European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. Augus 19, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 $1 billion saudi arms Deal on hold news leak forced delay paper reports Washington up1 faced with Strong congressional pressure triggered by a press leak the administration has put on indefinite hold a request for $1billion in arms Wiles la saudi Arabia. A report in the Washington Post quoting congressional and administration sources said thai the administration is preparing Lisi billion package of weapons sates to the saudis. A Bough the news Story itself was denied by the state department it provoked immedi ate opposition from sen. Claiborne Pell or chairman of the Senate foreign relations corny Jirec and other Mem Bers of Congress Pell was assured by slate department officials thai notification of the proposed Sale would Noi come immediately after Congress returns from its summer recess As the newspaper report suggested poll then issued a statement i am pleased of  thai contrary to report sin today s press the administration has no plans to submit an arms Salt pack Agelo saudi Arabia when the Congress re convenes i n september to do so would make a bad ii urion worse in the persian Gulf  another Capitol Hill source said that the state department has not put together a formal package but Given the oppo Silion thai the leak triggered it will prob ably not make a Battle Over its desire to sell the Sattis Maverick missiles and re placement of is warplanes while administration officials who re Quested anonymity said an arms Sale re quest is expected White House and Slat department spokesmen anxious not to antagonize Congress emphasized no final decisions had been made. Certainty we intend to initiate package at some Point White House spokesman Marlin fizz Walcer told report ers in Santa Barbara Calif where presi Dent Reagan is vacationing. But he said the timing and the sequencing had not been decided. Inside the administration he said there Are those who Eccl september is not the Best Lime stale department spokeswoman Phyl Lis Oakley told reporters the administration is certainly going to proceed sometime with such sales but she said the administration has made no Deci Sions on notification of specific arms sales o saudi  unless Congress disapproves the Saleby a majority vote in both houses 50 Days after notification in would proceed. Alter that a presidential veto would mean that both houses would have to disapprove the proposed Sale by a iwo thirds majority. Officials said the package being considered would total about in billion and include 1,600 Maverick anti Lank mis Siles valued at 1360 million and m 1s Jet fighter planes Worth $500  would also include armoured vehicles. When Reagan withdrew an earlier proposal to sell the Mavericks in june heard the action was Only temporary and officials said the package would be re submitted. The f-t5s would replace fighters in the saudi Arsenal that have been lost in raining accidents. Supporters of Israel on Capitol Hill have fiercely opposed sales of advanced weapons to saudi Arabia on grounds thai the saudis Are still in a state of War with the jewish stale and could use american weaponry against in. Engraver who altered stamp under investigation Washington a officials at he Bureau of engraving and printing arc investigating an engrave who etched a tiny Star of David onto he die of a stamp bearing the face of a jewish educator a spokes Man said. Kenneth Kipper mar secretly added the Mark to the $1 stamp of educator Bernard revel. He has Bee assigned administrative duties away from the engraving area while he Bureau conducts its investigation spokesman Ira Polikoff said monday we Don t want to do it posthaste said Polikoff. He would not say when the investigation might be completed. Me did not specify what action the Bureau might Lake against Kipperman. The Bureau discovered the Sis pointed Star in the Beard of revel founder of Yeshiva University in new York after receiving an Anonymous Telephone tip ear Lier this month. The tiny Star is not visible to the naked Eye but is clearly visible on the stamp s die and on enlargements of the stamp. The Bureau has engraved 920 Dies for the Posia service since 1970, and the incident is the first known Lime a Symbol has been secretly added to a stamp one is too Many but one out of 920." Polikoff said. Postal officials say the service has no plans to re engrave the stamp to eliminate the Star. Ninety eight million of the Stamps which came out sept. 23, 1986,have been printed and circulated. Circle pinpoints hidden Star of David on stamp. A photo we will not withdraw in from Sale now said Frank Thomas acting manager of he service s stamp information Branch it s not objectionable. It s inappropriate