European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes wednesday june 3,1992 Navy intensifies probe of sex abuse by pilots Washington apr the Navy is investigating More than 30 people for their roles in sex abuse at a 1991 Las vegas pilots convention a senior Pentagon official said tuesday. The disclosure came As congressional investigators released new figures indicating that sexual harassment of women at the three military academies occurs More often than reported. Barbara Spyridon Pope a Navy assistant Secretary said the service is pursuing its inquiry into the incident at the annual Tail Hook association convention last year in Las vegas where Navy and Marine corps aviators reportedly molested at least 26 women a half of those Navy officers. A it is not Over yet. We Are not going to let anybody walk away who was either responsible or accountable Quot Pope vowed to members of the Senate armed services panel on manpower and personnel. The Navy official said the inspector general has provided the services command with the names of More than 30 people a who in someway or another either obfuscated potentially lied or had some involvement in what actually happened at  adm. Frank b. Kelso ii chief of naval operations and the Marine corps commandant Gen. Carl e. Mundy jr., will talk to commanding officers of the aviators to determine whether the commanders were involved she said. The naval investigative service and the inspector general conducted More than 1,500 interviews during a seven month inquiry into the Tail Hook incidents but turned up Only two primary suspects Navy officials have said. Some officers refused to allow their men to be photographed making it difficult for the victims to identity their Washington apr on her trips to Moscow Barbara Makuch would take bottles of scotch to Kab and communist party officials. On her return Home to Buffalo n.y., she brought information to the Fri. For 20 years Makucin 39, was a double agent working both sides of the cold War. The Fri knew about her other life the Kab did no to. She Wasny to a spy in the classic sense. Her Job rather was to enable the soviet Union to influence Public opinion in the United states. She would have soviet diplomats and journalists to her House for dinner. Some of them were what they said they were. Others were spies. They would ask her to arrange for them to give speeches or meet with americans to defend soviet policies a the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 the 1983 Downing of a korean passenger plane. She would take them to see Niagara Falls. Some of them asked to see the nearby love canal housing development in new York an example they said of americans pollution a its Urban and cultural decay. Others Makuch wanted to see a nearby air Force base which she  arrange. Through it All she would report her guests every move to the Fri. Sometimes she carried a bugging device in her purse. Often the Fri would use her information to track the soviets officials activities to see whom they met what they photographed. Much to her Relief its All Over. And she can talk about it. She almost can to Stop talking about it. A a it a like Clearing out your system a she said. The lid was lifted off her career As an Fri a a assets a a the Agency s term for a source of information a when the Rev. Alan Thomson pleaded guilty May 21 to bringing Money from the soviet Union and deliberately failing to report it to customs authorities. Thomson is a presbyterian minister who served As director of the National Council of american soviet Friendship a group founded by the . Communist party in 1943 to advocate soviet views and policies. The Fri had claimed for years that the Council was one of several so called front organizations directed and financed by the soviet communist party to spread propaganda and sow disinformation in the United states. Attackers. Other commanders simply stated that they had not seen any misconduct at All. Pope promised lawmakers angered by the Case that action against the officers will be taken this week. The Navy removed rear adm. John w. Snyder or. From his command at a top naval aviation Center after he failed to act swiftly on a complaint by one of his aides that she had been sexually harassed at the convention. Navy Secretary h. Lawrence Garrett Iii also has severed the Navy a relations with Tail Hook a Booster club for naval aviators and named after the mechanism that snares an aircraft As it lands on a Carrier. The purpose of the hearing was the release of the general accounting offices preliminary findings on the treatment of women and minorities at the military academies. The Gao found that men at the . Military Academy at West Point n.y., were twice As Likely As male cadets at the . Naval and . Air Force academies to suggest that women cadets lower standards at the academies. Sixty four percent of the female cadets at West Point reported that men said their presence lowered the school a a standards while 33 percent made similar complaints at the naval Academy and 38 percent at the air Force Academy. Other frequent types of harassment were derogatory comments or jokes offensive posters and to shirts and mocking gestures. Fourteen percent of the women at West Point reported cases of unwanted sexual advances. Report of that abuse was 5 percent or less at the naval Academy and air Force Academy. But the government did no to have a Case until Makuch told the Fri Early in 1987 that Thomson had brought Back Money from Moscow and wanted her to Deposit