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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d bigger Oha advances of d for Economy gis Page 3 d budget forcing . To close 7 foreign missions Page 8 d rockets coach pitch notches 700th Victory sports Page 21 auth Mitlo unofficial.  Foi the . Armid oct vol. 45, no 300 saturday february 14, 1987 d 8693 a panel gets White House files Washington a the White House Friday said it has turned Over thousands of documents com Puter discs Telephone loss and other  to an investigatory Board probing the Iran arms affair and expects a very critical report and a very Tough re port we have said from the beginning let the chips fall where they May. Well take our lumps. Get to the Bottom of this. Tell us what happened said presiden tial spokesman Martin Fitzwater. And if this report is critical and Lough and lays it All out that s exactly what we want he said. Playing Down reports of friction Between inc while House and the Board Filz water said the administration and the panel have a very Good relationship. How Ever he acknowledged inc White House was surprised by a request Tor Reagan to order two former aides it col. Oliver North and adm. John Poindexter trend their silence and testify. Reagan denied the request arguing that such an order would be unlawful. The Board named by Reagan last november and in filzmaier Orde Toug and the Las a stripes readers come through with ways to say i love you How do stars and stripes readers love we can count the ways More than 1.200, if today s Spe Cial Valentine s Day insert is any indication. The 12-Page Section at the Center of today paper includes messages from readers stationed across Europe from Poshie to snuggles from Bug Donna to magic Jeff and to sonic Wentz from footer our favourites the one signed by Pillow lips and the message from Susan who was desperately seeking Steven. The most appropriate name in the Bunch Tessa valentins Anlos who must celebrate St. Valentin every Day of the year. One Reader used her message to announce some big news she s pregnant. And at least two used their 25 words to pop the big question will you marry me and a Mannheim schoolteacher offered her Stu dents d Valentine s Day special find and clip out the message bring it to class and get a night off from Homework. Now that s a big heart. Some readers found unusual ways of expressing their love. Scutch for example sent his wife a 76-word message with this note to uie newspaper please print this without any spaces Between  another message began even though things Haven t been 100 percent wonderful lately there were rhymes of course and a few mysteriously mixed metaphors to the elephant Man one Valentine greeting reads you Are an animal Diamond in the Mouth of a  but when in came to saying i love you maybe mania summed in up Best with the Couplet she sent to Butch. I must confess she wrote i can t say How much 1 love you in 25 words or  we think she did a pretty Good Job with just 16. Valentines but did t arrive in time for this Spe Cial Section will run in a future edition. Headed by former sen John Tower a tews is re viewing some 3,000 documents and other information stored in the White House computer system. Citing recently acquired new information the Board asked Brand received an Extension of its deadline for reporting its findings. The report delayed twice now is due feb. 26. Fitzwater said that Early this month the White House gave the Board More computer discs on which memos were stored desk calendars Telephone logs. See files on Page 28 facing threats envoy returns from Colombia Bogota Colombia up _ . Ambassador Charles Anthony Gillespie facing increasing death threats since Colombia extradited a reputed drug King pin to Florida has resumed to the United Silies an embassy source said Friday the fort Lauderdale news and Sun Sentinel sat Gillespie left Bogota hastily Thun Day after  indicated he was the object of a drug related kidnapping and prisoner Exchange plot. The Sun Sentinel said Gillespie let so quickly his own staffers were not notified. The newspaper said intelligence reports indicated narcotics traffickers planned to assault Gillespie s vehicle which is armoured and always escorted by troop carriers and hold him hostage. But the embassy source in Bogota said Gillespie strip had been previously planned and he returned to the United slates to visit his family. A police source said death threats against Gillespie had increased since the arrest and extradition to the United Stales of reputed drug trafficker Carlos Enri que Lender Rivas feb. 4. The police source said Security was doubled at Gil Lespie s official residence because of the threats. Lender accused of heading a drug Cartel responsible for 75 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United states was captured along with 13 bodyguards in a shoot out at his ranch hideout near Medellin North West of Bogota. The Sun Sentinel said intelligence reports indicated Gillespie would be taken hostage and offered in Exchange for under who is being held in jail in North Florida. A source close to the ambassador told the newspaper sea envoy on Page 28 optimistic rumours spark gains by Dollar by . Komlyn Leckt staff Wriler Frankfurt the Dollar Rase slightly against european currencies Friday fuelled by continued specie a f off elation thai a meeting of the Rupi in f 1f Iii � group of five a in the  nil stages and Rumora that Japan would trim its interest rates inthe next few Days to Hall the Greenback s slide against the yen. Finn word on a meeting of the finance ministers from the five leading industrialized nations the United states Germany Japan great Britain and France would tend to strengthen America s currency on speculation that the ministers would arrive at a plan to Shore up the Dollar currency trader said. Treasury Secretary James Baker Iii earlier this week said there were no plans far such a meeting but re mors have persisted the traders said. Ulrich Hoerster who directs inc Frankfurt currency Exchange Friday said the Market remained cautious and lacked Clear direction. Everyone is waiting for firm a Ord on whether the g-5 will meet he said. Obviously in the Long run there will be a meeting because they must do som thing but when he echoed the sentiments of other Gernian economist Sand political figures that the Reagan administration must abandon its policy of talking Down the Dollar and find other ways to mend America s financial woes. Calling the problems of the american Economy the fault of others is not Only not a solution it is not  said. A weaker Dollar does serve 10 lower America s Trade deficit by making foreign goods Marc expensive Hoerster said but such tactics amount to Little More than sleight of hand. Ii is impossible for America to get rid of its Trade deficit to increase exports because so Many american goods Are already produced abroad he said. One of the subsidiaries of Bethlehem steel for example its Branch in Spain just lowered prices to com Pete with the steel companies in America. That is the situation. Except for a few years following inc War America has always had a Trade  Hoerster said he was surprised that announcement by Baker saying the Dollar was overvalued have been so effective at driving the currency Down. Getting the Dollar from 3,40 Marks to 1.80. That was a political ploy that was t the Market. Left on it sown in a Market free of political statements the Dollar would Rise and , who directs the largest of Germany s five Money exchanges said he puts the Dollar s real value at slightly More than 2 Marks based on comparisons of Poncei in the two countries. Without a meeting of the g-5, boosting the Dollar in see Dollar on Page 28  
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