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WASHINGTON - Vitaly Yurchenko,
a high-level Soviet KGB officer who
defected to the West in August, has
re-defected to the Soviet Union, a
spokesman for the Senate Intelligence
Committee said Monday.
The spokesman, Dave Holliday, said
he was told by the Central Intelligence
Agency about Yurchenko's change of
heart. The Soviet Embassy in Washing
i n called a news conference late Mon
day iternoon and said Yurchenko would
appear there.
CIA spokeswoman Patti Volz refused
to confirm or deny the report.
Yurchenko, 50, was described as the
No. 5 man in the KGB, the Soviet intel
ligence service, at the time he defected
in Rome in early August. According to
U.S. government sources, he served as
first secretary of the Soviet embassy in
Washington from 1975 to 1980 and
oversaw KGB intelligence operations in
the United States.
The sources said Yurchenko had
been undergoing extensive interroga
tion by the CIA at an undisclosed loca
tion in the United States.
Acting on information he provided,
U.S. authorities said they learned that
Edward L. Howard, a former CIA
employee, sold intelligence secrets to
the Soviet Union. Howard, a 33-year-old
economic analyst for the New Mexico
state legislature, vanished in early
October while under FBI surveillance.
Howard was last reported to be in
Helsinki, Finland.
U.S. government sources said Yur
chenko identified another American
who had been working for the KGB, but
no arrests have yet resulted from Yur
chenko's information.
An arrest warrant issued on Sept. 23
in Albuquerque, N.M., charged Howard
with conspiracy to deliver national
defense information to aid a foreign
government. Howard worked for the
CIA from January 1981 to June 1983,
but left the agency after failing a poly
graph exam, sources said.
Sakharov ends hunger strike;
wife allowed to travel to West
NEWTON, Mass. Soviet dissident
Andrei Sakharov, speaking with rela
tives here for the first time in six years,
said Monday he is recovering after los
ing 44 pounds during a hunger strike
that ended after the government said
his wife would be allowed to leave the
country for medical treatment.
Sakharov, 64, and his wife, Yelena
Bonner, 62, were contacted by his step
children and mother-in-law by tele
phone in Gorky, where he was exiled in
1980.
Sakharov's voice on the phone was a
surprise to the family, which had sche
duled the call last week following
reports that Bonner had been given
permission to leave the country. She
has been abroad three times for eye
treatment, most recently in 1979.
Bonner plans to go to Siena, Italy, at
the end of the month to consult with an
ophthalmologist about her eye prob
lems, then to Boston for coronary bypass
surgery, her children said.
Bonner's children said their mother
and stepfather apparently were reu
nited Oct. 23, just before Bonner was
granted an exit visa. They said he had
apparently been in a hospital during
his hunger strike.
'They want us to know he is alive.
That's quite clear," Tatiana Yankele
vich, Bonner's daughter, said when
asked why Sakharov had been permit
ted to talk on Monday.
Bonner's children said they believe
Sakharov's fast and the Nov. 19-20
summit between President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev led to
the permission for their mother to
leave.
Efrem Yankelevich, Bonner's son-in-law,
said she spoke cautiously about
her trip, and could not specifically say
why she was told late last month she
could leave the country for three months.
Mrs. Yankelevich said Soviet offi
cials wanted Bonner to leave as soon as
possible, but she postponed her trip
until she was sure Sakharov was well
again and would be cared for during
the winter.
Yankelevich said Sakharov was re
gaining weight, and "his only problem
now is his heart." He has had a history
of heart problems,
Sakharov, winner of the 1975 Nobel
Peace Prize, helped develop the Soviet
hydrogen bomb. As early as 1959, he
openly criticized the government's
nuclear weapons buildup. He was exiled
to Gorky after criticizing the Soviet
intervention in Afghanistan in Decem
ber, 1979.
Bonner, a pediatrician who married
Sakharov in 1971, was exiled to Gorky
in 1984, ending her freedom of travel in
the Soviet Union.
Court to rule on homosexual activities
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court,
setting the stage for a major gay rights
ruling, said Monday it will decide
whether the sexual activities of con
senting homosexual adults are consti
tutionally protected.
