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Friday, Sept. 20, 1985
Committee questions free trips
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WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee opened a preliminary inquiry yesterday into Rep. Dan Daniel's free trips on a defense contractor's aircraft for which he reimbursed the company last week.
In a four-paragraph statement, the committee stressed that its inquiry did not amount to formal charges of any kind, and declined further comment on the case.
On Tuesday, Daniel (D-Va.) apologized to his colleagues in a speech on the floor of the House for taking 23 free rides on Beech Aircraft Corp. planes and he misunderstood House rules governing such largesse.
Daniel, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he sent the company a check for $1,127 to pay for the 23 free flights he took on company planes for one-way trips between Washington and Danville. Va., from 1983 to 1985.
"I have made restitution to the company and amended my financial disclosure forms to reflect the receipt of transportation from my district," said Daniel, who repaid the aircraft contractor last week when he amended his forms.
House rules say members must report the source of gifts of transportation involving more than $250 during a calendar year.
U.S. on trial in world court
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Lawyers for Nicaragua yesterday told the International Court of Justice that the United States violated the charters of the United Nations and Organization of American States through its support for the contra rebels in Nicaragua.
"The court, as we told many times, has no coercive power to enforce its decisions. It has on its side only the moral authority of the law," said Abram Chayes, a Harvard law professor who is representing Nicaragua in a subversion suit against the United States in the world court.
role, as one of our great judges said, is as a teacher to the citizenry — in this instance to the citizenry of the world." he said.
'But in the end, its most important
Nicaragua is charging the U.S. government with violating international law, as well as the U.N. and OAS charters, by arming and organizing the contras.
The Reagan administration, which blames the Nicaraguan government for spreading communist subversion in Central America, is officially ignoring the case in the world court, the legal arm of the United Nations.
Chayes read aloud in court an account of a meeting between contra leaders and a man named Duane Claridge, identified by Chayes as the CIA "manager" of the contra operations.
"He told them the CIA had decided it was necessary to destroy the oil supply system of Nicaragua. What was the reason?" Because without oil the Nicaraguan military would be immobilized and its capacity to resist our forces would be drastically reduced," was the answer," Chayes said.
"Claridge next reviewed with them the alternatives that the CIA had considered. First, there was a plan to sink ships, but 'one problem with this plan was that if a ship belonging to the Soviet Union was sunk, it could trigger a serious international incident."
Chayes, citing the U.N. charter, said, "Mentors shall refrain in their
international relations, from the threat of the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."
Chayes said a similar charter, which was drawn up when the OAS was formed, resulted from a century of U.S. interference in Central America and the Caribbean.
The U.N. charter was drafted in 1945 to deal with transborder aggression, he said, but the United States violated that charter through the Reagan administration's support and command of the contras.
Nicaragua will conclude its case today.
Partv orders W. German spy inquiry
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BONN, West Germany — Opposition Social Democrats yesterday demanded a parliamentary investigation into West Germany's spreading spy scandal and urged Chancellor Helmut Kohl to fire Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann, who oversees the nation's intelligence agencies.
In a newspaper interview, Social Democrat leader Hans-Joen Gogel said the latest defences to East Germany by a secretary in Kohl's office and her husband were alarming. The couple went on vacation Aug. 12 and sent letters Tuesday through an East Berlin lawyer
saying they had quit their jobs in Bonn. Security sources said it was assumed they defected.
Deputy parliamentary caucus chairman Willifred Penner said in a statement yesterday that there was no alternative to a full parliamentary investigation.
The two were the fifth and sixth suspected West German spies to defect to the East in the last seven weeks. The scandal peaked Aug. 19 with the defection of counter-intelligence chief Hans-Joachim Tledge.
"The establishment of such a committee is unavoidable. It is the only way we can make progress politically in this affair," he said.
But a spokesman for Kohl's center-right Christian Democrat coalition said the demand for a parliamentary investigation would be rejected because state security matters should not be aired in public.
Both Vogel and Penner also demanded Zimmermann's resignation.
“Apparently Zimmermann doesn’t seem to know what a devil of a jam he’s in — and he won’t get out of it,” Penner said.
Security experts continued to investigate the defection of Kohl's secretary, Herta-Aastrid Willner, 45, and her husband, Herbert. 59.
Mrs. Willner worked in the domestic, social and planning affairs
section of the chancellery, where she had access to Cabinet papers and possibly documents relating to West Germany's nuclear power program and the French-sponsored Eureka high technology program.
Her husband was employed by a liberal Free Democrat Party research organization, specializing in security matters. He had been suspected several times of spying but no charges were ever filed.
The East German-educated Wilner served with a Nazi SS armored infantry division in World War II. After the war, he joined the East German Communist Party.
Convict takes eight hostage at New Jersey state prison
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It was not immediately known whether the hostages were corrections officers or civilian employees. At least two were women.
TREENTON, N.J. - A convicted murderer, armed with a homemade knife took eight corrections employees hostage yesterday in a classroom section of the maximum security Trenton State Prison, corrections officials said.
No one was hurt and corrections officials were negotiating with the inmate, identified as Eugene Jones, Englewood. There was no immediate word on his demands.
Corrections officers said the hostages were taken just before 2 p.m. EDT in the education section of the prison.
Corrections department spokesman Jim Stable said Jones, who is serving a 30-year term for first-degree murder, grabbed the two women and pushed them into a office. He threatened to stab the two with a 10-inch piece of sharpened steel if six other prison employees tried to leave the area.
French spy shakeup ordered
Jones, 25, was holding the eight hostages in an 8-foot by 15-foot office and was talking with a prison captain and a corrections department hostage negotiations expert, Stabile said.
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PARIS - President Francois Mitterrand, stung by new charges that top French military officials ordered the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship in New Zealand, yesterday demanded an immediate revamping of the intelligence service.
or French combat divers sabotaged the Greenpeace ship, killing a photographer. The respected newspaper Le Monde said Defense Minister Charles Hernu and top military officials must have been aware of the mission.
"This situation cannot continue," Mitterrand said in a letter to Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. "The moment has come to carry out without delay changes in personnel, and, if need be, in structures as prompted by their shortcomings." The letter was released late yesterday.
Mitterrand on Aug. 7 ordered Fabius to open an inquiry into charges that the French secret service mounted the July 10 attack on the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the anti-nuclear, ecological group Greenpeace. The ship was in New Zealand to lead a protest against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
French news reports this week said a third, previously unidentified, team
Bernard Tricot, a former adviser to Gen. Charles de Gaulle appointed by Fabius to investigate the allegations, cleared the French military of
official involvement in the bombing.
His report, delivered Aug. 26, acknowledged that two teams of French agents were in New Zealand at the time but said they were involved only in surveillance. It made no mention of a third team.
Mittterrand said he was calling for the changes because "despite the investigations you ordered . . . it must be recognized that the press has presented new elements whose authenticity cannot be evaluated, as we have not obtained from the relevant services the necessary information."
Hours before Mitterrand's letter was released, Hernu met with senior army and secret service officers individually and questioned them about the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a defense official said.
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