European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes thing til hang of it ripes Magazine Date ratings by Barnett 3 Comer Navy women to get to at sea 24 North admits faking letters in Security ploy Washington a u. Col. Oliver North admitted wednesday he wrote phony letters 10 cover up his acceptance of a free Security system for his Home but he made an impassioned claim that he and his family were targets of possible assassination by an International  one of the most riveting moments of North s second Day of testimony to us congressional Iran Contra committee the fired presidential aide con ceded he had made the grossest misjudgment for backdating tetters. North said he did this last fall to make it look at if he were offering to pay for an expensive Home Security system that was installed at no expense to  said he had received assassination threats from Middle Eastern terrorist Abu  la be glad to meet Abu Nidal on equal terms any where in the world Okas an even Deal for him the former combat officer said. But i am not wiling to have my wife and my four children meet Abu Nidal or his organization on his  testimony has shown that the Man who installed the system Glenn Rob Inelie was paid for the work by retired air Force maj. Gen. Richard v. Secord a key figure in North s private Iran Centra net work apparently with Money from what Secord has called the  Nidal a libyan backed palestinian terrorist Heads a faction that split from the mainstream pales Tine liberation organization. He is accused of carrying out a series of terrorist attacks in Europe and else where including a Serif s of shootings Al the airports in Rome and Vienna in december 1985. Earlier North told the Iran Centra investigators it was a neat idea to divert proceeds from Irani Narras sales to Nicaragua rebels and stoutly defended the Sale of arms in Exchange for Freedom for three american hostages in the Middle East. Back in the witness chair for the nationally televised hearings North said he would have made sure the arms sales proceeds were deposited with the . Trea sury if he had received orders w tuesday evening which triggered a series of exp Lepni and raging fires. But Many of those were Young pm who had spent the night with friends and reported off Luemily or police wednesday. Trie bodies of two victims two women aged 18 _ 20, were pulled from the nibble. A third woman al18 died wednesday of Burns at a clinic in Nea Delilar. Explosions from the truck and a severed Gas levelled three buildings and gulled another Nin downtown area of Herborn about 35 Miles a of Frankfurt was evacuated and Rescue Effot hampered by the extreme heat continued wed my. After the crash but before the Cut Ramon i saw people running out of the ice Cream ppr in panic 72-year-old Ida Nellinger Lold the my Kurt Abend Post newspaper. A one Young Man ran Back in pouting he had to find his Girlfriend. Then it All Bip and there was a great Cloud of smoke like an a in mushroom. I almost went out of my find. My husband told me to ran for the Church. A was Loo ill to go but he got out of bed and Well of the roof with a lire extinguisher in Case the fire fad to our  police said the tru was carrying 9,360 Gallons of gasoline when it a control and slammed into the building housing if ice Cream parlor and a pizzeria which was close flee Lime of the crash. Of the 36 ii fled 18 arc still in he Hospital and the others were Liale and released Hermann said Al a news conferee at a Herborn hotel. Hermaa said the death toll was Uncertain because it was us known How Many people were in the cafe or near buildings when the Accident occurred. Tuesday night a olice said they feared 30 to 50 people were the 48-year-old truck drive jets in the Hospital in Siegen and is not in come Jet to be interviewed by police the associated Prejs ported. Police said earlier Hij Rifle Driver had Lold them his brakes had failed. Of the Driver had a the expressway near he room and had com data very Long Hill leading to the town at an Ritj ebely High rate of Speed said town spokesman a card  said was unknown whether the Accident had been cause Fly technical defects or Driver error. Boeke bid that in 1983, three people were killed when flock to cd Down the incline and crashed into Acar Jung at a Light at the same Comer where the ice  is located. Officials considered at the time whether to divert see dead on Page 24 crash site marburg  557th i a Typ Giessen k Koblenz Mainz sign Phyl from fire ladder shows the Diu nag wis of w Herborn Fler Tanker truck crashed and exploded