European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 kit the stars and stripes saturday january 3t, 1987 Waite reported seen in motorcade Beirut Lebanon a hostage negotiator Terry waive has been seen travelling in n motorcade in syrian con trolled East Lebanon and will return to moslem West Beirut within 48 hours a leading Beirut newspaper reported Fri Day. The report by the Independent news paper an Nahar came a Day after mos Lem kidnappers released a picture of a newly abducted american hostage. Rob in Polhill 53, of new York Fly. With two automatic rifles held 10 his head. A statement accompanying the photo graph warned that he two fellow Ameri cans and an Indian kidnapped from Bei rut University College last saturday will be killed if us. Military forces attack Lebanon. In a is briefs Waile an anglican Church envoy who has been working for the release of for eign hostages in Lebanon remained at a secret hideout for an ill Day Friday reportedly negotiating with the shiite moslem captors of two americans kid napped in 1985. A lebanese militia Leader said thurs Day that Waite was seen moving around freely but did not say when or where. However an Nahar said Waile was seen thursday Raveling in a motorcade made up of a Range Rover a Gray Bow car and a Blue Mercedes Benz limousine Between the betas Valley villages of Nakhleh and Bazza Nieh. The newspaper quoted unidentified reliable sources in Beirut As saying Waite was not detained by the hostage holders and would return to Beirut in the next two Days. It did not elaborate. He has been out of sight since Jan. 20 and is believed to Etc concentrating on the cases of Terry Anderson 39, chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press and Thomas Sutherland 55, acting Dean of agriculture at the american univ Ralty Holbein in. There have been repealed reports Waite was being held captive. In Washington defense department sources said the kidnappings of 11 for Eigners in West Beirut in less than two weeks prompted the United slates to hold the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy and its 11-ship Battle group in the Mediterranean sea. The Carrier Ninitta scheduled to re Lieve inc Kennedy also is in the Mediterranean. The United slates has declared Leb anon off limits to its citizens and told the estimated 1,500 americans still Here that their passports will be revoked if they do not leave within 30 Days. Many of then arc of lebanese descent or dual nation als. Seized with Polhill saturday were Alann Steen 47, a native of Boston and a communications instructor Jesse Jona than Turner 39, a native of Boise Idaho and visiting professor of mathematics and Mithilesh War Singh 60, visiting pro Fessor of finance since 1982. Singh has resident alien status in the United Stales. Eight americans Are among the 26 for Eigners now missing in Lebanon. Civil rights activists plan return to Forsyth county Atlanta api civil rights activists will return to Forsyth county the site of civil rights marches the past two weekends to attend Church sunday a spokesman said Friday. The Rev. Hosea Williams a March Leader said he does not know How Many people will travel the 40 mites from Atlanta to the White Community of dimming or which churches they will attend. The press always wants to know numbers. Well i have a new number for you. To to. Lots Wil Liams said at a news conference in front of the crypt of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Williams said neither he nor anyone from a coalition of civil rights groups had contacted ministers in the county to discuss their visit. Those arc god s churches and we Are god s Williams said. We would not like for sunday s act to be described As a demonstration. But a humane senators press Reagan on Salt if treaty terms Washington up senators from both panics vow they will try to make president Rea Gan bring the United states Back into compliance with the a ratified Salt ii treaty if he will not do it himself. Four senators two democrats and two re publicans. Introduced legislation thursday to Cut off any Money to install or maintain weapons that exceed the number of sea and land based missiles and bombers equipped with nuclear tipped cruise missiles allowed under the1979 treaty which was never ratified. The Bill filed by Sens. Dale bumpers d ark., John Chafee r-r.i-, John Heinz a a. And Patrick Leahy Dot is similar to a Bill thai passed the House last year but was dropped just before Reagan s Summit meeting in Iceland. House democrats plan another attempt on the Issue this year. German envoy Home after Seyfang iranian help in freeing hostages Bonn a a government envoy sent to Iran to seek help in winning Freedom for two germans kid napped in Beirut Lebanon has returned Home but officials declined Friday to say if he made any Prog Ress. Government sources said the envoy Reinhard Schlagintwei met earlier in the Day with foreign min ister Hans Dietrich Genscher to report on the trip to Tehran Iran. But officials declined to comment on the substance stalks in Iran. He has returned i believe it was last night for eign ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobot told report ers. I cannot comment further on his government sources thursday said Schlagintwei chief of the ministry s Middle East Section was in Tehran to seek help in rescuing the two germans kid napped earlier this month. Meanwhile officials refused to confirm Friday whether the parents of Mohammed Ali Hamadi one of the alleged hijackers of the Twa jetliner in 1985 who is being Beld in a Frankfurt jail had visited him and his brother the brother All Abbas Himadi also was sent to jail in Frankfurt after his arrest monday on suspicion