European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 29, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 27 baseball attendance fops 50 million Nark it press dip ache new York attendance at major i clue baseball games sur passed Thuo million Mark in a sea son for Thi first time the commissioner s cd tic announced sunday. A sellout Road of 48,588 for inc season s Homm finale at Shea stadium gave Itic new York mets a club sin Gle season retard attendance of 5,027,121. Nev York is Only inc Sec Ond team to crib three million with the dodgers being the other. Los an Geles has topic Lac three million Mark on seven oct Lions a spokesman or major league baseball said the o4krall attendance with one week left Ink he regular sea son is now 50,186,90\ we Are proud Ihab Sebal has reached this impress a Milestone and we arc Apreci Liiv to baseball fans everywhere Peter Ueberroth said. Last year baseball set Acason at Tendance record of 47,500,3 Waltrip Victoriou Martinsville a. Lar Cit Wahyip ended a personal drought As Well As Dale  Short track Mastery by Bre through a last Lap traffic tangle to the Goody s sos Lascar wins cup race. I shot into him Terry Labij he shot into Dale they shot a track and i shot into the Lead All trip said of his Victory Sund the .526-mile Martinsville speedy. Wall rip in his first year w the Rick Hendrick managed Lead broke a 27-race wingless Streak Datum id the october 19s6 race at Nort Vilkes re a re 41,000, earned Wall rip 143,830, a extended to 13 his Streak of staffs with a least one Victory. Wall rip who averagedk.410 Mph in posting his 71st Carcy Victory led five limes in the race apr a total of 138 laps. Sports wire Maher wins Marathon Montreal Toronto easily won Lemat ional Mai two hours 15 i beating a Field of a Maher 27, be Lorens of Poland Ute. Lorens was to Montreal s a was the first 2 32 51. Maher of Montreal in on sunday in a 4 seconds t 9,000. A incr up Pawel lore than a min d in 2 16 16, line Gareau 34, id s finisher in Pate been Edberg los Angs David Pate of Las vegas Nik scored a Victory for american lefts sunday by defeating the no. 3 a Flor in inc world Stefan Edberta of Shlaen 6-4, 6-4 to capture the $315, Volvo Tennis los an Geles turn Bent. Pate red i9lh in the world needed Tibone service break in each set to win s first title of the year and second m his Carter. He earneds50.c  Wilander Barcelona Spain Argentine manii finite upset top seeded Mats Wilant 7-6 7-56-4, 4-6, 0-6, 6-4 Sunda to win the 1300,000 men s grand pin Tennis tournament. In was the first Lime the 22-year-old Jaity had won in seven meetings with the swede who is ranked no. I in the world. The 4-hour. 12inutc match was mainly a  on the Clay court As both pipers avoided being drawn to inc net Graf Tak Jfe tourney Hambur Steffi Graf won her ninth Loup Amoni of the year Sun Day defeat Isabel Celo of West Germany to 6-2 in the final of inc $150,000iand prix of Hamburg. The Wear old world no. I did not Losev Sci in the tournament the first mpr women s Tennis tournament Ift Amburg for several years. Rakwon $30,000 and Cucto 19, inc f. 5 West German women s play received $ 13,500. Tina tops Shriver a Clemente Calif. Marti i Navratilova outlasted Pam Shiv 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, sunday to win the 5,000 Audi Challenge. Navratilova ranked second in theirld and the top seed broke the service of her doubles partner in the seventh and ninth games of the final set then served out the 2 a hour match. Navratilova earned $20,000 and a 128,000 sports car. Shriver the world s Fiolli Ian cd player and inc tournament s defending Champion collected j 12,500. Zaki sets record Ogawa Machi Japan Masa Ozaki shot ahead with five birdies i the first nine holes sunday to Casi the 52nd professional Tournai of his career a japanese record i collected 10 million yen Abo $70,000 . Dollars for his five Koke Victory in the Gene Sara zen Iksic. Alys Eba super Victor r City la. Favored  from off the Pace sunday ii capture the is million super Dew and further Cloud the horse of thear picture. And Hallalf length Victory Over Candi s Goethe eighth running of the Grade stakes at Louisiana Downs Endea months of frustration for the 3-year-ql Bay son of Lydar. He has proud everything that he needs to prove maid Van Berg who became inc first Wainer Ever to win two super Derbm As for what is next we re going pc do whatever is Best for at Sheba As he did in win Fco the Kentucky Derby and the pkg Ness regular jockey Chris Mccara held Al Sheba Oit the Pace until afle mile. Mccarron said the up. Favorite had pretty much a routine i i did t want to Tak Vany chances today knowing i had thl Best horse he Slid. I just wanted i Cut him on the Clear and once he Goff outside he started picking up Hor Schwery Nice  the winning time was a3 1-5 two seconds off the stakes record in 1984 by Gate dancer Van bits first super Derby Winner. Nine to one shot Candi s Aid was second and Long shot parochial Hird. A disappointing sixth in tie tra vers stakes where he Fini Shil 20 i lengths Back to Java Gold Al Cheba earned owners Dorothy and Pamela Scharbauer 1600,000 with the factory running his total earnings to Early $2.2 million. Iran arms deals in . Questioned London a although in dosed the Irani military procurement office in London the British government is Al lowing middlemen to Deal in arms Lor Iran an opposition lawmaker said Sun Day. Tom a Lyell a labor party member of the House of commons said he asked