European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday february 16,1986 tests revealed few traces of spy dust embassy says world today Moscow a traces of a spy dust that the . Stale department said the Kab used against Ameri cans in Moscow were found in five diplomats cars but hundreds of other samples did not reveal any traces it was announced Here Friday. Arthur Hartman at a news Confer ence for american reporters released the results of tests conducted last fall by the environmental Protection Agency and in january by an embassy medical technician. The tests were made after the United states announced that diplomats had been exposed to the chemical Ppd earlier in the year. Friday s report also said Laboratory studies have concluded that Ppd is not a health Hazard and during the samplings Here traces of the chemical Luminal not considered a health risk were also found. Luminal was described As a commercially produced chemical hat trans forms chemical Energy into Light. Hartman said the state department would complain to the soviet embassy about exposing americans to sub stances to which the general population in Moscow is no subjected. When the state department announced last summer that it had found traces of Ppd on diplomats Here the embassy informed the general american Community in meetings. Some of the . Citizens reacted with alarm particularly pregnant women. The embassy said then that the Epa team which worked Here in August and september would take specimens from Homes offices and cars of any american who requested it. The team swabbed items of frequent Contact such As telephones Light switches doorknobs and steering wheels. Hartman said about 20 percent of the american population in Moscow and Leningrad formed part of the Sam pling. In All 418 surfaces were sampled and 18 bulk samples from clothes dryer lint and vacuum cleaner dust were taken. No traces of Ppd were found. Hartman said he then requested further samplings to Sec if indeed it the samples were taken by a technician assigned to the embassy s medical unit. The purpose of the Epa Survey was to see How wide spread the use of this was he said. It so happened that the 20 percent covered did not turn up. One of the reasons i did t want to go with the results at that time was i knew All the questions that would Hartman said that in january the medical technician concentrated on the cars of embassy employees consid ered to be the most Likely targets for use of a tracking he declined to say How Many samples were taken or from How Many people but he said the samples were taken from areas such As seams or crevices in automobile upholstery and sent to the United states. Ppd was found in five cars but Harlman said the chemical could have been residue applied there any time and it could not be concluded that Ppd use is continuing. He said the chemical is most Likely sprayed into the cars and was probably done when they were parked at apartment compounds. Hartman said the embassy would continue to conduct tests particularly on cars or personal property recently brought in by diplomats. He said a simple inexpensive method of detecting Ppd that can be easily used at the embassy has been developed. Asked whether the american Community Here might have been unduly alarmed last summer Hartman replied we tried not to make it overexcited and on the other hand we did t want to Tell people there was no danger. But this is a problem that we face and if there Are any complaints by the soviets that this was somehow played up then they should just Stop this activity and there would t be any effect on our relations. It is unacceptable to submit the american population Here to any outside substances that Are not in the general atmosphere he said. The soviet Union said the spy dust allegations were an absurd Street Side Charm a Snake charmer along a Street in Julur India Guys a hypnotic Melody As he coaxes two snakes to Rise from their Basket. Tourists Are expected to up the charmer if be gets the sinister looking pets to move. Soviet Sailor defects asks for political Asylum in Belgium Brussels Belgium a a soviet Sailor defected and asked for political Asylum in Belgium the foreign ministry has confirmed. R. The defection was first reported by the soviet embassy which leaked to the press a complaint it sent to the for eign ministry about Belgium s silence on the Case. The Sailor did is Rosenberg reportedly defected from his freighter. Engineer Nechiporenko dec. 17 in ant Werp. The age and Hometown of the Sailor were not Given. The soviet embassy said Belgium s refusal to provide information was totally unjustified and contrary to elementary norms of International Law and human rights owing namely to the anxiety of the Rosenberg family. The foreign ministry said it was forbidden to release information on the location of a person asking for political Asylum. It said Rosenberg s request for Asylum was being studied. Chinese City of Canton bans. Owning dogs As pets paper says peking a dog ownership has been banned in the Southern City of Canton and its outskirts and those violating the Law will be fined a newspaper has reported. The Yangcheng evening news said that recent regulations banned All dogs except guard animals and dogs with other special uses. The report gave no reason for the new regulations but the danger of rabies was the reason Given for a ban on dog ownership in peking in 1983. Officials said special extermination squads killed 200,000 dogs there. The state run newspaper peasant daily reported that As Many As a Quarter of China s dogs May be infected with rabies. After a rabies outbreak in Hunan province Early last year half of the 26,000 dogs in the affected area were killed. In Canton anyone caught with a pet dog will be fined. Libyan armed forces seeking new recruits in Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladesh a a Large recruiting advertisement seeking Volunteer Pilot sailors soldiers and technicians for Libya s armed forces has appeared in a Bangladesh newspaper. The advertisement in the news an English language daily said the recruits would help the libyan armed forces fight jihad or holy War against the enemies of islam which it said were led by Israel and the United states. Two weeks ago libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy Jin an economic Boycott of the United states which is already boycotting Libya. He also said moslem from anywhere in the world would be Welcome in the libyan armed forces. Official confirms first cases of aids in Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovakia a a health ministry official has disclosed the existence of aids in this East bloc country and warned against sexual Contact with . The official. Or. Lubomir Syrucek said in a television broadcast that czechoslovak medical authorities know of two cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome involved Are two men both homosexuals said Syrucek part of a three member panel of health ministry specialists on infectious diseases discussing the disease on television. State run Media previously had denied the existence in Czechoslovakia of the illness that destroys the body s ability to fight infection. Syrucek and his colleagues told viewers to avoid promiscuity and sexual Contact with foreigners. Warsaw paper says Poland has dozens of millionaires Warsaw up communist theory disapproves of the Rich but a communist party paper says Poland has dozens of multimillionaire and one is even a party Mem polityka reported on the existence of the phenomenon Winch is a compatible with marxist theory after inter viewing some of the richest people in Poland. N to y-8T " Trifid at the ought that they might recalled millionaires polityka said they do everything they can not to be called polityka gave an example of 72-year-old Ignacy Soszynski of Poznan Western Poland who drives a Small polish made Fiat 126 in order to avoid attracting attention to his staggering income. Soszynski who described himself to the polityka reporter As the richest person in Eastern Europe is the owner of 10 of emetic and perfume plants with 1,000 employee and an annual income of about $40 million. I
