European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Shultz urges More use of Covert operations Washington a Secretary of state George Shultz said the . Government should make better use of Covert action As Well As military retaliation or economic sanctions to combat terrorism. Asked during a television interview whether president Reagan s administration is considering undercover operations against the government of col. Moa mar khad Afy Shultz declined to answer specifically. But in his appearance sunday on the lbs program face the nation Shultz did say there Are All sorts of things that i suppose that could be done and the whole notion of Covert action is to have it something that is not described in detail but it is certainly intended to be Dis  there arc Many things that need to be done secretly and we have to have a greater capacity in our country to recognize the importance of being Able to do things with out having them publicized ahead of  last november the Washington Post disclosed a Covert Cia plan to destabilize the libyan government which included providing secret support to libyan dissidents in the Hope it would Lead to an uprising against khad Afy. That disclosure was sharply criticized by the administration. Shultz indicated the United states would broaden its Campaign against Libya whose government the Reagan administration has accused of supporting terrorism. Whether it is with respect to libyan terrorism or other forms of terrorism it s important for us to have a variety of things we can do and there Are Many different a photo Secretary of state George Shultz. In Hawaii with president Reagan things that we can do. And so they should t get the idea that the Only thing was to repeat an operation like we did the other Day Shultz said referring to the . Bombing of Libya april 15. There Are economic sanctions there s diplomatic efforts there s the kind of isolation that s gradually happen ing to Libya. There is what we did the other Day he said. Shultz sought to minimize criticism that the . Bomb ing raid rather than reducing the level of terrorism May have spurred More attacks against americans since the raid. There has been an All too Large and increasing level of terrorism before we look this action. So it in t As though a lot of terrorism has broken out since we took the action it was going on before and unfortunately it Contin ." asked about speculation that the syrian rather than the libyan government May have been behind the Twa bombing last month that killed four passengers Shultz said i would say we Don t have the kind of information that would Lead me to want to make a  he said he Felt the. United states was taking adequate Security precautions against future terrorist actions to protect ourselves at Home and  Shultz interviewed in Hawaii while accompanying Rea Gan on the journey that will include a seven nation eco nomic Summit in Tokyo said when you get the Heads of state of the seven key Industrial democracies gathered together it s a very Juicy target for  judge says tobacco warnings no shield against suits Boston a Liggett and Meyers tobacco co says it will Appeal a Federal judge s ruling that health warnings on cigarette packages do not protect tobacco companies from lawsuits. . District judge a. David Mazzone on Friday rejected a motion to dismiss a $3 million suit by the heirs of a heavy smoker who the family says died of lung cancer. Mazzone said juries were free to find that reasonable manufacturers would have included stronger warnings in addition to those required by Federal Law. The suit against Liggett & Meyers to Bacco inc. And Liggett group inc. Was brought by the heirs of Joseph c. Palmer of Newton who died in 1980 at the age of 49. He smoked As Many As three or four packs of pm cigarettes daily for 23 years according to the suit. The suit blames the death on his smoking and claims the defendants were negligent in failing to provide adequate warnings about the risks of smoking. The companies claimed the federally required warnings shielded them from liability. I cannot conclude that Congress meant to do away with All Means of obtaining compensation for those Hurt by inadequate cigarette warnings and advertising Maz zone said. A Liggett & Meyers spokesman said the companies would seek an immediate Appeal to the 1st . Circuit court of appeals in Boston a move expected to delay the trial which is scheduled to Start May 5. Mazzone s ruling differs with a recent Federal appellate court decision in Phila Delphia. Should the appeals court in Boston uphold Mazzone the conflicting rulings would make it More Likely that the Issue would eventually go before the . Supreme court. Doctors suspect cigarettes damage chromosomes Atlanta up1 Federal health officials Are investigating a possible link be tween cigarette smoking and chromosome damage that could Lead to Early detection of people Likely to get lung cancer or other smoking related diseases. Thirty cigarette smokers and 30 others who Don t smoke Are enrolled in the study being conducted by the National centers for disease control. A similar study involving cigarette smoking chinese men is under Way at the Shanghai first medical College in the people s Republic of China. It is the first study conducted to determine specifically if there is a connection Between heavy cigarette smoking and chromosome breakage said or. Lee Annest of the cd s