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Restoration of the Statue of Liberty, scheduled for
completion next year in time to celebrate Miss Liberty’s
100th birthday, was so badly needed that some segments
of the statue will have to be replaced altogether. One such
fragment is the flame that leaps out of the torch held in
the statue’s right hand. It’s not a real flame, of course, but
a structure made of copper strippi
cathedral glass meant to resemble a L_
Gen. Markus Wolf, East Germany’s intelli-
gence chief, has had a remarkable career
spying on West Germany and gathering
the West’s high-tech secrets.
The world's top spy?
By Robert J. Wagman
(First of two related columns)
WASHINGTON (NEA) - To the
general public, he isn’t as well known
as James Bond or John Le Carre’s
mythical “Karla,’’ who many think
was modeled after him. But those in
intelligence circles regard Gen. Mar-
kus Johannes Wolf with the greatest
respect, and most consider him to be
the world’s top spy master
Wolf, 62, has been East Germany’s
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What the senators are mulling
over, for the fifth time in recent
cruitment of Heinz Felfe, who, in the years.ls whether to allow live televi-
late 1950s, headed West Germany’s «on coverage of Senate proceedings,
anti-Soviet counterintelligence arm. “ t*>e House has donc/?L^,€ Past
Felfe defected in 1961.
Until the latest scandal. Wolf’s
greatest achievement involved
Guenter Guillaume, who left East
Germany in 1956. After settling in the
West, Guillaume became active in the
Social Democratic politics and gradu-
The World Almanac’
DATE BOOK
terprise is inherent in a nationwide barnstorming tour.
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deserves to be treated as such. Keep the flame out of the
circus tent and leave it on Liberty Island, where it
belongs.
ood might result if the
Turks talked to each oth-
e Cambodians and Viet-
namese. And the Iraqis and Iranians
Stick and stones hurt but words?
CoprrigM. IMS. IM rattan tySaill Itt
shipped to East Geiinany. They had
been purchased in the United States by
agents working for East Germany. A
report by Bonn’s Interior Ministry
says that East Germany spends about
$3 million annually on economic espi-
onage, but reaps. |170 million in re-
search and development savings
Wolf, whose fondness for hunting
Gore not only believes the 10 per-
cent figure is more accurate, he feels
the Senate, by refusing to appear live
on the tube, has sacrificed prestige to
the House and the president
"In a democracy, perception af-
fects political power," he explained
to our reporter Diane Jacobs Gore
thinks that changes in senatorial be-
havior caused by “concern about
what the American people think"
would be all to the good
But many senators are wary of let-
ting their chamber fall into the parti-
san mudslinging that characterized
the snarling match between Speaker
Thomas P. O’Neill, D-Mass., and New
Right Republicans such as Reps
Newt Gingrich, Ga., and Robert
Walker, Pa. Nettled by their late-ses-
sion harangues, O’Neill had the cam-
eras pull back to show that the
speeches were being made to an al-
most-empty chamber.
House Tv coverage is still tightly
controlled by the speaker, through his
designated surrogate, Rep. Charlie
Rose, D-N.C. The Senate will have to
decide, if it chooses to allow TV cov-
erage, whether it will work out a sim-
ilar system of control, or abdicate its
authority to the networks.
One thing seems reasonably cer-
tain: If the Senate does decide after
all these years to let the television
cameras roll, the House will be
miffed. As one House staffer confid-
ed, the members have grown to like
being TV stars, and they have no de-
sire to share the limelight with 100
silver-tongued senators Can you
imagine what one good Senate filibds-
ter could do to the House's ratings'*
INTEREST-ING BATTLE Should
interest rates by held down or pushed
up? This question has provoked a
backstage battle between Treasury
Secretary James Baker and Federal
Reserve Board Chairman Paul
dependent counties ranges from one
half to three-fourths
• In those states, the price being of-
fered by local grain elevator opera
tors for a bushel of corn has declined
from more than 83 a year ago to “ “
oday. A bushel of soybeans that
•slightly more than 35 now
One cause of those disastrous prices
is an expected harvest of unprecedent COJ| of country’s farm
that, after the war, he was made polit- defected to the West. Stiller, then 31,
ical officer of a radio station in Ber-
lin’s Soviet section, where he covered
the Nuremberg war trials for the Sovi-
et press.
