European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday february 16,1987 soviets spend billions on techno banditry los Angeles up the soviets spend $1.5 billion a year to illegally obtain High technology from the West and prefer to pay Western businessmen to do the smuggling a presidential aide testified ambassador Robert w. Dean named last week to the National Security Council was the final govern ment witness Friday As prosecutors rested their Case in the trial of Werner Bruchhausen a German business Man labelled by . Officials As one of the world s top Lech  Bruchhausen 47, is charged with is counts of wire fraud for shipping millions of dollars in american slate of a he Art computers and electronics to the Sovi ets most of it from 1977-80.Bruchhausen was a fugitive for five years until his arrest in England last year our intelligence agencies concluded that during the late 1970s, the scale of the soviet efforts to acquire Western technology was far More systematic Welt organized and Well funded than previously known Dean  said the soviets spend  billion annually on techno banditry getting technology with military applications primarily from american sources which they need to close the 10-year Lead Lime the United states enjoys in advanced technology. Moscow tries to recruit americans and uses its own agents to engage in Industrial espionage but it prefers tic broker divert or method Dean said. The soviets gel Western businessmen to go out and buy the items they desire he said. Dean was among eight people appointed by presi Dent Reagan last week 10 the National Security coun cil whose ranks were depleted in the Wake of the Iran arms Contra Aid controversy. Dean also holds an ambassador level position with the slate department As senior representative for strategic technology policy. Dean said his former jobs included stints with the Cia and the Rand corp. He said the soviets know exactly what they want and succeed in one Way or the other up to 70 percent of the  his comments to the late 1970s, when Bruch Hauson was in business. Dean said efforts to prevent technology smuggling were Only partially successful it is the belief of the american government that what we detected was just the tip of the iceberg he  used a Chain of his own Southern Cali fornia and German companies to buy computer electronics and communications equipment from Ameri can manufacturers then transferred the hardware to Europe and to the soviet Union without applying for required Export licenses the indictment said americans Lack understanding of Constitution Survey shows new Orleans a too few americans understand or appreciate the Constitution concludes a Survey that also showed most believe the 200-year-old document makes English the National language. The Survey conducted by the Hearst corp., also indicated that one in four americans confuses the Constitution s purpose with that of the declaration of Independence. The Survey uncovered gaps in the Public s appreciation of the Constitution what it it How our system of government functions under it and the personal freedoms it accords said Hearst president Frank a. Bennack or. In announcing the re sults saturday at the american bar association s National convention. The Survey however indicated that americans have a clearer understanding of their rights in the criminal Justice system. Among the findings despite recent efforts in some states to make English the official language 64 percent of those questioned wrongly believed the Constitution established English As the National language and required its use in schools and government. While 54 percent knew the Constitution Cre ated a Federal government and defined its Powers 26 percent thought it was drafted to declare Independence from England. Fifty seven percent of those surveyed falsely believed Public schools May order pupils to pledge allegiance to the . Hag and so percent wrongly said Public schools May require moments of silence for prayer. Only 41 percent of americans could identify the Bill of rights As the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. The results were based on 1,004 Telephone inter views conducted in october and november. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percent. Although Only 45 percent could identify by name the landmark supreme court Case of Miranda is. Arizona that dealt with suspects rights 92 percent knew a person accused of a serious crime who can not afford a lawyer must be provided with one. Other findings forty nine percent of those surveyed believed incorrectly that the president can suspend the Constitution in time of War or National emergency. But most of those surveyed 79 percent and 72 percent respectively knew that a president acting alone cannot conclude treaties with foreign nations or Send military Aid to them Eigil in 10 knew the Constitution allows states to impose the death penalty but 68 percent were unaware that states also can legalize marijuana within their Borders Only 43 percent knew that William h. Rochn Quill is chief Justice of the United states. Twenty nine percent thought Warren e. Burger who retired last year holds the Job. And 7 percent identified Earl