European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 28, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Whit Worth was first. To know jury told san Francisco up Jerry Whitworth accused of espionage compiled an excellent Navy record Over 23 years and was the first to know information aboard aircraft carriers where he was a chief Petty officer with top secret clearance jurors were told wednesday. A radioman who also is a chief Petty officer is first on the Block to know what s going on master chief Petty officer Thomas f. Bennett testified in the third Day of Whitworth s trial. He is the fount of All Wisdom. If you want to know when you Are coming into port and when you Are going out you go to the radioman. He knows Bennett said. Whitworth 46, of Davis calif., is accused of passing top secret Navy code information to the soviet Union through the spy ring operated by John a. Walker. The secrets allegedly were passed be tween 1974 and 1983, when Whitworth served aboard the aircraft carriers enter prise and Constellation. Whitworth had top secret clearance and in some cases responsibility for control of the highly sensitive cryptographic code keys and code machines Bennett said. He May not have been a four-0 Sailor but he was Doggone close. A four-0 Sailor is someone who can walk on water without getting his shoes wet Bennett said. Whitworth faces 13 counts of espionage conspiracy and lying on his tax returns about receiving $332,000 Over the nine years he allegedly sold secrets to Walker for Transfer to the soviets. A High ranking National Security Agency official Earl d. Clark jr., testified wednesday that the secret code key cards Whitworth allegedly stole were half of an elaborate two part system. The heart of the system is a logic machine used to scramble English into codes. The key cards resembling computer punch cards Are inserted into the machines daily to change the code. The code logic contained in the machines transistors or tiny computer chips is the Pieart of the code system Clark said and that makes the key cards As the second half of the Puzzle extremely valuable. Whitworth allegedly photographed the key cards and passed them to Walker for Sale to the soviets. Because the logic is contained in often Bulky machines it is rarely lost but hostile forces sometimes learn the logic that forms the foundation of the codes. Just such a loss of the highly prize logic portion is believed to have resulted in 1968 in the seizure of an american electronic surveillance ship the Pueblo by North koreans Clark said. Under defense questioning Clark said the logic in the machines was changed after the Pueblo incident and after another loss during the Vietnam War. Repair manuals for the machines contain diagrams for the logic portion of the encryption equipment that amount to Blue prints for the construction of the machine. Clark testified that the repair manual has the lowest level of Security classification confidential. According to Clark the lower classification is necessary to allow widespread distribution of the repair manual to service Cen ters and ships around the world. . District judge John p. Vukasin rejected a defense request to exclude Clark s claim that the manual could enable some one to reconstruct the entire logic function of the machine. Clark said if the key and logic if the integrity of the two systems is maintained the american codes cannot be cracked by foreign agents. A Small Gray Box filled with knobs plugs and switches was displayed to jurors As a 20-year-old encryption machine used to scramble messages from English into undecipherable codes. Koop sees an end to smoking snuffing out of tobacco firms Atlanta a surgeon general c. Everett Koop who says cigarette companies should be planning for the Day when America stops smoking should not look for a career in financial analysis says a tobacco Industry spokesman. The Public health service is willing to help tobacco companies make a transition to the kind of business that enhances life and not the kind that invites death Koop said wednesday predicting at an anti smoking conference that cigarette production would Stop within 20 years. I really believe the Days of the cigarette Industry Are numbered. Despite mergers and buyouts the cigarette Industry is not and never again will be a growth Industry he. Said. Tobacco Institute spokesman Walker Merryman said that Koop can t be much of a financial analyst. If he was he d note that the Stock Market has been very bullish on the companies As investment  David Fishel vice president for Public relations of . Reynolds industries inc. In Winston Salem n.c., said if the company agreed with Koop we would not be spending Over $2 billion on renovating some of our old facilities and building what is going to be the world s most modern cigarette production Plant just North of  at a second news conference wednesday in Montgom Ery ala., Koop said he considers it part of his duty to try to