European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 th1e stars and stripes wednesday december 24,1966 Captain was insulted angry at alleged bribe by Chuck v1nci1washington Bureau Washington you re offered j300 a month fur an indefinite period plus a percentage of a possibles billion contract in a churn for providing inside in form alien on the contract bidding. What would you do most of us probably will Niver be faced with such a situation. But army capt. James Mcdowell a project officer at the army tank automotive come in War Ren. Mich., found Himsl f in j us that position. I be never had a second thought Aboul not taking the Money Mcdowell said. At first i was flabbergasted then insulted Ihen angry that this Man evident by thought 1 was the kind of person who would do mint Lhing like  he did t think twice Aboul going to Law enforce ment officials and solid he has never regretted his Deci Sion. As a result retired army Brig. Gen. George Youngjr. Who allegedly offered the bribe on behalf of a truck company for which he worked As a consultant was arrested sept. 30 for attempted bribery. Young asunder investigation by the . Attorney s office in Michigan f convicted he faces two years in prison and a 110,000 Fine. A United press International article in the stars and stripes in october reported the Story of Young s arrest. Maj. Gen. Arthur Holmes or commander of the tank automotive come wrote to the Slars an stripes saying he thought the us l article left doubts Aslo Mcdowell s honesty and failed to highlight the in legs Iliyof tank automotive come. In this instance the important fact that we police the system internally with no help from outside Audi tors or teams was completely omitted Homes wrote. Yes the Fri did the built of the investigation but the problem was identified and reported from within system dependent on the integrity of its members. And it worked Mcdowell 37. Said he was approached by Young in february 1984. Young was allegedly seeking information on a contract for the pallet Zed loading system a tactical wheeled vehicle being developed to be used for loading and unloading military supplies. The com Mand is the nation s chief research and purchasing organization for military vehicles. Mcdowell who had been briefing potential contractors on the system said Young approached him after one briefing and told him you could make a lot of Money working with  i asked him whal he meant and he said 1 could get $300 a month for giving him information on truck contracts Mcdowell said. The first thing i said was that s illegal and he said Don t worry about a " Mcdowell told Young he would think about it but instead contacted the criminal investigation come the Fri was brought in and they instructed Mcdow Ell to accept inc bribes in order to build a possible Case against Young Mcdowell wore a tape recorder during meetings with Young who provided the officer with s300 a month for about 27 months. The Money went into a special account managed by the Fri. Mcdowell said he s gotten a very positive response from his co workers regarding his actions a lot of people have said they wondered what they would do in the same  Mcdowell said. Overall there have been lots of congratulations of  we feel Good that the Captain has made this com Mand look Good by whal he did said a spokesman for inc tank automotive come. It was a Job Well done. Special assistant . Attorney Alan m. Gershel who is prosecuting inc Case for the government said inc original complain and warrant thai resulted in Young s arrest expired Lasi month under Laws govern ing speedy trials. The next step normally would be a presentation of the evidence to a grand jury with gets Hel asking Foran indictment of Young. If an indictment is returned a trial probably would Lake place Early next year. Hershc would not confirm whether he would ask for an indictment. He would say Only that the Case is Silt under investigation. Although Gershel and Fri officials would not Dis close who Young was working for when he made in bribe attempt several Kansas newspapers citing government sources have named the Ottawa truck corp. Of Ottawa Kan Calls to Young s attorney and the Ottawa truck corp. Thursday and Friday were not returned. According to army records Young 65, joined the army in 1942. He retired in 1971 after being censured and stripped of his distinguished service medal awarded in connection with his investigation of inc 1968 my Lai massacre the killing of More than 300 vice amuse civilians by . Troops. Young was accused of botching the initial army investigation of the my Lai incident according to newspaper reports at the time. Critics accused Young of making Only a cursory inquiry of col. Gran k. Hen Derson commander of inc troops involved in the my Lai killings. Nicaraguans end news conference after Hall reports entering 2 bases Managua Nicaragua a guards yanked american Sam Mcsley Hall from his chair and hustled him out of a news conference when he claimed he sneaked onto two nicaraguan military bases the night before his capture. Security agents arrested Hall. 49, on dec. 12 in a restricted area near Puma Hutc air Force base 13 Miles Northeast of Managua. President Daniel Ortega has accused him of spotting military targets for Possi ble Aerial bombardment by the United states. Hall said monday thai he was spying in Nicaragua for three men code named tinker Evers and Chance