European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 38 the stars and stripes sunday november 23,1966 pm idles 10,000 More As Delco nears contract Detroit a general motors corp. Has been forced to Lay off 10,000 More people de spite the tentative settlement of a strike at a key parts Plant that had already idled 37,550 Assem Bly workers company officials  agreement with representatives of United Aulo workers local 292 was reached Early Fri Day and was slated for a ratification vote in Kokomo ind., saturday. Most details of the settlement were withheld until the vote. The workers Al the pm subsidiary Delco electronics Plant in Kokomo walked off their Job monday in a dispute Over subcontracting and the Transfer of some radio work to Mexico. The agreement promises to guarantee continued radio production at the Plant until 1991, said local 292 shop chairman Mike Thayer. Ship borne cruise missile hits 500 Miles inti Point Mug Nas Calif up a Toma Hawk cruise missile fired for Jap from the Cruiser Arkansas off the Calico my Oast. Reached a tar get in a weapons cent Soo Miles Inland the Navy said. Pit was the third us flight test of a cruise mis Sile using non Clear packs of bomb let which my seven bomb lets to the China Lake Nava weapons Center targets and each pack Wasj dropped separately on orders from the mis computer a spokesman said. Iranian jets hit Basra 3 other cities in ire Nicosia Cyprus Escoto also said . Ships aved at Costa pics sports recently and have conducted spy patrols sea into Nicaragua. No evidence was cited and the Costa Ricasa i were not  Rica has no army and declares itself Neutral is 1. American affairs.  note d Escoto said the proximity of the vessel snakes possible the eventuality that the artillery inst him Hose ships will fire at National  he also said the the same time the . Air Force is using Fields mitral America especially i Panama in an Effort to in Cove the deployment of its units and to strengthen direction and control Over the nights. Hag offers Call Deal mistake Atlanta up four former secretaries of state said Friday that president Reagan Mode a mis Lake in secretly arranging an arms Deal with Iran Andone of them Alexander Haig compared the administration s foreign policy to a revolving crap Haig Secretary of state during recalled for a disciplined so Rulure Hydle foreign policy. But Dean Rusk Sec Elm relate in the Kennedy and Johnson  said every administration has made no fuss and the main problem now is to limit a help a Iai damage. Letifu who is without sin Cost the first Sione said Rusk. Henry a Issimil Creary of state during the Nixon and  agreed that All admin san re mistakes but he said in the iranian contrib was not a mistake to try to improve relation with Tehran. Where it got off the rails in my opinion is the Means. The Sale of arms to a Radical govern  Kissinger said Reagan should have known that the shipment of arms to Iran could not have been Kepi secret. Rusk Kissinger Haig and Edmund Muskie Secre tary of state in the Carter administration spoke out on american foreign policy and the controversial iranian arms Deal at a political conference sponsored by the Southern Center for International studies. Iran from Page 1 Senate intelligence committees denied. The Senate intelligence committee sent Reagan a letter Friday saying it cannot accept a Lope which holds that it is All right to have a High risk meeting Bercen .and iranian officials while rejecting the comparatively minor risks inherent in telling Congress. Reagan was unavailable to reporters ignoring questions shouted to him As he led the White House for helicopter trip to his Camp David md., Retreat. While the administration struggled with the Contro Versy that has engulfed the president for More than a week a senior official in Iran boasted that disclosures of the arms Sale was Tehran s biggest Victory in the world s political  meanwhile Secretary of state George Shultz denied a report in Friday s los Angeles times that he bad asked Reagan to fire vice Aden. John Poindexter the White House National Security adviser and one of the chief architects of the arms Sale to Iran that Story is Noi True Shultz told reporter aboard his plane in route from Washington to Canada where he held talks with external affairs minister Joe Clark. A similar denial was issued in the name of adm. William j. Crowe jr., chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who also was cited by the newspaper As seeking Poindexter s ouster. White House spokesman Larry Speakes asked if poin Dexter was going to quit replied i Haven t heard him a  asked if Reagan wants him to remain Speakes said tra Sun he wants him to stay on the  White House chief of staff Donald t. Regan in a interview published saturday said the Prendel has expressed dissatisfaction with reports of bitter recriminations among his senior advisers Over dealings with inn he d just As soon that everybody shut up Reganold the Washington Post. Asked bout Bis own tenure Regan said i m not suit it be Here in january 89. But pressure seemed to be rising in Congress for change in personnel at the White House Senate democratic Leader Robert c Byrd of West Virginia asked on lbs to whether Poindexter should be removed said he certainly has not served the president Well. He May have to go but i Don t believe that a single Scapegoat is going to solve the administration s problems sen. Richard Lugar r-ind., outgoing chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee told report ers the Reagan White House is not falling apart but it needs to be strengthened he said. They need to bring in some big leaguer to run  later said in an interview that Reagan s credibility had been damaged and a Good common sense prescription for the president to end All this would be for the president to admit it was All a  said a Law permitting the president to with hold information from Congress about coven opera Lions is Clear and  i Don t think there is any question that us Law has been broken he said after he two hour meeting with  least one Republican rep. Henry Hyde of i Noil defended Reagan against the allegation that he broke the Law but added that it was unwise of the president to keep tie policy a secret from  Law involved is the National Security act which covers a wide Range of National Security Mea sures including requirements to inform Congress. Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee listened to Casey s explanation then criticized the operation in Strong terms. I can t believe what i heard and i Don t. It s hard to believe that such things could be planned and under a  said sen. Danie Patrick Moynihan  Byrd i find on the basis of what we heard that this whole operation was incredibly Clumsy and Amateur ish bases from papal to Power in 1981 on a leftist nationalist platform pledging to remove the . Bases and withdraw from nato. But since winning � second term in office in ,. June 198s, he has moderated his dance. The ailing greek Economy and rising $16 Button foreign debt forced Greece to improve ties with the United suit mid i a Cra United american Mili Lary presence an opposition spokesman sad