European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday july 16,1987 terror blasts kill 63, Hurt hundreds in Karachi Karachi. Pakistan a at least 63 peo ple were killed and More than 300 were injured tuesday evening by four explosions in a Small area of downtown Karachi officials said. The blasts which included iwo car bombs were Al most simultaneous witnesses and officials said. Ambulances and fire truck rushed to the scene to Bailie fires As people fled Many scream ing and in  of people Many of them weeping relatives of victims gathered outside Hospital where the dead and injured were taken asap peals for blood donors were broadcast Over loud speakers. No group claimed responsibility but the Cit government issued a statement saying the explosions appeared to be the work of saboteurs of foreign  it did not elaborate. Three illegal aliens die trying to Cross desert Dateland Ariz a three me after a group of 25 illegal aliens tried to across 50 Miles of desert in 100-plus lures the . Border patrol reported two men were hospitalized in St Condi Tion and 20 other members or the bup were when into custody officials said  reached 110 woes in Yuma on monday and were much he per in the desert where the group was found a Saucer assistant chief of the Border patrol Uma sector. Said. Each member of i water for the journey said. A person late Ftp a gallon of body water per hour in the deja heat Ruperts say. Criminal club twill be sought against on member of in Boup who was believed to have served As the Kup s guid survivor told agents y had crossed the .-Mcjh Border about so Miles East of Sanluis so Bra and had planned to walk to inter state a Star Dateland before heading for califor Nia. J said they were to pay a smuggler be-350 and j400 each to take them to agn it ural jobs in the san Joaquin Valley. Settlement averts strike of movie to directory Hollywood a  and most television i reached a tentative settlement  called off a threatened strip withal would have crippled the film and Clev pm  have reached a seller apr that will Avert the first strike in the Guild Wal year history Chuck warn spokesman Twoie directors Guild of America said tucs Daj earlier the Guild ached agreement with Abc talks Melwee Vtha Guild and Abc an Debs continued in 1& York. Those talks of Jet about 600 directors who Are salaried Emple Jas of the networks unlike the majority Ofril Guild members who Are free Lance direct pfc and Are covered by the agreement reached in ftps  three year settlement reached in 10ft Man of negotiations that ended at Dawny director will receive an immediate 5  across the Board raise and another scent raise in is months. They will continue d receive residuals the fees for rebroadcast of Ovies and television shows at the present Rale. Two Man Crew missing As phantom Jet crashes Eglin fab Fla. A an air Force f-4ephantom ii Jet on a training Mission crashed in the Gulf of Mexico tuesday evening and offi Cial said the two Crew members were missing. The Jet. Assigned to the tac air warfare Cen Ter Here crashed about 15 Miles Southeast of Eglin about an hour Afler taking Oil from Moody feb near Valdosta ga., air Force spokeswoman it. Leah Bryant  guard Petty officer Jeff Windham said searchers found debris but no  names of the Crew were withheld by the air Force. Or film have Mcfarlane returns to stand to dispute North s version from Page 1 cloak of immunity that covered North. Mcfarlane successor. Rear adm. John Poindexter will testify when the hearings resume  offered these rebuttals of North s work with private fund raisers solicit ing contributions for the contras from americans he said to no extent was i aware of those activities. Of North s statement that he kept Mcfarlane advised of his activities colonel North did advise me from time to time on a few but certainly not All. On North s belief that the Boland amendment which for a time restricted direct . Aid to the con Las. Did not apply to the National Security Council Mcfarlane said he argued with Congress about the matter for weeks and at the end of it we Tost. I thin the evidence is that surely i believed that the Boland amendment applied. Otherwise Why would we have worked so hard to get rid of it after it passed on North s Contention thai he was involved in a full service Covert action operation with the bless ing of the late Cia director William Casey Mcfarlan Esaid i never heard of any such full service operation from either director Casey or colonel North and 1certainly never concurred in one on North s testimony that Mcfarlane ordered false account concerning shipments of missiles to Iran inserted in a chronology of events being prepared Asl november As the affair was unravelling Mcfarlane said North suggested the alteration and that he took North s word for it. Mcfarlane said that in october 1985, North sent him some memorandums that raised doubts about his compliance with the  instructed him. In colonel North s words to fix it Mcfarlane said explaining that he meant he wanted compliance with the Law. He said North changed two pages and Mcfarlan thought the episode was ended but thai he later Learned that the document was revised again without my knowledge and  Mcfarlane said in was True that narrow and Chang ing restrictions of the Boland amendment caused changes in conduct of Covert operations but this is afar cry from saying i and other members of the administration authorized what was clearly beyond anyone Power to  and he said turning a North phrase Back Nolan existed to make North the fall Guy if the opera Lions were , said it would be in character for North to have thrown himself on a grenade to protect