European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 25, 1987 new Effort begun to halt publication of spy Catcher London a the government launched a new court Battle monday Long British newspapers from publishing spy Catcher a former intelligence agent s memoirs saying that a circulation in Britain will undermine these Cret service.1. The Book is on Sale in for eign Book shops members of the secret service should keen secrets remain mute about their work and Lake their knowledge of the service silent to inc grave Robert Alex Ander a lawyer for the government told the High court. The hearing expected to last three weeks is the latest move in a Long and largely unsuccessful fight by conserva Tive rime minister Margaret thalcher s administration to suppress the Book in Britain and abroad. Three major British newspapers the Liberal daily guardian and the observer and the sunday times weeklies Are jointly fighting for the right to publish extracts or report details of the allegations in spy Catcher by Peter Wright a 25-year Veteran of Britain s counters peonage service mi5. The sunday times Alexander said paid 12 24,000 for the serial rights. Spy Richcr was published in the United states and Canada last summer. Publication in Australia where Wright now Ives was allowed this fall after British government attempts to Stop it failed in two lower courts. The government is appealing to the highest australian court despite publication and has similar actions going in new zealand and Hong Kong Alexander acknowledged thai the government Lias been exposed to Media rid i ule in its Battle Over the Book which includes allegations that an mis chief. The late sir Roger Moliis was a soviet ii gent referring to arguments trial . Publication of spy caterer destroyed inc government ease against British newspapers. Alexander said publication in Brit Ain the to so Iii Ikot Zulj alike til Hie very foundation of an efficient secret Thatcher aides have said she is deter mined to pursue the Case to uphold the principle that former agents must not be allowed to get away with breaking their oaths under the official secrets act. copies of the Book circulate privately in Britain and the government has no attempted an import ban because Alexander said it would be unenforceable. The three newspapers in the current action Are among six British newspapers thai have published detailed stories about he Hook or extracts from it. The government has filed charges against four newspapers alleging breaches of Britain s Ami espionage. Official secrets act. In the current hearing the government is seeking a permanent Extension of a temporary injunction against newspaper publication. The temporary injunction won july 30, split the country s highest court the House of lords. The judges had split 3-2 in favor of the injunction and a dissenter among the top judges said the decision was a step toward totalitarianism. The majority had ruled that permit Ting publication would have established a charter for traitors to publish on the most massive scale in England whatever they had managed to publish dissenters countered that the ban will seem More and More ridiculous As the Book is published in More countries. Tainted cheese linked to deaths in Switzerland Lausanne. Swit7crtand a health authorities monday blamed at least 25 deaths and miscarriages in the past four years on consumption of tainted batches of a Swiss cheese Vacho Rin Mont d or whose production Export and Domestic sate were banned Friday. As authorities continued on investigation to determine he cause of six other deaths linked to the same bacteria the Swiss Federal health office said it was considering an import ban on French soft cheeses if like the Swiss Brand their Rind is found to contain Lister Cleosis . To place cameras at 3 intersections new York not in its latest offensive against Drivers who run red lights new York City will soon begin deploying a new weapon at three inter sections cameras during a three month Experiment to begin in december cameras will photo graph the License plates of vehicles Thill run stoplights at three intersections. The cameras arc used in 40 countries including West Germany Canada. Australia and Israel but they have not been used in the United states. Germs first results of a government ordered nationwide Check of All other soft cheeses sold in Switzerland arc expected by the end of the week officials said. The measures against Vacherie Mont d or a soft cheese chiefly produced in French speaking Vaud Canton stale were taken after it was blamed for three Lisler Cleosis deaths in Switzerland since seasonal sales began last month. Lisler Cleosis is a serious commonly fatal disease Akin to encephalitis All 31 victims cited by cantonal medi Cal chief Jean Martin were in Vaud. About half were no Boms or fetuses that died Martin told a press conference. The others were people weakened by Dis eases such As cancer. Martin said he could not provide a precise breakdown. He said the conclusions were based on checks in factories and 4,000 cheese samples which showed most of the can ton s Vacherie cellars were contaminated with the bacteria. Floods in Vietnam Bangkok Thailand Kupij heavy Rains triggered Flash flooding in Central Vietnam killing at least 31 people and leaving others homeless. Radio Hanoi said sunday. A Seaman wears a cold weather mask in exercises in the Bering sea. Soviets reportedly target of mock raids san Diego a Navy bomb cars Are staging secret mock bombing attacks against a soviet City and naval Center in retaliation for increasing so Viet military lights near alaskan Bor Ders a newspaper reported sunday. The missions which bring bombers within 90 Miles of a soviet Pacific sea port Are designed to say take thai " the san pie of Union quoted an unidentified senior Navy officer As saying. The mock attacks which began in Spring 1986. Are waged by a-6e in Truder bombers based on Navy con trolled Adak Island in the Bering sea s Aleutian islands against inc so Viet City of Pictro Pavlovsk about 1,025 Miles West. Navy officials in the . Pacific Fleck said. The bombers reportedly Stop about 90 Miles Short of inc fishing seaport population 237,000, which serves As the soviet Navy s principal submarine and surface ship base in the Central and Northern Pacific Region. The mock attacks Are dubbed operation shooting Star the newspaper said. Both . And soviet planes have flown reconnaissance and fighter intercept missions near each other s Borders but this is the first time i ther has used armed supersonic bombers on a Mccline run toward an adversary s cily Navy optic gals said. Mai. Tim Phister a spokesman for the . Pacific come in Pearl har Bor said the operation was initiated in the Spring of 1986 in response to a threefold increase in soviet military flights near Alaska since 1980. He said the missions were a prod by a
