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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday May 22,1987 Senate seeks report on Navy s role in Gulf from Page 1 Houn Byrd s assessment that the pro posed Sale would have a Lough ride right  the iraqi Al fighter that dispatched a missile into the port Side of the Stark was tracked on airborne Azacs radar . Air Force and saudi personnel on patrol Over the Gulf the United Stales asked the saudi air Force to intercept the iraqi plane after the attack but delays in obtaining approvals from superiors delayed any saudi action until the iraqi Jet was beyond the Range of the saudi planes. Earlier Sens. Dennis Deconcini d ariz., and Frank r. Lautenberg. D-n.j., introduced a Resolution to disapprove it Sale of 12 Al 5s to the saudis. De Concini said he wants More accurate and predictable assurances about he saudi role in the Middle East peace pro Cess and As our  Fitzwater said the delay was because the administration wanted to make the proposal at the most propitious Lime Roget its  he said the while Houn hoped this would be very soon and added he can t go into All the reasons for the delay. Amid Calls for a Fuller accounting of Ilic iraqi attack on the frigate the military was invest Ligating. The discovery of a second unexploded missile warhead aboard the Starkand the revelation thai a naval destroyer sent to help the Stark was itself approached twice by iraqi lighten. The  missile warhead which was discovered wednesday was identified As being from a French made i oct.  Glenn r. Brindel com Mander of the Stark said wednesday in Bahrain that the other missile May have been of a different laser guided variety that is much harder to detect than the i Nocei. Brindel said his ship s radar Crews did not select a separation of the missile from the iraqi Al Mirage and did not detect the electronic emissions from the missile on radar once the missile was launched. Meanwhile he Pentagon said the wadded a guided missile destroyer was approached by one iraqi f-1 on monday and two More f-1 s on tuesday. Pentagon sources who asked not to be named said dial on both occasions the Waddell identified itself and the aircraft left the area. The lighten were in the same area where the Stark was attacked. Reagan began telephoning families of the 37 . Seamen who died in the at tack and was making plans to journey today to the Start s Home port of May port naval station near Jacksonville,Fla., for a memorial service. First lady Nancy Reagan will accompany him. Reagan on wednesday countermanded a Navy decision to pay transportation costs to the memorial service in Florida Only for widows instead the government will pay travel costs for All family members. Weinberger and Navy Secretary James Webb will join the reagans at the memo rial service which May be held aboard the aircraft Carrier Saratoga. Contra from Page 1 a fiction for anyone to assume that s not a  Colorado brewery magnate Joseph Coors told House and Senate investigators that Casey informed him in june 1985 that Ollie North s the Guy to see about making a voluntary contrib Ion to the Contra cause. Coors said hat after meeting North he wired $65,000 to a Swiss Bank account whose number North had provided. Coon said Casey at a meeting in his office adjacent to the White House said he could t do anything about making arrangements 10 receive private Dona Tion for the nicaraguan rebels but said North could. Coors said Casey immediately arranged for him to meet privately with North at the White House late that afternoon. At that meeting Coors said North said the centres greatest need was for new Small planes to replace a worn out dc-3 that was their Only aircraft. I told him i was interested in seeing what 1 could do and i asked him Tor his  Coo said. He was very anxious to provide me with an area where he thought t could be of most help. Thai was inthe area of providing Small Maule  Coors quoted Nonh As saying one of these Small planes was tiny As a Piper cub very Short Landing and Takeoff. This a important because they could get into the various bases where the Freedom fighters were stationed. He Showiak me a Mauie brochure and specifically showed me the Model and the plane Coors said. He said one of those planes was available Ai the Maule co. And could be procured with All spare parts for $65,000. He indicated i could do thai in any of a number of ways. He suggested a Bank Transfer to a Swiss ban account. Me gave the name and number of the account Ellen Garwood a wealthy Texas woman thursday told the joint House Senate hearing she gave nearly i million to the contras after North told her they might cease to exist i the weapons Are not replenish subsequently she said she and other contributors attended a while House meeting with Reagan North and assistant Secretary of slate Elliott Abrans. She said Reagan thanked the donors for their support of the centres. At any time Ai at did president Reagan personally Ever ask you to contribute anything o the contras asked rep. Bill Mccollum a Fla. No sir absolutely nol Garwood replied. At any Lime at All did colonel North or any other administration official Ever ask you to contribute any thing to the contrast no  Garwood said North did nol solicit funds during their meeting at a Washington hotel in april 1986, but after North left the meeting Channel solicited More than $1 million fora list of weapons. Can you help provide for this she quoted Chan Nel As asking. She said she returned to Austin Texas and gave nearly j2 million in Cash and stocks Over the nent two months to Channel s National endowment for the preservation