European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 7. 1966 the stars and stripes Page 5 Tacky Luck May solve fiscal woes Swampscott mass. A some employees of this Small Seaside town believe thai Swampscott should take a Gamble in the Hope of avoid ing u �450,000 municipal budget deficit next year. We re Short Money it s As Sini pc As that said Carl Reardon who came up with the idea of spending. S100 in local funds on a season ticket for the Massachusetts megabucks lottery the town s commissioner of Trust funds and a school custodian said monday his plan has produced mixed reactions. It ranges from the greatest idea they Ever heard of to completely but Kea Don added that most of those who oppose spending town Money on the lottery would favor buying a season megabucks ticket if it s done with donations from those attending the annual town meeting. The town meeting the governing body for this Community of 13,800 peo ple is scheduled to take up he Mega Bucks Issue later this week. Reardon said Swampscott s si6.5 million budget like that of Many other Massachusetts Cit Ify and towns is being squeezed by rising expenses on one Side and proposition it which passed in 1981 Ana puts a limit on properly taxes on the other. A season ticket allows a Holder to bet the same set of numbers for year in each of two weekly drawings. Is says group . New York Cap Abu Abbas who masterminded the hijacking of the Achille Laura cruise ship last year claimed in an interview broadcast monday that his group will begin launching attacks inside the United states. America is now conducting the War against us on behalf of Abbas head or the Palestine liberation front Lold Abc nightly news.". We therefore have to respond against Amenta in America president Reagan is Eft my no Abu Abbas said. The Elf. A splinter group of the pales Tine liberation organization that is aligned with Plo chief Yasser Arafat hijacked the Achille Laura during a Mediterranean cruise in october. An american Leon Klinghoffer was shot to death and his body and wheelchair thrown overboard Abu Abbas is being sought by several countries including the United slates. Abc news said the interview was granted on condition its location remain Undis closed. Abbas admitted masterminding he cruise ship hijacking Bui said evidence Hal his men killed Klinghoffer was fabricated by Hie United Stales and Syria. Abbus and the four hijackers were on an egyptian air jetliner that was forced Down in Italy by american fighter planes but the italian government allowed Abbas to flee to Yugoslavia. The United states has offered a $250,000 Reward for his capture. He was indicted in Italy last month with 13 other arabs on charges stemming from the hijacking of the italian cruise ship. Abu Abbas said he does not consider himself a terrorist. A Nnoli Achille Laura hijacking Mastermind Abu Abbas. Says president Reagan is enemy no. the palestinian is accused everywhere hunted everywhere and is the terrorist everywhere. This is the picture America has he said. In fact the palestinian is a Home less refugee without the right to a passport without the right to visit his Village or birth place or even his father s Reagan getting ready for another round of Summit talks tuesday morning in Tokyo was asked by reporters about Abbas in Cut to strike in the United slates. He s going to strike out said Reagan. Walker testifies he bought wife s silence about spying san Francisco a confessed spy Masler John Walker testified monday he paid his wife to keep quiet about his espionage activities after she broke into his desk in 1968 and found instructions from soviet agents about dropping off secret information. Walker who has admitted running a spy ring that supplied the soviets with secrets about Navy communications systems for 17 years went through Bis first Day of Cross examination As the chief prosecution wit Ness in the espionage trial of Jerry Whit Worth his Borrner Friend and alleged prize recruit into espionage. Whip world. 46, of Davis calif., is charged with being the chief supplier of vital Navy code and communications secrets to Walker s espionage operation for most of the period from 1974 to 1983, when Whitworth retired from the Navy. Seven of the 13 charges against Whit Worth carry potential life sentences. He is also accused of evading axes on the j33z,000 Walker allegedly paid him. Walker s wife Barbara divorced her husband and eventually turned him in to authorities in late 1984, she is to testify against Whitworth under a Grant of immunity from prosecution. Walker said problems with his wife including her alcoholism possible infidelity and complaints about economic hardships led him to the decision to Start Selling secret documents to the soviets in 1968, when he was a Navy radioman. She never fell there was enough Money for her to operate with Walker said. Sometime later that year Walker said his wife broke he lock on his desk with a screwdriver and found a message from Bis soviet contacts on a planned drop off of classified material. He said she called him a spy and a Trai Ler. It was a typical scene in their marriage Walker said. She was drunk As usual and near hysteria As usual. Discovery of the male rial did t make it any Walker said he did t Tell his wife who had recruited him into espionage but be insisted on being he said he look her on one drop off of secrets in the Washington d.c., area probably in late 1968, and also paid her Money that he got from the soviets she had Access to All the Walker Walker testified he approached the soviets within Days of deciding to spy for them and said he was never concerned about the possibility that the soviet embassy was under . Surveillance and that he might be caught. When asked Why Walker said "1 have no answer to Walker also an sex Navy radio Man said once he made the decision to spy for the soviets he approached them within a Day or two. It was almost in earlier testimony. Walker said the notes he has used in his testimony against Whitworth were started within a Day or two of his arrest last May. He resisted defense lawyer James Lar son s attempt to characterize the notes us evidence that he had reacted to his arrest by trying to shift the blame to whip world. These notes were made in preparation for my defense Walker said when asked if the notes were to help in the plea bargain he reached last october. Walker said he started taking notes coeds of Brown delay their sexy Magazine Providence . A two female Brown University students who planned to produce a sexually explicit mag Azine have delayed publication until july and will print Only 25 to 30 copies a univer sity spokesman said monday. I spoke to the two editors last week. They Haven t cancelled it. It s just taking them longer and it will be More limited than they originally planned said enc Broudy. He said he did not know the reason for the delay. The editors Sophomore Minn Booth and senior Heather Findley have declined to speak with reporters. In March the women said they would print "positions1 this month to show thai not All feminists oppose such magazines. We believe that sexually explicit mate rial in t necessarily oppressive and that in can be fun and thai the Best Way to approach in is to make in ourselves Booth of Litchfield Conn said at the time. The idea for the Magazine took shape when Brown students protested the appear Ance of a Playboy photographer on Campus. Booth said she and Findley wanted to demonstrate that not All feminists Are into this censorship against violence against Zomeji announcement came As Brown was being rocked by reports that at least six of its students participated in a prostitution ring run by an insurance executive who lived nearby. The insurance executive and one senior have been indicted. Broudy said the Magazine is now planned Only for friends of the women and contributors and will not be available for general Purchase. About his career and Whitworth s soon after his arrest to try and trigger my memory of almost 20 years exactly what happened Walker pleaded Guilly in october to three espionage related charges in a Balti More Federal court and said he had spied for the soviet Union for 17 years. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 7, 1946 a communist and socialist supported Constitution for the fourth Republic was rejected in the sharpest set Back to the left Wing bloc since the liberation of France according to press Dis patches. 30 years ago today May 7, i9s6 in Paris the Atlantic Alliance declared it has successfully do Ler Rcd soviet aggression and led the Krem Lin to adopt the so called policy of coexistence. 20 years ago today. May 7, 1966 Ian Brady 28, and his blonde mistress Myra Hindley 23, were found Guilly of murder in the sensational bodies on the Moor trial in Chester eng land. Both were sentenced o life imprison ment. The murder victims were a it year Aid boy a 10-year-old girl and a 12-year old boy. 10 years ago today. May 7, 1976 High officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations must share the blame for the Fri s Campaign to destroy or. Martin Luther King a Senate intelligence committee staff report said
