The provision, which exempted interstate highways

The provision, which exempted interstate highways and some thoroughfares that carry exceptionally heavy traffic flows, was at first deleted. It was later restored to render the bill meaningless. Hollandsworth was noncommittal about an attempt to write more comprehendable legislation. “We would go abbot providfn^hny input WiHOfe called upon for,” he said. ? < State Sen. Joseph Canada, R-Virginia Beach, introduced the bill and takes issue with the attorney general’s opinion. “I disagree. I think it is enforceable. But there’s no point in commenting on that now,” Canada said. Canada said the law requiring traffic to stay to the right lane except when passing was intended to make Virginia traffic laws consistent with those throughout most of the rest of the nation. “Most states have this in effect,” he said. Robins chief doesn’t know shield RICHMOND — E. Claiborne Robins Jr. says he knows very little, and has not tried to learn more, about the birth control device that is costing his company millions of dollars. In a sworn statement, the president of the A.H. Robins Co. said he has relied on the advice of a few key employees on matters involving the Daikon Shield intrauterine device. “I look to them for advice and for direction, depending on their expertise,” Robins said. “And I pretty well leave that type of thing up to them. And if they advise me that it was necessary to do whatever with the product at that time, they would.” The Richmond-based pharmaceutical firm already has paid more than $150 million to more than 8,000 women who claim they were injured by the Daikon Shield. The company projected in April that it would have to pay out at least an additional $615 million to the 4,700 women with pending lawsuits and the 8,000 women who are expected to file suit in the future. Robins said because of his management style, he did not ask a physician on the company’s medical staff whether a problem that led to a September 1980 letter to thousands of doctors nationwide was common to all intrauterine devices or was unique to the Daikon Shield. The lawyer for two women, Craig R. McClellan of San Diego, questioned Robins closely on that point during several parts of a daylong deposition session June 12. The company contended in the 1980 letter that the problem was common to all inert IUDs and the company continues to contend that the device was no more likely to cause iiyury than was any other IUD.

Spy might take stand NORFOLK — Convicted spy Arthur J. Walker will try to avoid the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison by testifying against his brother and other alleged spy ring members, his lawyer said. Walker, 50, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, was convicted Friday of seven counts of espionage for selling Navy secrets to the Soviet Union through his brother, John A. Walker Jr., the alleged mastermind of a spy ring. Officials have called the ring one of the most damaging in U.S. history. Arthur Walker faces up to three life terms plus 40 years and $40,000 in fines. Sentencing was set for Oct. 15 after defense attorney J. Brian Donnelly said he wanted to try to cut the sentence by cooperating with prosecutors. “I think Arthur will be willing to cooperate,” Donnelly ^aid. “He has nothing to hide at this point.” John Walker is scheduled for trial Oct. 28 in Baltimore. Also charged with espionage are John Walker’s son, Navy seaman Michael L. Walker, and associate, Jerry A. Whitworth of Davis, Calif. Arthur Walker, of Virginia Beach, confessed to FBI agents that he passed documents on Navy ship repair to his brother in 1981 and 1982 for $12,000. The documents were from VSE Corp., where Arthur Walker was an engineer. He was found guilty by U.S. District Court Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. after 10 minutes of consideration following a weeklong non-jury trial that defense attorneys contended might not have been necessary.