European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d army seeking bids for diva replacement Page 2 d floridian saves Roberts from deadline. Page 5 q Syracuse Providence score Mcaa 21 thes Utho Tiiu unofficial runic vol. 45. No. 337 monday March 23, 1987 Lpes d 8693 a Poindexter North reportedly View roles As patriotic new York up under mounting pressure two key figures in the Iran arms affair arc Prapan no to defend heir roles As patriotic and sanctioned by he while House the new York times said sunday. I. Col. Oliver North and his former Boss Al the National Security Council rear . John Poindexter arc feeling increased pressure to talk As a special prosecutor paves the Way for possible Federal indictments and others testify before congressional committees the times said. In private conversations with friends and associates. North and pain Dexler have said full disclosure of the facts would poin Duxler show they did what they believed was the president s bid Ding inc times said quoting unnamed sources. I spent All these years trying to pro. Decl the system and now the system is trying to persecute me not exonerate me a Friend quoted North As saying. They were doing what they thought the president wanted a former government official who worked with lie men told the newspaper. Referring also to retired maj. Gen. Richard Secord. Now a private business Man the former official said when inc Story is told second will be vindicated and so will North and Accord s business partner Albert Hakim a naturalized iranian arms dealer already has been granted limited immunity by the congressional investigating committees. A former colleague told the newspaper Poindexter is very very bitter about allegations that he acted without authorization in the secret Sale of weapons to Iran that led to a Funn Ching of funds to nicaraguan re Bels. As had of the Csc re ported to president Reagan. In his thursday news conference the president said neither poin Duxler no North informed him that profits from the Iran arms sales were being passed on to the contras. Poindexter was forced to resign and North was fired nov. 25 when allegations about the arms sates and con Ira funding emerged. North reportedly was prepared to offer a 40-Page summary of his knowl Edge of the affair to the House foreign affairs committee in december but his lawyer advised him instead to plead inc fifth Amend Manj against . Unnamed friends told inc times that North has been frustrated Nurah by the delay for a Chance to Clear his name in court but was remaining confident and in Good humor Ollie is hunkered Down for the Dura Tion a Friend told the newspaper but he is not going to fall on his last week the special congressional committee investigating the foreign policy scandal said they would vote soon on granting limited immunity from prosecution to North and poin of Cuba Luquer snut a inulin a in i Siuri my a incr alter i Rumm Amk a Dick sconce plan s the due cation i f a off Lucial la tin tin Hur husband s grav.1 saturday seven Crew numbers n to died in thu at Arlington National cemetery in a shuttle explosion sinn1 i i Atie 4. Music Man Robert Preston Dies at 68 Robert Preston the fast talking travel ing Salesman of the music Man died saturday of lung cancer. He was68. Preston who Hud been ill for some time died at about 4 . Atsa Bara cottage Sor Lisa slots cya i ehg cancer and had been ill Preston s longtime publicist in phone interview from new Yore Preston to Hnidy in twentieth can _. A the male animal before his biggest hit As the Slick Long cd band instrument and uniform Salesman pro Fessor Harold Hill who breezed into River City in the stage production of inc music i and Inci role 1962 film role. Thena cd for an Academy award Lof picture and won an Oscar for musical director Kay Hindorf. The music Man ran for 1,375 performances on Broadway before Heing made into a movie. Or Siouan you Hill Preston said in a 1961 interview with the associated press As he prepared Jap the movie version. Al this later nobody who can do it belter than i is a Purl of me. And i m a part of the Meredith see Preston on Page 28 High winds Snow hotter Northern Plains states by i associated press about 7u people had to be cars snowbound along interstate 9 1 in Western South Dakota saturday und highways were closed in Northwestern Nebraska As a Windy storm pummel cd the Northern Plains. Elsewhere Chain reaction accidents in dense fog on a Bridge killed four people in Louisiana. See Story pan5. Rescue Crews left rapid City s.d., Ink saturday and fought choir Way 38 Miles East on 1-90 to Wasta s.d., by s . Sunday said South Dakota High Way patrol sgt. Jim Walton. About 70 people were pulled from stranded vehicles and were taken to the Community Center in Wasta said a Highway patrolman Cape. Terry Mayes. There was no word on when they might he Able to leave. People Are get Ting ready to open up their Homes to take Hern in for the night if they have said Laura of inner. In Wall. S.d., about so Miles Easi of rapid City on 1-90, every Motel was full and mul rims look refuse in private Homes and churches said police chief Jerry Miller. Al tiny s i can t even see my neigh Bor s House and that Musl he All of 60 feel Miller said saturday morn ing. Winds busting in 65 Tuph in rat the fresh Snow my Ila a drifts and re Devi d visibility in to in the Wutti a Luril of Smith Dakota. The nun ban Houvk Mills Gal the Bruni of the storm with 21 indies of sni Wal Lead lit in Spearfish Cannim a in Spear lakh and Ypik indies i rapid City on the Fusk in of Ilie mountainous 1ir-Ji. Gates sure locked across a jul ulna ii see Plains on Parja 28
