European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday March is. 1937 Iran Contra probe speedup sought Washington ads ofic Senate committee looking into the Iran Comra affair tire prodding Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh to pick up the Pace of his probe of the Mailer As . Oliver North challenges a court nil ing on Walsh s authority most respectfully t believe that i could be done with a Bil More expedition sen. Daniel a Inouye a Hawaii chairman or the Senate panel said Fri Day in an interview. In the same interview. Sen. Warren 8,Rudman, . Vice chairman of the committee said that the legislators Mantlo cooperate with Walsh but that the committee will not subordinate its re to Walsh s investigation. Meanwhile. North s attorney Brendan Sullivan. Hid saturday thai he Hai filed i notice of Appeal of last week s dismissal of North s lawsuit challenging Walsh s authority Sullivan said the Appeal was filed Friday in the . Court of appeals. In the suit that was dismissed n Feder Al court thursday North alleged that the Law allowing a court to name the special prosecutor violates the constr Uljon separation of porn provisions. The comment from Inouye and Rud Man came As Walsh and the chief coun Sels of the mouse and Senate committee investigating the Iran arms Conurs Cash Deal continued Dise iming details of Compromise plan for granting immunity to key witnesses the congressional committees want to testify. One congressional source said Senate investigators were discussing among possible Compromise proposal plan for the committees to conduct interviews in closed session with those two wit Nesses and withhold their Public interrogation for the 90 Days sought by Walsh Walsh appealed personally to both icehouse and Senate committee last week to delay for 90 Days any decision to Grant immunity to North and to rear adm John Poindexter president Reagan s for Mer National Security adviser. However some legislators have expressed impatience with Walsh s Prog Ress in doing fits toot. Inouye said it took Walsh several weeks to Complete his interrogation of Fawn Hall former Secretary to North and then make her available to congressional investigators for questioning. Now i m certain he has his own Way of doing his business but limes we find it a bit difficult to appreciate his need for five six seven weeks to ques Tion a witness said Inouye whose own committee has been subjected to criticism that it was moving Loo to sickly to Ward granting key witnesses limited immunity from prosecution in order to compel their testimony. The congressional committees vote last week to provide limited immunity to Albert Hakim an iranian born business Man believed to have extensive knowl Edge and records pertaining to the Finan Cial arrangements involved in the secret Sale of Arras to Iran and apparent diver Sion of profits to the Contra rebels fight ing the Nicaragua government Rudman said the Senate committee has been in Contact with Hakim s attorney. Other officials expressed Confidence that within the next four to six weeks the committee will have acquired extensive knowledge of the financial speculation that congressional investigators expect a cooperative witness once immunity has been pro has informed congressional investigators he will use his prerogative of delaying any limited immunity Grant to Hakim for 30 Day in a related development Friday. 42 House democrats urged that the House panel investigating the Iran Centra affair fully study a private network set up with Reagan administration encouragement to re Supply the Contra committee clearly has the authority to investigate these activities said rep. Peter Defazio a orc h who organized the House group however. It s not Clear they will commit the staff and resources necessary to do in a letter to rep. Lee Hamilton of ind. Chairman of the House committee the lawmakers cited allegations that the private Aid network May have violated . Arms Export Laws or the neutrality act which prohibits hostile action against any country with which the United states is formally at peace. Air Force plans to close Michigan installation Calumet As. Mich. A the air Force plans to close Calumet air station next year rep Bob Davis r-mich., who met with a Pentagon official to discuss the matter confirmed on Friday Mark rugs. An aide to Davis a member of the House armed services committee said Davis i trying to reverse the decision but we re in really sketchy said the air Force wants to install Auto mated radar equipment at the station he estimated a f 3 million to $4 million loss to the local Economy if the station is closed. It has been in operation almost 37 years and has about 9s military personnel. Services held in memory of ferry disaster victims Dover England a about 1,000 peo ple Many in tears filled a Parish Church in this Southern England port saturday to attend rite remembering those killed in the British ferry boat disaster the ferry Herald of free Enterprise was headed for Dover when it capsized March 6shortly after pulling away from Zee Bugge Bel glum carrying 534 passengers and least 114 people were believed to have been killed including some Crew members who lived in the Dover area. I severe committe e Elia obtained top soviet copter from afghan defectors Abc says new York. A the Cia hag obtained at least a Cia spokeswoman Sharon Foster when ask one of the soviet Union s