European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 i the stars and stripes thursday july 9,1987 North assumed Reagan of d Contra Aid from Page 1 october 19b6. When then Cia director William Case told him the dealings were on the Brink of becoming Public. Denied he conducted a shredding party on nov. 21 to destroy any documents that were evidence of Reagan s knowledge of the diversion. He mid be threaded documents daily although the nov. 21 shred Ding was Marc  the committee released a document that bowed former while House chief of staff Donald Regan May have been told about the diversion to the  to Justice department notes of a nov. 23 interview Mccase had with Nonh the Marine Laid i was possible Regan had been briefed about the theme. The crowd packing the hearing room grew Stilt a North s lawyer Brendan Sullivan battled with the committees Over procedure. After sum Van s objection were overruled. North engaged in his own skirmish with the first questioner chief House counsel John Nields. In the first 30 minutes. Nields Drew North through a wide Range of activities in the scandal Hii negotiations with the iranians secret air drops to the Nicara Guan rebels Reagan s knowledge of the affair and North s shredding of Docu a cols. As he left the hearing room. North offered waiting reporters a Salute and a cheery have a Nice Day. He said the Only disappointment was the delay until thursday of his opening statement. But i m a Good Marine. I can  several panel members said they were satisfied with North s testimony although at least one hid former National Security adviser rear adm. John Poindexter could be in even deeper trouble As a result. I have fell for a Long time that John Poindexter Isth single most important witness this committee will hear from sen. Warren Rudman h.-n.h., Aid my belief on that subject certainly has not lessened after today North fired nov. 25, 1986, when the diversion offends to the contras was revealed stressed his belief that he was acting with presidential authority and had broken no Laws. I never carried out a single act not one in which i did not have authority from my superiors North Aid North insisted that when he destroyed papers and memos about the coven program he was protecting people who nerved the United Stales. He also mad Clear he believed he was made a sacrificial Lamb by the while House in an attempt to quell the juror sur rounding the scandal. I began to one recognize i would be leaving thens because that was a purpose for my departure to offer myself As the Scapegoat if you  North new York a the dram of the inn Contr having did t satisfy soap open ton who lined in tact Darr to find of tort any liw show preempted by u pm. Ollor North Tei Jimmy. Abc a out a of s . It hid received 378  from re win. Lbs Slid it received about 3so. Abc bad received about 100 complaints mid boat 20 Aull pulling the network s airing of the bearings. The tails were Thos made to network Headquarters Here us did not include those nude to local affiliate. The network said they it tired fewer Calli the they did when the hearings first began in May. The map opens ire ached need to pick up where they kit off when live coverage of the hearings con clude. Said. And second of All recognizing what was coming Down i did t want some new person walking in there opening tiles that  possibly expose people at  in what could be damning testimony against other officials. North named the men he said were involve Din a frantic Effort to cover up the . Involvement in the israeli arms shipments Mcfarlane Poindexter spec Odessor As National Security adviser poin Duxler Meese and Casey the fact is there were Many Many people to in clude the former assistant to the president for National Security affairs the current National Security adviser the attorney general of the United states of America the director of Central intelligence All of whom knew that to be wrong North said. In a Calmer afternoon session Nields took North through the establishment of the private network to deliver arms to Iran and Israel s shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran in november 1985. The Pace of questioning prompted panel sources to speculate North would be at the witness table perhaps into monday. While House spokesman Martin Filz Waler offered repeated no comments on North s testimony but a senior while House official said the Only memo on diversion of profits that Reagan saw was one dated in april 1986 that Melesc showed him on nov. 24, that memo was unearthed during Meese s informal inquiry the previous weekend. North said he began shredding documents in octo Ber after Casey told him that word was beginning to leak out that some of the iranian profits were going to the contras. Director Casey and i had a lengthy discussion about the fact that this whole thing was coming unav eled and that things ought to be cleaned up and 1 started cleaning things up he said. I engaged in shredding almost every Day that i Hada shredder North said. We saw these operations unravelling As Early As  however North added that on nov. 21, when he Learned the Justice department was beginning to probe the affair he stepped up the Pace of his shredding. At that time North said he destroyed documents but perhaps with More intensity than other  North was fired nov. 25 when Melesc revealed the Contra connection. Nields bore Down on North from the outset going in his third question to the Central Issue of the hearings whether Reagan had known about the funnel me of millions of dollars from the . Arms sales to Ira through secret Swiss Bank accounts to the contras at Lime when . Aid to the rebels was banned by con Gress. What did the president know