European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 11, 1967 the stars and stripes North s notoriety follows him to court Washington not wearing his dark Green Marine uniform with a Chest of decorations la col. Oliver a North made a courtroom appear Ance monday causing a commotion that even judges and prosecutors could not ignore North listened intently As lawyers debated his Challenge to the constitutionality of a special pros editor s investigation that centers an him and others in inc i ran arms affair. While the courtroom audience struggled to follow he Legal debate their gazes often turned to North and i entourage or lawyers the colonel looked relaxed and gently fingered a pair of wire rimmed glasses. The Power of his notoriety was everywhere. A special ceremonial courtroom had to be used for the hearing because of the crowd. North s every move outside the Federal District court was tracked by squads of photographers before the hearing began Richard k. Willard the head of the Justice department s civil division walked Over to the defense Hebte and smiling broadly raised his hand to shake the colonels Willard s office is defending the authority of the special prosecutor Lawrence e. Walsh in the Iran investigation. The object of the hearing was a lawsuit by North asking that the 1978 special prosecutor Law be Over turned As an unconstitutional infringement on the Law enforcement Powers of the president. The judge Harrington d. Parker said he would take the Case under advisement. After the hearing reporters jumped from their seals and moved toward North who had been told by his lawyers not to talk. My lawyer have an Anvil they re going to drop on my head if i talk with you he told one journalist. He said to another that the lawyers had threatened to put a Collar around his neck to keep him quiet. Bui he vim apparently free to Lalk Wilh judge even judges who Are intimately involved in North s Cue. Judge George e. Mackinnon of the United states court of appeals for the District of Columbia observed much of the hearing and walked up afterwards to introduce himself to North Mackinnon Heads the three judge panel that appointed Walsh and he administers the Law the colonel is challenging. The judge spoke with the colonel for several min utes and could be overheard describing his years in the Navy in world War ii and about the Marine corps football team he coached at an air base in Cherry Point . They nil kept gelling shipped out to Guadalcanal he recalled. The judge later told reporters thai he had walked Over to North because i just thought i d come to meet  lost music by Gershwin found in warehouse new York api hundreds of unpublished songs by George Gershwin Jerome Kern Victor Herbert Richard Rodgers and others have been identified in 80 crates of music stored in a Warner Brothers warehouse according to a musical theater historian. It s like opening the Tomb of King Tut John Mcglinn a conductor and musical theater historian said in tues Day s editions of he new York times the it Are major works Here that had been presumed lost forever shows that were never revived and were assumed to have vanished off the face of the  the music was discovered nearly five years ago in Secaucus n.j., but because of its value and the copyrights involved they were immediately moved to a vault in Manhattan. The discoveries were made by Robert Kimball a musical theater historian and editor of the National Institute for music theater s catalogue of the american  he has supervised the Prepa ration of a 7&-Pagt inventory Over the last several  in an interview with the associated press Kimball confirmed the find. Among the treasures were 70 lost songs by Gershwin Many with lyrics by his brother Ira As Well As missing Origi Nal scores and parts to his musicals George Gershwin Fin  Primrose tip toes and Pardon my  lost and forgotten manuscripts by Vincent Youmans Herbert Sigmund Romberg Rudolf Friml and others were also among the find. There were countless surprises in this Jerome Kern work but the biggest Surprise was find ing a dozen boxes simply marked Jerome Kern " Kimball said. There Are More than 175 unpublished songs by Kern including nearly half an hour of music from show boat that was Cut from the work right after its pre Miere. In the collection were Complete scores for some of Kern s most important shows including material thought lost. Also found were 30 Cole Porter Manu scripts Many Rodgers and Hart hand written manuscripts and the Long lost piano score to Peggy Ann which Rodgers considered the team s most important musical of the 1920s. These manuscripts arc Worth Mil Lions to collectors and libraries but their value to our profession and to the Ameri can Public is inestimable John m. Lud wig executive director of the National Institute for music theater told the times the Cache included rare Handwritten manuscripts for of Man River can t help lovin1 Dat Man and More than 200 other Kern songs the music wound up in the warehouse when Warner Brothers bought several music houses in the 1920s that published the composers. Warner Brothers acquired the material and it passed from offices to warehouses and was eventually stored in a Remote part of the Secaucus warehouse Kimball said. Mcglinn said he will conduct the american premiere of the Gershwin musical Primrose and the first performance of his Pardon my English since 193 at the Library of Congress in May. New silverware of embassies irks congressman Washington a diplomatic silverware at us. Embassies and consulates around the world is being replaced at a Cost of $2 million because the state depart ment wants one common pattern for ils Sterling not the four presently in  according to rep Jack Brooks an estimated 156,000 new Sterling Silver knives Forks and spoons and other Silver cutlery will be needed to Complete the change. Brooks said. And the Texas Democrat complained that the state department s silverware replacement policy involves illegal procurement procedures weak internal control Sand Overall Sloppy management Brooks the chairman of the House government operations committee plans hearings this week to find out Why . Diplomats need new silverware at a time of soaring budget deficits and requests by the Reagan administration for billions of dollars to protect american officials overseas from terrorist attacks. He said he wants to explore whether Given the budget cuts now being made in essential government programs it really makes sense for the stale depart Mentlo spend millions of dollars on  state department representatives and officials of the general accounting office which has reviewed the silverware buying program will testify. A department spokesman Dan Johnson said officials were studying Brooks statement but would have no immediate comment on it. Commuter plane taxes into Delta Airliner Cincinnati a a twin engine com air commuter plane taxied into a parked Delia Airliner at greater Cincin Nati International Airport monday eve Ning but no passengers were injured officials said. Twenty of 70 scheduled passengers were aboard the Delta Boeing 767, in route to los Angeles when the Accident occurred Airport spokesman Ted Bushel Man said. He said 10 passengers on the commuter plane from Toledo had already disembarked and the plane was taxiing to an other area when the Hydraulic steering system failed and the nose hit the rear of an engine on the left Wing of the parked aircraft. The Accident occurred about 6 p.m., Bushel Ryan said. A propeller on the com air came to rest against the front ten fender of a fuel truck refuelling the Delta plane Bushel Man said. The Pilot of the commuter plane had slopped its engines before the crash and there was no fire he said. An Airport worker who was refuelling the Airliner told officials he saw the com Muter plane coming and ran out of the Way Bushelman Laid the pilots of both planes were in the cockpits but neither was injured he said. The Delia passengers were transferred to another plane for the flight to los an Geles. Brooks said the department has paid More than 12 million since 1979 to buy same 72,000 pieces of Silver flatware from a . Silversmith company. And he said the Gao review has found whal Brooks called serious  for example he said that while he original contract solicitation required the winning company to surren Der valuable tools and Dies at the end of the contract the Dupar Mcnol permitted a rewriting of the contract to eliminate that obligation. In addition he said the department failed to enforce its own regulations requiring is posts abroad to dispose of the old silverware As shipments of the new pattern Are received. Former governor of South Dakota Dies Sioux Falls . Api Richard Knip who was governor of South Dakota from 1971 to 1978, died of cancer monday. He was 54. Knip a Democrat resigned in 1978 to become ambassador to Singapore. He resumed to South Dakota in 1980 and Lacr served As president of Nelson laboratories in Sioux fails. He is survived by his wife Nancy and eight sons