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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1 stripes d commuter airline crash kills 9page 5 o travelling in Morocco is still a bargain stripes Magazine d car Corner checks out the Nissan Pulsar Poland s so Page 13  unofficial . 45, no 320 Friday March a 1987 d 8693 a Reagan Calls Deal a mistake president angry at aides Betsai be of arms Sale to Iran washington1.- president Reagan in a speech Cwb tollo erase doubts about his pre edged wednesday night that his oct iranian initiative deteriorated into an arms for hostages Deal. It was mistake he said. Noting that he had not said much i Public about he affair since november Reagan said i be paid a Price Tor err silence in terms of your Trust and Confidence but i have had to Wail As have you for the Complete  declaring himself angry and disappointed with some Olio served me Reagan said As personally distas Lef As i find secret Bank accounts arum averted funds As the Navy wouldu0tthis happened on my watch. A Reagan s remarks shed Tigh on the Many mysteries of the Jan con Ira affair and said others  to find out where the ran Julns proceeds went. He did not Mclim by name any of the key Iran Centra affair such Aser National Security advisers i Arsem. John Poindexter and Robert Mcfarlane or fired National Security Council aide u. Col. Oliver North. The Oval office address marked Ria in s first detailed response to the Tower commission s criticism of his detached Cal style and ignorance about and consequences of his a responding Jority Leader said it went Parl he said real r should ionized it Walfis orders that Auld arms off i i in ".1 minority Leader Robert Dole said the controversy in t behind rom yet but it s a  he said future Aid to the Contra rebels u now hanging by  Dole added some wanted an apology my own View is he should t have gone that far. He did  criticizing Reagan Tor not addressing the subject earlier dote said this would have been a great speech for the night before thanksgiving. Sen. Patrick Leahy Dot. Called the speech window  after All this is the fourth meeting continued on Page 24 president Reagan says his once secret ran initiative "deteriorated.1 Navy spy sentenced to life in prison Washington a former civilian Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard his Arm around his sobbing wife received life imprisonmentprir"1 of secret . Military  of the nation s worst spy cases. No no screamed his wife Anne Henderson pol lard As she collapsed to the floor after . District judge Aubrey Robinson announced the life term. His wife 26, received a five year prison term for conspiring to receive embezzled government property and being an accessory after the fact to posse National defense secrets. Elf Federal prosecutors said pollar4ftsrael thou Sands of pages of classified Youppi this defendant hasj0lfncd that he sold to Israel volume of  10 feet by 6 feet by 6 feet said Marit . Attorney Charles leap or. Of turned the judge to consider what further honed disclosure of classified information we can expect from Pollard in set Ling the sentence for Pollard s conviction on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage. It s Clear that Bis perspective skewed his View so Wail ill a Jim Unity he is gom business Al Lel Beeper  with the breadth of this Man s knowledge the depth of his memory and his Complete Lack of Honor he is a Pollard very dangerous  in pleading for the court to Grant his wife leniency Pollard 32, said unfortunately 1 sacrificed her inadvertently but the end results Here on the altar of political  i put my wife in a situation where i called upon Herand without any sense of self preservation she responded. I had no right to do that at  Pollard said that if the court has any mercy in it heart any mercy at All that it be extended on behalf of bar husband Ercyl Henderson Pollard said. I Pray to god Ever single Day that i will be reunited with my husband. Thai s All i live  i love Jay very much and when he called me in his1 1th hour i responded because 1 Felt that is what a wife uld do Henderson Pollard said of her efforts to buy Ilease filled with classified documents shortly a Foiw feta but incl �  Wilh her head bowed wiping tears from her  handkerchief during most of the proceedings.  sat impassively across the defense table from  Robinson imposed sentence on both poll wife at the end of a three hour hearing. Poll sea spy on Page 24 Remote Scotland base Mokes sailors feel at Home by Dave . Bureau you would t think the Navy could expect to hang onto its sailors by keep ing them at a Remote site on Scotland s northernmost tip. But that s what seems to be happening at Thurso. When it comes Lime for the 200 Menand women at Thurso to stay on or stay in they do it in record numbers says it. Cmdr. Judy Tarbon base executive officer. For two years straight the tiny communications base has received the Navy telecommunications come s Golden Anchor award for retention. Sailors like Petty officer 3.c. Norma Saldivar turn Down jobs in places like sunny Panama to stay at Thurso. Why would she want to be assigned 250 Miles closer to the Arctic Circle than to London this is the Best place i be eve been the communications specialist said. Saldivar who grew up in an army family said she had been everywhere but Scotland before the Navy put he there. She likes the Homey Atmo sphere at Thurso. Saldivar 22, who s elected to stay a Thurso instead of leaving twice in As Many years said that after a trip to seeker parents in Houston for 30 Days last year she longed to come Home to Thurso. The Navy uses the base As a communications link for air and sea traffic in the North Atlantic so most most of the Thurso sailors arc communications specialists or electronics technicians. Tarbox said the scottish hospitality towards the . Community is Superb. They treat us like we re their yanks " she said. And the sailors have a habit of gelling involved in Community events. Thurso is like the Good of . Of  50 years ago Tarbox said. Kids ran play safely in he Strelis. There in t that much to do no pizza Parlours dance Halls movie  t s the kind of environment where families can get to know each other again she said. Pc ii officer 1 a. Tim Thomas theman in charge of keeping the base s sailors in the Navy and at Thurso say Thurso is the Best assignment he s had in his 17 care in the Navy even if in base is the smallest and inc weather is nol the  and he echoes Tarbox on the Wel come americans get in Thurso a Small Community of about 30,000. He recall the Lime he and his wife slopped a scotsman 10 ask dint Lions they got aride 10 i hair destination instead. Thomas said 87 percent of the thur sae sailors on Page 24  
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