European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday october 12,1986 Bush aide denies claim of Contra Washington a vice presi Dent George Bush s National Security adviser denied on saturday that Bush s of fice has played a surreptitious role in coordinating missions 10 Terry War sup plies to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Neither the vice president nor i coordinated operations in Central America the aide Donald Gregg said in a Tele phone interview. Published reports have said Gregg had recommended that a cuban american known As Max Gomez be put in a Posi Tion to coordinate Supply flights such As the one thai was brought Down by a nicaraguan missile last sunday. Other re ports said Bush had Given encourage ment to Gomez. Gomez who is also know As Felix Rodiguez is a Veteran of the ill rated Cia sponsored Bay of pigs invasion of Cuba. Gregg is a retired executive of the Cia and Bush directed the Cia in the Ford quake from Page 1 administration in 1976 and 1977. A third former Cia official Nestor d. Sanchex Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for inter american affairs has been linked by a sources to the arms flights. They cited a report prepared by an International arms dealer which said Gomez was placed in Al Salvador by Nestor Sanchez and Don Gregg of the vice president s office. He Gomez jays he has daily Contact with the vice presi Dent s  Sanchez did not return a reporter s Call saturday. Eugene Hasenfus an american Cap tured in Nicaragua after the arms Laden plane was brought Down told a. News conference in the nicaraguan capital of Managua thursday that Gomez and an other cuban american work for the Cia and did most of the coordination for the flights College football scores /urfwca40,Niyo autumn Vin Dettt Coto to 17, warn 1j the los Angeles times said saturday that Gomez had told associates that he reported to Bush a bit role m head of the Contra air Supply operation. The Washington Pott quoted sources As saying that Bush acknowledged meet ing Gomez once or twice and expressing approval of his efforts to help the con tra at the Summit conference in Reykjavik Iceland Whit House spokesman Larry Speaks said he knew nothing about whether Bush and Gomez had  a television interview saturday assistant Secretary of state Elliott a  said that the operations to help the con tra in their Light against Nicaragua s leftist government Are viewed As Wel come. Privately funded operations to help the contras Are generally approved of by the administration Abratani said. Such missions he said keep the free Dom fighters alive until the Congress finally acts on president Reagan Sal for $100 million in open Ai contest both Homes of congest approved it but the measure await Al action. Abrams said be would sorbet a prised to learn that former Cia agent save been hired by civilian Gram i Cany out the Supply Mission in own Tua. I when you re putting an Ope Aoam like this together you Don t advertise us the new a first times he around for people who Are  Gregg refused to a focus whether a knew if Bush had Ever met gon Stoi whether it a Cregg who got Pom Job at the i Lorango air Force bait Salvador. He paraphrased a statement usum by the vice president office there � no one on toe vice president s Stair Wop directing or coordinating an operation in Central  feared trapped in the ruins. The Center of the City is nearly destroyed said guatemalan army a. Jose fuel is Sofia who led the first Load of guatemalan Relief to san Salvador. You can say that the destruction was done in the form of a giant f in the Center of the City Fuentes said. There Are Man deaths and injuries. Salvadoran officials told me they have found 400  were no official estimates of the dead or injured from a Strong earthquake that rocked the nation Friday followed by a second quake about is minutes later. Trie . Geological Survey said the first quake entered about 10 Miles Northwest of san Salvador registered 5.4 on the Rich Ler scale although other Seis ologies stations in Costa Rica Guatemala and mexi co recorded the first earthquake at varying magnitude from 5.2 to 7. The earthquakes blacked out the Cit of 1 million people and Cut off water. At Nightfall sirens wailed and the armed forces patrolled to prevent tooting. At Dawn people resumed to their devastated Homes stores schools hospitals and office buildings searching for miss ing relatives. At the .-soviet Summit in Reykjavik Iceland White House spokesman Larry Speaks said president Reagan pledged . Assistance to the Earth quake victims. . Ambassador Edwin Korr designated the Region a disaster area automatically releasing 125,000 in immedi ate . Assistance. The league of red Cross societies in Geneva Switzerland Tew 10 tons of emergency Aid to san Salvador along with two disaster experts to assess additional  league umbrella organization for National red Cross societies worldwide said the initial assistance flown from its warehouse in Panama was composed of tents blankets and first Aid kits. France Italy and Argentina also were Send ing Aid. Late news Reykjavik Iceland a presi Dent Reagan on saturday signed with Grid reluctance Stopgap spending Bill to keep the government operating through the Middle of this week earlier Story open develops program to Divide Oil production among its