the name of a famous double play combination for the Chicago cubs baseball team in the Early 1900s. Hall claimed tinker was bused in Washington Evers was based in England and Chance was based in Miami but he did not know their actual Iden  was information that needed confirmation that on one of the Large bases Here there were cuban Crews assembling soviet helicopters Hall said. "1 was also to see what new construction was under Way such As fuel storage  Hall who is from Dayton Ohio spoke at a new conference arranged by the Interior ministry. He wore Gold rimmed glasses was dressed in � Blue Polo shirt beige Slacks and Brown loafers and spoke calmly. But Ortega has suggested Hall the brother of . Rep. Tony Hall an Ohio Democrat is mentally unbalanced. The new York times tuesday quoted sen. Christo Pher Dodd d-conn., who visited Hall in jail last week As saying there was a lot of Eye rolling among sandinista familiar with Hall s Case. It sounds like a Guy who read a classified and in Soldier of Fortune Magazine Dodd was quoted As saying. Ortega says Hall who has not yet been formally charge twill be tried before a people s tribunal a revolutionary court. The same court convicted and sentenced another american Eugene Hasenfus to 3d years in prison for running guns to nicaraguan rebels. Last week Ortega pardoned Hasenfus 45,  was. Asked what his trip to Nicaragua had to do with a visit he allegedly made to Cia Headquarters at Lang icy va., two years ago Hall replied  asked Why he was a Ihring information and for whom Hall replied i have no  Bui he denied he was knowingly working for the . Government. About 25 minutes into the news conference two state Security a cols abruptly hustled Hall out when reclaimed he penetrated two military bases the night before his arrest. I understand if i do Noi say anything about the first night in would be better for me. The first night i pen circled two bases. Hall started to say before the Security men hurried him away. Questioned by reporters. Interior ministry spokeswoman capt. Nelba Blandon refused to say Why Hall was silenced claiming Only that Hall said nothing new. She claimed two bases have been mentioned in an Interior ministry statement but the ministry s statements so far have mentioned Only Punla Huete. Military Roundup reformer exercise set for 2 German regions Heidelberg . Soldiers and nato Northern army group will conduct a reformer exercise in the Niedersachsen and Nord Tim West Falcon regions in Germany during september 1987.the Clurn of forces to Germany exercise deploying about 35,000 . Troop from the Continental United Stales to Europe Demon Strates the . Resolve and capability to Hono defense commitments to nato. About 78,000 soldiers from nato countries arc expected to participate in the exercise. Re Longcr 87, the i9lh in the series is being jointly planned by the . European come and German United kingdom dutch and belgian military commands. Reformer is designed to lest and evaluate plan Sand support agreements Between military and civilian agencies on both sides of the Atlantic and to exercise the Host nations1 abilities to sup port deployed forces. The exercise also tests the ability of european based units o quickly link reinforcing units with their deployed or prep Silione equipment. Exercise certain strike the Field training por Tion of reformer 87, will be controlled by the commander of the Northern army group. V corps Crossley gets German military award Frankfurt Brig. Gen. . Crossley v corps chief of staff has received the highest German military peacetime  a ceremony in Koblenz it. Gen. Karl Erich Diedrichs Iii German corps commander presented the Cross of Honor in Gold of the Ger Man armed forces to Crossley for his personal efforts in strengthening German american rela  is the third . Officer to receive the  v corps and 111 German corps Are a Good example of two major units standing Side by Side and who work very closely in defense planning training and military exercises died Richs said. Interpersonal Contact is the basis on which Many of our problems Are  ., Panama planning annual joint exercise Washington a military forces from the United states and Panama will conduct their annual Panama canal defense exercise next month in the Northwestern province of Cinqui exercise kindle Liberty Candela 87, Wilf be staged from Jan. 12 to feb. 25 Wilh about 4,000 . Service members and 500 panamanian Mili tary personnel participating in ground air and sea  province is West of the Panama  exercise is being conducted under the provisions of the 1977 Panama canal treaty which provides for the combined defense of the Panama canal by . And panamanian forces with the . Having primary responsibility for defense arrangements until the treaty expires at the end of the Century the Pentagon said. Compito from novt lot ambs world today 5 soviets get jail terms for smuggling 700 icons Moscow a five soviets have been sentenced to Sian icons Worth nearly Sis million out of the country the official news Agency Tass reported tuesday. Tass said the group sold the icons to representatives of a number of embassies in Moscow Ana also arranged to have them shipped 10 three soviet emigres in West Berlin. Icons Are pictures of Jesus Mary or the saints Vener ated by the Eastern orthodox churches. Tass said the trial took place in the last few Yiyi outdid not provide details or the length of the sentence