most advanced helicopter gunships enabling the United Stales to learn ways of countering the aircraft s defences accenting to a broadcast least one of two Mi-24 Hind a helicopters flown into Pakistan by defectors from the soviet sup ported afghan army to 1985 was turned Over to the Cia Abc nightly news reported quoting unidentified Pentagon sources. The sources said the Cia has figured out Bow to outsmart the defensive system of the Mi-24 by nuking changes in the stinger anti aircraft missile for us against it Abc reported. As a result the network said intelligence specialists report that rebels in Afghani Stan have been Able to shoot Down Many Mi-24s Over the past six months. A asked about the Abc report said we would not confirm or deny an alleged intelligence Mi-24 Hind a is currently the soviet Union s most advanced chopper gunship and is referred to bythe Pentagon As a Hying it is heavily armed and armoured and capable of speeds approaching 200mph, and it is considered a significant threat to ground forces. ,. According to Jane s All the world s aircraft the Mi-24 is a twin engine helicopter that carries a four barrel galling gun in an under nose Turret and various types of rockets and missiles mounted on the helicopters have been used effectively by Nicaragua s Sand Nisu forces against the Contra rebels and by soviet backed forces in Afghanistan against rebels there according to . Military sources. Relations with . Difficult greek Leader tells reporters Praise from Page 1 of the report by Weinberger and Shultz. While House spokesman Martin fib water said the president accepts the report. And or. Shultz and or. Weinberg Ercan speak for on Friday however Fitzwalter said thai Weinberger has discussed this with us it s been raised in the while House a legitimate Issue and the president will address the Tower commission which issued a report feb. 26on its investigation of the Iran Contra affair said both Weinberger and Shultz opposed the operation which was managed by National Security Council aides. It also said of the two Cabinet officers their Obliga Tion was to give the president their full support and continued advice with respect to the program. Or if the could not in conscience do that so to inform the presi Dent. Instead they simply distanced themselves from reprogram. They protected inc record As to their own positions on this Issue. They were not energetic in attempting to protect the president from the consequences of his Persona commitment to faring the secretaries took Issue with this conclusion. Athens Greece a Premier Andreas Papandreou on saturday discussed with Cabinet Mem Bers what he called a difficult and problematic period in greek american relations following re cent statements on Turkey by . announcement was issued after the Premier s meeting with defense minister Yiannis Haralambo Poulos foreign affairs minister Karo los Papoulias and foreign affairs undersecretary Yiannis Friday night Papandreou told reporters before a meeting of his panhellenic socialist movement s executive Bureau that greek-. Relations Are going through a very difficult and problematic period in another development government spokesman Yian Nis Roubanis said that Greece would protest an airspace infringement Friday by . Air Force planes flying close to the Island of has reacted strongly to whal government officials say is a till toward Turkey by the United department spokesman Charles �. Redman de Nied Friday that the United states was showing Favoriti Mlo Turkey and said it wanted to continue an 18-Rnomh wanning trend in relations with Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other senior . Officials were quoted As saying earlier this month that Man than 20,000 turkish troops stationed on Cyprus have Only a defensive troops have occupied Northern cd jus since a greek inspired coup in 1974 triggered a turkish this week Papoulias called in american Ambas Sador Robert a Keky to protest the remarks which recalled Boorish inadmissible and Papandreou warned Las weekend that if the United stoics did not make corrective moves on its Cyprus stance his government would renege on a provisional agreement forthe continued operation of two voice of America relay stations Here Greece also is anxious to preserve the present 7 to 10 ratio in american Aid to Greece and Turkey which i intended to maintain a stable military balance Between the two feuding nato said Friday that there was no change in the . Administration s request that Turkey receive in creased american assistance. In its latest request. The administration is pushing for j913 million in Aid to Turkey and 1436 million for Greece. Meanwhile turkish foreign minister Vail to the United states Friday for a 10-Day visit. Before departing from Ankara Turkey. Hal Foglu told reporter she will sign a new five year defense cooperation agreement with Secretary of slate George p. Shulte on agreement in the form of a supplement to the 1980 defense pact us initiated in Ankara by . Ambassador Robert Strait Hupe and foreign ministry undersecretary a Uzhca Kandemir three months had requested the talks to revise the 1980 agreement demanding increased us. Aid and removal of Trade restrictions on Ilsc Pons Mcaa basketball Midwest regional Indiana 107. Auburn 0 Duke 65, Xiv ice Ohio 60 Eastern regional Noire Dame so. Texas Christian 57 Western regional Nevada Las vegas 80, Kansas state 61