Warren who retired in 1969, As chief Justice. Stateside dead fish Birds found at Nevada wildlife Refuge Fallon Nev. A an estimated 3 million fish and 1,500 migratory Birds have been found dead at a Federal wildlife Refuge and scientist said saturday pollution May be at least partly to blame. We be never seen both dead fish and Birds in the same area and never of this magnitude Kenneth Merrill of the state department of wildlife said. Preliminary examinations of four Birds from thestil Lawler National wildlife management area showed they died of Avian cholera Bat two others showed no signs of the disease and scientists were unable to say what killed them. 2 sky divers collision during free fall kills 1 Jeanerette la. A two sky divers collided during a free fall at 3,000 feel saturday and one of the parachutists was killed authorities said. Fellow sky divers reported that the victim a 25 year old unidentified Morgan City Man apparently died in the air alter the collision said Iberia Parish chief of detectives Kerry Dana the Man s Parachute opened but he hit the roof Ofa House and tumbled into the Yard Davis said. Theother Man suffered a broken leg in the collision but landed safely. The two were part of an i a Man team of weekend sky divers who had jumped from about 12,000 feet. Jack Benny s Hometown Marks his 93rd birthday Waukegan Iii. A Jack Benny s Hometown celebrated the tale comedian s 93rd birthday saturday with movies games and an appearance by his Daugh Ter. Just seeing All this fun makes the Day said Lynn Bregor. A san Francisco publicist and native Waukegan Nile who organized the three Day "39 again birthday Celebration for Benny in his comedy routines Benny adopted 39 As his year after year age the local Library featured Benny s movies including to be or not to be and the Horn blows at i night and about 100 people entered a Benny Blue eyes contest trying to match their peepers with his Benny who was bom feb. 14, 1894, died of Stom Ach cancer in 1974. Man spends 7 hours trapped in mine Shaft Altoona a. A a stale worker who fell from a ledge and spent seven hours trapped in a deep mine Shaft was hospitalized in fair condition saturday. James Kennedy 26, of Uniontown was among 10people taking an annual census of the endangered Indi Ana Bat in a Cave and abandoned mine in Canoe Creek stale Park on Friday said Lanzl Hoffman a spokes Man for the state s game commission Kennedy was standing on a Rock outcropping when it gave Way. He fell about 10 feet to the Bottom. Hoffman said. Explorers from the Kittany Grotto Cave club and paramedics brought Kennedy to the top of the Shaft but could t move him through a Small opening in a Cave Wall. He was Given medication and was lowered Bac Down while the Crew worked for an hour to enlarge the opening Hoffman said. Bing s wife lost control of her estate reports say new York a the wife of ail ing opera impresario sir Rudolf Bing was stripped of control of her own estate five years ago at the request of her brother and sister who said she was mentally unstable according to published reports. Carroll Douglass 47, who married Bing on his k5lh birthday Jan. 9, has been at the Center of a Legal dispute in which she is accused of trying to get control of Bing s ii million Fortune Bing suffers from alzheimer s disease. In 1982, Douglass brother and sister Jack Douglass and Diane Douglass of Washington were ordered by a District of Columbia court to manage her affairs the new York times reported saturday and the daily news reported sunday. In their court petition they said their sister had acquired a romantic and unreasonable fixation on the Pope and the people of Poland. They said she wrote a 170,000 Check payable to his holiness for polish project and tried to buy Rolls royces in Italy and England for the Pope s use. On Jan. 12, Manhattan surrogate court Justice Arthur Blyn froze Ding s assets and appointed lawyer Paul Guth his conserva Tor. He ruled that the former general Man Ager of the metropolitan opera was unable to make rational decisions. The ruling came after it was discovered that Bing wrote nearly $20,000 in checks to Douglass Over a six or seven month period. Defying the judge s order to slay in his jurisdiction Douglass look her husband to Anguilla in the Caribbean. Douglass who stated on her marriage certificate to Bing that she had never been wed before has also denied reports that she had two earlier husbands both wealthy older men. However investment Counselor Wil Liam Rickenbacker said he was married to her from 1973 until their divorce in1978, and he told the times she was absolutely  Rickenbacker also said she was previously married to filmmaker Jack Glenn. The news published a photo graph of a woman wearing a wedding gown in what it said was a daily news wedding announcement of her marriage to  be never heard of either one of them Douglass told the times by phone from  acknowledged that her husband is from Lime to time a Little bit forgetful and he does often ask what Day it ii.  you go 10 Sec Verdi s Niello he will Start singing the Arias before Placido Domingo opens his Mouth Douglass told the times she did not know her siblings had been appointed conservators