some of it in the Bank. On feb. 6, 1987, Makuch flew to Washington where she had lunch with Thomson and took him to her room at the . Marriott hotel. There he gave her $17,000 and instructions on How to Deposit the Money in a Way that the Bank  have to report it to the government. Next door the Fri was running a video camera and Thomson was arrested two years later. Makuch said she started reporting to the Fri after she met a Young pro soviet Radical who said he planned to Plant a bomb and carry out other violence to protest the Vietnam War. The Fri asked whether she would keep in touch with the Radical and his friends and keep reporting to the Bureau. She agreed. A my grandmothers first husband was hanged by the communists. My Uncle was shot by the communists for refusing to remove a Cross from the Wall. 1 was raised being afraid of the communists a said Makuch who was born in Germany to a ukrainian Mother and polish father and came Here in 1966 at the age of 14. Through her new friends she was recruited to join the youth organization of the . Communist party and then the party itself. She was encouraged to open an office of the Friendship society in Buffalo. She held various jobs coordinating . And soviet Exchange programs. She lived in constant fear of being found out by the Kremlin especially after several americans defected to the soviet Union in the 1980s. She had visions of la Byanka a the feared Kab jail a every time she stood in the passport control line at Moscow a Airport. Her soviet hosts would ask her questions. Six months later they would ask the same questions a just to see if she had told the truth the first time. Her daughter 19, grew up believing her Mother worked in International cultural exchanges. As she got older a she suspected her mom did something for the government Quot Makuch said. But she  Tel her daughter the truth until recently. Her husband Eugene also 39 and of ukrainian origin was in ill health and had two kidney transplants. Makuch said the Kab tried to recruit him but he refused. But he knew of his wife a double life and travelled with her to Moscow several times and held her hand through difficult times. There were times she had to make excuses for the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But she said she Drew the line at defending the soviet Downing of a korean jumbo Jet when the passenger liner strayed Over soviet airspace in the North  in school Powell orders boys town youths from wire reports boys town neb. A the nations top military officer ordered boys town youths monday to finish their education. A i beg of you a no in a the chairman. I done to have to beg. I order you get a Good education done to Ever quit school a army Gen. Colin l. Powell told about 600 pupils from boys town and Omaha schools. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff made a Brief Side visit to the Home for troubled youth during his trip to Omaha for the deactivation of the strategic air come at Offutt fab. Powell told the youths they can overcome whatever obstacles they face. A a in a a Black Man. I used that blackness As a source of Pride. I never let it become my problem a he said. Powell warned the youngsters of the dangers of drug abuse. A a it a dumb. It leads nowhere. Of All of the Young people on my Block in new York the ones who used drugs never left that Block a said Powell who grew up in the  for Andy stamp Wayne neb. A Barb Holdorf wants to make sure that Andy the footless Goose flies on forever a by airmail. Holdorf is gathering petition signatures in an Effort to persuade the . Postal service to print commemorative Stamps featuring the late lamented Bird. Andy who was born without feet became nationally known after learning to walk with special shoes designed by his owner Gene Fleming of Hastings. The Goose assisted Fleming in his work with handicapped children and was featured on the tonight show and in several publications. Andy was killed by vandals late last year. His killers have never been found despite the offer of a Large monetary Reward. Holdorf said Fleming supports having Andy a picture on a postage stamp. She said the stamp petition Effort has gone nationwide involving people from Iowa Illinois Oregon and  Dies san Diego a Roger Wrenn who took the famous picture of Gen. Douglas Macarthur a return to the Philippines in the waning Days of world War ii died tuesday after a Long illness. He was 78. Wrenn was an army photographer when recaptured a somber Macarthur disembarking with his advisers from a Landing Craft. He worked for 32 years for the san Diego Union and its Siste afternoon publication the Tribune. Wrenn is survived by his wife a daughter and a  sentenced to death Richmond Texas a an sex prisoner convicted of killing the wife of Zzz tops manager one Day after his parole was sentenced to death monday. Spencer Corey Goodman 23, was convicted May 26 of capital murder in the robbery slaying of Cecile Ham 48, of Houston. Her husband Bill manages the Rock group Zzz top. Cecile Ham was abducted from a drugstore parking lot july 2 in her new red Cadillac. Goodman said he killed Ham with blows to the head and neck. He said he did no to mean to do it but Only wanted her car. He had been paroled to a Houston Halfway House the Day before and had been left to walk there in the rain. He was captured More than a month later after using Hamas car and credit cards to elude authorities. He had been serving time for Auto theft and burglary. Double agent kept Kab in dark for 20 years a now she can talk