European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 24 Naivs h rids the stars and stripes thursday May 14,1937 sunken British ferry towed into port at Flushing Flushing the Netherlands up the British car Liny Herald of free Enterprise was owed into the dutch port of Flushing wednesday. Since the ferry capsized March 6 just outside the belgian port of Zeebrugge belgian and Brit ish Navy divers have recovered 186 bodies. Officials in Zeebrugge have said six people including a Small childcare still missing. Accord ing to British police however the number of musing might be As High As 29. Townsend Thoresen the vessel s owner has said there Wen 543 people aboard when the 8,000-Ion ship left in route Tor Dover England. Since the ship was re floated and towed Back into Zeebrugge port april 27, Salvage Crews have cleared and starched the garage decks pulling out wrecked can and trucks. Man sentenced for attack in Quebec s legislature Quebec a a former army Corporal who sprayed machine Sun fire into tie Quebec legislature in 1984, killing three people an wounding 13, he been sentenced to life imprisonment after Olca Ding Guild to reduced charges or eco i de to murder. Denis Lortie 27, will be eligible for parole in 10yean. According to evidence at his trial the attack was motivated by lome s hatred of the pro Independence parti quebecois government then in enter. Security tightly enforced at papal general audience Vatican City a police seized hundreds of soft drink bottles pocket Imi vet another Metal objects from people entering St Peter s Square for Pope John Paul it s general Audi ence wednesday the sixth anniversary of the attempt on his life. L was during a similar audience in the same Square that John Paul was shot on May 13,1981, by turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Acau now serving a life i Tinct an unusually huge contingent of police and Plain doth Esmen were on duty throughout the Square packed with about i0,000pilgrimsand tourists. In his address the Pope did not mention the assassination attempt. April retail sales in . Show slight increase Washington Asp retail sales inched upward a meager  percent in april the government reported wednesday. Some economist said the sluggish growth reflected battered cautious Consumers who May be digging in. The Commerce department said seasonally adjusted april retail sales were $123.38 billion Only 0.1 percent above March s 1125,22 billion. Auto sales were Down 0.9 percent from March Levels while sales of furniture and Home furnish Ings were Down 1.4 percent. Non Auto sales were up Only 0.4 percent. Some economists said the report not Only showed a tiny gain it showed it in the wrong places in food and gasoline sales where the increases reflect rising prices rather than More spending. Tennessee s rep. Ford pleads innocent to fraud Knoxville. Tenn. Api . Rep. Harold Ford a Tenn. Pleaded innocent wednes Day to Cheges of Bank and mail fraud. Ford said a nov. 9 irial Dale set by . Mag Istrate Robert Murrian might work out Well with the schedule of Congress where Ford rep resents Tennessee s 9lh District Ai the slate s first and Only Black representative. The 41-year-old congressman former  . Butcher or. And three others were named april 24 in a 19-Coum indictment alleging a conspiracy to commit Bank fraud mail fraud and to defraud the internal Revenue service. The indictment charges Ford with trading his political influence for Loans from Banks con trolled by Brothers . Bulcher or. And Jak Butcher both of whom have been convicted of Bank fraud and other charges. Swiss Man returns millions mistakenly put in his account Washington a a Swiss businessman has returned Jio million thai was mistakenly deposited a his account by Brunei officials asked by the slate department to contribute Money to the nicaraguan re Bels a judge in Geneva Switzerland said wednesday. The action came the Day after sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii chairman of the special Senate Iran Contra committee revealed that investigators had found the Money. A numerical error apparently resulted in the Jio million Landing in the account of a 60-year-old Busi Nessman whose identity has Noi been revealed credit suisse instituted criminal proceedings against the businessman prompting a judicial hearing Mark Bulnick a Senate staff member said. State department spokesman Charles Redman said . Officials have been in regular Contact with Brunei officials regarding the Money but he did not know the answers to questions about where the Money would go now. Belnick said the Swiss businessman whom he identified As having shipping interests and tics to his coun try s social elite had placed the Money last fall into a certificate of Deposit where it had earned $253,000 in interest. Bulnick said the Money reached inc wrong Destina Tion apparently because the credit suisse account number that was if Ven to the Multan by assistant Secre tary of stale Elliott Abrams last August had the prefix "368" instead of "386." Abrams had asked Sultan sir Hassanat Bol Kiah the absolute Monarch of Brunei for a donation for the contras who were at the time in financial trouble and barred from receiving . Financial Aid. Abrams requested hat the Brunei officials Channel the Money to a Swiss Bank account controlled by it col. Oliver l. North then a National Security Council aide and his private associates. The North operation used Money from the account to buy weapons and other equipment for the contras