European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday Jung 29. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 thu new Jersey Liu san Mercur Perrl aboard the amp Hilmu assault big hit in the med ship Guam entertains marines and sailors a have been on duly for six to eight months during he libyan crisis. The first annual miss Usa Uso tour was arranged to increase morale among service members in Europe spy Case badly mishandled report says los Angeles a a highly Classi fied report says the Cia and the Fri badly mishandled Ifie Case of Vireil agent Edward Lee Howard leading to his giving inform lion to Moscow thai devastated . Intelligence operations Piliere the los Angeles times reported Friday. The times said in Learned of the con tents of inc tenon from unidentified sources who arc familiar with it. After being fired from the Cia in 198 j for drug abuse and mental instability Howard gave details of . Intelligence operations in Moscow that led to inc exe cution of one of the Cia s prime contacts the times said citing sources. Howard eluded Fri agents in new Mexico in h85 and fled to the soviet Union but reportedly has been spotted since in the Caribbean. The times said the report was Given to president Reagan this month it Large is for criticism the top Cia spy Misler s office the Post of Deputy director of operations for overlooking blunders in Howard s hiring screening and firing the newspaper said. One unidentified government official quoted by the times called the Howard Case the most graphic foul up in Many years and said Cia director William /. Casey was very disturbed about  Here you be got Moscow the most sensitive Case officer Job you had and you were sending a Guy to do it who s whack the official said and nobody was told Aboul in Casey through a spokeswoman declined 10 discuss Howard or to confirm or deny existence of the report. As a result of Howard s revelations the soviets reportedly executed an Engi Neer identified As . Tolkachev who had Given Over intelligence about soviet avionics cruise missiles and other technologies according to Fri affidavits. The Cia failed to discern Howard s problems of drug abuse tendencies to Ward Petty crime and menial instability the report says. Such problems went undetected until shortly before he was to be assigned to Moscow. He had been trained to be a Contact there for Tolka Chev one of the Agency s most valuable soviet informants the Wall Street Jour Nal has reported. The report castigates the Cia for firing Howard after he became privy to Vituj secrets which he betrayed to the soviets. In a breach of procedure the report noted the Fri was not informed of How Ard s firing for More than a year source said. The report also criticizes the Fri the Agency responsible or Domestic coun a spying operations for a lacklustre investigation and Pursuit of Howard. The Fri also declined comment. Reagan article cites threats to . New York Cap America s free Dom is threatened by terrorism drugs and nuclear weapons says president Reagan but he is confident these Chal Lenges will be overcome. In an article for sunday s Parade mag Azine the president also wrote that the nation s record has been marred by intolerance but the country today is closer to living up to the ideals of Freedom and Justice than it has been in the past. The article now More than Ever the meaning of Liberty is the third thai Reagan has written for the Magazine and ties in with the statue of Liberty Centennial to be celebrated next week. Parade spokeswoman Catherine hem Cipp said inc Magazine solicited the Arti Cle and Reagan wrote it unassisted. He was not paid for it. To the article Reagan pays tribute to the statue recalling his first glimpse of it while returning to the United states from England in 1949 aboard the Queen nary. He had spent four months abroad filming the Hasty  As we approached new York the president wrote i asked the Crew for our enact time of arrival. It would be 4 o clock the next morning. I Rose Early and was at the ship s rail As we passed through the verrazano Narrows. A smattering of tights from a sleeping new York City Lay ahead and to the right. But the statue of Liberty the first bit of America i wanted to see was straight ahead facing me Lite a Welcom ing Friend illuminated in the dark of Early morning. 1 was Home,.,. " Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. America Means Opportunity Freedom Power All of that and More is projected by the lady standing so tall there in the Harbor the president wrote Reagan writing that past intolerance has marred the Beauty of our Liberty gave examples of his family s Abhorrence of racial and religious intolerance. Once he said his father slept in his car on a Winter s night rather than stay in a hotel that discriminated against jews. And when a hotel refused to admit some Blacks who were College football team main of Reagan he look the players Home with him. As for drug abuse he deferred to first lady Nancy Reagan Nancy wants me to use Iii article to remind parents and Young people that they must do their part  complaint dropped against Mcdonald s Rome a a judge on Fri Day dismissed a complaint by Fash Ion designer Valentino thai doors from a Mcdonald s restaurant were nauseating customers in his store off inc famed Spanish Steps the complaint was dropped after Mcdonald s installed an air filtering system to eliminate the food doors Valentino first sought a court hearing in april a month after Mcdonald s opened the outlet near inc tourist Mecca. Lawyers have said the to Par lies agreed to split the Cost of in complaint