European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday March 17, 19b7 Reagan plans news conference thursday Washington up Trail goes according lop an this could be the week president Reagan Breaks is re cell silence and Fields questions Tor the first Lime in four months about the Iran Contra scandal tentative plans have been made for Reagan to Holda prime time televised news conference thursday to confront inc Lough questions dogging his presidency Over inc affair administration officials said sunday despite intense pressure for such an appearance officials insisted no final decision had been made and hinted ony or several factors not the least of which is slant changes within the White House could push the Date to nod week Al this  one official said there is a ques Tion m to whether the necessary preparation can Bedone to pull it off this  on thursday it will be four months to the Day fro the last time Reagan answered substantive que Lioni about the Iran affair in a damaging news conference nov. 19 marked by a Lack of both preparation and Candor. At thai session Reagan denied on several occasion that arms had been shipped to Iran through any third count rim despite confirmation to the contrary by hit aides and later admitted he had been wrong on thai key  also minimized inc significance of the weapons sold and held to his stand that the overture was geopolitical opening rather than a Swap of arms for hostage an assertion disputed by the Tower com Mission. While House spokesman Martin Filz Waler said Las week that a continuing personnel shakeup. Which Cli maxed feb. 27 with the appointment of Howard bake to replace Donald Regan had delayed news conference  Itiat is in the process of adjusting to his new duties Ai chief of staff and top presidential  lady Nancy Reagan who was said to have pressed for Regan s ouster also reportedly worked a keeping her husband shielded from reporters. Last week Reagan was available on several occasions though briefly and in carefully controlled sellings for two Days in a Row he ducked questions Abdul the Iran affair and other issues by feigning  inability to recall certain aspects of the Iran arms operation and his refusal to hold a news conference have led to increasingly Public discussion of whether Reagan at 76, might be showing signs of old age or the Strain of political crisis. While fizz water and other presidential aides Fer vently insist Reagan is fit they also acknowledge the need to prove that Point in the setting of a full blow news conference. Reagan is bound to be pressed on Why he cannot recall approving the first shipments of arms to Iran by Israel Why he first embraced he Tower commission findings and then Over the weekend disavowed its conclusions about Secretary of state George Shults an defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and whether despite his contrite statements since the Tower com Mission report he still believes his Iran initiative was right. Ira marxist faction kills former Leader aide Belfast Northern Ireland a a marxist offshoot of the Ira said sunday its snipers killed one of its own former military leaders and an associate bringing to nine the number of people assassinated in an internal feud. The group the Irish National liberation army identified the victims in a statement As Gerard Steen son 29. And Tony Boot Mccarthy 31. It called Steen son a self appointed or.  in another statement distributed to the Belfast Media sunday night the Ina Council said Stevnson had been one of its members and claimed he was in Strumental in Starling the feud that began in Decem Ber. The Council which did not mention Boot Mccar thy vowed to continue its Campaign to crush its rivals. Police did nol identify the victims and would Only say that gunmen shot two men late saturday As they were travelling by car through Bally Murphy a Roma Catholic distort of West Belfast both men were badly wounded and died in the Hospital Early sunday the Ina said Steenson was shot by members of i Belfast brigade which he once led i accused Siemens Ono organizing a series of terrible atrocities against our  la was formed in the 1970s by disaffected members of the Irish Republican army both groups Are outlawed and fighting to unite British ruled North Ern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland under a leftist  the inception of the movement Steenson s name has been linked with the Power struggle which has divided the movement the Irish National liberation army said in the statement that was read to the British broadcasting Carp by the organization s Polilli Cal front the Irish Republican socialist  Steenson the self appointed or. Death. Wax  in continuous and concerted efforts to undermine the authority of the Republican socialist movement the statement said. Frenchman from Page 1 by name. This behaviour does j meanwhile the i Dan unidentified we Normandin Wouldga gement Between Iran Syria Lebanon s Melchest Arab ally of Iran i serve our causes he said in Dent daily an Nahar quoted. Diplomat As saying killing my the beginning of Disen  Power broker is the Shaun in War against Arab Iraq. But congressman Dan Daniel in Washington