European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday february 2,1987 Gao accuses panel of illegalities Washington up a presiden tall commission responsible Tor Monitor ing . Chemical warfare capabilities a engaged in illegal lobbying and improper spending a congressional report charged saturday. The report by the general accounting office the investigatory Arm of con Gress blamed defense Secretary Caspa Weinberger s office for failing to comply with administrative requirements concerning the chemical warfare review commission established in 1985. A defense department spokesman had no immediate comment saying Pentagon officials had not seen the Doc it is briefs Umont and could not discuss id findings. The two lawmakers who requested the review rep. Dante Fascell d-fla., chairman of the House foreign affair committee and rep. Jack Brooks d to ifs chairman of the government operations committee said the findings prompted them to question now More than Ever the continuation of the government s binary nerve Gas weapons pro Grain. The program involves the use of mis Sile warheads or artillery shells to carry nerve Gas. The Active components Are kept in separate compartments to pre vent them from accidentally combining into an often deadly mixture. They arc allowed to mix Only after the shells Are in flight toward their intended  commission was mandated by Congress to review an important aspect of our nation s defense the chemical warfare program Fascell and Brooks said instead of a proper review the added we got illegal lobbying improper expenditures incomplete accounts breaches of Federal regulations and absolutely no documentation on Bow the commission reached its substantive conclusions which endorsed in binary chemical weapons  they said the report follows the re lease last year of a Gao Legal opinion that Weinberger s office hired and paid outside lobbyists and Public relation consultants to promote support Tor the commission s views even though the Hir Ings violated the Law. The report alleged that the defens Secretary s office mismanaged the com Mission complaining government fund improperly were spent financial record were incomplete and there were no substantive minutes of commission pro  agendas no written min utes and scant financial accounts violate the Law and abuse Public and congressional Trust Fascell and Brooks said. American arrested in . On drug charge London a police have arrested a american Man in connection Wilh the biggest co Caine haul Ever seized in Britain 95 pounds Worth the equivalent 19 million on the Street. Scotland Yard said David Wesley Medin 44,arrived at London s Heathrow Airport on wednesday and was followed by detectives in act and mouse surveillance As be switched from taxis to trains and eventually made his Way tog rays outside London in Essex county where he picked up two  said they followed Medin about 10 Miles to Dagenham in East London where the stopped him Friday night searched the suitcases and found the  is charged with possessing cocaine with intent to Supply. He was to appear in court monday. Chief political adviser to president resigns Washington a Mitchell e. Danielsjr. Has resigned Ai president Reagan s chief political adviser and will return to Indianapolis to become executive vice president of the Hudson Institute the White House announced  roman Popadiuk said Daniels 37, submitted his resignation Friday and it was accepted with regret by the president. Popadiuk said Daniels will leave the $75,000-per-year position March i. Police protesters clash Karachi riot toll hits 8 Karachi Pakistan a armed police battled rioters armed with rifles and gasoline bombs sunday As the toll from three Days of rioting Over the imprisonment of a legislator Rose to eight dead and More than 100  Hundred members of the Bihari ethnic group attempted to March on a police station inthe City s Orangi District sunday morning to de Mand the release of the legislator. Riot police blocked the route and opened fire when the marchers pelted them with rocks and  erupted Friday when the Bihari began demanding the release of Afaq Shohid Abi Fixari Leader and a member of the National As Sembly who was arrested last year on charges of possessing explosives. Bihari Are refugees from Bangladesh who sided with Pakistan when Bangladesh was break ing away from Pakistan. Collision on Rhine spills 42 tons of fertilizer Dormagen Germany a forty two tons of fertilizer spilled into the Rhine River Early sunday when a Swiss Tanker collided with an anchored freighter authorities said. A freighter Crew Man is missing and is presumed drowned Duess Dorf officials sounded the International Rhine alarm us in the Case of chemical accidents along the River. The Dusseldorf ciry government is responsible for the Pott of  alarm was lifted Ai 4 30 . Up Essendorf authorities said late sunday the Accident  harm local drinking water supplies. Pane May seek Reagan notes in Iron arms Confra vesti Gatton Washington a president Reagan keeps personal notes about his activities but releasing them to congressional committees investigating the Iran arms Contra controversy May infringe on the privacy of the president and others a while mouse spokesman said sunday. The existence of the notes first was reported in Sun Day s editions of the Washington Post. The newspaper also reported that some members of a Senate commit tee investigating the Iran Contra affair want to look at the notes but that no formal decision