of helping to plan the kidnappings of the two germans in Lebanon. The Hes Sicher Rund Funk radio station in Frankfurt reported thursday that the parents had visited their sons this week. I was not present at this alleged visit so i cannot say whether it took place or not Interior ministry spokesman Michael areas Butz told a news Confer ence. But Mohammed Ali Hamadi s attorney Gabriele Steck Bromme said her client s parents had visited him in jail. She did not say when the visit bad taken place and added she did not know whether the parents had resumed to their Home in Lebanon. A can confirm that his parents were Here and they saw him she told the associated press. She said she had no information about whether the parents also were allowed to visit the brother Asi Abbas Hamadi. Baker denies trying to sink Buck Washington a Treasury Secretary James a. Baker i making some of the Reagan administration s most detailed comments concerning turmoil in International currency markets Friday said . Officials have not tried to push the value of inc Dollar lower. Baker denied news reports quoting unnamed administration officials As saying the Dollar needed to decline further in order to pressure Japan and Germany to do More to help alleviate America s Trade problems. Baker s comments before the congressional joint economic committee and a report that America s Trade deficit declined substantially in december helped to push the value of the Dollar higher in trading on Friday. Story Pige 9, conversion rates Page 27. The Secretary also hinted that the United states May be preparing for a meeting with four of its top trading partners although he said a meeting of the so called group of five has not been scheduled. The other coun tries arc Japan Germany Britain and France. Currency Markels have been watching carefully for signs that such a meeting would Lake place believing it could result in coordinated action Between the coun tries to stabilize the value of the . Currency a meeting Between the five countries in september 1985 resulted in an Accord to push the Dollar lower As a Way to help reduce the huge . Trade imbalance. A weaker Dollar theoretically should make imports More expensive while making american products More competitive on overseas markets. Report from Page 1 about the diversion of arms Sale proceeds to the Comras last november said the president looked shocked and very sur prised 04 did Regan who uttered an exile while there was no direct evidence Reagan knew about the diversion of Money to the contras he did have at least it meetings at which then National Security Council aide it. Col. Oliver North was present in 1985 and 1986, the report found it also found that at one Point the president met with North and a lower Echelon Cia official stationed in a Central american country. According to evidence compiled by the committee the decision to begin shinning arms to Iran in contradiction of us policy no to sell arms to terrorist nations was made by Reagan As Early As August 1985, although there was conflicting information about the precise Date. The first shipment of Jos Tow anti tank missiles by Israel was made aug. 30. The Deal evolved after an intelligence assessment found Iran might be Ripe for a diplomatic opening that could help counter what was seen As growing soviet influence and initial contacts brought Forth the idea that Iran could help win the release of . Hostages. Israeli officials figured prominently in the Deal s Early stages the report said. The key iranian Contact during the Early stages was Manucher Ghorbani far an arms dealer described by the Cia a a talented Fabricator who later failed a Cia administered lie Detector test. But despite the misgivings Ghorbani far was kept involved by North according to one committee witness. One of the earliest links Between the Sale of arms to Iran and the Effort to provide Aid to the contras came in Jan uary 1986 during elks Between North and Anairam Nir an anti terrorism adviser to then israeli prime minister Shi Mon Peres the report stated. North under questioning by Meese after the plan was discovered last no vember said it was Nir who proposed using Money from the arms Deal to help the Comras. At the time North was dividing his activities Between the Iran project and generating private Aid for the Nicaragua rebels during a period when . Mili tary Aid was forbidden by Congress. North is portrayed in the report As a jealous supporter of the contras who saw an Opportunity to Combine Bis two missions while using israeli intermediaries and Money that did not come from . Sources. In addition to North others who played key roles in both the Iran arms shipments and the Contra Aid Effort were retired air Force maj. Gen. Richard Secord and his business associate Albert Hakim the panel found. Hakim at a meeting dealing with the arms sales Between american and Irani ans in Early 1986, suggested the iranians make a contrib Lioni Over and above the Cost of the arms for the me of the contras or of us that comment was the basis for the pricing of a february ship ment to Iran of Tow anti tank missiles the report said attributing the information to Tom Green an attorney who said he represented North and Seonard. Green said Money from thai Sale was routed through Ijar Fetij into Hakim s financial network and the same thing happened again with in arms Sale in May. Green reportedly said none of his violated the Law because no . Money was involved Only iranians making a contribution the report says. After meeting with Nir in january j 1986, North contacted Adolfo Calero a i Contra Leader and three Bank accounts were subsequently opened in Switzer land inc report said
