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News Digest American charged with espionage ■ FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen is accused of working covertly with the KGB since 1985 in exchange for money and diamonds. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - A veteran FBI agent was accused Tuesday of spying for Moscow for more than 15 years and giving the KGB the names of three Russian intelligence agents working for the United States in exchange for up to $1.4 million in cash as well as diamonds. President Bush read a statement to reporters travel ing with him on Air Force One, in which he called it “a dif ficult day for those who love our country.” He added: ‘To anyone who would betray its trust, I warn you, we’ll find you and we’ll bring you to justice.” Robert Philip Hanssen, 56, is only die third FBI agent ever accused of spying. The government charged him with espionage and conspiracy to commit espionage. He was arrested at a park near his home in Vienna, Va., Sunday night and arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. According to a 100-page affidavit, Hanssen voluntari ly became an agent of die KGB in 1985 while assigned to die intelligence division of the FBI field office in NewYork City and as supervisor of a foreign counterintelligence squad. He independently disclosed the identity of two KGB officials who, first compromised by convicted spy Aldrich Ames, had been recruited by the government to serve as ‘agents in place” at the Soviet embassy in Washington. When these two KGB agents returned to Moscow, they were tried on espionage charges and executed. The third was imprisoned and ultimately released, said FBI Director Louis Freeh. The FBI director said agents covertiy intercepted $50,000 in cash intendedior Hanssen. Overall, Freeh said, Hanssen had received more than $650,000 in cash, as well as diamonds, and an additional $800,000 had been set aside for him in an overseas escrow account. “This was his bread and butter for many, manyyears,” said Freeh. Hanssen kept his identity a secret even from the Russians, who did not learn his name or his employer until his arrest, Freeh said. The agent monitored the FBI’s own security systems to see if authorities had any suspi cions about him. He apparently came under suspicion only late last year. “The trusted insider betrayed his trust without detec don,” Freeh said. Attorney General John Ashcroft said he and Freeh had agreed to immediately launch a review of FBI practices. Freeh said Hanssen’s alleged conduct “represents the most traitorous actions imaginable.” He said the full extent of the damage done is not yet known "because no accurate damage assessment could be conducted with out jeopardizing the investigation. We believe it was exceptionally grave.” Freeh credited the government for catching Hanssen “red-handed” in turning over secret documents but could not explain how the agent was able to work for the Russians undetected for 15 years. The investigation was conducted by the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and the Justice Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Bellows said Hanssen could face the death penalty if convicted and could be fined up to $2.8 million - twice his alleged personal gain from the activities of which he is accused. The FBI agent was also charged with passing classi fied documents to agents for the KGB on March 20,1989, with the intent of injuring the United States. The charges contended that Hanssen has been spying since October 1985, and that his espionage continued until his arrest. A hearing was set for March 5. Plato Cacheris, Hanssen's attorney, said he believes federal authorities “always talk like they have a great case, but we'll see.” Cacheris, asked if Hanssen’s case was related to that of former CIA officer Aldrich Ames, replied: “There's not a connection but there is some relevant material.” In an affidavit, FBI agent Stefan A. Pluta said Hanssen “compromised numerous human resource^ of the United States intelligence community” and three of the sources “were compromised by both Hanssen and Ames, resulting in their arrest, imprisonment, and, as to two individuals, execution.” The affidavit said Hanssen also compromised “dozens of United States government classified docu ments,” including those involving the U.S. government's double-agent program, a study on KGB recruitment operations against the CIA, an analysis of KGB operations and “a highly classified and tightly restricted analysis of die foreign threat” to a top-secret U.S. program. Among secrets allegedly disclosed by Hanssen included U.S. methods for conducting electronic surveil lance. He also may have confirmed for the Russians information originally supplied to them by Ames, the source said. Nancy Cullen, a neighbor, described Hanssen’s neighborhood as being in shock with news of the arrest Mark Wilson/Newsmakers FBI Director Louis Freeh makes remarks (hiring a press conference at FBI Headquarters Tuesday in Washington, D.C He announced that veteran FBI counterintelligence Agent Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested Sunday. “They go to church every Sunday - if that means any thing...” She said the Hanssens were regulars at the Memorial Day block party and called Hanssen “very attractive... not overly gregarious.” Cullen said Hanssen’s Wife, Bernadette, teaches reli gion classes part-time at a Catholic high school. The Hanssens' $300,000 middle-class split-level home of brown brick and cedar was encircled by yellow police tape Tuesday. A dozen FBI agents wandered in and out, carrying in electronic equipment. Neighbors briefly filled the cul-de-sac to watch the activity. Destiny space mission a success after landing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed in the Mojave Desert on Ihesday after three straight days of bad weather pre vented the ship from returning to its Florida home port Atlantis glided through a hazy sky and touched down at 12:33 p.m. -13 days after lifting off for the international space station. During the mission, die five astro nauts delivered