European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes ads As Art stripes Magazine d a s idea Worth $10,000 page3 g Randy Barnett s car Comer Page 13 d today s Dollar buys 1.78 Marks Page 23 the a amp ripes unofficial publication the u j. Armed Force voi46.n0.27 thursday May 14. 1987 d b693 a Reagan contras tells of discussing with saudi King Washington a president Reagan wednesday said he discussed secret saudi contributions to the Contra rebels in a private meeting with King fahd in i9sj bul said the Monarch raised the subject. My diary shows 1 never brought it up Reagan said "1 expressed pleasure that he was doing Hal Reagan said of fahd s contributions to the Contra cause made at a Lime when . Assistance was banned. But the president added there was no solicitation that i know or or anything of the by commenting to reporters on the subject Reagan look the extraordinary item or discussing in Public Whai he had jotted Down in private Handwritten diaries. He has allowed congressional investigators to examine but not copy Lyp cd excerpts from the diaries. Congressional hearings into the Iran Contra affair have delved deeply this week into whether administration officials solicited saudi Aid to the contras during a congressional ban on direct or indirect american Aid. Reagan has insisted he was unaware or any such activity. The president commented As former National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane testifying for the third Day told the Iran Contra committees that he had the Means at hand to make sure he was no see Reagan on Page 24 Barbie refusing to attend trial sessions Lyon France a former local Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie wednesday refused to appear at no More sessions of his trial on charges of crimes against humanity and declared he was extradited from hoi i via to France illegally. After two hours of questioning about his just from judge Andre Cerdini Barbie read a statement to the court complaining of his expulsion from Bolivia in 1933 and saying he wanted to be returned to his prison cell. Under French judicial proceedings a defendant is not required to remain in court during his trial. I want to say to the judges As Well As the jurors of he tribunal of Lyon that i am being held Here in an illegal fashion that i was the victim Ofa kidnapping Barbie said. La spite of the resp cd Hal j have for he said i want to Tell you that i am a bolivian citizen. I no longer have the intention to be present before this tribunal. Or. President i ask you to have me taken Back lost. Joseph he said that despite the climate of vengeance and the Lynching Campaign waged by the French Media he was leaving the Battle Tor Honor and Justice to his lawyer Paris attorney Jacques verges. Barbie said he was taking this action fur purely judicial reasons because there was now a Legal action in Bolivia examining the question of his expulsion. When Cerdini asked if the defense still planned to Call its witnesses. Barbie replied the trial can follow its course the witnesses can testify bul i will no longer be the statement led to an explosion of protest from the dozens of lawyers representing about 150 civil Par lies to the ease with one lawyer demanding that bar Bie be kept in the courtroom by Force. After several minutes of debate among lawyers. Cer see Barbie on Page 24 nazi War criminal Klaus Barbie discusses his Case with his French lawyer Jacques verges in Lyon France. Sticky fingered airman will have time on his hands by Dave d1ehl . Burea Uraj Lakenheath England airman Vin Picone almost got away with it. Picone was Only a Day away from going Home and gelling out of the air Force. He planned to take along a Nice new stereo a very expensive Ami Watcil and new camera gear he picked up i England. Bul senior airman Todd Trumbic got in the Way. Now there won t be any photographs. Hours won t Miner thai much where Picone is going to spend the Neil several years and he won t have the stereo to play. La was the watch. Trumbic a Security policeman at the Raf Laken Halh confinement facility was collecting Picone s personal effects before Locking him up on an assault charge when he noticed the air Force a Ray technician s watch. It was a rolex Picone told Tom hic and deserved Spe Cial care. Trumbic remembered that a role had been reported stolen from the Lakenheath base Exchange. He Trumbic should be decorated said capt. Mitch Ettinger the prosecutor in Picone s one Day trial. The investigation into the ,869 Sto Len Rolen Al linger said sent special investigators to a British warehouse to open Picone s .-bound household goods. The investigators discovered some $5,000 Worth of stereo gear Cam Era equipment and other stolen checks found that Picone had made some false statements and collected almost $5,000 in Cash from the air Force hat he should t have. An assault charge started the sequence of events. Pit uni on his last night i England decided to seek an apology from an airman first class who allegedly made derogatory remarks about Picone Girlfriend Ettinger said. Picone Wen 10 the Man s House an argument started and Picone punched him in the head. . Col. Steve Linder monday sentenced Picone to a dishonourable Dis charge after lie spends three years and six months in a military prison. Picone also was reduced in rank to airman Basic and ordered to surrender All pay and allow ances. Picone pleaded guilty to most of the charges he faced in monday s general court martial including the heft of a $700 video recorder s500 cassette deck and $420 turntable from the Exchange and More than $600 Worth of camera equipment from the local audio and Holo club i scone also pleaded guilty to the As Sault and making false Setji Emels that let him collect sonic s4.8qq in allowance from the government. Etlinger said Pirone claimed he was married to a civilian while his wife was an Active duty member. He also claimed a family separation allowance by falsely telling the accounting and finance optic that his wife lived in his native Kansas. His wife is stationed at Rai upwind. Picone worked at the . Air Lorce regional Hospital at Kay 1-Akenhealli