The justices said they will review a
Georgia prosecutors' appeal of a ruling
that, if upheld, could undo the sodomy .
laws in about half the states. Their
ruling is expected by next July.
The court has not issued a detailed
ruling on the rights of homosexuals
since 1967, when it said aliens found to
be homosexual may be deported as
people "afflicted with a psychopathic
personality."
"This is potentially a momentous
case, a watershed," said Kathleen L
Wilde, the Atlanta lawyer for a man
challenging Georgia's sodomy law.
"We think the facts of this case are
very strong for us no money, no
minors, no force involved and in the
privacy of one's own bedroom," Wilde
. said.
Michael Hardwick, a self-described
practicing homosexual, was arrested
by Atlanta police in 1982 on charges of
committing the crime of sodomy with
another man in his home.
Hardwick sued Georgia officials in
1983 to overturn the sodomy law, even
though prosecutors had decided not to
seek an indictment against him.
U.S. District Judge Robert H. Hall
threw out Hardwick's suit, ruling that
the constitutional claims had been
rejected by the Supreme Court when it
upheld Virginia's sodomy law in 1976.
In that ruling, the justices affirmed a
lower court's decision that the state
sodomy law was constitutional but
issued no written explanation of the
affirmance.
The 1 1th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
reinstated Hardwick's lawsuit by a 2-1
vote last May 21.
The Atlanta-based appeals court said
the Georgia law "infringes upon the
fundamental constitutional (privacy)
rights of Michael Hardwick," and said
the law may be valid only if state offi
cials show a "compelling interest" in
restricting such rights.
In seeking Surpreme Court review,
Georgia Attorney General Michael J.
Bowers said the appeals court ruling
could harm "the ability of Georgia and
her sister states to legislate in any area
which touches upon moral issues."
Marcos campaigns; foes seek rival
MANILA, Philippines President
Ferdinand Marcos plunged into cam
paigning Monday, hours after his sur
prise call for a Jan. 17, 1986 presiden
tial election. His squabbling foes met
:.o pick a common candidate against
aim.
Marcos told reporters he was the
only issue in the election. He rejected
the idea of an election for the vacant
vice presidency, saying he wanted to
remove all doubts about the popularity
of his leadership.
"Let it be a one-on-one fight. . . Let
Marcos stand up," he said.
Political rivals said U.S. pressure for
democratic reforms in the Philippines
to counter a growing communist rebel
lion almost certainly helped spur Mar
cos' announcement.
Two weeks earlier, he had indicated
there would be no sudden election.
Marcos went vote-hunting hours after
he announced the move, choosing as
one stop the Tarlac home province of
Benigno Aquino. Critics of Marcos, who
has governed for 20 years, have accused
him of involvement in the 1983 assassi
nation of Aquino, his chief political
rival.
"We need the snap election to con
vince the world that our program is
supported by the people," a presiden
tial news release quoted the 68-year-old
Marcos as telling 8,000 Tarlac
farmers. "We need foreign loans, finan
cial assistance and foreign invest
ments." The opposition's National Unifica
tion Committee representing a dozen
parties met in an emergency session in
Manila to discuss mechanics for choos
ing a common opposition standard
bearer.
M8WSSYil!CrS A roundup of the day's happenings
Friends of an AIDS-stricken eighth-grader have
raised about $5,000 to help his family with medical bills.
The 13-year-old boy's condition came to light when Swan
sea, Mass., school officials decided to keep him in classes
because experts said it was unlikely he would transmit
the disease, which he contracted during treatment for
hemophilia
A federal judge on Monday sentenced former Phila
delphia Phillies caterer Curtis Strong to 12 years in prison
for his conviction on 11 counts of distributing cocaine to
major league baseball players.
Sylvia Campbell, the principal at Granbury (Texas)
Elementary School, said she would spend a day on the
school's roof if her pupils achieved a 97 percent attend
ance rate. The students came through and Campbell says
she will too. "She's on the roof," school secretary Mary
Stumm said after tallying attendance figures from Oct. 7
to Nov. 1. 'They made 97 percent."