of Liberty. Channel recently pleaded guilty on Federal charges in connection with the privately financed Contra Supply Efton. Garwood quoted Nonh us saying the anti sandinista guerrillas were facing crisis and were out of food Oul of clothes. And were practically out of weapons she said Channell gave her a detailed list of needed weapons. She said the list included hand grenades Cartridge belts and surface to air missiles. . Citizen identifies Barbie As Man who rounded up jews Lyon France a naturalized american thursday identified Klaus Barbie As the commander Ofa Gestapo Roundup of 86 jews in Lyon in 1944, bul was unable to answer crucial questions about the Day he met Barbie. Michel Thomas 73, a naturalized american of pol ish origin said he was arrested briefly during the Fob 9, 1943, Roundup of jews at the offices of the general Union of French israelite. Of 86 jews arrested 84 were deported to concentration Camps and most died. The Roundup is one of the main charges against Barbie 73, on rial since May 11 for alleged crimes against humanity committed when he was Lyon Gestapo chief. He was accused of torturing murdering or deporting nearly 800 people during world War ii. Thomas unfolded a drama lie Story of How he was seek ing to recruit Young jews to fight in the French resistance but was posing As a Painter to avoid suspicion. He said he was arrested at the Union offices and taken to a room in the Back where Barbie sat dressed in civilian clothes. There he talked with Barbie for an hour and a half and finally convinced him his identity papers were in order and was released he said Thomas said Barbie s cruel smile and Demeanour As Well As one ear being slightly higher than the other were indelibly imprinted in nil memory. He said he recognized Barbie from a 1972 Magazine photo when Barbie was discovered living in exile in Bolivia and that he later identified him in a face to face meet ing after Barbie was deposed to France in 1983. There was no doubt not the slightest thai this was Klaus Barbie who led personally the Roundup on there St. Catherine Thomas said he was the first witness to declare Barbie was at the jewish organization that Day. However Thomas willed under Cross examination by Barbie s lawyer. Jacque verges verges asked if he could remember any of the names of the arrested jews he saw thai Day. But Thomas said that after 40 years he could not. I do nol accept this As a valid question he said. The names Ore of no importance. Verges then asked if Thomas after Barbie let him go did indeed set up a system to warn other jews from entering the office. Thomas could Only mention one name that of Vic Tor Sulla per who had Juan testified. Verges noted to the court that when Sulla per was asked if he remembered Thomas Sulla per could not. Verges then asked if Thomas remembered whether Barbie remarked on his accented French since Thomas had said he talked who Barbie for an hour and a half. What Light accent Thomas demanded in accented French bringing chuckles from the courtroom Thomas said Barbie made no remark about his accent and that they did not spend the whole hour and Thalf talking. Is from Germany launch Pershing ii Cape canaveral Fia. Api a Pershing 11battlefield missile was launched wednesday night an army spokesman said thursday the 35-foot-Long missile equipped with a Dummy warhead was propelled toward a target in the Atlantic Ocean. The result of the to . Launch was not immediately available the spokesman said. About 100 soldiers conducting the test Are from the 1st in 9ih Field arty at Neu Ulm Germany. The army periodic ily Flics soldiers to Cape canaveral for launches to gain experience in handling the two stage inner mediate Ranjee missiles. There Are 108 Pershing us deployed with .troops in Germany. Soldiers conducted their first tests of the missile s. Operational efficiency in december 198s. The launch was the 45ih flight of a perching i rocket including 11 so far this year. 2 Navy crewmen die in a-6e Jet crash stumpy Point . A two Navy Crew men died when their a-6e intruder fighter Jet crashed during the night in a heavily wooded area at a Navy bombing Range. The crash Crews and the Navy investigation teams Are now Al the scene. The area has been sealed off Ensign Scott Miller a Navy spokesman in Norfolk,va., Laid thursday Miller identified the victims As the Pilot u. Brace , 25, of Merrill Island fat and the Bombardier re Viator la. James d. Hicks 25, of Slaten Island  did not know if the bodies had been recovered. Harry Mann supervisor of the bonding Range on North Carolina s outer Banks said the Jet went Down in a heavily wooded area and was spotted by a helicopter about two hours after it crashed wednesday night 2nd Soldier killed in car wreck named Darmstadt Germany is the second sol Dier killed saturday in a traffic Accident near Wiesbaden was spec. 4 Gilbert j. Therrien 23, of b Btry 1st in 1st air defense any 108th brigade. Two soldiers died and a third was injured in the Accident said sol. Maj. Melvin Sherman a spokesman for the 32nd army air defense come in Darmstadt. Spec. 4 Joseph Hughes of the 606th Ord co. 32nd support come remained in stable condition thursday in the air Force regional medical Center in Wiesbaden. Spec. 4 Mark Lee Hawkinson of the 6q6th Ord co 32nd support come also died in the Accident. All three were stationed at Tilburg a. Hawkinson 19, was driving the car on autobahn 3 near Wiesbaden about s . When be apparently lost control on a curve Sherman said. Therrien is survived by his parents Everett a. In Mildred 1. Therrien of Welsford Al  
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