European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 he is briefs the stars and stripes sunday August 23,1987 investigators face confusion in md-80 crash evidence Romulus Mich a investigators Inich crash or Northwest flight 255 Are shifting their focus from tie scene to the Laboratory where they face conflicting evidence on whether the Wing laps and Slais had been set for Takeoff. The Phoenix  plane crashed Sun Day just after Takeoff from de Iroil metropolitan Airport killing at least 155 people. The disaster s sole survivor 4-year-old Cecilia Cichan. Continued her recovery from bums , Molt children s Hospital in Ann Arbor where she was in serious condition Early sat urday. A tsp member John Lauber Hai said preliminary indications from the flight data recorder of the Mcdonnell Douglas my to showed he Wing flaps which give the Jet crucial lift were retracted rather than extended for Takeoff. However he said the plane s cockpit voice recorder did not pick up alarms designed to go off if he flaps and slats Are not extended Ami Pilot on another Northwest plane said he saw the flaps in proper position. Metallurgical tests on the wreckage at Nosb laboratories in coming weeks will help deter mine the configuration a the time of he crash a spokesman said. Cincinnati nurse s aide confesses to 25th killing Cincinnati a a nurse s aide who earlier admitted killing 24 people pleaded guilty Friday 10 his 25th slaying in a spree that lasted four years. Donald Harvey 35, of Middle own Ohio entered the plea in Hamilton county common Picas court to the 1985 poisoning murder of a Cincinnati neighbor Edgar Wilson. Harvey admitted he put arsenic in stomach medication that he gave to Wilson 81, who died March 22, 1985. Under a plea agreement with prosecutors Harvey was sentenced 10 lift in prison. Madonna concert draws 60,000 fans to Frankfurt Frankfurt a More than 60,000 Rock fans cheered and screamed for american pop Queen Madonna in Frankfurt s soccer stadium saturday night. Police said late saturday night that they had received no reports of disturbances Al the con Cert. Officials fearing massive traffic jams had run a special Railroad operation termed Rock v rauv1 Twenty special trains carried the fans from various parts of the country to the Wallsi Adios soccer stadium located just South of Frankfurt s Center. Farts purchased train and concert tickets to Gether in a package ranging from 549 to j55, depending on the distance the concert itself was sold out organizers had said shortly beforehand. More than 150 extra police were on hand to keep order. German newspapers gave the Rock Singer heavy coverage. Mine damaged Bridgeton again in perilous Convoy Manama Bahrain a the mine damaged supertanker Bri Duclon and three other renamed kuwaiti tankers left Kuwait under . Warship escort saturday and sailed Down the dangerous Northern per Sian Gulf behind a Wall of Haze. The .-rcgistered tankers departed hours after three other .-escorted tankers docked safely in Kuwait. They were escorted by the same american warships the guided missile destroyer Kidd and the guided missile frigates Haw Sand Klakring in other developments Iraq said 40 of its warplanes bombed the key Ira Nian petrochemical Complex at Bandar Khomeini in the neck of the Gulf and Iran said its jets raided Iraq factories. The Washington Post reported saturday hat saudi Arabia agreed to let earner based . Combat planes in the Gulf land in saudi territory for refuelling and other logistical support. The 401,382-ton Bri Duclon which hit a mine july 24 As u passed an Island base of Iran s revolutionary guards safely cleared he some dangerous shipping Channel. The other tankers were the 81,283-ton sea Isle City the 79,999-ton Ocean City and the 46,723-Lon Gasking a liquefied Gas Carrier. It was not Clear if the Guadalcanal and its eight sea stallion mine sweeping helicopters were aiding the con Voy the fifth one Way transit of the Gulf since the Reagan administration s escort operation began last month. Afler the Bri Duclon hit a mine the Lanker was patched up and was loaded with a partial cargo of crude Oil. It was Given permission to sail by the . Coast guard which handles safety questions for american flagged ships but it must undergo More re pairs later. The Washington Post said the saudis previously unwilling to Celend Landing rights to . Combat planes will allow Carrier based Jet fighters and Antisubmarine planes to land under what sources called emergency or in Case of need conditions. The newspaper quoting unidentified . Officials and diplomatic sources said inc circumstances under which the ban on combat aircraft will be relaxed Are being kept vague and probably would be decided Case by Case. A Pentagon spokesman maj. Greg Mcguckin. Said late Friday he had no comment on the Post report. Last week the Reagan administration said in was putting together a proposed new . Weapons package for saudi Arabia Worth about is billion. The iraqi military command said 40 fighter bomb ers carried of a devastating raid on a key petrochemical Plant near Bandar Khomeini. Iran said its jets bombed military installations an factories in Northern and Southern Iraq a Day after iraqi jets attacked three iranian factories. Reagan thanks Assad for help Damascus Syria a president Reagan Hiis expressed in a Cable to syrian president Hafez Assad his sincere appreciation for efforts id help gain inc Freedom of