In London, American oil magnate John Paul Getty
II, 53, says as long as he has money, he'll keep giving it
away.
Ben, a six-month-old black bear that likes a little
warm beer now and then can no longer trot into Lahoma,
Okla.'s only tavern for a can of his favorite brew. The
Garfield County Health Department told Ben 'This, Bud, is
not for you." Now the only animal allowed in a bar is a
seeing eye dog.
U.S. charges Soviets have increased
shipments of arms to Nicaragua
WASHINGTON The Soviet Union, after an unexplained slowdown in
deliveries of military hardware to Nicaragua, has stepped up such ship
nenis in recent months and is now .trans-shipping cargo through Cuba,
government sources said Monday. .
Intelligence facials still don't have a deer picture of what type of
hardware is arriving in Nicaragua, one source said, tut there have been
indications during the past two weeks cf new shipments involving trucks
and tanks.
And last week, the source said, a U.S. supersonic spy plane flew over
Cuba and confirmed that cargoes were being removed frcm Soviet and
Esfearbn ships and transferred to Nlcaraguaa freighters.
The- Washington Times reported Monday that an SR-71 flew over Cuba
twice list Thursday night to take surveillance photographs cf the port at
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At the White House, spokesman Larry Spcakcs would not comment on
the report directly, but he charged that there has been a "steep increase"
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Zorinsky hospitalized for chest pains
WASHINGTON Sen. Edward frdnsty, D-Nsb., waa hospitalized in
serious hut stable condition Monday after complaining cf chest pains,
officials sdL::v 7::':
Zorinsky, 56, cams to his office Monday morning net feeling well, said
Art Jaeger, his press secretary. "He had some chest discomfort, that sort of
problem," Jaeger said, and went to see Dr. Freeman Cary, the congres
sional attending physician.
Cary ordered an ambulance to take Zorinsky to Gecrse Washington
University Hospital, where he was admitted to the coronary care unit, said
Karen Beauregard, a hospital spokeswoman.
She said doctors had made no dicsis, but wcr; running "routine"
tests and planned to keep the senator hc:p:ta!ized Lr observation for at
teast 24 to 48 hours.
Zorinsky was hospitalized with similar complaints three years ago.
Farm credit resolution debated
LINCOLN The Legislature bem debate Moadey on absolution that
would condemn the use of federal funds to assist the troubled Farm Credit
System.
The resolution, LE9, was intended to have the Legislature say it
"condemns the use of federal funds to assist the Farm Credit System,
unless such funds shall also be used to aid, in a fair and equitable manner,
other non-governmental lending institutions encd in agricultural
finance."
Sen. John DeCamp of Neligh, sponsor of the resolution, said the
infusion of federal funds would only help bond holders, rather than
farmers who are in debt. Such action, DeCamp said, would do nothing to
eliminate the situation confronted by debt-ridden farmers who are faced
with foreclosures.
Sens. Chris Beutler of Lincoln, Loran Schmit of Beilwood, Carson Rogers
of Ord and Tom Vickers of Farnam proposed an amendment that would
rewrite the DeCamp resolution.
The proposed amendment would ask Congress "to take appropriate
action, including financial assistance, to assure a stable Farm Credit
System."
'Social sounds' lure Humphrey to sea
SAN FRANCISCO After nearly a month in waters well off its usual
path, Humphrey the wayward whale headed for the freedom of the Pacific
Ocean on Monday, lured homeward by marine Uelets playing the
Mute-like sounds of feeding humpbacks.
u thf iJ)'foot, 45"ton beherooth frolicked ei "bt miles from the end of its
M-week fresh-water journey, a flotilla cf military and civilian boats
surrounded it to keep it moving toward the cp:n sea
,7 """t SJ1U0 on ir.e two transmitters that had been snoi uiw
us sKin with a crossbow to heb marine 1 :"!--! - hrr'e it.
trewmen aboard the 40-foot cruiser Eoctb-:r needed about hours
to and Humphrey on Monday morning before they resumed luring it
toward the ocean with the high-pitched, "social sounds" broadcast over a
submerged loudspeaker.
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