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Show A, Thursday, September 29, 1994 The Daily Herald NRA EMoffc Clinton, Congress trade GATT - WASHINGTON (AP) After the Clinton administration spent months courting Republican support for a new world trade accord, a Democrat has emerged as the pact's staunchest opponent. Sen. Ernest Hollings, vowed to bottle up the bill in his Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee well past Congress' scheduled Oct. 7 adjournD-S.- ment. "No chance at all," he thundered at a news conference when asked if he would permit a quick ' President Clinton countered with his own threat of a lame-duc- session after the midterm any other group that plays it that Associated Press Writer tough." The assault-st- y le weapons ban wasn't the only recent defeat for the NRA; it also lost a battle over the Brady handgun law last November. But those losses did nothing to tone down the lobbying group's strident advocacy. If anything, the talk is tougher heading into the November elections. The NRA plans to spend millions of dollars to defeat its enemies and reward its friends between now and Nov. 8. And it will seek to channel its huge and angry membership into the political are- When gun WASHINGTON advocates saw a ban on assault-styl- e firearms looming in late July, they scurried to draft a loophole for dozens of copycat guns. But at the last minute, the National Rifle Association backed out, adopting an strategy. In the end, the NRA got nothing. The crime bill President Clinton signed bans k elec- tions. "If for some reason the Senate does not pass it, then I will urge that they stay in session and simply ' go on recess for the election break and come back after the recess and 'pass GATT," Clinton said, straying from the main theme of his news conference with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. 19 specific assault-styl- e well as 100 or as weapons, more similar firearms. Critics of the 3.5 gun lobby say its growing disdain for compromise is making the group its own worst enemy. "There's no middle ground with them," said Sen. Ben Nighthorse who deCampbell, nounced the NRA after his office was subjected to threats during the crime bill debate. "I don't know of million-memb- vote. er - ' DeWASHINGTON (AP) focus victims on renewed of spite Cold War radiation tests, people subjected to chemical and germ warfare experiments have been r largely overlooked, a congression-- , al subcommittee was told. "The radiation experiments are :only part of the story," Rep. John said during a Conyers, hearing Wednesday on human The military and U.S. government also exposed civilians and " soldiers to harmful chemicals, drugs and pathosaid Conyers, chairman of gens, the House Government Operations Committee. "Individuals who were injured in these experiments and their are still trying to find out the 'truth about what happened and to 'secure assistance from the governmind-alterin- g fam--ili- es es na. Even longtime friends are not immune from the NRA's wrath. "If you vote for them 99 times and once against them, it's very bad," said Campbell, who said he declined to renew his NRA mem- bership after an aide received Congress, the threat While polls "always show the same result, 60 or 70 percent are against rights," said Al Rubega, chairman of Gun Owners of New Hampshire, "it seems to be our people who turn out to gun-own- vote." Behind the group's mobilization is Tanya Metaksa, who took over its lobbying arm early this year with the goal of unleashing gun owners' anger on Washington. Hard-edge- d and uncompromising, Metaksa sometimes introduces herself by spelline her name: A-as in AK-4"That's in as semiautomatic." M-E-- K While the NRA has never been its accused of being back a apfew years lobbyists peared more comfortable w ith the of Congress, knowwishy-wash- ing when to press and when to back off. death threats. Superiors looked away as spy stole secrets By ROBERT BURNS compromised by Ames, who sold Associated Press Writer secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia starting in 1985. Woolsey said 12 U.S. paid agents were killed as a result. Woolsey said that after a thorough internal review of what Ames did and how he did it, he has decided 1 1 senior CIA officers should be blamed for failing to act on the numerous warning signs that Ames was a problem. But no one will be fired or demoted, Woolsey said. And the man who was "skipper of the ship" that was responsible for finding moles inside the agency, Ted Price, is being kept in his current job as head of the Directorate of Operations, the clandestine service that directs foreign agents. - Aldrich performance ratings among officers in the clandestine service, and yet kept getting promoted. Once while in Rome as an undercover officer he reportedly fell drunk in a gutter and was retrieved by Italian police. Who was minding the store while this man sold its most valued secrets to Moscow? "One could almost conclude not only that no one was watching, but that no one cared," lamented R. James Woolsey, who inherited the Ames case when he became CIA director. Ames pleaded guilty to espionage in April and is now serving a life sentence. His eight years as a Soviet-pai- d spy inside the CIA is the most damaging and spectacular hisespionage case in the the of tory agency. Woolsey disclosed Wednesday that "approximately three dozen" U.S. intelligence operations were 47-ye- ar -- Price was head of a counterintelligence unit for 10 months in 1990 when, in Woolsey's view, more effort could have and should have been devoted to ferreting out the mole. Price did not "jump on the ball" and go after the suspected mole, Woolsey said, but his involvement in the effort was Rep. Dan Glickman, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in an interview after meeting with Woolsey that he agreed Price was not the worst culprit. "He had a tangential role in this," said Glickman. Price and three other unidentified senior officers still on the CIA payroll have been issued letters of reprimand. They will not be given promotions or awards for two to dent Boris Yeltsin are putting e the dismantling of nuclear missiles on a fast track in another dramatic transition from the Cold War era. summit also Their two-da- y state." Clinton and Yeltsin cemented an already warm relationship long-rang- measures new produced established in five meetings over the past 20 months. "We don't need to waste a lot of words and chew a lot of fat." Wednesday to keep tabs on removed warheads and to expand U.S. investment in Russia's re- Yeltsin said at a windup news conference. As Clinton eyed him with amusement. Yeltsin teased relisting porters w ith a rapid-fir- e of scores of topics he said they had discussed over 4 Vi hours. Yeltsin took special delight in Clinton's decision to extend indefinitely a system for imports for Russia, having concluded the flow of Jewish immigrants met the requirements of the Jackson- - Vanik legislation of the Cold War era. "Ever)' single kid in Russia knows who those people are Jackson and this guy Vanik," he joked. bounding economy through firmer insurance guarantees for entrepreneurs and a revision of the Russian tax code. Clinton apparently made some headway, meanwhile, in curbing Russia's annual sale of an estimated SI billion worth of submarines and other military equipment to Iran. No will be signed, Yeltsin head-to-hea- d '. low-tari- promised. But the Russian leader insisted on delivering cn existing contracts. American officials and said they did not know Moscow promised to tell them ff five years, Woolsey said, but they will keep their jobs. "I find him a man of great ability," Woolsey said of Price. Four senior officers were issued what Woolsey called more serious letters of reprimand which he said normally accompany requests for early retirement or outright dismissal. But three of those four individuals already have retired and the fourth is due to begin retirement in a few days, Woolsey said. The four are barred from ever working for the CIA in the future, he added. In addition, three retired senior officers were given the lesser reprimand of the sort given to Price. 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