European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday August 16,1989 soviets ignore . Pleas test missile close to Hawaii Washington a the soviet Union despite two High level . Appeals conducted an intercontinental missile test last week near two Remote hawaiian islands. Bush administration officials said monday. The unarmed missile with an 8,000-mile Range was launched from the soviet Union and flew Between the two tiny islands acc scr and Nihoa shortly before splashing Down Friday Southeast of Oahu. The soviets announced on aug. 7 that they would conduct a test sometime Between aug. 11 and aug. 21. Neither the two private . Appeals to Deputy ambassador Serge Chetverikov nor the lest itself were made Public. It s somewhat disturbing the soviets did t take our concerns into account a . Official said Mon Day. There was no danger but there is always a risk however slight it might be that something would go awry. That is Why we Felt it was  assistant Secretary of state Raymond r. Seitz and his Deputy Curtis w. Kamman held separate meet Ings aug. 7 and 8 with Chetverikov to protest that the missile was Likely to pass Over parts of Hawaii before splashing Down two . Officials said. Scilzo and Kamman Are the senior officers in the state department s Bureau of european and Canadian affairs. The . Government expressed its deep concern to the soviets Over the planned test and asked that it be  the . Official said. Chetverikov returned to the stale department on aug. 9 to say the test would be conducted strictly Over International water. We did not find that response persuasive or sufficient because the soviet missile test would pass Over the hawaiian Island Chain said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. It is not a Legal Issue but an Issue of political and safety considerations. Once again we strongly urged the soviets to reconsider their  in the . Appeals to the soviets the planned test was described As a provocation said another . Official who also requested anonymity. . Relations with the soviet Union have been on the upswing in most areas of the world although there have been recent disagreements Over . Assistance to rebels in Afghanistan and soviet overtures to Iran. Despite the . Appeals the soviets tested the mis Sile which splashed Down shortly after passing Over the roughly 370-mile Channel Between Necker and Nihoa. As it turned put the missile did not pass Over either Island. The Point of the . Complaint one official said was that it was too close for  two years ago in a similar situation the soviets revised a missile test near the hawaiian Chain when the Reagan administration objected. Prosecutors Clear Dodson 32, of 77 rape kidnapping charges Chicago a prosecutors on monday dropped 12-year-old rape and kidnapping charges against 32-year-old Gary Dotson 10 years after he was convicted on testimony later recanted by his accuser. Prosecutors took the action which clears Dotson of any Legal wrongdoing in the Case immediately after a defense motion for a new trial was granted by circuit judge Thomas r. Fitzgerald. Attorney Thomas Breen saying High tech genetic tests prove Dotson s innocence had asked Fitzgerald for a new trial. The Only conclusion that can be drawn is that Gary Dotson was convicted of a crime that never took place Brcin said outside the courtroom. Prosecutors had contended that the test results were not enough to Clear Dotson and that a new trial could t be granted unless it was Likely to reverse the outcome of the first one. I have my bitterness yes. It s been hard to Deal in san six years later Webb recanted her testimony a move that led to clemency for Dotson. I forgave her a Long time ago. I be no animosity against her Dotson said. I m sure she s very relieved that it s done the Rev. Carl Nannini a Dublin n.h., Baptist minister who acts As Webb s spokesman said in an interview. Although Nannini said Webb had not known about monday s action when he talked to her earlier in the Day the minister said Webb has contacts in Chicago who have kept her current on developments in the Case. Brcin contended that genetic test results prove that semen found on the underpants worn by Webb on the july 1977 night she said she was raped did not come from Dotson. In August 1988, Edward Blake of forensic science associates in Richmond calif., exam ined the underwear and concluded that Dotson could t have Bee among the 5 percent of men whose genetic Pat Tern matched cells found in the stain a finding supported by a British expert at the University of Leicester. The slain was a key piece of evidence in the prosecution s  when she Mccanl a her testimony in 1985, Webb now a Harrisville n.h., Home maker said she invented the attack be cause she feared she had become pregnant by her boy Friend. Gov. James r. Thompson granted Dotson clemency that year saying his punishment had been sufficient. But the governor has refused to Pardon Dotson saying he did not believe mrs. Webb s reversal. Dotson who has married and become a father since his release