European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday january 5, 1987 victim of racial attack assails police new York not a key Wilne ii in the Howard Beach racial attack said saturday that the police had disputed and discounted portions or his Story from the Start had treated him More like a criminal than a victim and had conducted a Masquer do i Vestiga  i tried la Ioctl the Story end nobody listened to in the witness Cedric Sandi Ford a victim in the attack declared in his first Public statement on the Case. They Only wanted to hear part of it and they tried to discredit the other part  Sandiford a lawyers have contended repeatedly that he told the police he Law a car strike and kill his compan Ion. The police have said Sandiford Lold them he did not witness he crash. Sandiford who has refused to Coop Erate with prosecutors gave no new details on circumstances surrounding the death of hit Stepson Michael Griffith who was struck and killed on the Shore Parkway As he fled a beating by while youths in Howard Beach n.y., Early dec. 20. Bui he said the police who picked him up on the Highway where Griffith was killed refused to listen to his account of the attack did not offer him medical at Tention for injuries sustained in the beat ing and questioned him about a shoot ing. At the scene of the crash he said he stood by and was ignored for 3vi hours then was taken to the 106th precinct Sta Tion House and searched. Then after he told his Story to investigators he said a plice supervisor told him it did happen that  Alice t. Mcmillion the Deputy police commissioner in charge of Public information denied Sandi Ford s claims. She said that investigators had not disputed or discounted his Story and that the police had treated him like a victim and a very important  she Laid that Sandiford was asked numerous limes if he wanted medical attention and he refused it numerous  the police nevertheless called an ambulance and Sandiford agreed to go to Jamaica Hospital for treatment Only after the ambulance Crew asked him to sign t waiver releasing them from responsibility Mcgilton acknowledged that the offi cers who picked san for up on the Parkway asked him if be knew any thing about a shooting  had just occurred nearby but she armed that he was never treated As a suspect in thai Case which turned out to be a shooting in a drug dispute. Flunked by his Tanyen and by other Blacks at a crowded news conference at the abyssinian Baptist Church in har Lem Sandiford said he was disappointed with police commissioner Ben Jamin Ward gov Mario m. Cuomo and others for attempting la discredit my  Sandiford said it was his decision not that of his principal lawyer Alton h. Maddox jr., to refuse to cooperate with the police and District attorney John a Santuci in the prosecution of three while youths charged in the Case murder and other charges against them were dropped last monday Afterman Diforti refused to testify. Sandiford echoed Maddux s Call for a special slate prosecutor to take Over from Santucci in the Case. Until gov. Cuomo assigns someone to investigate this Case he declared i won t cooperate Ith no one. Thai s All i have to  when reporter attempted to ask him whether he saw Griffith struck by the car his lawyers intervened and said they would not permit him to answer questions about key aspects of the Case because doing so might Compro Mise the Independent inquiry they Are seeking. Sandiford spoke for less than 10 minutes with reporters in a third floor meeting room at the Church and his lawyers and several Black supporters dominated the two hour news Confer ence. Maddox and another lawyer in the Case c. Vernon Mason denounced news coverage of the Howard Beach affair by the establishment Media saying it was biased in favor of the authorities accounts and failed to re port the full Story of what happened or he reaction in the City s Black Community. The lawyers said they would rely on the Black Media to report to our peo ple and called for a Black Boycott of establishment  they also charged that the authorities were engaged in a Campaign of disinformation in he Case. In addition the lawyers said Blacks were boycotting business establish ment in Howard Beach and the called for a Black Boycott of pizzerias throughout the City. It was at the new Park pizzeria in Howard Beach that the Whites first attacked Griffin Sand Iford and Timothy Grimes according10 police North belonged to hit Man squad in Southeast Asia paper reports new York up it. Col. Oliver North a key figure in the Iran arms Centra air scandal once belonged 10 the Phoenix project a 1960s operation that conducted political assassinations in Southeast Asia the new York daily news reported sunday. While a member of that government project. North met men who would later have roles in Selling weapons to Iran and sending Cash from i Host sales to Nicara Guan rebels according to a Federal lawsuit filed in Washington the daily news said. Until now North s activities during the Vietnam War have been described Only As part of highly Classi fied operations. The suit against the Federal government charges North s assignment was the special operations group that supervised the murders of Low level officials in Vietnam Laos Cambodia and Thailand the daily news Aid. In fact membership of the Phoenix team reads like a who s who of current Iran con figures the news