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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 17. 1967 the stars and stripes Pago 3 anglican Church envoy Terry Wall is flank of by druse militiamen As be leaves the office of an official in Weil Beirut Lebanon. Lebanese families ask Waite to Aid their efforts to free hostage relatives Beirut Lebanon up lebanese moslem Friday called on Church of England envoy Terry Waile 10 include their missing relative on the list of hos tages in Lebanon and help find them too. Waite in West Beirut since monday said he sympathized with heir plight and promised 10 see what 1 can do to help  More than a Hundred moslem women and children demonstrated outside Waite s sea Side hotel and a Small Del cation Mel the envoy. We envy the foreign  envy them because there arc coun tries organizations and individuals who arc seeking their release urn Fadi Mother of a lebanese Kidnap victim told Waite. Waite reported some Progress after five Days of meetings with lebanese government and moslem spiritual Leader Sand secret contacts with the holders of the Western hostages. Questioned by reporters if any Prog Ress was made Waile said i think so some Progress. But the work must be based on sound and just principles that if my work must be based on hat and i think that will Lake a while. It is work ing. I think reasonable  speaking to reporters after a meeting with prime minister Rashid Karami Waite said they discussed the plight of lebanese Kidnap victims and the ques Tion of lebanese held prisoners in Israel. Anti drug funds hiked Meese says Washington  attorney general Edwin use says the Reagan administration is increasing assistance for the War on drugs and critics Are distorting. Budget figures and misrepresenting the facts when they suggest that cutbacks Are in the works. In a speech thursday night in Pitts Burgh the attorney general said the administration last week proposed increasing spending for Federal drug Law enforcement by $72 million in the fiscal year beginning next oct. I. The budget submitted by the president will allow the government to hire More investigators and More prosecutors Meese said in a speech to the Abraxas foundation in Pittsburgh. Copies of his comments were released in Washington. There will be increases in Money and personnel for the drug enforcement administration and the Fri and 700 employees would be added to the Federal payroll to help combat drug trafficking. However congressional democrats an several republicans including . Reps. Ben oilman  and Larry Coughlin,r-pfl., Are critical of among other items the administration s proposal to discontinue state and local Grants to Law enforcement agencies for the Battle against drugs in Fis Cal 1988. Some $225 million for Grants is being spent in the current fiscal year. Oil Man and Coughlin an on the House select committee on narcotics Meese said in his speech however Grants to stale and local governments were one time capital expenditures Tor Start up costs of local programs and it is up to those units of government to decide whether they should continue to finance the project the Reagan administration has steadfastly opposed making such Grants indefinitely those who claim budget cutbacks either Don t understand or Are by design confusing the figures Muse concluded. Marine has gaps in his Story Pentagon says Washington a a Marine sergeant suspected of espionage while working As a guard at the . Embassy in Moscow has undergone at least one lie Detector lest and appears to be holding Back some information Pentagon sources say. There seem to be some gaps in his Story that the investigators can t explain As yet said one official referring to Marine sgt. Clayton j. Lonetree. He s been Given a polygraph test. We think he s holding Back on some stuff. The sources who agreed to discuss the matter Only if not identified also disclosed a female Kab agent with whom Lonetree became involved in Moscow had worked at the . Embassy As a translator. She s been fingered so to speak one official said. We know what her responsibilities were and that s All part of the damage assessment added another sources told the associated press last saturday the 23-year-old Lonetree became involved in a sexual relationship with the woman while stationed in Moscow Between september 1984 and March 1986. Lonetree later was transferred to the . Embassy in Vienna Austria where he came Forward voluntarily disclosed the affair and acknowledged having passed secrets to the woman the sources said. He was arrested in mid december in Vienna and then transported in the Marine base at Quantico va., on dec. 31, where he remains in custody. The sources claimed Lonetree had become the subject of some suspicion before last month but acknowledged he came Forward and disclosed his activities. According toll. Col. John Holwell a Marine corps spokesman Lonetree will remain under detention pending the outcome of an investigation and Jit Aring m Early february to determine charges. Abc to s world news tonight on wednesday citing unnamed government sources said Lone acc delivered names of soviet citizens on the Cia payroll in Moscow to the Kab. Also Lonetree has old military investigators that he gave away information about the embassy building itself its espionage Safe guards and its vulnerabilities Abc said. Stale department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley on wednesday said the department in conjunction with other Federal agencies has begun an assessment of what damage May have been done to . Intelligence operations at the embassies. Neither the state department nor the Penta gon has commented publicly on what materials or secrets might have been passed to the Kab by Lonetree beyond a statement by defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger that the harm was potentially serious Pentagon sources said wednesday the verdict was still out on whether he s a big fish explaining investigators had determined Lone acc did not have Access himself to safes housing sensitive information he was responsible for ensuring the Security of the building and the office spaces within said one offi Cial. In that connection he had to Check All the offices and was supposed to look for documents left out inadvertently he did t know any combinations to the safes. But there was a female agent who did seduce and turn him the sources contacted by the associated press con Lone tree Trade Clad recent reports by the Washington times and lbs that Lonetree helped Kab agents gain Entrance to the embassies in Moscow and Vienna and also helped place listening bugs in the offices of senior Diplo Mats. All the Security breaches we be found occurred in Moscow not Vienna asserted one official. And we be simply found no evidence that this Guy smuggled people in or planted bugs. And As a matter of course the embassy in Moscow sweeps for bugs daily the source said. The sources refused to detail what gaps had devel oped in the course of interviewing Lonetree about his activities. Lonetree s father told reporters in Minneapolis minn., on tuesday his son s arrest has been blown All out of proportion and is the unfortunate result of sen  the elder Lonetree said his family had retained new York attorney William Kunst Lerand the Navajo nation of Arizona also had retained a civilian attorney to defend his son. A member of the Winnebago tribe in Wisconsin the elder Lonetree said his former wife Sally is a Navajo and lives in Arizona. One source said wednesday a decision had been made that the Marine corps would retain jurisdiction Over the cose As a military matter. Four charges could be brought against the Marine espionage conspiracy to commit espionage failure to report Contact with i titans of communist controlled nations and unauthorized removal and disclosure of classified information. A conviction of espionage can bring the death penalty under an amendment to the uniform code of Mili tary Justice approved by Congress last year  
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