Mcfarlane or his commander in chief but Ollic North should not be the fall Guy or Scapegoat or sacrificial Lamb for  the former National Security adviser was the first witness to make a reappearance at the hearings. As North s appearance neared its end Hamilton and then sen. Daniel k. Inouye a Hawaii. The Senate committee chairman excoriated North for his activities in Selling arms to Iran secretly then turning Over some of the profits for use by the nicaraguan  was painful to All of us to sit Here and listen to your testimony said Inouye. It was equally painful that you lied and misled for what you believed to be a Good  look note of the flood of telegrams support ing North that have arrived at the  have participated in the making of a new american hero said Inouye who Tost an Arm in com Bat in Italy in world War 11. I Salute you sir As a fellow combat . Warren Rudman r-n.h., vice chairman of the or que Ivain Juitt. M in America and North concurred. In other developments documents released by the congressional commit teen tuesday showed that  million from the Swiss Bank accounts in the Iran con Ira financial network went to a Man believed to be an associate of terrorist Abu Nidal. The documents computer inn tour from businessman Albert Hakim who handled the accounts showed a Al million payment on aug. 30, 1985, and a $500,000 payment on june 20, 1986, to Monzer Al Kassar believed to be Bansari a Kasar a syrian arms merchant and associate of  iwo debits on a Lake resources account used i the Iran Contra network were specified As arms pay ments and designated purpose  apparently indicating the Money was for weapons to be sent to in nicaraguan rebels. President Reagan continued Nis silence on the hearings. But while posing for pictures with Republican congressional leaders Reagan told reporter that once the congressional hearings have ended. You won t be Able to shut me  by a reporter whether he planned to ask for More funds for the nicaraguan guerrillas the president said i think the most decent thing this country can do is to continue to Aid the Freedom  he was asked How he would make his views known. Stand on the roof and yell he replied. Gulf from Page 1 so during the closed door session on Capitol  Pentagon spokesman who earlier had told repartee that the operation might not be disclosed until in was completed said when be heard that the dates had been divulged the briefings were not to be babbled  at first the plan received Little attention but afar a iraqi warplane apparently by mistake fired two missiles at an american frigate the Stark in the fenian Gulf killing j7 of its Crew members the plan to expand Mili tary escorts there began to draw congressional opposition. Meanwhile president Reagan s spokesman said tues Day that White there has been some delay in providing is. Military Protection for kuwaiti Oil Tanker the ships could be flying the american nag next week. The sailing of the fint ships under . Escort will begin Toon said White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater. We would not expect the first departures to occur this week but they could come As Early As next  although the spokesman refused to provide an exact Date when the us. Escort duly formally will begin Fitzmaier said All plans Are on , Aspin said the congressional leaders were Lold dial the escorts will begin july 22 when a single  Tanker is escorted up the persian Gulf loads at Kuwait and relurnt.vh1i, hmm Ivich  is the Only econ trip planned for july Aspin  second trip will begin aug. 6 and will be one of three escort trips that month Aspin  James Sauer d-tenn., and Dole also said the first Navy escort would be july 22.an administration official who demanded anonymity said it was unfortunate that congressmen have re leased details from a classified  Nelson an Aspin spokesman said in u assumed in government meetings that nothing thai la said is classified unless it is explicitly stated and the degree of classifies Ion Given. He said Aspin told him that no one in the meeting bad Given any such Warntj and that no one said the information being discussed was classified. Nelson said Aspin assumed he was free to talk about  sources in the persian Gulf report mean White that two kuwaiti tankers will hoist . Flag sometime Between july is and 20 and then cruise into the Gulf with a . Navy  the Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims dec Nebo. . Navy forces in the Gulf As essentially ready to begin escorting Kun Viti lankers. Sims declined to elaborate on the statement monday by Weinberger that the escort operations were iraqi  Bui he did disclose thai . Forces in the Region had conducted three dress rehearsals for the operation. Sims refused to say when the ref Amanali had been staged. But another Pentagon official who asked not to be named said the eight snips assigned 10 the Mideast task Force had practice their escort procedure last week and Over the weekend _ ,.fcin one of the rehearsals Simi said the flagship of ill task Force the command ship la Salle had pretended to be a Lanker. Sailing through the sir ail of Hormiz under the escort of several warships. The Rehean Aliasso included Jet aircraft flying air cover from Ine car Rier Constellation which is now steaming to the North Ern arabian set the spokesman said. Sims said the Pentagon had no intention of announcing in Advance the Start of the first escort nor would the United Stal be informing Iran or any other country in the Region about the timetable for it opera such notification is nol considered necessary to avoid mistaken attacks on american ships such to the May 17 attack on the Stark. Sims continued