European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o spare parts shortage plaguing military Page 3 o debt problem halts savings Bonds sales Page 4 d Azinger leading British open sports Page 21 the Stas and a ripes Lutho Mcd unofficial publication foot the . A to vol. 46, no. 91 saturday. July 18, 1987 d 6693 a Poindexter disputes White House version Washington a former National Security adviser John , repeatedly contradicting while House statements insisted Friday that presi Dent Reagan would have approved diverting iranian arms sales proceeds to the Contra rebels if he had known about it. I would have expected him to say thai. Thai is inc whole idea of Denia Bih by Poindexter Lold he Iran Contra hearings when asked about White House spokesman Martin Fiu Waitr s insistence that Reagan would not have approved of inc plan. Poindexter also said he withheld information from earlier congressional investigators because i simply did t want any outside interference in inc Sec Rel program of Aid to nicaraguan rebels. But he Laid the nationally televised hearings thai he had no intention of con coding a cover up last november when he destroyed a icy document or when he participated in the drafting of false chronologies for White House use. The nationally televised hearing was marked by a heated complaint from Poindeter s attorney who claimed the proceedings were unfair and an acid re Buke from sen. Daniel Inouye Dha Waii. Inouye chairman of inc Senate investigating committee said he found the rear Admiral s three Days of testimony incredible mind boggling  the 50-year-old naval officer who served As National Security adviser far nearly a year until his resignation last nov. 25, testified under a grand of limited immunity. His wife Linda sit in her customary scat one Row behind the witness table. Throughout the morning of testimony  portrayed himself As a Loyal Slaff aide who sought to shield his superiors from potential difficulty repealing that he alone made the decision not to let Reagan about the diversion of secret arms sales proceeds to the contras and in rebuttal to Inouye s Obser see Poindexter on Page 28 rear aim. John Poindexter stands with his wife Linda an episcopal priest Dur ing recess in the Iran Contra hearings thursday an Capitol Mill. British prime minister Margaret Tentcher is greeted by Secretary of state George Shultz is she arrives one Day visit thursday night at Andrews a Kama for a 14-hour state visit to washing ton. Sec Story. Page 1. Nofziger indicted on lobbying charges Washington a former White House political director Lyn Nof Ziger was indicted on six counts of Vio lating Federal ethics Laws in connection with his lobbying for we tech corp and two other clients an Independent counsel announced Friday. According to the indictment Nofziger and his lobbying partner Mark Bragg who also was indicted illegally lobbied the White House in 1982 in not jew an ultimately successful Effort to gel a $32 million no bid Pentagon contract for we tech a new York City defense con tractor. The indictment says Nofziger violated conf Ici of interest provisions hat pro Hibit Inch government officials from lobbying their former office for one year after leaving the Public payroll. Bragg is charged in the indictment with aiding and abetting Nofziger in his efforts to assist cd Lech. Nofziger in a statement issued by his attorneys said he was innocent of any deliberate violation of the Taw and added if the Independent counsel wants my Scalp he will have to gel it the old fashioned  Nofziger left the while House in Jan uary 1982, to open a Washington lobby ing firn with Bragg. The indictment was obtained by inde pendent counsel James Heltay who also is investigating attorney general Edwin Meese s assistance to we tech in 1982 when Meese was White House Counselor. Mccase Lias acknowledged interceding in 1982 on behalf of we Lech four of see nofz1qer on Page 23 France severs ties with Iron Over bombings Paris a the government Fri Day broke relations with Iran climaxing nearly three weeks of diplomatic Wrang Ling Over France s demands to question an iranian embassy employee about a series of terrorist bombings. Within hours two Anonymous Trie phone callers to Western news agencies in Beirut Lebanon said a shiite moslem group would kill two kidnapped French diplomats because of France s action. 1lil has been decided to carry out immediately the death sentence against Marcel Carton and Marcel  inc callers said. They claimed to be speaking for the underground group islamic jihad which claimed responsibility for kidnapping the women in 198 5. Islamic jihad has warned several limes however that Only statements accompanied by photographs of a hostage arc authentic. Iran said later Friday inc French Consul in Tehran Iran would be tried As a spy. Iranian television quoted an unidentified iranian foreign ministry spokesman As saying Iran was breaking relations with France. To did not mention that France had done the same thing hours earlier. Thi television Monitor cd in Cyprus see France on Page 28 child care. It s one of Many things you can advertise or find in he St it script tit  and Section Coupon & details in today s advertising insert