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WORLD Soviet spies at U.N. LONDON ? At least half the 300 Soviets employed by the United Nations are spies and one is a special assistant to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, said former Soviet U.N. official Arkady Shevchenko, who defected last year. "There is a saying that they consider the U.N. the tallest observation tower in the Western world for intelligence activity," said Shcevchenko, who left his post as under-secretary-general for political and security affairs in April 1978 for U.S. asylum. A special assistant to Waldheim is an officer of the KfJR th<* Sovipt swrpt nnlirp Shpvphpnkn sniH Monday on the British Broadcasting Corp. morning television show "Panorama." BBC said it could identify only one Soviet special assistant to Waldheim, Victor Lessiovski. He was not available for comment at U.N. headquarters in New York. "They consider it as the best place for the propaganda, and later discover that it's one of the best nloOAr f A?? I AO nn/1 nrkfi*nll?t f V*/\ IUI uicii uuciiigcnv,c a\.uviuco, auu av.iuaiij uic U.N. has become one of the most important bases for the KGB or GRU," he added. GRU is Soviet Military Intelligence. Jackson heads meetings TEL AVIV, Israel ? The Rev. Jesse Jackson headed into another round of political meetings yesterday after the Israelis shot down his call for recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization and four Syrian jets over Lebanon. Jackson and his 15 member group had meetings scheduled with Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, opposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres, and political leaders in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. The American black activist leader arrived Monday and told Kollek and former Israeli U.N. Ambassador Simha Dinitz that Israel should ''relieve America of its gag policy and recognize the PLO." Dinitz called the PLO "the enemy of the peace process" and said, "Every person in Israel has lost a relative in either the Nazi holocaust or the Arab i A 1 A iL 1 - A. _ _? uuiucaubi. /\iiu you wain uiese people 10 snow tolerance?" Syrian planes down BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Israeli warplanes, including the advanced American-made F-15, battled with t Syrian jets in the skies south of Beirut Monday, and two to four Syrian MIGs were reported shot down. Lebanese government sources said two Syrian jets i crashed in flames near Beirut International Airport but their pilots parachuted to safety. An Israeli military command spokesman in Tel Aviv said four Syrian MIG-21s were downed and all Israeli aircraft returned safely to base. [ It was the second dogfight between the lod enemies [ in four days, and came at a time when the United States and other countries are growing increasingly critical of Israeli military actions in Lebanon. Israel vows to continue its policy of striking at Palestinian guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon. I MS Parking Problems? s*. ' .; Someone obviously had a hard time finding a parking space Monday. But U/flC flA MU/AW? ' ' ' - " mSKm \ ^ V. :*: / * '' ,,::iv/^/.''.;,;. -,-r :.%>.; ;$ :* :-W?&' ' \ liiiiirimiiii i n NHTION Recruiting scandal exposed FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. ? Unwritten rules of corruption have been followed for years within the Army's recruiting command in a high-pressure scramble for bodies to send into the all-volunteer Army, four accused recruiters said. The recruiters, all relieved of duty and three facing court-martials in a nationwide recruiting scandal, said that getting copies of entrance exams to help enlistees cheat in the Army's Charlotte recruiting district was as easy as opening one's mail. "They mainly come in the mail," said one of the four. Or, he said, a veteran of the system takes a new recruiter "to the side and slips him one." Copies of the tests are not supposed to be available to recruiters. The four made the remarks in an interview with The Fayetteville Observer. All agreed to the interview, set up by their Fayetteville attorney, Mark Waple, on the condition that their names not be used. To fulfil enlistment quotas, they said, recruiters frequently give enlistees test answers, isssue forged Social Security cards and IRS forms and lie on paper about a prospective recruit's educational qualifications. Inmates to be freed MONTGOMERY, Ala. ? A federal judge has ordered the release of 55 inmates from the Montgomery County Jail to relieve court prohibited overcrowding in the facility. U.S. District Judge Robert Varner, in ordering the mass release of prisoners, said a special committee would be established to determine those inmates "most deserving of release." Varner noted that a federal court order in December 1Q77 fivp>H 190 as the number of inmates the Mon tgomery County Jail could legally house. He was informed last Friday that the jail, at that time, housed 175 inmates. Varner said in his order that it was44 this court's duty to fashion such relief as is essential to protect the constitutional rights of all persons before the court." The ban on overcrowding was based on arguments that inmates' rights were infringed by crowded jail conditions. Preemie doing well NORFOLK, Va. ? Against all odds, Vernetta Shemeika Johnson, born weighing only a single pound, has clung to life for 12 days at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. Vernetta, a twin born three months prematurely Sept. 12 in nearby Suffolk, is the smallest baby ever treated at the Norfolk hospital. Her twin died, and doctors at first thought the girl's chance for survival were so slim that they discouraged a request to have her transferred to the Hospital's sophisticated neonatal intensive care unit. Doctors normally do not try to save infants of her 1 ?.2 i - .... - yi'Ztt, kiwi neonatai specialists elsewhere in the state said they knew of no baby that small living for more than a few hours. B*V1 ytej- --- ^8s BW| Hp^wRi| ro pB jpBj R^SahUBHh IBffiM ^Bb H w? Lm ? wH a i n k Kennedy backers unite COLUMBIA ? Supporters of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy have begun forming a South Carolina campaign organization in the event that the Massachusetts Democrat announces he will seek the presidency, a local Kennedy backer said. "What we're trying to do right now is put together some kind of strong statewide committee," Rick Silver, who is heading up the drive, said last week. Silver is a partner in the public relations and lob Dying firm of Cnernoff, Silver, ana Associates. Marvin Chernoff, who is Silver's partner, managed Charles D. Ravenel's unsuccessful campaigns for governor and the U.S. Senate. He said the Kennedy committee is looking for individuals, including a campaign manager, to fill key positions. Kennedy will get most of his support from young people and blacks, according to Silver, adding that, "mere win De some party officials and elected officials coming out strongly for him." Telephone threats made CHARLESTON ? Minutes after the Rev. Omega Newman finished a televised speech on crime, his wife received an anonymous telephone call that he would be assassinated Wednesday. Newman, vice president of the Charleston Ministerial Alliance, said the call came at 6:02 D.m. Saturday. He had been speaking on racism and crime committed by blacks on black victims. He said he reported the threat and two later ones to the Charleston County Police. He has been threatened before, he said, but "this one seems a bit more serious." Newman attributed the crime largely to "white racism and black elitism," and he said he couldn't see anything in his speech that merited a death threat. Coupons big business COLUMBIA ? Cheryl Pevehouse visited the neighborhood grocery last week just like most other folks. But unlike others, she paid $2.55 cash for $11.95 worth of groceries ? and mailed in coupons to food companies that will bring her an additional $9 in cash or product refunds. Her net showing for the brief shopping visit: $6.45 profit. For Cheryl Pevehouse, bringing home the bacon ? and the bananas, shortening, spaghetti sauce and hamburger ? for nothing has become a consumer's obsession. She's part of a select group of shoppers who have discovered that by diligently clipping newspaper and magazine coupons, scraping labels off cans, filing box tops from detergents and cereals, mailing refund offers to giant food compaies ? and swapping their "trash" with others ? they can make a lot of money. "There's enough offers out that if you took advantage of everv one. which would be hard to do von ^ | could make $8,000 a year plus your free groceries," -tfjjjfr WW ISLi^i ?B&i fjf ^^b I iBB SB _J^tM-M- ' tz^mm .<J?i^. ^ I