Symbol fit was something offensive we would consider  Thomas said the stamp would remain on Sale for another year or More a decision inc service bad made before the discovery of the Star. Kipperman an engraver with inc Bureau since 1974, is one of 16 employees at the Bureau classified at Bank note engravers. According to Polikoff there Are 32 Bank note engravers in North America and about 100worldwide. A Bank note engraver is one of the Best in in afield he said. They have the artistic ability the expertise  in an unrelated incident Kipperman was arrested june 17 and charged with threatening to blow up the site of the . Holocaust memorial museum which is located next to the Bureau of engraving and printing. Kipperman barricaded himself at the construction site in a partly raved building he did t wan demolished and said he was carrying explosives. The 40-year-old Silver Spring md., resident later underwent psychiatric evaluation Al St. Elizabeths Hospital and was released. He was charged with making a threat to cause bodily injury in connection with the incident. The Case has been turned Over to a grand jury. Attempts to reach Kipperman for comment were unsuccessful. Secret service asks criminal charges against Pilot who flew near Reagan los Angeles a the secret serv ice wants criminal charges filed against an awol army private who piloted a Small private plane perilously close to president Reagan s helicopter last week. The matter has been presented to the , attorney s office for prosecution secret service agent Neil Goodman said. Pvt Ralph w. Myers remained in the Long Beach is Brig monday. Garry Jenkins agent in Charae of these Cret service s los Angeles office said the u a. Attorney was expected to decide within the nent few Days whether to file charges Mary Mcmenimen spokeswoman for the . Attorney s office also declined to discuss specific criminal charges. She said no charges were filed monday. Earlier Mcmenimen had said the fed eral aviation administration and . At Torney s office were looking into filing such civil charges As reckless flying careless Fly ing or flying in restricted airspace. Those charges Are civil violations and each carries a maximum Penally of a s1,000 Fine per violation. Myers 32. Had been scheduled to return monday or tuesday to fort Lewis wash., where he was absent without leave aug. 3. Jenkins said the secret service requested he be held at Long Beach until agents could interview him again. He said Arrne officials can then return him to fort Lewis at their  was flying Oregon businessman Harlan Lee Jones to an Orange county business meeting with Donald Nixon St., former president Richard Nixon s Nephew when his plane narrowly missed Reagan s helicopter Over the mountains North of Santa Barbara where the president1 ran Cho Del Cisclo is located. Jones said the plane inadvertently flew into restricted airspace while Myers searched the cockpit for a con tact Lens he had lost. Pm Junks plan to make plastic no cars new York Dpi general motors corp. Has scrapped plans to substitute plastic for Metal in the shells of its j car Sand a cars a Irader Magazine said. Metalworking week Magazine reported monday that pm formally cancelled the so called gm9s project and will in Stead keep inc a cars and a cars in circulation As steel body automobiles for an indefinite time. A pm spokesman in Detroit declined to comment on the report we have never acknowledged the existence of such a project said pm spokesman Mark cocroft. Pm has the capacity to make about i million a car and a car bodies annually the Magazine said. The decision not to convert the skins of a cars and a cars to plastic follows an ear Lier pm decision to cancel conversion plans for the Camaro and firebird the Magazine said. Pm produces two plus Lic shelled cars the Corvette and Fiero. San Cosof time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 19, 1947 two British offi cers of the Venezia Giulia military government pleaded guilty in Trieste. Italy to 25 charges of corruption. They freely described the Workings of the is million Public works graft Racket that involved two . Officers and 31 civilians. 30 years ago today. Aug. 19, 1957 Anthony Beau Champ son in Law of sir Winston Churchill was found dead in his London apartment. Police attributed the death loan overdose of sleeping pills. 20 years ago today. Aug. 19, 1967 president Johnson said he had ample authority for his con duct of the War in Vietnam and declared that if Congress wanted 10 wild raw it support the machinery was  to years ago today.,. Aug. 19, 1977 Federal banking officials said there was nothing illegal in Bert Lance s multimillion Dollar personal financial transactions Between 1975 and 1977. President Carter said he should slay As budget director