reduce cigarette smoking in the United states. It s the no. 1 health problem in the United states and is responsible for Between 300,000 and 350,000 premature deaths every year he said. A study released recently by the tobacco Institute said the tobacco Industry employed or supported the jobs of 2.3 million american workers in 1983 and accounted for $82 billion or 2.5 percent of the Gross National product. Koop addressed Georgia s first conference on smoking and health sponsored by the Georgia affiliates of the american heart association the american cancer society and the american lung association. Koop also said the growing popularity of smokeless to Bacco such As snuff and chewing tobacco is a health prob Lem on the Rise. A photo surgeon general c. Everett Koop. A duty to reduce smoking in . Fires blackening thousands of acres across four safes Pikeville by. A More than 500 firefighters battled a wave of Forest fires that have blackened the Eastern Kentucky mountains As hundreds of blazes scorched parts of four states. Fuelled by dry tinder and fanned by Strong winds Forest fires have burned More than 7,000 acres in Kentucky Virginia West Virginia and Ohio this week fire officials said wednesday. A House and two trailer Homes in Vinton Ohio were destroyed when grass fires from the Countryside spread to the Gallia county town said fire chief Harry Smathers. No injuries were reported. In Kentucky at least 89 fires raged wednesday 69 of them in the Eastern part of the state said Townley Berg Mann of the state forestry division in Frankfort. Dry Breezy weather continued with Little Prospect of rain. Smoky Haze diffused the sunlight and the smell of smoke Hung in the air in Pikeville and other Mountain communities. Bergmann the division s special projects chief said one fire that started monday in Knox county had scorched 900 acres and continued to Burn. These winds make it hard to control he said. Bergmann said other Large fires wednesday included two that covered 300 acres each in Knox county one near Dewitt and one on Poplar Creek and one that scorched 500 acres near Ingram in Bell county. The National weather service earlier predicted some scattered thundershowers that might have helped quell the flames creeping through the undergrowth and dry leaves in the wooded Hills. But by late wednesday it appeared what Little Mois Ture there is is going to go North of us Bergmann said. Complete reports compiled wednesday showed Ken Tucky firefighters fought 137 fires tuesday that charred a total of 5,400 acres Bergmann said. In Virginia the largest Blaze covered 600 acres in Buchanan county on the West Virginia Border said John Graff of the Virginia division of forestry. Cose of a bad fatal Accident Board probing Twa military incident Columbus Ohio a the National transportation safety Board has entered the investigation into Why four Mili tary jets passed within a few Hundred feet of a jetliner carrying 141 passengers a Board spokesman said wednesday. We just came very close to having a very bad fatal Accident said Bill Bush a spokesman for the Board in Washington. We want to find out Why that Hap  last saturday about 20 minutes after Twa flight 489 left port Columbus in route to St. Louis the four a-7 jets from Rickenbacker air National guard base near Columbus passed 200 feet below and about 500 feet off the Wing. The incident occurred about 50 Miles Northeast of Cincinnati As the Boeing 727 jetliner was climbing to an Altitude of 23,000 feet. All the planes landed safely Bush said and there were no injuries. A Field office investigator and an air traffic control specialist from the Washington Nosb Headquarters Are conduct ing interviews in the Columbus area and planned to talk to Rickenbacker personnel about the incident thursday Bush said. Rickenbacker spokesmen have said the four a-7s were flying at their assigned Altitude of 21,000 feet. Bush said the Board did not get involved in All such incidents. We get involved in selective ones where the safety issues Are More obvious he said. If it involves a separation of a couple Hundred feet As this one did it s a different  the Federal aviation administration also has been looking into the incident and had said it might comment on its findings this week. But a spokeswoman for the Faa s great lakes Region office in Chicago Marjorie Kriz said wednesday that the Faa did not expect to have anything to say now that the Nosb was involved. The planes were under the control of the air route traffic control Center at Indi Anapolis International Airport which handles air traffic in the Region. The probe is Likely to take months Bush said. But if we at some Point before that can identify a safety problem and believe we know what needs to be done about it we won t hesitate to Issue a safety recommendation at that Point he said. The Nosb is the Federal investigative Agency for All transportation accidents whether they involve aircraft trains High ways or even pipelines