European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday May 1, 1994cia tracking spy s Trail of damage Washington a the Cia is free to move a full steam ahead with an investigation of secrets compromised by admitted soviet spy Aldrich h. Ames now that the sensation Megal Case is settled Cla director James Woolsey said Friday. Woolsey also said he intended to punish any cat officials who Are found to share blame for not catching Ames sooner in nearly a decade of his spying for Moscow. The 31-year Cia Veteran was once a senior court Ter intelligence officer. As a government team led by the Fri began questioning Ames on Friday about the extent and details of his betrayals Woolsey sought to highlight the importance of the Ciao a work and his own determination to Correct its exposed flaws. 1 _ Woolsey said in a speech to an american bar association panel that from the time Ames and his wife Maria Del Rosario Casas Ames were arrested in february to their guilty pleas thursday the Cia was obligated to limit its own investigation of what secrets were lost and How Aldrich Ames avoided detection for so Long a a a. A a. A. A i know there has been frustration in Congress. I certainly shared it As have the employees of the Cia a Woolsey said adding that the Justice department correctly worried that a full blown Cia probe could jeopardize the prosecution. Ames pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and to evade taxes and received a life sentence. Rosario Ames pleaded guilty to a lesser espionage charge. Her sentencing was delayed until aug. 26 to give the government added leverage in compelling Aldrich Ames to fulfil his pledge to Tell All he knows about his spying activities. As part of the plea Deal the couple agreed to give their assets to the government As Well As any future payments they might earn for the Sale of their stories. But the Washington Post quoted sources saturday As saying that in a last minute Concession by prosecutors the couple was allowed to keep three pieces of property in Colombia Rosario Ames Home country because she is concerned about where she and their son will live after she is released from prison. With the prosecution Complete a we can now proceed full steam ahead a Woolsey said. Quot the Cia chief said the Agency would accelerate its work on two main fronts an internal study of the dam age to National Security caused by Aldrich Ames betrayals to Moscow and a Cia inspector general a investigation of How Ames managed to avoid detection for so Long and How Cia officials handled the Case once they suspected that a soviet a a mole had burrowed deep into the Cia. A when the inspector general a investigation is completed i will hold people accountable and  where its appropriate a Woolsey said. He said he already had Frozen awards or promotions for some Agency officials pending the outcome of the investigation. He did not describe the officials roles. A a but i will not espouse the judicial philosophy of the red Queen in Alice in wonderland sentence first verdict after he said. A the process we undertake will be thorough but it will be fair. Our people work hard and they often risk their lives for their country. They do serve reasoned judgment not snap  Ames worked in important Cia stations abroad including Rome during part of the time he was cooperating with the soviet and then russian intelligence agencies. He also had assignments at Cia Headquarters including a period As head of the counterintelligence divisions soviet and East european Branch. In the stars and stripes to years ago May 1,1934 a British police and troops blasted their Way into the former libyan embassy in London blowing open a Back door with a re Mote control Shotgun Scotland Yard reported. 20 years ago May 1,1974 a taking his Case directly to the people president Nixon painted former White House counsel John Dean As the real villain behind the watergate scandal. 30 years ago May 1,1964 a president Johnson agreed to accept some. Changes in the civil rights Bill As Long As the Senate provided enforceable legislation sen Hubert h. Humphrey said. 40 years ago May 1,1954 a an earthquake rocked Central Greece demolishing hundreds of Homes and leaving at least 11 people dead and about 20,000 homeless. 50 years ago May 1,1944 a parts of Berlin were levelled by the most devastating Daylight assault of the War and the Mediterranean port of Toulon was smoking from its heaviest raid As the Allied air offensive battered airfields rail centers and Industrial targets in France. 50 years ago today May 1. 