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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, December 18, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pagc4 the stars and stripes thursday. December 18.1886 immunity for Poindexter North rejected _._.,_, a. To. Lain Simiu committee t Washington a the Senate intelligence Commilee turned Down wednesday president Reagan s proposal thai two former aides be Given immunity so they could testify without fear of prosecution about the diversion of profits from the Sale of arms to Iran to the . Backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua. We have concluded that it would be premature for this intelligence commit tee to make this decision on immunity at this Lime although we can appreciate the president s desire to gel the facts out chairman David Duran Burger r-minn., told reporters after a meeting of the panel 10 discuss Reagan s request. We can accomplish it at this time by the grand of immunity Given at the pending events. So that will be our Basic response to the president the sen Ator said. He said there had been spin Ted debate in the committee on the immunity Issue. Even before the committee had reached its decision White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan was disappointed by he overwhelming opposition in Congress to his plea for limited immunity for former National Security adviser John Poindexter and his fired aide Oliver North. The spokesman said Reagan has no plans to shield Poindexter and North with a Grant of executive clemency. Reagan said tuesday thai giving limited immunity from prosecution was inc Best Way to compel the officials to testify about the diversion of funds from the iranian arms Sale to the rebels in Nicara Gua. Reagan has refused to question the aides himself about their role in the affair. I think immunity should be some thing of a last resort sen. Robert Byrd . Said on Abc s Good morning  to Grant immunity Al this stage i think would be to invade the province of the Independent counsel who has t even been appointed yet and it would i think also invade the prov Ince of the select committee sen. Bob Dole r-kan., also appearing on Abc said he thought Byrd s View was held by a majority of the Senate. Hasenfus from Page 1 a lot several american leaders that he did not discount the possibility of pardoning him As a characteristic humanitarian gesture of the sandinista people  Hal is always firm but also always generous and in a message to the people of he United states that Nicara Gua wants  it also is a recognition of inc struggle of Broad religious political and social sectors of the United slates in favor of peace the end of the War and a Normali is briefs nation of relations Between the United states and Nicaragua and because those same things always arc governed by the demands of International Law Espioza said. Dodd met tuesday with Ortega and other officials and discussed the question of Hasenfus future. I raised the question about whether or not or. Hasenfus could leave Dod Lold he Abc today show in an inter View from the nicaraguan capital earlier wednesday. He said the chances Are Good Hal Hasenfus will be released with in Days possibly wednesday. Dodd accompanied by the prisoner s wife. Sally visited Hasenfus on tuesday evening at tip Tapa prison five Miles cast of Managua. The senator said he believed Hasenfus could be an important witness in investigations Inlo the changeling of funds from iranian arms sales to the . Backed contras i think he s got something to say. He expressed a willingness to talk 10 Mem Bers of the staff and the members of Hose committees Dodd told Abc. I think it would be worthwhile to get him Home. Certainly the nicaraguans for their own reasons Are going to see that As  Dodd also said he was granted Permis Sion to visit Sam Nellcy Hall identified. The intelligence he a i have been conducted out of the pm by eve and some of the hearing of Frlj House foreign affairs Hammom two conducted behind doled door presumably to hear classified inform lion Raoul the arms Sale and profit skin Ming  said Reagan would be i ing w consider declassification of Allt Timony presented in this matter., b cause i think it s important that the entire record be placed before the Amer. Can  Speakes said Reagan has not ruled out using his Power to Grant executive a ten Eney or a Pardon in protect a 1cm from incriminating themselves but that he plans no such action now. A an american suspected of spying. So far the nicaraguan government Naig nored a request by the . Embassy that an american Consul visit Hall. Nicaraguan authorities say Hall we arrested Friday at a military base outside Managua with maps stuffed in his sock. Ortega claimed Hall smuggled explosive Inlo the country to help the co Tiu. Hall is being held under a National emergency Law at a Managua jail for political prisoners. He has not been formally charged. Hall has been described As being 49and from Daylon Ohio. News reports in the United slates say he is the Broiher of . Hall a Ohio by voyager passes Vietnam on Globe girdling flight Mojave. Calif. Up1 voyager pilots Dick Sun and Jeana Yeager skirted Vietnam wednesday. Leaving behind them 9,200 Miles one third of i hair epic attempt at circling the Globe on one fill up of fuel Crew spokesmen estimated it would be another iwo Days before voyager Breaks the record for flying without refuelling 12,532 Miles set in1962 by an eight