European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 26, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 French probe illegal exports to soviets . Official says Case rivals that of Toshiba by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington a top defense department offi Cial has focused new attention on a French investigation of illegal exports to the soviet Union by describing the Case As rivalling the scandal involving Japan s Toshiba corp. Stephen d. Bryen Deputy undersecretary of defens for Trade Security policy told a group of reporters wednesday that . Authorities have been deeply involved in investigating a serious technology diver Sion Case. Bryen claiming he could not disclose full details Attis Point refused to identify the company under investigation. He said Only that . Investigators were receiving splendid cooperation in the matter. He said some individuals already had been charged and other arrests would follow and that he hoped to make More information available in a few months. According to other government sources however Bryen was referring to an investigation of a French company known As Forest line that once went by the name of Ratier Forest. These sources said . Intelligence agents tipped the French Early this year about Forest line sales of heavy milling equipment to the soviet Union. There has been Good cooperation said on source. We shared information with them and they moved  the French Case surfaced last Spring but attracted Little notice at the time. French authorities disclosed in april that four peo ple had been arrested under anti espionage Laws including Louis tardy chairman of machines Francaise Lourdes and Jean Paul Cha Mouton president of for est line. Machines franchises Lourdes now bankrupt waste Parent company of Forest line which specialized in manufacturing heavy tool equipment. No trials have been held and the status of the Casein the French Legal system is unclear. Bryen while never identifying the company by name Drew attention to the matter wednesday when asked if the defense department had become involve Din any other major Export probes since Toshiba. There s even a bigger one but it s different there s More much More involved than the Toshiba Case Bryen said. He also said the new Case involve the aerospace area. The Toshiba scandal came to a head earlier this Yea when the Toshiba machine co., a Toshiba subsidiary was found guilty in a japanese court of illegally trading High tech items with the soviet Union. The company was convicted of Selling sophisticated milling machines to the soviet Union in the Early 1980s that can be used to fashion quiet submarine propellers. The incident helped Lead to enactment of new Trade legislation and sanctions against Toshiba in the United states As Well As a japanese government overhaul of Export licensing procedures. Last fall when revelations about the Toshiba casemere surfacing a norwegian police investigation found that several other european companies including Forest line had conspired to divert sensitive technology to the soviets dating Back to the 1970s. The . Sources said wednesday however the cur rent investigation involved equipment sales that continued at least through 1986 and possibly 1987 Long after the last Toshiba transaction. The Forest line equipment said to include huge milling machinery that can be used to fabricate aircraft fuselages and Jet engine Turbine Blades was allegedly sold to the soviets after corporate executives submitted fraudulent applications for Export licenses the sources said. Lawmaker says . Let up on soviets rep. Dante Fascell . By the los Angeles times Washington the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee has charged that the Reagan administration is easing its pressure on the soviet Union on jewish emigration and other human right issues aides said wednesday. Rep. Dante Fascell ., claim Din a recent letter to Secretary of state George p. Shultz that the state depart ment is going easy on the soviets because of its desire for a Quick conclusion to the current european Security conference in Vienna Austria. Fascell also suggested that the administration May be backing off its human rights goals in Hopes of holding another Summit meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. State department officials denied the charge. There has been considerable Prog Ress in soviet performance on human rights an official said. It is not an idea situation but there has been  Fascell said in a statement i a deeply concerned that the United states is poised to Compromise on fundamental Long held human rights  he said a 35-nation Summit meeting As Gorbachev has proposed would be a mockery unless the soviet Union improves its human rights record. At Issue is the . Position on the final declaration of the 35-nation conference on Security and cooperation in Europe a Fol Low up meeting to the 1975 Helsinki con Ference which first obtained soviet commitments to human rights improvements. Fascell said that the United state should insist on the release of All soviet political