businessman Albert Hakim who managed the Swiss account for North said no $10 million was Ever received from Brunei. Reagan from Page 1 kidnapped and tortured during his secret trip to Iran inlay a. He declined to go unto details saying it would reflect a i talc bit of false bravado to do so. Sources familiar with the trip have previously said Mcfarlane carried with him what he believed to be a lethal dose of pills. Under questioning from rep. James Conner Jinx Mcfarlane said be assumed there was a risk he would to taken prisoner and tortured when he made the journey to discuss a possible arms for hostages Deal particularly because he knew Many of the its government s most sensitive secrets. I am confident that i had the Means at hand to foreclose my being exploited for intelligence he said. Courier replied i think  he did not directly ask Mcfarlane about the report of pills. But As he left the hearing room during a lunchtime break. Courier told a reporter Mcfarlane was pre pared to kill  he said be had not asked a direct question because he considered it too personal a matter. Mcfarlane had suggested on monday that Reagan might have discussed the saudi contributions in his meeting with fab. On tuesday he said be had no meant to imply that the president had raised the Issue. At the White it Uge Reagan told reporters my diary shows that i never brought it up. It shows that the Ting before he left told me that he was doing that and that he was going to increase the  Reagan added there was no solicitation that i know of or anything of the kind. I did know.,. Was informed that he was helping. But i never brought it up. The subject was never broached until he was Leav ing told me what he was doing Reagan said adding i expressed pleasure that he was doing  officials have denied giving Aid to the Consitt or that the president and the saudi King discussed the subject but congressional investigators have Laid saudi Arabia five a total of 132.i million to the con tra in 1984 and 1985. The fresh disclosures came As Mcfarlane testified that an israeli official David kit die prodded . Officials persistently to authorize the Sale of anon Toiran. Mcfarlane said it was Kimche then a senior official in the israeli foreign ministry who first approached him about opening talks with Iran in mid.1983.tiki two weeks later told him the iranians were insisting that .-Rrmde Miu Uei be part of any  Reagan rejected the idea of Selling .-made weapons directly Kimche returned with a proposal that Israel sell american weapon to Iran and be permitted to Purchase replacements from . Slock. Mcfarlane said Reagan approved that arrangement and the first shipment of missile was made shortly afterwards. Or. Kimche is a very careful Man Mcfarland said adding be believes that whatever proposal remade to the Reagan administration were on the instructions of 1 he israeli government. Under questioning by members of the House and Senate committees Mcfarian Abo said he could not recall a National Security coun cil meeting in which notes were not taken by his Dep Uty adm. John Poindexter. Investigators said several weeks ago they have been unable to locate notes on number of meetings at which Poindexter was present and key decisions Are believed to have been nude inthe Iran Contra affair. Conceded he did not Volunteer to attorney Gen eral Edwin Meese last fall the information that proceeds from arms sales to Iran had been diverted to the Contra even though he had known about it for months. Meese was conducting a fact finding inquiry into the affair at the time at the direction of the presi Dent. Barbie from Page 1 Dini called a recess without indicating whether he would Grant Barbie s request. Barbie 73, accused of sending jews to nazi death Camps during world War ii read the statement after testifying he does not Bale jews or other minorities. Barbie who was the lop Gestapo officer in Lyon from 1942 until 1944, is charged with arresting torturing and deposing jews and French resistance fighters to German concentration Camps. He has been called the Butcher of  among other things. Barbie is charged with sending to death Camps 44 jewish children and seven adult from a children s Home in Iziu 47 Miles East of Lyon arresting 86 jews in 1943 at the Lyon Headquarters of the general Union of the israelite of France and sending out the last rail Convoy from Lyon to the death Camps carrying about 600 jews and resistance Mem Bers Barbie has said his Job during the War involved a legitimate German Light against French resistance members. I have no hatred for these minorities he said in court earlier wednesday. Speaking German slowly and softly he noted that people of Many races and nationalities live in Bolivia where be spent most of Bis life after the War. Cerdini asked Barbie for his Conception of the nazi world in 1940" just before the German defeat and occupation of France and Bis opinion of racial prob lems involving jews gypsies and slavs. These Are questions from More than 40 Yean ago the defendant said speaking through a French inter Preter "1 cannot answer. I did my work under the direction of my superiors. Until the War i never had to give my opinion on  Barbie who fled to South America with american help has been jailed in Lyon since feb. 5,1983, while  compiled their Case against him. He was twice convicted of War crimes and sentence to death in absent a in the 1930s. Prosecutors maintain the current charges of crimes against humanity differ from the earlier charges. I