European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a a a the stars and str Pes monday june 18, 1590news updates Kab should be disbanded self proclaimed sex agent say sex airman sentenced Dallas Asp a an air Force enlisted has been sentenced to 10 years in prison without parole for attempting to sell secrets to the soviets. . District judge Sidney a Fitzwa Ter imposed the sentence pm former airman Ronald Craig Wolf. 35. Who pleaded guilty in february to one count of attempting to Transfer National defense information to the soviet Union. Wolf enlisted in the air Force in july 1974 m Dallas. He held a Security clearance and received training in russian before his 1981 discharge. He transcribed sensitive communications while serving in the far East. Gilf Ham said. Wolf had been working in automobile sales since his discharge the Fri said. Of was arrested near the Dallas fort Worth International Airport where he had planned to Fly to the Union to talks urged Seoul. South Korea apr South korean dissidents have urged communist North Korea to resume stalled inter Korea talks and Stop the development of nuclear weapons to ease tension on the divided korean Peninsula. A statement issued Friday by 302 dissidents to Mark the 40th anniversary of the Start of the korean War said North Korea should permit economic cultural and family exchanges with the South. The statement asked North Korea to Stop developing nuclear weapons to expedite withdrawal of . Forces and of . Nuclear arms allegedly deployed in South Korea. The dissidents called for a peace treaty signed by the North and South korean governments. The two Korea Are technically still at War. And their Mutual Border is heavily fortified by More than i million train London apr the government will not provide any Public Money for a proposed multimillion Dollar High Speed rail link Between London and the Channel Tunnel. The decision announced in the House of commons by transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson cast doubt on whether such a link to the capital would be built in Britain As in France critics say failure to build such a line would Hurt Britain a Trade prospects with the continent and make More misery for tens of millions of commuters who will have to share already crowded roads and trains with millions More foreign visitors. Parkinson said the links builders a British rail led group called european rail link have declined to proceed without Public Tunnel Douglas Ariz. Apr the . Customs service has called in a Survey team to help search for a possible second drug smuggling Tunnel. . And mexican authorities last month raided a warehouse in Douglas and a Home in Agua Prieta Mexico. They found a Tunnel which officials have said was used to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United states. The customs service received information about a possible second Tunnel from documents seized in the first school in azores graduates 21 students Lajes Field azores a graduation information for the ladies High school in the azores was omitted from the class of 1990 list that was published earlier this month. Sunia Zobel led the 21 graduating seniors As class valedictorian. Elizabeth Hansen was salutatorian. The school held its commencement exercises june 8 at the crosswinds Community Center. Moscow apr a self described former Kab intelligence chief complained saturday that the Agency a still feared despite soviet reforms a has too much Power and should be disbanded. Until now. No former Kab official in the soviet Union has publicly proposed the dismantling of the Agency. As a Rule Kab officials who break with the Agency flee abroad or disappear. A the Kab has too much political Power and this Way will remain a threat to democracy because it May be manipulated a said Oleg d. Kalugin who identified himself As a onetime major general in charge of foreign counterintelligence. His claim could not be independently verified although he displayed what he said were his Kab credentials. He said he was drummed out of the Kab this Spring but did not say Why. A i would abolish the Kab As such Quot said Kalugin. 55, who spoke with reporters after a speech to a political Reform group called the democratic platform. The urbane Well dressed Kalugin who said he spent 12 years As an operative in the United states said the Kab Philadelphia apr University of Pennsylvania veterinary students and staff members handling sheep May have been exposed to a leukaemia virus and 100 preschoolers were among visitors allowed to pet the research animals. School officials asked 20 possibly exposed students and staff members to undergo blood tests and during a meeting with the parents Friday night offered to make the tests available to the children and other visitors. There is Little Chance that anyone became infected by touching the lambs inoculated with the virus Htlv-1, known to cause adult to cell leukaemia medical experts said. A Al Al were a Parent of one the children i would not be worried a said William Blattner chief of the epidemiology Section of the National cancer Institute. A you can to spread this virus by petting a the inoculated sheep were supposed to have been kept separate from a flock of about 150 other sheep at the new Bolton Center said Aron b. Fisher a proves supports Gorbachev. But the former official warned that criticism of the soviet president is