European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q House moves to ban Toshiba sales at exchanges Page 2 q air Force suspends Omraam testing Page 5 d orioles beat royals 2-1 for 9th in Row sports Page 21 the stars and ripes a pc to. 46. No. 95 of saturday. July 25. 1987 med Forice d 8693 a Shultz we were deceived says to no Exfer Casey tried to hide truth Washington a Secretary of state George p. Shult testified thursday thai president Reagan was deceived by his closest advisers about his administration s Iran Contra activities and that i be never seen lie president so mad As he was when Shultz Lai a out some details of inc Story. He also said in a Day when one disclosure tumbled Over another that he tried three limes to resign including a time in August last year. In inc August instance he said he perceived thai other officials thought he was out of step with the administration and he Felt that he had become the target of guerrilla War said Reagan stuck the resignation letter in a drawer and said. " you re tired. It s about Lime to go on vacation Noth ing Ever none of the threatened resignations directly concerned the. Iran Contra affair. Shutlz testified. Shultz said he waged a Battle Royal against others who had the president s car to persuade Reagan to gel the facts outlast november after a lebanese newspaper revealed that the United states had sold arms to Iran. He said he old Reagan directly Lasi november we be been deceived and lied to and said thai he cautioned the president against making any Marc declarations thai there had been no arms for to slags dealing. In Shutlz s words. Reagan reacted like he had been kicked in the belly when he was told about another secret proposal involving freeing terrorists convicted and held in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the . And French embassies in that , inc congressional committees released Handwritten notes of Alton keel Deputy National Security adviser that appeared at Odds with previous statements by attorney general Edwin Meese 111, who is 10 testify a inc hearings next week. The Joics taken at a nov. 10. 1986, while House meeting with Reagan and top administration officials includes the notation de we did l sell Israel sold. Was Multi phased com Millic incs Ligator say the reference is to Meese and is a indication that Meuse was aware of the 1985 israeli weapons ship ments to Iran at least by nov. 10 of last year. A Csc has said repeatedly that he first Learned of the 1985 see Shultz on Page 28 j App Lolo Secretary of stale George Sulu / 2 tankers proceed under escort in Gulf Manama Bahrain a two kuwaiti tankers moved northward thurs Day under the american Flag and . Navy escort through an area Between Iran and saudi Arabia where iranian speedboats have previously attacked Sev eral merchant ships. Iran s news Agency quoted foreign minister Ali Akbar vol Amati As saying kuwaiti Oil was prohibited goods implying that ships carrying it would be attacked but vol Ayala said in Germany that Iran would not shoot first. By Sunset the ships were in the last stage of heir 500-mile voyage up inc persian Gulf fwd the Strait of Hormuz to Kuwait s Al Ahmadi Oil terminal. Sources following the Convoy s Prog Ress said three warships made the entire trip and other vessels from a nine ship . Flotilla in the Gulf joined the Convoy from time to time. Salvage officers based in Dubai said the main concern was mines in the Al Ahmadi shipping Channel where at least four vessels have been hit in recent months. American. Kuwaiti and saudi experts declared the Channel Safe after a mine sweeping operation last weekend. The kuwaiti vessels a 401,382-ton supertanker and 46,723-Lon products car Rier renamed the Fri Duclon and the Gas Prince were to arrive Friday. After Load ing they will scam South again with guard of Navy ships. Vol Ayala was quoted by Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency As Mak ing the indirect threat of attack in a Mes Sage sent wednesday to . Secretary Seo Gulf on Page 28 Bernsen says Iran Deal harmed Arab relations Crew members on he renamed gis Prince watch As the american Nan is raised. By Tim a Hern aboard the Kidd a the lop . Military official in the persian Gulf said thursday that . Relations with Arab nations have been damaged by the Reagan administration s Sale of arms to i ran. I think from a Sara logic or sort a political military Point of View there have been complications said rear adm. Harold a Erasun. Commander of the Middle East task Force. Bernson s naval group headquartered in Bahrain is responsible for overseeing . Interests in the Oil Rich Gulf. He spoke at a news conference on the Kidd a destroyer that is one of three Navy ships escorting two re flagged kuwaiti tankers up the Gulf. Kuwait s request Forchi United Stales to Reilag kuwaiti tankers was made Lasi december according loan administration Chron Biogy of the controversial policy. That was a month after it was revealed thai the administration had secretly sold missiles to Iran while publicly try ing to such sales. Iran and Iraq have been fighting a bloody War at tin Tup of the Gulf since sept. 22, i9so. And Kuwait and other Arab Gulf nations have voiced their of car about an iranian Victory. . Congressmen who recently visited he Gulf Region said Arab leaders in the sea Bernsen on Page 28 is bookstores closing most stars and Sli use of inventories