Center for environmental health. If a link is found it could possibly Lead to prevention or Early treatment of cancers related to smoking. I think this is a Nice first step to look and see if there is an association Between chromosome fragility and smoking said Annest. No one has Ever demonstrated a cause and effect relationship Between smoking and chromosome damage. Then if we get a link Between those fragments and health outcomes such As can cer we would have a possible link Between smoking and susceptibility to  a report on the study also cited the need to develop a Short term test for genetic damage that May be caused by cigarette smoking. Chromosomes Are microscopic Rod shaped bodies that convey hereditary characteristics. Listed As principal investigators for the two studies Are drs. Andrew . Chen of the cd s genetics Branch with Annest assisting and or. Dai quid to of the Shang Hai first medical College. The studies will be Independent of each other but the cd said it would be interesting to see if chinese and american investigators reach similar conclusions using data generated in Shanghai and  the smokers in both studies Are males who have smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a Day for the past five years. Those in the study have been matched for age race and sex. Since chromosomes break in nor Mal individuals under Normal circumstances Annest said the background Chromo some fragility level of the study participants has been determined so that any excess might be associated with smoking. A secondary objective of the studies will be to determine if the folic acid used in the cell cultures to promote cell growth might of itself cause chromosome breakage. I anticipate that what we re going to find will Call for further research Annest said. Is there a sub population of people that smoke who Are at higher risk of cancer and if so can that be associated with any particular frag ment of detox ribonucleic acid on a Chromo some detox ribonucleic acid or Dan is the genetic material of chromosomes. Annest said other chromosome studies have dealt with the numbers and types of Breaks. We believe that it would be advantageous to study the location of Chromo some breakage because recent evidence from clinical genetics and molecular biology has shown that certain cancers Are associated with translocations of specific re Gions of chromosomes resulting in oncogenes cancer being  Fri agent suspected of Selling secrets new York up an Fri agent whose Bent for heavy gambling forced him to Moonlight As a taxi Driver is under investigation for Selling government secrets to the soviets or organized crime the new York daily news reported sunday. The specialist in soviet counterintelligence who had Access to everything worked in the Bureau s computer Center in Washington the newspaper said. He has been transferred from his Sensi Tive High clearance Post in Fri Headquarters to a desk Job at the Bureau s training facility in Quantico va., unidentified sources told the news. The investigation comes at a time when a former Fri agent is being tried in los an Geles for Selling secrets to a soviet spy who testified last week that she had had an affair with a second agent. In the latest Case sources told the news internal Fri investigators recently uncovered a breach in Security in the computer Center and Are trying to determine what formation has been leaked and who received it. The news quoted a source As saying the unidentified agent under investigation had Access to everything. From organized crime to labor to police to foreign Intelli  the Fri declined to give the newspaper any information about the agent but sources told the news he had been a super visor in the new York City foreign counterintelligence unit for several years specializing in soviet affairs. In that Post he supervised agents who tracked soviets to determine whether they might be willing to defect the news said. The agent was subsequently promoted Given a Job in Fri Headquarters in Washington and assigned to the computer Center the newspaper said. The news said the agent became a heavy Gambler and began moonlighting As a cabby to pay his losses. Investigators suspect he May have sold information to the russians after they determined he was financially vulnerable the newspaper said. The Fri is also investigating the possibility that he passed information to organized crime As payment to loan Sharks from whom he borrowed Money the news added. Sandsio Itienne in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 29, 1946 austrians face a sub starvation diet of 230 calories a person a Day for the four month period starting May 25. An army official said food sup plies purchased from the allies will be exhausted next month. 30 years ago today. April 29, 1956 convicted atom bomb spy David Greenglass said in Washington that his sister and brother in Law Ethel and Julius Rosenberg deliberately became martyrs for the completely erroneous cause of world communism. 20 years ago today. April 29, 1966 the . Army swarmed through a guerrilla stronghold on the cambodian Border and destroyed the largest Viet Cong Supply Center in South Vietnam said Saigon press reports. To years ago today. April 29, 1976 Jimmy Carter who scored an overwhelming Victory in Pennsyl Vania s presidential primary May have buried the presidential Hopes of Henry Jack son Morris Udall and Hubert Humphrey