engine air Force b-52h it bomber on a night from Okinawa to maund  Chase plane was to join voyager Over Singa pore to take pictures of he plane for Rutan and the two passed South of to Chi Minh City Early wednesday after deciding not in bother even asking the government for permission to Fly Over its  never applied. We were told by the . Stale department nol 10 bother flight spokes Man Peler Riva said from Mojave Calif Aerial maps he said carry the notation that planes in the area will be shot  2 30 . Get the travellers were just East of the malay Peninsula cruising at an Altitude of 7,500 feet Over scattered Clouds with a ground Speed of 100 Mph ground Crew spokesman Gary Gunnell  is flying again after sleeping approximately three hours Gunnel said. Triple transplant surgery performed in England Huntingdon England a British surgeons wednesday performed what they said is the world s first Ingle transplant replacing the heart lungs and liver of a 35-year-old woman a Hospital spokesman  woman identified Only As a Mother and Coal Miner s wife from Northern England Wassail to be in satisfactory condition after the seven hour operation at Papworth Hospital in Huntingdon in Central England. The la Mem Ber medical learn was led by four surgeons she seem to be doing Well at the moment spokesman Peter Campion said. The woman had been seriously ill for several months he hid but details of her illness were not disclosed. Reagan from Page 1 two Days after he returns from a new year s vacation in California and he will undergo a physical Examina Tion and the colonoscopy that Day a sunday. The lol lowing Day Reagan will have the prostate surgery Andis expected to remain in the Hospital for a couple of Days assuming he has a Normal recovery. The prostate procedure to be performed by iwo Minnesota physicians recommended by a Friend and associate of Nancy Reagan s late father or. Loyal Davis will be done under a spinal aesthetic and Reagan is not expected to lose consciousness Speake said. He said the physicians or. David Utz of the maw clinic in Rochester minn., and or. , Benn who was trained at the Mayo clinic and now practices in Minnesota expect the procedure 10 take about 30 to 40 minutes. Speakes said Reagan who has undergone several urological examinations in recent years has experienced some discomfort which has recurred Over the past several  Marine iranian from Page 1 martial him. Two years after Beane went awol he met Karen assumed a false name settled Down with Karen end fathered two children. In 194 he was granted Perma nent resident status in Australia. Karen Beane said her husband supported the family by working As a Cook and As a farm labourer in Queens land and on the North coast of new South Wales. Beane Lold reporters at the Airport he was worried about facing . Charges. I am worried about what will happen to my Chil Dren he said Australia and the United slates Bave a reciprocal agreement by which each nation cooperates in the enforcement of the other s military Law a spokesman for Beazley said. Immigration minister Chris Hurford made it Clear Hal he did not favor turning Beane Over to . Authorities for court martial. Hurford said Beane bad come clean while being interviewed in custody at the Navy base in Sydney. According to a . Embassy spokesman Blanc was facing court martial in Vietnam when he went awol. At the time he was undergoing psychiatric treatment Al a military Hospital from which he escaped the offi Cial  was nol immediately known what charge Beane we facing when he disappeared or Bow he  but no doubt there were commercial flights out of Vietnam said the spokesman in Telephone interview. Spokesman Barry distance of the Royal australian Navy hid the main thing it to advise the Geek Manof his rights and obtain information from him Ai to Why he believe he should either Day in Australia or be handed Over to the american  from Page 1 could not comment on a Mailer being handled by Ger Man authorities investigators said shortly after the shopping Center attack that the Bow had been bought by two Middle Eastern looking men who presented moroccan pass ports As identity documents. Another High ranking Security official wednesday said terrorism investigators got on Daryaei s Trail last february after two passports along with weapon were found in a parked car in Paris. On feb 7,Acar Tan in to a police traffic Check in Paris. The Driver sped off and the or was found a Little butt Toa one Way Street the Security official said inside were two weapons a pistol and an  the car had German License Putes. There were list documents and photographs of tit men inside. Me a document had the name of the iranian  investigators found that several months Carrier. Daryaei hid been residing quietly in the Frankfurt Swan of dietzenbach. ". Putting All evidence together we concluded thl the occupants of the car in Jaris possibly Wen new Ning attacks Cut iranian opposition elements in Paisa the source said. Police later received citizen s tip that been spotted in the Bow Sedan adjacent to the furl army shopping Center on the Day of the sources said. Police got a tip from a witness who said been in the immediate Vicinity of Ibe Funk Tutt nov. 24,1985, and saw the attack car a Dwe i the witness said she recognized Niter  said. He added that Ibe witness hid Bow 525 Sedan in Emit by inc Toddii investigators used an arrest warrant for  
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