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Soviet Union ousts U.S.
diplomats on spy charges
MOSCOW (UPI) - The Soviet Union
charged yesterday that a Leningrad-
based U.S. diplomat and his wife were
caught "spying" and ordered the
couple out of the country in a new blow
to the deteriorating relations between
the superpowers.
A KGB statement said Vice Consul
Lbn David Augustenborg and his wife,
Denise, were detained in the Leningrad
area Sunday "as they were carrying
out an act of espionage." It was the
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third reported case of alleged spying by
U.S. diplomats in the Soviet Union this
year.
A U.S. Embassy official said the
timing of the Soviet move "speaks for
itself," a reference to the Kremlin's at-
tempts to counter global criticism of
the shooting down by a Soviet jet of a
South Korean plane carrying 269
people.
"WE HAVE PROTESTED most
vigorously the mistreatment of the
Augestenburgs," State Department
spokesman Alan Romberg, said in
Washington. He disclosed, "I would
also note that on August 19, 1983, Yuri
Petrovich Leonov, assistant air attache
at the embassy was declared persona
non grata for engaging in espionage.
"And on August 17 Anatoliy
Yevengenovich Scriko was declared
persona non grata for espionage."
Neither case involving the attaches
had previously been made public by
either the United States or the Soviet
Union. It brought to five the number of
Soviet diplomats expelled from the
United States in the last year.
In March the KGB said Richard
Osborne, a first secretary in the U.S.
embassy in Moscow, was caught with
an espionage radio set and notes writ-
ten on quick-dissolving paper.
His expulsion from the Soviet Union
was followed in June by that of em-
bassy security staff member Louis
Thomas, said to have been caught "red-
handed during a spy action."
IN MAY, TASS announced Sue
Pamela Carney, a governness for a
U.S. diplomat working in the political
section of the embassy, had left the
Soviet Union under pressure after being
caught spreading subversive religious
literature.
Tass accused her of being in the ser-
vice of the CIA.
Last April Pravda reported "D.
Shorer," a U.S. diplomat stationed at
the consulate in Leningrad had been
expelled but embassy officials in
Moscow said no such incident had oc-
curred within the two previous years, if
ever.
State Department spokesman Alan
Romberg told reporters that
Washington was "vigorously protesting
the physical mistreatment" of
Augustenborg. He declined to say
whether the diplomat was injured in the
incident, and would not provide any
details.
Romberg said two Soviet diplomats
were quietly expelled from Washington
last month. Officials privately in-
dicated that the Soviet expelled
Augustenborg in retaliation for the
August action.
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Soviets veto U.N. resolution
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The United States, Britain, France,
Netherlands, Malta, Zaire, Togo,
Pakistan and Jordan, voted for the
resolution. China, Zumbabwe,
s
Nicaragua, and Guyana abstained.
Soviet Union and Poland voted against.
THE THIRD BODY, in such condition
that even the sex could not be deter-
mined, was found near Monbetsu, on
the northeast coast of Hokkaido, 160
miles southeast of the area where the
Boeing 747 is believed to have crashe
d off the Soviet island of Sakhalin.
The police said 63 other items
believed to have come from the plane
were found yesterday, including a piece
of flesh believed to have been from a
human back that a salmon fisherman
found in his net.
Since Thursday, fishermen and police
have found the body of a child, the
faceless, limbless body of a Caucasian
woman, four other chunks- of human
flesh, the identification card of a 25-
year-old Canadian passenger, Mary
Jane Hendrie of Ottawa; the name card
of another passenger, Chang Ma-son of
Taiwan, and 467 other items, including
shoes, empty briefcases, blouses and a
child's windbreaker.
The remains have been sent to th
Asahigawa Medical College in centrals
Hokkaido for examination, police said.
MORE THAN 1,000 police combed
Hokkaido's northern beaches while 23
Japanese ships and nine planes carried
on a sea search hampered by 40-mph
gales. Ten Soviet ships, including the
8,200-ton guided missile cruiser
Petropavlovsk, a 12,000-ton oil drilling
ship, and three trawlers, were sear-
ching the waters off southwes
Sakhalin.
The International Federation of
Airline Pilots Associations said .a
separate, 60-day ban on air travel to the
Soviet Union by pilots of eight
European countries took effect yester-
day.
Students protest defense'
research with Diag vigil
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plied to weapons such as the Cruise
Missile.
Between sipping apple cider and
chasing wind-blown fliers PSN mem-
bers tried to 'persuade passers-by to
fight both deployment of U.S. missiles
Europe and University research which
helps develop thqse weapons.
MOST WHO stopped by seemed sym-
pathetic, including Michael Zipper, a
Residential College freshman who
decided to join after reading the
group's fliers tacked onto a burlap
wrapped easel.
"A University is a place for learning,
not for militarism," he said.,
More conservative Diag watchers,
such as engineering college sophomore
Jamie Melvin, kept their distance from
the group.
"Let's put it this way. I wouldn't sit
with them . . . there's nothing wrong*
with research, it's how you use it," he
said.
And LSA junior Steve Frazier, sit-
ting on the Graduate Library. steps,
said the groups sees the world through
rose-colored glasses.
"These guys here, I don't know if they
realize the world isn't peachy keen....
you've got to live with reality and
reality is that someone's going to shgot
down a plane with 269 people," he said,
referring to the Soviet downing of a
South Korean jumbo jet.
MIKLETHUN ;agreed that peace is
"a two-way street," but added, "more
responsibility lies in our hands than in
theirs (the Soviet Union). We've always
preceeded the Russians in new weapons
production by about five years."
PSN members say they plan to spend
3 hours per day over the next several
weeks handing out literature on the
Diag.
They hope to revive an issue that
seemed all but dead during the sum-
mer, when the University's Regents
rejected a proposal to restrict non-
classified research.
THE MAJORITY of the University's
defense-department research is non-
classified.
"After the Regents rejected the
guidelines there was a sense that the
issue was going to go away and we fel
we'd have to make it an issue," explaine
naturalresources school sophomore
Steve Austin.
Frustrated with their long effort to
workwithin the system, Austin said this
year "the attitude will be more
militant."
TOM MARX, who helped found the
group, said the Regents "don't really
give us much choice."
The guidelines wre supported by the'
faculty senate, the administration, an
PSN, so Marx said "if we do do civil
disobedience it won't be without notice.
That disobedience may be similar to
last spring's protest against budget
cuts at the University, when about w30
PSN members staged a 24-hour protest
in the administration building.
AND WHILE the group says it will
wait until it has had a chance "to
"educate" its new members, Miklethun
described the vigil as "in a sense of con-
frontational."
"We're sitting in the middle of the
University and saying this shouldn't go
on here," Miklethun said as he slam-
med his hand down on the Diag.
Iii keeping with Diag tradition, the
vigil attracted its share of colorful
characters. Ann Arbor resident Danny
Ashton, dressed in a red bandana,
fatigure jacket and sandals said it is
time to stop University research spons
sored by the Defense Department.
"I don't like it," he said, "and not
oply the Defense Department, but bus-
iness ... with all this computer science
thet-e's no more humanities, no more
history, there's no more nothing and I
don't fucking like it."
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