European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday november 21,1988 spying threat from China escalating agents target . Computer Industry los Angeles up top . Count Crittelli Genic officials arc alarmed by a dramatic increase in espionage activity in California by chinese agents who have supplanted inc soviets As the most Active foreign spies in the area. The los Angeles times reported in it sunday editions that the growing chinese espionage threat stems partly from increased economic ties Between China and the United Stales and partly from setbacks dealt soviet intelligence by several High profile spy cases in the mid-1980s. Chinese diplomats in California denied the spying accusations which were viewed with scepticism by some chinese american leaders the times said. John r. Hensley assistant West coast chief of the customs service said the chinese arc now the most Active foreign Power engaged in inc illegal acquisition of american High technology focusing primarily Onich computer Industry. They Don t have the sophistication of the soviets bul they make up for that in numbers he said. As far As human intelligence collection thereto Lell u3 huijih4 imlt.lllgllii.1 1.v11h-11uii, kill. F1wu4u Ovidiu 1, uni life video system scores big in Christmas toy sales chinese slave now outstripped the soviets in califor Nia Harry a Godfrey 111, head of the Fri s coun tar intelligence in los Angeles old the. Times. Be cause of the political climate they have More opportunities Here and appear to be utilizing  Godfrey said Fri countering Exigence has information that chinese agents have tried 10 apply to the Central intelligence Agency the Fri and military de sense agencies. They also have attempted to recruit at nuclear research facilities in los Alamos km., an the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Northern Cali fornia. Godfrey said the Fri has had Little Success in prosecuting chinese espionage cases because their operations lend to consist of Many Small individual Intelli gence collection efforts and therefore Are harder to select .-.,.  ,. If grains of Sand were intelligence targets the Sovi ets would surface a submarine in the dead of night an Send a Small party to the Beach to bring Back several pails of Sand said one Fri official. The Chines would Send 1,000 bathers to the Beach in Broad Day Light and have each bather bring Back one Grain  another problem confronting the Fri is that chinese authorities encourage potential sources to travel to China to Exchange information out of the grasp of Federal investigators. Such tactics would be More difficult for the soviet Union because Intel in and out of the .s.r. Is More restricted. Still another problem is that chinese Genfi focus espionage activities toward mid level american technology whereas the soviets seek cutting Edge technology a smaller segment of the Industry two is More easily monitored. The Fri also said thai China focus ii More heavily than any other country on its own population in Cali fornia for recruits. While both Godfrey and Hensley stressed that the Ove whelming. Majority of chinese americans in Cali fornia Are Loyal citizens they said it is harder to Monitor the Community which is much larger than soviet and East european contingents in the state. New York a loot under Christmas Trees this year and you la find packages with the name Nintendo wait ing for millions of children the toy Industry has its first Mega chitin iwo years in the japanese made video game system. But there arc a lot of smaller Home grown hits As Wail with familiar names like Barbie . Joe and real ghost busters leading the pack Nintendo has surged to the forefront of the toy Industry although it has t created the hysteria that cabbage Patch kids did inthe mid-1980s, when some stores had Sev eral near riots As parents fought Over the dolls that were in Short Supply. But even without shoving matches among prospective buyers Nintendo is expected to rack up $ 1.7 billion in . Sales for 1988, More than double the $800 Mil lion in did last year. By comparison. Cot co industries inc s cabbage Hatch kids did$600 million in 1985, its Peak year. The toy Industry is expecting sales to runabout even or slightly ahead of last year s s12.5 billion according to toy manufacturers of America a Trade group. Most of that business is done a Christmas. This Holiday season several Nintendo game cartridges arc among the must have toys super Mario Brothers ii Zelda ii and double dragon the Basic Nintendo action set Sells for about s100. Industry watchers urged Consumers to shop Early because supplies of the electronic chips needed to make the game cartridges have been tight. Rick Anguilla Edi Tor of the Trade newspaper toy & Hobby world predicted you can count on plenty of shortages for Nintendo software. Nintendo represents the first major hit in the toy Industry since worlds of wondering s Lazer tag in 1936. Nintendo also was the standout last year when inc rest of the Industry was in a slump. Nintendo s Success has Given the Japa Nese company an 35 percent share of the video game Market up from 70 percent at the end of 