European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday january 25,1987 soviet Carrier patrols med As 6th Fleet exercises Naples Italy a the soviet aircraft Carrier Kiev patrolled in the Mediterranean near Libya and Egypt Friday while the . 6lh Fleet continued exercises South of Sicily. A Navy reconnaissance plane flew several runs pan inc Kiev and three other soviet warships As they neared an Anchorage Point off Salum just inside Egypt s Border with Libya. Journalists on the plane saw two Toyiel Heli copters on flight operations about 15 Miles from inc task Force. The 37,100-ton Kiev accompanied by two destroyers and a Cruiser is the first soviet air Craft Carrier in the Mediterranean since the fall of 1985, Navy spokesman it. Dave Morris said. He Sard its deployment appeared to be routine. Meanwhile. 29 us ships including the carriers Kennedy and Nimitz continued their we Klong Maneu vers in the Central Mediterranean. Morris said. The exercises which Are id end sunday were planned to test air sea and amphibious operations he said. Bogus documents dealer sentenced in bomb deaths Salt Lake Cit a a documents dealer pleaded guilty Friday to reduced murder charges in the pipe bomb slayings of two people killings thai prosecutor said he committed to escape detection As a trafficker in bogus historical papers. Mark Hofmann was sentenced to five years o life in prison in the 1985 death of a customer who bought the fraudulent White Salamander idler about the mormon Church s founder and the death of the wife of the customer s former business associate. The Pica bargain agreement ended one of the most sensational cases it Utah history and Al Lowed Hofmann to avoid the possibility of the death penalty. In addition to two counts of second degree murder Hofmann pleaded guilty to two counts of theft by deception. Hofmann 32, also agreed to Brief prosecutors on his involvement in he slayings and 28 re lated charges of fraud theft by deception and bomb making that he had faced before the agreement. 3 americans kidnapped continued from Page t immediately available nor was the identity of the kid nappers. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The Indian was identified As Milf Ileshwa Singh a professor of business and finance and chairman of the business department. School officials said the four teachers had been Liv ing with their wives on Campus and had not been going out because of recent kidnappings in West Beirut. In Washington the slate department had no imme Diate comment. Police meanwhile tried to establish the identity and whereabouts of two foreigners abducted Friday from West Beirut s main commercial thoroughfare. Before Friday 19 foreigners were missing and believed kidnapped in Lebanon five americans six frenchmen two germans two britons an italian an irishman a South korean and a saudi arabian. Wait personal emissary of archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie was last seen tuesday evening As he left his Seaside hotel for talks with the hostage takers. The Christian voice of Lebanon radio station re ported Waile was heading Back to his Seaside hotel saturday evening after negotiations in Baalbek an ancient cily in East Lebanon s syrian controlled Bekaan Valley. Waite s druse militia escorts have said he has been negotiating with islamic jihad. The organization reputedly composed of pro iranian shiite extremists kid napped americans Terry a. Anderson 39, chief mid dle East correspondent for the associated press and Thomas Sutherland acting Dean of agriculture at the american University of Beirut. Inc voice of Lebanon radio station earlier reported an Anonymous caller claiming to speak for the organization of the oppressed on Earth Laid both victims abducted Friday were German and one would be executed by 6 . Saturday unless Germany released Mohammed Ali Hamadi. The deadline passed with no further word. Hamadi a shiite lebanese was arrested in Frank Furt on Jan. 13. The United states is seeking his extradition to face charges of air piracy and murder in connection with the june 198$ Hijack of a Twa jetliner to Beirut. Police said they were unable to determine the nationality of inc two foreigners abducted Friday. Wit Nesses saw gunmen grab the men and bundle them into a car. They heard tie victims protest in a foreign Lan Guage that they could not identify. A senior government official in Bonn the German capital said Hamadi s brother might be involved in the earlier abductions of two germans in West Beirut. It May be that his brother is involved in Kidnap Ping businessman Rudolf cords s3, and Engineer Alfred Schmidt 47, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Press reports in Germany identified the brother who allegedly ordered the kidnappings As Abdul Hadi Ham Adi Beirut Security chief of Hezbollah. Cordes was abducted by gunmen at he drove from die Airport into town Jan. A four Days after Hamadi s arrest. Schmidt was kidnapped tuesday. The voice of Lebanon quoted. Saturday s Anonymous caller As saying More germans will be Kidnap Ped if Hamadi is not March from Page 1 where Joseph Lowery president of the Southern Christian leadership conference said Friday. Three thousand demonstrators who arrived Early by car Sang America the Beautiful and chatted in the so degree sunny weather while they waited. About 6,500 other activists boarded 160 buses in downtown Atlanta for inc 40-mile trip. Gov. Joe Frank Harris and local Law enforcement officials were determined to avoid a replay of last weekend s confrontation. This is the greatest show of Force on the part of the state of Georgia in history said Barbara Morgan spokeswoman for Harris. The governor sent 1,700 National guardsmen in camouflage uniforms to surround the marchers As they moved along the route. The guardsmen wore helmets Dod from Page 1 Cnoc. The summary says. The revelation came As Republican House Leader Robert m Ichel said he doubts