increasing and that Kab chief Vladimir a. Kryuchkov a will turn with the Kryuchkov appointed by Gorbachev less than two years ago has been More open than any of his predecessors. He and his top deputies have granted interviews to soviet and foreign Media and a documentary film about the Agency has been released. The Kab or committee on state Security which once regularly terrorized soviet citizens and harassed foreigners has since launched a publicity Campaign announcing its reorientation toward fighting organized crime and drug trafficking in cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies. Foreign residents of Moscow notice much less surveillance than in the past Kalugin revealed no secrets during his appearance and did not discuss specific Kab cases. But he said he still fears repercussions. Sor of physiology and the schools oversight committee chairman. Researcher Jorge f. Ferrer allegedly violated school regulations by failing to quarantine the sheep inoculated Between april 13 and april 24, officials said. The exposure was discovered in Early june. Ferrer was suspended pending an investigation expected to take about a week. Efforts by the associated press to reach Ferrer for comment by Telephone weren to immediately successful. The inoculated lambs Are believed to have been among sheep that were castrated and had their tails bobbed by eight veterinary students and 12 staff members sometime before May 16, officials said. About 100 students from the private Kennett Square cooperative pre school were allowed to pet the lambs when they visited the Center on May 16 and May 22, school officials said. Thirty adult visitors also could have come in Contact with the sheep. The Htlv-1 virus linked to the sometimes fatal blood cancer is commute that can curb the Kab a he told re porters. The supreme soviet legislature for Mally oversees the Agency but has done nothing to rein it a he said. Kalugin said Kab agents Are still spreading disinformation about leaders of the political Reform movement tapping telephones and playing dirty tricks Kalugin said legitimate Domestic Kab operations should be placed under the Interior ministry which is responsible for uniformed police. Intelligence services should be placed directly under the president and Kab Border guards should be transferred to control of the customs service he added. Boris n. Yeltsin the Radical reformer and new president of the russian federation has made a similar proposal to merge the Kab into a single investigation Agency. Kalugin who Speaks English fluently said he worked from 1958-1970 As a Kab agent in the United states first As a radio Moscow correspondent and then As a first Secretary in the soviet embassy in Washington. Nic ated through blood Mother s milk and sexual Intercourse Penn scientists said. A a it a a very minimal risk a said Bany Cooperman University vice Provost for research. Permission for the viral Experiment by Ferrer a physician and professor of microbiology at Pennis school of veterinary Medicine hinged on the sheep remaining isolated Fisher said. Edwin j. Andrews Dean of the veterinary school said the University discovered that the flock included inoculated sheep on May 24 after another researcher asked if the animals had been used in other experiments. Officials established that humans had come in Contact with the sheep Early mis month. Andrews said the likelihood of taif infection was extremely slim esp Ite among those who merely petted me lambs. A the virus is very fragile and can Only be transmitted in a human setting we its in live cells a Andrews said. A for the Lime being it is Only Public computer Center will provide training for logistics experts by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Kaiserslautern West Germany a army suppliers will soon join the ranks of soldiers who use computer simulations to train. A new simulation Center a or Sim Cen As the computer whizzes Call it a is nearing completion at Panzer Cavern in Kaiserslautern. The Center will conduct its first exercise in Europe from july 23 to 27. That exercise called Force reception and Onward movement exercise will train army logistics experts How to move trucks tanks and equipment throughout Europe without Ever Actu ally moving anything said Ann Campbell chief of the Battle support simulation div. A second exercise is scheduled for december. Campbell said the centers staff expects nearly 200 people to take part in the exercise at the Center As to them a it will look just like wartime with information moving Back and Forth. But it will be just simulations rather than people getting killed and equipment being destroyed Quot she said. The Center spent $180,000 in renovating the existing building. The heart of the Center a a mainframe computer six microcomputers workstations and programs a Cost about $1.4 million she said. Using computer programs that the army already had a team from fort Leavenworth kan., recently finished training the centers staff. Campbell said that her permanent staff of 15 government and contract employees will train the controllers from outside units who use the Center to practice their wartime skills. The concept for the Center originated with Gen. Crosbie Saint usar eur commander Campbell said. The Center was designed As part of the army so training smarter efforts. Veterinary students preschoolers possibly exposed to leukaemia virus
