European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday july 17,1987page 24 j 1 demos end Effort to delay Gulf escorts Washington a Senate Democrat wed tuesday said they Are dropping effete to delay pre to Dent Reagan s plan to protect kuwaiti Oil tankers. One week before . Navy ships Are to begin their escort duty in the persian Gulf this Vole will be the end of it As tar As i m concerned Senate majority Leader Robert Byrd d w.va., said shortly before the Senate failed to break i Republican filibuster that has prevented democrats from seeking a delay in the escort plans. We be made our Point thai a majority of the scale is opposed to this  Byrd said. The democratic controlled chamber Voled 55-44, tin Voles Short of the 60 needed to impose closure the parliamentary device used to end a filibuster. It was the third time in a week that the Senate re fused to invoke cloture. Although democrats hold a s4-46 margin in the chamber. Republicans have been Able to Muster enough votes to Block closure. Wednesday s proposal matted Tor it 90-Day delay in Reagan s plans. The two earlier Voles were on a differ ent proposal seeking to put the persian Gulf policy in abeyance for an undetermined Lime. The Navy will Start escorting .-Dagged kuwaiti tank Era through the Gulf on july 22, according to legislators who met with top administration official. The first Tanker will be escorted up the 600-mile Long Gulf to be loaded with Oil and then escorted Back through the Strait of Hormuz at the Mouth of the Gulf the legislators said tuesday. The tint Convoy will include Only one or two kuwaiti Untera while later groups will probably be larger said rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee. Aspin Senate minority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., and sen. James Sasser d-tenn., said they were told that the first escort Mission would be on july 22. Funds from Page 1 key areas Poindexter testified hat he told neither the presi Dent nor anyone else about the diversion until Las november when attorney general Edwin Melesc Iii began an inquiry. Did you Ever discuss this with the director of Cen trial intelligence the diversion Poindexter was asked. "1 did not he replied. North had testified thai the late William Casey the director of the Cia was in on the diversion plan from the beginning. North mid Casey not Only embraced i enthusiastically but also wanted to create a permanent 2 car bombs kill 12, injure 55 in Lebanon Beirut Lebanon not car bombs killed 12 people and injured More than 50 wednesday in two predominantly moslem cities patrolled by syrian troops police said. One bomb exploded in front of a supermarket crowded by housewives doing their morning shopping in the Northern port of tripod i. Eleven people including five women and on child were killed in thai explosion police said. Fifty people reportedly were injured. Sixty five Miles away in the Naciem City of Baalbek an explosion in a vegetable Market killed one Man and injured live police said. Nobody has claimed responsibility for either bombing. East German Leader will visit West Ger Bonn a easing Fullr Leader Eric Honecker will visit we Nanny in sep let Ber Bonn . He will be in fast Easi German Leader to visit West a Jasny and will spend five Days visiting Ivand the Stales of North Rhino  Pfalz Saarland and a est German spokesman said visit will be Al the invitation of Chan Helmut Kohl the spokesman said. Zia blames afghan agents for bombings in Pakistan Karachi. Pakistan api As Rescue work in pulled Cha and bodies from pm blown up when four of bombs exploded during tuesdays Ruth hour. President Mohammed i us hts blamed afghan agents for the bombing lieu killed it least 75 people and injured 300. Throngs of weeping people gathered outside Karachi s iwo Central hospitals wednesday to try to identify loved ones from color photo graph polled on bulletin boards. No group claimed responsibility for us bombings the worst terrorist Atudo in Pau Tun s 40-year history but Zia. Who visited the site of the explosions wednesday blamed pro Afshin agents. These sabotage activities ire directly timed at forcing Pakistan to change Iti a  he told reporters. Fund to carry out Covert operations. North also said he did l Tell the president about which other countries were contributing funds for the centres and that Reagan never asked. The president As i be said is not a Man for great detail said Poindexter who Mel with Reagan almost daily. I Don t mean thai in any son of funny Way 1 Don t think a president ought to eel involved in details. He s got enough to worry about. He said Reagan knew generally what North was doing but not in great detail. Poindexter said that until the Meese inquiry he had not seen any of the memos North said he had sent him with a request that they be shown to the president on the subject of the diversion of funds to the con tras. North testified that he thought he had shredded All such memos but that the one Meese s investigators turned up apparently escaped destruction. Except for that one which he did t see until last november months after it supposedly was sent poin Dexler said i do not recall any memo that addressed the question of  North did l have