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THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 9,1987

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State high court nixes cameras in courtrooms

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Supreme Court hasn’t locked the door and thrown away the key despite its new decision to keep the door firmly shut to cameras and tape recorders, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard says. Shepard said he expects the court to reconsider its rule if there is new evidence from tests in other states or a new petition presented to the court. He said the court discussed the current request at three extended conferences and during several informal discussions. Justices’ views “were expressed strongly,” said Shepard. “This was treated as serious business. The amount of time we devoted to it was greater than almost any subject we’ve considered this year.”

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After the discussion, four of the five justices voted against any immediate change in the rule, and three voted against any experiment, Shepard said. “A majority of the court does not desire to set in motion any experiment. It does not perceive that the experiment would lead to the production of new, useful information; as there are many experiments being conducted in other states, and that data is available,” Shepard wrote in a letter released by his office. The letter was addressed to Indianapolis attorney Jan M. Carroll, who had requested in September for several Hoosier press groups that the court consider an experiment to allow cameras and tape recorders in courtrooms in eight counties where judges agreed to participate.

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Reagan, Gorbachev turn focus to regional issues

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan is taking up Afghanistan today with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, hoping the momentum and amity of their breakthrough missile treaty will propel the Soviet leader into setting a firm date to end a Red Army occupation that has scarred U.S.-Soviet relations. Behind the scenes, U.S.-Soviet experts picked up discussions of a new pact to cut the superpowers’ arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons launched by missiles, bombers and submarines. A senior American official said there were “no surprises or new proposals” during the first summit sessions at the White House. Gorbachev’s day was beginning with a breakfast meeting with congressional leaders where he will make his case for ratification of the intermediate-range nuclear forces, or INF, treaty. In the White House talks, squeezed in between the congressional leaders and a Gorbachev meeting with prominent editors and publishers, Reagan and the general secretary intended to focus on touchy “regional issues,” including the conflicts in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. THE SOVIETS already have

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indicated they are prepared to withdraw their estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan in a year’s time. But Reagan and his key advisers are assuming the Soviets are so weary of the bloody conflict they may be ready to accept a much shorter timetable. Other regional disputes also were on the agenda as Reagan and Gorbachev entered their third White House session and deferred further substantive discussion of arms control, the dominant summit topic, until Thursday. That would give a working group headed by chief arms adviser Paul H. Nitze on the U.S. side and Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev for the Soviets more time to search for ways to speed completion of a treaty to reduce long-range nuclear weapons. Both Reagan and Gorbachev are trying to get the accord ready for signing at a Moscow summit next June. They took an important first step along the road to nuclear arms control Tuesday by signing a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear missiles. “WE CAN ONLY hope that this history-making agreement will not be an end in itself, but a begin-

Ex-Soviet expert tabbed as ClA’s new top spy

WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly all opposing factions among CIA veterans are praising Director William H. Webster for choosing a chief of clandestine operations with years of undercover experience and no links to the controversies of William J. Casey. On Tuesday, Webster lured 31year intelligence veteran and Soviet specialist Richard F. Stolz out of a retirement he began in 1981, well before then-director Casey embroiled the agency in the IranContra affair. Stolz, 62, who spent more than half of his CIA career under cover in Western Europe, retired after Casey passed him over as head of the operations directorate in favor of Max Hugel, a businessman with no intelligence experience. AMONG OTHER European posts, Stolz served in Moscow in 1964-65 and rose to chief of station in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1973-

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ning,” Reagan said. Over three years, about 850 U.S. deployed and stored missiles and about 1,750 Soviet rockets will be dismantled. “We can be proud of planting this sapling which may one day grow into a mighty tree of peace,” Gorbachev proclaimed. As he has before, Reagan characterized the treaty with a few words of Russian, “Trust but verify.” The audience broke into laughter when Gorbachev interrupted and said, “You repeat that at every meeting.” As the laughter died down, Reagan said, “I like it.” The treaty sets precedent with an intrusive system of on-site inspection that will send American monitors to the Soviet Union, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, and Soviet inspectors to the United States, West Germany, Britain,Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. Afghanistan is the regional issue on which Reagan is apt to push hardest IN A PRE-SUMMIT briefing, White House officials stressed they wanted a “date certain” for a Soviet pullout and dangled the prospect of a cutoff of U.S. aid

74 and later in London. “I think the reaction is almost uniformily favorable, from what I’ve heard today,” said former CIA Director Richard Helms.“ He’s a real professional, and he has a good reputation with the fellows over whom he will be presiding.” Two other ex-directors, Stansfield Turner and William Colby, also hailed the choice, as did John K. Greaney, executive director of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Greaney’s group had bitterly criticized Colby and Turner for curbing the clandestine service during the 19705. Stolz’s appointment as deputy director for operations is effective at year’s end. He replaces Clair E. George as chief of the division that collects intelligence abroad and mounts covert actions to influence foreign events. GEORGE ANNOUNCED his retirement Nov. 25. At the time, he

once the Red Army begins to withdraw. Apart from a short timetable, the United States wants to make sure the Afhgan resistance gains a prominent role in a new government and that it is not dominated by communists backed by Moscow. However, Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, a leader of the anti-communist Afghan guerrillas, said in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday that the rebels would not accept any deals made in their behalf at the summit. On the Persian Gulf, Reagan wants the Soviets to support a U.S. drive for an arms embargo against Iran. The idea is to force Iran to accept a cease-fire in its seven-year war with Iraq. The Soviets, who supported a U.N. resolution in July that called for a halt to the fighting, are hedging on sanctions. Human rights, another prime summit topic, “occupied a major part” of the two hours and 15 minutes of talks Tuesday between Reagan and Gorbachev, the White House spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said. Gorbachev defended the Soviets’ record and countered with problems in the United States, another U.S. official said.

and other agency officials connected with the secret sale of U.S. weapons to Iran and the diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan Contras were under review by a special counsel Webster named to advise him whether to take disciplinary action in the affair. State Department publications list Stolz in 1979 as political attache at the U.S. Embassy in London, a common cover job for a top CIA official overseas. “Covert Action Bulletin” also said he had be;en chief of station in Belgrade. ; From July 1964 to February 1965, he held the title “first secretary and political officer”’ in Moscow. His CIA rank in the station could not be learned, f)ut Colby said, speaking of cover ranks generally, “First secretary is -no slouch. You don’t give it to the garbageman.” Since leaving the CIA, Stolz has been in private business.