about the diversion of the proceeds of iranian arms sales to the contrast Nields asked. I never personally discussed the use of residuals or profits from the Safe of . We Poui 10 Iran for the purpose of supporting the nicaraguan resistance with the president. North replied. Assumed when i had approval to proceed from either judge William Clark Bud Mcfarlane or Admiral Poindexter Thi they had indeed solicited and obtained the approval of the  North said that on nov. 25, the Day 1 we re assigned Back to the United states Marine corps for service the president of the United states called me and in the course of that Call the president said to me words to the effect that 1 just did t  in that Call Reagan also told North he was nation Al hero. Glass from Page 1 sense minister and their Driver in the thu them slum of Mouzai a stronghold of Hezbollah a Radical shiite moslem group supported by Iran. The tape was delivered to the office incest Beirut of a Western news Agency along with a statement from the organization for the free people s defense a previously unknown group that claimed last week to hold Glass. Hezbollah denied involvement in the kidnapping but is thought to be inc umbrella organization for groups holding most of the 25 foreigners who Are miss ing in Lebanon and believed  include nine americans. One of the americans Terry a. An Barge sinks toll put at 350 Harare Zimbabwe a search pm t Utay fevered 16 in nor Bod ies from the Crocodile infested Laupula River Between Zaire and Zambia wherefore than j50 people were feared dead after a Barge carrying 470 passengers bit a Sand bar and Sank. A statement from the office of Zambia president Kenneth Kaunda in Lusaka the capital of Zambia said 39 bodies had been found As of tuesday. Twenty three bodies were recovered immediately alter the Barge the Maria struck a Sandbank and overturned during a routine crossing Early sunday. Denon 39. Has been held the longest. He is the chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press and was kidnapped March 16,1985. Anglican Church envoy Terry Waile also has been missing since he left his hotel Jan. 20 to meet with hostage holders Glass was the first foreigner abducted since Syria sent 7.500 soldiers into the moslem sector of Wesl Beirut on feb. 22 to Stop factional warfare and lawlessness. His abduction embarrassed syrian presi Dent Hafez Assad who keeps 25,000 troops in Northern and Eastern Lebanon and is the country s main Power broker. A source in the syrian military com Mand in Lebanon said tuesday that in has established the political identity of the kidnappers and Hezbollah is the Only  in the nine line statement release tuesday typewritten in arabic the kid nappers said America was and still is trying to exploit us and added that the videotape revealed some facts from the outcome of the preliminary interrogation of american spy Charles  interrogations will gradually reveal Al the zionist plots according to which he was acting and will also reveal All the agents operating with him in this Mission the group s statement said. We shall place All this information in the hands of the people who will judge those traitors voice Quality on the videotape was poor making in difficult to hear precisely what Glass was saying. In at least one sentence his English was not grammatical. He read from yellow sheets of paper which he brought close to his face several times As if having trouble deciphering the words. I collect information for the Benefit of the Civ he said. For that i made secret missions. They ordered me to do that. I m not the Only one to use the Pressas a cover for those things. Many people who work for the Agency used the Sam cover and some of them were arrested in some countries and i am one of them. I came Back to Lebanon on a secret Mission from the office of the Cia in Lon Don. My plan was to get the last information in this area and How the last action affected israeli Christian  what action he referred to was not Clear. I want to Send All my love to my family. I love you he said in conclusion. In Washington while House spokes Man Martin Fitzwater said the history of those kinds of videotapes suggests often that they Are done under coercion or even  he denied that Glass had worked for the Cia. Slate department spokesman Charles Redman said Glass is not now and has never been an employee of the United states government and that statement by hostages of terrorists Are always made under  in addition to the nine americans for Eigners missing in Lebanon aside from Waite Are Sis frenchmen two britons two West germans an irishman in ital Ian a South korean an Indian and two who have not been identified. Arsonists hit West Berlin Asylum Agency be Lii. Attack gutted the offices of. Agency that handles political Asylum cues police said tuesday. The one Story building along with file on 6,000 Asylum cases was destroyed in the Blaze that police said halted by arsonists using Paoli were no injuries police a six five Fiall Oju line cans were found on a flute Ding i partially col if policy said the gasoline was apparently poured into the building Annite l arson attack a mat ii by it a it. ,.,b� of left Wing arson protesting the aulsion of an Asylum seeker whose petition was denied. Right Wing extremists also have pro tested the presence of foreigners and immigrants by setting fires at the resettle ment centers where immigrants Are temporarily  immigration Oiin Mylum rules last year when the num Ber of Asylum seekers arriving in the country reached a six year nigh of1.650. Many reached West Germany Yakrlin by first flying to communist 1 from East mated 50,000 aliens Are apply for political Asylum in West Many this year. Esti