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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars Ano stripes x&1 0vol 46. N j 237 Friday december 11, 1987 d 8693 a Ross feltus1 photos stripes Magazine d gun found at Airliner crash site Page 5 g Randy Barnett s car Comer Page 13 Summit enters final stages Washington Iai president run inn and so Viet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev headed into i hair third Anil final a of talks thursday after grappling with differences Over Afghanistan and Culbas in strategic nuclear arms. I Laird Sturk s Fin Pii i i .1, 10 and this was i Day of heavy lifting presidential spokesman Martin fit water said Ai the i Uncle vision of wednesday s session. Reagan and Gorbachev were to wind up Tiit in discussions with an Oval office meeting and a working luncheon. Reagan planned 10 address the nation Al 9 . Thursday from the Oval office a ft1" hours after Gorbachev was to sum up the meetings at a soviet embassy news conference. Wednesday s discussion Between Reagan and Gorbachev focused on the Iran Iraq War the sir Iet occupation of Afghanistan and prospects for cutting Stronie Gic nuclear arms. Fit water said. The president and the general Secretary were very pleased with he meeting Elliis morning. They left on a very optimistic note.,.there s a very Good feeling on where we arc  Filz Walcer said. Accompanied Only by interpreters the leaders talked in inc privacy of Reagan s study for 11 minutes and Ihen moved into a plenary meeting with senior advisers. Fitz Walcer said it was a kind of Roll up your so caves session after the pre ordained drama of tues Day s treaty signing. As the meeting broke up Gorbachev smiled at me and the president winked said Gemi Udy Gerasimov the soviet foreign ministry spokesman. He and Fiu Waier declined in discuss details of the meeting. Later wednesday the soviet Leader lectured cd lors publishers and broadcasters for emphasizing what he see Summit on Page 24 3 tankers escorted into Gulf Washington a a Convoy made up of he re flagged kuwaiti tankers Gas Princess and Gas King and the Palm ill. An american ship under charter to the . Military sea life come was steaming northward through the persian Gulf Early thursday under . Navy escort the Pentagon announced. The Patriot is a Tanker used to ferry fuel to Navy ships in the Region. The three vessels were escorted through inc Strait of Hormuz by two guided missile frigates the Elrod and the Ford. The Navy has been escorting kuwaiti tankers in the troubled waterway since mid july when Kuwait requested Protection for 11 of its tankers because of earlier attacks by Iran. Kuwait is a key ally of Iraq in the 7-Ycar-old Iran Iraq War. In a related development wednesday in Vienna Austria Iran said it will flood the world Oil Market if open rejects its demand for a Price increase but analysts said they doubt Iran is capable of carry ing out the threat. President Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Confer in the Oval office with interprets Al their sides . Embassy still denied Access to captured Pilot Managua. Nicaragua a the government interrogated a captured american for a second Day wednesday about his alleged links to .-Supportcd Contra rebels an Interior ministry source said. The source refused to say where James Jordan Denby 57, of Carlinville. Iii., was being held. . Embassy spokesman Lou Falino said he had no word on where Denby was being held or when hey could see him. Defense minister humberts Onega said tuesday the embassy would be Given Access to Denby at the appropriate Lime but did nol say when that would be. Onega said papers and other items found aboard the Cessna 172 Denby was flying when he was Shol Down sunday confirmed the deep tics Denby has to the War of aggression against our  he said Denby May be tried As was another Ameri can Eugene Hasenfus in i486, this time the Laws of the country should be applied More severely he said. He did not say what charges might be filed. Hasenfus was captured oct. 6, 1986. A Day after bailing out of a plane filled with arms and other sup plies for the contras that was Shol Down in Southern Nicaragua. Hasenfus. Of marinewis., was sentenced in .10 years in prison for terrorism criminal association and violating Public Security Laws but was pardoned less than three months after his capture. Nicaraguan authorities arrested another american Sam a mall dec. 12, \1k t. And accused him of spy. Ing. They allowed him to leave the country Abdul 51.1 weeks , saying he was mentally in Slaboc. Ortega showed reporters Glenn Sei cd flu n Denny was captured in san Juan Del none on the Caribbean com near the Costa rican Border. They included his passport Highl log photographs of two men carrying air Flocs. A card issued by the Illinois department of minerals allowing him to work with explosives and various military patches and insignias. He also showed notes he said were from a meet ing with Contra Leader Adolfo Calero and a paper mentioning foreign minister Miguel to \1 d Escolo Wilh a plan to assassinate  Denby in Miami Calero again insisted he did nut remember Mcling Denby and had never talked Wii i him about the contras slur Gle Calero said it was possible he had met a by casually but we never had any relationship political or working relationship that 1 would  in a Story published in june in the state journal Register of Springfield iii., Denny was quoted As say ing he knew several current or former Contra leaders including Calero Eden i Slora and Alfonso Rohelio  
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