European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday March 10, 1986 7 allies copy . Arms probes report Washington up weak Pentagon controls on military technology have allowed seven . Allies most of them in Asia to manufacture copies of Small american weapons and equipment for Export Pentagon investigators have found. South Korea and Pakistan have repeatedly violated agreements with the United states in exploiting . Tech Nical designs to produce tank parts trucks hand grenades tactical radios and Field telephones the Pentagon inspector general s office said in a report made available to United press International. Investigators found that the defense department has been losing control of its technology a knowledgeable Pentagon official said. William Schneider jr., undersecretary of state for Secu Rity assistance science and technology expressed concern in an interview that copies of . Army infantry weapons and equipment could ultimately be exported to countries that arc hostile to the United states such As iran and Vietnam. Sale of these weapons also has Cut into markets dominated by american firms depriving them of millions of dollars in sales and adversely affecting the . Balance of Trade american businessmen say. It s a significant and growing problem said the marketing director of a Midwest weapons distributor. South Korea and Pakistan obtained technical models designs and drawings from the Pentagon at minimal Cost for the purpose of maintaining and operating . Weapons the november report said. Once they got the data however those countries used the information to guide weapons production investigator found. Five other countries not authorized to build .-de signed equipment Belgium Israel Malaysia Singapore and Taiwan were found to be manufacturing training ammunition virtually identical to . Navy munitions. Investigators said those five countries did not violate any agreements but probably had acquired the weapon designs from unnamed . Allies who were breaking accords by reselling . Data packages. The defense department which does not routinely Monitor countries use of maintenance and operations data did not learn that the countries were manufacturing weapons until the investigative findings were reported. The defense Security assistance Agency needlessly approved the Sale of Many data packages to countries that did not need them investigators reported. Six of seven embassies affiliated with the countries cited in the report would not comment on its findings. Col. Charlee Chu of the taiwanese embassy said that although he was not familiar with the report his govern ment would be aware of Pentagon regulations. And would not do something air Force it. Gen. Philip Gast head of the Pentagon Security Agency since 1982, said he agreed for the most part with the report which included a recommendation that Sale of data for the purposes of maintenance and operations be halted. He said his Agency would comply with the recommendation except when countries requirements could not be met from other sources. Schneider said the United states exerts Little control Over weapons manufactured overseas. As a result he said countries can sell these weapons wherever they want including to nations unfriendly to the United states. Kab defector says Yurchenko was executed Hamburg up the West Ger Man news service spa said sunday that Viktor Yurchenko the Kab defector who returned to the soviet Union has been executed. The news service said word of the execution was brought to the West by a colonel in the Kab the soviet intelligence Agency who defected last month. The colonel said Yurchenko was shot some time ago after a court martial spa reported. It attributed its report to informed Cir cles and gave no details. Another report that Yurchenko had been shot was carried last week by National Public radio. The reports have not been confirmed. There was speculation that the soviets leaked the report to make the United states think he gave interrogators accurate information while he was in american hands. Yurchenko 49, disappeared while on a Mission to Rome. He is thought to have defected to the United states on aug. 1. On nov. 4 he appeared at a news conference at the soviet embassy in Washington. At a news conference in Moscow nov. 14 he said he had been Given mind altering drugs while held by the americans to make him reveal information. The West German news service also re ported that its sources said East and West have begun negotiations for another Exchange of prisoners. It said the Exchange would not be As spectacular As the one on Berlin s Glenicke Bridge last month that freed soviet dissident Anatoly Shch Aransky. It probably would be an Exchange of Middle level imprisoned spies and not top agents spa said. A West German news Magazine reported sunday a double defection similar to that of Yurchenko. Der Spiegel which has excellent Intelli gence sources said a member of a soviet Trade firm based in West Germany defected in october changed his mind and was turned Over to the soviet embassy thurs Day. Radio Liberty rejects idea that editor was kidnapped Munich a officials at the . Funded radio station radio Liberty on Sun Day dismissed As speculation a newspaper report that the station s missing russian language editor May have been kidnapped by the soviet secret service. The mass circulation sunday newspaper Bild am sonntag quoted Michael Roslen sky who it said was a Kremlin expert As speculating that Oleg Tumanov May have been kidnapped by the Kab and taken Back to the soviet Union. Munich police and radio Liberty spokesmen say Tumanov a 41-year-old so Viet emigre who has worked for the station for 20 years disappeared after calling in sick to work on feb. 25. He would not have gone Back of his own free will Volensky was quoted As saying