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Soviet spy leader defects, lists 25 agents
By DAVID MASON
AP European Correspondent
LONDON The government announced
yesterday that the Soviet spymaster for Brit
ain has defected and has identified 25 espio
nage agents who are being expelled fromthe
country.
•The Foreign Office said Oleg A.
Gordievski, 46, had recently been appointed
head of the Soviet KGB office in London but
defected because he “wished to become a
citizen of a democratic country and live in a
free society.” He was granted asylum in
Britain.
Sir Geoffrey Howe, the foreign secretary,
called the defection a “substantial coup,” for
the British security security services.
Erik Ninn-Hansen, Denmark's justice min
ister, indicated that Gordievski had been a
double agent for the West since the 19705,
when he served with the Soviet Embassy in
Copenhagen.
Ninn-Hansen, speaking on Danish tele-
Draft registration
checks dropped
By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Edu
cation Department has dropped a
controversial rule requiring colleges
to verify that male students receiving
federal aid have registered for the
draft, officials confirmed yesterday.
The rule had been set to go into
effect this fall, but Secretary of Edu
cation William J. Bennett decided it
was not necessary because a spot
check found 98 percent of all young
men were registered with the Selec
tive Service, the department said.
Male students will still have to sign
a statement on their aid application
forms attesting that they have regis
tered, but colleges will not be re
quired to collect further
documentation from the students.
Sharon Messinger, a spokeswoman
for the Education Department’s Of
fice of Postsecondary Education, said
yesterday the rule change will spare
college officials “an avalanche of
paperwork.”
Some colleges had grumbled about
being forced to police student compli
ance with the 1982 that linked
federal aid to draft registration. Stu
dents and civil liberties groups chal
lenged that law, but the Supreme
Court upheld it, 6-2, on July 5, 1984.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger said
it was “plainly a rational means to
improve compliance with the regis
tration requirement.”
The Education Department pub
lished without fanfare a notice in the
Federal Register June 28 revising its
rules for enforcing the so-called Solo
mon amendment, named for its spon
sor, Rep. Gerald Solomon, • R-N.Y.
The new rule took effect 45 days after
its publication.
Charles B. Saunders Jr., the Ameri
can Council on Education’s vice pres
ident for governmental relations,
said, “We’re very pleased that they
did what we asked them to do.”
After the Solomon amendment took
effect in 1983, an additional 300,000
students registered for the draft.
Foreign books fascinate Soviets
By ROXINNE ERVASTI
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW Large crowds of Soviets attended the
Moscow Book Fair yesterday and, lining up for a
chance to look at boods they cannot normally see,
leafed through colorful, glossy pages and picked up
souvenirs.
The American exhibit, marked by blue posters with
white stars and the title “America Through American
Eyes,” was a favorite.
U.S. publishers have not mounted an exhibition as a
group in Moscow since 1979 because of the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan and Soviet actions against
Soviet writers.
Representatives said they decided to return this year
at the urging of exiled or unpublished Soviet writers,
but that their criticism of Soviet treatment of writers
stands.
France’s collection of colorful art and travel books
also attracted large crowds and the Israeli exhibit
drew long lines of old and young Soviet Jews drawn by
prayer books and works on Jewish history.
Hebrew folk music recordings played, there was a
continuous slide show and all visitors were given
buttons proclaiming “Peace” in English and Hebrew.
Isaac Dior of the Israel Export Institute said Israel
brought more than 1,000 titles. Asked if any books were
barred by Soviet authorities, he said, “We had prob
lems with 50 or 60 but we aren’t bothering about them.”
He did complain when Soviet authorities released
only 3,000 of 30,000 Russian-language catalogs Israel
shipped into the Soviet Union. But he said he was
assured on that they would be released by the end of
the day.
