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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, April 24, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 24,1987 the stars and stripes Hotshot on a Roll Steve Vandeun Tumble away from a i $80,000 Ferrari after he crashed it during i filming of be movie  Van App Tidlow Demon fill in for actor Chris Mulkey in dangerous sequences of the film which is to be released by new line Cinema in december. V. Secret army unit s Bank account my have financed contract forms  the Pentagon tuesday said it recently Isif Cerid that a secret army Unn disbanded in 1983 Han vet up a Swiss Bank account that May later have Beer used illegally to finance arms. For the Nicaragua rebels. A senior Pentagon offid Alvid an internal investigation had produced  that it. Col. Oliver l North the dismissed no final Security Council aide and maj. Gen Richard v. Be Calm who retired from the air Force in april 1983, were a mfg those who had Access to the unauthorized Aimy account they Are both under investigation on suspicion of providing military Aid to the rebels know rat contras when Congress had made it illegal for . Got tent agencies to do so. To the Pentagon official said the evidence Sugak cd North and sword May have somehow persuaded Sot members of the army unit to let them use the Maccoul for Covert Aid purposes after the unit had disbanded he did not say who those people might be. It is not known if any . Government funds were deposited in the account and later user to Aid the contras or whether the army account was used As r " conduit for non government finds. The Pentagon s chief spokesman Robert Sims in a statement read to report tuesday afternoon that the defense department vol looking into the mat Ter. He did not go into detail Len his statement but the briefing continued on a Bac bound basis with an offi Cial who refused to be Iden med by name. Lbs news reported a play night that Bank records showed $2,5 million warm drawn from the account in one Day in 1965, Aav $75,000 of that was used to charter a freighter tit carried arms to the contras. The transaction toy place at a Lime when . Officials were Prohic furl from providing military assist Ance to the Reidjr the secret Jpn unit nicknamed yellow fruit was headed by Ucol. Dale e. Duncan convicted in 1986of sub milk fraudulent expense claims in connection with a curries apparently unrelated to Aid to the con tras. Mrs serving a 10-year sentence at fort a Cavan Fkan. T Pentagon official who spoke about the Case said Jarmy which investigated the finances of the secret nil for two Yean still could not account for All of the ill s Money and does not know whether . Golem k funds went into the account. He said the army dimwit even know about the existence of the Swiss Bank a Toul until the lbs news report  oks test after nuclear scenario dropped Olympia Wash. A the s he of Washington will like part in a civil defense Lerir Aow that the Feder Al government has dropped a Jock nuclear War from the scenario says gov Booth Gardner the Federal  Agency s regional director offered renday to eliminate a Simu lated detonation of a Kulcar bombs from a prepared Ness Drill that was Jajic Clad lint by Washington Ihen by Oregon the Rcv Seth Wicik scenario to be developed by Fema will a pict a period of increasing International tension whim could bad to a strategic attack on the . The wafer cts will end without simulated nuclear detonation s,1 Fema official William Mayer wrote to Gardner. The Compromise is a Good Faith Effort on Fema s part to be responsible to your needs while carrying out our responsibility to assure that civil defense contrib uses meaningfully to our country s National strategic defense posture he wic. Gardner declaring Tacui the Federal Agency had backed Down said the Sta now expects to take part in the exercise Fema had threatened Tovio to $2.5 million in Federal funds if the two Silies fused to participate in the Drill. Oregon gov. Neil Gol Schmuk at a news Confer ence in Salem stopped Short of Juning up. The new Fema position is a Good starting feint to draw up a new Drill but details still Are skete Hyta said. Gardner said the important Point swat Fema was dropping the part of the scenario that had nearly 30 nuclear warheads exploding Over Washington stale. We be said All along we would Welcome a reason ably conceived exercise to test our communications network he said. I m very pleased that Fema has decided that we Don t need an elaborate nuclear War game to get the Jab  nato exercise planned in Eastern Turkey in june shape. Belgium nato exercise Aurora express will beheld in Eastern Turkey june 1-30, apr Csc cad Quarter Allied Powers Europe officials Saufl  Allied come Europe Mobile Force will practice plans and operations related to its do Ament deter rent a clinics and combat operation Ace Mobile Force land will pc toy with about 5,000 Servi members and 1.500 Xii Lei Ace Mottle Force air will de of about 40 combat aircraft with heir respective figh a squadrons. Forces from Belgium German Italy. Luxembourg the United Btl Dom and he of tied states will participate   the last act Mobile Force Jive exercise in Eastern Turkey was in iv83. Several Vevi sic is noted to military Justice code. Washington Chat Gas to the uniform code of military  statute of limitations for most offences front the Cebu five years White capital offences will cont Insp to Lve no Lime limitations. Another revision Vrins the military s insanity Pica More in line with Filer Law shifting the Burden of proof to the accused a fad of the government a slight change in Miner regulation allows enlisted defendants to Reques Levally instead of in writing Iha enlisted Peers serve on Weir court martial panel. Also under the Nch rules. The military May order reservists onto a live Dity for court martial prosecution. Before this Chi nil the military did not have jurisdiction once a a pert left Active duly. President dominate new  general Washington a \ president Reagan will soon nominate atop tasks pack Agency official lob come the next Aspe Clor Keral of the defense department the per upon an Nobce  gite Smon an a Tonky who currently works As associate Adjni Tralor of a National aeronautics and space administration word replace the retired Joseph . \ her Nornie Effon must be confirmed by the Senate. Brown Shad previously scr Das the inspector general at Nacsa from 1981 to 198%nd, earlier As the inspector geteral for the Interior department from 1979 to 19 the Post Ftp inspector general is a Poullon Crea cd by Congress designed to operate independen Fly of a fed eral age Nofs leadership when it Cometo conducting audits an investigations of alleged wrongdoing. In Anomer personnel move the Pentax a said tues Day the resident had nominated col. Ernd g. Royer to decaf la the next Dean of the faculty at to fair Force Cadeauy in Colorado Springs Colo. Assuming he is confined by the Senate Rover would also chive a Rion to the one Star rank of brigadier Gerral. Or 48, is a native of Missoula Mont and currently head of the electrical engineering department at the Academy. Sov Jeff advising Steps to curb aids paper says Moscow Dpi the ministry of Henlly has advised All soviet businessmen returning from extended trips abroad to undergo bloodless for aids and recommended that foreign residents in the country also be checked for the disease inc Media Sinaya gaze a newspaper said wednesday. In an article written for the medical Union newspaper Deputy health minister Gennady Khz Labich and the director of the Institute of virology Viktor Zhdanov said a previously announced mandatory testing program for All donor blood used in transfusions will begin with in the next year. Both of the authors Are physicians. The newspaper also announced thai the first Laboratory designed for Anonymous Check  of people fearing they May have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome has opened in Moscow at the clinical infections Hospital no. 2 in the so Kol Inaya Gora Section of the City. Soviet doctors have reported a local of 32cases of aids in the Sovil Union with the vast majority of info Clad people being foreigners especially foreign students  
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