was paroled last August after recurring minor problems with the Law returned him to prison. He has been living in an alcohol and drug treatment Center under terms of his parole. Stateside sunken Ellis Island ferry to stay put due to costs Newark no. A the National Park service has decided against raising the sunken ferry Ellis Island which carried 12 million immigrants to new lives. The Park service can t afford the estimated $250.000 it would Cost to raise the 160-foot ferry which rests under 14 feet of water on Ellis Island said spokeswoman Edie Shean Ham mond. The government May eventually try to bring up pieces of the 85-year-old boat which Sank at the former immigration station in 1968, she said. Officials said earlier that they would have to move the wreck because it might interfere with boat traffic when a museum opens on Ellis is land next year. But they have decided to work around the boat Shean Hammond said. A Navy Salvage unit decided in june that the boat s Iron Hull was too weak to withstand the stress of being raised for less Tham $250,000. The Ellis Island ferried immigrants and government workers Between the Island and the Mainland. The boat was moored at the Island after the immigration station closed in 1954. Abc sacrificing Paris to East Europe coverage new York a the National Broad casting co. Television network says it will close its Paris news Bureau by the end of the year and use some of the Money it saves to bolster coverage of the soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Abc news president Michael Gartner announced last week that the network also would open a Bureau in Barcelona Spain As part of its plans to televise the 1992 summer olympics and a Bureau in Dallas Texas to cover the southwestern United states. Ted Elbert the Paris Bureau chief will head the Moscow Bureau which will be operated jointly with the British broadcasting corp. And i snows. The network also will open a Bureau in Budapest Hungary Gartner said. $52 million water cleanup proposed by Lockheed los Angeles not Lockheed corp. Said it has proposed to the government spending $52 million Over six years to help remove contaminants from groundwater in Burbank Calif site of the company s aeronautical systems Divi Sion. In May the environmental Protection Agency told Lockheed that it was one of 31 area Compa Nies suspected of leaking contaminants into the soil. The companies were then asked to submit proposals about How to clean it up. Lockheed said the Agency May approve its spending plan or May reject or change it. The company said it asked the other 30 con Cerns to contribute additional Money to clean the groundwater which contains cleaning fluids that leaked into the soil. Lockheed said one of 160 underground storage tanks buried on com Pany property was found to have leaked. Bush selects aide to be new chairman of Seg Washington a president Bush on monday selected White House aide Richard c. Arc Cdon an attorney and banking specialist to be chairman of the securities and Exchange commis Sion. Arc Cdon 39, has served in a variety of capacities under Bush most recently As White House Point Man on the savings and loan restructuring legislation. The Sec Post requires Senate confirmation. Arc Cdon would succeed David s. Ruder who has headed the regulatory body since two months before the octo Ber 1987 Stock Market crash. Ruder announced in May that he was stepping Down to accept a position at Northwestern Law school. Technically Bush announced he would nominate arc Cdon to a four year term succeeding Charles c. Cox whose term had expired. However the White House said in a statement that upon Senate confirmation. Bush would immediately designate bread in As the new chairman. According to the White House announcement arc Cdon s experience Cov ers a wide Range of securities banking and other financial transactions and matters both in the United states and  he is a 1972 graduate of Stanford University and a 1975 graduate of the Harvard Law school. From 1981-82, arc Cdon was an executive assistant to the undersecretary of labor in Advance of the formal announce ment. White House press Secretary mar Lin Fitzwater called arc Cdon an out standing  arc Cdon helped draft the administration s initial plan for bailing out the nation s ailing savings and loan Industry submitted in february. He also rep resented the White House in dealings with Congress As that legislation progressed. The final plan a sweeping rewriting of banking Laws and the largest single in. Dusty government bailout Ever was signed into Law by Bush last week at a Rose Garden ceremony attended by arc Cdon. Breeden whose current Job As presidential assistant for issues analysis mad him something of a White House Trou ble shooter also helped fashion administration policy for dealing with the Alaska Oil spill. From 1982-85 Breeden was Deputy counsel to then vice president Bush. He was a banking specialist with a new York Law firm before that and be tween government assignments worked in the Washington  a Houston Law