European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. April a. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 watchdog of Covert actions urged Washington up leaders at inc Senate intelligence committee called Friday for an Independent watchdog to help oversee . Covert activity and prevent Congress from being left m the dark about programs such As the . Arms Coles to Iran. The committee s chairman and vice chairman Slid the panel would examine alternative method of Independent auditing and have asked National Security adviser Frank Carlucci and acting Cia director Robert Gates for their views. The committee is intensifying its Over sight of Covert action Sens. David Boren. D-okla., and William Cohen r Mainc said in a statement an integral part of that it the need for a unit inde pendent of those conducting Covert operations to audit the activity to interview Cohen the panel s vice chairman said the committee was not certain How the auditing would be done but Slid it could be along the lines of1 the general accounting office the Agency that conducts investigations Al inc request of Congress. Auditors could examine Covert actions in spot checks so they Are not Monitor ing every single thing but rather that the bureaucracy understands that they d be subject to scrutiny Cohen said. Having that audit Agency or unit there. As a watchdog will serve As an incentive to follow the established guidelines he said. Cohen said he was not sure the idea is going to be met with acceptance by the he also did not know if the establishment of such an auditing group would require a change in Federal Law. Boron and Cohen said the . Intelli gence Community generally has been helpful in providing information on Cov Ert actions to the committee but stressed thai the panel is solely dependent on those agencies for data. We Only know As much As they Ell us. They usually Tell us everything but not always said Cohen. This is just a sort of safely valve against potential future abuses 1 he said the audit group could help the congressional intelligence panels to keep track of the existence of Covert activities and Money spent an them. Cohen said the move was in part a response to the Sale of . Arms to Iran. Members of Congress have been critical of the White House decision not to in form Capitol Hill of the initiative for nearly 11 Umyn m panel 5 Leucian nearly 1 manias scientists debate Over life in space includes Strong believers sceptics Pasadena Calif. Api scientists searching for their presence. A subcommittee of the Home Intelli gence committee is holding hearings on a bid that would require inc president to notify Congress within 48 hours of any significant Covert activity and to provide in Advance to the congressional intelligence committees a copy of presidential directives authorizing secret operations. The Taw now says the president in cer Tain cases does not have to give prior notice and can inform Congress later in a timely House speaker Jim Wright of Texas said at a hearing on the Bill last week that president Reagan could have averted the colossal misjudgments of the Iran Contra scandal if Congress had been informed. But House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois called the proposed Law the functional equivalent of a foreign policy Sunti jacket. Intelligent life in outer space say the Odds if not the evidence Tell them extraterrestrials exist but one sep tic says that s doubtful otherwise aliens would have visited Earth by now. I d be willing to bet one Hundred Bucks that be tween now and the time 1 die Well find evidence of intelligent life said Al Hibbs a retired space scientist at the National aeronautics and space administration s Jet propulsion Laboratory. Hibbs moderated a debate on the Issue Friday Dur ing the annual meeting of the committee for the scientific investigation or claims of the paranormal a group that debunks claims of supernatural Powers. Committee member Carl Sagan a Cornell univer sity astronomer Aid before the debate that in a uni verse w 100 billion galaxies each of which has a few Hundred billion stars the idea that our Sun is the Only Star with an inhabited planet is laughable. Where do we come off to imagine we re the Only kind of life in the universe the speakers agreed there has yet to be a single confirmed report of an unidentified flying object or ufos from another planet but most said they believe intelligent life must exist beyond Earth. Because there is evidence that planets May exist around a dozen nearby stars and because the chemical evolution that produced life on Earth exists through out the known universe the probability of intelligent life elsewhere is 100 percent said Frank Drake Dean of natural sciences Al the University of California s Santa Cruz Campus. Drake said it s possible extraterrestrial tourists View Earth As a zoo and already Are Here in Gray line buses hovering above us but choose not to reveal their presence. We Are As Best we can Tell the result of completely Normal processes therefore life should be abundant in the universe said Drake who