European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse 1 photos _ Magazine Al trims y raise. Andy Barne Corner reds Trade Park Oakland paa17 the stir4andiitripes authorize us officus up b licit 1c in t to affred f0�c?1 vol. 46. In 836 thursday december to. 1987 d 8693 a soviet Leader pressed on human rights issues Washington a soviet Leader 5. Gorbachev resumed sum Mit talks will president Reagan wednes Day alter appealing for Senate ratification of the newly signed pact to eliminate medium Range missiles. They Welcome the treaty he said following a meeting with congressional leaders. Senate majority Leader Robert Byrd said lawmakers pressed Gorbachev on human rights and told him that Rali Flection pros peels for the arms treaty would be enhanced if inc soviets provided a firm timetable for ending their occupation of Afghanistan. Liard and Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole of Kansas Shoih said after their meeting with Gorbachev at the so Viet embassy thai they expected the treaty would be ratified without any Amend ments that might Force a renegotiation. That pleased Gorbachev who said later to the while House in Reagan s presence they a convinced. They Are sine Iliili it will be ratified and they Welcome the after the embassy meeting. Dyed said he told Gorbachev that it would be very useful to us if he could give us a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan. 1 did say very clearly thai this was .1 matter of i Mirn and continuing Liard recalled thai inc Salt 11 Amis control treaty was removed from the Senate floor without being ratified in the months immediately follow in the soviet occupation of Afghanistan in december 1979. Later silting in the Oval office with Keann Gorbachev broadly hinged he would have More to say annul a soviet timetable for withdrawal. The fact thai we arc ready to with continued on Page 24 downed Pilot linked to Contra plot official says Managua. Nicaragua a papers seized from an american whose Pri vate plan twas downed by the Sandinia tas show Ifo Stii involved in a Contra rebel plot 10 knit Jurl Ign minister the government said. The charge was made tuesday by de sense minister h limb Carlo up who told reporters that i incs Jordan 57, of Carlinville. 111., is in Good Hall and being interrogated by state Security police in the capital. Ortega said .11 a news conference that Denby May to placed on trial. He did not specify the charges thai would be filed against Denby. 1 he sandinista also said inc evidence showed the american was affiliated with the Cia. All of his confirms the deep tics Denby has to the War of aggression against our Ortega Saidt Gestur ing to papers and items found on Board inc Small plane fax by was flying when he was shot Down sunday. Onega was alluding to contras who have been waging against Nicaragua s leftist government for More than five is tie Contra Umbrey it rag Bizalion known As the Mica denied Denby was the rebels. Or. his name is had connection with us Atlo Ico Caffro one of six members of he c directorate said in Miami. I Ortega claimed otherwise show James Denby from Carlinville 111., in a 1984 photo taken in Costa Rica. Ing reporters notes Denby allegedly look during a meeting with Calero. And a paper mentioning foreign minister Miguel d Escoto As the target of a plan to assassinate him in a recent interview Denby said he sometimes gave the contras food or flew their wounded to hospitals Bui did nol Supply them with weapons. In Carlinville his brother William told reporters tuesday i d be surprised if he was carrying he documents they said he was Lou Falino . Embassy spokesman in Managua said the sandintstasj0vc permission for a consular of Denby hut has not said we arc obviog0hlfcrncii about or. and can offer no circumstances surround up prehension by government of. Lear Agua authorities until we speak directly with or. Denby Falino said a defense ministry statement said troops in san Juan Del North. Along the Costa rican Border punctured the fuel Lank of Denby s Cessna with Rifle fire and forced it to make an emergency Landing on an Atlantic coast sch the communique claimed the plane was violating nicaraguan airspace and a video tape played at the news conference showed Denby wearing a flowered shirt his hands tied behind his Back walking with sandinista troops in a Jungle. Al the Lime he was captured he was frightened because he thought inc sol Diers would kill him Ortega said. Denny had tiled a flight plan on Fri Day in the United states giving his Desti Glion As Costa Rica with snips in mexi Eliza Honduras and Nicaragua Nib Bijj. L Denny s pass port his Nign Romuk and a permit in work with cup loss jus cd by the Illi Nois department of Munh a. He also exhibited Melilah teaches and insignias. A Black notebook w Blue plastic bag taped on it. Spa jetliner crash linked to murder suicide Cayucos Calif. A a fired airline worker who wanted to kill his Boss smuggled a ,44-Calibcr magnum handgun onto a jetliner whose Crew reported gunfire before a fiery crash killed All 4 on Board. Abc news reported tuesday. Us air confirmed that a fired employee 35-year-old David a. Burke and his former Boss were on Pacific Southwest airlines flight 1771, which crashed Mon Day afternoon. Us air recently bought spa. Fri agents and police tuesday converged on the Long Beach condominium where Burke lived and talked with a woman and Young girl who neighbors believed were hit Fiancee and daughter. The condominium was placed under police guard. Al this Point it docs not appear that it was an Acci Dent said Richard Bretzing agent in charge of inc Fri s los Angeles office. It appears at this Point and has yet to be substantiated that it was a criminal acl on Board thai caused the Craft to we have no basis to believe thai the Accident was caused by a mechanical reason or a Crew error spa president Russ Ray said in a memo to airline pm Floyces. Abc news citing a confidential government source said tuesday that authorities found a suicide message left behind by the former us air employee in which he described How he planned to smuggle a14-caliber magnum handgun and is rounds of ammunition Ohio flight 1771 and kill his Boss Raymond f. Thomson. Al a news conference tuesday Nigil National transportation safely Board vice chairman Patricia a. Goldman refused to confirm reports of a suicide murder Mission. She said it was Loo Early to form any conclusions about the cause of he crash. The Crew of the flight from los Angeles to san fran Cisco had reported gunfire aboard the plane and smoke filling the cockpit and radioed the code for an on Board emergency the Federal aviation administration said. Moments later witnesses on inc ground saw the flaming four engine bae-146 Jel Streak in a vertical dive into the Green Oak studded Hills of a cattle ranch 175 Miles Northwest of los Angeles. There was nothing that 1 saw that could be construed As any discernible part Ofa body except a hand Here and there said Jack Strauch a sales manager at a winery who drove 10 the crash Silc. He said purses were hanging from tree limbs. By Midar Mcmoon tuesday rain forced Federal investigators to suspend their search of aircraft debris scattered Over 20 arts. San Luis Obispo com sheriffs sol. Greg Sjane said no gun was found. A handgun fired aboard the jetliner would t necessarily cause it to crash said George Ohlman a spokesman fur the Jet s manufacturer British aerospace at us Ameri can Headquarters near Washington d.c". Any kind of penetration of the fuselage might result in Tion but there s no reason to think thai in would cause this Kindorf Accident Dahlman said
