European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday March 2.1987 Reagan backs Gates despite Senate doubts Washington Jap the while House said saturday that president Reagan stands by his Nomi nation of Robert m. Gates to head the Cia even Hough Senate Republican leaders suggest the Nomi nation May be in minority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas was canvassing other senators Over the weekend trying to determine if there was enough support for Gates or whether the nomination should be pulled Back fro the democratic controlled Senate. Dole said Friday he plans to talk this week with Howard Baker the newly appointed White House chief of staff and former Senate majority Leader about the Gates nomination policemen patrol the Champ Elysee in Piciw us i Assiff p / t of anonymity. Gates the Cia s Deputy director was nominated to replace William Casey who resigned following surgery for brain cancer. At the while House on saturday presidential spokesman Martin Fitz Walcer said the president stands behind the two Days of Public hearings by the Intelli gence committee Gates was questioned sharply about his role in the Iran Contra affair particularly his knowledge Aboul the Sale of . Weapons to vote on gales has been set by the panel which would have to approve him before the full Senate vote son the committee will met wednesday to discuss the Tower commission report the 300-Page review thai was sharply critical of Reagan and his while House forthe entire Iran Centra Gates nomination and the timing of a Likely vote will probably be discussed wednesday although no formal Agenda has been Sel. One Republican member of the panel. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania has already said he would vote against Gates. Specter is the Only senator thus far to publicly announce he would vote against gales. However sen. Patrick Leahy d-vt., said Friday that "20 or 30" of hit colleagues were troubled by questions Aboul Gates. He would not reveal their a related development the new York daily news and the Washington Post reported thai attorney Edward Bennett Williams told the president he had no interest in being Cia director. Williams Law firm rep resents la col. Oliver North the former Csc aide who is a key figure in the Iran Contra House spokesman Albert r. Brashear said saturday he had no comment on the report. Apponi Beefa up Security in the Wake of the Abdallah sentence. France of go Fife Border Security Paris up1 the military was Calk in Sundlov beef up Security at Border Points a bins Terrons attacks following the sentencing to if in prison of lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Dallah. Authorities did not say How Majk soldiers Are involved in the operation. aved at the customs depots at Charles a Kaullen and orly air ports sunday to help inspectorate and parcels for bombs. Groups of police from a cent the 3,500 officers put on Security duty since a Utallah s trial opened Las monday were seen Pali Jung the major Paris boulevards looking into an Inder parked cars for suspicious packages of Abdallah 31, Belved to be a member of the leftist lebanese armed of evolutionary factions was sentenced saturday of a Paris court to life in prison for complicity in ut1982 assassinations of an american and an and the attempted murder fan american Josul in 1984. from a French jail was among the demands m those who claimed responsibility for a wave of Combinas Between december 1985 and septemberj986 in Paris. The bombings kilted 13 people and tiered More than 250.ere were threats of renewed bombings if Abdallah not Given a Light sentence the verdict was a Surprise since government pros ecu or Pierre Baechlin had recommended a sentence of less than 10 years so As not to make a Martyr of Abdallah and expose France to terrorist one of the prosecution s main witnesses Raymond i Joyed Down to my him a Small spokesman denied the government tried to influence the verdict and praised the judges Independence of the French courts. Socialist res Ideal Francois Mitterrand who has in Power to a Kim convicts said last december when asked about Oving another convicted terrorist that he would do so on if presented with a formal request from the and then Only on Condi Tion that the six Luttich hostages in Lebanon were freed. The United Stales courts and most opposition parties praised the judge jury that hear the Case for its show of dependence from outside pressure in rendering its the French commune party denounced the verdict As directly serving of amen can a. The United Stales which Entera the Case a civil party on behalf of Sharon Ray Wido Vor assassinated , Diplomat Charles Robert Ray Prat id the French court s stand against terrorism. Soviet dissident seeks Asylum twisters Moscow Dpi dissident psychiatrist Anatoly Kryagin claiming he was tortured virtually non Stop during his six years in prison has issued an Appeal Lowe Stern governments for political Asylum for himself and his a written statement dated feb. 26 and issued to Western news organizations sunday Kryagin said he would continue to fight against human rights abuses soviet always had a very Good Pean opinion along and i the Kara pro Cal cd Gorbach idea about my to Bri would guess . Lugar and pc Hus said the controversy Over . Ami sales to Impact on the Geneva talks. The jul Neil half can very steady throughout this respect Ieve the Iran Tirol policy or the soviet proposal did no missiles from the asian icon and perk said the unite press for i hair elimination. Yen if it the treaty winds up w control a talc significantly affected of level which is Well Over by removal of 100 s of the soviet would Conlin Leo War current inside the soviet Union and said there has been no change in the treatment of dissidents despite Kremlin claims of liberalization. Kryagin 48, was released feb. 18 after serving six years of a 12-year sentence in labor Camps for anti Soviel agitation. He was jailed for criticizing the soviet Union s abuse of psychiatry in human rights cases such As placing dissidents in mental hospitals and keeping them drugged. Kryagin has already informed soviet emigration authorities in his Hometown Kharkov that he wish Eslo leave for the West. However in his Appeal to Western governments Kryagin said he would not leave the soviet Union until his 19-year-old son Ivan serving a three year jail term for hooliganism is released. The soviet authorities declared me anti soviet an threw me behind bars where for six years they subjected me to systematic and calculated physical and menial torture that never stopped for a minute Kryagin wrote in freed i have not to my regret noticed any essential shift in the soviet people s Way of life no matter what the official propaganda organs say about the democratization of the country he see the Almi hey Power of the Kab and mid internal ministry police Over Ordinary people who intern remain without a voice without rights and indifferent to everything emanating from on my work As a doctor am determined to continue legally 10 work on humanitarian questions for human Glits and freedoms he said. Besides his son Ivan 19, Kryagin has a wife. Gal Ina and two other younger sons. From Page 1 Miles Long by two Miles wide through the county.,a Survey should be completed by tuesday allowing the stale to apply for Federal disaster assistance Allain governor said officials could not yet estimate the extent of the damage but he said it would run into the millions of dollars. In All the storm destroyed 2i9 houses and 126 to bite Homes Perkins said and 39 businesses were dam aged or destroyed. It looks like one of the worst Torna do damages we be had he said. It looks More like Hurricane or a War the National weather service reported Trees an Power lines were downed from Rankin county in Cen trial Mississippi near Jackson to the Alabama warnings were issued in eight counties. Forty people were taken to Jones county Community Hospital and 12 others were taken to South Mississippi stale Hospital most suffered cuts and bruises from flying debris and some drove themselves to the hospitals officials Tigirt said he had just heard the warning and climbed into his tick with his wife when the Tornado touched Down it turned the trailer on us i had to kick the Glass said Tigert. The school s gone. The Church and the store they re both Aboul 1,650 customer in Waynesboro were without electricity for about an hour said John Hutchinson of Mississippi Power co. The storm also knocked out service to 200 Laurel residents hut service had been restored to All but 80 by afternoon he said
