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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, February 21, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday february 21,1986 . Moves to toughen Airport Security Washington a the Reagan administration proposed legislation wednesday that would make it a fed eral crime to enter restricted areas of an Airport without authority and require background checks on employees Given Access to such  legislation Calls for up to a ,000 Fine and a year in prison for any unauthorized person found in a restricted area of an Airport. The Penally would increase to $10,000 and up to 10 years in prison if the entry is made with the intention of committing a  the first time this legislation would make it a Federal crime to enter airports secured areas without authority said transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole. Such a Law also would give the Justice department the authority to conduct investigations of airline Airport and her employees when their duties require them to have a Tess to secured areas of airports officials said. He Federal aviation administration last year required airports and airlines to make background checks on new employees who Are Given Access to secure areas of an Airport but that regulation does not apply to current pm p proposed Law would require background investigations of All employees who arc Given Access to secured " Seceny the is. Customs service also published interim rules requiring checks on employment histories Ana references or All Airport employees hired after nov. A the proposed legislation goes a step further because it would allow airlines and Airport officials to obtain inc cos of criminal records of prospective employees from the Tut according to transportation department officials. Security at  has been the subject of major con Cern since the hijacking of a trans world airlines Jet at the Athens Greece Airport last summer. Investigators have speculated that while the hijackers boarded the Twa Jet at Athens they May have smuggled their weapons aboard the jetliner with the help of Airport employees or ground Crew workers. Bishop Desmond Tutu Speaks with a policeman after arriving in Cape town with a Church delegation. Delegation tails to meet with Botha Cape town South Africa a an anti apartheid Church delegation including Bishop Des mond Tutu tried to meet with president . Botha thursday for talks on South Africa s racial turmoil but had to Settle for an audience with a Deputy minister. A member of the anti apartheid group the Rev. Beyers Naude said the clerics went to Botha s residence believing the South african Leader had agreed to meet hem but after they entered the presidential mansion they were told Botha could not spare them any time. Instead they had just Over two hours of talks with Adriaan Vlok Deputy minister of Law and order and defense. They refused to disclose details of the talks. For Tutu the 1984 Nobel peace prize Winner it was the second time since South Africa was plunged into racial conflict 17 months ago that he had sought a meeting with Botha Only to be told the president was too Busy to see him. Tutu left Cape town without comment but Naude told a news conference thursday we were disappointed at not seeing the state president since we were under the impression that his office had confirmed our appointment earlier  he said the group had fruitful discussions with minister  Botha s refusal to meet the delegation came on the Day Bankers were meeting in London to study a proposal to reschedule South Africa s $14 billion debt. The churchmen had appealed to the Bankers wednesday to make any Rescue Deal conditional upon Botha and his while led government resigning. Tutu a Black and Naude a White afrikaner had joined with mixed race Rev. Allan Loesak in appealing for talks with Botha. Botha s office issued a statement saying in View of the Lack of timely notice of the planned visit and the state president s other commitments the state presi Dent could not meet the delegation  Botha instead asked Vlok to Lead a government delegation in talks with the churchmen it said. The proposed legislation is the latest of a number of actions taken by the . Government in an attempt to reduce inc terrorist threat at least at . Airports. Last year the transportation department enacted a variety of regulations tightening baggage searches and Security at Airport passenger checkpoints. It also expanded its sky marshal program although officials have declined to say How Many sky marshals Are flying aboard Commer rep. James j. Florio d-n.j., said wednesday that fear among potential travellers is contributing to a decline in me perception of world travellers particularly Ameri can world travellers is that travelling overseas is Hazar Dous " Florio chairman of the House subcommittee on Commerce transportation and tourism told members of the National press club. He said while the threat of terrorism persists a recent trip to Greece Israel and Cyprus convinced him Security is improving. News update mafia Leader arrested Palermo Sicily a Michele Greco widely believed to be the top sicilian mafia Leader has Hen arrested outside this sicilian capital police reported. Tommaso Buscetta a major mobster turned police in former has told authorities that 62-year-old Greco known Asil papa the pop controls the entire criminal Syndicate in Sicily As the undisputed Boss in Palermo. Police said Greco was picked up in a Small town about 24 Miles East of  and his 58-year-old brother Salvatore also a convicted mobster and nicknamed the senator have been sought since 1982. