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Msoriie convicted of sjpyimi "'1 a Lonetree also resisted Yefimov's suggestion that he provide the names of Marines who could be exploited because of alcohol, drug problems or homosexuality, and instead gave the name of a Marine who was a born-again Christian and a recovering alcoholic. Lonetree allegedly turned over CIA identities and Moscow and Vienna embassy floor plans. But the defense said that was information the Soviets probably had already. However, Beck said the confessions, made last December in London to agents of the Naval Investigative Service, showed Lonetree knew what he was doing when he allegedly became involved in spying through his love affair with Sanni. Beck also said a high school notebook in which Lonetree drew swastikas and wrote "Hitler lives," as well as testimony from witnesses who said Lonetree was obsessed with the Soviets and collected Soviet paraphernalia in his room, showed the Marine held anti-American views.

value to the Soviets but gave them non-vital secrets so he could string them along as a free-lance double agent. "To become a double agent, you must first become a spy," the prosecutor, Marine Maj. David L. Beck, told the jury. He said Lonetree sold out "to a nation that has since the 1950s declared our nation to be public enemy No.

1." The judge, Navy Capt. Philip F. Roberts, turned down a motion for a mistrial as well as requests to have the 13 charges against Lonetree reduced. Defense attorney William Kunstler attacked two sworn confessions by Lonetree, saying the prosecution referred only to the parts that benefited the government's case. For example, in addition to describing Lonetree's contacts with Soviet agent Alek-siy Yefimov and the translator, Violetta Sanni, the confessions say that Lonetree tried to blackmail Yefimov by hiring a woman to seduce him in Austria.

"You can't look at a person in a vacuum," Beck said. "You can't look at actions in a vacuum. You have to look at the whole picture, the whole man. This picture of this whole man indicates: Traitor to his country." Reporters watched the trial on a television hookup. The government turned off the television when material that might damage national security was discussed, and parts of the final arguments were censored.

Lonetree's court-martial began on July 22 and included seven days of trial teoiimony by 32 witnesses called by the prosecution. Courts-martial were pending for two other former Moscow Embassy guards, Staff Sgt. Robert Stufflebeam and Sgt. Kenneth J. Kel-liher, who face lesser charges than Lonetree in the embassy spy investigation.

The most serious allegations against Lonetree, that he escorted KGB agents through secure areas of the Moscow embassy, were dropped. By DIRK BEVERIDGE Associated Press QUANTICO, Va. Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted Friday of passing secrets to the KGB after he fell in love with a Soviet woman while a guard at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

He faces life in prison on the 13 counts, but defense lawyers have indicated they will appeal. After nearly four hours of deliberation, the eight Marine officers on the jury agreed by at least a two-thirds vote with the prosecution's contention that Lonetree passed secrets to the KGB. The jury is scheduled to pass sentence Monday. The charges included espionage, conspiracy to commit espionage, failure to report contacts and disclosing identities of CIA agents. The defense, without calling a witness, contended that Lonetree disclosed nothing of Sgt.

Clayton Lonetree Owner aghast as truck is stolen in front of police Saudis may offer support Stance on U.S. jets reportedly easing By TED CADDELL and ROBERT ENGLER III Staff reporters About 11 Friday morning, Arthur Maurice Miles found himself in urgent need of transportation. So he walked into a small office on Owls Nest Road, authorities say, and approached William T. Duncan. Duncan, a 27-year-old advertising and promotions supervisor for Weight Watchers of Delmarva, recalls the conversation: "You gotta help me.

I'm being chased by the police. Let me have your car keys," Miles said. Duncan, who had never seen Miles before, stood up and said, "What?" Miles said, "Give me the car keys, hurry up." Miles "didn't look like he was being pursued," Duncan said. "He was acting very casually, talking in a tone of voice like he really wanted me to help him as a friend." A few minutes later, Duncan watched helplessly as Miles drove away in his dump truck while a jf I. MMMiinanf Wj'-T -r Staff photo by Fred Comegys William Duncan surveys his car after its front end was rammed by fugitive Arthur Miles.

Arthur Miles Wilmington police officer stood by, gun drawn. Friday night Duncan was still wondering what happened. "Why didn't the cop do something more than just yell at him with a gun in his hand?" he asked. But a Wilmington police spokesman said the circumstances never called for the officer to fire, either at the suspect or the truck. "We night.