and installed a $1.4 billion laboratory that is con sidered the most sophisticated research module ever to fly in space. “Welcome back to Earth after placing our Destiny in space,” Mission Control said, referring to die new laboratory. Thick, low clouds kept Atlantis from touching down at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Tuesday. On the previous two days, the prob lem was gusty wind. The weather was okay at Edwards Air Force Base, the back up landing site, and Mission ■ Control gave the go-ahead for the astronauts to finally come down. They had just one more day’s worth of fuel and supplies. “Pass to all the folks down at KSC and our families there that we're sorry we won't see them right away, but we appreciate it making it home somewhere today,” shuttle commander Kenneth Cockrell told Mission Control Space shuttle landings are infrequent at Edwards, which served as the main touchdown site until the early 1990s. An Edwards landing requires the shuttle to be ferried back to Florida atop a modified Boeing 747 at a cost of nearly $1 million. Because of the weather delays, Cockrell and his crew spent two days circling Earth with little to do except gaze at Earth, snap pictures and exercise on a stationary cycle. During their one week at space station Alpha, the astro nauts delivered and then hooked up NASA’s most expensive piece of the space station, the Destiny laboratory. -1 Iraq resumes firing on patrols ■After Friday's US.-British attacks,the country continued its defiance of the'no-fly'zone. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Hardly hesi tating after the joint U.S.-British airstrikes, Iraq over the weekend resumed firing on allied air patrols in the southern “no-fly* zone, a Pentagon official said TUesday. Iraqi air defenses fired sur face-to-air missiles and anti-air craft artillery at allied pilots on Saturday and Sunday, spokesman Marine Corps Lt Col. Dave LaPan said. The allied planes were not hit and did not fire back, he said. Pentagon officials have not provided a full public assessment of the damage caused by Friday’s attack on Iraqi air defenses, but there was little doubt Iraq would resume contesting allied air patrols. Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, a spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, said TUesday that the Pentagon does not intend to release a detailed assessment of damage caused by Friday's attacks because such information could help Iraq pre pare a defense against any ftiture attacks. Quigley said the stated objec tive was to “disrupt and degrade’’ Iraq’s air defenses. “We think we had an impact on that,” he said. “Was it perma nent? No.” Later, he said the Pentagon was pleased with the results, even if the bombs were not 100 percent effective. “It isn’t perfect It never is.” Although Iraq does not recog nize the legitimacy of “no-fly” zones over the southern and northern portions of its territory, ■ it has not contested U.S. and British air patrols as frequently in the north. According to U.S. European Command, which manages air patrols over north ern Iraq, Iraqi air defenses in that area have fired on allied planes only twice this year, most recently on Feb. 12. Friday’s joint U.S.-British attacks against five air defense sites in the south were timed to avoid killing or injuring Chinese civilian and military workers who were helping install underground fiber-optic cables to significantly improve the effectiveness of Iraq’s air defenses, a senior defense offi cial said Monday. "On a Friday you have the lowest number of people present - both Iraqis and Chinese,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The goal wasn't to kill people; die goal was to bust up stuff.” The official said some portion of the fiber-optic network already was operating at the time of the bombing. Asked on Tuesday to com ment on the Chinese assistance and the fiber optics, Quigley declined to comment Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, the director of operations for the Joint Staff, told a Pentagon news conference on Friday that the targets struck by American and British planes were long-range surveillance radars and other sites that provide the command-and-control links to Iraqi surface-to-air missile bat teries. He said these facilities had helped Iraq coordinate its defens es and had resulted in numerous near misses against allied air patrols in recent weeks. C Editor Sarah Baker JPf Managing Editor Bradley Davis vM Associate News Editor Kimberly Sweet Assignment Editor JilIZeman Opinion Editor JakeGlazeski #/| Sports Editor Matthew Hansen V# Assistant Sports Editor David Diehl m Arts Editor Samuel McKewon Copy Desk Chief: Danell McCoy ■a Copy Desk Chief: Jeff Bloom mm Art Director Melanie Falk Art Director Delan Lonowski Photo Chief: Scott McClurg OJ Design Coordinator Bradley Davis Z Web Editor Gregg Stems Assistant Web Editor Tanner Graham General Manager Daniel Shattil Publications Board Russell Willbanks y^T > Chairman: (402) 436-7226 Professional Adviser Don Walton 2 (402) 473-7248 Advertising Manager NickPartsch (402) 472-2589 Assistant Ad Manager Nicole Woita Classified Ad Manager: Nikki Bruner Circulatioa Manager ImtiyazKhan Fax number (402) 472-1761 World Wide Web: wwwdailyneb.com The Daily Nebraskan (USPS144-080) is published by the UNL PuMcadons Boards Nebraska Union, 1400 R SI, Unwin, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during the summer sessionsThe public has access to the Publications Board. