News Digest
Thursday, March 16, 1995 ~ Page 2
Former spy chiefs want
major overhaul of CIA
WASHINGTON — Whether
the decision is to break it up or
shake it up, the CIA is headed for
radical change, several former U.S.
spy chiefs say.
A17-member presidential com
mission headed by former Defense
Secretary Les Aspin is launching a
yearlong study of how to overhaul
the nation’s spy agencies. The
panel’s first meeting is Friday.
In interviews, four former CIA
directors said they welcome the
prospect of a makeover of the far
flung, $28 billion-a-year national
intelligence system.
“In two or three years you will
be able to look back and say really
dramatic change has taken place,”
said Robert M. Gates, who was
CIA director in the last years of the
Bush administration and the deputy
director in 1986-89.
Gates recommends taking the
CIA out of the business of catalog
ing the firepower and troop strength
of foreign armies. Leave that to die
Pentagon, he says. Gates would cre
ate a “director of military intelli
gence” at the Pentagon to oversee a
slimmed down set of military spy
shops.
Among the recommendations of
Gates’ predecessors at the CIA:
Split it up by putting the spies in a
separate agency, push for “new
thinking” on what secrets to steal
and how to go about it, give the CIA
director firmer control over the
loose federation of 13 spy agencies
that comprise the intelligence “com
munity.”
There is no shortage of ideas for
ways of adapting the CLA to a world
without the Soviet Union. The So
viet Union was the clear and some
times overrated “enemy” whose
every move the CIA felt compelled
to track and analyze throughout the
Cold War.
The debate over the CIA’s future
will intensify as the Senate Intelli
gence Committee holds a confirma
tion hearing for President Clinton’s
new choice to head the CIA.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chair
manofthe Senate intelligence panel,
has said he wants the prospective
new CIA chief, John M. Deutch, to
spell out his own ideas for reforms.
It is seemingly symptomatic of
the CIA’s troubled times that
Clinton’s initial selection to take
over the spy agency, retired Air
Force Gen. Michael P.C. Cams,
abruptly withdrew last week.
For all the criticism the CIA has
drawn to itself, there is little serious
sentiment in Washington for doing
away with the agency. Even the
most prominent advocate for dis
mantling the CIA, Sen. Daniel P.
Moynihan, D-N.Y., says he sees
almost no chance a president would
let that happen.
California dries out, tallies damages
SAN FRANCISCO — California
skies turned sunny Wednesday after a
week of rain.
But if rain resumes at altitudes
where the mountain snowpack this
year carries twice the normal amount
of moisture, the resulting meltdown
could deluge already swollen lakes
and rivers.
The next rain will probably be this
weekend, concentrated north of the
Sierra Nevada and the worst flooded
areas, said National Weather Service
forecaster Steve Smart. But the rainy
season still has a month to go.
“If we get rain at 8,000 feet, that’s
going to be a threat - all that water will
come down from the Sierras and it’s
going to have to go somewhere,” said
Jaime Arteaga of the state Office of
Emergency Services.
Seven days of storms dropped up
to 101/2 inches of rain in some areas,
killed at least 14 people mid caused an
estimated $2 bi Ilian in damage. Ameri
cans can expect higher prices for fruits
and vegetables because of the damage
to winter crops.
The sunshine gave many people an
opportunity to mop up and scrape
mud from floors.
“There’s mud everywhere and
there’s kind of a gassy smell to it,”
said San Jose flood victim Dennis
Diggs as he cleaned up his home.
“We’re trying to block up the doors
and windows to keep the smell out.”
Southwest of Fresno, authorities
found the body of a 19-year-old woman
after using an infrared device attached
to a Highway Patrol helicopter and a
search dog with earthquake experi
ence. The woman had been missing
since an Interstate 5 bridge collapsed
near Coalinga, tossing four cars into
rushing floodwaters. Five other bod
ies were found.
March rain ami flood damage to
agriculture totalled $303,346,135*.
Fruit ntd field and'
vegetable
Produce losses include:
Almonds $27,648,933
Broccoli $65,099,110
Cauliflower . $65,003,564
Lettuce $66,649,100
Strawberries $25,082,000
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Preliminary estimate.
AP
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Snow-stormed students survive
TIMBERLINE ^ODGE, Ore. — Three college students who got
caught in a snowstorm while climbing Mount Hood over spring break
dug themselves a snow cave and played cards and read for two days until
the sun came out Wednesday.
They had so much food left over that they brought some back down
the mountain, they said after their rescue.
Fifty to 75 volunteers had been searching for the three experienced,
well-equipped climbers since Tuesday night.
“They were out walking when the Sno-Cat came across them,”
sheriff s Deputy Damon Coates said. “They all seem to be in fair to good
condition.”
The three Reed College students had set out on Saturday for the
11,235-foot summit with three days’ worth of food, a compass and map,
a stove and climbing equipment. They had planned to return on Monday.
When the storm hit on the way up Monday, they stopped at 9,200 feet
and dug in. They started down the mountain Wednesday. Searchers
found them at 8,500 feet.
Union mob storms Gingrich office
MARIETTA, Ga.—Union members stormed into the district office
of House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday, chanting slogans,
causing minor damage and scuffling with police. Two men were ar
rested.
Some of the roughly 300 protesters wrote “Newt Sucks” on walls and
put up bumper stickers before police asked them to leave after about 45
minutes, said Gingrich spokesman Allan Lipsett. Gingrich wasnot in the
office.
Police then locked the building’s doors and lined up to face shouting
protesters. At least one fight broke out between protesters and officers.
Cobb County police charged two men with obstructing officers and
inciting a riot.
The protesters were angry over several of Gingrich’s positions,
including his opposition to raising the minimum wage, said Stewart
Acuff, head of the Atlanta Labor Council, an umbrella group for 65
major unions that organized the protest.
Gingrich, a Republican, said in a statement that those involved should
be charged for damaging federal property.
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