European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The 8tar3 and stripes 8flluf Tay,mveh7,1m7 Reagan seeks $8.6 million for 2 broadcast services Washington Jap president Reagan naked Congress on thursday for an emergency appropriation of $8,6 million 1o continue Broad cast aimed at the soviet bloc. The additional funds were requested for the fiscal year ending sept. 30 for the us govern ment Board for International broadcasting which oversee operation of radio free Europe and radio  free Europe broadcasts in Eastern european languages to Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania and Bulgaria. Radio Liberty broadcast in the language of the soviet  operations Are separate from the voice of America which broadcasts worldwide for . Information Agency. Demjan Juk can t provide Alibi prosecutors charge Jerusalem up prosecutor say re tired , aul worker John Demjan Juk cannot explain his whereabouts when a nazi guard called Ivan the terrible helped murder 850,000 jews in the Gas Chambers of Hitler Streb Lillta death Camp. Demianiuk. A. . Immigrant accused of being the sadistic Ivan insists he was never at Treblinka and spent world War ii As a soviet Soldier in German pow Camps. But israeli investigator Alexander ish shalom testified thursday that Demjan Juk cannot name the prisons or remember anything about  handed the court a document Purpo from were extermination centers. The defense says the document is a phony concocted by the soviet Kab Security service. It will undergo court ordered Laboratory tests to determine whether it is authentic. French author Arnaud dead in Barcelona at 69 Paris a French author Georges Arnaud whose novel the wages of fear was turned into a classic film has died at age 69, his family said Thun Day. The family said he died in Barcelona  Georges Henri clo zot made the film about men earning High wages driving trucks carrying nitroglycerine Over dangerous roads from Amaud s Best Selling novel which sold 2 million copies worldwide. The film starred Yves Montand and Charle Vanel. Soviet mayors to meet with . Counterparts Seattle a six soviet mayors will Joina larger group of . Counterparts Here in May for the first coordinated gathering of sister Cit mayors from the two nations says an official of sister cities International Thomas Gillens executive vice president of the group said some High level soviet officials also Are expected to attend the sister cities con Ference May 21-23.american mayors will visit the soviet Union in 1988, he  want to do something to somehow communicate with people from the soviet Union he said. The mayors will attend three Days of talks on superpower relations on How to begin sister City relationships and Urban problems. Marine anti aircraft unit to be based on Okinawa Tokyo a . Marines will establish an anti aircraft missile battalion on Okinawa be ginning in july to facilitate rapid deployment fan air defense capability in the Western Pacific military officials said  a statement the . Forces Japan Media Liaison office said the first of two firing Batter ies with about 300 personnel will arrive on Oki Nawa in july increasing to about 450 Marine by september 1990. With to watchers polls show new York a president Reagan s approval rating increased among americans who watched his speech in which he acknowledged his iranian initiative was a mistake polls by two . Television networks indicate. A Telephone Survey of s10 adults conducted after Reagan s nationally broadcast speech wednesday night found is percent approve of the Way the presi Dent is handling it Job lbs reported that compared with 42 percent of the same Sample when interviewed last weekend in a lbs news new York times poll the network said. The percentage who said they disapproved dropped from 46 percent to 42 percent. Most of the increase in approval for Reagan came among those who Hod watched the speech. Among that group Reagan s approval rating Rose from 45 percent to 59 percent. Among those who did not watch approval Rose from 36 percent to 40 percent. An Abc poll conducted after the speech found 54percent of those who watched if approve of the Way Reagan it doing his Job while 43 percent  among those who did not watch is percent disapproved while 43 percent approved. For the entire Sam ple of 524 americans 48 percent approve and an equal percentage  an Abc news poll conducted feb. 26,51 percent of those questioned disapproved of the Way Reagan was handling his Job and 44 percent approved. The lbs poll was conducted among a nationwide Sample of 510 adults and has a margin of error due to sampling of plus or minus 4 percentage Points for re sults based on the total Sample the Abc news poll of s24 adults chosen at random had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage Point for the total Sample. Ferry from Pago 1 Herald of free Enterprise had 590 passengers and Crew of 60 on Board. It had been in route from Zee Brugge to Dover when it hit the Harbor s East pier Mesa Idhe said the tide was going out and More of the vessel was becoming  Center for surveillance and Rescue in Cobourg France said the ship had 463 people  after the first reports about the Accident emerged the dutch Navy dispatched two four Man