European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and strikes monday March 2,1967 Gla nominee is in trouble Laxalt says Washington up the acting Cia  Gate could become the latest victim of the burgeoning Iran arms Centra Aid scandal because he has the smell of trangate on him a presidential confidant said  Republican Leader Robert Dole of Kansas and administration official agreed that gales Nomi nation to replace William Casey As head of the Cia tacos serious difficulty because of Gates and the Agency s role in the scandal. "1 think the Gates nomination is in trouble said for Mer sen. Paul Laxalt a Nev a close Friend and adviser to president Reagan it in t so much with or Gates. Think everybody recognizes he s a proven professional. It s because he has tic smell Oriya Gate on , i think Itiat or. Gates is a victim of circumstances one among Many and that he d have great difficulty in getting confirmed. I think the administration ought to take a second look gales has come under criticism because of reports he and Casey had Early knowledge of a diversion of iranian Arras sales profits to the Nicaragua Conga rebels but did nol report it to the president the Cia also has been attacked for its Active role in the Iran arms Sale. Gates was Deputy director of the Agency until Casey resigned after undergoing brain cancer surgery in  said a group of Republican leaders who met with Reagan on Friday the Day the scandal Force the resignation of White House chief of staff Donald Regan discussed with the president a possible withdrawal of the Gates nomination. " we indicated to him that it the nomination could be in some difficulty if there is a demand. For a Quick Vole said Dole. He predicted a judgment would be made Early this week on whether to withdraw Gates As a nominee the associated press reports that one member of the Senate intelligence committee which must con firm the nomination before it goes to the full Senate has already said he would vote against Gates sen. Arlen Specter r-pa., is the Only senator thus far to publicly announce he would vote against , sen. Patrick Leahy d-vt., said Friday that "20 or 30" of his colleagues were troubled by question about gales. He would not reveal their names while House spokesman Albert Brashear insisted sunday there had been no change in the status of the gales  administration officials acknowledged the nomination was in serious doubt and could be withdraw this week in a further bid to help Reagan emerge from the damage of the Tower commission report on the scandal. Policemen patrol the Champa Elsm in Paris As France beef up Security in he Wake of the Abdullah sentence France tightens Border Security Paris up the military was called in Sunda to beef up Security at Border Points against terrorist attacks following the sentencing to life in prison of lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Authorities did not say How Many soldiers arc involved in the operation. Military personnel arrived at the customs depots at Charles de Gaulle and orly air ports sunday to help inspect crates and parcels for  of police from among the 3,500 officers put on Security duty since Abdallh s trial opened fast monday were seen patrolling the major Paris boulevards looking into and under parked cars for suspicious packages. Abdallah. 35, believed to be a member of the leftist lebanese armed revolutionary factions was sentenced saturday by a Paris court to life in prison for complicity in the 1982 assassinations of an american and an israeli Diplomat and the attempted murder fan american Consul in 1984. Abdallah s release from a French jail was among the demands of those who claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings Between december 1985 and sep tember 1986 in Paris the bombings killed 13 people and injured More than 250.there were threats of renewed bombings if Abdallah were not Given a Light  verdict was a Surprise since government prosecutor Pierre Baechlin had recommended a sentence of less than 10 years so As not 10 make a Martyr of Abdallah and expose France 10 terrorist  of the prosecution s main witnesses Raymond Nart was a secret service agent who played Down Abdallah s role in terrorist activities calling him a Small  government spokesman denied the government tried to influence the verdict and praised the judges for upholding the Independence of the French courts. Socialist president Francois Mitterrand who has the Power to Pardon convicts said last december when asked about freeing another convicted terrorist that he would do so Only if presented with a formal request from the rightist government and then Only on Condi Tion that the six French hostages in Lebanon were  United slates the courts and most opposition parties praised the special seven judge jury that hear the Case for its show of Independence from outside pressure in rendering its verdict Only the French communist party denounced the verdict As directly serving the designs of  the United states which entered the Case a civil party on behalf of Sharon Raj widow of assassinated . Diplomat Charles Robert Ray praised the French court s stand against terrorism. Reagan urged to admit Iran policy was flawed Washington a former sen. Paul Laxalt said sunday he doubts president Reagan is ready to renounce the . Arms Sale initiative with Iran de spite the Tower commission s condemnation of that policy and Reagan s subsequent replacement of while House chief of staff Donald t. Regan. Laxalt of Nevada one of Reagan s closest longtime soviet Fifon Spagel the Star wars project be  said Gorbachev has always had a very Good idea about How to bring european opinion along and would guess that s one  Lugar and Perte ooh said the controversy . Arms sales to Iran had had Little Impact on in Geneva talks. The president has been very steady throughout this period with respect to arms  Perle said. I Don t believe the Iran Issue has significantly affected arms con Tel policy or the conduct of  the soviet proposal did not Call for removal of 100ss-20 missiles from the asian territories of the soviet Union and Pyrle said the United states would continue to press for their elimination. But even if it the treaty winds up with 100 War Heads that is a Radical reduction from the current level which is Well Over 400 in Europe be said. Political confidants said that in his address to the nation later this week Reagan should admit this was a flawed policy. A trip that should t have Bee taken. I d like to have him do that but i Don t think he s there in his own mind  acknowledged in his Jan. 27 slate of the Union address that serious mistakes were made Buthe has never conceded that the administration was seeking to Trade Aims for hostages. Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas joined Laxalt in publicly urging Reagan to Lake full responsibility for the Iran Contra of Rall Wincn or p1"sident makes his nationally broadcast speech probably on wednesday or  Laxalt s View Dole said that Reagan must if not apologize get very close to it during his speech. Dole and def i Don t know if hell do it or not meanwhile former Republican sen John Tower of Texas appearing with Laxalt on Abc to s this week with David Brinkley said he believes Reagan in approving the Sale of . Arms to Tehran had convinced himself that Selling arms to Iran was strikingly different from ran soming  sen. Edmund Muskie a Maine a member of the Tower commission said in a separate interview that the panel s members were appalled Al Reagan s inability to recall details of significant occasions inthe Iran arms Sale affair. I would t say we considered him a mental  certainly we were All appalled by the absence of the kind of alertness and vigilance to his Job and those policies that one expects of a president Muskie said on lbs to s face the nation  was definite in what he remembered and what he did t. But what he did t remember astonished us because by that time we had been exposed to a great Deal of the Story Muskie  took a series of Steps late last week in the aftermath of the Tower commission s report citing the president s Laid Back management style and failures in the performances of key aides such As Regan in explaining How the arms and Money connection Between Iran and the Nicaragua rebels got out of  accepted Regan s resignation As chief of staff although Regan evidently was planning to remaining his Job for at least a Short Lime longer and got former sea. Howard h. Bakerjr. To succeed Regan Baker s tint Day in the White House West Wing will be monday and two longtime aides to Baker took Partin a transition meeting with representatives of Regan on  was returning to Washington sunday from a vacation in  on Reagan s upcoming speech and any changes the president might order in the Wake of the release of the Tower report dominated discussion on weekend television interview . Sam Nunn d-ga., said sunday he disagreed with Tower s position that the Iran Comra affair Wasan aberration in terms of the administration s for eign policy making  is not an aberration Nunn said an interview with television talk show Host John Mclaughlin. Thesis indicative of longstanding problems involving the administration s handling of foreign policy he added