European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday june 29.19b7 Don t delay escort plan Shultz says it would be a very bad thing to do Washington a Secretary of slate George p. Shultz said sunday he strongly opposes congressional efforts to delay . Protection Tor kuwaiti Oil tankers arguing that hesitation would be a very had thing 10  Shultz said he could not give any Esti mate when 11 kuwaiti Oil Ankers might begin carrying . Flags except to say that he expects it during the first half or july. Queried about opposition on Capitol Hilt Shultz said no changes would occur until we have the presence there that is considered by our naval officers to be adequate to do the  appearing on Abc to s meet the press Shutlz was asked if he opposed the move by democratic lawmakers seeking a delay in the re flagging plan. Absolutely Shultz responded. I think it would be a very bad thing o a from the standpoint or the United Stales a very bad thing to  the United states announced on Fri Day that in was sending the battleship Missouri and three escorts to the Gulf next month to reinforce six . Warships now on patrol. Iran has concentrated its attacks on kuwaiti ships in re cent months accusing Kuwait of aiding Iraq s Effort in the persian Gulf War. The Secretary criticized confess for being betwixt and Between on the Issue. They can t make up their minds he said last week to key committees put of voting on resolutions sharply criticizing or delaying the administration s plan to show its commitment in the persian Gulf by placing kuwaiti Oil Tanker under the. . Flag and . Protection. The Resolution considered by the mouse foreign affairs committee says president Reagan s plan to protect the kuwaiti ships is unnecessary but it also says that neither proceeding with a Flag Ging nor withdrawing he proposal advances United slates interests Secretary of state George p. Shultz sen. Sam Nunn d.-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee has suggested Reagan hold off re flagging until alternatives arc explored such As Kuwait leasing . Oil tankers or additional efforts in the United nations to Stach a cease fire. Shutlz staunchly defended the administration policy noting that Kuwait has chartered ships from the soviet Union to carry Oil exports under the Protection of he soviet Flag. He said in was vitally important for the United states to main Tain a presence in the persian Gulf. The United Stales did not want to find the soviet Union astride the sup plies of Oil of the free world Shultz said. On the Issue of .-Soyiet arms Nego libations the Secretary said no Date has been set for him to meet with soviet for eign minister Eduard Shevardnadze to Speed up completion of by agreement on medium Range nuclear missiles or Arfi photo attorney Gettris Edwin Mae Iii Range a possible Summit Between Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. On the turmoil in South Korea Shutt termed reports of a dialogue Between the government and opposition a very encouraging development Shultz also said sunday he found some of the recent revelations about the Iran Contra affair sickening especially claims by businessman Albert Hakim that the United slates would be willing to Swap kuwaiti prisoners for american hostages in Lebanon. Shultz defended the Reagan administration s foreign policy denying that de tails emerging from the congressional hearings sum up the administration s approach to foreign affairs this is Tiki a portrait of american diplomacy Shutlz said. It s a portrait of what happened in a particular instance and some of the things that have been revealed 1 find  crime hit 25% of . Households in 1986, Justice deportment says Washington up a Quarter of the nation s households were affected by crime last year with Homes in the Northeast the safest and those in the West plagued the most the Justice department reported sunday. The department s Bureau of Justice statistics releasing its annual Survey of household crime estimated that 19 per cent of Homes in the Northeast were affected by crime during 1986, compared with 30 percent of those in the West and25 percent in the Midwest and South. Nationwide an estimated one fourth of All households were affected by at least one of the Survey crimes rape Rob Bery assault personal theft household burglary household theft and motor vehicle theft said Bureau director Steven Schlesinger. There were no measurable differences Between the 1985 and i9s6 rates he said. Since 1915, the proportion of households touched by crime has never shown a year to year increase the report said. But an estimated 1.2 million fewer households were affected by crime last year than 12 years earlier it showed. The estimated rate in 1975 was 32 percent of All households compared with 25 per cent in 1936. The Agency defined a household As a dwelling unit usually a House or apart ment and the people who live there. Five percent of the Homes had a Mem Ber who Fol victim to a violent crime the study said while 5 percent were burglarized at Liast once and 17 percent had a completed or attempted theft. Black households those with incomes of $25,000 or More and Urban Homes were the most Likely victims the report said. The study also found households in All regions were about equally Likely to have had a Mem Ber robbed or a car stolen. Homes in the Northeast were less Likely than elsewhere to have been affected by a theft burglary or an assault Western Homes were More vulnerable than others to burglaries and thefts. The data from the Bureau s National crime Survey was based on interviews of about 101,000 people twice a year in about 49,000 households nationwide and includes crimes not reported to police. Snowdrift survivor Dies in Idaho Boise Idaho a Nellie Oben Dorf. Who along with her husband Orvllle in april survived almost two weeks in a Kansas Snowdrift died saturday in a Nampa nursing Home. She was 65. She passed away in her sleep said her granddaughter Wendy Graves. Mrs. Obendorf a diabetic who had undergone two cancer operations in the past four years had been hospitalized periodically and remained disoriented and weak from the couple s monthlong Prairie Odyssey. Obendorf 11, had both his Frostbitten feel amputated in late april and is also in a nursing Home according to his daughter Debra Graves. The. Retired farm couple embarked on a car trip to Kansas on March 15 that became a nig Lunare because of bad weather ill health and numerous wrong turns. At one Point the car got Sui k in a ditch during a blizzard and the Chen do ifs were stranded for 13 Days Wilh nothing to eat but a few cookies. A Farmer rescued them but As they unsuccessfully tried to find their Way Back to Idaho their health deteriorated  was burglarized and their relatives were besieged with inquiries from the Media. Asked what he specifically was refer ring to Shultz replied i found. The idea that people who were representing themselves As Jit someway speaking for America would talk about. Prisoners in Kuwait As some thing we would be willing to discuss. That is totally wrong totally against he president s policies and i found that just a terrible  Hakim an iranian born middleman in the Iran Contra Deal testified earlier this month thai in october 1986 he negotiated a plan with an iranian official close to Aya Louah Ruhollah Khomeini to sell weapons in Exchange for the release of the american hostage. Meanwhile attorney general Edwin Meese Iii interviewed on Abc tvs this week with David Brinkley pro Gram refuted to comment on reports of his involvement with fired National Security Council aide u. Col. Oliver North. I m not going to be lured into com menting on this matter Meese said. "1will comment plenty when i have the Opportunity to testify or Al an appropriate Lime when the facts Are All out there. By i think there is no question in my mind that i have at no time done any thing improper or illegal and that toy Opportunity Tor comment will come the associated press on sunday quoted sources As saying the grand jury investigating the Iran Centra affair has heard testimony that White House aides who complained that North May have been violating the la were told Meese had  s actions the Story also quoted current and former administration sources As saying Meese and North held meetings on a regular basis before the Iran con Ira affair unravelled. The Atlanta journal and the atlant Constitution reported in combined Sun Day editions that Mccase while serving Asa White House Counselor steered Poten tial contributors to the congas to North. Drowns in tub the Mitt of Hustler Magazine pub Lisher Larry Flint drowned sat urday night in the Bathtub at the couple s Home at Hollywood Hills calif., Coroner s officials said. Right now we re investigating ils an Accident a Coroner s Probir said of the deals of Flat s fourth wife Althea Flynt 33. Flynt was to the Home at the time. He has been a paraplegic since he was shot in 1978