European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 18, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 sex mole at nato gets 12 years Dusseldorf Germany a a former com must mole at nato s Headquarters was sentence thursday to 12 years in prison for betraying sensitive secrets about the Western Alliance s defences. The trial it Rainer Rurup code named Topaz was the biggest espionage Case in Germany since East Ger Man spymaster Markus Wolf was sentenced to six years in prison by the same court last , a West German who worked for Wolf was convicted of handing Over strategies codes and military preparedness plans to two East German communist handlers. Rupp gathered the secrets while he worked at North Atlantic treaty organization Headquarters in Brussels Belgium from 1977 to 1989. Rupp s British born wife Ann Christine and Het husband s two handlers were Given suspended sentences. Rupp s wife who already worked for nato began passing secrets to her husband in 1972, said chief judge Klaus Wagner. Rupp s decision to spy came in 1968, when he was recruited Over a bowl of goulash documents stolen by Rupp and his wife who was code named Turquoise eventually were forwarded to the Kab the soviet spy Agency Wagner said. Reading the verdict the judge said the rupps betrayal marked one of the most serious espionage cases of the cold War Era and could have had disastrous consequences for nato Rupp troops if War had erupted with the soviet led Warsaw pact. Rupp was paid 600,000 Marks nearly $400,000 at today s rate by the communists. The court ordered him to pay Adrian Mooney and his wife Bernadette Center smile after their prison term was suspended in Romania. Ion court Bucharest Romania a a British Cou ple convicted of attempting to smuggle a baby out of Romania were set free on wednesday. Acting on an Appeal a Bucharest court rejected a 28-month prison sentence Given to Adrian Mooney 42, and his 40-year-old wife Bernadette. Instead the court passed a suspended sentence and ordered the couple out of the country. Judge Viorel Ros of Bucharest s municipal court told the couple to leave Romania unless an Appeal is lodged within 10 working Days. Such an Appeal is unlikely since president Ion Iliescu has announced that the Mooney would be freed. Bernadette Mooney a computer operator smiled As she climbed into a British embassy bus waiting outside the court. 2 britons scores of cameramen and photographers jostled to get shots of the couple who declined to speak to the press after their earlier prison sentence was overturned. In july the Mooney were arrested As they tried to smuggle Monica Bai Arany a 5-month-old baby across the romanian hungarian Border. On oct. 14, a court convicted them of attempted illegal adoption and sentenced them to the prison term. A diplomatic Wrangle Between romanian an British . During a visit to Britain this month Iliescu prom ised to Pardon the couple. It is obviously very Good news for the Mooney. They seemed to be very relieved said British embassy spokesman Laurie Bristow. Half that As part of his penalty. The rupps  was Wolf who directed an army of spies that had managed to infiltrate the West. It was not Clear Why Rupp was Given a harsher sentence than Wolf. It could be because Rupp was a West German before reunification and his spying was therefore a Clearease of treason. The prosecution had asked for a 15-year sentence for Rupp who confessed immediately after his arrest in the summer of 1993. Rupp s attorney Klaus Shroth had pleaded for leniency saying Rupp s espionage had not Hurt anyone. He said the 49-year-old thought he was helping preserve world peace by Selling nato documents to the soviet bloc. According to Federal prosecutor Eck hard Schulz Rupp was viewed As the Warsaw pact s permanent representative in  Schulz said Rupp had stolen so Many secrets that wolfs intelligence operation had difficulty digesting them All. Germans to free soldiers killer attorney reports Lobeck Germany a a leftist terrorist who blew up three . Service members in a car bombing 22 years ago is to be freed from her life prison term an at Torney said thursday. The Schleswig Holstein state court refused to immediately confirm that it had decided to free Irmgart Dmiller 47, a red army faction member who said in a recent Magazine interview that the armed struggle was  a court spokesman said the decision would not be announced until All concerned had been notified. An attorney who works with Moller s lawyer said a judge had responded favourably to the prisoner s Appeal for Early release which could come within a week. The attorney who gave her name Only As is. Storm said the decision can still be protested by the prosecutor s office in Heidelberg where the bombing at a . Base took place on May 24,1972, the . State department said nov. 1, when the m611er decision was being considered that the unite states opposes freeing terrorists who have shown no re Morse.  ,. ,._-,. /. We consider politically motivated attacks on non combatants As terrorism and not As a legitimate part of an armed struggle " . State department spokes Man David Johnson told a Washington news Confer ence two weeks ago. In response the court spokesman Wolfgang Neskovic said the court bases its decision not on the statements of politicians but on the fulfilment of Legal pre Condi  he said one consideration is the likelihood of Moller s committing More crimes if she is released. Moller reportedly has refused to cooperate with a psychological evaluation intended to determine whether she poses such a threat. Anyone Here who dares. To show resistance must obviously be sick she was quoted As saying. Moller was arrested six weeks after she and a com Panion drove two cars loaded with explosives onto . Base. Both cars exploded killing capt. Clyde r. Bonner and two other soldiers Charles l. Peck and Ronald a. Woodward. Study urges use of drugs to lower cholesterol Dallas a the first study showing that cholesterol lowering drugs save lives could profoundly change the Way doctors treat heart disease making these medicines a front line therapy for millions of americans. The study formally presented thurs Day at a meeting of the american heart association shows the drug Silvas latin reduced the risk of death by 30 percent Over five years in people who have had heart attacks and angina. About a fourth of . Heart patients now get cholesterol lowering drugs. While they have been available for Sev eral years doctors have been reluctant to give them routinely because of doubts about whether they do any Good. Experts said the latest research should silence the sceptics. Or. Joseph Goldstein who shared the Nobel prize in physiology or Medicine in 1985 for cholesterol research said that if medical studies were rated like restaurants he would give this one four stars. This is a landmark study in the his tory of Medicine said Goldstein of the University of Texas southwestern medical Center. Silvas latin is one of four similar cholesterol lowering drugs on the Market. It is made by Merck & co., which paid for the study. Or. B. Gregory Brown of the univer sity of Washington medical Center in Seattle said the discovery May be the holy grail of cardiovascular  treatment with cholesterol lowering drugs could reduce the need for bypass surgery and Tarigio pasty said or. K. Lance Gould of the University of Texas medical school in Houston. He plans to recommend cholesterol lowering drugs for All his heart patients with High cholesterol. This could have a tremendous eco nomic Impact he said. Treatment with cholesterol lowering drugs costs Between $1,000 and $2,000 per year depending on the Brand and dose used. Heart bypass operations Cost about $40,000. Angioplasty is in which bal loons Are used to squeeze open clogged arteries Cost about $18,000 and often must be repeated. The study was conducted on 4,444 men and women at 94 hospitals in Den Mark Finland Iceland Norway and Sweden