European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d stinger puts heat on mind shoulder. Page 3 d White House seeks Contra Aid Page 7 d baseball All Star lineups sports Pago 21 vol. "6. No. 83 Friday july 10, 1987 03693 a North says he shielded Reagan , i _ Tiam non Vii nil Hinl hid them " of vol Washington a it. Col. Oliver North do bribing life at the Center of a cover up testified thurs Day How he and other administration officials worked to shield president Reagan from political damage As the limn Contra affair unravelled last rail. North under intense Cross examination in his third by in the witness chair at congressional hearings said he took direction from Ilien Cia director William is my misled attorney general Edwin Mees Iii and conferred with Ihen National Security adviser John Poindexter As he struggled to contain the damage. It it entirely Likely that i was shredding documents a photo a korean student hurts bottle bomb at police. Korean roofers snub lifting of dissident ban Seoul South Korea up president Chun Doo Hwan lifted a seven year ban on Lead ing dissident Kim Dac Jung thursday but hundreds of thousands of people mourning a student killed by riot police ignored the move chanting overthrow the killer government clashes broke out during funeral marches in Seoul and the provincial City of Kwangju with Radical students hurling rocks and firebombs and police responding with Clouds of tear Gas. But most mourners were peaceful crying and praying for the dead student. Chun keeping � Promise to Grant sweeping amnesties to Divisi oels restored the poli Cal Seo Rio tells on Page 38 right up until the morning of the 2slh" november 1986the Day he was fired. North said. The Marine officer said that he removed his person Al notebooks and hundreds of pages of other records from his National Security counsel office and look hem to his Home in an Effort to protect himself. After the press conference he said referring to the announcement of his firing my perspective changed and it was one of Prale cling myself. But the 45-year-old Marine lieutenant colonel Lesli flying in his military uniform with six rows of medals said his intention was merely to shield his commander in chief from Domestic political damage. I never imagined that we had done anything illegal in his actions at the National Security Council staff he said. North said Casey knew All along of the diversion of iranian arms sales proceeds to the contras. Bui he said he concealed that fact when Mcnese questioned him last nov. 23.meese was conducting an inquiry at the Lime but North said the deception was part of the plan to keep the affair also said he assured Poi Denler wrongly As sea North on Page 28 1 men tricked Marcos into telling invasion plan Washington a two americans with a hidden tape recorder and phony credentials As arms procurers tricked former philippine president Ferdi nand e. Marcos into reveal in a plan to invade his Homeland the americans testified thursday they then gave the information to the philippine government the two said. Their slate meals and tapes of their conversions with Marcos at his Honolulu Home earlier this year also indicated thai Marcos claimed to have up to 1,000 ions of Gold hidden in a secret Cache and $500 million in Swiss Bank accounts. The bizarre revelations were made by Robert Chas Tain a business consultant and Richard Hirschfeld an attorney both of Virginia Beach va., at a hearing of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on asian and Pacific affairs. According to the testimony and the tapes Hirsch Feld and Chastain worked their Way into Marcos Confidence beginning in september 1986, on the strength of their business association with Mohammed Al fast a businessman who had contacts with the saudi Ara Bian Royal family. They convinced Marcos that they and Al Fassi were willing to help get arms and Money for an invasion of the Philippines that was originally Sci for late june and eventually was planned to Lake place this Friday Hirschfeld was to land by boat in his Home province Locos Norte where he would be greeted by supporters and swept Back to control of the Philippines. He claimed to have As an ally the commander of Clark a a . Installation in the Philippines thai see Marcos on Page 28 iranian gunboat attacks .-operated supertanker Manama Bahrain a an iranian gunboat attacked a .-operated supertanker with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns thursday in the Northern persian Gulf off Kuwait setting the ship on fire maritime sources said. The 273,20s-ton Peconic which is registered in Liberia and Nies that country s Flag was hit at 1 and radioed a distress signal to Marine Salvage offices said the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. No casualties were reported. The ship owned and operated by Gray shipping inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of universe Tan ships inc. Of Delaware was chartered by Texaco Peconic was hit 60 Miles Southeast ofal Ahmadi Kuwait s main Oil terminal where 11 kuwaiti tank ers Are due to arrive with . Navy escorts later this month. The tankers Are being preregistered in the United states. Iran a stale run ferrai Grajio said in a commentary monitored in Nicosia that by entering the persian Gulf the United slates was entering Quicksand which will have More dangerous consequences than the . Mili tary Ever experienced in Lebanon or the maritime officials said the Peconic was on its Way to Kuwait to Load 60,000 ions of Oil before head ing to saudi Arabia s Ras Tanura terminal to pick up Anothny shipment. Tugboats were sent to help the Shore to ship contacts with the vessel a Crew see iranian an Page 28 ins fears More human tragedy hebbronv1lle. Texas api Nineteen mexi cans rescued from a Railroad trailer and 148 found in two trucks in California May be a sign smugglers Are cashing in on new immigration Laws and officials fear More human tragedy like the deaths of 1b in a Texas 19 Semi conscious men were discovered wednesday in a piggyback train trailer where tempera Tures reached 120 degrees said Mario Onu a spokes Man with the . Immigration and natural Alion service in Dallas. Eighty five aliens found wednesday sealed inside a tractor trailer Rig in san cd Menle calif., were sent Back to Mexico later in the Day. Did John Day. A Border patrol supervisor. Three Are being held Asma trial witnesses against the Driver who faces smuggling aliens were found in a Vaclar trailer tuesday in san four incidents indicate Hal smuggling Olu Ndoc ukr Piej workers across the Border is on the Rise said the ins spokesman. This can l be coincidental. Reuben Bonilla chairman of the democrats of Texas which opposed the new immigration Law said. The big Winner is the con Sci who earn More Money now b smuggling people in