members Geneva Switzerland up tech Nical experts of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries completed work saturday on a plan to govern the Long term sharing of Oil output among the 13 member countries. The proposed quota plan was passed on to a panel of three ministers. The panel was to prepare it for formal presen tation at the next plenary session of open Oil ministers probably on Mon Day. Open president i Lanu Lukman of Nigeria left to speak at an Energy Confer ence in Rimini Italy saturday. But other Oil ministers continued with informal weekend discussions. An iranian technical expert who participated in the drafting or he Complex production sharing program said it was based on seven economic criteria but he provided no details. The criteria which he said were assigned various weights were Oil reserves Popula Tion Gross National product pumping capacity historical production internal Oil consumption and extraction costs. We have finished the discussion of the quotas altogether the iranian Del. Gate said. The result will be presented to the  Summit from Page 1 bid to move things in that direction. The Reagan Gorbachev meetings at Hordi House reputedly haunted by a ghost who occasionally raids the liquor Cabinet have been billed As informal and Are intended to narrow difference Sand Lay the foundation for a full scale Summit in the United slates. Darkness was approaching As Reagan and Gorbachev ended the second ses Sion. All told the two leaders conferred for 3 hours and 57 minutes with of one on one session with Only interpreters and note Takera in the morning that ran Forsi minutes. Secretary of state George Shultz and soviet foreign minister Edu Ard Shevardnadze sat in for the balance of the time. Speaks without explanation said sunday s session would begin a half hour earlier than initially planned at 10 . Reagan is scheduled to leave Iceland sunday afternoon and address the Amer ican people monday night .. Officials had persist Nelly minimized expectations for substantial results at the icelandic Summit set up on just a dozen Days notice. Gorbachev arrived with a Short but explicit set of what recalled burning issues principally ban Ning All nuclear tests and moving toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Aides said Reagan would press the Issue of human rights in the soviet Union As Well As look for mane vering room in Amis control talks under Way in Geneva particularly efforts to reduce the number of medium Range missiles deployed in Europe. It was unclear what the . Acceptance of lumping the human rights Issue into the working group with such questions As new consulates or displeasure Over third world foreign policies meant. In keeping with the official Blanket of silence cast Over the talks Speakes re fused to say whether Reagan presented to Gorbachev a proposal on possible . Ratification of two pending treaties to curb nuclear tests. On Friday Speakes announced that Reagan would Tell the soviet chief he would seek Swift Senate approval of the pacts if Moscow would be willing to meet . Demands for strict verification procedures. Early saturday a soviet spokesman in Reykjavik called the . Move a trick a View Speakes flatly rejected. Oath Ivan Mii us i Lention to the equally difficult task of drafting a fixed pricing system. The current open conference the fifth this year began on oct. 6 amid speculation that the Cartel would simply extend for a couple of month its Tempo Rary output ceiling which would otherwise expire oct. 31. This. 16,4 Mil lion barrel daily limit had rallied once overnight by More than 50 percent from 10-year lows of under j10 a barrel when it was adopted aug. 4. I the average Price of a barrel of erode oils currently around 114, with the Market . Queen Elizabeth begins China trip London up Queen Elizabeth ii and a Royal entourage of so set off saturday of journey p China a we Klong visit to mod Ern communists and ancient Rutilis the Queen wearing a Green outfit with Matching hat waved u Ifa boarded but Isle Airway 1--"ea the aircraft took off from loo1don s Heathrow Airport at s 17 ant. For pelting via a one-ttop1 can of the persian Gulf stale of Muscat few re  it lands her at the chinese capital sunday evening the quo will become the Fust feign in prick ish Monarch to it foot in Danai 100,000 protest missiles in German pin by 23, cd Camii it pm to. Pm Dun Hasselbach Germany up tens of thousands of demonstrators sat urday protested the deployment of .nuclear missiles in Germany. Local police said about 100,000 people answered the Call of the coordinating committee of the peace movement to Holda rally near the is. Air Force s 38th Tacti Cal missile Wing base at Hasselbach about20 Miles South of Koblenz. Thousands on their Way to the rally demonstrated outside Ibe cruise missile base which is protected by a 10-foot-Highwall lopped by barbed wire. The demonstrators went to the Rall from All Over the country in 1,300 buses and five special trains. The rally had been scheduled for months but it was made More timely by a German government spokesman s announcement Friday that the sment of cruise mimic bad t . Base in March. Horn Klaus a member of fee ing Board of to Metal the i Union that i Germany told the rally the Money i silts should be mud to i the third world and i India anal