Trade and Industry Secretary Ken Noih Clarke for an urgent statement on his actions in relation to the alleged arms trading of or. Ben Banc acc with  the sunday Telegraph newspaper de scribed Banc race As an Indian born millionaire based in Britain. A Lyell termed merely cosmetic last wednesday s closure by foreign Secre tary sir Geoffrey Howe of Iran s arms buying operations in London following an iranian attack on a British Tanker in inc persian Gulf. In was a relatively minor thing for the government to have done and will not be really effective. The Way arms dealing is done is through major  dal yell told a reporter. Official British government policy for bids Selling arms to either Iran or Iraq which have been at War since september 19bd. The sunday Telegraph said Banc race was used by former while House Security aide col. Oliver North in his arms for hosing is deals. The conservative weekly cited the sources for its report As an unidentified British arms dealer and documents relat ing to the alleged arms trading. In said ban Ericc s company by a industries Ltd., masterminded inc first consignment of 1,230 .-made, anti tank Tow missiles to Iran after a a Croce and North met in Hamburg on nov. 20, 1984. The report said Banc race also was involved in supplying Iran with soviet made sea mines that threaten shipping in the persian Gulf. The sunday Telegraph said the missile Deal was negotiated through a Swiss arms dealer Walter dam ugh who acted for both sides in the Iran Iraq War. Dam ugh the 63-year-old president of he Librade a Swiss company dealing in arms and civilian aircraft was arrested sept. 8 in Turin Italy on an International arrest warrant charging him with Ille Gal arms trafficking and making false statements to the . Government. Italian police sources who spoke on condition of anonymity have said that american investigators linked dam ugh with the -Iran arms Deal in which Money was reportedly diverted for con tra rebels in Nicaragua through inc Sale of arms to Iran. . Officials have not commented publicly on the Case. According to documents found during oct ugh s arrest he was in Turin to Pur sue the Sale of five second hand French made Mirage Jet fighters to Iran through a third country in Africa. In a report last july the Swiss tabloid Sonn lags Blick linked dam ugh to Ira arms dealing. The paper published what in said were documents describing Clit Rad i at tempt 10 ship 1,250 Tow missiles falsely declared As forklifts to Tehran for so million. Demuth was quoted As saying the Deal never came off. Juerg Riedi a Board member of Ucli Trade and its Parent Hal Swiss told inc associated press recently in Geneva that Demuth informed his company about secret attempts to sell missiles to Iran say ing he did in without the company s knowledge. Demuth has since been sus Pended from his Job. The sunday Telegraph said Banc race also sold yugoslav and polish assembled machine guns anti Lank rockets and land mines to the contras. In reported speaking with Banc race and said he denied Ever meeting with Nonh or taking delivery of any mines or mis Siles. Another British weekly the mail on sunday said two British traders Reginald Dunk and Tom Shackleton of at lactic commercial International Ltd. Recently sold to Iran 100.000 soviet made High explosive artillery shells Worth 112 million. It quoted Shackleton As saying we play in strictly by the Book. We Don t break any  British newspapers including he Sun Day times said the iranian arms procurement offices in Western Europe will now move to Frankfurt or Hamburg. Germany is now Iran s largest trading partner the sunday times said and is believed in be actively assisting inc Irani ans in their War  Dukakis Camp denies playing dirty with Biden new York a a videotape that contained clips of speeches by sen. Joseph Biden and a British labor Leader was Given to two newspapers by someone connected to the Campaign of Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis time mag Azine reports. However officials of the Dukakis Campaign and the new York times deny the report. The Des Monics Register would not confirm or deny the report. The tape showed portions of a speech by Biden thai at times used verbatim quotes from a speech by labor party Leader Neil Kinlock. Biden did not at tribute his words to Kinlock. The resulting juror Over the unattributed words As Well As reports of Law school plagiarism led the Delaware sen Ator to withdraw from the democratic presidential race last week. The similarity Between the spuches by Biden and Kinlock were noted sever Al weeks ago by the times and the Regis Ter. Time Magazine says in its oct. 5 Issue thai the Register implied its source was an attack video and a Register staffer told colleagues the video was supplied by the Dukakis Campaign. "T1 i James p. Gannon editor of the Regis-1 1 Ter said sunday i Don i have any com-1 w mint on our sources. 1 Don t discuss sources period. " the Magazine also quotes what it Calls a reliable source As saying that someone connected with Dukakis Campaign gave inc video to the times. Nobody spoon fed us the Story Craig Whitney the new York times 1 i Washington Bureau chief told the mag-1lazine. A Btu Taul Tully Dukakis political director told time thai aides concluded ii Wai not this Campaign and not our people in if that provided inc tape. A when asked by the Magazine if the video could have been provided by and ally of the Dukakis Campaign. Tully said t the would astound  Vij