Show r V f I V k M - The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday November 3 1971 J -- J I Merry-go-round head of national unit Somoza’s survival termed shaky By Jack Anderson Nicaraivai dictator family ago - has enrthqnake that Over the past decade whose Anastasio Somoza was put in power by the United States 46 years survived riots general strikes and even an virtually destroyed the capital city of Managua He recently survived a severe political earthquake as veil: a brief armed rebellion and accompanying eaeral strike that for a time threatened to depose im He put down the popular uprising with typical d ruthlessness but the aftershocks con tinue to shake his regime to its foundations The Nicaraguan economy which provides the base for Somoia's vast wealth and power is in shambles Sales tan collections are 10 percent of normal customs collect ions are a third of what they should be Some of the cotton and coffee crops essential to Nicaragua's economic survival were destroyed in the recent fighting Those that remain will have to be harvested under the protective guns of the National WASHINGTON - cold-bloode- intelligence agency At one point his annual sales to the feds totaled 6150 ooo But in 1975 Kaiser testified before the House Select Committee on Intelligence that the United States Recording Company the middleman between Kaiser and the FBI was marking up his equipment as much as 236 percent The General Accounting Office confirmed the ripoff Disclosure of the mark-up- s evidently embarrassed FBI officials who had sanctioned the arrangement who tried to get him Kaiser was visited by two to change his story He refused and within a year Kaiser’s sales to federal agencies had dropped to almost zero He was told by two members of an interagency USU pTOfeSSOT Selected By USU Information Services technical committee that at the FBI's urging no intelligence agencies would buy from him A highly placed Army Intelligence official told Kaiser he was "taboo" in the spy community Then last December Kaiser was included in a criminal case against two North Carolina bank officials who had used some of his equipment to bug FBI agents who were interviewing bank employees Ironically the bugging device which Kaiser supplied to the bank officials was detected by a device the FBI had purchased from Kaiser The bank officials pleaded guilty Kaiser was found not guilty but his legal costs amounted to more than Dr R Kent Wood Dr Wood was a major contributor and writer of Volume u dealing with the areas of logistics which include associate of instructional media at University has been appointed chairman of a national com- m it tee to plan the revision of a book for Erofessor the for Association Educational Communications and Technology The book is Educational Technology: Definition and Glossary 680000 of Terms Volume 111976 ' United Feature Syndicate 1 1977 and Volume library science computer applications and and materials automation acquisition It will be released The book defines the professional fields of educational technology including instructional development library and information sciences administration and management o! learning resources (SfflOOO Guard Even more ominous for the Nicaraguan freebooter perhaps is the threat posed by a report prepared by investigators for the human rights commission of the Organisation of American States When it is released it may well strip Somoza of what little international support he still retains The commission's final report is still secret But vith the assistance of Larry Birns director of the CouneU on Hemispheric Affairs plus other sources in Nicaragua we have ferreted out the major con elusions They will make it difficult for President Carter the champion of human to continue US support for the rights Somoza Here are some of the findings : — During the September civil war Nicaraguan officials routinely tortured political prisoners and summarily executed street fighters and suspected rebel sympathizers in the city of Leon The recent rebellion claimed between 2000 and 2500 Uves only 52 of those killed were National i V - Gnardsmea — During the bloody siege of the city of Esteli civil leaders who did not flee nr their lives were either killed or thrown in jail Somosa's son Anastasio III incidentally was promoted to lieutenant colonel for his “heroic action’ in the conflict ' — At least 500 probably thousands of Somoza onnonents are languishing in jails all over Nicaragua THs figure does not include hundreds who were classified as "eommon" criminals rather than "political" prisoners Footnote: Oar reporter Bob Sherman recently returned from an investigative trip to Central America His reports on the situation in Nicaragua viU he published in a series of future columns FORSAKEN WIZARD: Martin Kaiser is an electronics vizard vho for years was the federal government's major supplier of bugging and debugging equipment after he blew the whistle on shady practices that were costing I be FBI thousands of dollars in overpriced equipment his sales to Uncle Sam dried and blew away 3 TO CHOOSE FROM fit £ x ' Even worse! 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