European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday june 26,1987 panel hears of deceit at High Levels Washington a drawing a portrait ofic Ceil Ai the High Cal Levels of the Reagan administration. Assistant attorney general Charles Cooper described thursday How some officials lied to each other and schemed to deceive Congress about their activities in the Iran Contra affair. Cooper said hat stale department Legal adviser Abraham sofar threatened to resign in november 1986 if then Cia director William Casey gave con Gress false testimony about arms shipments to Iran As he apparently intended. Cooper said some of the false information was deleted but even so Casey did not utter the truth. Sofar in a june in deposition released by the House and Senate investigating committees con firmed his threat to resign and said Cooper told him he won id leave with  the 35-year-old Justice department official spoke in Flat unemotional terms but the information he provided the committees about men who once served in the High Cal echelons of the Reagan administration was As explosive As any testimony heard in nearly seven weeks of nationally televised hearings on the Iran con tra affair. Meanwhile it col. Oliver l. North the silent Cen trial figure in the controversy will Tell his Story at the Public hearings beginning july 7 after first being questioned privately panel leaders said wednesday. North earlier had refused to be questioned privately news a rfcs 53-46 vote in Senate passes $1 trillion budget Washington not the democratic controlled Senate approved a is trillion 1988 budget wednesday by a 53-46 vote ending the first round of this year s budget Battle Between Congress and the White House. Only three republicans voted for the plan which would reduce the projected deficit to $133.9 billion far above the s108 billion ceiling set in the 1985 budget balancing Law. The House approved the budget tuesday 215-201. The budget Resolution does not need the presi Dent s signature but president Reagan has threatened to veto tax increases it Calls for if they Are passed ill separate legislation. 3 . Ships pass Suez in route to persian Gulf Suez. Egypt a three . Warships heading for the persian Gulf War zone to escort kuwaiti tankers passed through the Suez canal wednesday while a Navy team report edly swept for iranian mines in the Waters off Kuwait. Iran locked in War with Iraq since september i960, has accused Kuwait of aiding Iraq in at lacks on iranian targets. Kuwait has dented the allegations. Eleven kuwaiti ships Ore being registered under the . Lag seeking Protection from iranian attacks. In Egypt the guided missile destroyer Kidd and guided missile frigates flatly and Klakring led a Convoy of 13 vessels Down the i0-mile-Long canal and into the Gulf of Suez. In Bahrain Gulf based Marine Salvage executives said an 18-Man . Navy team in eluding eight bomb disposal experts was working Wilh kuwaiti experts and helicopters in sweeping for mines. Beirut from Page 1 abducted together eight Days Igo near a syrian Check Point in South Beirut. Defense minister Adel Osseiran who Heads a prominent can of conservative shines told reporters after inc release of his son Ali that efforts were continuing to obtain Glass release. Osseiran 82, also assured Glass wife Fiona who telephoned from her London Home that her husband was being Well treated by his captors. And his lawyers had been negotiating with the commit tech for a week to limit the length and scope of his Public testimony. Panel leaders said they had not committed themselves to concessions North had demanded. Among his revelations Cooper described learning of the memo that gave investigators heir first clue that Money from the arms sales had been diverted to inc Contra rebels fighting the nicaraguan government. Attorney general Edwin a Csc said something analogous look. Darn " when he Learned that at the same Lime. Perhaps More strenuous than that Cooper said As laughter broke the tension in inc crowded hearing room said then National Security adviser John poin Dexter volunteered thai he fully understood he had to resign when investigators uncovered the diversion of funds from arms Les to the Contra rebels. Said nothing that challenged president Reagan s statements that he did not know of the diversion say ing that a Csc personally informed Reagan of the diversion in a while House meeting last nov. 24. Rea Gan s reaction was one of Surprise. Complete Surprise Cooper quoted Mccase As saying. Cooper offered his account As the investigating committees announced that the israeli government had agreed to give investigators Access to two chronologies it has prepared concerning its role in the affair. Cooper said Mcnese did not order while h use re cords scaled in the Case until at scr Reagan s news con Ference on nov. 2s, but that even then his order was misunderstood and there was a delay until evening. The committee introduced documents showing that North informed Poindexter on nov. 20, i9s5, that a plane bound from Israel to Iran carried Hawk missiles. Bui Cooper recalled that North under questioning by a desc last november said he had not known the con Lents of the cargo until after inc flight. And Cooper said North jokingly told Justice depart ment investigators he could pass a lie Detector test that the plan Load of equipment in november 1985 was Oil drilling equipment. He said North personally rewrote the Cia s pro posed testimony to heighten the deception Over inc True contents of the shipment. He said  and Casey sat in silent assent at the while House meeting last nov. 20. Cooper recalled that the original draft of the Testi Mony said that no one in the Cia knew until january 1986 thai Israel had shipped Hawk missiles to Iran in november 1985 a statement that documents introduced at the hearing thursday showed was untrue. But Cooper said North changed the language to say thai no one in the . Government was aware that the shipment contained missiles and not Oil drilling sup plies As Lite original draft of Casey s testimony claimed. Austrian president Kurt Waldheim left meets Wilh Pope John Paul ii it the Vatican thursday. Pope from Page 1 papal Library discussing disarmament and their Hopes for world peace. John Paul speaking first lauded Waldheim s work As former . Secretary general and recalled his first visit to the United nations in 1979 at Waldheim s invitation. In response. Waldheim thanked the Pope for receiving him and praised him As a renowned moral  since his election to the presidency last july Wald him has been diplomatically isolated because of allegations thai he aided in the deportation of thousands of jews to concentration Camps during world War ii accusations which he has Den cd. The . Government has barred his entry into the United Stales where he on cd lived while serving As Secretary general of the United nations. Following the audience Walt Heim was presented to the Vatican diplomatic corps. . Ambassador Frank Shakespeare out of Taly at present was one of at least a dozen envoys who did not attend but he was rep resented by first Secretary Frank Umanzio. Gis from Page 1 from Tan fraud to passing a bad Check regardless of its Laik of relation to military discipline morale and  the court s action today reflects com empt. Both for the members of our armed forces and for the constitutional safeguards intended to protect us All mar shall said. He was joined by justices William Bic Nan and Harry Blackmun. Solorio was on Active duly in Juneau from 1982 to 1984. The City has no coast guard base or enclave where coast guard personnel reside and work 50 so Torio was living in civilian housing. He was charged with sexually assaulting the daughters of two other coast guard members who lived near him. The girls were Between 10 and 12 years of age when the offences occurred. Solorio was transferred by the coast guard to its governors Island n.y., base in 1984. It was there coast guard officials Learned of the Alaska allegations while investigating similar charges against Solorio involving activities on the new York base. A military judge dismissed the Alaska charges Afler finding a Lack  to court martial Solorio for those alleged offences. But the coast guard court of military review reinstated the Alaska charges. The supreme court thursday upheld the military review court. Justice John Paul Stevens in a separate concurring opinion voted to uphold the military review court ruling but on narrow grounds. Stevens voted again it overturning the 1969 supreme Conn ruling limiting court Maniuel Powers. The Rase is Solorio is. . S5-15si