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rate From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON The govern ment has ignored its own warnings to improve defenses against spies, the Senate Intelligence Committee says in a report that comes as embassy security undergoes new scrutiny in the Felix S. Bloch espionage case. In unusually harsh language, the committee said "bureaucratic infight ing" has paralyzed the new Security Evaluation Office, established last year under CIA Director William Webster to bolster anti-spy efforts at U.S. embassies around the world. "It has failed to achieve its objec tives," the panel said in an assess ment written before last week's pub lic revelation that Bloch, once the No. 2 official at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, was under investigation for allegedly passing secrets to the So Book reveals costly Dukakis error From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Michael Dukakis walked off the stage after his final debate with George Bush and told a top aide, "I blew it," ac cording to a new book about the presi dential race. Dukakis knew he had committed a serious error by responding with out emotion to a question about the possibility of his wife being raped and killed, political columnists Jack Germond and Jules Witcover write investigation of DC-1 0 planes not necessary after llowa crash From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Transporta tion Secretary Samuel Skinner says DC-10 airliners are safe, and that there's no need for federal interven tion as a result of last week's crash in Sioux City, Iowa. Skinner said Tuesday that he based his decision on the record of the more than 400 triple-jet DC-10s in service. Its manufacturer, Douglas Aircraft, says DC-10s have flown 745 million passengers 7 billion miles over two decades. -r COB YOUR are - ft) JL- University Square Chapel Hill 967 See "Shoe" on August 31 crtncozes U.S. anti-spy viet Union. Ranking committee members had been informed of the Bloch case, absent his name, in late June. While the report deals mainly with technological efforts to thwart spying at U.S. posts abroad, it highlights the State Department's longstanding reputation among intelligence profes sionals for giving short shrift to se curity. The panel noted, for example, ; that the State Department has failed to create a top-level office for a di rector of diplomatic security, despite the administration's own recommen dation for such a position following a series of studies ending in 1987. But several former diplomats and counterintelligence officials said in interviews that the department has tried to improve anti-spy efforts. James Nolan, the recently retired in "Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presi dency 1988." Aides were baffled at Dukakis' fumbled answer because the Massa chusetts governor had rehearsed an effective answer to a soft-on-crime question 13 times during debate prepa rations. Advance copies of the book, pub lished by Warner Books, drew notice earlier mis month for critical com ments about Vice President Dan However, DC-10s have been in some of history's worst air disasters, including a 1979 Chicago crash that killed 275 people. That crash was blamed on a faulty maintenance pro cedure by American Airlines. Nothing in the plane's record in dicates it's either inherently unsafe or that "anything needs to be done that hasn't been done," Skinner said. If evidence is uncovered during the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the July 19 Iowa crash that killed 111 people that - AUUS ting w, - 8935 head of the department's Office of Foreign Missions and longtime dep uty FBI counterintelligence chief, said several FBI experts have been hired ty the department. And George A. Carver, Jr., who was deputy for national intelligence for two CIA directors, said "one of the toughest things to do is have counterintelligence in an open soci ety. I'm not suggesting we become a police state, but I think we do need to review our policies." Carver supports lie detector tests for foreign service officers, like those given regularly to intelligence officers. Since the "year of the spy" in 1985, when 12 Americans were arrested for spying, espionage cases have "not abated, either in terms of their num ber or their seriousness," the Senate committee said. Quayle attributed to Quayle's cam paign aides. President Bush said he was of fended by Republican advisors, quoted by Germond and Witcover, who called Quayle a "lightweight" and described him as having a childlike immatur ity. Dukakis' debate response, widely criticized at the time, was to a ques tion by moderator Bernard Shaw of CNN, who asked if he would favor the death penalty if his wife were indicates a problem, action will be taken, Skinner said. Investigators are focusing on evi dence that the tail engine of the United Airlines DC-10 blew up, disabling its hydraulic steering system. But they are still trying to determine what caused the explosive engine failure. The Federal Aviation Administra tion has the power to ground an air plane, as it did with the DC-10 after the 1979 crash. The In a bill authorizing intelligence activities for the two years beginning Oct. 1, the panel has mandated that the FBI be given primary responsi bility for investigating spying by anyone associated with the U.S. gov ernment. The move follows criticism of the Naval Investigative Service's initial investigation of reports that Marine security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow let Soviet agents roam the building after hours. But the document's recommenda tions also can be read as applicable to initial moves n the Bloch case, where the first interviews with him were conducted by State Department security officers. Bloch was suspended with pay and his State Department clearance lifted on June 22, but government sources raped and murdered. Germond and Witcover write that the three other journalists on the panel were told of Shaw's question in ad vance and tried unsuccessfully to talk him into softening it. Dukakis' response began:"No, I don't, Bernard. And I think you know I've opposed the death penalty all of my life. I don't see any evidence that it's a deterrent, and I think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. We've done so in my own state." Dukakis' answer was flat and bloodless, and it was remembered by voters because it "captured the candidate's most glaring vulnerabili ties," according to the book. The authors say Dukakis walked off the stage in Los Angeles and told top aide John Sasso, "I blew it." The book also describes the Bush campaign's successful focus on a handful of issues used to create nega tive feelings about Dukakis. Those issues included Dukakis' veto of a bill requiring students to say the pledge of allegiance, his sup port for a law allowing convicted murderers to be furloughed from prison and opposition to the death penalty. Always Cool, Always Healthful, Always Delicious! you Tar HeelThursday, July 27, 19893 efforts said he had been tipped earlier by the Soviet KGB spy agency that he was under surveillance. Soviet government spokesman Gennady Gerasimov, asked at a news briefing in Moscow today whether Bloch was ever connected to the KGB or other East bloc intelligence agency, said "that is pure speculation." Told by reporters that he could end the speculation, he said "the speculation has not been confirmed." Congressional intelligence offi cials, who declined to be identified by name, said Tuesday it is odd that the government has not yet been able to pull together enough information to arrest the diplomat. Ranking members of the congressional intel ligence committees typically are briefed about such cases only when an arrest is likely within hours or days. In the Bloch case, such brief ings took place roughly a month ago. The Senate committee last week cut the Bush administration's request for the Security Evaluation Office from $9 million to $4.5 million "be cause of lack of cooperation demon strated by both State Department and the intelligence community." The money will be restored if the organi zations can learn to work together, it said. The office was intended to as semble intelligence experts to evalu ate security "threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures," the commit tee said. But the State Department has failed to consult the office on embassy security, and intelligence officials have been unwilling to rec ognize legitimate department con cerns, the report said. The panel reserved its strongest language for a warning against trying to salvage the partially completed new U.S. Embassy building in Moscow, which is riddled with KGB listening devices the CIA still does not com pletely understand. President Reagan concluded the structure should be demolished, but the Bush administration is reconsid ering. "Reversing that decision would invite another security disaster and confirm signs that the executive branch is incapable of effective ac tion in this field," the committee said. 942-PUR3P 106 W. 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