So was Duncan's dump truck. About 30 minutes earlier, Wilmington Detective Philip Saggione By JOHN M. GOSHKO and R. JEFFREY SMITH The Washington Post WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia, further easing its reluctance about close military ties with the United States, has agreed to provide expanded landing rights and refueling support for U.S. aircraft engaged in Persian Gulf military operations, U.S.

officials and diplomatic sources said Friday. Some sources also said Kuwait, formerly the strongest opponent among Arab states of superpower military involvement in the gulf, has offered refueling aid for U.S. planes involved in the Navy escort of "reflagged" Kuwaiti tankers. But other sources doubted that understandings have been reached. As described by the sources, the understanding with Saudi Arabia would go beyond the arrangement under which four U.S.

advanced radar-surveillance planes and three aerial tankers have operated from Riyadh since 1980. The sources said the Saudis, previously unwilling to extend landing rights to U.S. combat planes, will allow carrier-based jets and antisubmarine planes to land for refueling under what was called "emergency" or "in case of need" conditions. The sources said the circumstances under which the ban on combat aircraft will be relaxed are being kept vague. One official said the rules would be dictated by "operational situations" the planes might face if they become involved in emergencies.

The situation is "more accurately described as an 'understanding' rather than a concrete agreement one U.S. official said. "If one See SAUDIS A6 don't shoot people that are running away from us," said Sgt. William E. Jennings.

Miles, an escapee from a prison work-release center and a suspect in a string of purse snatchings this week, was still missing Friday (90 iidu bjjuilcu miles in a ten uccu Fourth and Jackson streets. Sag-When Miles, 35, told Duncan he gione knew Miles was wanted for was being chased, he wasn't kidding. See OWNER -A6 Contra leaders back Central American peace plan with Duarte, Contra leaders said they are not for the moment considering laying down their guns or renouncing armed warfare as a means to power, as Duarte has asked the Salvadoran guerrillas to do. "We were forced to take up the path of war because there is not democracy in Nicaragua," said Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, one of six top Nicaraguan Resistance leaders. "The situation in Nicaragua is completely different from the democracy that exists in El Salvador." See CONTRA LEADERS A6 By JULIA PRESTON The Washington Post SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Nicaraguan rebel leaders, after a five-hour meeting with Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, Friday formally accepted for the first time a peace plan signed by the five Central American presidents.

However, Duarte and the U.S.-backed Nic-araguan rebels, known as Contras, emerged from their meeting to give differing interpretations of what Friday's move means. In his first lengthy interview since the presidents' meeting in Guatemala City, Duarte level" on Sept. 15 in Managua with the Nicaraguan government to discuss the cease-fire mandated by the accord signed in Guatemala on Aug. 7. Their document warned: "We want peace but not at the expense of our freedom." The leftist Sandinista government has repeatedly refused to meet with the Contras, saying they are a creature of Washington and only Washington can negotiate seriously about the fighting in Nicaragua.

No comment was available Friday from Managua. In a news conference after the meeting said late Friday the request he made to the Contras was "exactly the same" as the request he made to El Salvador's leftist guerrillas in a speech last week. He said he called on the Contras to prepare to lay down their arms in a cease-fire and join the political process in their country starting Nov. 7, if the Nicaraguan government carries out its obligations as well. In a brief statement, the leaders of the Nicaraguan Resistance, the main Contra alliance, said, "We accept in good faith the peace plan," with no other qualifications.

They called for a meeting "at the highest Court puts Tina Coverdale to rest after 2V2 years argued that night, and King told police that Tina drove east on Delaware 299 when she left. On July 4, 1986, members of the state police dive team were combing the Smyrna River to find a car that had failed, to make the curve onto Flemings Landing Bridge. The occupants of that car swam to safety, but divers found two more cars containing the decomposed remains of three people. One of the cars was a 1981 maroon Mustang. Detectives traced the vehicle to Coverdale.

Police believe she missed the curve onto Flemings Landing Bridge anJ drove into the river. In an interview with the News-Journal See COURT A6 Hutchison Funeral Home in Middletown. Burial will be private. Tina Coverdale, 21, was last seen on March 16, 1985, when she dropped off her boyfriend, Brian King, at a trailer park on Delaware 299 about 15 miles from Flemings Landing. Police and her father, John W.

Coverdale said the couple had river's muddy bottom. Last week, Chancery Court ruled that Tina Coverdale was presumed to have died in the river in March 1985, and that bone fragments found in her car in July 1986 presumably were hers. The ruling means Tina Maria Cover-dale can finally be put to rest. Memorial services for Coverdale are scheduled for today at 1 p.m. at Daniels By SUE DENNY Staff reporter It's been almost 2lj years since Tina Marie Coverdale, driving down Delaware 9, missed the sharp curve onto Flemings Landing Bridge and plunged into the Smyrna River.

And it's been more than 13 months since her maroon Mustang, containing human remains, was pulled from the ii A km i.