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14 nations agree to make S. Pacific nuclear-free
By BARRY RENFREW
Associated Press Writer
SYDNEY, Australia Fourteen South
Pacific nations agreed yesterday to make
plans to declare the region a nuclear-free
zone, while stipulating each nation would
retain the right to allow visits by U.S.
nuclear-powered warships.
Leaders of the 14 nations of the South
Pacific Forum, meeting on the tiny island
state of Tuvalu, accepted a plan by Austra
lian Prime Minister Bob Hawke to appoint a
working group to draw up a draft treaty on a
South Pacific nuclear-free zone.
The plan would forbid the forum mem
bers to possess or test nuclear weapons, or
to allow nuclear waste to be dumped in the
Arrests continue
in 'safe bet' probe
By SHARON COHEN
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO A nightclub owner
yesterday became the fifth person
arrested in’ the FBl’s Operation
Safe Bet, a three-year undercover
probe of organized crime’s ties to
prostitution in suburban Chicago,
authorities said.
Nick Stevens, 48, owner and
operator of the Torch Club in north
suburban Palatine Township, was
charged with conspiracy to dis
tribute cocaine, said FBI spokes
man Bob Long.
In Operation Safe
Bet, undercover FBI
agents operated a
credit-card
processing
company and
handled $3O million
in payments to
suburban sex clubs
by customers.
—The Washington Post
The Torch Club, which features
topless dancers, was one of 14
suburban nightclubs raided about
two weeks ago by federal agents,
Long said. He also said all 14 clubs
“appear to be connected with the
organized crime element in Chi
cago.”
Financial material and other
evidence from the raids has been
turned over to a federal grand
jury, Long said.
Pacific.
But Hawke, speaking after the first day of
the annual meeting, said his proposal gave
each nation the right to decide if it would
permit visits by U.S. nuclear-powered
warships.
The forum, a loose consultative group,
consists of New Zealand, Australia, Papua
New .Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Cook Is
lands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Tonga, the
Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Western Samoa
and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Hawke rejected suggestions that nations
choosing to allow visits by U.S. nuclear
powered warships weakened the nuclear
free zone plan.
The forum turned down a proposal by
New Zealand for calling on the .United
U.S. Magistrate James T. Balog
set Stevens’ bond at $25,000 and
ordered him to surrender his pas
sport after a Justice Department
official said Stevens planned to
travel to Greece and was carrying
$13,000 in $lOO bills when arrested.
Stevens’ arrest followed the ar
rest Sunday of four people charged
with conspiracy to distribute co
caine who were identified as a
result of the undercover sting. A
fifth person was being sought.
Edward Hegarty, special agent
in charge of the FBI in Chicago,
announced the four arrests Sun
day as he acknowledged that a
way since 1981 had
focused on extortion, prostitution,
corruption of public officials and
the distribution of controlled sub
stances.
In Operation Safe Bet, under;
cover FBI agents operated a cred
it-card processing company and
handled $3O million in payments to
suburban sex clubs by customers,
many of whom claimed the pay
ments as tax deductions, The
Washington Post reported Sunday.
The clubs reportedly stayed
open by bribing law enforcement
officials and maintaining ties to
organized crime figures.
Long declined to comment on
reports that as many as 75 indict
ments may result from the grand
jury probe.
He also refused to say who was
targeted in the investigation, but
added that “a couple of law-en
forcement people who accepted
bribes” are likely to be indicted.
In the sting operation, federal
agents made secret recordings of
conversations with customers of
massage parlors.
Nations, to declare the South Pacific a
nuclear-free zone, Hawke told Australian
reporters.
The new socialist government of New
Zealand under David Lange has said it will
not allow nuclear weapons on its territory,
and has banned visits by U.S. nuclear-pow
ered warships.
Hawke said the forum had agreed that
before going to the United Nations, a work
ing party should first determine what would
be involved in declaring a nuclear-free
zone.
