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DETROIT FREE PRESSTUESDAY, NOV. 26, 1985 13A Drivers slow down, avert loss of federal aid, state says SPEED, from Page 1A ting up monitoring stations on secondary 55-mile-an-hour roads where drivers generally go slower than on freeways during the second half of the survey period. But David Merchant, Michigan division administrator for the Federal Highway Administration, said Monday that the monitoring of those roads by itself would not have brought the state into compliance with the speed limit for the year. "That would not and could not be the reason," Merchant said. "There's a statistical method in selection of the roads nearly a million cars passing 44 checkpoints throughout the state, on all types of highways, to calculate compliance with the national speed limit.

Nearly 85 percent of motorists on rural interstate highways violated the limit, driving an average speed of 63 m.p.h. On major rural highways not part of the interstate system, the average speed was 53 m.p.h., and fewer than 42 percent of drivers on those highways exceeded the speed limit. The average speed on urban, non-interstate freeways was 60 m.p.h. From mid-August to mid-October, State Police said, troopers doubled the amount of time they spent on speed enforcement, including aerial surveillance of major highways, extra patrols in unmarked cars, and a greater use of electronic devices to foil "fuzzbuster" radar detectors used by drivers. "We're hoping public awareness of this issue will maintain itself for some time to come," said Maj.

Michael Anderson, commander of the State Police uniformed service division. "Every time we have to concentrate on any single law enforcement issue, it diminishes our strength in dealing with other issues." "We sounded the alarm," James Pitz said. "We would have been subject to sanctions." (for speed checks). You just can't slide roads in willy-nilly to doctor up the results." THE STATE Transportation Department monitored Escapee arrested, faces new charges PIPER, from Page 1A prosecutor's office and the courthouse under former Sheriff Robert Blevins. AT AGE 17, Piper was sentenced to life in prison by the late Kent County Circuit Judge Claude Vanden Ploeg for the Security specialist arrested in sale of i i secrets to Soviets I VtTf XA ni in i fe'Ll hr-Z2 -v "i ST March 10, 1966, rape and attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl who said she had known Piper since they were toddlers.

The girl was raped in a car, stabbed in the back, choked into unconsciousness, dragged to a wooded area and beaten severely with a tire iron. The parole board has denied Piper parole each time it has come up for consideration since 1976. He escaped Dec. 18, 1983, six days after his parole was denied again. Piper 7-- zliiz' vvir II fir Blevins described Piper shortly after his escape as "a sincere, trustworthy and dependable individual," and added: "There is no doubt that what that young man did when he was 17, 18 years old was a terribly, terribly heinous crime.

But a lot of things can happen to a man in 18 years." Piper left Blevins the keys to the prisoners' petty cash drawer and a note that said, "I've done everything I can think of to get a parole, but I guess the parole board doesn't really care A Free Press story published Jan. 8 described the suffering both Piper and his victim, now 36, had endured since the assault. The victim, who called the Free Press Monday to report that Piper had been arrested, said the writer "made a terrific story but, boy, you hurt a lot of people." Since Piper's escape, the victim said, she has changed her name and moved out of Michigan. The woman, whose jaw had to be surgically reconstructed, said, "There's some foods I can't even eat because I can't bite into them." But, she said, the emotional scars are worse. "There's been a lot of times I wished he had done a better job," she said.

Sawyer said the victim was "deathly scared" after Piper's escape, Sawyer said Piper likely will be formally arraigned on criminal sexual conduct and robbery charges Wednesday. Piper also faces a felony escape charge in Lake County. AP Photo Sorting through the ruins A west Beirut grocery store owner pushes a wheelbarrow piled with rubble Monday from his still smoldering store. It was shelled during five days of fighting between Muslim militias, after which many Beirut residents straggled out of shelters and basements to find many of their streets in ruins. SPY, from Page 1A charges in the last five days.

