European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 18, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Gray named to be next Marine Boss by Norman Black at ill Minry writer Washington president Reagan has selected la. Gen. Alfred m. Gray or. To be the next commandant of the Marine corps the White House said tues Day. He will replace Gen. . Kelley who has served As the marines1 Lap officer since 1983 and who is required by Law to step Down on june 30. Gray a Blunt talking Field commander who will be 59 on monday is a Tenner enlisted Man who came up through the ranks and is looked upon As a real War rior and Leader Pentagon officials said. Pentagon sources had disclosed earlier this month that Gray was the Choice of Navy Secretary James h. Webb and tha defense Secretary Caspar in. Weinberg or had endorsed his nomination. As commandant Gray will automatically receive his fourth Star As a full Gen eral and will be a member of the six Man joint chiefs of staff the principal Mili tary advisers to the defense Secretary and president. Gray was selected by Reagan Over three senior Marine generals including the current assistant commandant Gen. Thomas r. Morgan. A combat Veteran of Korea and Viet Nam Gray now commands the marines Atlantic Fleet forces. Pentagon sources have said Webb a Marine combat Veteran of Vietnam settled on Gray because of his reputation within the corps As a Strong Leader. A native of Point pleasant Beach n.j., Gray has served in the corps for 37 years starting As an enlisted Man and advancing to sergeant before winning a commission As .1 Mccond lieutenant in1952. Gray served several Tours in both Korea and Vietnam As Well As in the Mediterranean and on Okinawa. In Vietnam he was a commanding officer during the evacuation operations that accompanied inc fall of South Viet Nam. At different Points in his career Gray has also worded in the Fields of recon Naissance intelligence and special operations. He assumed his current Post in in summer of 1984. Foiled Enterprise Leas than 24 hours after bunching us quest for u world s record for rowing Solo tarns the Atlantic find Muir Guy Lemon nor returns to Shore monday with leaking rodder Hose. Leno Naler we 25 Miles off a pc cod mass., when the Taconet Enterprise to muted Enterprise began taking on water. The Cutter Point Turner was sent to Tow the boat Back to Chatham. Let Bonnier had begun the 3,000 mile trip hoping to break the Mark of 72 Days 23 hours set in 1980 by compatriot Gerard d Abrille. Texas town pops corks As Price of Oil tops $20 Mark Perryton Texas a corks popped on non alcoholic Champagne and revellers on streets and in businesses grabbed noisemakers tuesday to celebrate crude Oil prices edging past $20 a barrel. Perryton Ochiltree chamber of Commerce presi Dent Bruce Jones said the party had been anticipated for months in the Panhandle Community of 8,000 thai relics heavily on the Energy Industry. We All know inc Price of Oil has been Down an the Price of Oil is very important to our Economy Jones said. Oil was Down we were Down. Now Oil is Back our Community is Back and Texas is  the celebrating began tuesday afle Noort with party in the chamber of Commerce building. Later local officials donned red jackets and slopped motorists on . 83, the main Highway through town to offer hem paper cups of the non alcoholic Champagne Perryton business leaders began planning the Cele bration in february when the Price of West Texas inter mediate the Benchmark u a. Crude began to climb. Contracts for july delivery of West Texas intermediate closed or the new Yore mercantile Exchange monday at $20.06 a barrel and added 21 Tenn on tuesday. Justice depth opposes Independent counsel Law Washington up the Justice department criticizing special prosecutors for spending too much taking Loo Long and abusing i hair authority told con Gress tuesday it is opposed to the Independent counsel Law and would recommend that president Reagan veto any attempt to renew it. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 18. 1947 the association of Ameri can railroads embargoed the loading of freight destined for shipment to foreign ports in Ameri can ships because of the National maritime sit Down. The Railroad action was to forestall a pile up of freight ears a port cities. 30 years ago today. June 18, 1957 the supreme court Over turned 6-1 the contempt of Congress conviction of United Auto workers organizer John t. Wat Kins for refusing to name former communist associates. 20 years ago today. June 18, 1967 communist China announced in peking that it successfully conducted Hydrogen bomb test in the air Over the Western part of the chinese Mainland. Red China and France did t subscribe to the partial test ban treaty signed by the United Stales Britain and Russia. 10 years ago today. June 18, 1977 Wernher von Braun 65. The German bom scientist whose rockets rained terror on London and sent americans to the Moon died of cancer of the Colon in Alexandria a. The department in a letter to sen. Carl Levin d mich., from assistant attorney Genera John Bolton for the first Lime expressed ils opposition to renewal of provisions in the 978 ethics in government act under which special prosecutors Are appointed. If this Bill is enacted we will have no Choice but id recommend its disapproval by the president Bolton said in the 10-Page critique of a Bill drawn up by Levin that would extend the current Law. Recent developments have con firmed our constitutional concerns about the dangers inherent in he operation of the Independent counsel statute and have deepened our own and lie Public s misgivings about whether this Law can in fact fulfil the expectations of ils supporters in 1978," he said. At a news conference Bollon who previously opposed the Law As unconstitutional pressed his attack on several current Independent counsels complaining especially of inc Cost of inc Iron Contra probe. Nothing is too trivial for these people to investigate Elton said citing the fact that Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh has already run up a $1.3 million Bill. They will take any piece of Flimsy evidence and pursue that Flimsy evidence right into  ground spare no expense Bollon charged. No Independent counsel makes a reputation by deciding not to pros  in response Levin said the Justice department position sadly comes As no Surprise. Their opposition has been apparent for years in the ways in which the department has attempted to undermine the inde pendent counsel  Bolton who reiterated the department View hint Reagan can Issue orders to special prosecutors and fire them for refusing to follow the orders said no such executive orders were planned but some oversight by the department is warranted to Force a counsel to weigh evidence before wastefully proceeding. In his letter Bollon said Independent counsel investigations have been costing the department Between $30,000 and $50,000 per Monib per investigation. This High rate of expenditure is attributable in pan to the fact that Independent counsel arc generally drawn from the ranks of successful private practitioners for whom fiscal austerity appears to be a relatively unfamiliar concept Bollon said Walsh s investigation spent More than $560,000 in May alone and has four offices in Ihrck different cities including one in Washington. A Walsh spokesman responded the Money we be spent undergoes the very same administrative review and audit As those of any other government  Button criticized inc unconscionable delay in Alexia Morrison s probe of former Justice department official Theodore Olson and the 1983 Epa scandal which has now entered an agonizing second year without word of inc prosecutor s  Bollon also criticized efforts by Whitney North sey Mour Spuccia prosecutor in former White House aide Michael Deaver s perjury Case to subpoena Canadian ambassador Alan Gottlieb in Defiance of the most Basic principles of a Plom Iii immunity and Over the protests of the state  we think it quite obvious thai he system has not borne these stresses Well Bolton said. It has become abundantly Clear thai the Law creates an Opportunity for abuse of prosecutor Al Power that our Constitution Al system cannot and must not  the Independent counsel Law part of the 1978 ethics in government act will expire at the end of inc year unless Congress reauthorizes it. The Justice department had not previously taken a position on extending it although Ballon and other officials have expressed reservations about its Constitution Lily. Adorn by general Edwin Meese the first Public offi Cial to fall under the investigation of two special prosecutors has declined to discuss whether he supports the Law. He has come under attack for earlier decisions not 10 seek Independent counsel investigations of for Mer Justice department officials linked to the 1981 Epa scandal and for charges of misconduct against Faith Ryan Whittlesey the . Ambassador to Switz Erland