European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 31, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Federal probes of contras under Way Washington not several Federal a Conci arc pressing on Mill at least seven criminal investigations of the nicaraguan rebels and their american backers even As president Reagan is urging Congress to provide new Aid for i he contras. A review of the  has uncovered several previously undisclosed and so far unproved Chai Gas involving the contras As Wail As  had not been previously known. For example congressional sources disclosed Titis week that the Federal Bureau of investigation had opened a criminal investigation to determine what happened to most of the 127 million for non lethal supplies for Lac rebels that Congress approved in 1985. A general accounting office report published earlier said most of it could not be traced. Investigators also disclosed in the last several Days that the Gao had begun a separate inquiry into he whereabouts of millions of dollars thai were apparently supposed to be funnel cd to the contras from he Sale of american weapons to Iran. Other open investigations most of them previously known focus on charges that he Contra or their backers smuggled arms trafficked in drugs laundered Money or violated the neutrality which bars americans from involvement in military Effort against countries not Ai War Wilh the uni cd states in addition to these inquiries a special prosecutor and two congressional committees examining the Iran Centra affair arc investigating charges of illegality tied to the contras. The investigations pose a dilemma for the Reagan administration. As it pushes for additional support for the contras the administration is also compelled by statute to investigate reports that the rebels might have broken the Law. The administration is asking Congress for 1105 million in Aid for in contras for the fiscal year that begins next october. Investigators say Reagan s outspoken Public support for he contras has made it difficult for prosecutor Sand other Federal agents to carry on their work. Officials have repeatedly denied accusations that because of administration pressure heir inquiries were Annec sen. David Daren a okla. Left and sen. William Cohen a Mainc discuss Iran arms Deal with press. App Twu Essa Rily slow or incomplete. The investigations Are being conducted by a variety of agencies including the Justice department the fed eral Bureau of investigation the customs service and the general accounting office among others. A number of he investigations Are expected o be turned Over to the special prosecutor in to Iran con Ira Case Lawrence e. Walsh. In announcing his appointment As Independent counsel a three judge panel asked Walsh to investigate the Sale of weapons to Iran and the reports by Ilie White House that some profit had been diverted to the contras. Anti drug theme basis for video rap Star says a Goffa say no Washington a rap music Star Kurtis him As he Sang if you Wanna say no to drugs blow brought 500 High school students to their feet yeah. Say no say no  screaming no no on thursday As he taped a Fader the song begins with a message aimed direct aug Fina Nawf anti Jinp my of it nov Railyn a i first to .-l.-i., no Feder ally financed Ami drug music video called a gotta say  when i was a teen Ager i saw so Many kids who died who of d overdose who would steal and kill for drugs blow said. Blow was recruited by Washington music producer maj lion to get the anti drug message across in a song and video being sent to radio and television station around the country. We thought the Only Way to reach some kids was through heir music lion said. The song written by blow and by washingtonians William Lundgren and Leigh Stevens features Back up vocals by five students from Washington s Duke Ellington High school for the performing arts. Funds for the video were provided by action the Federal Agency thai supervises Volunteer efforts. The 23-year-old blow is working for free on the project. During he taping thursday blow jumped across the Small school stage and inspired the students in the audience to stand wave their hands and Call Back Lohi say yeah the s directly at Urban teen agers the Man s comin round your school today with a i kinds of Candy on his Iray he s got smack and crack and love boat Loo and every kind of Candy just for you. Hell put you in jail and show you How to die so keep your Cash and Tell the Man no if you Waist to chill out there s a better Way to  the record was made he said because i feel there should be More Enfort Ainars projecting positive images. There is an epidemic of drugs Oul there and ii Skilling our youth music has always had a bad rap. A Tot of entertain ers have made mistakes using drugs and it s put out a serious stigma. But this image its just not True i m drug free Don t even drink Beer he said. Blow is one of the leading stars of rap a form of music popular among Urban teen agers that uses a heavy driving Backbeat and rhyming lyrics. Rolling Siwwi p Kurtis blow archbishop Trifa Dies was deported for nazi ties by he new York times archbishop Valerian Trifa who was deported from the United Stales in 1984 after being accused of being a nazi supporter who incited attacks on jews and other civilians in world War ii died wednesday in a Hospital in Cas cais Portugal. He was 72 years old and recently suffered a heart attack. Until his deportation the archbishop was the spiritual Leader of 35,000 Mem Bers of the romanian orthodox Episco Pate based in grass Lake Mich. He was ordered to leave the uni cd states in 1982 but spent two years trying to find a country that would give him ref Uge. Pongal admitted him in 1984. The Core of the Justice department Scase against Trifa was that he had entered the United Stales under false pre tenses in 1930. It charged that he concealed a past that incl now membership in a group called the Iron guard a fas Cist movement similar to list Naji storm troopers in Germany. Federal officials said a speech in Bucharest Romania by tril a on Jan. 20, 1941, touched off four Duji of attacks in which 300 jews and others were killed. Trifa repeatedly denied directing an attack against jews. But he acknowledged when faced with evidence that he was a member of the group. He also admitted editing an anti jewish news paper and giving pro nazi speeches he remained unrepentant. "1 am no ashamed of my past at All he ipod an interviewer in 1973. For those Circum stances in thai time 1 think that i did thave any other alternative but 10 do what i thought to be right for the inter ests of the romanian  on entering the uni cd Slaidi after the War he claimed he was a displace person who had been in a concentration Camp in Germany. In its Case against him the government charged that infant he lived in Germany with special  in Transylvania in 1914, he was ordained As a priest of the romanian Church soon after his arrival in the uni cd states. He Rose quickly to the rank of Bishop and archbishop. In i960, Trifa voluntarily surren dered his citizenship hoping that would put an end to the government s  efforts however continued and in 1982, in the midst of a trial before a immigration judge in Detroit the Arch Bishop voluntarily agreed to his deportation because of the financial Burden inc trial was putting on his Church