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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 8, 1990
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Spy suspect stripped of post
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Felix S. Bloch, the career diplomat suspected by U.S. authorities of spying for the Soviet Union, was formally suspended yesterday and stripped of his $80,000 annual salary, a State Department spokesman announced.
Deputy spokesman Richard Boucher said the department also was proposing to fire Bloch.
The moves were the latest chapter in a saga that began eight months ago when Bloch, 54, was placed on administrative leave with pay after he repressed his case. He videodumped passing a suitcase to a Soviet agent in Paris.
Efforts to reach Bloch yesterday were unsuccessful. In the past, he repeatedly has passed up chances to deny the allegations, saying instead the government has not been able to bring charges, much less prove them.
Electronic surveillance is said to have picked up Bloch telling his wife that he had accepted payments from the Sovlets.
Boucher refused to provide details of the action taken yesterday. The suspension took effect at the close of business yesterday.
Bloch has 30 days to answer the charges and submit any information to show why he should be restored to duty. He may request a bearing.
Bloch, a tall, urbane diplomat who has spent more than 30 years in the foreign service, has not been prosecuted. There have been unofficial reports that the Justice Department believes its case against him is not
strong enough to seek an indictment.
The disclosure that he was a suspect touched off a frenzied media pursuit of Bloch during his long walks last summer to and from his apartment in a Washington residential area. A round-the-clock FBI vigil of Bloch's apartment building was called off or sharply curtailed in December.
Bloch was suspended on the basis of a government regulation authorizing the head of an agency to remove any employee without pay when the action is considered necessary in the interests of national security.
Bloch had been the No. 2 official of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna for much of the Reagan administration before taking up an assignment in Washington.
Electronic surveillance is said to have picked up Bloch telling his wife that he had accepted payments from
the Soviets. A former Viennese pro-
stitute has told a federal grand jury that Bloch spent roughly $10,000 a year for her services over seven years — an amount that investigators cannot find withdrawn from Bloch's acknowledged bank accounts.
Meanwhile, the State Department declined comment on a report in Common Cause Magazine that Bloch has not undergone a security clearance since August 1973 despite a requirement that such reviews take place every five years.
Two years ago, the General Accounting Office, a congressional watchdog agency, issued a report alleging that 8,929 of the State Department's long-term employees in sensitive positions had not been re-investigated within the five-year limit.
Patient with first lung implant dies
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - The first human recipient of an experimental lung-assist device died yesterday. $4 \frac{1}{2}$ days after the device was implanted in her chest.
Melicia Harvey, 16, Arthur City, Texas, died at 5:30 a.m. of "worsening pulmonary failure," said Tim Madden, LDS Hospital spokesman.
The experimental IntraVascular Oxygenator, implanted during a two-hour operation Friday, functioned properly until the girl died, he said. The hospital's government-approved implants will continue.
"There were no clinical complications from the use of the device, which added oxygen to and removed carbon dioxide from the patient's blood," Madden said in a written statement.
The oxygenator, a 20-inch bundle of hundreds of synthetic tubes about as fine as human hair, has walls so thin that carbon dioxide can pass through it.
The device was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in September for temporary implantation in no more than 10 humans at the hospital and three other medical centers in the United States.
Harvey's illness was diagnosed as severe respiratory stress. Madden said that in its most severe forms, adult respiratory distress syndrome was fatal in 90 to 95 percent of all cases. It has a variety of causes and is characterized by an inability of the lung to transfer oxygen to the blood.
Before Harvey died, it was unclear how long doctors intended to leave the device inside her. FDA guidelines limit implants to seven days.
S. Africans greet Jackson for talks
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Rev. Jesse Jackson arrived yesterday for talks with South African leaders and said he hoped to see Nelson Mandela freed and walking down the streets of Johannesburg before he left.
Jackson gave a thumbs-up sign as he arrived at the airport for his 12-day visit, ignoring shouts from a crowd of angerers who shouted, "Jesse, go home!"
He was protected by two lines of Black and white policeman. A man started a brief chorus of "Welcome, Jesse" among Black airport workers lining the balconies.
Jackson, granted a visa for the first time since his 1979 visit, said he hoped to encourage unity among Black political factions and to "address the unfounded fears of the whites."
"This is a moment in South Africa's history that must be seized," Jackson said. "If the government moves back, there will be chaos. If it stands still, there will be tension. But the political moment and moves forward we will see the dawn of a new, free and democratic South Africa."
In Cape Town, the pro-apartheid Conservative Party vowed to stage white protests and strikes.
STAR WARS PRAISED: President Bush touched the nation's largest nuclear weapons lab yesterday and declared that Star Wars "makes more sense than ever."
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"This purely defensive concept doesn't threaten a single person anywhere in the world," Bush said in a prepared foreign policy address to the Commonwealth Club after he toured the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., where most research on the Strategic Defense Initiative is conducted.
The president is on a three-day trip to focus attention on his proposed $22b billion Pentagon budget for fiscal 1991, which Democrats say gives too much to strategic weapons systems while closing military bases.
STRUGLE CONTINUES: Scores of people wounded in nine days of war between Lebanon's main Christian armies are dying in hospitals that have no power and little blood, medicine or clean water, police said yesterday.
They said 365 people had been killed and 1,682 wounded since the battle for supremacy began Jan. 30 between soldiers commanded by rebel Gen. Michel Aoun and the Lebanese Forces militia of Samir Geagea.
Many of the victims have been civilians, some of them Muslims killed or wounded by shells that strayed out of Christian territory.
HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS:
Austria, which for years insisted it
was a victim of Nazi Germany, has
agreed to pay about $25 million in reparations to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, officials said yesterday.
Under a plan worked out by the government and the New York-based Jewish Claims Conference on Austria, the $25 million will be invested in projects aimed at helping Jewish survivors of death camps or those forced to flee the Nazi terror in Austria, the officials said.
Some government officials said Austria's new willingness to pay reparations implicitly weakened its traditional argument that it was itself a victim of Nazi aggression.
reform in China rest not with the masses who demonstrated last year in Tiananmen Square but with those in the country's leadership, a senior Bush administration official told senators yesterday.
CHINESE REFORM: Hopes for
He apparently won few, if any, converts among members of Congress whose votes have shown profound skepticism concerning President Bush's China policy.
"If there are to be changes . . . they will depend in large measure for some time to come on the attitudes and activities of people within the leadership" who believe in reform, Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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