Pilfering and apparent on-the-spot censorship was a
problem for many publishers. But a random sampling
of booths showed most exhibitors preferred not to
make an issue of confiscation, saying the number of And at the American booth, a woman asked permis
books seized by Soviet authorities was a small part of s ' on t° spend several days taking notes from
their collection. “Solstice,” by Joyce Carol Oates, for a dissertation.
vision, said Gordievski “supplied police intel
ligence with much information, also on
conversations he conducted, and he was an
extremely important source of information of
significance to our security.”
The Danish minister said British and Dan
ish counterintelligence services had been in
contact with each other about Gordievski for
some time, though he would not go into
details.
Britain’s Foreign Office would not com
ment on Ninn-Hansen’s statement.
The 25 Soviets were the largest number of
alleged spies to be sent back to Moscow since
1971, when Britain expelled 105 Soviet diplo
mats and trade officials.
The Foreign Office said the Soviets were
ordered to leave Britain by Oct. 3.
Gordievski officially held the senior rank of
counselor in the Soviet Embassy.
The KGB, or Soviet Committee for State
Security, operates the secret police appara
tus in the Soviet Union and spy networks in
many countries.
Messinger said the agency is con
sidering matching computer tapes of
student aid recipients against Selec
tive Service records. The department
will also continue to audit student
records and turn over the names of
any scofflaws to the Justice Depart
ment for further investigation.
Although the military is not now
conscripting anyone, draft registra
tion was reinstituted in 1980 under a
law signed by President Carter. All
male citizens and resident aliens born,
after Jan. 1,1963, from ages 18 to 26,
must register within 30 days of their
18th birthday.
Some. 14.8 million men have regis
tered for the draft since 1980, a Selec
tive Service official, Army Major
L.M. Thiessen, said yesterday.
Failure to register carries a maxi
mum penalty of five years in prison
and a $lO,OOO fine. Thiessen said 5,000
men register each day.
In the Federal Register notice,
Bennett said his department will
check ' the registration compliance
rate each year “to ensure that stu
dent compliance remains at a satis
factory level.”
“The verification requirement will
be reinstituted if, on the basis of these
studies, the secretary and the direc
tor of the Selective Service determine
that student compliance is no longer
satisfactory,” the notice said.
The notice said college financial aid
officers could waive the requirement
that students sign an official
“Statement of Registration Status” if
they are female or out of the age
range for registration. But the de
partment cautioned that should not
be done “solely on the basis of an
ambiguous first name (such as ‘Ter
ry’) or initials for the first name
(such as ‘J.E. Smith’).”
An institution could still wind up
liable for repaying federal aid that
went to a student who failed to regis
ter if “the institution accepts a false
Statement of Registration Status
from a student when the institution
has information that conflicts with
that statement.”
“This man in a well-tailored suit with a briefcase
comes by and takes books off the shelf,” said E.V.
Gillow at the British display.
A “Dictionary of Politics,” and volume two of
“Europe in the 20th Century” were among books
taken.
Publishing representatives didn’t have precise num
bers of books seized. They said some are returned
later, such as a British book of photographs of America
that included a picture of a nude woman.
Yuri Sobolev of the Soviet Union, a member of the
general directorate of international book fairs and
exhibitions, said exhibitors must adhere to rules ban
ning “books propagandizing war, pornography or
books that injure another party or nation.”
He was asked why books are removed when the fair
is supposed to allow publishers look at other works and
negotiate contracts.
“Well, all the books for exhibits are supposed to pass
through our customs, but sometimes books are brought
in by embassy staff through diplomatic luggage which
does not go through customs,” he said.
One publishing representative said each display,
averaging about 1,000 titles, has 10 Soviets assigned to
thwart pilfering. A Western publisher’s representative
said, however, that it didn’t mind its books getting into
the hands of average Soviet citizens.
“Jane Fonda’s Workout Book” and “Stars,” a collec
tion featuring actress Meryl Streep on the cover. Were
disappearing with regularity from the U.S. exhibit, a
representative said.
For others, the book fair appeared to be a rare
chance to do research using works not available in a
country where access to foreign publications is tightly
controlled.
A middle-aged man was scribbling notes from a
French encyclopedia entry on Konstantin Stanislavk
sy, the Russian theater director and actor.