Hospital Washington a rep. Dan Daniel,d-va., remained in intensive care sunday at Washington Hospital Center where he was take after suffering Chest discomfort an aide said. Terry Hoye press Secretary to the 72-year-Oldcongressman, said Daniel was in his Capitol Hill office on Friday when he suffered the  was taken to the Hospital with Chest Dis Comfort. He is there now for observation an tests Hoye said. I talked to him last night. He s feeling Good. There was no heart attack a former slate legislator from Danville va., Daniel was elected to Congress in 1968 and rep resents Virginia s 5lh congressional District 45 killed 185 Hurt in chinese factory blast Beijing a an explosion at a flax fac tory killed 45 workers and injured 185 others in the Northeast City of Harbin an official report said monday China Legal news said the explosion occurred Early sunday and destroyed four workshops in the factory. It said 470 workers were in the fac tory at the time. The cause of the explosion still was being investigated it said. Four Hundred police officers and soldiers were sent to the scene to help with inc Rescue Effort and the injured workers were sent to 10 hospitals in the  details were nol immediately available the Alliance has been str extremist shiite factions in the statement came hot i after the expiration of previous approximate dead cd by Iran s support fore anon in to kill Normandin at mid president Francois Miller Day saturday unless the i Ich government clarified statement made tuesday b 3j Rand. In his comments Millet ind appeared to reject the possibility of a Pardon it who is imprisoned in Fra sought by shiite extreme France would keep Selling the French government instead it vowed to the struggle against from attain whatever form it revolutionary Justice Dea War  Normandin 35, a television was kidnapped on Ary Justice claimed resp Orr French iranian relation the 1979 islamic revolution Reza Pahlavi. Iran criticizes Ian opposition leaders sell ing to repay a $ i billion loan in response France Prew Massoud Raja i to leave fral terrorist Anis Naccache and whose Freedom is Mitterrand also said is to Iraq. Not make the  tenacity and firmness no Mailer where it  red the French stand As of France s Antenne-2itch 8,1986. Revolution Forhia abduction. Tvs been strained since led Shah Mohammad Ranee for harbouring Ira a arms to Iraq and fail Lade by the Shah top opposition Leader and repaid $300 Mil lion of the debt. Bui it to Twenty seven foreign kidnapped in Lebanon. Six frenchmen two Brill saudi arabians one Itali korean an Indian and twi also missing is Anglica Iwho disappeared Jan. 20 to negotiate with the Kidnie nol to abandon  missing and believed y include eight americans a two West germans two i one irishman one South unidentified non lebanese. Church envoy Terry Waite tar leaving his Beirut Hole piers of two americans. Traffic from Page 1 month traffic  March edition Ca s monthly Newsua Drivers ran red i rights of Way and bloc pedestrians were Richardric Auli House wrote  club of Amer regarded pedestrians Alks the report said. Way of jaywalking a Noring Stop lights wounding nirm Roadway. And bicyclist Unwe in the wrong Section or on the sidewalk Ruurd lights and ignored i Esi rians right of Way s the Effort found an average of 100 Rno Wisl Viola  pedestrian violations and 14 Vint Jons Byi each intersection every hour. Rescue from Page 1 Waves battered the ship during the Rescue the Crew was taken saturday to the Federal aviation administration technical Center in Pomona and then by  to the . Customs House in Philadelphia. Shortly before Midnight the soviets checked into 21rooms at the dutch inn Motel in Gibbstown a new Jersey suburb of Philadelphia Motel manager Mary Ellen Leash said they were accompanied by one soviet embassy official but he did not watch their movements closely. They were free. They walked to the rooms by them selves. It was just like they were any other customers she  was quite a commotion when they got to the inn s dining room saturday night Leash said you would t believe what they ate. We even had a few customers wailing on them she said the men included cheeseburgers eggs chopped Steak chefs Sal ads ice Cream and  few of the soviets spoke some English and one spoke with a guest in italian. The rest communicated through smiles and signs she said. Some signed autographs for  was a Beautiful experience. We All Felt like ambassadors Here. We Learned they re people just like Weare Leash said. The soviets  the soviet embassy com Pound in Washington about 1 30 . Sunday and were taken to a soviet recreation compound outside Centreville my about an hour from Washington to spend the night and have a Good rest said embassy attache analogy Khrustalev maybe icy would like to go shopping to get the things they need or go for a tour before leaving for inc soviet Union on tuesday he said. These things Are  the Komsomol cts kirghiz ii had left Leningrad on Jan.20 and had picked up is cargo of flour in Nova Scotia. In Moscow an official Tass news Agency report on the Shipwreck said the Baltic steamship line which owns the freighter expressed gratitude to the coastguard for the Rescue