European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q . Approves structural changes Page 4 d giants sea Hawks win in nil play Page 21 q Low Oil gives scare on voyager Page 28 the vol. 15, no. 24b authorized unofficial publications monday december 22. 1986 us . Armed 911 a nil Ond Lon Fay d 8693 a House wants Secord to Tell about profits Washington Al l tin House intelligence committee has summoned a key player in he Iran arms controversy in an Effort to determine before Christmas whether any Money from the sales Well to nicaraguan rebels a con Gressional source said saturday. The committee warm retired maj. Gen. Richard v. Secord in appear before the panel behind closed doors to explain what happened 10 Money Iran paid for inc sales and deposited in a Swiss Bank. Although attorney finneral Edwin a desc snid last month Ali it Jin million to s.10 million Riim llu1 sales went to help Nicaragua s Contra rebels members of inc Senate intelligence committee say they cannot determine How much if any. Of hit Money went to the f on iras. Senate investigators said $4 million to ski Mil lion might he a More accurate figure. Accord is supposedly involved at Hooili ends in Central America and Iran. There Are a lot of questions i or him said a congressional source who spoke on condition Ofa Nommay. Accord. S4, played a role in in go Tiu Lions that led id in i Shipu it of arms to Tehran and the release of three Ameri can hostages by lebanese terrorists with links to Iran according to Manucher Ghorbani far. An iranian who arranged the con lacks with the Tehran govern ment. According i congressional sources and court documents Secord also played a key role in sending arms to Hie contras doring a period when Congress banned direct . Military Aid to them the Pivotal figure in Holh the Iran and Contra connections is h. Col. Oliver North who was Llred from his Job on the National Security Council staff last month. North and his Boss former while House National Security adviser vice adm. John m. I , pleaded inc fifth amendment and declined to answer questions when they were asked 10 give congressional testimony. It was not dear whether Secord s schedule would allow him to testify be fore the 1 Louse committee this week said a source close to inc panel. Secord refused to answer questions during an earlier congressional appear Ance behind the closed doors of he sen ate intelligence committee on dec. 9. On another from administration officials reacted coolly to an offer by the speaker of inc iranian parliament Hashemi a Sfanjani to help free live More american hostages from Lebanon if the United Stales unfree is iranian assets in this country a Sfanjani. In the Pasi has Sel As a condition the release by tile United Scales of about $300 million in arms Pur chased by Iran before the 1479 revolution but never delivered. The feeling is this is not a significant change. They have always used the term see House on Page 28 in the lava s path Mollyn Lavu Elan s around a Stop sign saturday and into an intersection in inc Kaapana gardens subdivision on a. By late after imn 28 Hunts Hod been dwt roved by the latest Kilimi vol Cano activity. Slur on Page 5. Hostages Kin face Bleak Holiday Washington a Christmas will be a cheerless Holiday for the families of i he american hos tages in Lebanon As icy watch inc turmoil Over arms sales to Iran and wonder what it Means for their men. There an presents under his sister s tree for Terry Anderson who was kidnapped in March 1985, even though he will Likel spend his second Christmas in Captivity. Things on the surface appear mtg Bleak said Pege say. Anderson s sister. La appears As if the hostage thing has been dropped. Put aside on the Hack said Thomas Cicippio of Norris own. I a., whose brother Joseph Cicippio was kidnapped in Cirul last september. Under the circumstances the Crippins like Moil of the hostages relatives Plao a Low profile Christmas he said. Jean heed sister in Law of hostage Frank Reed said it will he impossible fur her family in Maiden mass., to rejoice because we re All very much upset and Dis added to the a in is the Public criticism aimed at some of the families since Reagan administration officials revealed thai . Weapons were sold to Iran in in Effort 10 expand contacts w ii moderates in Tehran and win the hostages release. On its face the policy has nol been a Success. The purported moderates have denounced the United states and profits from he arms sales apparently were diverted perhaps illegally to nicaraguan Contra rebels. And although three hostages were freed in inc 14-month period ending november 1986, three More were Sei de last fall. Five captives Are thought to be held by pro iranian moslem shiites in Lebanon probably by different Lac Lions. Last fall in separate incidents gunmen seized Reed 5.1. Director of the lebanese International school in Beirut Cicippio 56. Acting comptroller of the Ameri can University of Beirut and Hdward Tracy 50, a writer from Kulland Al. Anderson 39. The chief Middle Rast correspondent fur the associated press and Thomas Sutherland. 55, acting agriculture Dean at the american a Lent Reily of i Cirul were abducted last year. William Buckley who reportedly ran the Cia station in Beirut is believed to been killed to a privity in june iv85. Say of Halavia n.y., one of the Moil tical rela Tives in urging the adminis Lvalion to do something to gel the hostages Hack said the families have Preidy Well loss Public the Public ii blaming the hostages and the rela Tives for this she said estimating that half the Calls she received on a recent radio Call in show were several relatives say they Don l approve of any arms for hostages Swap but they Aren l sorry they tried to drum up Public Allan lion on inc Issue. I have no Reg res for what we did said sue fran Ceschini of Joliet iii., inc sister of the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco who was released in july after being held hostage for 10 months. I m silly nol convinced that arms were exchanged for she said. President Reagan has denied that the arms a mounted to Ransom. The Juncos will celebrate the Holiday by attending Christmas eve mass Al i hair Home Parish and eating a traditional dinner. We re going Lory to make it 3 Beautiful Christmas for my Dro incr said Francschini. Jenco formerly head of Floc Catholic Relief services in Beirut has been on a speak ing Lour since his release. Also with his family is David Jacobsen. 55. Of Hunt Inkton Jjck Nyji. Calif., the last hostage to he released before the juror Over the Iran Contra Case erupted. Jacobsen. Freed nov. 2. Was the administrator of the american University 1 Lus Pital in Ceirtil. Kien though i m a free Man i m in chains until inc to a re released he said by a hostage Benjamin Weir a presbyterian minister j ised in september 1w5, said islamic jihad guards i i to make Christmas special for the Lio Sialei by i no them a Yule log and some fruit tangerines i and bananas. This christinas Weir will he re Laung with his family in Berkeley Calif. Weir said he sympathizes with the consternation see hostages on Page 28