Pelton admitted receiving cash from the Soviet agent on several occasions, including a $15,000 payoff in Vienna in January 1983, according to the affidavit. Fred Bennett, Pelton's court-appointed lawyer, said his client's FBI statement should not be characterized as a confession. "There are a number of potential defenses," Bennett said. THE FBI AFFIDAVIT said Pelton went to the Soviet Embassy in Washington in January 1980 to offer to spy for the Soviets. On that occasion, the FBI said, he provided information about "a United States intelligence collection project targeted at the Soviet Union." Pelton had serious financial troubles at about the time he allegedly decided to begin his espionage activities, having filed for bankruptcy in April 1979, the affidavit said.

The former NSA employe said his spy trips continued through this year, Ghanaian free in spy swap; details murky SWAP, from Page 1A closed hearing last week in U.S. District Court in nearby Alexandria, to two counts under the espionage act, each of which carried a maximum 10-year penalty. On Monday, Soussoudis was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but the sentence was reduced by U.S. District Judge Richard Williams to time served, and Soussoudis was turned over to the Ghanaian ambassador. In return, approximately 10 Ghanaians and their families were flown to an unidentified African nation that had co-operated with the Justice Department in arranging the swap.

Russell would say only that the Ghanaians were "of interest to the United States." Also Monday, Soussoudis' co-defendant, Sharon Scranage, 29, a former clerk. at the CIA station in Accra, Ghana, was sentenced by Judge Williams to five years in prison for her role in the spy affair. She pleaded guilty to sharing CIA secrets, including the identities of informants, with Soussoudis. The names of those allowed to leave Ghana were not immediately available. However, the swap may involve some or all of the four persons convicted in Ghana over the past two weeks of spying for the CIA.

Stephen Balfour Ofosu-Addo, a former chief superintendent of police, was convicted of giving Ghanaian secrets to the CIA and arranging taps on the telephones of diplomatic missions and high-level Ghanaian officials. He had been sentenced to life in prison. Robert Yaw Appiah, a technician with the Ghanaian Post and Telecommunications Corp. was sentenced to 22 years. Theodore Atiedu, an inspector in the Ghanaian intelligence service, was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor, and Felix Peasah, a former employe of a now-defunct Ghanaian intelligence agency, was sentenced to life in prison.

and that he made a trip to Vienna as recently as last April to meet with a Soviet contact, according to the affidavit. According to the court documents, Pelton failed to meet that contact in Vienna and was asked to make another trip in October. The affidavit does not contain any evidence that he made the October trip. Pelton, 44, an Annapolis yacht salesman who listed a home address in Washington, D.C., appeared briefly Monday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Daniel Klein Jr.

in Baltimore. Klein ordered him held until a detention hearing Wednesday, when bail would be set. Pelton did not enter a plea to the charge of conspiracy under a federal statute prohibiting the gathering of U.S. defense information for a foreign government. A conviction could carry life sentence.

Pelton said his sole asset is a 1979 Lincoln, and that he earns $2,400 a month. THE COURT DOCUMENTS indicate Pelton did not start delivering secrets to the Soviets until after he left NSA. Although the documents were classified "extremely sensitive," the affidavit states that the Soviets received only dated information Pelton learned during his government service. The government said Pelton admitted taking his first trip to Vienna in October 1980 and made a second trip there in 1983. On each occasion, the FBI said, Pelton spent three to four days there and was housed at the apartment of the Soviet ambassador to Austria, located within the Soviet embassy compound.

The government said that on both occasions, Pelton spent about eight hours a day in debriefing sessions with Slavnov, providing written answers to written questions. During those debriefing sessions, the affidavit said, "He was questioned about practically every area of sensitive information to which he had access through his employment at NSA." WHEN EMPLOYED by NSA, Pelton possessed top-secret clearance with special access to signals intelligence. NSA records indicate that Pelton in 1978 wrote a classified document concerning technical information about the Soviet Union. The FBI did not describe that document, but it said the NSA confirmed the document related to the U.S. defense.

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