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by calling (402) 472-2588. Subscriptions are $60 for one year. Postmaster Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R SL, Uncoln NE 68588-0448. Periodical postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 2001 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Qnestiecs? Comments? Art ter the appropriate section editor it (412) 472-2581 or e-mil dtfHl.eda. Murder suspect does not fight extradition THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW CASTLE, Ind. - One of the teen-agers charged in the slayings of two Dartmouth College professors agreed not to fight extradition to New Hampshire, his attorney said Tuesday. Robert Hilloch, 17, was expected to be turned over to New Hampshire authori ties later Tuesday. “I’ve advised him that by doing this, by no means is it an indication of guilt,” his Indiana lawyer, Edward Dunsmore, told Judge Michael Peyton. A hearing for the other teen, 16-year-old James Parker, was delayed until his lawyer could arrive from New Hampshire, Henry County Sheriff Kim Cronk said. Both face adult charges of two counts of first-degree murder in the Jan. 27 stab bing deaths of professors Half and Susanne Zantop at Hanover, N.H., more than 700 miles from New Castle. The two teen-agers were picked up early Monday by a police officer who had been monitoring CB radio traffic. Sgt. Wiliam Ward overheard a message from trucker James Hicks, who said he was carrying two young hitchhikers who were looking for a ride to California. Ward got on the radio and pretended to be a trucker himself, saying the boys should be dropped at a nearby truck stop for a ride. “I actually didn't expect it to be them, but I thought TODAY TOMORROW Mostly cloudy Partly cloudy high 27, low 20 high 46, low 21 * it was worth checking out," Ward said Monday. Instead of a trucker will ing to give them a ride, the teens were met by deputies at the Flying J Plaza on Interstate 70. Hicks, who had been hauling a load of M&M candy to Chicago, said he decided to give the pair a ride from Columbia, N.J., because they reminded him of his 17- and 13-year-old sons at home and a 14-year old son killed in a motorcy cle accident in October. He told The Boston Globe he “just felt sorry for them.” Hicks was fired because of his company's strict poli cy against picking up hitch hikers. Authorities have refused to discuss a motive or any connection between the boys and the victims, who were stabbed repeat edly in their home. Half Zantop, 62, taught earth sciences. His wife, Susanne Zantop, 55, was chairwoman of the German Studies Department. Both were naturalized citizens who were natives of Germany. 7 actually didn’t expect it to be them, but I thought it was worth checking out." Sgt. William Ward New Hampshire Police Dept. Orange County, Vt., Sheriff Dennis McClure said the boys became sus pects in the Dartmouth case after authorities learned one had bought a military-style knife on the Internet. The boys were asked last Thursday to come in and provide their finger prints, which they did vol untarily. They are believed to have left their hometown of Chelsea, Vt., the same day. Arrest warrants for both were issued and a manhunt began during the weekend. A car belonging to Parker’s parents was found Sunday in Sturbridge, Mass. The Associated Press ■ Texas Mother of victim hopes for passing of hate crime bill AUSTIN - One day, Stella Byrd hopes she can tell her great granddaughter that the girl’s grandfather did not die in vain. She says she’ll be able to do that if Texas lawmakers pass the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, named in memory of her son who was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in 1998. “I'll have something good to explain with what happened with this bill, and maybe that will help her grow stronger," Byrd said. The state’s House Judicial Affairs Committee approved the bill Monday after hearing testi mony from Byrd and others. A Senate committee has approved a similar bill The bill would toughen penalties for crimes motivated by race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, age, gender or national origin. It also would require annual reports of hate crime statistics by Texas counties. The full House approved a similar hate crime bill in 1999, but the legislation died in a Senate committee. Many law makers voted against the bill because they opposed including homosexuals as a protected group. ■ Michigan Newsppen look to former subscribers after boycott DETROIT - The United Auto Workers union lifted its boycott of The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday, two months after the last of the newspapers’ six unions ratified new contracts and called off their 5 Vz -year boycott. Publishers of both newspa pers welcomed the action as another step in closing out the dispute that produced a 19 month strike and cost the papers hundreds of thousands of sub scribers, which they now are working to win back. The UAW’s executive board decided that the most effective way the UAW can support the unions’ "ongoing efforts to win justice for those workers who have yet to be recalled and to rebuild their unions is by lifting our boycott,” UAW President Stephen Yokich said in a state ment The UAW also lifted its boy cott of USA Today, the flagship of Gannett Co., the News’ parent. The Free Press is owned by Knight Ridder Inc. ■Yemen Voters in Arabian Peninsula surrounded by soldiers SAN’A - Gunfire and an explosion left one person dead and marred nationwide polling Tuesday in municipal elections that included a referendum on changes to the Yemeni constitu tion. President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged the government would respect the people’s verdict on the constitutional changes, which include extending the terms of office for the head of state and lawmakers. Supporters say the changes would increase stability; oppo nents say they are likely to entrench Saleh’s General People’s Congress party. “We accept all the results, whatever they are, on the local level or on the referendum,” Saleh said after dipping his thumb into indelible ink and vot ing at a school in the capital, San’a. About 60,000 soldiers guard ed polling stations across this Arabian Peninsula nation, where men carry daggers and assault rifles and disputes often turn bloody. ■ California Grammy music awards to feature top performers LOS ANGELES - Perennial award-winner Paul Simon and teen rapper Lil BowWow will per form at die 43rd Annual Grammy Awards, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced Monday. Simon is nominated for album of the year for “You’re the One.” He has previously won album of the year three times and already owns 16 Grammys.