European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28q the stars and stripes thursday. June 11,1987 Weinberger says Navy will begin escorting kuwaiti ships in Early july Washington a . Navy ships will begin escorting kuwaiti tankers in the persian Gulf Early next month and must do the Job alone if american allies won t help defense Secretary Caspar Weinberg or said tuesday. Weinberger told the House armed services com Mittee that the coast guard is expected to finish the paperwork needed to place 11 kuwaiti tankers under the american Flag later this month and when that is completed the Navy will begin escorting the ships. Pressed by legislators about when the escort role would actually begin Weinberger declined to be specific beyond saying it would be very shortly after the end of june. We believe that the re flagging will be completed bythe end of the month he said disputing statements by other administration officials that the . Escort role would Start in late june. Congressional fears about . Policy in the Gulf have risen in the Wake of last month s iraqi missile attack on the frigate Start that killed 37 sailors and president Rea Gan s pledge to protect the kuwaiti tankers. Kuwait is an ally of Iraq in the 6 a year old Iran Iraq War and Iran has threatened to continue to attack if denies report 36 Gays Jas charged in nether Lar Lesterberg a Netherlands  Force officials tuesday denied Ujj stews report that 36 homosexuals in the Rether lands Verc discharged last summer Safe that Only Mir persons were dismissed  Ca new Amsterdam  an inv gation into allegations homosexual activity i Camp new am Sterdi last sum Mer san capt. Sylvia Freeman a Oke woman for the us air Force Coulm Gewont the dutch base. As sons were free maning it was at specifics of Ai used. A report Amsterdam be largest circulation Bers were disc a american Underco an associated Piper account Appesland stripes. Freeman said summer and is where the Tel f-15cr during it of the  i lined to give Force poli investigate Ion four per  or details say t to discuss the or of the methods in Sale Ebay edition of theper Fleg Raaf the nation s ily Laid 36 military Mem Ter being identified by _ its at Oesterberg a. By based on the new spa today in the the stars litigation took place last he said she did t knows information. A Virginia killing Pilot Rice and exp lulling " wide i Penoi origin would 1 4w Pearl site. A monday Dun lot and spread Rici als and with i from Langley a cordoned on to fallow reporters 01 Force f-15 crashed a training Mission wreckage Over a said. Where the flight crash site Candito Grapher to Ord a plane Fly Ove weal Low said a Hill who lives about mile from Thelen there was a Boom a the ground single seat Jet fighter the tie . Arsenal appear pact according to people me. Was maj. Dennis r. K ing to airman Dana Flores or was flying a Low level train time she said. The cause of investigation. Lores said the plane was assigned fighter Wing. It was not carrying munition she said. Kuehler a native of new braunfels survived by a wife and two daughters in Newport news Flores said. It sophist by explode saw the to 36, a Langley. Mission crash is the 1st Jive am exas is Tho live the kuwaiti tankers. A key concern in Congress has been the role of Western Europe and Japan which receive a higher percentage of their Oil from the Gulf than does the United states. Legislators have complained that they should Cany More of the Burden of protecting the Gulf. Meanwhile the House foreign affairs committee delayed a vote on a Resolution urging America s allies to do More in support of the . Role in he Gulf. The postponement was made so the administration could have More time to prepare a formal response. In his testimony Weinberger noted that the United states gets less than 6 percent of its Oil from the Gulf while Japan gets 60 percent of its Energy from the area and Western Europe gets 30 percent. But this ignores the fact that the world Oil Market is one Market and should the persian Gulf Oil supplies be disrupted Oil prices will Rise for everyone he said. In addition he said the fundamental Issue is leadership the leadership of the free world to resist the forces of Afi Archy and  if the United states does t assume leadership in the area the soviet Union will he said. Weinberger and adm. William Crowe jr., chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the chinese made silkworm anti ship missiles recently purchased by Iran Are one of their major fears. But despite being pressed by legislators both Leader refused to say if the Pentagon is preparing a pre Emp Tive strike against the land based missiles which could hit ships going through the Strait of Hormuz at the Mouth of the Gulf. Rep. Dan Daniel d-va., said he had heard report the one of the silkworms has already been fired but Weinberger said i do not have any information that it has been deployed or  even though it was an iraqi fighter plane that attacked the Stark the chief worry is Iran both Weinberger and Crowe made Clear. They said they accept the iraqi explanation that the attack on the Stark was a mistake. Weinberger said the Sale of . Arms to Iran was a temporary one time aberration that will not be repeat  he said the attempt to get better relations was Well motivated. But it is not possible with the kind of lunatics we have in Iran now. Even though Iran is the chief threat to . Vessels he said Iraq has been behind More than 70 percent of the 300 attacks on ships in the Gulf in the past three Yean. Said 30 o i i years Hall says she removed papers to keep secrets off front Page Lington a Fawn Hall says she spin hmm Mumk a pen a t documents from the White House when the of his j1bhhhh lira connection was revealed because she a or fir Chi i Ian we a fall info that lure inn Hanae to if i air Ili Al a Sbeih a Washingto l Spiri Ted Sec Eiran Contr s revealed feared they would fall into the wrong hands. It was t the Kab that was coming. Miss Hall twas the Fri countered sen. Warren b. Rudman r n.h., at the congressional hearing on tuesday. That s True sir but we do in this country have a tendency to have classified documents get on the front Page of the new York times said the witness. Hall who was it. Col. Oliver North s Secretary at the National Security Council was the 18th witness As the House and Senate committees ended the first phase of their hearings and adjourned for two weeks. What these committees have heard is a depressing Story said rep. Lee Hamilton d-ind., chairman of the House committee. It is a Story of not telling the truth to the Congress and the american  Hamilton said a secret Supply network was established to Aid the Contra rebels arms were sold covertly to Iran and some Reagan administration officials tried to mislead Congress about their activities. Hall said she did not consider her activities of shredding altering or removing sensitive document from North s office to be part of a cover up. I use the word protect " she said. At one Point during her second Day of questioning at the televised hearings. Hall said her activity was Justi fied because sometimes you have to go above the written  but a few minutes later she retracted the statement. I Don t feel that she said. In the second phase the committees expect to hear from the two Central figures identified in the Case so far North who was a National Security Council aide and his former Boss rear adm. J9hn Poindexter. If the two men testify it will be under limited Grants of immunity from prosecution. In nearly six weeks of hearings the committees received what Hamilton described As some of the most extraordinary testimony Ever  our government cannot function cloaked in secrecy said Hamilton. It cannot function unless officials Tell the truth. The Constitution Only works when the two branches of government Trust one another and  after the session Rudman said i have never believed that col. North acted alone acted without direction. I Don t think the president s role can Ever be measured until North and Poindexter Are heard  Hall was led again through her activities on nov. 21, 1986, just before Justice department investigators were to search North s White House office. A supporter of president Reagan sen. Orrin Hatch a Utah brought out in his questioning Hall s Conten Tion that she shredded altered and sneaked out documents in her clothes because she Felt the lives of american hostages in Lebanon were involved. Fawn Hall enters the hearing room tuesday. A photo with respect to the shredding and the other activities which 1 have to admit do not look very Good Hatch began and joined in the laughter that followed. Do you feel. That regardless of now bad they might look do you think that we should hear col. North explanations for those actions before we draw any final conclusions said Hall it would be fair to col. North  that brought a rejoinder later from Rudman. Col. North s not being Here to answer these charges is his Choice not ours he said. We re not holding col. North out in the  North has invoked his constitutional right not to testify because he might incriminate himself and the congressional committees have voted to Grant him limited immunity in order to compel his testimony