19 4 4 seven american battleships and 11 destroyers As Welt As planes from the . Navy a task Force 58 bombard the fortified atoll of Ponape in the Eastern Carolines. In now Guinea . Soldiers occupy Kami alter japanese troops Retreat without a tight. Allied air forces in England begin concentrating their raids on French transportation and Supply targets before the Normandy invasion. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc the world almanac of world War if Bison books Coro. 1901 a Wii Liberty ship leaves California to join a Day festivities in Normandy los Angeles apr a bearing a sign that read a we deliver the goods and puffing Black smoke into a Clear sky the Lane Victory ship bore its 55-member Crew through the murky Waters off san Pedro heading for the shores of France. It could have been a scene from world War ii As one of the last of the hastily built Victory cargo Fleet steamed out of its berth under Way to Normandy and commemorations of the 50th anniversary of a Day. A Quot i feel like in a 21, 22 years old but my Bones Tell me otherwise a said Bill tilth Man of. A i la Rook a 77-year-old merchant Marine Captain proudly donning his Brown uniform. Many in the ships 55-member Crew arc world War ii veterans. Quot a Flag waving crowd of about 200 people turned out to bid Adieu to the Lane Victory which joins the san Francisco based Jeremiah of Brien As the Only two . Merchant Marine Kessete from world War ii to take part in the june 6 Observance of the Normandy invasion. The Liberty class of Brien left april 13. A a it a important for us to be there for the commemoration a said Joseph ver Nick 80, president of the , merchant Marine veterans of world War ii. A without the merchant marines supplying food and artillery the armed forces  have advanced into  sailing orders Call for the Lane Victory and the of Brien to rendezvous off Bermuda before conveying to England. The 455-foot Gray vessel was named after Isaac Lane a former slave who in 1882 founded a High school in Jackson tenn., that later became Lane College. His great grandson Lane c. Cleaves was on hand to watch the ship embark. A a a Cro �?~?.,in san Fedro,caiif., watches As the Lane Victory prepares to ship off for France to just like old times when it served As a merchant Marine vessel in world War ii. A it makes me feel honoured and it would have made him feel pretty darn Good a said Cleaves 75, of los Angeles. The Lane Victory was one of about 500 such ships built in los Angeles during world War ii. The Lane Victory was constructed in april 1945 and was in the Philippines when the War ended the Fleet was called Liberty until 1945, when the name was changed to Victory with the end of the War near. The Lane a Victory survived Tours of duty in Korea and Vietnam. It was declared a National historic landmark in 1991 after Mem Bers of the . Merchant Marine veterans of world War ii saved it from the. Scrap Yard then persuaded Congress to donate the ship to them. Volunteers restored the Lane Victory which serves As a museum and living memorial to merchant marines who died for their country Mcmick said. A we done to have cemeteries like the army and Navy. Our fallen comrades lie in unmarked Graves in the Bottom of the Ocean a Vernick said. Washington a if anyone knows How to keep taxes Down its the folks who work for the internal Revenue service under a new Federal Law the 79 offline Horce Par ins spaces in the irs Headquarters building might have owed More than $s00 a year in taxes for the perk. Hut the irs has found a Way to Cut its employees tax liability for the free parking to about $100 a year. The executives still will have guaranteed free parking but starting monday Tatj will no longer have a particular re e on served space irs spokesman Frank Keith said. Federal Law requires workers who received free or subsidized parking from their employers to pay income tax on the value above $155 a month. Starting april 1, the Law requires the government to base the value of the free parking on the Cost of comparable commercial parking. Keith said the irs checked comparable prices for parking in downtown Washington and found1 that reserved garage parking costs an average $355 a month. At that rate irs officials would have to pay taxes Orf $200 a month or $2,400 a year which at the 36 percent tax bracket Means $864 a year in income taxes. Garage parking in which someone is guaranteed a space a but not the same space every Day a runs an average $178 a month Keith said. By switching to unreserved parking the irs officials have 1 on Onty $23 a month or about $99 a year for those in the 36 percent bracket. We Are simply conforming our procedure to what a available in the marketplace Keith said. A a it a a perfectly appropriate