said. The Washington based Christie Institute filed the suit on behalf of american journalists killed and injured in a bombing attack on Maverick nicaraguan rebel Eden pastors the suit said the special operations group super Vised Meo tribesmen who secretly assassinated More than 100,000 nut combatant Village mayors Book keepers clerks and other civilian bureaucrats in Laos Cambodia and  the Phoenix project introduced North to air Force maj. Gen. Richard Secord who was a Deputy within the group and Gen. John Singlaub who went on to run a major fund raising Effort for the contras the suit said. Secord is suspected of becoming involved with North in arranging iranian arms shipment. The Phoenix project was run by then Cia officer Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines Between 1966 and 1971, the news said. After leaving the Cia Clines and shall Dey were part of a company called egyptian american Tram port and service co., or eats co. With renegade Cia agent Edwin Wilson said Ibe newspaper. Eats co supplied arms to Egypt and the con iras but paid s3 million to the government on a fraud conviction the news said. Last year Clines helped North obtain a Thip fora reported abortive Effort to free . Hostages held in Lebanon by pro iranian factions. The Iran arms Centra Aid scandal first revealed last november has brought on president Reagan s first major crisis in his six years in the Whitehouse. Special congressional committees have been formed to investigate the affair. Baby Dies during liver transplant Chicago a a 7-week-old girl undergoing a liver transplant died saturday in Pittsburgh while 7-Monih-old Meghann Larocco remained Hable f Howing her fourth transplant. Cora Ann Bogle of Dollon ii was pronounced dead Ai 6 23 , nearly nine hours into a 12-hour to 24-hour transplant operation according to Lynn Mcmahon a spokeswoman for children s memorial Hospital in Pittsburgh. Cora Ann flew by air ambulance to Pittsburgh with her Mother Teri and father Allen late Fri Day and surgery began at 9 30 . The difficulty in finding even one liver to transplant into Cora Ann had been noted in news reports a contrast to Meghann s situation. Her surgeon. Or. Chris top Troelsch said thai infants like Meghann who have already had one trans Plant Are Given lop priority. Meghann remained in critical but stable condition at the University of Chicago hospitals Wyler Chil Dren s Hospital according to a Hospital statement is sued saturday night. Doctors have said the first week or so after a liver transplant is the crucial time to judge whether the liver is functioning correctly and is being accepted by the patient s system. Meghann suffered at birth from a liver defect called biliary at Csia and she would have died without transplant. Her first transplant in november failed because of cloning problems. Her second liver which came from a Newborn baby who had died never functioned properly. The third transplanted Organ swelled and became Loo Large to fit correctly in Meghann s Abdomen causing breathing problems and High blood pres sure. Her new liver was donated after the death of it 10 month old Chicago area child. Surgeons said the Organ transplanted tuesday was seemingly perfect and til in nicely though they could not judge Meghann s chances for survival. Stateside divers say they be found 19th-Century steamship Daytona Beach Fla. Up Amateur divers have discovered a wreck they believe to be the steamship Commodore made famous by 19th-Century author Stephen Crane in his Short Story "1 he open  members of an Amateur diving club led by to repairman Don Serbousek have made 23 dives to the wreck in the past two Yean. They said they Are confident that the shattered wreckage is the 123-foot Steamer Commodore. I have a lot of Faith in or. Serbousek s skill and integrity and i would be inclined to believe him said Jim Miller chief of the Bureau of archaeological research for the Florida Divi Sion of historical resources. Wrong Way Driver pleads innocent to 4 deaths los Angeles a a Man Haj pleaded innocent to four counts of murder and other charges in connection with a wrong Way freeway Accident that kilted four people. Daniel e Murray 25, of Lancaster pleaded innocent to four counts of second degree Mur Der four counts of alcohol related vehicular manslaughter and six counts of Drunken driving causing injury. Deputy District attorney bos men Lois said Murray remained in jail in lieu of $350,000 bail investigation said Murray drove the wrong Way on the Ventura freeway for five Miles before train ing into another car at Liberty Canyon 30 mile Northwest of downtown los Angeles the California Highway patrol said nil blood alcohol level at the Lime of the dec. 11 Accident Wai 0.19,nearlytwicethelegalunutof0.10percent 22 protest departure of guard to Panama Minneapolis a about 22 peace activists used homemade ladders to scale an air port Fence saturday to protest the departure of three c-130 transport planes carrying Minnesota National guardsmen to  of the protesters when ventured onto the North end of Minneapolis is. Paul International Airport was arrested but All were issued letters of debarment by authorities said David Pugh an air Force Security officer. The transport planes carried 72 Minnesota guardsmen. The Mission an almost annual event since 1978, include deliveries of mail and supplies to . Embassies in Central America