Show Vol78 No 177 Logan Utah Tuesday July 16 28 1987 pages 2 sections 25 cents Meese defends advance notice - WASHINGTON (UPI) Attorney General Edwin Meese acknowledged today he gave national security adviser John Poindexter advance notice he would be questioned in the inquiry — a lag during which Poindexter ana aide Oliver North shredded documents Meese told the congressional Iran-Cont- ra Iran-Contr- a committees that as he was opening his inquiry last fall he phoned Poindexter on Nov 21 seeking documents and an interview He said he set up ah appointment with Poindexter for the next day because it was already 3 pm and it would take time for Poindexter to assemble the documents Poindexter and North both testified earlier this month that they shredded files on Nov 21 after Meese notified them of the inquiry to conceal details of the secret US arms deals with Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels The attorney general a close confidant of President Reagan has been criticised for not mounting a more thorough and professional initial investigation Meese also acknowledged that he agreed to put off a Nov 23 Interview with North from morning Annie WellsHereld Journal Duane Cox left helps Division of Wildlife Resources biologist Ted Hallows unload rotenone bound for a Spring Creek fish kill today Spring Creek fish killed By Tim Gurrister staff writer biologists today began the second day of a fish kill along nine miles of Spring Creek stretching between Logan and Mendon ‘Killing fish is not exactly what a biologist hopes to get involved in" said Ron Goede pathologist with the division’s Fisheries Experiment Station just south of Logan “But it’s the only way we can kill the viruses” until afternoon to go to church with nis fami- The viruses are infectious ly’7 ancreatic necrosis (IPN) and an ectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) which have largely infected trout in Spring1 Creek and a private hatchery near Spring Creek via some diseased fish transplanted from Idaho said DWR officials involved in this morning’s project The diseased trout were introduced to a private hatchery operated by White's Trout Farm and escaped into Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane has testified that'during a meeting with North that morning North expressed concern that Justice Department officials had Justice Department’s criminal division because "there was no criminal aspect to this" at the time He said that even after North acknowledged the diversion when interviewed on Nov 23 Meese did not feel there was cause for a criminal 43 “We’re not concerned about whose State Division of Wildlife Resources because North told him Sunday morning “was his only chance stumbled on a memo proposing the diversion of money to the Nicaraguan Contras North testified that he succeeded in destroying four of five memos in which he sought presidential approval for the possibly illegal diversion Meese defending his conduct and denying any impropriety told the committees that he did not enlist assistance from the hours then removed said Denise Knight the DWR biologist leading the in fish tajj the delay implementing the Denise Knight DWR biologist Spring Creek during flooding in 1985 “The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly" said one official in explain- - project fault it was anymore" Goede said “We just want to kill the viruses Eviery body’s happy now and we’re The project is funded by the division with some help from White's Trout Farm Knight lid The rotenone kills the fish by cutting off oxygen Nielsen said “ft doesn't poison them per se” he said “It suffocates them” Although mostly trout have been identified as infected with one or both viruses all the fish must be treated since they may be carriers officials said Rotenone is made from a root found in Peru and is commonly found in flea powder sold In pet stores Nielsen said The drip stations distribute rotenone mixed with water at a ratio of 1 or 2 parts per million rung the private hatchery people" Final processes for disinfection of cnery take place later said Division officials on hand this morning included Jack Rentiel supervisor for the DWR’s northern region and Glenn Davis fisheries management coordinator for the re-gion which covers the state north from Ogden The Insecticide rotenone is being used to kill all fish insects ana e ilankton in the stretch of pring Creek said Bryce Nielsen a Rich County DWR Queries biologist helping set up “drip stations" along Spring Creek this morning The 15 or so drip stations planned the first of which was in operation by 2 pm Monday will be maintained for nine-mil- Officals advised landowners adjacent to Spring Creek to be aware of the fisheries project underway but not out of any threat from rotenone which is harmless to humans “unless See FISH on page 2 US proposal removes ‘stumbling block9 Plan moves superpowers closer to pact - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan today moved the superpowers closer to the global elimina tion of medium- - and shorter-rang-e range missiles and declared that “the climate is now receptive to a “There was no obvious crimi- historic proposal of this type” nality at this time" he said Commenting on US proposals presented hours North testified that he earlier in Geneva Reagan said movement over the shredded documents on Nov 22 last week has removed a major “stumbling block” to while Justice Department of- an agreement regarded as the key to another ficials were reviewing docu- - superpower summit At the same time he indicated