European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q Lonetree May have been Cia Pawn defense says Page 5 Foj poll finds strength in women candidates Page 7 d soviets forming baseball team for 1992 olympics Page 21 the stars and stripes unofficial full Toh Foa the u i. Red Fqy fit vol. 46, no. 113 Friday. August 14. 1987 21. to 0 8693 a Reagan accepts blame says hostage Issue spawned Iran scandal Washington president Reagan said wednesday his stubborn Pursuit or an arms salts ploy to win Freedom for american hostages spawned inc Iron Contra scandal and admitted there is nothing 1 can say thai will make inc situation although stressing he did no know of the diversion of profits from inc Iran arms sales to he Contra rebels in Nicaragua Reagan was self critical in declaring tic was ultimately accountable for what happened. In assuming responsibility for inc scandal referred o statements by his former National Security adviser rear adm. John Poindester who told con Gressional investigators that the Buck stops with me for approving and hiding the Contra diversion from the president in order to give Reagan plausible deniability Yel the Buck docs not Stop wih Admiral poin Dexl Cras he slated in his in Simony. It stops with me Reagan said. The speech delivered from inc Oval office lasted just 16 minutes unusually Short for a presidential address. A Judic Iorg application of makeup covered any evidence of inc recent minor surgery performed on Reagan s nose. He spoke deliberately and committed Only one slip of the Tongue saying. In the id years. Democrats a Phoi president Reagan holds up a copy at Lite town com Mission report during his Lela vied speech wednesday. Have been emerging All Over the world when lie meant to say although his tone was unemotional some of the rhetoric was not As when he said i heard someone the other Day ask Why i was t outraged. Well at times i be been mad As a he called the scandal confusing and painful for America and said it highlighted the mistrust Between the White House and Congress hat shows up .15 ires leaks divisions and Reagan made several direct appeals for the nation to shift its focus from the scandal toward the problems and opportunities of the future. The Way inc scandal has pointed up he need for better cooperation Between him and Congress May be inc eventual Blessing in disguise to come out of the Iran con Ira mess he said. I have a year and a half before i have to clean out this desk he said. I m not about to ice the Dis and cobwebs Settle on the Fumii Urc in this office or on me. I have things i intend to do and with your help we Cando Reagan listed four major goals the confirmation of controversial conservative Appeal court judge Rob Ert Bork to the supreme court achieving a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the soviet Union. A constr see Reagan on Page 28 fabled titanic Safe to be opened on live to Paris a treasure Hunters have found the titanic s storied Safe and planto open it during a live television Broad cast an expedition spokesman said thursday. The Safe was found wednesday on the Ocean floor 2vi Miles below the surface at the titanic site 350 Miles Southwest of Newfoundland spokesman Daniel pug said. He said the Safe is locked and refute Dlo speculate on its contents. Legend and Rumor have surrounded the treasure that May have gone Wilh the 1,513 passengers and Crew who drowned when the luxury liner hit an ice Berg and Sank april 15. 1512. The Safe was among four located during a . Expedition to the site last summer. Thai expedition led by Robert Balard of the Woods Hole oceanographic Institute in Cape cod. Mass., photographed the Safe and mapped inc area. However those maps were not Avail Able to the current expedition which had to find ii by its own moans. Talks of a Fortune in diamonds and other jewels from inc millionaire Passen Gers on Board have circulated despite the opinion of experts who say most of see titanic on Page 2b Yuu an the americ by bue3m a Man against the Wall Joseph Werner of Lon Bland n.v-, our Yini poster protesting the Berlin will hands a Mick lag to Young it the checkpoint Charlie crossing thursday. It was the Loc nth time in the 16 Yean of the will i exis tence hat tar american had brought his one nun demonstration to Berlin. Dod believes Iran Laid mines in Gulf of Oman Washington