also is president of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence Institute a Nasa funded Effort to search for radio signals from alien civilizations. But Robert Rood University of Virginia astronomer argued that if advanced intelligent civilizations exist elsewhere in our Milky Way Galaxy Al least one. Would have colonized the Galaxy and reached Earth by now. Even at five centuries of travel time to reach inc nearest Star taking a few thousand years there until it got crowded and then going to the next Star it takes Only 20 million to 30 million years to get across the Galaxy a Mere instant in the Galaxy s must billion year history Rood said. He also said it s possible the formation of Earth s Moon in a Way that created Ocean tides on Earth May be unique thus making the evolution of the first life forms in tidal pools a Fluke that occurred Only Here. But when asked if an extraterrestrial life form might exist and simply choose not to explore the Galaxy. Rood replied that s certainly possible. It requires a certain conceit on our part to think we re the Only civilization among All those Jill Tarter an Institute astronomer said the organization is seeking $65 million from Nasa to finance a new 10-year systematic search of the heavens for radio signals that could be signs of an alien civilization. Radio and optical astronomers in seven nations have conducted 48 separate searches for signs of extra terrestrial life in the last 27 years yet no one has found anything Tarter said adding that she in t discouraged since such searches weren t systematic. Robot with a heart a robot with his heart in the right plan Greti japanese doctors and nurses attending a medical meeting saturday at a Tokyo hotel. The Man made lifelike plastic Man has his own set of eyes and Abo comes Complete with other artificial or Gans such As heart lungs kidney and pancreas. Go with. Aids virus accused of aggravated assault a an army private has been accuse Cro a assault for allegedly having sex other soldiers even though he knew 1 carried the aids virus. The incident could influence the Battle against the spread of aids in the Mili tary in a sense their theory is the aids virus is the weapon used in the assault said Edward g. Re Mcheimer an attorney for pfc. Adrian g. Morris jr., charged last week by his company com Mander Al fort Hua Chuca in Southeast Ern Arizona. The military said Morris is infected with the aids virus but has not s symptoms of the disease. Acquire mine deficiency syndrome Law its Vic Tims by destroying their i Grffta abilities to cot Hal infections the Case is a first for tha med forces and will prob ably a Csuhai a court martial. He said he has advised Morris not to discuss the Riith re porters. La col. Peter l Wyro a defense department spokesman in Washington said he was not familiar with the Case he said the military has the Power to _._9mubjsoldiers who fail la protect the healt Paul Marcus Tau the University of Arizona Law Law specialist said Friday that is unique because it involves virus which he said is Slu rat Gray area in Medicine Shaaf womb criminal intent and Acly of twill be difficult. Civil lawsuits in which awarded Marcus said. He i military precedents Are not binding m other courts but he predicted that the Morris Case could Lead to an important Legal decision. In a civilian criminal Case in Flint. Mich., involving aids a Man infected with inc virus was charged last year with attempted murder for allegedly spilling Al police. A judge threw the charge out after experts questioned whether aids could be spread in saliva. He military is tested for last month in Mineola n.y., a homeless Man pleaded guilty to Man Slaughter saying he killed a male Lover who told him he had aids. In the armed forces Wyro sail Tor s orders Are command sol we isl be followed. Are our most important re lurch and we Don t take it lightly if they old subject others to inc diseased eve the All if the physician to prevent transmission of u must either abstain from sex or lot cautions such As using condoms he said. Soldiers who fail to Lake precautions can face disciplinary action or administrative action. In addition to iwo aggravated assault charges Morris was accused Ozone count of sodomy one count of conduct prejudicial to Good order and discipline and one count of conduct of a nature that will bring discredit to the armed a one of the avg sex is a Man the r \ woman. The army has not said when the alleged sexual encounters occurred. Maj. David Georgi of the fort Hua Chuca Public affairs office said that if Morris is convicted he could be demoted to the lowest possible rank in the army stripped of his pay and benefits and imprisoned for 11 years before being Dis honorable discharged. The Sierra Visia Herald has reported that neither of the soldiers who allegedly had sex with Morris has tested positive ii he aids Sims but inc female sol impregnated. The newspaper said ils Hujcs said Morris was being charged failed to use a con Dom in Eft the military Prosic Apt. Gayten whatcom is Noi allowed we a to re porters about Morris Case said
