European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday december 9,1988 House demos pick Wright As speaker Washington a House Democrat Moo Day chose Jim Wright a hard working legislatively savvy the an with an oratorical Bent As the new speaker of Floc House. Accepting Bis party s nomination Wright vowed to demonstrate 10 the american people. That we democrats have our act together. The House will be Content with nothing leu than the whole truth about the Reagan administration s arms sates to Iran and the surrounding controversy he said. But that won t be allowed to preoccupy us nor to paralyse us nor to distract us from the important work we have to  Wright listed Trade legislation farm pro Gram Reform welfare re form and budget prob lems As the top Domestic priorities. The ascension or Wright currently the House majority Leader to the Post being vacated by retiring speaker Thomas p. O Neill jr., was approved by acclamation. The full House must ratify the nomination on Wright Jan. 6, when the loot ii Congress begins. Democrats hold an 81-vote majority and party allegiance in such a vote is nearly  speaker Wright will be second in the line of presidential succession behind Only the vice president. Wright s move up cleared the Way for rep. Thomas Foley d-wash., to move up to become majority Leader. Foley was unopposed As was Wright and was elected by acclamation. Meanwhile in a separate meeting House republicans unanimously re elected their leadership minority Leader Robert h. Michel of Illinois and minority whip Trent lot of Mississippi. The Only real contest monday was for Foley s old Job of democratic whip the third highest House leadership Post and a Job designed to promote party Unity on the . Tony Coelho a Calit chairman of the demo cratic congressional Campaign committee was the front runner in a race against rep. Charles Range d n.v., a Deputy House whip. Rep. Richard Gephardt d-mo., and rep. Mary Rose Dakar a Ohio were shoo ins for re election As caucus chairman and Secretary respectively. Both parties Are electing officers and organizing this week. The democrats with z58 members to the re publicans 177, also will vote on proposed Rule changes including Banning age discrimination against House employees and allowing members to mention the word Senate on the House floor. They now must Call it the other  prohibition against nuking specific reference to the Senate dates from 1801, when Thomas Jefferson compiled a parliamentary manual Mil in use. Rule changes approved by the democratic caucus will go to the House floor for a , 63, a former bomber Pilot whose first Ambi Tion was to be a football player is a flowery and some times Long winded orator who relishes the language and writes his own speeches. Foley 57, a genial Spokane native with liking for baroque music is considered knowledgeable capable and fair by democrats and republicans alike. The race for democratic whip pined Coelho a four term congressman from California s agricultural Cen trial Valley against rang who has been representing new York s Harlem for twice that Long. Rangel 56. Has been a Deputy whip for the past fou years. His supporters said he would add geographical balance to the leadership which has no members East of the Mississippi River and he would be the first Black to hold the whip Post. For his part Coelho 46, touted the revival of the Campaign committee he look Over in 1980. He has developed direct mail fund raising techniques and hat distributed unprecedented amounts of Money and other help to congressional candidates Many of whom won and were among those voting in the whip race. Britain gets 5 ski contracts London a defense Secre tary Caspar w. Weinberger said Mon Day the Pentagon has awarded five contracts for strategic defense Initia Tive research totalling 11  million to Britain s ministry of defense the announcement followed two hours of private talks Between Wein Berger and British defense Secretary George younger. Three of the five contracts for ski or Star wars As the program to develop a space based anti missile de sense is called involve research that could be used in Europe against Short Range nuclear missiles. Parity remains soviets say Moscow a two senior so Viel officials on monday said . Violation of the Salt ii treaty has not changed the strategic parity existing Between the superpowers but the Kremlin will be watching for any threat to its Security. The soviet Union is a powerful proud great nation which will never Compromise its Security or Independence . Nikolai Char told a news conference called to discuss so Viet reaction to the . Violation. The United states last week exceeded the limits of the treaty which was never ratified by thei Senate when it put into operation its 131st bomber equipped with cruise mis Siles without disarming a Poseidon submarine. Deputy foreign minister Alexan Der Bessmer Nyoh told reporters that the delivery of a single bomber has not upset the balance of strategic Power Between the two countries but that the action could Lead to further disregard for Salt ii and other arms limitation accords. France from Page 1 ten by Alain Devaques the minister for higher education who submitted his res ignation on saturday. French High school graduates now Are allowed to enter any University they wish. There is a modest registration fee. And students have to pay for their own housing and books but there is no Tui Tion and everyone receives a similar stale