European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes g probe did t go High enough Start s skipper says Page 3 d Reagan takes budget Battle to Wisconsin Page 5 d Britain s Laura Davies wins . Women s open Page 21 vol. 46, no. 102 Ruthd died unofficial pubuk1tion wednesday. July 29, 1967 d 8693 a North did t appear to be lying Meese says Edwin Meese Washington a attorney general Edwin Mccase Iii told congressional investigators tuesday he did t suspect that White House aide Oliver l. North was lying last november when he detailed his Iran Contra activities during a Justice department interview. It certainly looks a lot different to us now than it did  Mcnese said telling congressional invest gators Why he did not order North s office sealed immediately after the attorney general questioned the National Security Council Deputy on nov. 23. There was no hint to us of any destruction of documents at that time Meese said. A desc calmly defended the preliminary Iran Contra inquiry he conducted for president Reagan last fall and he said there initially was no hint that criminal activity was in any Way i  a Csc said he began his review at first to Clear up apparent confusion about the facts surrounding Israel s Sale of  made weapons to Iran in 1985. He then told How his investigators stumbled on a document in North s files describing How profits from direct . Sales to Iran apparently had been diverted to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Even after personally confronting North Mccase said he Felt there was no obvious criminality involved. But asked by House committee lawyer John nicolds or. If he realized he was looking into something other than con fusion a Csc replied yes very definitely. There was a whole new aspect of the situation testifying under oath and without immunity at nationally televised hear Ings Mccase said my own counsel was to support the secret Sale of arms to loan when his opinion was asked in january 1986. He said he advised the president it was Legal to withhold notification of continued on Page 28 in line Field discoverer a of Tanker a bust by Ric Lap c. Gross Dpi mull writer Washington to Navy found a mine Field in the Persi Culf Channel where the supertanker Breton hit a mine Friday and several unit eater explosives were recovered pcnl3o officials said tuesday. All the mines that were found moored to the Bottom of the 90-Fo deep Channel where the 401,382-ton Wail Tanker hit a mine 120 Miles of Kuwait the officials said. Tyraine punched a Hole the size of a Runn the Tanker s Hull below the a Fedfle flood ins four of 31 Oil holds. Despite the  ship was being loaded with Oil loj Balf its capacity for a southbound Najac scored voyage through the Gulf emptied to begin later this week. Pentagon offal expressed concern that the Frigar Crommelin would have junk had the jibs Ion ship hit a mine. The crop Peiin was one of the three Navy Shi that escorted the Bridgeton and in Knaller Gas Prince on the North . Ship would have gone to the hot an official said. If a mine would  ild be no Chance to have ripped a hoi a frigate then save the Shioji the code twin has a draft of 14.8 feet fax Pathan the 36-foot draft of the Bride or when the Tanker is empty. The Ulin possibly could have passed the mine Field without having Dato a cd one of the explosives. All of the escorts lined up behind the Grid Eton after it was hit using it As a pest Cepcar. Navy team found several mines in me a unite wide Channel Over the wee kill officials said but the details of the disc Flory were sketchy discover Mph the mine Field gave new urgency to Matching Navy mine sweep ing he i copters he Ulf officials said it makes the Issue of this whole mine sweeping Thih very big one one official said. A several mine sweep helicopters based in Norfolk  an 72-hour Alert to prepare for Dupar Tuulio the Gulf Bui Kuwait has denied permit silo the United Stales to use ivs soil As a be for them. As an alternative then a is looking at the possibility of Basing some of them aboard ships. Yin victim and sup Darci Kayler Pierce 19, right was arraigned a tuesday in the kidnapping and my raft of Cindy Lynn buy. 23, in Albuquerque . Pierce is also a of having pc Fornie a erode Caes resin operation on who was a i months pc runt Weflen she tangled. Set stuff. Page 2. Summit Hopes pinned on minister level talks Washington