European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d few a student visiting fort Lauderdale this  5 d Calvin Hobbes farside Start today Page 18 d Brabham team wins Miami up sports Page 21 author Ifo unofficial mlll.lca1ton fat my vol. 45, no. 317 tuesday March 3, 1987 Tim a h0 d8693a Gates out As Cia nominee Washington a Robert  a decided to withdraw this week As president Reagan s nominee for director of the Cia. According to a published report. The decision which was not confirmed by White House and Cia spokesmen came As Senate leaders warned that the Nomi nation was in rouble. Gates reached the decision without much prodding the Washington Post reported in monday editions. The news paper cited Well informed administration and congressional  however White House spokesman Al Bert Brshear said Lale sunday or. Gates is still the president s  spokeswoman Kathy Pherson said. He has t withdrawn As nominee Andas far a we know he does t have any plans to do so no word of any such withdrawal has reached the Senate intelligence commit tee which is reviewing the nomination said David Holliday a spokesman for committee chairman David Boren. Senate minority Leader Bob Dole a Kan said sunday thai the Reagan administration will decide Early this wee whether to withdraw the nomination. Dole also said he did t think in would be a Good idea Tor Gates the acting Cia director to be sort of held out there forgive or six months until special congressional committees conclude their investigations into the Iran Centra affair. Gates 43, a lop Cia official during the period in 1985 and 1986 when . Weapons were shipped secretly to Iran and profits diverted to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua was nominated last de Cember to succeed William j. Casey who resigned after being operated on forebrain cancer. Earlier this month inc Senate Intelli gence committee grilled Gates about his knowledge of he weapons shipments Toiran and sen. Artyn Specter r-pa., voiced concerned about gales role in Iran con Ira affair. Dole appearing on Abc to s meet the press was asked whether he thought Gates nomination should be withdrawn i know in s been discussed at inc while House dote replied explaining see Gates on Page a rescuers carry a Stretcher front helicopter at Thetaz a Dodea us resort near tubes in the French pyrenees after a chairlift stilled. Five skiers were chairlift tragedy App Oil killed and 25 seriously injured when they were pitched from onto the Snow and rocks. Sixty others offered lesser injuries. See Story Page 2. Laxalt doubts Reagan Rea to admit Vej or Washingto form Ink. Paul Lana Lur nov said Sunol he Doubis  Reagan is ready to recount Mlac . Not Kali initiative with Iran despite the town comes won s condemnation of that policy and re a s_sj0lccjiicnl replacement of White House chief of s Laxdall one of re confidants said that in later this week the flawed policy. A try d like to Havck Sid Tregan closest longtime political plan s address to the nation should admit this was a would t have been , but i Don t think lie Sidol there i n his own Nyk   in i Lac of the Union address on Jan. Rihm serious i stakes were made but he has  that Tovac ministration was seeking to try arms for  Republican Leader Bot Dolc of Kansas joined lib i in publicly urging Redan to Lake  for the Iran con Ira nil when the pc  his nationally broadcast Smuch probably on worn cuday or thursday. % ring Laxalt s View Dole said that Wigan must if Fiot apologize gel very close la a Zurini his in Foch. Dole added i Don t know if hell fat it orbit meanwhile former sen. John Tower a Telias appearing with Lasall on Abc to s this week with see Laxalt on Page 28 . Officials Praise soviet missile proposal Geneva. Switzerland a visiting . Officials hailed a soviet offer of an immediate agreement to rid Europe of medium Range nuclear missiles and arms control negotiators scheduled a special session monday to discuss in. I think in is a constructive step that should open the Way to concluding the remaining issues leading ultimately to a treaty said assistant Secretary of defense Richard n. Pyrle on  Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said saturday that the soviet Union is willing to sign without delay an agreement to eliminate soviet and american medium Range missiles from Europe within five years. But Perle warned that both sides at the Geneva talk would have to agree on ways to police a treaty and on Many other details before a final document could be  said the current round of Geneva arms talks due to end wednesday May be extended to discuss medium Range weapons. Sen. Richard 0. Lugar r-ind., visiting Geneva witha Senate observers group said he hoped a comprehensive arms treaty could be ratified before president Ria see proposal on Page 2fl Fary Ca Ted in As France tightens Border Security it of r in in Ellie la into beef up Security at Border Pom my attacks following the sentencing to life in prison of lebanese Mililani Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Authorities did not say How Many soldiers Are involve Din the operation. Military personnel arrived at the Cus Toms depots at Charles de Gaulle and orly airports sure Day to help inspect crates and parcels for Botill Fici 1 groups of  too officers Luton Security Duff Ince Abdallah s irial opened lust monday were seen patrolling the major Paris Boule or into and under parked cars for sushi Shadallah 35, belie lebanese armed   in prison i ugtmjprniei982 assassinations of an american Diplomat and an israeli Diplomat and the attempted murder of an american Consul in 1984. Abdallah s release from a French jail was among the demands of those who claimed responsibility for aware of bombings Between december 1985 and sep tember 1986 in Paris. The 1 Gaa Jui Judt Amadu Ewere threats of renewed bombings if Abdalla live since govern men prosecutor Pierre  my Guyleda ice acc of less than 10 years so As not  � see France