those proposals meet See MEESE on page 2 Soviet concerns by committing the United States to not convert missiles that would be covered by such an agreement into other weapons outside its scope “Our goal as you can see is not arms control but arms reductions" he said "And despite the skepticism when we first announced these plans we are moving in that direction’’ In Geneva US arms negotiators presented their Soviet counterparts with new proposals that embrace the "double-zero- " formula accepted last week by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Reagan said the proposals contained two other “vital new elements" of Interest to the Soviets: A commitment that missiles covered by the agreement would be destroyed and not converted Those conditions would rule out any attempt by the United States to convert Pershing 2 medium-rang- e shorter-rang- e missiles into Pershing weapons or d cruise missiles into weapons not covered by the agreement While at least one key obstacle — the status of West German Pershing missiles — remains Reagan and his aides faced with recent public relations gains by Gorbachev were sanguine about prospects for the 1-- B ground-launche- 1-- A future Administration restricts access to scientific data Editori note: This li ths third In a (tries of thro articles examining the extent of secrecy under the Reagan administration the rationale for it and the ramifications of government secrecy in an open society By John Hanrahan - The agent who said he had been sent by headquarters in Washington got to the point: Could the FBI have the names of foreign users of Mead Data Central’s computer databases and an itemization of their research? Recalling the agent’s visit of last October Gerald Yung Mesa’s vice president and general counsel at corporate offices in Dayton Ohio said no the FBI — both for ethical and practical business reasons — could not have such information WASHINGTON (UPI) This was not the first time Yung had been contacted by the government concerning Mead’s foreign customers Earlier in the year he had been asked similar questions by an Air Force management group studying foreign access to US scientific and‘ technical databases He also had been questioned on computer security by a joint Security Agency committee CIA-Nation- al Inside today All good things must end Even pro baseball's longest win streak which was stopped at 29 games Monday when Billings finally upended the Salt Lake 6 City Trappers 7-- 5 Nor was Mead the only company approached Several other private companies that store computerized scientific and general information including the Lockheed Corp’s Dialog Information Services said they had similar contacts last year from government agencies seeking information on foreign customers In addition librarians at several universities housing unclassified scientific information reported they had been asked by federal authorities to monitor foreigners’ searches of computerized data In all cases the companies and libraries refused to cooperate The visits and requests were part of a Reagan administration effort to crack down on the flow of unclassified but what it regards as “sensitive” US scientific and technical information it believes the Soviet Union is using to its military advantage These visits say critics illustrate the administration’s belief that a national security rationale justifies suppression of open sources of information Further the critics claim they reflect a wrongheaded concept of national security and a Tack of understanding of how scientific discovery works “The Soviet Union today is lagging behind the Warsaw Pact nations are also tapping into the United States’ open unclassified storehouses of scientific and technical information — much of it collected and provided to the public or to commercial database companies by the gov- ernment’s National Technical Information West in many areas of science precisely because of the kinds of restrictions on scientists they have in their society" said Dr Robert Park head of the American Physical Society's Washington office and a physics professor at the University of Maryland “Yet" he added “these are exactly the kinds of restrictions some people in the Reagan administration would like to impose here” Administration officials see it differently They have repeatedly sounded the theme that in addition to using espionage to obtain classified information the Soviet Union and 4 About Cache Almanac Ann Landers Births Classified ads Comics 12-1- 3 12 Focus 12 4 14 Happenings Horoscope Letters to the Editor News of record 12 12 9 10 12 11 4 Obituaries Opinion Region report Sports Stock prices Theaters Weather Mead for example carried the full text of NTIS documents at the time of the FBI visit Yung said Mead has since dropped NTIS reports but not because of government pre- ssure A 1985 report by the CIA and Defense See RESTRICT on page 2 4 11 3 6 4 13 4 I WWW information" Ufeother Index Crossword Dr Lamb Serviced This loss of data through espionage and legal means necessitates restrictions on some “sensitive" but unclassified information administration officials say Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige has warned that federal agencies — through NTIS and other sources — “are tolerating a massive giveaway program that permits the Soviets to acquire tens of thousands of scientific and technical studies as well as other strategic Hop on board that train from your very very very fine house Take the two cats out of the yard life used to be so hard Now everything is 4 beautiful in ParkWest |