European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 28 the stars and stripes saturday april 25.1987 planning More Steps to tighten Security checks by Norman Black the report said. Panl Litzy Witter Washington several 1985 plan for in creased military a purity Hill have not been implemented including one for More attentive Back ground Check on individuals proposed for secret clearances according to new Pentagon report the military also plans to test a proposed continuing reliability program for individuals involved in especially sensitive program but thus far no implementation has taken place the report report released thursday focuses on the defense department response to More than five dozen recommendations nude in november 1985 by a task Force chaired by retired army Gen. Rich Ard Well. Defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger established the panel following the breakup of the Walker family spy ring which tunnelled Navy secrets tothe soviet Union Tor almost two decades. Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims said Wein Berger embraced 48 of the panel s 63 recommendation and that "43 of those have been implemented to date.1 the report said however that Many of the recommendation were Only adopted in the course of a january update of personnel Security regulation Sand that some changes White now reflected in the regulations have not actually been implemented for example the report said that while Wein Berger has approved a special Security program for individuals who Deal with secret communications codes and facilities the Pentagon is still devel Oping a new Dod directive incorporating this pro Gram but it i not yet implementation is incomplete As Well for program of allowing suspected Security threats to be reported on a Telephone not line it said a recommendation to standardize the Type of background checks performed for executive Branch employees seeking top secret and special Access clearances is awaiting development of a new executive order on personnel Security now under Way that another Point in discussing that pending executive order the report said that a proposal to require a reinvestigation of of All persons holding secret clearances by 1995" will be embraced by president Reagan if Money permits. The Pentagon report also shows that some efforts to tighten Security among defense contractors have also been slow to example revised regulations now require de sense department employees to inform superiors of plans to travel overseas. The same requirement for Industry workers with Security clearances has been drafted but requires further coordination with Industry the report , it said a policy to subject contractor employees to periodic briefcase searches has been developed but requires further staffing with de sense most visible effect of Weinberger s directives to tighten Security reported previously by the Pentagon has involved a significant reduction in the number of clearances held by defense department and Industry workers. Sims announced in february that the Pentagon had succeeded in reducing by almost 40 percent the number of people holding Security clearances drop from 4.1 million to 2,5 million. Among the soil Wal commission recommendations that have been implemented according to the new status report Are creation of a Billet control system for top secret clearance holders. The system More closely tics the eligibility for top secret clearances to specific jobs. If a person leaves that Job his clearances to be immediately rescinded. A requirement that defense contractors Remus life the need for clearances for overseas employees every two and a new policy tightening the circumstances under which a person who is not an american Citi zen May obtain any clearance. If Access to secret information is involved the subject must consent to Lake a counterintelligence scope polygraph examination freed soviet dissident Kryagin flies to Switzerland free at last Zurich Switzerland a soviet dissident Anat oly Kryagin arrived in the West Friday after his release from a labor Camp and the lifting of a seven year jail sentence Oranti Soviel agitation imposed in 1981. He said his first feeling in the West was told a news conference thai his decision to leave Home was quite but that when he arrived in the West he fell free Al the Swissair night that Kryagin boarded in mos cow touched Down at Zurich Airport at 6 10 ., 15 minutes ahead of schedule Swissair official Katharin Christen said. As Kryagin and his family stepped into the Mai Airport area they were greeted by representatives of Swiss Church and human rights groups carrying Flower Sand by another freed soviet dissident Yuri Belov. A crowd of news photographers and journalists was also at hand. Kryagin tall and bearded and wearing a Gray suit. Stood next to his 19-year-old son Ivan. Both looked slightly tired. Asked by a reporter what his fim feeling was to Bein the West the rider Kryagin answered later at his press conference also attended by his wife Mother arid two other sons Kryagin charmed that repression was continuing in the soviet Union. He said soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s announced policy of Reform was Only words Kryagin speaking through a German speaking interpreter said he left the soviet Union because he knew thai he would again be persecuted if he spoke out for human rights in the soviet said he had no specific Long term goals yet except to slay in Switzerland and practice psychiatry. Redid not say in which City he and his family would whether he would remain in Zurich for the next few Days he said then were no Concrete plans yet shootout from Page 1 in his 50s, Brown said. A Man in his 20s was arrested soon after the shooting started but officers later said the Man holed up at win Dixie was the sole assailant. Witnesses reported people lying in the gutters after the shooting started. Of the 13 wounded a 16-year-old boy was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the Abdomen and1 five other people were in serious bul stable condition after surgery according Lodr. D. Scoll Gettings director of emergency Medicine at Holmes regional medi Cal Center. Three others were hospitalized and four others including an infant were treated and released he said. At least five school buses evacuated a few Hundred people who had holed up in stores after the shooting began. They were taken to a nearby k Mart to be questioned by police. They Ihen were taken to Palm Bay City Hall to meet relatives authorities said. Brad Roshto was Locking the front door of the jewel by gallery at closing time when he saw a Man with ankle. I heard the shots across the Street Roshto said theard about 20 rounds just Bam Bam Bam Palm Bay a 6s-5quarc-mi1e City on the Atlantic coast Noui 70 mites Southeast of Orlando has a population of about 43,000. 17 Hurt As bomb explodes Nea Ujj bus in Greece by Janet d Agostino sixteen americans and a greek bus a Jared about 5 Friday when the g in which they were Riding swerved blast on a Road near hell Nikon a the injured were taken to the at hell Nikon. One of the. Serious condition from a head the injuries and the conditions available said Cynthia Cal spokeswoman in Athens. Among the injured were an army Captain two f wives said sgt Linda fi1lenlkonab. There were about from work at eleusis when the incident the greek base Al ele quarters for a a pachment that Ove around the country a greek polio bomb was placed and detonated a were in military bus avoid a bomb hens. In Force Host Ras reported in the nature of ured were not is. Embassy. Staff sergeants first class and two spokeswoman for Hel _ the bus returning hour from hell Nikon Lythe Sald. Is the administrative head signed us. Artillery de nato artillery units the associated press that Aone Wall along a dry River bed in 300-Yard-Long wire running across the River the bus drive Row the explosion ahead of the Busand swerved to and it said cmdr. Jerry Ryan a . European comma Kesman in Stuttgart. The Driver Sway was Partia blocked by a canal. Ryan said the people were in Ltd As they were thrown Forward when the Driver Stopich suddenly. The bus a on i fission Street near the Centra fruit and veniable Market in the suburb of Gly Fada near Hellen Ibn a. There vim no immediate claim of responsibility forthe bomb ii the a reported. A similar attack in no vember Lap against a Creek police bus that killed on officer vim claimed by the local terrorist group no vember a the a reported in Wshington the state department Friday con dem Neche attack a reported we deplore this kind of violent said spokesman Charles Redman. He told re Porte if one of the casualties had been seriously injured but ski he did not have further details. State department did not have any inform Riboul who was responsible for the attack he said i february 1985,68 american servicemen and de Bents were injured when a homemade explosive ice was detonated in Bobby s bar near hell Nikon. Collapse from Page 1 protect Rescue workers Frank Morcaldi director of the City s building department said City inspectors looked at the site several times a week Ana called the building s construction technique known As lift slab totally technique involves pouring the Concrete floors at ground level and then lining them into place. Mer Caldi said he believes a slab was being put into place when the building spent the night at a nearby school to await news of i hair from neighbouring towns converged on the site and construction companies sent Crews and equip ment. Several cranes were used to pull pieces of con Crete off one by one and dump trucks hauled away debris. Several times the scene became quiet. All Machin Ery including trucks fire engines front end loaders and cranes were shut off As dogs were Scal sniffing across the rubble and microphones were lowered in. After one such eerie silence Early Friday Gary Rizi who came to help from another site said there s nobody left alive Down there. There s just not enough pockets for people to be the $17 million l ambiance Plaza project in Down town Bridgeport an Industrial City of 142,600 people on the Southern Connecticut coast 65 Miles from Newyork City was to be 13 stories tall Wilh 218 units
