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Icelanders Don t resent the nato base said continued on Page 3 to be at an icelandic night is of Kef Lavik is after 10 Mission from his Bossuk just like every of her not yet an e-6. To the Little difficult a lined in Iceland. R up no one leaves tacks of cigarettes f d. A similar Rulef base without l More than two Utho Ueo unofficial up us Tion vol. 46, no. 109 wednesday August 5, 1987. Aimed Force 08693 a i rant util mine sweeping copters arrive in Indian Ocean by the associated pits the first Elm anti of a unil of mine sweeping Heli copters arrived at the Indian Ocean Island of Diego Garcia monday for use in the persian Gulf he Pema gon announced tuesday. Meanwhile the re flagged 46,732-ton kuwaiti Tanker Gas Prince with a Load of liquefied Petroleum Pas destined for Japan left its . Navy escort behind tuesday and sailed into the Oman Gulf after passing through the Strait of Hormuz on monday. A Pentagon source said the eight mine sweeping Heli copters that arrived on Diego Garcia will be transferred to the amphibious helicopter Carrier Guadalcanal. Pentagon sources also said the amphibious Landing ship Raleigh was dispatched Over the weekend from Norfolk va., to Charleston s.c., where it was being loaded with several Small Navy mine sweeping boats. The sources would not say when it would sail for the Gulf. Shipping sources in Kuwait said the mine-damaged401.382-ton Brit Goclon would leave in a week to 10 Days with a partial Load of Oil possibly making the southbound trip with a Convoy scheduled to begin the 500-mile voyage up the Gulf thursday the Gas Prince originally had been scheduled to make the return voyage with the Bridgton but the supertanker was unable to take on a Load of Oil quickly because of the damage from the mine. The decision was made to go ahead and gel the Gas Prince out of there said one source. The Bridgeton was t ready and we saw a Chance to move the Gas Prince out of there quietly the two Are the first of 11 kuwaiti vessels being re registered in the United states so the . Navy can protect them. Kuwait also has chartered tankers Hying the soviet and British flags. Trie iranians accuse Kuwait of receiving arms ship ments for Iraq the emirate s Eastern neighbor at the head of the Gulf and have made regular attacks since september on ships owned by or serving Kuwait. Iraq s ports were closed soon after he War Between continued on Page 2b police watch As iranians join pilgrimage Jidida saudi Arabia a iranians joined 2million other moslem in a pilgrimage monday outside the holy City of Mecca watched by armed saudi police flanking the columns and helicopters hovering above. An anti american demonstration by iranian Pil grims in Mecca last Friday Ted to a Battle . Saudi riot police in which at least 402 people were Killcup 275 of them iranians. Hundreds were injured. Saudi news Media portrayed some iranian pilgrims by terrorists. Iran vowed to overthrow the saudi ruling family and seize its vast Oil wealth. The Mecca violence was viewed in the Region As manifestation of Arab persian jealousies and the Divi Sions of islam. Most iranians belong to the shiite minority. Shilin have been at Odds far 1,300 years with the sunni  which comprises 85 percent of the world s 850 million moslem including the saudi Royal family. Arab diplomatic sources said president Hafez Assad of Syria had offered to mediate a reconciliation be tween Iran and saudi Arabia. Syria has Good relations with both  estimated 2.1 million pilgrims known As Hajji. Moved in a smooth procession monday in groups of 100,000 to the Plain of Arafat six Miles from Mecca. Police flanked the 157,000 iranians during the pro cession and planned to guard them while the pilgrims camped on the Plain in preparation for tuesday s culmination of the Hajj or moslem pilgrimage. A saudi newspaper quoting unnamed officials said monday that Iran sent about 20,000 revolutionary guards and volunteers to saudi Arabia As pilgrims. Saudi television showed a year old film of iranian pilgrims with weapons and explosives allegedly Cap tured in their Possession. Iranian pilgrims described As operatives and activists said that they tried to smuggle guns and explosives into saudi Arabia during last year s  radio monitored in Bahrain broadcast a threat by Hashemi a Sfanjani speaker of Iran s parliament to uproot the saudi rulers and seize the kingdom s vast Oil wealth for islam. Last saturday the Day after the Battle in Mecca mobs ransacked the kuwaiti and saudi embassies in Tehran and captured four saudi diplomats. Iron Contra hearings close after 11 weeks of testimony Washington not the scheduled Public hearings on the Iran Contra affair ended with the chair men of the congressional investigative committees calling the 11 weeks of testimony chilling and de  having listened to about 250 hours of testimony from 28 Public witnesses the panels will hear later this week from four Central intelligence Agency officials in closed session then take a recess through labor Day before reconvening in september to prepare a report of their findings and recommendations. The Story has now been told the Senate commit tee s chairman Daniel Inouye said in his closing statement monday. I see it As a chilling Story a Story of deceit and duplicity and the arrogant disregard of the Rule of  the House panel s chairman. Rep. Lee Hamilton d-ind., said that he had found the hearings de pressing but that he believed they were an essential part of the self cleansing process of our system of gov  the final witness. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger added Little on monday to his testimony Las Friday when he documented his vigorous opposition to the Iran arms sales and told How others in the administration had deceived him. He did however take Issue with the statement of Robert Mcfarian the former National Security adviser that the United states did not have sufficient intelligence information to undertake a Mission to Rescue hostages. Weinberger did not elaborate saying he could not discuss the matter in Public. Inouye a Hawaii seemed especially disturbed by the assertions of Nonh and Poindexter that survival in a dangerous world sometimes required measures beyond the Bounds of the Normal processes of govern ment. That said Inouye is an excuse for autocracy not for policy. Vigilance abroad does not require us to abandon our ideals or the Rule of Law Al Home. 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