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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes monday March 12,1990 Washington insiders on the Trail of spies of Chute . Jones attempts to land his plane saturday at West Point va., after a Parachute opened at the wrong Point in a test. The Chute is designed to enable an aircraft to have a soft land ing after experiencing mechanical trouble. The Pilot landed his plane safely after ejecting the Parachute. Washington apr a panel of Washington insiders armed with top secret Security clearances is conducting a major unannounced review of the nations espionage Laws in a search for better ways to catch and convict spies. Recruited from the private sector by the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee the panel members have visited the Cia Fri Pentagon and National Security Agency among others Over the last nine months. Cia director William Webster Fri director William sessions and attorney general Dick Thornburgh All have met with members of the group according to executive Branch sources. Fri and Cia spokesmen confirmed that their agencies have offered information and suggestions but wont describe them. A Justice department source said the department has yet to offer advice. The panel a which includes former White House Cia Justice department and state officials and a politically connected baseball team owner a is working for Sens. David Boren d-okla., and William Cohen a Maine chairman and vice chairman respectively of the intelligence committee. Cohen said in an interview last week that he and Boren were motivated by a the decade of the spy and a Long series of counterintelligence failures such As Whitworth the walkers de Howard Clyde Lee Conrad a a string of people who have sold or been suspected of Selling highly classified information costing us billions of dollars in technology that has been compromised not to mention some of our human intelligence  Senate sources said the panel has no chairman but executive Branch officials said Borens Friend Eli Jacobs who owns the Baltimore orioles baseball team has usually taken the Lead. Jacobs a venture capitalist served on an arms control advisory group in the Reagan administration and still sits on defense department advisory committees. The others have far More Washington experience. They Are the former Deputy Cia director and National Security Agency chief Bobby Ray Inman former Cia director Richard Helms former Carter White House counsel Lloyd Cutler former Reagan White House counsel Arthur b. Culvahouse or. Former ambassador and senior state department official Seymour Weiss former Xerox executive Amassa cancer risk from pregnancy drug could extend to granddaughters Washington apr a 13-year-old girl May be the first child to have died from vaginal cancer because her grandmother took a drug 40 years ago that was thought to prevent miscarriages the girls doctor and Mother said sunday. Sarah Roberts of Olney md., whose daughter Amy died last june said a lawyer representing the family plans to file suit monday in . District court in Washington against Eli Lilly and co. Of Indianapolis one of the manufacturers of the synthetic hormone Dithy Lstill Westrol or Des. Roberts said her Mother in Law who is still living and has one other Young granddaughter took the drug in 1949 when she was pregnant with j. David Roberts now a methodist minister in Olney. The Case raises the possibility that another generation of children May be affected by Des. The danger is already recognized for the daughters of 3 million women who took the drug during pregnancy from the 1940s to the 1970s. Des was made and sold by some 300 pharmaceutical companies from 1947 to 1971. In 1970, researchers discovered the link Between Des and cancer in the daughters of women who used the drug. The food and drug administration said the drug is still manufactured for some medical applications but is banned during pregnancy. A Amy had no symptoms until she came Home from school on a thursday complaining of a pain in the Back of her neck a her Mother said. A week later doctors said Roberts daughter had Only three months to live. That was two years ago. Amy died last june after doctors fought for 14 months to control the rare cancer which spread through her body Roberts said. A we Are hoping to Alert other Des sons and daughters that there is a possibility of cancer and that maybe their daughters should be checked a Roberts said. She said doctors told her Amy might have lived after surgery if the cancer had been detected earlier. Roberts said the first indication of a problem May have been when Amy began menstruating at age 9, but a Pydia Dor and Middle East negotiator sol Lino with and former Deputy Secretary of state Warren Christopher. A Columbia University Law professor Harold Edgar an expert on the application of espionage statutes to leaked government information is helping write proposals in legislative language. In interviews Cohen and Inman said greed has emerged As the most common motivation for spies Over the last decade ideology they said had declined among spies even before it came unravelled in the communist world during the last year. To counter that one source said the Fri has mentioned its longstanding desire to be Able to examine tax and consumer credit records in intelligence investigations before there a full evidence of a crime a authority it now has Only for Bank records. A if a Guy goes from a Vega to a Jaguar in a years time something a wrong a Cohen said. Inman refused to discuss the work of the panel but said he personally has begun thinking about How to use data now unavailable to counterintelligence officials. He suggested that a computer could be Given a list of people with Access to secrets and the irs could then a Tell you if there was any significant change either a bankruptcy or a Large  but he warned against opening tax records merely for a a fishing expeditions. Inman also said polygraph tests might be shortened to focus narrowly on contacts with foreign agents a and then administered randomly among those with the most sensitive jobs. He a also considering the idea of bounties for family members who report turncoat relatives. In the government each spy arrest is at once a Success for those who caught the traitor and a failure for those who were fooled in the first place. And the Boren Cohen advisers have divided the intelligence Community. An executive Branch official citing the record string of spy convictions in the 1980s, said a your big counterintelligence problem is not new legislation but new values in society so people wont be so willing to sell out their  an intelligence Community official praised the panel for tackling Tough questions. And he added a when you consider who they Are and the demands on their time in a impressed by the amount of time they put  Tricia told her nothing was wrong. Or. Herbert Kotz of Olney who discussed the Case Only after it was reported by the Washington Post on sunday said he and three other doctors were preparing an article on it for a medical journal. Kotz said the article will Deal with the possibility that the effects of Des May be passed beyond one generation. But he said it will also note that the same cancer has been found in several Young women who had no exposure to Des in their family histories and that amyl Scase could have occurred by Chance. He said the cancer is found among older women and has almost never been linked to Des in a woman who showed the first symptoms after age 30. A co author of the planned paper or. Bruce Walker has predicted from animal studies that the effects of Des can pass through More than one generation Kotz said. The papers purpose he added is a to Alert the medical profession to the fact that we May have another generation at risk from the  horses being moved St. Louis apr Anheuser busches trademark clydesdales Are being moved to California As part of a Cost cutting program at the worlds largest brewery. Anheuser Busch cos. Inc. Announced Friday that it plans to move its 24-year-old Breeding Center from suburban St. Louis to a 900-acre facility in warm Springs calif., where the animals will have More room to roam. The huge draft horses which have pulled the Budweiser Beer Wagon since 1933, make about our promotional appearances Arouna the country each year. There Are 74 horses in the company a Herd. A it makes economic sense to manage our Breeding and Stock management operations at a larger to Rural site a said Michael Roarty a 1 Heuser busches director of marketing. The current Breeding Center at Grants farm the estate of the late August Busch jr., grandson of brewery a founder is Only 75 acres  
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