diving teams by helicopter to Zeebrugge from the Den Helder Navy base in the Northern Netherlands Accord ing to a dutch Navy spokesman. Apparently a number of people Are trapped in the Hull and there seems to be a great need for divers said it Willem Van  Vlissingen Netherlands spokesman Marius Hof land of the maritime directorate of the dutch trans port ministry said his radio monitoring service had received a report from an unidentified ship in the Are that 200 passengers had abandoned the ferry unharmed Hoflan had no details on How the passenger got of the ship. The London weather Center said sea temperature were 39-41 degrees. Seas were reported at two or three feet and winds were Between 12 and is Mph said the Zeebrugge port spokesman who did not give his name. It will be very cold for anybody thrown into ,1 he added. He said Little More was known immediately but French and British Rescue services were assisting. Two Royal Navy sea King helicopters with divers from the Royal air Force base at Cul Drose flew to Belgium. The 7,9$ 1-ton ship was built 1980 in Bremerhaven Germany and is registered in Dover. It is owned by Townsend Thoreson a British  ferry runs regularly Between Zeebrugge and Dover. Arms from Page 1 sing a ban on All . Aid to the  $14 million in donations not spent on military hardware was used to buy food clothing and other sup plies Calero said. At the Lime of the us. Aid cutoff in 1984, Calero said the rebels were in desperate shape an would not have survived without the contributions Calero has said Alt along the rebels received no Money from the Sale of us. Arms to Iran. He came to the news conference armed with copies of Contra ban records to show there was no correlation Between the timing of the rebels Bank deposits and the period when profits from the Iran arms sates were generated. However a spokesman Friday said Calero s attorney Joseph Portuondo discovered receipts showing the rebels received nearly $200,000 from a Swiss ban account controlled by Secord. There were two deposits in october 1965," to the Contra accounts said the spokesman who spoke on the condition that he not be named. The Money came from the Lake resources account into which profits from the Iran arms sales were deposited in 1986, the Tower commission reported. The president s review Board did not say whether any arms sales profits weal into Lake resources As Early As 1983. The spokesman said Calero had not reviewed the ban records until last sunday and had looked at them Only roughly not recognizing the Lake resources transfers. Calero acknowledged some of the $32 million May have been provided by a foreign official who was referred to by former National Security adviser Robert c. Mcfear Tane when be testified before the Tower commission Mcfarlane said the official whom he did not identify used personal funds to provide the rebels with about is million a month Starling in the summer of1984 and subsequently increased that amount contrib uting $25 million in 1985 alone. There have been unconfirmed reports that the offi Cial was King Faud of saudi Arabia. Calero conceded Mcfarlane s testimony might be accurate but he had no Way of knowing. Contra Aid from Page 1 had halted All previous military Aid in late 1984.under terms set at the time the latest Aid package was approved. Congress has 15 Calendar Days from receipt of the certification from Reagan to pass a Reso Lution of disapproval which would be a certain Candi Date for veto Reagan was nearing a deadline for submitting the certification. The White House also was under pressure from House gop Leader Robert Michel who sensed growing opposition within Congress to the Contra Aid. Contra Aid supporters on Capitol Hill feared the $40million might be jeopardized by arguments that a new peace initiative by Costa Rica could Bear fruit in the event of a moratorium on support for the contras. Administration officials said the Liming also was dictated by the plight of the contras themselves who Are expected to run out of Money sometime next month without fresh . Aid. It was a simple recognition of what we had to do by a specific Date an official said. This Way even if we went through the business of a turndown a veto and a veto override vote there would be no disruption inlaid Reagan told Congress repression and human right abuses by the sandinista regime in Nicaragua continue and the government has shown no interest in dialogue with opposition groups. There was no mention of the Iran arms Centra Aid juror or the recent disclosure of heavy involvement by the National Security Council staff possibly m Vio lation of the Law in private Aid efforts the report also said the contras have attempted to broaden their base of support and develop a Consen sus political program while taking note of recent factional disputes among rebel Leaden. The most notable development was the resignation of Adolfo Calero from the United nicaraguan opposition leadership which the administration portrayed As a Victory for More moderate Contra Leader Arturo Cruz the Senate foreign relations committee has vote to effectively kill not Only the $40 million now pending release but an additional $105 million requested by Reagan for fiscal 1988