European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday. October 23,1987 europeans helped boost soviet defense nuclear arms silent subs built with illegal shipments Washington a european companies have illegally supplied the so Viet Union with technology subsequently cd to build nuclear weapons and naval pc str. According to published report thursday the Washington Post quoting unidentified Reagan administration officials reported that police in Norw astound thai the High technology equip ment was provided by companies i Norway France Italy and West Ger Many. Norwegian investigators called the sales a decade Long pattern of illegal High Lech Nolgy transfers to the soviet Union the newspaper said police Learned of the transactions the newspaper said while investigating Ille Gal sales to the soviets by a stale owned arms com Pany in Norway. The norwegian investigation was started after the discovery thai Kongs Borg and Toshiba corp. Of Japan sold computerized milling tools to the Sovi ets a transaction that permitted the so Viets to develop quiet submarine propel lers that can evade . Surveillance. A report on the sates was to be re leased jointly thursday in Oslo and Washington the newspaper said. The new York times quoting source who had seen the report said five other companies were identified As participating in the illegal sales. The Compa Nies named were Innocenti of Rome do naut Croc of Passau West Germany Schiss a. G. Of do Essendorf West Ger Many Kim machine tools holdings of London and Ratier Forest of companies All make sophisticated machining tools and Kongsberg make computers that control such machine from the mid-1970s until recent years according to the Post More than 60 computer controlled Multi Xis Mil Ling machines were sold to the soviets and most of the equipment Wen 10 ship Yards an unidentified senior administration official was quoted by the Post As saying that he believed Schiess sold 21 milling machines that May have ended up in the soviet nuclear weapons manufacturing facility. They arc very sophisticated machines with nigh tolerances of the Type needed to make nuclear weapons the official said. The official said that Kongsberg sup plied the controllers which Are the brains of he operations for machines. The dimensions Are enormous a unidentified official told the Post. The report the official said shows a Xiv thematic Effort by Kongsberg Over 10 years to outfit Multi Xis milling machines with the needed controls for Laic to the communist bloc. We be got a Pat Tern in which the soviets have Success fully and easily brought this equipment into their another source told the Post thai the norwegian investigation also revealed that . Companies May have supplied sophisticated computers to the soviet. The Sale of such equipment violate Export control rules of the coordinating committee for multilateral Export controls a Paris based organization com posed of Japan and the North Atlantic treaty organization allies. Jury convicts Monsanto in 1979 chemical spill Belleville. Iii. A jurors thursday found Monsanto co. Guilty of failing to warn a Missouri town about the risks of a 1979 chemical spill that contained less than a Teaspoon of dioxin and awarded plaintiffs $16,2 million after one of the nation s longest jury trials. The 65 plaintiffs who said they were sickened by he spill had sought $100 million in punitive damages and $35.4 million in compensatory lawsuit in St. Clair county circuit court accused the is. Louis based chemical company in the jan.10, 1979, spill of a 19,000-gallon rail shipment of raw material used in a Wood preservative Over a half mile area in Sturgeon to. The lawsuit also alleged that raw material or was defective and unreasonably trial began feb. 22, 1984, and included testimony from 182 witnesses 6,000 exhibits and More than100,000 pages of transcripts. Jury deliberations began aug. 26 and were interrupted sept. 14 when jurors said they could t reach a decision judge Richard Golden hers sent them Backoo continue deliberating. The Case stems from an Accident in which a Lank car ruptured As it passed through Sturgeon on ils Way to Tacoma wash., from Monsanto s Sauget iii., shipment s origin led to the lawsuit filing in Illi Nois. The plaintiffs contend they suffered fatigue head aches joint pains and other ills because of exposure to dioxin a toxic byproduct of some herbicide and Pesti cide manufacturing. Monsanto argued the amount of dioxin in the spillway Loo Small to cause injury. A bottleneck in production a Quality Cunt tier to Reid vain co in Monrovia calif., appears to be Bot let up in Assembly lint traffic he inspects a new Type of Container de for a Ter. Bottled water is an Industry which has grown 300 percent in the but 10 years in the unite states officials say. Several a or Banks lower prime lending rate to 9% new York a several major Banks thursday lowered their prime lending rate to 9 percent from 9.25 per cent effective immediately. The Cut comes about two weeks after major . Banks raised their prime rates by half a percentage Point to 9.25 per cent. The move was first announced by Citibank the nation s largest Bank. First Chicago corp., Bankers Trust co. An Continental Illinois National Bank also announced reductions of the same magnitude in their prime rates and most major . Banks were expected to Fol Low suit on tuesday chemical Bank and Marine Midland Bank which had raised percent level that has prevailed else where in the . Banking Industry. The cuts represent the first reduction since August 1986 in the prime Rale which is used by Banks As a Benchmark for a Range of business and consume Loans. Interest Rales on both Short and Long term Treasury securities have plunged since the Slock Market collapsed on monday. The decline continued even As Nome Stock prices rebounded in the next iwo sessions. The Treasury s closely watched 30-year Bond was trading thursday morn ing with a yield of around 9.12 percent Down sharply from 9.45 percent late decline has been attributed to Strong demand for Treasury issues by investors who were frightened by Mon Day s Selloff and subsequent volatility i Slock prices. They View Treasury Billi notes and Bonds As relatively Federal Reserve Board s affirmation on tuesday that it stood ready to help the financial Community overcome liquidity problems also contributed to lowering rates As did speculation that the Stock Jcj soft could signal Ait Immi nent economic slowdown and lower inflation. Oil company gives Jessica interest in Oklahoma Well Oklahoma City a a com Pany plans to name an Oil Well after jes Sica Mcclure and the 18-Monlh-old Tod Dler who was trapped in an abandoned water Well will have a i percent working interest in the project. Sheryl Pratt president of United Petroleum resources inc. In Dallas said thursday that the company originally in tended to Drill the Well in Kay county in Northern Oklahoma. We cannot put that program together fast enough she said. Instead the Well that probably will be called the Jessica no. 1 will be drilled in Seminole , whose company has Wells in Oklahoma. Texas and Louisiana said the Welt would be dedicated to Jessica who was rescued from the dry water Wellin Midland Texas on Friday. She had been stuck in the Well for 58 said the Well could be drilled in january or declined to estimate How much Money Jessica would receive saying i depends strictly and solely on the amount of Oil and Gas that will come out of he
