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University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Five Grenada officials quit to protest takeover attempt
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Foreign Minister Unison Whiteman, accusing Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard of trying to "impose himself on the people," said he and four other Cabinet ministers recently resigned to protest Coard's attempt to take over the government.
wuntman said he resigned along with Housing Minister Norris Bain, Agriculture Minister George Lewison, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Lyden Randhann and Jacqueline Creft, minister of education, sports and women's affairs.
"We have resigned because Coard is running the show singlehandedly." Whiteman said.
The ruling Marxist New Jewel Movement last Thursday placed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop under house arrest but did not immediately move to publicly take over the government.
Speakes lauds space-weapons plan
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's spokesman yesterday called Pentagon-backed proposals to push a multibillion-dollar development of defensive space weapons "a better deal" that could lead to a comprehensive arms agreement with Moscow.
"These studies will be reviewed carefully in the White House and the president will decide on a course of action soon — early enough to be incorporated in the fiscal 1985 budget," deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said.
Speakes confirmed a report in Aviation Week & Space Technology stating that studies by expert committees on accelerated development of space weapons that could intercept Soviet missiles have been completed.
Knesset confirms finance minister
JERUSALEM — Yigal Cohen-Orgad, a big investor in the occupied West Bank and a political hawk, won parliamentary confirmation as finance minister yesterday and warned that Israelis would have to accept a lower standard of living.
"My first task is to restore public faith in the Israeli economy," the 46-year-old economist said in an interview in the Ma'ariv newspaper hours before the 120-member Knesset approved his appointment in a 60-10-48 vote.
His confirmation was a victory for Prime Minister Vizhak Shamir's 8-day-old government, which still faces a parliamentary vote today on a no-confidence motion over the economy, introduced by the opposition Labor Party.
Reagan blasts Soviet missile stand
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday called Soviet refusal to withdraw some of its missiles aimed at Western Europe an act of "intimidation, pure and simple."
In White House comments made to a group of journalists, but intended in part for left-wing protesters overseas, Reagan said he remained serious in his effort to sign a treaty with Moscow before the scheduled December start of NATO intermediate-range missile deployment in Europe.
But he reiterated allied determination to start installing 464 U.S.-made cruise and 108 Pershing-2 missiles on NATO soil to counter what he said were 1,300 Soviet warheads aimed at Western Europe, Asia and elsewhere.
Polish priest warned about sermons
WARSAW. Poland — Prosecutors yesterday told the Rev. Henryk Jankowski, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa's priest, that heyk arrest on three charges of delivering sermons slandering the Communist state.
Jankowski said he refused to cooperate with investigators during an interrogation session in Gdansk as hundreds of supporters, including
The 48-year-old Jankowski, a close friend of Walesa, was freed after less than an hour.
Prosecutors warned that he could be taken into custody for trial later on a series of charges punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but Walesa predicted that the show of public support for Jankowski would guarantee his continued freedom.
Neo-Nazi to stand trial for bombing
VIENNA. Austria — A convicted neo-Nazi went on trial yesterday with eight other right-wing extremists charged with bombing Jewish targets, including the home of Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. His trial lasted the 1950s.
It was about 30 biggers.
Security was tight as Ekkhemei Weil, 34, entered the courtroom defiantly flashing the "V-for-victory" sign. Fellow defendant Egon Baumgartner, 61, raised his arm in the "Heil Hitler" Nazi salute.
Weil had to be evicted from the courtroom for refusing to answer questions and shouting to protest a court order changing his defense attorney.
Vatican takes ownership of Shroud
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican formally took ownership yesterday of the Shroud of Turin, the ancient linen that some Christians think is the burial cloth of Christ
In a ceremony at the Vatican, Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli and relatives of the late Italian King Umberto II of the House of Savoy signed documents turning over the ownership of the shroud to the Vatican.
The shroud was owned by the Italian royal family and left to Pope John Paul II and the Vatican in the will of King Umberto, who died in exile earlier this year.
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Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
"In a nutshell, we wouldn't buy it," said John Martin, the secretary of internal security in Washington, D.C. At the time, the government did not know the identity of the man, James Harper, but knew only that his lawyer said he wanted to "come in from the cold."
SAN FRANCISCO — A Justice Department official said yesterday that the government turned down an offer two years ago by a man accused of espionage against Russia to purchase activities for the Soviet Union in return for immunity from prosecution.
By United Press International
THE FHI SAID up to 200 pounds of secret documents were still missing, with some believed to contain secrets related to battles and other advanced weaponry.
The FBI accused Harper, who was arraigned on spy charges Monday, of feeding sensitive missile secrets for eight years into a spy network that was so successful it won the praise of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.
Immunity plea by spy suspect rejected by U.S., official says
Because of an editor's error, the wrong caption appeared under a picture of Nina Graw, a San Jose, Calif., resident. She was shown in a picture of the Lichtenstein Circus, which was on campus Monday.
The Justice Department confirmed yesterday the contact was made. In addition to Martin's statement that "we said, 'There was no plea negotiation,'" there
Harper's attorney is William Doughter, who defended convicted spy Christian Tavares.
CORRECTION
He said yesterday that Harper, an electronics engineer in California's "Silicon Valley," contacted him in September, 1981 but would only identify himself as "Jay." He said Jay asked him to approach the government and work out protection from prosecution for espionage activities.
"I never knew him other than Jay. I know now," the attorney said.
Dougherty said he did not know until Monday that Jay was Harper.
The FBI said Harper had passed along the "extremely sensitive" documents to Moscow via the Polish spy for eight years, then was tripped up and exposed through a double-agent the Americans had planted inside Polish intelligence. The double-agent has not been identified.
Annie Whitehouse, 27, a nurse from Albuquerque, N.M. Reynold Jackson, 31, a park ranger from Salt Lake City and Eric Reynolds, 31, a salesman from Grand Junction, Texas, in a effort Friday, the ministry said.
an electronics entrepreneur in "Silicon Valley" and one-time congressional candidate, was under investigation as part of a link between Harper and Polish agents.
Hugel, owner of B&B Associates of Hugel Josee, has dropped out of sight since 2015.
THE FBI SAID William Bell Hugle.
KATMANDU, Nepal — High winds forced a U. S. expedition hoping to put the first American woman atop Mount Everest to turn back just 1,000 feet from the summit on Wednesday. The Ministry of Tourism said yesterday.
Court records allege that Harper obtained the highly classified documents about the U.S. Minuteman missile system from his wife, who was employed at a firm where the documents were available, and then peddled them for $250,000 to his Polish contacts during trips to various European cities.
Officials said Harper's wife, Ruby Schuler, had died last June at the age of 39 from alcoholism. She worked at Systems Control Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., from 1972 until August 1882 and of the firm's ten secret documents.
Authorities indicated that the 1980 marriage could have been strictly a business arrangement. The couple traveled together to a number of European cities where Harper could have met Soviet agents.
Woman fails in her ascent of Everest
By United Press International
The three were members of a U.S. team of five women and six men who started climbing Aug. 24 in a bid to place the first American woman atop the 29,028-foot Mount Everest WHITEOUSE, WHO ever have been the first American woman to reach the summit, was struck by a rockfall and suffered frostbent fingers, the ministry said.
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