In 1949, when the German Demo-
cratic Republic (East Germany) was
founded, Wolf’s entire family resettled
in East Berlin. His father became
East Germany’s first ambassador to
Poland; his brother Konrad, a film di-
rector, became a member of the Com-
munist Party Central Committee.
Wolf himself joined the East German
diplomatic service and was assigned
to Moscow, where he • was closely
watched by Soviet higher-ups
When Moscow set up the Ministry
for State Security in East Germany,
Wolf was made the director of its In-
stitute of Economic Research. That
institute became the Hauptverwal-
tung Aufklarung (HVA), the East Ger-
man Intelligence Agency — and at 33,
Wolf was placed in charge of foreign
intelligence operations.
All of this is quite extraordinary,
since the Wolf family was Jewish and
few Jews have ascended to high posi-
tions in Eastern Bloc countries. The
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Involving America’s most powerful nu- Neighborhood: The local no-good,
clear weapon occurred nqgr Oamaa- Bumper stickers: Designer labels on
cue, Ark. I jeans.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Joseph Pss- TODAY'S TRIVIA ANSWER: (b) The Tl-
ternak (1901); Paul WIHIams (1922); Al fan II missile is America's most power-
Oerter (1936) ful nuclear weapon
Crisis of plenty
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years. He was born near Stuttgart to a top-level adviser with access to East German agents and caused 15 old Erich Mielke.
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a structure made of copper stripping and yellow
cathedral glass meant to resemble a name. It, along wth
other relics, will be placed in a.new museum to be opened
next May in the statue’s base.
But some boosters want the flame to be used first in a
nationwide fund-raising campaign to help raise the $230
million to pay for restoration of the statue and of neigh-
boring Ellis Island. They want the flame to make the
rounds of county fairs, amusement parks and various
civic functions. One problem with that is the flame is very
fragile; indeed, some of the glass parts broke off last
winter when the flame was taken to the Tournament of
Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. Officials of the National
Park Service are worried that much more travel could do
even worse damage.
They have a point, and it’s hard to see why the flame —
or any of the object worth preserving — is needed for such
a tour. More than two-thirds of the total needed for the
restoration project has already been raised, and the Ellis
Island renovation, which will consume some $200 million
of the total cost, isn’t scheduled for completion until 1992.
Moreover, in the unlikely event the campaign falls short,
the citizens of this country should be more than pleased to
step into the breach through a congressional ap-
propriation. (Indirectly, they already contribute, since
donations to the project are tax deductible.)
It’s not that the idea of raising the entire $230 million
privately was a bad one; in fact, that’s how the statue got
built in the first place. But some companies that bought
right to call themselves “official” purveyors during
s Liberty’s centennial celebration have exceeded the
bounds of good taste in their attempts to turn their
altruism into profits. The prospect for more such en-
terprise is inherent in a nationwide barnstorming tour.
The Statue of Liberty, is a national treasure and
BISMARCK, ND. (NEA) - With
the autumn harvest now well under-
way, the good new$ for fanners
throughout the Midwest is that they
will be reaping record-breaking har
vests of corn, wheat, soybeans, sor-
ghum and other crops.
The bad news, however, is that both
domestic and global surpluses are ac-
cumulating at an unmanageable rate,
. exports are plummeting and market
prices are collapsing
Last spring's spate of publicity
about the “farm crisis” has faded, but
the’ chronic problems in the nation's
agricultural economy have not
dissipated.
Here in North Dakota, for example,
grain fanners produce virtually all of
the country’s durum wheat, used pri-
marily to make pasta One year ago, a
bushel was selling at almost 34.60. To-
day the price is below 33.75.