“It is a very substantial coup for our
security services,” Howe said in a British
Broadcasting Corp. radio interview, but he
added “We are determined to go on promot
ing an improvement in our long-term rela
tions with the Soviet Union.”
Howe, asked what damage Britain had
suffered from the 25 alleged spies, replied,
“It’s clearly serious. They were engaging in
intelligence activities of a kind and on a scale
that was unacceptable, and this action (the
mass expulsion) is therefore necessary for
the defense of national security.”
Alexey Nikiforov, a spokesman for the
Soviet Embassy, said the British action was
“without foundation whatsoever.” He said
the expulsions contradict Britain’s expressed
desire to develop better relations with Mos
cow.
The Soviet charge d’affaires, Lev Aleksan
drovich Parchine, was summoned to the
Foreign Office yesterday morning and told of
Gordievski’s defection and the expulsion of
the 25 Soviets.
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Neo-Nazi trial:
By RORY MARSHALL
Associated Press Writer
SEATTLE Members of “The Ord in a fire on Whidbey Island after a
er” saw Jews, Blacks and other mino shootout with federal agents,
rities as common enemies, and emba His recruits “viewed as common
rked on a crime-funded revolution “to enemies Jews, Blacks, who they
bring victory to the Aryan race,” a pr called ‘mud people,’ and other racial
osecutor said in opening arguments o minorities,” Ward said..
f their racketeering trial yesterday. Their beliefs are “sighificant only
They visited graveyards to get
false identifications, established
“safe houses” around the nation and
offered salary bonuses for crimes like
armored car holdups, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Bob Ward told the jury in
the racketeering trial against 11
members of the group.
All Order members took a loyalty
oath, holding hands and forming a
circle around a small child, Ward told
the all-white U.S. District Court jury.
“That child was supposed to rep
resent the future of the Aryan race,”
Ward said. The oath also included the
vow that members would “do what
ever is necessary... to bring victory
to the Aryan race,” Ward said.
The group was founded in 1983 by
Robert Jay Mathews of the northeast
ern Washington town of Metaline
Falls, Ward said. “He eventually
formed a desire to form an action
group ... to take action against
groups that were causing problems
for white people."
Mathews, who Ward said initially
was a member of the National Alli
ance, a white supremacist group in
Arlington, Va., began recruiting oth-
Parchine asked to see Gordievski, and the
request was being considered by the Foreign
Office.
Gordievski, who is married, was presu
mably being kept in a “safe house” some
where in the British countryside. The Foreign
Office would not comment on his wife’s status
or whereabouts.
The Foreign Office said Gordievski joined
the KGB in 1962, spent a year at a KGB
training school in Moscow, and for the next 10
years dealt with Soviet “illegals” under
cover agents both in the Soviet Union and
abroad.
The statement added that Gordievski was
then assigned to KGB activities in Scandina
via and came to Britain in 1982 as an embassy
counselor.
Those expelled included six people with
diplomatic status, including three embassy
first secretaries. Among the others were
seven trade representatives and five journal
ists, including correspondents for Tass and
Novosti, both official news agencies, and a
Prosecutor describes 'Aryan' revolution plans
ers from similar groups around the
country.
Mathews was killed last December
because those feelings, those hatreds,
those animosities are what motivated
them to commit crimes,” he added.
The trial stems from a 21-count
indictment that accused 23 people of
naming a racketeering enterprise
through The Order, which prosecu
tors say intended to overthrow the
government.
The indictment lists dozens of
crimes allegedly committed by those
charged, including bank and armored
car robberies, counterfeiting and two
homicides, including that of Alan
Berg, a Denver radio talk show host.
Ward said the government also will
present evidence that the group was
at least partially following a novel
called “The Turner Diaries,” written
by National Alliance leader William
Pierce.
The novel depicts a white suprema
cist group’s plot to overthrow the U.S.
government, financing the scheme
through robberies and counterfeiting.