to put such a suggestion in q memorandum anyway said Poindexter. "1 was his Superior he said. I had the authority to Tell him to do it i told him to do it he had no reason to question that the Admiral was asked whether he Ever was tempted to Tell the president about the diversion of funds. He recalled that in May 1986, coming Back from the economic Summit in Tokyo he discussed with Reagan the plans for Irving to get Congress to approve $100 million in Aid for the rebels. I Don l want to pull out our support for the contras for any reason Poindexter quoted Reagan As saying. It s an unacceptable option. In t there something i can do unilaterally said Poindexter i was sorely Temple at that Point to Tell him what we had working but 1 thought belter of it and did not.1 Poindexter so Reagan s policy about supporting the con Tim was Well known and was convinced i understood the president s thinking on this and if 1 had taken it to him he would approve  but he said i was not so naive to believe it was oot a politically volatile Issue. I made a very deliberate decision not to ask the president so i could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the president if it Ever should leak  committee counsel Arthur Liman asked your decision was not to Tell the president so he would be Able to deny he knew of it that s Correct said the Admiral. Dollar from Pago 1 was si3.32 billion. Hints that some Central Banks May have intervened kept the currency from plunging into a free fall in heavy trading traders said. Trading was hectic but dealers seemed to be Takin the news id stride by afternoon. They said in appealed the Dollar would remain in a narrow trading band until the Trade figure is digested. When trading moved to Europe news of the deficit Lent the Dollar plunging against All major currencies except the Canadian Dollar. The reaction 10 the num Bers was to be expected said a dealer in Frankfurt. The Dollar fell below the 150 level against the Japa Nese yen for the first time this week closing in new York h14s.85.Down from lil.25tueday. In new York the British Pound was quoted at $1.635, up from $1.611. Lbw ale Dollar rates in new York included 1.829 West German Marks Down from 1,852 1.52 Swiss francs Down from 1.54 6.09 French Franca Down from 6.16 1.32 Canadian dollars up from 1.31, and 1,325 italian lire Down from 1.339. On the mercantile Exchange West Texas intermediate the Benchmark . Crude for immediate de livery hot up by 57 cents to $22.15 a Barret its highest close since finishing at $23.53 a barrel on Jan. 19, 1986. The crude traded As High As $22.44 during the session. West Texas intermediate hat advanced by 82 cents a barrel so far this week on the mercantile  was a real buying Stampede that readied hysteria proportions because of the rising tension inthe persian Gulf said Peter Beutz analyst at Beers future inc. In new York. Most Oil to then teem to feel thai a confrontation Between the United stat Sand Iran in the persian Gulf is almost  the official iranian news Agency Irna quoted Ira Nian wartime notary speaker Akbar Hashemi Raf Sanj Nias saying Tehran would capture any Gulf military Bluet or porn used by . Forces and u prepared to sink american hips. A Sfanjani warning came i . Government sources indicated the Reagan administration May not begin escorting kuwaiti Oil tankers flying the Ameri can lag through the perilous Gulf water on the targeted Date of july 11. Disaster from papal he said. I said to my wife we must get the children out we got into our car and drove to the other Side of the camping ground where we a re me to Park our a Ron a higher level Ai we got out of the car i saw a tidal wave a sea of mud coming Lowanza us. The whole place was going  the Mast ans Aid Tivey dimmed the Bank to Aboul 50 feet above the Camp and watched As their caravan was opt Down the River and smashed into another caravan. I pm my wife and my 17-year-old daughter said a Man who identified himself Ody u or. Niveo. In never act them tack. They were taken Iway Wilh the  a resident of grand Borund told the newspaper be Monde of seeing caravans and can floating by at it. Raw of one every 10  the borne which feeds the arve runs through the Campground la had receded wednesday but was still churning and Black Wilh mad. Reporter flying Over in a helicopter could see broken campers and can lining a Banks. Campers who survived the disaster lined up at pub Lic telephones in the Village calling their relatives Wilh reassurances that they Wen Safe. The Interior ministry immediately made available the equivalent of $13,000 u help Lodge the survivor mod provide Tuupo Rution Back borne. Expert were arriving from Paris on thursday to Tav Stigale the disaster. The Accident is thought to be toe wont in France numerous campsites. The devastated Campground was let up in 1971 Rescue workers including police and firefight in Taid efforts to find survivors were hampered because narrow Mountain roads to the campsite were blocked by Trees that were blown Over in the storm the Region has been subjected to two weeks of in Dement weather. Last week several Tunu Al grand Bora and were evacuated when the borne Rose three feet above its Normal level according to campers