Sunflower seeds, another major
North Dakota agricultural product,
sold at 312 per hundredweight at this
time last year, but now the price is
slumping toward 39 per
hundredweight
The impact of those depressed
prices is especially severe in this state
because the economy of three-fourths
of its counties is heavily dependent
upon agricultural income
But other major grain-producing
states hi the Midwest — including
South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas and Ne-
braska — also are adversely affected ^he
Each year there seems to be more involved in the
Hopkins County Fall Festival and this year has been no
exception. The show on the Civic Center grounds is now
down to its final weekend wrapim but there’s still plenty
on the schedule — in fact it’s the heaviest part of the
schedule upcoming.
, One special tip: Even if you don’t plan to purchase or
taste Hopkins County Stew around mid-day Saturday
following the annual World Championship judging, the
stew contest offers a unique visual attraction during the
morning hours. Many entrants not only strive to cook up
the best possible pot of stew but go with extra efforts to
make their cook sites attractive.
It’s a bonus offered during the contest and worthy of
attention by everyone. In fact, there are many attractions
at the Fall Festival that merit attendance for a wide
range of interests.
(meek it out.
ed size. This year’s com crop, for ex- modifies to other nations by more than
ample, is projected to total almost 50 percent since 1980 and forced those
8.27 billion bushels, eclipsing both the countries to increasingly look else-
1982 record of 8.24 billion bushels and where for their agricultural imports,
last year’s harvest of 7 66 billion The result: This country’s share of
bushels. the global agricultural market peaked
With the worldwide output of wheat at 40 percent in 1980, has slipped to 37
and coarse grains such as corn and percent and continues to slide.
sorghum likely to total almost 1.35 bil- Even a decline in the value of the £*ntMive\£^ supported
lion metric tons during the 1985-86 ag- dollar might not fully remedy the situ- decision to allow TV cove
ricultural year, global surpluses are ation, however. Argentina, Australia,
projected to soar to 241.6 million met- Brazil, Canada and other grain-ex-
ric tons at the end of that period — a porting nations have invested too
22 percent increase over the current much in agricultural expansion to al-_
•evels. low this country to readily recapture wouldn’t have~made without
That situation - coupled with the its former share of the market.
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people to borrow, which stimulates
the economy But low rates can also
fuel inflation, which cheapens the
value of the dollar Both Baker and
Volcker are shrewd political opera-
tors. Baker will try to keep interest
rates low enough to loosen the money
supply. Volcker will try to keep the
rates high enough to tighten the mon-
ey supply The battle is on
DUST IN OUR EYES’ Scientists
at the Environmental Protection
Agency won’t say the State Depart-
ment’s “spy dust" scare is a hoax, but
they do say the boys in Foggy Bottom
hyped it up a bit by claiming the Sovi-
et tracking chemical is a carcinogen
The chemical, called NPPD, is dusted
on U.S. diplomats' belongings and can
then be traced to dissidents' homes by
the KGB. The EPA experts say
NPPD is classed as a mutagen, which
means it “might” cause cancer — but
so might some 8.000 other chemical
mutagens found in ordinary house-
hold products Identifying those that
are definitely cancer-causing would
take millions of dollars and years of
research.
MINI-EDITORIAL We generally
don’t support “equal time" broad-
casting regulations, but we think
President Reagan may have inadver-
tently come up with a whale of an
idea when he bemoaned Soviet access
to the U.S. media and suggested be be
given the opportunity to address the
Russian people on television. Maybe
there ought to be an international
rule that every world leader be al-
lowed to address the body politic in
adversarial nations. Little harm and
a lot of
Greeks a
er. And'
technology — and he has apparently
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Last year, the U.S. Customs Service
. .. . . . _-. , , -------------was only narrowly able to avert a ma-
then at the special Komintern School, lesser man. In 1979, Werner Stiller, jor disaster by seizing several of the
He so impressed Soviet authorities one of Wolf’s most trusted proteges, latest U.S.-made computers in a Swed-
isn warehouse before they could be
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ladder. In 1973 he joined then-Chan- 7
°u tor, 30 ^•“®r Willy Brandt’s personal staff as His defection led to the arrest of 17 Security, replacing the ailing 78-year-
Jewish intellectual parents who were many of the deepest secrets of state’ others to flee ’
dedicated communists With Hitler s Fifteen months later, completely by In recent years on orders from
rise and the start of the Jewish perse- accident, he was exposed as an East Moscow, Wolf has focused on gather
cution, the family fled first to Switzer- German spy The revelation toppled ing secrets involving Western high
land and then to the Soviet Union be- the Brandt government. ; ■ -
fore the outbreak of World War II. One sign of Moscow’s high regard enjoyed his customary
Wolf, a brilliant student, was edu- for Wolf is the fact that he survived a ’ - - -
cated first at Moscow University and setback that would have torpedoed a
high value of the dollar in comparison
with other currencies — has decimat-
ed the export market, which this coun-
try’s farmers rely upon to sell approx-
imately one-fourth of the crops they
produce annually.
