European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. October 1986 the stars and stripes Singlaub cites backing for Contra efforts Washington a retired maj. Gen. John k. Singlaub. A key nicaraguan rebel Backer during a congressional ban on official . Support says he regularly informed inc Cia and the White House about his activities and received encouragement. I made a Point of gelling word to inc White House and to the Agency Singlaub said in an interview broadcast sunday night on cd St s "60  they saw Whai we were doing and from Lime to Lime i would gel a Good Job. Jack appreciate whal you re doing.1 " Singlaub whose army career ended in 1979 after he publicly criticized president Carter s plan to reduce . Forces in South Korea emerged As a cd neral figure supporting the nicaraguan Contra rebels after con Gress Cut n t Central intelligence Agency funding in 1984. While Congress barred official . Assistance to the rebels fighting Nicaragua s leftist government sing Laub spearheaded fund raising drives for the contras and helped them buy weapons outside the United states. The associated press and other news organizations have reported that the while House used Singlaub and other intermediaries to secretly manage the support network and thus circumvent congressional restrictions. Administration officials have dented that hey violated the ban. This past summer Congress reversed itself and approved Reagan s request 10 resume military Aid to the contras. The $100 million assistance package is sex peeled to win final passage within the next week As part of an omnibus spending Bill. In the "60 minutes interview Singlaub accepts a questioner s  of him As Ronald Rea Gan s secret weapon to sidestep Congress and As someone who is almost subverting the will of he Congress up to  thai s True Singlaub said. But inc foreign policy by our Constitution is to be made by inc president not by the  critics however have questioned whether sing Taub s activities violated the neutrality act which bars americans from supporting attacks on a nation the United states is not at War with. Singlaub who served in the Cia in Asia and in the Agency s forerunner during world War ii said his pro Contra activities have been helped by longstanding relationships with lop intelligence officials including his one time Case officer. Cia director William j. Casey Casey has indicated approval and he has been encouraging Singlaub said. He introduces me to the people that need to have the detailed information. So he s been cooperative and sees me when i come into town on Short  Singlaub also acknowledged that the private organization he headed for two years the world Anli communist league had harboured nazis anti semites and death squad members but he insisted that those extremists were purged. Worst in history Black smoke Billows from a building in Bartlesville Otla As flood ters keep firefighters from teaching he Structure which burned to the water line. Cor. George nigh in a news con Ference before nuking a helicopter tour of the afflicted area called the floods the worst in inc state s history. 3 killed in collision of 2 private planes Goldsboro . Up two Small private planes collided and crashed to the ground near the Goldsboro Wayne municipal Airport killing the three peo ple aboard them authorities said. A Cessna 182 and Piper j3 cub were preparing to land at about 11 30 . When they collided in the air. They crashed about 200 feet Short of the run Way Airport manager Curtis Waddell said. There were no injuries or damage on the ground. Witnesses said the Cessna was flying above the Piper and As the two planes turned into their final approaches descended and hit the Piper. This is an uncontrolled Airport meaning there was no lower Federal aviation administration spokesman Fred Farrar said in Washington. They wen.1 flying visual flight rules and were responsible for staying away from each  the dead were identified As Beaufort Longwith is the Pilot of the Cessna and Herb unwell 57, and Roger reason. J7, who were in the i Iper. Longwill was returning from a trip to ashes Mac. Howell and reason were believed to be on a local flying Outing Waddell said. The Faa sent a team to  the collision. Post editor apologizes offer racism complaints Washington up the executive editor of the Washington Post apologized sunday to anyone offended by the first Issue of the paper s new mag Azine which contained iwo articles that inc City s Black leaders called racist. Benjamin Farad Lee in an article printed opposite the Post s sunday editorial Page said he wanted to explain the Ori gins and Content of the first Issue of the new Washington Posi Magazine and to apologize for the offence thai two articles in that first Issue plainly if inadvertently gave to certain segments of our  the first Issue of the newspaper s Sun Day Magazine redesigned in a multimillion Dollar makeover debuted sept. 7 with a cover Story on a Young Black rap Singer charged with a drug related Mur Der. Also in thai Issue was a piece by Post columnist Richard Cohen who sided with City jewelry store owners who refuse to allow Young Black men to enter their shops because of a fear of crime. Within Days of the first Issue Black Community and religious leaders calling themselves the Washington Post recall committee charged the newspaper with racism. They have since staged weekly rallies to pile thousands of copies of the Magazine on the Steps of the newspaper building. Bradyce wrote that an article about vice president George Bush had been planned for the first cover Story but Bush s schedule forced a postponement of an interview. The Bush cover Story appeared last week two other full length stories a humor piece about the Beltway and a Story about a Pennsylvania congressman ran in the first Issue but did not seem suitable for the cover Bradlee wrote. Nor in sober second thought docs murder drugs and inc rap Star " he wrote referring to the headline for the first cover Story. Tradlec noted that anger among some Blacks was exacerbated by a total absence of Blacks in advertisements in the Magazine. Past officials have said they would in clude Black models in Magazine ads and one featuring Black models appeared in sunday s Magazine. Poisonous fumes from speed1 factory kill 3 los Angeles up three people who were killed by poisonous fumes from a makeshift illegal drug factory apparently did not realize How dangerous their operation was police said Christopher Richard Smith 27. And Lisa Ann Cross 20. Were found dead sunday morning at Smith s House in the Van Guys Section of the san Fernando Valley police sgt Craig Rungaitis said. Smith s brother David 20. Of Vista in san Diego county died in route to a nearby Hospital. Al the House detectives found several barrels of combined chemicals apparently left to Cool overnight As part of the process to make  known on the Street As  detective Roy Wonderlich said police found a Large Glass Jug on the stove with tubes made from plastic Garden Hose attached to the top. He said the toxic fumes were released when hot Hydroid in acid passed through the plastic tubes melted them and combined the chemicals to produce the poisonous Gas. Wonderlich said both Brothers were apparently Awak ened by the fumes bul could not Slop the process in Lime. Police said there were enough chemicals to make two or three pounds of