Among The Order’s rules was one
that members at all times had to
carry weapons and false identifies- i e y, Jean Margaret Craig, Randolph
tions, Ward said. To get those IDs, George Duey, Richard Harold Kemp,
members were told to go to cemete- Randall Paul Evans and Frank Lee
ries and find gravestones of infants Silva.
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correspondent for Radio Moscow.
Also expelled were an embassy driver, a
security guard and two translators, one for
the International Cocoa Organization and one
for the International Wheat Council.
The Foreign Office warned that any retal
iatory expulsions by the Soviets “would be
entirely without justification,” and said that
Britain “would take a very serious view” of
such action.
Reacting to the spy roundup, Denis Healey,
opposition Labor Party spokesman for for
eign affairs, said it was “an important victo
ry of British intelligence.”
Peter Reddaway, senior lecturer in politi
cal science at the London School of Econom
ics and one of Britain’s top Soviet specialists,,
said Gordievski’s defection was “a tremen
dous coup.” He predicted that up to eight of
Britain’s 42 diplomats in Moscow would now
be expelled.
Mrs. Thatcher’s office said she would have,
no immediate comment on the matter.
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and then apply for birth certificates
for those youngsters.
Ward also described how members
of the group committed a series of
crimes beginning in the fall of 1983,
including counterfeiting, armored
car robberies in Seattle, bank rob
beries and bombing an adult movie
theater in Seattle.
- Among other offenses, the de
fendants are charged with conspiracy
and racketeering, which carries a
maximum penalty of 25 years in
prison, a $25,000 fine and forfeiture of
assests used by the criminal group.
(The Order) recruits
“viewed as common
enemies Jews,
Blacks, who they
called ‘mud people,’
and other racial
minorities”
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U. 6. attorney
The defendants are Bruce Carroll
Pierce, Gary Lee Yarbrough, Ardie
Mcßredrty, David Eden Lane, An
drew Virgil Barnhill, Thomas Bent-
state news briefs
Relatives urge no bail for Benson
LANCASTER (AP) The love a tobacco magnate felt for his
„ grandson has turned to fear as a Florida judge considers setting
bail for Steven Benson, who faces charges of killing his mother
and brother with a car bomb.
“Anyone capable of murdering his mother for money is capable
of murdering his grandfather for the same reason,” tobacco
magnate Harry Hitchcock said in an urgent letter to a Florida
judge.
Hitchcock’s daughter, Janet Lee Murphy, expressed similar
fears in another letter to Collier County Judge Hugh Hayes, who is
- ' expected to rule today on whether to set bail for Benson.
In another report on the case, a former employee of the family
has told police that Benson set off remote-control bombs in 1982,
according to police documents.
Benson, 34, of Fort Myers, Fla., is being held in the Collier
County Jail on murder and attempted murder charges in the July
, 9 bombing that killed his mother, Margaret Benson, 63, and her
. / son Scott, 21. The blast severely burned Benson’s sister, Carol
Benson Kendall, 40, of Boston.
Investigators say Benson apparently stole $2 million from his
mother’s investment account and that she was preparing to write
< him out of her will or to make an adjustment for the missing
money.
Hitchcock,. Mrs. Benson’s father, founded Lancaster Leaf
Tobacco Co. of Lancaster.
nation news briefs
Senate rejects migrant worker plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The Senate, considering major
provisions of a bill to curb illegal immigration, voted narrowly
yesterday to reject a plan that would have given fruit and
vegetable growers a temporary workforce of foreign crop pick
ers.
The vote was 50-48 in favor of the motion to table in effect, kill
the amendment.
The motion to kill the proposal was offered by the immigration
bill’s chief sponsor, Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo. While Congress
debates the problem, more than 2,700 illegal aliens are caught by
authorities every day and an unknown number cross into the
United States, most of them finding low-paying jobs.
At the same time, more than a half-million legal immigrants
arrive each year in the United States, which takes in more legal
immigrants and refugees than the rest of the world combined.
Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif„ chief sponsor of the growers’
amendment, said changing climatic conditions make it impossi
ble for growers of perishable crops to use the rigid, current
program for temporary foreign workers, which requires an 80-
day advance notice to the Labor Department.
Simpson’.s bill would lower the advance time to 65 days, but
Wilson argued that was inadequate. Growers of perishable crops,
he said, need a force of up to 300,000 temporary workers in the
country who can move from place to place on quick notice.
Charity accused of misusing funds
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A charity that raised $237,000 last
year to grant children their dying wishes spent only $lO,OOO for
that purpose and used the rest for fund raising, salaries and
luxuries including renting a videotape player and X-rated movie,
authorities said yesterday.
“The reality is, the dream has become a nightmare,” Attorney
General Joseph I. Lieberman said of the Genie Project.
In a lawsuit aimed at closing down the charity, Lieberman said
the money not spent on the children was used to pay the operators
inflated salaries, hire a professional fund-raiser, buy jewelry, and
rent a car, a videotape player and a movie entitled “Sex Games.”
“In the three years I have been attorney general, I have not
seen a case that has made me angrier,” Lieberman said.
The Genie Project was formed in October 1982 by Michael and
Suzanne Bates,- a couple who said they got the idea after reading
an article about a similar organization in a national magazine.
The Genie Project was not affiliated with any national organiza
tion.
Francis M. Donnarumma, an attorney for the Bateses, said
there had been no effort to defraud the public or misuse charita
ble funds.'
Lieberman said his investigation has convinced him otherwise.
. “What kind of charity would take advantage of dying children
for personal profit?” Lieberman asked at a news conference.
"They did send some kids to Disney World, and I’m sure those
children and their families were grateful.
“But I cannot help but think of the dozens of other children who
died over the past few years who could have had their last wish
granted had greed not gotten in the way,” he said.
Lieberman said his investigators found that only five children
had been helped.
: world news briefs
At least 49 killed in train wreck
VISEU, Portugal (AP) Weary firefighters using power saws
and bulldozers pried apart burned and twisted wreckage yester
day to free injured passengers and retrieve the bodies of at least
49 people killed in the head-on crash of two trains.
More than 100 people were injured when an express train
carrying hundreds of migrant workers to France crashed head-on
Wednesday evening with a local train near this town in the
mountains of central Portugal. Both of the diesel-powered trains
were traveling at more than 60 mph, officials said.
Officials said yesterday they had identified 17 bodies, all
Portuguese, and that the death toll might increase because some
of the injured were in critical condition.
“We know it was human error that caused this tragedy, but we
are not sure who was responsible a signal man on the ground or
the engine driver of one of the trains,” said Antonio Queiroz
Martins, president of the Portuguese Railroad.
Birmingham quiets down after riots
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) The inner-city neighborhood
torn by two days of rioting was quiet today after police agreed to
allow leaders of the Birmingham’s black community to replace
them on some street patrols. •
Some shop windows in Handsworth were broken, but there were
no reports of overnight looting and no arrests, a police spokesman
said. Reporters touring the district said they saw a carry-out food
store reopen and prostitutes return to street corners.
Police said they agreed on a partial withdrawal of officers
provided members of the black Rastafarian sect kept the streets
quiet.
The black leaders ordered groups of youngsters to leave the
decayed area where two Asians were killed and 50 buildings
gutted in the worst urban violence in Britain since 1981. Violence
broke out again on Tuesday.
Some residents blamed the violence on drugs, while others said
heavy-handed police tactics aimed at catching drug dealers was
behind the unrest.
Labor unions say unemployment is the main reason for frustra
tion among Birmingham’s young Blacks, whose parents immi
grated from former British colonies in the Caribbean. However,
the government says that is no justification for the violence.
Errol Martin, a member of the Rastafarian sect, which regards
Blacks as a chosen people, said the. deal worked out with Chief
Police Superintendent Don Wilson seemed to be working.
“We’re grateful that he did live up to his words and we are
appreciating the calmness that is going on now. We want to
negotiate again to keep order here,” Martin told reporters.
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