Agricultural exports this year are
expected to total 129 million metric
tons, the lowest level since 1977 when
they amounted only 112 million met-
competitors to undercut U.S. prices," ' 1O..
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l**cau^e proportion of J**,rJ*,as slashed its estimates of the value
of this year’s exports four times in the
past nine months
The most recent estimate is 333.5
billion, the lowest level since 1979
ir ago to 32.50 jjon an<j {ar be|ow the 1981 record of
, * that
fetched 86.35 a year ago brings only usdaYs
of those disastrous prices
many testify to the family’s dedicated
communist beliefs.
If there is such a thing as a “child-
prodigy spy master,” Markus Wolf
was one. He combined a sharp intelli-
gence with the ability to innovate
within a rigid totalitarian system. He
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Wolf’s first major coup, which JACK ANDERSON and JOSEPH Gore not only believes the 10 per- Volcker. Low interest encourages
quickly established his reputation, gpFAR ’ ... ...
was the 1954 defection of Otto John,
the first head of West German coun- WASHINGTON — A mighty televi-
terintelligence. John remained in East sion battle is building — but it’s not
Germany for two years and returned among the networks over the new
to West Germany in 1956, claiming season’s ratings. The arena is the U.S.
that he had been kidnapped The West Senate, whose members like to think
German government didn’t believe of themselves as the world’s greatest
him and tried him and sentenced him de}j£erat*Ye b°dy
to prison.
Wolf’s next major coup was the re-
late 1950s, headed West Germany’s «on coverage of Senate proceedings.
years. Proponents of TV coverage
have gained support since their last
defeat, and think they may have a
chance to win this time.
In fact, a recent poll by C-SPAN
(Cable Satellite Public Affairs Net-
work), which qends the House debates
to client stations around the country,
found that 62 senators would support
TV coverage in some form, while
only 18 would vote against it no mat-
ter what. The rest, as senators are
wont to do, hedged.
One of the fiercest opponents of
Senate TV coverage, Sen. Russell
Long, D-La., is retiring, but will still
be around to vote against the idea one
last time. His opposition is unflatter-
ing to his colleagues.
“Every senator with an inflated
ego or higher political aspirations
would always be tempted to take the
floor and make eloquent speeches,"
Long has predicted, adding that most
Senate floor speeches are “unin-
spired" to begin with. He presumably
doesn’t want to demean an institution
he loves by displaying its shortcom-
ings to a nationwide TV audience.
Sen. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn.,
doesn’t necessarily disagree with
Long’s prediction, but he doesn’t
agree that changed behavior by sena-
tors would be a bad thing As a repre-
1 the House’s
. coverage.
In a survey taken shortly after the
House allowed the cameras in, 77 per-
cent of the members thought col-
leagues were making s;>whes thev
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while only 10 percent admitted mak
ing such speeches themselves.
TODAY’S QUOTE: "Unconditional war
can no longer lead to unconditional vic-
tory." — John F. Kennedy (1961).
TODAY’S MOON: Between
new moon (Sept 14) and fl )
first quarter (Sept 21).
TODAY’S TRIVIA: What Is the'hame'o ’
summer. 1 America's most powerful nuclear
TODAY’S HISTORY: On this day in weapon?
(a) MX missile (b) Titan II missile (c)
ar test was conducted nuclear testing SS-20 missile
when exports were valued at 832 bil- 23 years later’ the third major accident BY PHIL PASTORET:
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