European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d probe did t go High enough stands skipper says Page 3 d Reagan lakes budget Battle to Wisconsin Page 5 d Britain s Laura Davies wins . Women s open Page 21 the  hires Buthot Llyd in officus Foj 1lict on vol. 46, no. 102 wednesday. July 29. 1987 in d 8693 a Meese says funds Deal surprised president Edwin meet apr photo Washington a attorney general Edwin Meese 111 said tuesday that president Reagan was Quile sur prised and indicated thai he had not known anything when told last novem Ber thai profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to nicaraguan Contra rebels. Testifying in Calm even tones at nationally televised hearings Meese de fended the preliminary inquiry he made into the Iran Contra affair at Reagan s request even As he described lies and deceit that other administration officials threw his Way. Meese testified under oath and with out immunity from prosecution As he told How he spent a hectic few Days late in november trying to learn the truth about the Iran Contra Altai Ron the presi Dent s orders. It a a search that ended with the Homey general walking House Oval office and the rather astounding a. Lion about the fund diversion. Mccase said he did t suspect that White House aide Oliver l. North was lying last no vember when he detailed his Iran Contra activities during a Justice department interview. It certainly looks a Tot different to us now than it did  Mccase said telling w a 13 a Dkl 1.1.1 Timi w4v i i 1-i w attorney g into the White giving Reagan astounding piece of inform congressional investigators Why lie did rot order North s office scaled immediately after the attorney general personally questioned inc National Security Council Deputy on nov. 23. There was no hint to us of any destruction of documents Al that time Mccase said. Former National Security adviser John m. Poindester told him he Gener ally knew of the fund diversion. Poin Dexter has testified he approved the idea in Advance. Former Cia director William Casey told the attorney general that he Loo had Learned in late november of the continued on Page 2b mine Field discovered in area of Fanker blast by Richard c. Cross Dpi military writer Washington the Navy found a mine Field in the persian Gulf Channel where the supertanker Bridgeton hit a mine Friday and several underwater explosives were recovered. Pentagon officials said tuesday. Ail the mines that were found were moored to the Bottom of the 90-foot deep Channel where the 401,382-ton kuwaiti Tanker hit a mine 120 Miles South of Kuwait the officials said. The mine punched a Hole the size of a truck in the Tanker s Hull below the waterline flood ing four of 31 Oil holds. Despite the damage the ship was being loaded with Oil to half ill capacity for a southbound Navy escorted voyage through the Gulf expected to begin later this week. Pentagon officials expressed concern thai the frigate Crommelin would have sunk had the 3,585-ton ship hit a mine. The Crommelin was one of the three Navy ships that escorted the Bridgeton and the smaller Gas Prince on the North bound Convoy. The ship would have gone to the Bot Tom an official said. If a mine would have ripped a Hole like that in the Hull of a frigate there would be no Chance to save the  Crommelin has a draft of 14.8 feet far less than the 36-foot draft of the Bri Duclon when the Tanker is empty. The Crommelin possibly could have passed Over the mine Field without having detonated one of the explosives. All of the escorts lined up behind Llie Bridgeton after it was hit using n As a minesweeper. A Navy learn found several mines in the 2-mile-wide Channel Over the weekend officials said but the details of the discovery were sketchy. Discovery of the mine Field gave new urgency to dispatching Navy mine sweep ing helicopters to the Gulf officials said. It makes the Issue of this whole mine sweeping thing a very big one one official said. Several mine sweeping helicopters based in Norfolk va., Are on 72-hour Alert to prepare for departure to the Gulf but Kuwait has denied permission to the United states to use its soil As a base for them. As an alternative the Navy is looking at the possibility of Basing some of them aboard ships. Slaying victim and suspect Oarl Kay ten Pierce 19, right was arraigned tuesday in the kidnapping and murder of Cindy Lynn Kay. 23, in Albuquerque , Pierce is also accused of having performed a crude caesarean operation on a. Who has 8l/i month prot gnarl when one has strangled. See Story. Page 1. U.s., soviets move closer toward fall Summit Washington a the United states and the soviet Union made major strides tuesday toward a third superpower Summit meeting that would bring soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Here in the fall for talks with president Reagan. But they did nol resolve their dispute Over equip eing German missiles with american nuclear War Eadi i major stumbling Block to the first .-soviet arms control agreement in eight Yean. The Steps toward a Summit were taken almost simultaneously Here and in Cenevil where . And soviet negotiators have been to work on nuclear weapons reductions since november i9si. American negotiator Maynard Gilman formally accepted Gorbachev s latest proposal for a worldwide ban on . And soviet medium Range missiles. At the White House spokesman Marlin Filz Waler announced that Secretary of stale George Schuliz and soviet for eign minister Eduard Shevardnadze would meet in september. Both moves pointed toward a pro thanksgiving Summit hosted by Reagan for Gorbachev la would be their third meeting and would Mark the Soviel Leader s first visit to America. Shuh and Shevardnadze would have the double talk of trying to resolve Shii Ivet differences might stand in the Way of an arms Coni Rul Accord by septem Ber and drawing up a Supit Power Summit Agenda. That usually takes about i weeks. Gorbachev who Mil with i acan m Geneva in no vember 1985 and in Reykjavik. Iceland last october made it Plain during a Shuh unit to Moscow last april thai he wanted a  thai produced substantial results such As an arms control Accord. Generally without a Siivon. I do not go anywhere Soe Summit on Page 28