“We came to the view that it makes more
sense to clarify precisely the sorts of things
we have in mind, and that you’re more
likely to get the opportunity of maximizing
support within the United Nations once we
Shuttle lavished with attention
Countdown crews hope to avoid contamination , further delays
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP),
With launch two days away,
countdown crews lavished special
attention yesterday on the engines
of space shuttle Discovery to avoid
a repeat of the contamination that
caused the last-second postpone
ment of the ship’s first flight.
The count for tomorrow’s 8:35
a.m. EDT liftoff was on schedule,
the weather forecast was fine and
the ship’s commander and pilot did
some practice flying in a specially
equipped trainer.
“I can guarantee you one thing,
the crew is ready and we’re anxious
to go,” said commander Henry W.
Hartsfield, the only one in the crew
of six to have flown in space before.
Others on the six-day flight are
Judy Resnik, a mission specialist
who will become the second Ameri
can woman in space; Charles Walk
er, an industry engineer who will be
the first paying customer; pilot
Michael Coats, and mission special
ists Steve Hawley and Richard Mul
lane.
Discovery is the third ship in
America’s shuttle fleet. It was to
have made its debut in June, but a
computer failure stopped the first
attempt nine minutes before sched
uled launch. The next day, the sec
ond try was halted four seconds
short of liftoff when computers de
tected something wrong in a fuel
valve and ordered the engines
one of them already firing shut
down.
“Although not yet proven, the
most plausible theory now under
consideration involves the possibili
ty of microscopic silt accumula-
Members of Space Shuttle Discovery crew pose for a formal portrait prior to their flight. Crew members in the back
row are Charles D. Walker, payload specialist, and Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist. In the front row (left to right)
are: Richard M. Mullane, astronaut; Steven A. Hawley, mission specialist; Henry W. Hartsfield, astronaut and crew
commander; and Michael L. Coats, pilot.
tions,” said an announcement
yesterday by the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration.
To prevent recurrence, the valve
will be checked and hydraulic fluid
will be circulated before liftoff. On
the pad yesterday, crews were pur
ging the engine of contaminants
iran-lraq conflict
not likely to grow
By BILL McCLOSKEY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON A Senate re- Iraqi capital, it said “below the
port said yesterday that the Iran- surface there is war weariness.”
Iraq war is unlikely to result in “Recent successes have bol
superpower hostilities because stered morale,” the staff said, but
both the United States and the it added that “observers, believe
Soviet Union share the same short- that the war is not popular” in
term goal —an end to the conflict. Iraq.
The Foreign Relations Commitr “Iran would have to find a weak
tee staff report says “senior U.S. spot in Iraqi defenses and hope the
military commanders in the re- resulting breakthrough would af
gion do not envision realistic con- % feet the Iraqi morale and decision
tingencies that would require U.S. making,” the report said,
ground troops, except for security On the other hand, it said, “A
guard duty.” massive Iraqi attack on Iran’s oil
There are 11,500 U.S. sailors and
soldiers in the Persian Gulf and
Arabian Sea area.
Committee chairman Charles H.
Percy, R-111., said: “The report
shows the current U.S. energy,
political and security policies have
helped calm the international oil
market and reduced the fears of
the nations of the region.”
When the investigators visited
eight countries in the area in July,
they found “the tanker war is
having remarkably little effect on
Persian Gulf exports (of oil)
through the Strait of Hormuz.”
The report says the military
balance in the war has shifted
toward Iraq in the last year be
cause of massive Franch and Sovi
et arms sales to the Iraqis and a
worldwide arms embargo on Iran.
“It is our assessment that an
Iranian assault on Iraq would
probably lead to a defeat for Iran
unless Iraqi morale collapses,”
the report says, but it does list the
morale of Iraqi troops as a “poten-
had done that work,” said Hawke, who was
named spokesman for the summit.
Hawke supports close military ties with
the United States, including ship visits. New
Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Tonga are the
only members of the forum that regularly
are visited by U.S. warships, and all but
New Zealand strongly defended their right
at the meeting to maintain such ties, Hawke
said. Australia said before yesterday’s
meeting that the working group for a nucle
ar-free zone would report its findings to the
forum at its 1985 meeting.
