European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes thursday. August 6, 19b7 judge won t drop or reduce charges faced by Lonetree Quantico. A. A a military judge wednes Day refused to either dismiss or reduce the ii Chatot Marine sol. Clayton j. Lon circe fates in his espionage1court-martial. The judge. Navy Apt. Philip of Roberts declined to reduce the charges on a defense motion t the government was accusing Lonetree of too Many counts for each alleged offence. Roberts then refund 10 throw Oul the charges on a motion that alleged Llie government prevented Lone rec from having a speedy trial. The court could possibly agree if it were shown tic government had shown malice Roberts said. Prosecutors had blamed delays on a series of motions Aztlan investigation by inc defense. Defense lawyers had said the government delayed the raw and hindered their efforts by failing to Lum Over evidence and acting slowly in requesting visas so military defense lawyers could Pratt a to Moscow and Vienna. To on Cree 25. Of St. Paul. Minn., is a former embassy guard in those cities. He is accused of letting his Tave affair with a soviet Tran lamp turn him into a spy. He i null face life in prison. However his lawyers say he Lur cd Over nothing of value to the soviets. After Roberts rulings Lonetree s lawyers were to bring up to More motions before presenting their final Jil Tark on sworn confessions by Lon circe. Defense lawyers Michael Slu hit and William Kunstler allege that the statements were taken defense says that without the statements the government has no Case against Lonetree the first Marine to stand court martial for espionage. Marine sgt. Clayton j. Lon conc faulty bolts in guns reportedly problem army repairing 1 in 8 m60s, lawmaker says Washington and the army has had to Pul about one in eight of its main Battle tanks inc m60s, out of service because of substandard bolts built into the guns a congressman said tuesday. Rep. Ron Wyden d-ore., said he has been old by army officials that 1.220 of the tanks out of about10,000 will have o be repaired be cause of the defect. Each Lank costs about s1.6 million he said. They can t ire the main gun exception a National emergency because the screws arc in such bad shape said Wyden a spokesman Tor the army Materiel omd in Alexandria va., told the Slars and stripes thursday that 31 of the affected tanks Are in Europe lie said he did not know How Long the would be sidelined. The House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee has been exam ining a reportedly widespread dispersion of cheaply made counterfeit bolts nuts rivets and other fasteners throughout american Industry. They have turned up in some of the Pentagon s weapons the lawmakers hive been told there is Tome evidence tanks with faulty bolts have been sold to our allies because the army has alerted some of the buyers said Wyden a member of the subcommittee. The Pentagon discovered the defect list May 22 at an Arsenal in Anniston ala., Wyden said. The government s inventory lookalike it s been tilled with phony Belli and there does t seem to be anything we Cando about it said Wyden. The subcommittee planned a hearing wednesday on the problem. Remembering Wallenberg swedish charge d a fliers Ulf it nits kid foreground lakes part in a Cape la Hill party tutis la Murk the 75lh birthday of swedish diploma Raoul in Amizith re who helped Ante nearly 100,000 hungarian jews from the nazis during world Wai ii. Con Gressmen expressed Hope it the Cere Mony that Wallenberg to was arrested at the end of the War remains Aliu in a soviet prison. Next to Jer tons son is rep. Tom Lantos a Calif. Surrogate mom Whitehead separated from husband Newark n j. A surrogate Moth or May Beth Whitehead citing the stress from her losing custody Battle for the child she bore under contract has separated from her husband Beratto Essaid tuesday. The lawyer Harold Cassidy said in a pre pared statement that the couple has no immediate intention of reuniting. Cassidy and other attorneys were not immediately available to comment on whether the separation would affect appeals . Mrs. While cad 30, was stripped of he parental rights when a stale judge ruled in March that the contract she had signed with will Iran and Elizabeth Stem was valid. Under the $10,000 contract the had agreed to be artificially inseminated with the sperm of Stem and Bear him and his wife child. When the child known As baby m was bom March 27, 1986, however mrs. While had changed her mind about the Deal and fled to Florida a Here she remained until authorities racked her Down and re Lumen the baby to the Sterns. Her decision to Back out of the Deal act the stage for the landmark custody suit during the rial mrs. Whitehead argue that she and her husband Richard could offer As stable and Loving a Home Tor the baby As he stems. In his ruling. Superior court judge har vey r. Sorkow granted custody of the child to the seems and allowed mrs. Stem to adopt the girl now called Melissa Elizabeth Stern. a Wen married december1973, when she wus pregnant with the first of their two children. During the trial the stems attorneys portrayed Whitehead As a frequently unemployed sanitation worker with a drinking problem. His wife was characterized As an impulsive and narcissistic woman who is Overly possessive of her children. 1960s-Era nuclear bomb to be reactivated by . Washington a the Penta gon has decided to bring out from Moth balls and redeploy a 19605-Vinlage nuclear bomb thai � More than six times As powerful As the largest warhead or bomb now in the . Arsenal. The defense department although willing to acknowledge the reactivation of the Msj bomb refused tuesday to discuss the decision in any detail. In a Malc Mcnol the Pentagon said Only. The u5j reactivation provides More flexibility in the planning according to one prominent nuclear weapons analyst however the decision 10 bring Back the 853 apparently was prompted by a desire to male up for inc nuclear punch lost earlier this year when the last of the nation s aging Titan 2 ices missiles was retired. The nuclear warheads carried by those Tilan 2 missiles were based on the us redesign As the b53 bomb which was first deployed in 1962. The b.s1. Designed la be dropped on tar gels from b-s2 bombers has an explosive yield of 9 million tons of int. It is not the largest warhead or bomb Ever Buill by the United states nor is it As Large As some individual bombs and name wis Silil thought to be in the soviet Union Arsenal. But in terms of both size and explosive Force the 8.850- Wund 9-Nwgaton b53dwarfs every nuclear warhead currently fielded by the United states. The Nel most destructive nuclear weapon in in stockpile is inc b2a bomb which in one variant ii is a yield of 1.45 Megatons