diploma upon graduation. The proposed legislation would Lei universities set their own admission and curriculum standards. Universities would also be allowed to Orient Stu dents into a Field of study corresponding to the student s aptitude and not necessarily to the student s wishes. Airlift from Page 1 senior state department officials that our military people arc not even going to be close to the  some 700 nicaraguan soldiers crossed the Border into Honduras according to a . Embassy official in Tegucigalpa the honduran capital. In Nicaragua on sunday foreign min ister Miguel d Escoto denied that any nicaraguan troops were in Honduras and claimed instead that . Warplanes bombed two nicaraguan villages sunday afternoon. However Dan Howard a Whitehouse spokesman discounted Desco to s assertion saying it s not for me to say what s happening. It s for the govern mint in Honduras to  incursions by sandinista forces Chas ing the nicaraguan rebels known As centres into Honduras Are frequent according to . Government reports but the honduran armed forces ordinarily stay out of the fighting. The latest crossing was the fifth by the sandinista reported in seven months. Arms from Page 1 men , too said he had never discussed with the president the diversion of iranian arms Sale . But at the conclusion of his prepared statement which he did not read Mcfarlane said he was advised while returning from an arms delivery Mission to Teh ran at the end of May that the . Government had applied part of the proceeds from arms transfers ear Ned out in 1986, to support the  "1 received no details Mcfarlane said. In con tent i took it from the summary reference that this action was a matter of approved policy sanctioned by higher  As did Shultz Mcfarlane defended Reagan s Gener Al desire to seek a new relationship with the iranians. Shutlz offered his testimony shortly before the jus Tice department released its formal request for appointment of an Independent counsel in the Case. The four Page document filed last Friday said the counsel must investigate whether violations of Federal Crimi Nal Law were committed by former National Security Council staffer Oliver North other . Officials or other individuals acting in concert with them begin Ning in january 1985.a special three judge panel is expected to act soon on the administration s Reques Shultz was the Lead off witness at the House panel s hearing while across the Capitol the Senate Intelli gence committee quizzed Elliott Abrams assistant Secretary of state for latin american affairs in closed door session. Sen Dave Durenberger r-minn., the committee chairman said the panel has received most of the documents it is seeking in its probe. And he was critical of Shultz and other unnamed Cabinet level officials who he said deliberately ignored what was going on i connection with the arms Sale. In another development an american official stationed in Israel speaking anonymously said Justice department officials Are seeking to interview israeli involved in the iranian arms shipments. Israelis sent at least one shipment of arms to Iran although the Whitehouse says Reagan did t know about it until after the delivery  the White House spokesman Larry Speakes declined comment on Shultz s testimony but be said twas not cleared in Advance. What we re going to do is let Shultz do Bis testifying whatever Shultz tells will certainly be his View and As Best As he s been Able to determine Speakes  about Reagan s first time statement Over the weekend that mistakes were made in the affair Shultz said it was a mistake to get involved in the illegal. Funds  he said he did t want to appear to be speaking As a judge but he added from what i have teen and what the attorney general said some things look place that were illegal Shultz said that not Only was die diversion illegal but that in served to am use american foreign policy toward  other disclosures in testimony Given under oath the first time in 10 years As a Cabinet official tha Shultz has been asked to formally swear to Tell the truth the Secretary denied that he had personally appealed to the Sultan of Brunei for Money to help tie Contra. But Hod id not deny that other stale department officials did so and he said a Law against . Military Aid to the Contra rebels did not preclude activities of the department of state to solicit humanitarian Atu Sunic said it was outrageous if ousted National Secu Rity Council aide North persuaded businessman Ron Perot to Post a Cash Reward for the release of american hostages in Beirut i know nothing about it lie Laid of news reports about the reported action. Testified that the . Ambassador to Beirut John Kelly discussed Effort to free american hostages in Beirut with National Security Council officials i Washington but circumvented the state department in doing so. "1 am to put it mildly shocked to Tea this Shultz said adding that Keuy has been ordered Back to Washington and told to bring i records wit him. Disclosed that be already has been questioned by Justice department officials looking into the Anna Sale and Divanion of funds to  said he was prepared to cooperate Fudy with the committee in in probe into the Fagan Irmi Nitin Tion s foreign policy controversy although he did some information could Only be Dina men in Ecret meanwhile in Bern Switzerland the Federal pro Csutor i office opened an inquiry monday into Walker my of the us. Anni shipment pitted through Switzerland