European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d free beet program nearing  2 g House pane cuts Reagan defense budget Page 5 o armed forces basketball championships. Page 25 huthcki1eo in Osmul Fusili cation for Thi . Aimino foil vol. 45, no. 335 saturday. March 21, 1987 d8693 a Reagan says he would not go Down same Road again Iran Deal went awry president admits Washington Jap president Reagan conceded thursday night a his iranian policy had turned into an  for hostages arrangement and  would not go Down that same Road  at his first news conference in four month Reagan said anew he was unaware until fast november hat profit from the  sales had apparently been tunnelled to Contra rebels in Nicaragua. He said he still does t know what Hap pwned to the Money. Reagan said he had been aware that private groups were providing assistance to the rebels. But he also said tie believed they violated no Taw adding it is absolutely vital thai we not Back away from his cause at a question and answer session dominated by the Iran Contra affair Reagan also said that vice president George Bush had not expressed opposition to the Iran policy. The vice president has said that key officials knew that he harboured certain reservations about certain aspects of the policy. In comments taped previously and broadcast on lbs after the news conference. Bush said he would t mind reaching out once to Iran. But it would be one shot and i d want to know what the result is that Fol Lowed on he said. Reagan said through his spokesman Friday that Bush did express reservations to him about the Iran  sales initiative but always supported the pol icy and the decisions the president also said he has never deliberately lied to the Public although he admitted to a Missita Lemont at his Las news conference in november about israeli involvement in the affair. I m not going to Tell falsehoods to the american people. I la leave that to others he said. He told one questioner that for some time All you knew was what i told you about the affair. As for the  for hostages finding contained in the Tower commission report Reagan said that in was t until see Reagan on Page 28 president Reagan pauses while responding to i reporter s question thursday panels review military medical malpractice Baychuc Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the night of dec. 21, 1983, was quiet in the orderly room of Btry a 82nd Field arty 1st Cav div Al fort Hood Texas. Spec. 4 Robert Kongo had the charge of quarters duly. Around 3 a.m., struggling to slay awake Longo stood up from his chair and Felt n shooting pain in his left thigh. A week later the pain had worsened and a Small Lump had appeared. Longo vent to his unit Aid Sta Tion and was told it was Jusi a Charley horse or per haps a muscle tear. He was instructed to rest. Two Days later the pain was so bad he could t walk. During repealed visits Lingo kept demanding that something be done. In february 1984, the Aid station finally sent him to Brooke  medical Center at fort Sam Houston for a physical. A week later came word. It was cancer. The Doc tors found that the disease had spread to his lungs and he was Given six months to live. After Long and difficult chemotherapy he recovered. But my leg is now useless the Massachusetts Man said thursday his voice breaking As he testified before the House judiciary subcommittee on administrative Law and governmental relations. The leg does t Bend i can t walk for very Long i have to take heavy doses of medication. I have scar tissue through Boin legs my Groin and my stomach. It takes me pours of soaking in a hot tub just to get functioning in the morning. Although he was medically discharged and receives full usability payments Longo said he knows of no investigation of Bis old unit Aid Center which failed to diagnose h is condition. Lingo s is just one of a number of similarly tragic stories being heard on Capitol Hill these Days As the House and Senate hold hearings on Bills that would allow Scricc members to sue the government for peacetime military medical malpractice. The legislation proposed by sen. James r. Sasser d-tenn., has ignited a debate Between some Law makers and of  on one Side and the Pentagon and Justice department on the other Over the viability of a 37-year-old Legal precedent know Nas the feres doctrine the feres decision handed Down by the supreme court bars military personnel from suing the gov see malpractice on Page 28 red brigades kill italian general linked with ski Rome up a red brigades terrorist shooting from a motorcycle killed the general in charge of building Italy s air and space weaponry Friday As he drove Home from his of ii police said. An Anonymous woman caller told u Rome newspaper 4i Minuti i inter the combatant communist Union a Wing of the red brigades had executed Gen. Lieu Giorgie 61, Thi highest official in the construction of air and Span armaments. Italy agreed in september to take part in research for president Reagan s strategic defense initiative. The general was the fifth european offi Cial lied directly or indirectly to  production to be assassinated since 19g5. The earlier victims  in France and Ger Many. Giorgi Cri was Riding in the Back Seal of an official car on his daily route Home from inc air Turce ministry when a to Lon Ucli Drew abreast and a ouch Riding behind the Driver opened fire with a Pis my police said. The general died minute liter. His Driver was not hit but was taken to the Cetino military Hospital in Shock. In was the second red brigades attack in Lully in h is than live weeks. A command suf about a Doorn terrorists held up a postal Van carrying lire won More  feb. A shooting two guards to death and critically wounding a third. The red brigades continue to oper ate defense minister Giovanni Swido Lirtie said As he left u Cabinet meeting Loko to the scene of hit.1 attack in the Aure Lia District. Giorgi Cri had struck since w57 in the directorate inc Rel of construction farms und aeronautic and space  ments. If became director general i january 1983