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in july 1984 for planning the 1983 car bomb killing of anti mafia judge Rocco Chinici. The Greco Brothers Are among 474 defendants in the massive anti mafia trial that began Here on feb. 10. Greco is charged with ordering a string of killings including the 1982 assassination of Italy s top anti mafia fighter. Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa and his wife. He is also charged with drug trafficking and criminal association. False Billings Washington a a Navy contractor and in Parent company have agreed to pay the Federal govern ment $2.5 million in connection with false Billings on an aircraft building project the Justice department said. Under the agreement Stencel Aero engineering corp. Of Arden n.c., will pay the government $900,000 immediately and is million plus interest in one year. The $2.5 million is partially offset by a $600,000 payment already made by Stencel to the Navy. The agreement also was reached with Talley industries inc. Of Phoenix ariz., Stencel s Parent company. The government said Between 1979 and 1984, Stencel and some of its former officers conspired to defraud the government by directing employees to create false time records. Stencel is a supplier of Gas propulsion ejector seats for Navy fighter aircraft. Government investigators said the records were used to prepare false invoices under Stencel s contracts with the Navy for the manufacture and Assembly of the ejector seats. The agreement in the civil Case follows successful Crimi Nal prosecution of Stencel and former officers from charges of fraud in Billing the Navy in 1984. Judge found guilty Chicago a a judge has been found guilty of racketeering extortion and mail fraud becoming the fourth judge convicted apart of the operation Gre lord probe. Cook county circuit judge Reginald j. Holzer bowed his head As a Federal jury returned the verdict after deliberating about 18 hours. . Embassy in Moscow evicts 2 peace activists Moscow a two american peace activists at tempted to stage a protest fast and sit in inside the is. Embassy Here wednesday but were evicted by Marine guards who carried one of the protesters out of the build ing in an Over the shoulder fireman s grip. Anthony Guarisco 58, and Norman Solomon 34, of an Arizona based group called the International Alliance of atomic veterans tried to hold the protest after a 35-min Ute meeting with is. Ambassador Arthur a. Hartman. Solomon said they urged the . Government to reciprocate the soviet Union s moratorium on nuclear testing and then told Hartman they would like to stay in his Secretary s reception area for a few Days As a presence for the disarmament  said Hartman objected saying his office was a secure area. He asked them to wait in a reception room near the Security desk at the Public Entrance to the chancery Section on the embassy s ninth floor. The two were sitting on a sofa and an armchair in one Corner of the ninth floor reception room. They said they wanted to stay there fasting and using an electric portable typewriter they had with them to print out statements on disarmament issues. The uniformed Marine guard in the reception area made no attempt to talk to the two protesters. At about 6 ., the close of the embassy s business hours an embassy officer who did not give his name appeared and offered to allow the two men to set up a desk in the consular reception area on the ground floor. Solomon and Guarisco did not specifically reply to the offer. But Salomon asked would the United slates government guarantee us that it would Stop All actions related to nuclear armament except during business hours the embassy officer left and returned at about 6 30  With four marines in civilian clothes. He told Solo Mon and Guarisco they would have to leave. Neither re plied. Two marines then picked up Solomon. One of them Slung him Over his shoulder in a fireman s carry and car ried him Down in an elevator through the embassy lobby and out on to the sidewalk. Guarisco a Navy Veteran who was on a ship eight Miles away from the 1946 Bikini atoll atomic tests said he did not want to be carried and would walk out. A Marin guard accompanied him  
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