European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes getting the hang of it stripes Magazine d Nunn in the Middle of candidate ratings q Randy Barmett s ear Comer ,. Page 3 Page 13 d Navy women to get More time at Aea Page 24 North says plan to divert Money won Casey of Washington up la col. Oliver Ortii told Congress wednesday the decision to divert Money from arms sales to Iran to the nicaraguan Contra re Bali was enthusiastically approved by Cia director William Casey who also wanted to use the arms prof its As sort of slush fund for anti communist opera Lions throughout the world. The testimony that Casey approved the diversion was a direct contradiction of earlier statements by Casey who died May 6. North also identified John Poindexter his one time Boss and the former National Security adviser As approving the decision. Pressed for a second straight Day on the diversion in the Iran Centra hearings. North tried to defend the Transfer of Money from the Iran Amu sales to the con iras As Only a Small part of an Overall strategy that had full approval of his superiors. Asked by John Nields the chief counsel of the House panel who made the decision to use the Money for the contras North said it was made Wilh the authority that i got from my superiors Admiral poin Deiter. With the concurrence of William j. Casey and i thought at the time the president of the United Stales. I later Learned that the president was unaware of that aspect of these  opening the afternoon session of the hearing. North said he recalled that Casey Learned of the plan before the fact sometime in Early 1986 and the Cia chief was very enthusiastic about it. The Plai amounted to using Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s Money for the nicaraguan rebels and Casey North said referred to it Ai the ultimate irony the ultimate Covert opera  the Boyish North called it a Neal idea North in his role As a National Security Council staff member said he and Casey talked at length about the use of those moneys to support other operations besides the nicaraguan operation he Laid Casey had assumed there would be a time when Congress would resume formal . Aid to the contras and it might be necessary in the future to have something As he would put it 10 pull off the shelf and to help support other activities like  North added that he was not exactly certain As to everything Casey wanted to do with the Money but he added that none of those plans came 10  North repeatedly testified in his first Day of testimony tuesday that he believed he acted under the author Ity of president Reagan but that he found out Reagan was unaware of Many of his activities despite a num Ber of memos North wrote seeking presidential approval. North said $10 million involved in the diversion was controlled by his partner in the Iran con Ira scheme retired air Force Mai. Gen Richard Secord. A private citizen helping North carry out what he be see North on Page 24  Fob the . .�mto�uthbiii1ii u vol. 46. No. 82 thursday july 9, 1987 0 8693 a 4 dead 1 missing in Tanker explosion from staff and wire report Herborn Germany a Tanker truck loaded with gasoline crashed into an ice Cream parlor and blew up triggering a series of explosions and raging fires that killed at least four persons authorities said. Another 34 people were injured in the tuesday eve Ning crash that turned downtown Berbom Mlo an m Fino. County fire chief Siegfried Hermann told the stars and stripes that id persons were missing. The associated press reported Laic wednesday that one person remained unaccounted for. Police earlier had said that up to 24 people were believed killed and 36 injured in the crash and subsequent explosions and fires. But Many of those believed killed were Young people who spent the night with friends and reported to family or police wednesday. Many of them apparently lost their Heads and ran off but they Nave returned town spokesman Gerhard Boekell Oldaz. The bodies of two victims two women aged 18 and 20, were pulled from the rubble. A third woman is died wednesday of Burns at a clinic in nearby Wetzlar. A fourth woman died in a Hospital in Koblenz explosions from the truck and a severed Gas main levelled three buildings and gutted another Rune. The downtown area of Herborn about 35 Miles Northwest of Frankfurt was evacuated and Rescue efforts hampered by the extreme heal continued wednesday. After the crash but before the explosion i saw people running out of the ice Cream parlor in panic 72-year-old Ida Nollinger old the Frankfurt Abend Post newspaper. One Young Man ran Back in. Shouting he had to find his Girlfriend. Then it All blew up and there was a great Cloud of smoke like an atomic mushroom. I almost went out of my mind. My husband old me to run for the Church. He was too ill to go but he got out of bed and went on the roof with a fire extinguisher in Case the fire spread to our  police said the truck was carrying 9,360 Gallons of gasoline when it lost control and slammed into the building housing the ice Cream parlor and a pizzeria which was closed at the Lime of the crash. Of the 34 injured 18 Are still in the Hospital and the others were treated and released Hermann said at a news conference at a Herborn hotel. Hermann said the death toll was Uncertain because it was unknown How Many people were in the cafe or nearby buildings when the Accident occurred. The 48 year old truck Driver was in the Hospital in Siegn and is not in condition to be interviewed by police a reported. Police said earlier that the Driver had told them his brakes had failed. Trie Driver had left the expressway near he born and had come Down a very Long Hill leading to the town at an extremely High rate of Speed said town spokesman Boekel. He said it was unknown whether the Accident had been caused by technical defects or Driver error. Boekel said that in 1983, three people were killed when a truck sped Down the incline and crashed into a see dead on Page 24 the �1rw from i Flat Unuer show the la might cuu cd to Herborn a Flor m Linker truck  and t