prisoners the Resolution of All re quests for family reunification a substantial increase in jewish emigration from the soviet Union and an end to soviet Jam Ming of Western radio broadcasts. What is the current record there arc still at least 200 political prisoners in the soviet Union several dozen Divide family cases remain unresolved repression is increasing among certain ethnic minorities and the jamming of several Western radios continues Fascell said. A slate department official who asked that he not be identified said that fas cell s statements about the soviet human rights record were True but said the con Gressman was ignoring the improvements. We have never cited those criteria a being required for ending the meeting the official said. He said that the Vienna meeting is on its Way to producing human rights commitments that go Way beyond the Helsinki final  lotto fever rising despite sick machine Sacramento a the califor Nia lotto machine that selects winning numbers jammed wednesday night Dur ing a drawing for a $38 million Jackpot one of the nation s largest gambling windfalls. Lottery officials following disaster recovery guidelines hastily conducted another televised drawing a half hour after the regular time. There Are procedures to handle this sort of thing and they were followed said Bob Taylor the lottery s top spokesman at Sacramento Headquarters. The first incomplete drawing was ruled invalid Taylor said. A drawing announcer called out the number 33 during the initial drawing but no Ball bearing the number rolled out of the machine. At the outset of the second drawing the announcer said we be reloaded the machine and Are beginning a new  the reason the device failed was still being investigated lottery officials  was the first failure in the 22-month history of the game. Before the first drawing californians were grabbing $1 lotto tickets at an estimated average rate of More than 500 a second. The lines Are unreal. People who normally buy $5 Worth of tickets Are buying $20 Worth said Anaheim liquor store owner Mike Notery or. Anybody with Money to spend i thinking nothing ventured nothing gained " the fast Pace of sales left lottery officials unsure of the exact Jackpot  expected to determine thurs Day whether there was a Winner an verify that person s identity later. If nobody picked the Correct six num Bers out of a Choice of 49 numbers the Jackpot will be added to saturday s drawing said officials. Communist membership reportedly Down Stanford Calif. A the number of people throughout the world who belong to the communist party declined slightly from 1986 to1987, according to the Hoover institution. Total a membership decreased from 89.8 million in 1986 to 88.6 Millionth following year the conservative think tank at Stanford University re ported in its 1988 yearbook on communist affairs. That compares with a 7.6 percent increase in party membership from1985 to 1986, the yearbook reported. The publication also has recorded a leap of More than 70 percent in inter National communist membership since the Early 1970s, when the total was about 50 million. The Small drop from 1986 to 1987indicates that communists around the world Are fed up with the soviet Union said yearbook editor Richard Staar. " it can be attributed 19 several fac tors. Most important is the openly admitted failure of the Politico eco nomic system in the .s.r.," he said. The system has failed. It no longer serves As a Model even for Eastern Europe Staar added. Another Factor is the increased exposure of Young people living in communist countries to the Success of capitalist governments around the world Staar said. But while there May be fewer communists throughout the world there Are More in California the party said. We have found a tremendous renewed interest in marxism and the communist party in the last year said Kendra Alexander chairwoman of the California communist party. Our own membership while admittedly not very Large has climbed by about 250 members to about 1,000people," she said. It took years but violator9 beat ticket Birmingham Ala. A Patrick d. Kelly spent hundreds of dollars to beat a traffic ticket for run Ning a red Light but said he is glad to have his name cleared even if it took2 /2 years and 11 court appearances. The 35-year-old House Painter said his Battle Cost him More than $2,000, of which he expects to get Back only$17150 from the City in repayment of the Fine and court  Jefferson county circuit court jury tuesday acquitted Kelley after less than 10 minutes of deliberations. I almost broke into tears he said. Kelley who received the citation i March of 1986, was convicted in municipal court two months later. He appealed saying the citation contained several errors including identifying him As Black rather than White. On tuesday judge Mike Mccormick offered to dismiss that Case but Kelley said he wanted his name cleared by a jury. Officer . Ellis testified the mis takes he made on the citation probably occurred when Carbon paper in his ticket Book accidentally transferred in formation from another ticket