in Bild. He then told the newspaper he was sure Tumanov had been kidnapped by the Kab Bild said. But radio Liberty spokesman Bill Maho Ney in a Telephone interview dismissed the report As we have nothing new on Tumanov s Fate. Bild s report is pure speculation. We have not heard anything new Mahoney said. He said Volensky was a member of a German Institute that studies soviet affairs but he had no other details on the Man. Radio Liberty which broadcasts in 13 languages to the soviet Union has its head quarters in Munich together with radio free Europe the . Station that Broad casts to Eastern Europe. Earlier this week two Anonymous Telephone callers claimed that Tumanov acting chief editor of the russian Lan Guage service had re defected to mos cow. The Calls were made tuesday to radio Liberty s office in London and to its Headquarters in Munich. Tumanov who was born in Moscow on nov. 12, 1944, was drafted into the Navy and defected in 1965 by. Jumping off a soviet ship in the Mediterranean according to Mahoney. He is under a death sentence in the soviet Union for defecting from military serv ice. Patient does t know Organ was replaced temperatures German a Saab a with artificial heart March 8 Berlin a the first German to receive an artificial heart was in stable condition sunday but has not been told that his own heart was replaced by a mechanical device doctors said. Or. Emil Buecherl who designed and implanted the artificial heart said the 39 year old Man was in stable condition and that the plastic device was functioning without any problems two Days after it was implanted. We have not told the patient that his own heart was taken out and replaced with an artificial heart because we wanted to prevent him from being disturbed Bue Cherl said in a Telephone interview. He said the artificial heart will remain in the Man s body Only until a suitable human heart can be found. The West Berlin Charlottenburg univer sity clinic where the surgery was per formed on Friday has sent an urgent a peal to european hospitals to find a human heart that could be transplanted Buecherl said. The recipient an Interior decorator was in intensive care sunday connected to a Respirator and under sedation Buecherl said. He has declined to name the patient but the mass circulation newspaper Bild am sonntag identified him As Hans Holzweg. Buecherl 66, said the Man was brought to the Hospital by his wife on thursday. Doctors diagnosed severe deformations of coronary vessels and decided to proceed with coronary bypass surgery. The Man was brought to the operating table on Friday. From then on it was like a heart surgery thriller said Buecherl the clinic s chief surgeon. He said the patient suffered a serious heart attack during surgery to implant the chess Champion Dies Moscow a ukrainian born Lyudmila Rudenko the first soviet to win the women s world chess championship has died at the age of 81, Tass reported. Tass said she died in Leningrad. In 1950, she became the first soviet to take the women s world chess Crown which she held for three years. In 1977, she was also the first to receive the International grandmaster rank ing for women by the world chess federation. Coronary bypass. Buecherl s team completed the bypass operation but the heart of the patient began to weaken so much that he had to be connected to a heart lung machine. The function of the heart failed to improve within an hour and we had no human heart to transplant. We consulted with the Man s wife and the team of doctors then decided to remove the Man s Organ and implant the artificial heart Buecherl said. The device was developed by Buecherl and his assistants at his West Berlin clinic. He said it was the first time the artificial heart was used in a human but he said it had been extensively tested in animals. The artificial heart consists of two pumps that Are connected to the Aorta and the pulmonary artery Buecherl said. The de vice is powered by an external machine. That s Why we want to find a human heart for a transplant. We want our patient to become free to move and not to be permanently connected to machines Buecherl said. He said his device was different in form and material from the Jarvik-7 artificial heart that has been used in the United states. L h 25 35 49 66 38 49 28 38 38 46 40 47 56 82 69 84 42 58 56 62 Albany Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Honolulu Kansas City los Angeles l h 62 75 Miami 66 73 new Orleans 15 30 new York 57 74 Orlando 53 75 Phoenix 35 46 Philadelphia 40 53 Pittsburgh 48 54 Portland Ore. 57 60 san Francisco 38 55 Washington Beitf Preah Feather forecast for monday Cloudy skies with morning fog in Eastern sections of Germany. Intermittent Light rain in the extreme North and Southeastern Germany. The Benelux and Western sections of Germany will be partly Cloudy with morning fog. High temperatures in the 40s, lows in the upper 20s to mid-30s. Sunset monday 6 21 Sunrise tuesday 6 50. Outlook for tuesday partly Cloudy skies with morning fog locally dense for the Benelux and Western sections of Germany. Elsewhere mostly Cloudy skies with Light fog. Temperatures will be slightly warmer. Temperatures recorded sunday 4am 4pm Adana cd 55 68 Amsterdam Gathens m Aviano cd Berlin cd Bremerhaven s Brussels p 32 52 46 34 32 30 41 57 55 38 33 46 Copenhagen cd Frankfurt cd London cd Madrid p Munich cd Paris p Rome do 4am 4pm 28 32 36 36 38 32 32 48 45 46 57 38 46 57 provided by det. 13, 7lh weather so Graben Trarbach. Other worldwide temperatures Cairo cd Dublin r Helsinki cd Jerusalem cd Lisbon f High Low 81 59 Montreal s 48 37 Moscow cd 34 30 Oslo cd 59 45 Toronto s 59 50 Vancouver f High Low 19 -8 36 32 47 32 30 23 57 43 supplied by the associated Pressl Cloudy a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy Fig fog a Rains Snow do drizzle
