European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d economists urge wider decline of the Dollar. Page 2 d postman takes no sides in Andrew Jackson feud Page 5 d Mcaa basketball tournament Roundup sports Page 21 ripes vol.45. Utmos in 0 unofficial fuilic1tion up monday March 16, 1987 Shultz Weinberger Gys the d 8693 a d Washington a president Reagan said sat urday that Secretary of slate George Shutlz and de sense Secretary Caspar Weinberger both advised strongly against salting to Iran but with l he Del anyway in his weekly made no direct report which said while opposing the secret i. Served fac president poorly by distancing them. Eng conviction and added they hesitated to give me their unvarnished views on in Lional Security issues under consideration. They arc men willing to speak up regardless of the strength of opposition or the natural bureaucratic ten Dency la Compromise or go along and that s Why i consider them so valuable he said. In the Case of the Iran Sale matter both score Stilu und Secretary Weinberger advised me e he Laid. "1 in the end that the initiative was won As we know it turned out the wrong Hill they discharged their responsibilities advisers and my subordinates and i am enormously see Reagan on Page 2b 37 rescued from stricken soviet ship currying is guard Rescue helicopter hovers Over the foundering soviet freighter Komsomol to Kirifi Iii. Pomona no. A a soviet Fri 10,292 ions of dour from roller onto its Side in rough Oft new Jersey saturday and coast i plucked All 37 people off the St Rich Kamalic Rescue optic gals said. The wet and dangerous said coast urn Cath Comer who directed the Rescue in 45 iinds As 25-foot Waves crashed Over the ship. The ship was listing dramatic Al by the end of the Rescue which Comer said was conducted just in the Nick of Only one Oft Rose aboard the 4s2-Fooi Komsomol is kirghiz ii was injured and that was Only a but Finger officials said. A coast guard Culler and at least one soviet vessel Ere in route to the freighter saturday evening said Icard u. David Hill in new York. I know if it Sank he said adding that if its cargo Ucol the ship Likely went Down in Waters about 12,. When the arrived at the about 11 20 a.m., the Fri Ign As listing about 30 degress and being ill said. The port Side was Waslow Dick said. We immediately dropped a Basket to Takt fun we had a Hill bit of trouble in the the first two people rescued Werc of Crinan and child he said. In the next half hour 13 More people helicopter which started Back when a second one Ai _ that one picked up 16 people and a third Hyk Tipti picked up the remaining six. Including the skipper. The Pilot of the third helicopter Aid the ship was see Rescue on Page 28 longtime a policy challenged in Federal court Washington Nytz the ans a of a _ or withhold payments is facing its most serious Challenge in More than a Century. On tuesday a join hearing of the House and Senate veterans affairs committees will review charges of misconduct by the Agency s compensation and pension division. Many of the accusations veterans rights have in a documents in a la Sutu la in . District court under a system of melt. Pay bonuses for turning out paper work und loss of promotions for Low the a has Long know were to Clear claims that were denied without investigation or notice to applicants that documentation was required. The Agency employees thus earned work regional offices have been allowed to under report the High error rates in judgments on claims even thoua1 Mil Max nurn5 was Twer than Hud been reported. The a and the Justice depart ment whose lawyers represent the Agency Are planning to spend ji.2 million to cont Putiri a the mabs of documents for the Usefof government lawyers in defense of the system. Bonner Day a a spokesman said of the Hajj i going to at the heart of the matter tuesday if. A formidable Little understood system that a major part of monthly government . The a a Mil Liun people sea a on Miracle no More than 7 killed in crash Spokane Wash. A the Crew of a Jet Tanker thai crashed while practice ing for an air show apparently died Irv ing to avoid crashing into buildings and probably saved Many lives according la witnesses. Ifs a Miracle thai pc did t lose More than seven flow said c api Bob i tallow. Spokesman at Fairchild api gesturing toward offices and shops near the site of Friday s crash. All i people aboard the plane and another air Horce Man in a car on the ground were killed when the Kc-135 Linker that had just taken off crashed into i Field near the runway. Officials who released the names of the victims saturday afternoon said they did not know which of three instructor pilots on Board was flying the plane when it went Down. An air Force team gathered saturday at the base to investigate the crash. 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