European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside Stripe o toll reaches 72 in . Heat wave Page 3 q Quarter horses do their thing Page 9 d Michael Andretti wins 500-mile event sports Page 21 the St is Anc Ksil ipes vol.46, no. 108 tuesday August a 19b7 d 8693 a Iran starting Gulf Man Euver re an off duty member of the Crew of the guided missile Cruiser Fox jogs on the deck of the warship. Kuwait a Iran Saidu Mas starting naval Maneu vers in the and warned ships and aircraft a Bijj lab a of its territorial Waters As a .-Flagfpiankcr under . Navy escort sailed trip 9io said preliminary operations of the tra i have begun in the persian Gulf and the Mili Ary warned ships and planes to avoid iranian territorial Waters for three Days As of Midnight monday. Pentagon sources said in Washington that inc Tanker Gas Prince and its . Escorts successfully traversed the Strait of Hormuz monday moving beyond the Range of iranian Ami ship silkworm missiles detected earlier in that area. Another Convoy including . Warships is scheduled to sail North through the Strait and into the Gulf on thursday. The Strait is the persian gulfs Only outlet. It connects inc Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and arabian sea to the South the guided missile destroyer Kidd and guided mis Sile frigate cup Mmclain accompanied the 46.732-ton Oil products Carrier Gas Prince which left Kuwait on sat urday for Imari. Japan carrying liquefied Petroleum he 550-mile journey through the Gulf takes 2 i missile Cruiser i of sailed nearby on a Iran said in Hui cars code named martyrdom were to prepare Fremb orces against possible . Aggression and would Olst Eurite hundreds of Rani an pilgrims killed in clashes Hia udi police on Fri Day in Mecca saudi Arabia City. The fanatic revolutionary guards Werc by Uci ing the naval exercises. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran s revolt. And spiritual Leader monday vowed revenge a America holding it responsible for the Mecca deaths. See Gulf on Page 26 Congress ends ran Confra hearings Caspar Weinberger. Urges giving presidents leeway Washington a the Iran Contra hearings ended monday As defense Secretary Caspar Weinberg or urged investigators to allow presidents continued leeway on when to notify Congress that a Covert opera Tion has been authorised. Related Story Page 7. A rigid time or an inflexible time is not a very Good thing Weinberger said although he added that he generally favors an existing Legal requirement for notification of Congress in a timely Weinberger was in the witness chair for his second Day at inc nationally televised congressional hearings on inc secret . Sale of arms to Iran and diversion of profits to Benefit the nicaraguan Contra rebels. Leaders of the House and Senate investigating pan Els wrapped up Weinberger s testimony by Early afternoon before adjourning for the final Lime. The panels intend to question several Cia officials privately next week and then spend the rest of this month writing a formal report on the affair Hal has dealt major political damage to resident Reagan. Since the hearings got under Way on May 5, Mac Saiga Lora have heard Cabinet officers describe How they inc unsuccessfully in 1985 and again in 1986 to persuade Rea Gan not to go ahead with the arms Sale initiative Only to find the president going ahead with the plan out of Poncem for the american hostages held in Lebanon. The joint committees also heard testimony hat while Reagan approved the arms sales he never knew thai it. Col. C Lver l. North a staff Deputy at the. National secur y Council was helping provide Mili-1 tary assistance to the contras at u Lime when Congress j had banned All direct or indirect . Military Aid loft the nicaraguan insurgents. In a dramatic moment last month the lawmakers heard former National Security adviser John 1 Oindexter say that he alone authorized the diversion of arms Sale proceeds to the contras and never informed the president. Poin Dexler resigned and North was fired nov. 25 after the fund diversion was uncovered by Justice department investigators and Congress is still trying nine months later to answer fingering questions in inc affair. The evidence clearly is that the president of the see Congress on Pago 2b s Iceland Means 10 . Curfew b Dave Ideiil Slot writer Kef Lavik Iceland sgt. Ale Hill can t quite figure the logic. He s a family Man. The father of a 7 Jno Niri old boy. Yet he has to get porn non to be out past 10 . It costs too much Sas h ill with j shrug. But if he wanted 10 be at an icelandic Phlipot outside the tales of Kcf Lant is Jolt a 10 p in., in it need written permission from his Boss and his com Mander s of just like every other Navy or air Force person not yet an e-6. And the curfew is just one of the Little difficulties americans face White stationed in Iceland. Without an of from higher up no one it axes the base with More than two packs of Aramies and one tit them mull be opened. A similar Rule applies Tor film so one scroll Ufa Hast without special Penni i Sion when carrying Mure than two Rolls of film Don i mind people taking Holm of their Countryside. They do mind if tax free a wifi flood out of he Gates of the Kkt i Rvin sat base in their country disrupting Tiu can Nim. It in t that Iceland to resent the n to base said continued on Page 3