us. Journalist Charles class an official announcement said saturday. Glass one of nine americans believed kidnapped by pro iranian shiite moslem extremists in Lebanon fled to Freedom last tuesday after 62 Days in Captivity. He said he escaped from his captors in a South Bei rut suburb. Glass was taken by syrian officers to dam ascus where he was handed Over to the . Embassy. Some . Officials suspect the kidnappers allowed Glass room to escape. They said his Freedom was achieved by pressure on Iran from Syria its Arab ally against Iraq in the persian Gulf War. Reagan s message followed a letter of gratitude from Secretary of state George Shultz to syrian foreign minister Farouk Al Sharaa for what . Officials said were efforts by Damascus on behalf of . Hostages in Lebanon. Vernon Walters Washington s . Representative who visited Damascus last june called Assad on tues Day to express his thanks. Last november Reagan withdrew his ambassador from Damascus to protest Syria s alleged involvement in terrorism. The . Ambassador William Eagleton is due Back in Damascus around sept. I Washington sources say. Lonetree from Page 1 non vital secrets to string the Kab along and be a free Lance double agent. To a come a double agent you must first have Becco a. Spy Beck told the Marine officers Silling As jurors. Kunstler attacked two sworn confessions by Lone tree saying the prosecution referred Only to the parts that benefited the government s Case. In addition to describing Lon tree s contacts with Yefimov and Sanni he confessions say for example that Lonetree tried to blackmail Yefimov by hiring a woman to seduce him in Austria. Lonetree also resisted Yefimov s suggestion that he provide the names of marines that could be exploited because of alcohol drug problems or homosexuality and instead gave the name of a Marine who was a bom again Christian and a recovering alcoholic. Lonetree allegedly turned Over Cia identities . Embassy floor plans from Moscow and Vienna Austria. But the defense said that was information the soviets probably had already. The confessions made in december in London to agents of the naval investigative service showed Lonetree knew what he was doing when he became involved in spying through his affair with Sanli Beck said. Beck also said a High school notebook in which Lonetree Drew swastikas and wrote hitter lives As Well As testimony from witnesses who said Lonetree was obsessed with the soviets and collected soviet paraphernalia in his room showed the Marine held anti american views. Lonetree s past provided an Overall context into which jurors could put his acts of espionage. Beck said. Vou can t took at a person in a vacuum Beck said. You can t look at actions in a vacuum. You have to look at the whole picture the whole Man. This picture of this whole Man indicates traitor to his coun  pledge from Page 1 secrecy pledge earlier this month. Steven Garfinkll the director of the Isoo said he had signed a directive to All government agencies Friday advis ing Uick no to withdraw anyone s Clear Ance solely for not signing of ib9 until further  this action was taken pending som Resolution of the lawsuit that is now challenging the form Garfinkel said. The National federation of Federal employees filed suit on aug. 17 in . District court in Washington challenging the use of inc document on cons Iii tonal grounds. Standard form 189 has been in use by some government agencies since 1985. But in was Only within the past year after the Pentagon began enforcing de mands that ii be signed by ail workers with a clearance that ils use became Public knowledge and congressional committees began investigating the mat Ter. The Reagan administration has maintained Ihal the for. Is 5i-Py designed to underline the obligations of Federal work cry to protect classified information. The document asks workers Loac knowledge the government s right to fire them or to prosecute them on criminal charges for releasing classified information. Democratic Leaden in Congress asserted however that the form is so broadly worded that employees were being asked to sign away their rights. Rep. John d. Dingell a Mich. The chairman of the House Energy and com Merce committee argued but the form is so vaguely worded that employees could be disciplined or lose their jobs for releasing information that has 1 Bee classified. For example Al one Point the form requires a worker to pledge never to re lease to the Public information that is either classified or  that language would allow an Agency to discipline a worker for releasing informal Ion thai was t classified unlit after the fact Dingell says. He also charged Ihal the form is designed to simplify going Afler someone Lusic Clad of leak ing information to the press and to Dis courage government workers from talk ing to Congress. The Reagan administration had previously responded to the complaints by attempting to clarify the term classifiable saying that sanctions would be imposed Only if the worker knew or reasonably should have known thai the information he dispensed deserved classification. That clarification has appeased Nei ther Dingell nor the National federation of Federal employees prompting the former to threaten legislative action an the federation to Goto the court. Anti her group representing govern ment workers the american federation of government employees was also said 10 have been planning Legal action