Hawke proposed yesterday that none of
the forum members “develop, or manufac
ture, or receive from others, or acquire or
test any nuclear explosive device.”
Canberra lets U.S. vessels use its ports
with helium
Discovery’s payload will weigh 20
tons, which is heavier than that on
any previous flight. The crew will „ Thrown off. schedule by the June
launch three commercial commu- launch failures, NASA decided to
nications satellites, operate a min- combine the cargoes of Discovery’s
iature. drug-making factory and first two flights, resulting in the
conduct experiments for three days heavy payload.
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Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1984
tially serious” military liability.
Although the investigators found
“few signs of war in Baghdad, the
exporting facilities at Kharg Is
land remains a distinct possibili
ty.”
If the Iranians would take the
“act of desperation” of closing the
Persian Gulf, it could lead to “dev
astating air strikes on Iranian
ports and air bases.”
“While the United States might
find it necessary to take such
action, it could provide political
and military opportunities for the
Soviets in Iran. Therefore,” the
report says, “a high priority of
U.S. diplomacy should be to pro
mote a settlement of the war.”
It quotes unidentified “sources
in the area” as saying “without
the capabilities provided to the
Saudis by U.S. arms sales, the
Saudis might well now be seeking
the direct support of U.S. Air
Force fighter aircraft to defend
their oil fields."
U.S.-operated radar and air
borne refueling tankers give the
Saudis added defense capabilities,
the report says.
under the ANZUS defense pact among Aus
tralia, New Zealand and the United States.
New Zealand and Vanuatu called for
strong action on the nuclear-free plan, with
Vanuatu saying U.S. nuclear-powered a
warships should be barred from the region,
Australian officials said before the meeting.
New Zealand has warned it will also ban
visits by conventionally powered U.S.
warships if Washington refuses to end its
traditional policy of declining to say which
of its warships carry nuclear weapons.
Visits by U.S. warships to foreign ports
are scheduled months in advance, and U.S.
officials have said that no New Zealand port
calls are planned for the next few months, to
avoid any confrontation.
with a solar “sail,” a device that
will supply power for space stations
of the future.
state news briefs
Thornburgh proposes waste site
HARRISBURG (AP) The Thornburgh administration has
proposed to neighboring states a plan to place a low-level
radioactive waste storage site in Pennsylvania, a top state official
said yesterday.
But the proposal does not say where in Pennsylvania such a
dump would be and the administration insists site selection has
not started.
“We will have a site” under the proposal, said state Secretary
for Policy and Planning Frank Wright. “There is no plan on where
this site is going to be. Any concept of where it’s going to be just
doesn’t exist.”
Representatives from West Virginia and Pennsylvania will
meet within two weeks to work on an Appalachian States Low-
Level Radioactive Waste Compact, said Wright.
Other border states are now reviewing the initial compact
proposal and should indicate “very soon” whether they intend to
participate in the upcoming drafting session, Wright said.
Pa. court upholds obscenity statute
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The state Siiperior Court yesterday
upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s obscenity statute in
a challenge lodged by a group of booksellers who said it was too
vague a law.
“Appellants have not met the heavy burden borne by those
challenging the constitutionality of an act of the General Assem
bly,” the Superior Court ruled.
The challenge was filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in
1980 by the American Booksellers Association Inc.; Association of
American Publishers; Council for Periodical Distributors Asso
ciations; Freedom to Read Foundation; National Association of
College Stores Inc.; Robin’s Book Store Inc.; Sandford Books
Inc.; Valley Distributors Inc., and Nina Landsberg.
The action was prompted by changes made in the obscenity law
by the Legislature in 1980 that specifically covered the display of
sexually explicit materials. The lower court upheld the validity of
the law, and the booksellers appealed.
The plaintiffs claimed the law was so vague that nearly any
bookstore could be prosecuted under it, and that bookstore owners
thus would deny the rights of readers to a full selection of books.
That situation amounted to prior restraint and constituted a
violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections
granted to literature and periodicals, the booksellers said.