president Kurgan is going to do much to Rase the Iran Contra controversy in his state of the Union address next tuesday. Michel. R-lll., interviewed by the associated press said he fears it May be Loo Laic to repair much of the damage from the Iran con tra controversy. The Only thing frankly that s going to satisfy the american people is to Lay out everything cold Turkey for them and then let s gel on with it he said. Miche said he thirsts it is unrealistic to think Reagan is going to say we blew it and Lei s go on from Here he still does t want to say in another development special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh has urged the Spe Cial House and Senate committees investigating the affair not to Grant immunity to the former National Security adviser vice . John Point enter or to fired White House aide la col. Oliver North. Reps. Henry Hyde rih. William room Flold a Mich. And Dante Fascell. D-fla., saturday told the associated press that Walsh sent a letter and Legal memorandum to the chairman of each committee. They said Walsh urged the panels not to Grant immunity to poin Tuemer and North both of whom have cited constitutional rights against self incrimination in refusing so far to answer questions about the arms Sale. The congressmen confirmed that in his letter Walsh said immunity would create serious and perhaps insurmountable barriers to the prosecution of the and the Independent commission headed by former sen. John Tower of Texas interviewed sex president Nixon for More than an hour in Washington Friday. A spokesman for the committee Soldier sentenced in slaying of go by the Star and stripes Butzbach. Germany a 26-year old Soldier was convicted thursday of the premeditated murder of put. 2 Cynthia Burnett he co in brigade 3rd army div said master sgt. Mercer bul lock division spokesman. Pfc. Edward l. Whitehead admitted to killing 19-year-old Burnett but said he was acting in self defense and he was intoxicated Burnett s body with multiple Stab wounds was found july i Ai 5 40 . On a Road by Ayers Cavern near Kirch Goens. Whithead he co 3rd in 36th inf also was convicted of forcible sodomy. The military jury at Schloss Cavern Butzbach sentenced Whitehead to life imprisonment forfeiture of All pay and allowances reduction to private and a dishonourable discharge. Declined to say exactly where the inter View took place or reveal what Nixon said. The interview came a Day after the committee interviewed sex president car Ter in Plains a. The army audit found the Cia had been charged $11.7 million for 2,008 Tow anti tank missiles and an assortment of spare parts for Hawk air defense missiles. But the auditors discovered the mis Siles were of two different models that varied in their original Price. The under charge resulted when the army charged the Cia the same lower Price for All 2,008 missiles instead of a different Price for each Model. The Tow missiles transferred to the Cia included 1,508 Basic models Worth roughly $3,495 apiece and 500 slightly newer models Worth $8,070 apiece. The Bill using the lower of those prices for All 2,008 missiles was prepared be fore it was realized that it would be Nec Essary to use two different Tow models because we had insufficient Stock of the lower priced Tow the Pentagon said. That under charge was Iben magnified by a failure to Levy a Standard percentage rate for packing crating and handling serv ices As required by defense department regulations the summary concluded. Nothing has been found to Bow that the error was anything but an honest mistake the summary said. Cia director William Casey had previously told reporters his Agency paid $12.2 million to the Pentagon for the missiles it sold to Iran. Sims said be did not know How Casey had reached that figure but said it was in error and the Correct amount was 111.7 million. With visors and carried 3-foot riot Batons. In addition 148 state Highway patrol can circled the courthouse Square while 3so troopers almost half the state patrol took up positions in downtown dim Ming a City of about 2,800 people. About i so Georgia Bureau of investigation agent aug Wezeon hand. William Bradford Reynolds head of the . Justice department s civil rights division arrived to make sure we cooperate with Law enforcement and allow the March thai started last weekend to finish. To not have a repeat the March came one week after a similar March by. 75 Blacks and Whites was disrupted by about 400 Kun Konx klan members and supporters who pelted them with rocks bottles and mud. Virtually no Blades have lived in the county since 1912, when a Black Man was shot to death in jail and two others were convicted end hanged in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old White woman. Nearly 40,000 people live in the county today. Agency denies Casey quitting As Cia chief Washington Dpi there is no truth to reports that Cia director William Casey who underwent brain surgery last month will shortly resign the Cia said. Lbs news quoting sources Friday night reported that Casey Hopes to leave the Hospital this week and make one last visit to the Agency s Headquarters to sub Mil his resignation. Cia spokesman George Lauder denied the network report saying Casey has not expressed any intention to resign to Agency officials. Perhaps lbs s Anonymous source was the tooth the network said its sources said Casey could leave Georgetown univer sity Hospital As Early As Iii week. They said he will return to the Virginia head quarters just Long enough to submit his resignation to president Reagan. Deputy Cia director Robert gales being i inc ailing director Posl Casey was hospitalized dec. 15, after suffering a brain seizure at his office. He Sufle Recta second seizure later in the Day. On thursday a spokeswoman for Georgetown University Hospital con firmed reports that Casey 73, had pros late cancer is months ago but said the disease was successfully treated
