European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 14, 1990 Lyle Menendez left and his brother Erik charged with murdering their parents in court monday.2 charged in parents murders granted delay in arraignment Beverly Hills Calif. Apr two Brothers charged with killing their millionaire parents delayed entering pleas to give their lawyers time to review the seizure of evidence from their psychologist. Attorneys for Erik and Lyle Menendez said they wanted to determine if tape recordings seized from Jerome oziel were inadmissible in court in what appears to be a key Issue developing in the Case. A it is my understanding that when you talk to a therapist that a privileged a As if you were talking to a lawyer a and that privilege might be breached a defense attorney Gerald Chaleff said monday. The tapes of conversations Between oziel and the Brothers were seized last thursday the Day police a a Csc Lyle 22, and launched an International search for Ink 19, a Tennis pro who surrendered Over the weekend. District attorney Ira Reiner called the tapes a key evidence in the aug. 20, 1989, Shotgun slayings of Hollywood executive Jose Menendez 45, and his wife Mary Louise Menendez 44. Reiner alleged that Money was the motive in the Oil Quot us j others who reported finding their Par in is bodies m their Beverly Hills mansion stood to inherit the $ 14 million estate of their father who was chairman president and chief executive officer of live entertainment inc., a video distribution company. Defense attorneys said they wanted to read the search warrant affidavit that authorities filed before they searched Oziela a office. The affidavit which May indicate what is on the tapes was ordered sealed by the judge to everyone except attorneys in the Case. State Law allows a psychologists patient records to be used As evidence if there is a threat of continued violence and Deputy District attorney Elliot Alhadeff said oziel was threatened. Alhadeff would not elaborate and oziel declined to return a phone message to his Beverly Hills office. The Brothers arraignment was rescheduled for March 26, when they will enter pleas. Municipal court judge Judith o. Stein will decide then whether to release the affidavit. Attorneys and the prosecutor discussed the affidavit and other matters behind closed doors monday for More than an hour before the Brothers appeared in court. Sitting in the courtroom were Maria Llanio the Brothers paternal grandmother and their fathers sister Teresita Baralt and her husband Carlos. The bar alts Are executors of the Menendez estate. The stars and stripes a a a Page 7dod expert backs Cia on soviets by the new York times Washington a differing with defense Secretary Dick Cheney a top Pentagon expert on soviet affairs has endorsed the assessment of William h. Webster the director of Central intelligence that there is Little Chance of renewed soviet dominance Over Eastern Europe if president Mikhail s. Gorbachev is ousted. The official Phillip a. Petersen a specialist on Europe and the soviet Union for the Pentagon a policy planning staff also said that the Warsaw pact has already ceased to exist As an effective military of animation and will be maintained largely As a political a a fiction in the future. Petersen a conclusions in an unclassified research paper have drawn attention because they come after a dispute Between Webster and Cheney Over the future soviet military threat. Capitol Hill critics of Cheney have argued that the defense Secretary is increasingly the Odd Man out in the policy debate in Washington. The emergence of Petersen a unclassified study has provided ammunition to detractors who argue that the defense sccretai7 is even out of tune with some specialists within his Agency. The dispute Over the soviet military threat came to the fore two weeks ago when Webster in congressional testimony said that the economic pressures on Moscow arc so severe that even a new hard line regime would be unlikely to begin a major military buildup or to try to revive the Warsaw pact. Websters analysis undercut one of the main arguments that Cheney has used to win support for his military spending request the threat that a reversal of Gorbachev a policies could rejuvenate the soviet military. Cheney has struck different notes. He has said that he believes Moscow is Likely to completely withdraw its forces from Eastern Europe. But he has also stes cd caution in his january report to Congress he said changes in soviet foreign and military policy a Marc Only just beginning to be implemented and Are still relatively easy to  a new classified assessment by the joint chiefs of staff also allows for the possibility that soviet foreign and Domestic policy May be reversed but plays Down the likelihood of this. Petersen a paper centers on his thesis that soviet leaders starting with Yuri v. Andropov have developed a new View of Security that emphasizes economic rather than military relations. Petersen approvingly cites websters statement that there is Little Chance a soviet Hegemony could be restored in Eastern  oks King Holiday Asp Alyenne Wyo. 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The two Page summary contains reports by department of Energy operations to Watkins that were assembled by his office and were being sent Back to the Doe offices. The problems at the governments nuclear Complex included a widespread Low level contamination at a tank farm at Hanford Wash. Three hours after the briefing paper was sent out a note addressed to a fall state governors urged them to disregard and destroy the document. It Wasny to known How Many governors offices had received it. The document provides an unusual glimpse into the daily routine at Watkins office. But Doe press Secretary . Jameson said it does not suggest an excessive number of problems. She Watkins said the report was begun by Watkins As a Way to keep tabs on Doe operations. A it indicates we re taking the trouble to find out what a going on and fixing it a she said. Among other problems the document said a radiation Survey in the control room of a reactor at Oak Ridge tenn., found that four chairs and a Stool were contaminated with Cobalt-60. Two chairs were disposed of and the other furniture was decontaminated. Another item in the document said a cleanup of a widespread Low level contamination at a tank farm in Hanford Wash., was continuing. The efforts included cleaning of All paved roads and a radioactivity Survey. Other reports in the briefing paper. A Sandia lab management and the does Albuquerque n.m., office agreed to suspend operation last Friday of a particle beam fusion accelerator after a numerous safety concerns were identified. The does Savannah River operations office said the Westinghouse Savannah River co. Had discovered that seismic support a bolts were missing from some supplementary safety system injection lines on a reactor. A also at Savannah River Doe and Osha inspectors found three live Bare wires in a reactor building. The wires were fixed and an investigation is under Way