European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 11, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Dod defends Security clearance policy Washington api Pentagon officials defended i hair procedures for granting a Turiy clearances tuesday and challenged the Ron Duyon of a congressional report critical a those practices. The report prepared by the House armed services investigations Sii com Ninnec. Said More than 2x000 people Burn in Samiei bloc and other countries Shiku Natina interests Are considered Adverse Lotholc of the United slates Hoid Security clearances in the defense department. The report prepared 31 the request of rep. Juhn Kafieh. A Ohio. And released Lam month. Said Many of these people arc pal . Cili or and inc Pentagon has ignored its own regulations in issuing Many or the clearances. William Fushman the sub Emmittee staff member who produced inc report Laid inc investigation also showed Hal inadequate background checks were con dulled an Many or the aliens and that Security clearances have been granted to people from i Csc countries before their Viiu Enship was verified by the immigration and naturalisation service Bui John Donnelly assistant Deputy under Secretary of defense told the sub committee the report was based on Auto mated data bases and that valid conclusions could not he reached without reviewing individual personnel files. I Don t think your investigators looked in any personnel he said. Rules that went into Cut eco Jan. I. Ifl87, require that Security clearances be granted Only in . Cilia cons unless there is a specific waiver. Clearances May be granted to natural ised . Citi cons who come from one of the 29 soviet bloc and other designated countries Only if they have been . Citizens for five years or Are . Citizens who have lived in the United Stales for 10 years. However the Penta gon is allowed to make exceptions to these requirements. Donnelly said the new rules were not made retroactive for nalu Rali cd . Cit i cons but that the military is in the pro Cess of identifying the immigrant aliens and convening their status from Clear Ancelo limited Access authorization. He said Only 3s7 of the 377,000 air Force workers with Security clearances arc immigrant aliens from soviet bloc count pics. When someone ills me Here arc 23.600 or More people in the depart ment of defense from these bloc coun tries who have clearances Hal Means to me there arc 23,600 people who were properly investigated their Case was adjudicated and the adjudicator Felt Grant ing them a clearance was clearly consist pm with National Security he said. Donnelly also said there Are faster and More reliable ways of checking citizenship status than through the ins. Such As court records certificates and other documents. In every ease i la Wager thai we checked the citizenship status of the applicant he said. Pilot uninjured in crash Landing in California mall an in Cirilar stands on inc of a Pline hat made a Crish Landing in a California shopping mall. San Jose. Calif. Al j a single engine air plane crash landed in the parking no of a shopping mall tuesday damaging nine cars but causing no injuries authorities said. It was Jusi Kaboom. The cars were like Loys an people just started running toward ii said Otis Killcy jr., a mail Security guard who witnessed the crash. Pilot Leland g. Turner 4j. Of red Bluff Lold police the engine of his Bench Craft Bonanza failed on approach 10 acid Hillview Airport and he was forced to set it Down in he Eastridge mall lol Between two stores a o one on the ground was in the path of the plane and Turner emerged from the aircraft looking concerned and shaken but unhurt said paramedic Dave Bockholt. Police sol. Dwight mass incr quoted Turner As say ing the engine trouble became evident about a half mile from the Airport. The plane glanced off a tree in inc parking lot before hitting nine parked vehicles which mass incr said sustained damage ranging from minor to Lota loss. The plane came to rest right Side up its right Wing on the tops of two cars and the left Wing resting on the Side of a mini Van that was knocked Over by inc in 1964, there have been 10 forced landings in the residential and shopping area around the Airport which serves Small aircraft Only. A safety Consulla hired by the county has recommended relocating the aviation administration went to the scene to try to determine what caused the Acci Dent. Gas Sfax on Holdup Man opposes fax increase Longview Wash api the Campaign against raising Washington s gasoline la got one More supporter when a Man paused 10 sign a petition before robbing a Gas Lalion. Police say. Police said they arrested a Man shortly after he returned to inc station to gel inc pen us to sign the petition and a restroom key he feared had fingerprints. De Harrington the attendant who was working alone saturday night at Herb s Texaco said a Man walked into the station and asked for a key to inc men s room. Afler returning inc key the Man began chatting with Harrington who called his attention to the petition against the proposed nine cent a gallon tax increase. The Man borrowed a pen signed the Sheet. And Conli n used talking. "1 turned to gel a cigarette Harrington said and when t turned around again he was pointing a gun at Man took an undisclosed amount of Cash from the till and told Harrington to sit Down and not move the attendant said. Harrington said he called police shortly after the Man left. But As he was on the phone the Man returned to get the restroom key and the Ihnn a police dicer approached the station and the robber fled. An other officer in a patrol car cornered he Man in a nearby Alley police said. Robert l us Koenly. 11. Was arrested and charged with first degree robbery the Colwitz county prosecutor s office said. He was to be arraigned thursday in county Superior court. Ariz. Republicans Cool to King Holiday proposal Phoenix Arii. A republicans who control the state legislature reacted coldly to democratic act ing gov. Rose mofford s proposal to revise a Martin Luther King Holiday As a Symbol of stale government decisiveness and Unity As the Senate gears up for the impeachment trial of gov. Evan Mcchamp. It would be House majority Leader Jim Ralliff said tuesday. Now is not inc time to get into that however. House minority Leader Art Hamilton a Democrat said he agreed with mofford that a King Holiday could be an important part of the political Healing process in Arizona. Mcchamp a Republican stirred controversy after he look office last year by rescinding former democratic gov. Bruce Babbitt s executive order for a King holi Day for state employees he contended Babbitt s order was illegal. Although each House of the legislature has passed a King Day Bill in recent years the measure has not made it through both houses in the same year the Senate on tuesday formally scheduled an in peach men rial for Fen. 22 for Mecham who also faces a May 17 recall election and criminal charges of concealing a j3io,000 Campaign loan. Mcchamp who has pleaded innocent to the criminal charges arrived alone at the Capitol tuesday to finish Clearing out his office. He declined to comment on mofford s King Day proposal saying. I m very hard to mofford said she docs Noi intend to use an executive order to restore the Holiday but would not comment on whether she thinks Babbitt s order a illegal her spokeswoman Athia Hardt said. This has been a National Symbol of our disunity Moford said monday when she called for the legis lature to enact the Holiday. I feel one of the most decisive things that we can do is to work together and get it behind sen. Peter Kay. A Republican who wants voters to decide the Issue in a referendum said you hear a lot about he Healing process but that seems to me As though she s trying to Lay Down the Senate majority Leader Bob Usdane. A Republican who has supported a King Holiday in the past said. I think it s Abw lately ridiculous to try to handle it be fore we go to this trial. This is the Lime you Don t want to make a lol of