1987, Anguilla estimated. The company s sales have come at the expense of us marketed video games such As Mattel inc s Sega and atari corp s video system. Hasbro inc. Recently announced it was discontinuing its Nemo video game. Nintendo was one of the few High tech items to succeed in 1987, while Consumers spent millions on Nintendo they shunned other High priced electronic toys in favor of dolls. Board games and preschool items like play food. Seeing this trend manufacturers put greater emphasis in 1988 on these toys which Cost less to produce and Are Matt profitable. Last year All the major companies except Hasbro ended up in the red. But securities analysts said the Industry s strategy shift plus extensive Cost cutting among the big . Companies is return ing the business to profitability. The . Companies also have Given video game sales Nintendo others up i hair dependence on action figures superheroes aliens and robots tied to television shows they helped produce. Television tie ins Are not dead How Ever. Universal Matchbox s talking Pec Wec Herman doll and pc incr Parker toys real  remain big sell ers said Angela Bourdon a spokeswoman for toys r us inc., the nation s Large so toy store Chain. Other action figures that Are popular Are Kenner Parker s starting lineup based on real athletes and playmate mutant Ninia turtles. G. I. Joe Hasbro s military action figure also continues to thrive. Other big Sellers among boys ays Are radio controlled cars hot wheels by Mattel and Micro machines Small canard trucks produced by Lewis Galoob toys inc. .1 for girls Mattel s Barbie is expected to have her Best year Ever As she approaches the grand old age of 30. Some newer entries in the dolt Market also arc expected to have a Good season. Those Cilcy by Anguilla and Bourdon included Galoost s Battery operated Boun Cin babies Hasbro s Dolly Surprise whose hair grows and Mallei s Little miss makeup. ,. Among Board games Pir tonary by games gang Ltd. And its counterpart from Hasbro s Milton Bradley line called win lose or draw Are expected to remain big Sellers. Sakharov to help set doomsday clock Chicago a soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov has agreed to help set the doomsday clock used by the bulletin of atomic scientists. To depict the stale of tension among nuclear pow ers the Magazine announced saturday Sakharov who has been travelling in the United states was contacted in Cambridge mass., by  fold a physicist at Massachusetts Institute of technology and former edit roof the bulletin. Sakharov becomes the i8ih Nobel laureate among the 44 members of the bulletin s Board of sponsors which helps decide where to put the min Ute hand of the doomsday clock that has been. Featured on the cover of the Magazine for 41 years. At present it is at six minutes to Midnight on minute closer to doomsday than it was when it first appeared in 1947. Over the years the time has been As Distant As 12 minutes and As near As two min utes. Cuomo s plane forced to land Albany by. A a plane carrying new York. Gov. Mario Cuomo made an emergency Landing at Small Pennsylvania Airport Early sunday after occupants of the plane reported smelling smoke a spokes. Man Saidnobody was injured in the incident which happened about 1 30 a.m., said Gary Fryer a Cuomo spokesman. It was the third time since july 1987 thai the twin engine state plane has been forced to make an emergency Landing. I -. ". After the democratic governor and his aides reported smelting smoke the two pilots turned off All non essential Power including the aircraft s Interior lights Fryer said. Using flashlights to read their controls the pilots then landed at the Airport in Williamsport pa., which was closed at the Lime the governor s spokesman said it was still unclear sunday whether there was a fire aboard the plane., people who had been on Board said the smell warlike thai of an electrical fire be said bul it could just have been overheated wires  at the same time the plane s pilots reported some problems with the radio Fryer said. Another state plane flew to Williamsport picked up he governor and resumed him to Albany about 6 30 aim. Sunday said Fryer. Cuomo had been returning from new Orleans where he addressed the Council of jewish federations on saturday night. In july 1987, pilots made an emergency Landing Natalbany county Airport when a Light indicated an engine fire on the Grumman made plane. That incident occurred shortly after Cuomo and his entourage took off for a National association of governors meeting i Michigan. An inspection revealed thai the Light had1 malfunctioned and there was no fire. The plane then underwent a 1628,000 overhaul after Cuomo concluded it would be too expensive to replace. The second emergency Landing occurred last March while the speaker of the new York Assembly was on Board again because of a malfunctioning warning Light. The it engine Turboprop aircraft bad a substantial amount of work dons on it after the first incident last year Fryer said. But like any aircraft it s subject to  Cuomo was travelling sunday with two assistants and a stale police bodyguard Fryer said