The booksellers had contended, for example, that store owners
claimed “the mere shelving of a book or magazine with sexually
graphic photographs could lead to criminal prosecution.”
The Superior Court said it did not agree.
The court said a dictionary defines “display” as “an opening or
unfolding, exhibition, manifestation, ostentatious show, exhibi
tion for effect, parade.” The court added that such a definition
seems rather clear.
In addition, the court said no person can be prosecuted for
breaking the law unless they knowingly violated it.
nation news briefs
Reagan hopes to 'shuttle' teacher
WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan announced yester
day he has ordered a nationwide search for a school teacher to be
the first citizen passenger to journey into space aboard the space
shuttle.
Speaking to teachers and administrators from some of the
nation’s outstanding public secondary schools, Reagan began the
process of elimination that will settle a question that has long
occupied space buffs and dreamers: Who will be the first outsider
in space?
Shuttle flights presently are restricted to astronauts, mission
specialists and payload specialists, all with specific tasks to
perform on board the spacecraft.
The teacher, to be selected from one of the nation’s elementary
or secondary schools, would be the first observer to fly a mission.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has debat
ed for years who might be selected, and there have been reports in
recent months that the possibilities had narrowed to the fields of
education and journalism.
“It has long been a goal of our space shuttle program to some
day carry citizen passengers into space,” Reagan said. “Until
now we had not decided who the first citizen passenger would be.
“But today, I am directing NASA to begin a search in all of our
elementary and secondary schools and to choose as the first
citizen passenger in the history of our space program one of
America’s finest: a teacher.”
Drug crackdown plagued by errors
SEATTLE '(AP) Sloppy testing and paperwork have forced
the Navy and Air Force to reverse disciplinary action against
more than 5,000 servicemen charged in a huge military crack
down on illegal drugs, The Seattle Times reported.
Meanwhile, the Army is trying to track down 60,000 to 70,000
soldiers to tell them faulty documentation of their drug tests may
allow them to appeal disciplinary action, according to a copyright
story in Sunday’s Times.
During the last 2% years, the Navy, Army, Air Force and
Marines have conducted 6 million tests on urine samples from
servicemen. About 375,000 tests indicated drug use, and 72,000
servicemen were disciplined, the newspaper said.
The testing program was started in 1982 by now-retired Chief of
Naval Operations Thomas Hayward, and spread from the Navy to
the other branches of the military, the newspaper said.
world news briefs
South Africa's Asians given vote
LENASIA, South Africa (AP) South Africa’s Asians will vote
in national elections today for the first time in the country’s
history for a new segregated Asian chamber of the white
controlled Parliament.
Last week, mixed-race voters elected the first chamber for
South Africans of mixed race known as “colored” here.
Opponents call the new Parliamentary system a fraud because
the white chamber has veto power to overturn any decisions made
by the other two houses. And the nation’s black majority 22
million people was excluded from the plan. They have no voice
in the government, are not permitted to move about freely or own
land.
A boycott of the mixed-race election was called in an attempt to
reduce the election’s credibility, and about 70 percent of the
1 voters did not cast ballots. The government claimed the election
was legitimate, despite the low turnout.
Newest Soviet battle cruiser sails
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) The Soviet Union’s newest
fighting ship, the battle cruiser Frunze, sailed through the Danish
straits yesterday en route to the North Atlantic, the Danish
military reported. The navy’s operations command called it the
Soviets’ most powerful fighting ship.
Capt. Sven Gobel, of the navy command, said the 25,000-ton
cruiser was accompanied by the guided missile frigate Krivak
“possibly for a shakedown cruise” before it joins the Soviet
Northern Fleet, based in Murmansk.
He said a few Soviet naval units were exercising in the North
Atlantic, “but I doubt they (the Frunze and Krivak) will have
anything to do with that."
Danish military intelligence confirmed that the 825-foot-long
Frunze is fresh from the Leningrad shipyard and is believed to be
virtually a carbon copy of the cruiser Kirov, built in 1981. The
operations command did not explain why the Frunze was consid
ered the most powerful.
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