had yet Bee made. Asked if Reagan kept such recollections Whitehouse spokesman Don Mathis said yes be does keep notes that he makes from time Totime at his residence in the evening. They Are personal notes on his private and official  Senate panel has t yet asked for the notes Mathis said but the notes Are personal and the Whitehouse believes that to release them would infringe on the privacy of the president and  while House spokesman Larry Speakes said sunday that i was not aware that the president kept notes of a diary of any  Speakes who left Bis position Friday As chief while House spokesman to take a Job with the Walt Street firm Merrill Lynch was interviewed pm lbs tvs face the  the president has been very very open with the congressional committees Speakes said. He has been very open with allowing Cabinet officers to go tothe Capitol Hill. We have submitted a lot of documents to the Hill without a  if tie president might turn Over his Persona notes to congressional investigators Speakes said Iguess it would be a question of whether the president Felt that he was giving in something that might bind fixture presidents to a  the White House has supplied a number of documents to congressional investigating committees including the Senate intelligence committee. That pane issued a report last week and plans to turn its work Over to a separate investigating committee headed by sen. Daniel k. Inouye a Hawaii. In other developments the Post in sunday s editions quoted saudi Ara Bian arms dealer Adrian Khash Oggi As saying that the idea of overcharging Iran for . Arms originated with the israelis. The extra Money was to be tunnelled Bac Kinto Iran to help unnamed moderates who were in the government of the Radical moslem nation Khashou Witold the newspaper. Khash Oggi said the overcharging system was discovered in january 1986 by i. Col Oliver North then an aide on Reagan s National Security Council. North. Who was fired alter the link Between the Iran arms sates and Aid to the nicaraguan rebels became publicly known May have decided instead to use the extra Money to bankroll the Central Khash Oggi said."1 think he inherited the whole system and used it for Nicaragua Khash Oggi told the newspaper. Secretary of stale George Shutlz said in an inter View published Over the weekend that the arms Salesman have contributed to the escalation of hostage Tak ing in  Structure of the arms deliveries and the connection with he hostages May have gotten pretty lightly connected in which Case the perception of the Irani ans. Would be that hostages Are a thing of value Shultz said in an interview with . News & world  you gel thai established in somebody s mind then you pave problems Shultz said. The More you make out of hostages the More value is placed on them by the hostage  has repeatedly said he knew nothing about the diversion of any profits from the Iran arms sales tothe anti sandinista rebels. Thai diversion is one of the key areas the Senate panel along with a separate House investigating committee Wilt review. Reagan has also promised to fully cooperate wit the congressional investigations. On dec. 2, he said i recognize fully the interest of Congress in ibis Matterand the fact that in performing its important oversight and legislative role Congress will want to inquire int what occurred. We will cooperate with these inquiry  1974, the supreme court turned Down then president Nixon s claim of executive privilege in the watergate Case and said he had to surrender memo he had dictated. The High court said the president had to turn Over relevant evidence in a criminal investigation if be were issued a subpoena. Hostages from Page 1  the second threatened to kill them if .forces attacked Lebanon. They were accompanied by photos of Polhill and Singh. Meanwhile a senior militia official said negotiations involving Syria Iran and lebanese militia Lead ers were under Way sunday to determine the Fate of anglican Church hostage negotiator Terry Waite. These hush hush talks Are in High gear said the militia official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The parties concerned Are burning the wires trying tonsure or. Waite s safely. Plenty of syrian and iranian emissaries Are shuttling Back and  the Lack of direct word from or. Waite since Hadi appearance two weeks 350 has alarmed All sides concerned and every Effort is being made to find out about him said the official. Waite the personal emissary of archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie flew to Beirut Jan. 12 on his fifth trip to Lebanon to win Freedom for foreign hos  has not been heard from or seen since be left the Riviera hotel in West Beirut on Jan. 20, presumably to negotiate with islamic jihad a pro iranian shiite faction that holds two  warlord Walid Jum Blau whose militia bad been in charge of Waite s Security before his disappear Ance offered himself As a hostage saturday to replace Waite if reports of Bis abduction Are  the Church of England said its envoy had left a message forbidding any Rescue Mission Ransom  or substitution of hostages if he were kidnapped. Church spokeswoman eve Keatley said the statement from Runcie about Waite message was is sued after London s sunday express reported that Bei rut terrorists were demanding a Ransom of 14 million for Waite s Safe  also said sunday that he had no fresh news about Waite. I have had some Contact yester Day saturday indirectly. 1 am very anxious about where be is he said