European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Ankara offers taste of old and new Page 3 d . Fires on sinks colombian drug ship. Page 5 d College football results sports Section ipes vol. 45, no. 21 3 official full cation to monday november 17. 1986 Hasenfus gets 30 years Managua. Nicaragua a american Merce nary Eugene Hasenfus saturday was sentenced to the maximum Penally of 30 years m prison by inc three Mcm bar people s tribunal that convicted him ofter Roriie and crimes against inc Szalc. Hasenfus was captured last month when inc plane on which he was he cargo handier was shot Down in Southern Nicaragua. He said the plane was flying weapons to .-Faackcd Contra rebels fighting Nicara Gua s leftist government. We condemn the defendant. Eugene Hasenfus. To the maximum penalty of 30 years in prison for Violat ing the maintenance of order and Public Security and for terrorism said inc tribunal president. Reynaldo Monterrey. The tribunal also sentenced Hasenfus to the maximum of three years in prison for criminal association with the sentences to be served concurrently. Terrorism carries a maximum Penally of up to two years in prison but the sentence was combined with thai for violating inc maintenance of order and Public crimes Are plainly Monterrey said. He added that under nicaraguan Law the maximum Lime Hasenfus will have to serve in prison is 30 years. Nicaragua does not have capital punishment. President Daniel Ortega asked last month by a . Television interviewer if Hasenfus might be Home for Christmas said anything was possible but he did not commit himself to a Pardon. There was no immediate statement from Ortega on the verdict but in a speech delivered before the sen tence was announced he said the american Public should understand that the consequence of the politics of Reagan will be the death of american youth in minister Rodrigo Reyes the chief prosecutor in inc Case said after the sentencing that he saw no reason Why Hasenfus should be pardoned. The proceedings were broadcast in government said Hasenfus 45, of mar incite wis. See Hasenfus on Page 2b Eugene Hasenfus listens As a Nicaragua judge sentences urn to 30 years in prison. At right is his wife. Sally. Of photo senator Dow bus legality of Ranj Tea secrecy Washington a the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said saturday the Reagan administration May have broken the Law by ordering the Cia to keep con Gress in the dark about its secret Deal Ings with Iran. Sen. Patrick Leahy d-vt., raised inc question hours after a Public report that president Reagan issued a written order to Cia director William Casey of a 7 to withhold informal or a Anns shipments to Iran from in the White Hocti Lucula not comment on the report made Lions of the washing Ernie no source Farn Ilij said the Story pm
