European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d 2 tons of chemical leak into Rhine Page 2 d Rome takes shot at traffic problem Page 9 d northeastern nips Louisville in Alaska shoot out Page 21 gripes  unofficial fun Muchion for 1hi . Aimed Poncei vol. 45, no. 226 sunday november 30, 1986 0 8693 a Iran got a billion in arms report says Athens Greece atm a newspaper claimed saturday thai tapes of . Envoy Robert Mcfarlane s talks with iranians in Tehran show the United slates shipped Iran about $1 billion in military equipment and sent $2 million to a group holding americans in Lebanon. Ruled Story on Page 3. The Athens daily Dimo Katikos logos quoted unidentified reliable sources in its article on what it said were tapes made during secret trips Mcfarlane made to Iran last year and this year. There was no immediate comment on the report in  iranians have said severe limes in the past few see Iran on Page 28 panel reportedly to focus on Cia in Iron Deal probe denied Entrance Marine it col. Oliver North fired hut a from his National Security Council Post gestures after being de Nied Entrance to the while House. North allegedly Wasin Chane of an operation that funnel cd profits front arms sales to Iran to Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Washington up the Cia reportedly will be the first subject of a formal probe by the Senate select committee on intelligence of the secret scheme to funnel . Arms profits from Iran to nicaraguan rebels. Committee chairman David Duran Burger r minn., and vice chairman Patrick Leahy d-vl., announced the formal probe Friday in a ice scr to presi Dent Reagan. Letters also were sent to Cia director Willi Mcasey who has testified before the panel informally As Well As Secretary of state George Shultz and defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Committee spokesman Jim Cupric said the panel is requesting that in documents or other materials sea panel on Page 28 allies regret Reagan s Salt ii violation by the associated press the leaders of France West Germany and Belgium said Friday that they regret president Reagan s decision to violate the Salt ii nuclear arms treaty by add ing the 131st modified b-52 bomber to the . Fleet one Over the limit. Soviet officials denounced the move with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev calling in a major  the air Force upgraded the bomber modified to carry nuclear lipped cruise missiles to operational status Friday while the Navy failed to retire an aging Poseidon missile firing submarine. The Salt ii treaty with the soviet Union limits the number of such bombers to 130, unless other nuclear weapons Are withdrawn from service. French president Francois Mitterrand speaking at a news conference in Paris with visiting Premier Bettino Praxi of Italy said he thought it would have been very Wise and very useful for the United states to continue to comply Wanh the treaty. Praxi did not address the Salt Issue but he told reporters that he and French officials held similar views on the Possi ble consequences of .-Soyiel talks on reductions in nuclear stockpiles perhaps Down id Zero. If the Zero option is a Good one nevertheless in should offer guarantees to As sure the Overall balance of european Security Praxi said. Officials of Many Western european countries have said removing All nuclear weapons would leave Western Europe vulnerable to a soviet advantage in conventional forces. In Bonn chief government spokesman Friedh Loffl 01 said the Federal Golem the Crew walks from Ibe b-52 that pushed tie United Stales Over Salt i limits. It is one of Boht 30 at Canwell fab Tew. Ment believes that both superpowers should adhere to the agreed upon upper limits on strategic weapons  but Juergen Todd Hoefer arms policy spokesman for he governing Christian democrats said people in Washington no longer see Why you have to keep observing an agreement that the soviet Union has not been complying with for a Long  Peter Glotz general Secretary of Ger Many s opposition social democratic party said Reagan s action would make peace less  belgian foreign ministry spokesman Peier maddens said any non compliance with the provisions of Salt ii undertaken by whichever Side is  but he added that the soviet Union was the first one to make several violations of the Accord. Former president Carter and the late soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Salt ii Accord in 1979, but the . Congress never ratified in. The United slates has repeatedly said the soviet have already surpassed the ceiling