nationally and had not received shipments from the suspect Batch Kodak to Cut thousands said spokeswoman Leslie Kola at company Headquarters in Troy Mich. Walgreen and Osco drug stores and jewel and do Minick s supermarkets announced in Chicago that tylenol capsules would be pulled from store shelves As a precautionary measure. That decision affects More than 2,600 stores. Police in Yonkers received Only about half a dozen Calls from residents saying they had bottles from the tylenol lot number adf916, with a May 1987 expiration Date that Elsroth used. Her bottle was bought at an a a in Bronxville. Elsroth. Who had been spending the weekend in the Home of her Boyfriend Michael Notarnicola Felt ill and took two tylenol capsules Early saturday Mcclain said. The capsules were from a new bottle that Notarnicola opened he said. Elsroth was discovered dead about 12 hours later after failing to appear for breakfast or lunch. Notarnicola s Mother swallowed a tylenol from the bottle without ill effect after the body was found according to Marc Moran a county government spokesman. The victim and Notarnicola had known each other three years. Elsroth worked As a stenographer for a real estate company. Her father John is a state police investigator. Sands of time of jobs internationally in the stars and str Pes Rochester . A Eastman Kodak co. Has announced a Cost cutting program that will eliminate one of every 10 jobs at its plants around the world. Henry Kaska spokesman for the giant photographic firm tuesday said the cutbacks will do away with 12,000 to 13,000 jobs internationally. Included in those cutbacks he said Are 500 Rochester area jobs that were eliminated Jan. 17 and an additional 700 announced tuesday. Through the first three quarters of 1985, Kodak earn Ings declined 27 percent reflecting unfavourable rates of currency Exchange which restrains prices and sub Stan tally higher costs associated with competitive conditions and product development he said. It is now Clear that fourth Quarter results were affected even More substantially by these  Kaska declined to comment further on fourth Quarter results except to say they will be released next tuesday. Kodak s Cost cutting Effort described by the company at an acceleration of corporate Cost improvement will result in a 5 percent budget reduction and the elimination of 10 percent of Kodak jobs worldwide in 1986 by doing away with Low priority jobs Kaska said. He Laid Kodak has 128,950 employees worldwide including 89,100 in the United states. The program also will eliminate 1986 salary increases for 130 top management officials. 40 years ago today. Feb. 13, 1946 new York s great tugboat strike came to an end but not before it had succeeded in creating a fuel shortage crisis. To conserve Energy. Mayor William o Dwyer shut Down the City in one of the most unprecedented actions Ever taken by a City official in peacetime. 30 years ago today. Feb. 13,1956 . Ambassador Clare Booth Luce announced in Rome that the United states is preparing emergency airlifts for victims of Italy s cold wave. Europe has been suffering from freezing weather described As the worst in a Century. 20 years ago today. Feb. 13,1966 the chairman of Cassius Clay s draft Board in Louisville ky., said the heavyweight Champion could be inducted into the army before his March 29 title fight with Ernie Terrell. To years ago today. Feb. 13,1976 Lee j. Cobb. A Well known character actor in movies and to died of an apparent heart attacking los Angeles. He was 64