European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. January 11, 1938 the stars and stripes Page 5 former Reagan aide s lobbying trial starts Washington api Lyn c. Nofziger once laughed off suggestions he had pushed too hard to gel president Kesean s policies through Congress. New. He faces charges he stepped Over the line in lobbying for private clients. The former while House political director is charged in a four count indictment of improperly lobbying former while House colleagues on behalf of cd tech corp. And two other private clients. His business partner. Mark Bragg is accused of lid ing and abetting one of Nofziger alleged lobbying contacts. The charges each Cany to year sentences and fines up to $ 10.000. Jury selection in . District court scans monday less than a Ron nth after another former White House aide Michael k. Denver was convicted of lying under oath about his lobbying activities. A Caver was never charged with improper lobbying because accenting 10 Trie prosecutors regulation adopted after the events covered in Nofziger s indict ment made it difficult to charge Deaver with substantive violations. So Nofziger is the first former government official to directly face charges under the tabbing provisions of the ethics in government acl. Both Nof Igor and a Caver Date their political association with Reagan Back to the president s Days As governor of California. They Are both graduates of san Jose slate College but the similarities Stop there. A Caver was regarded with suspicion by right wine conservatives win considered him a pragmatist. Nof Zigr who has feuded with Peaver was the keeper of the conservative flame during his Brief time in the Reagan while House. Unlike a Caver Nofziger has never been a close Friend of Reagan and his wife. Nancy. Nofziger wore an i love Nancy Button during the 1990 Campaign to jokingly flout her distaste for hit rumpled look irreverent humor and fondness for mar Tinis. I m not a social Friend of the reagans Nofziger told one interviewer during his Days at the White House. That s by their Choice and by mine. They Don t drink  after the Campaign Notziger quickly developed a reputation for being a hard nosed political operative in his Jab As while House political director. When some soul Bem democrats in the House walked a voting for Reagan s proposed cuts in lanes and social programs in the Spring of 1981. Nofziger ran negative political ads in their Home districts. There were some Guys who thought their arms had been twisted not Igor told an interviewer later. But he quickly added they re big boys up there. They would never want to give the impression they can t stand up to  he left the White House in january 1982, barely a year after Reagan took office. His Legal troubles Stem from what happened next. The indictment charges that on april 8, 1982. He wrote a letter to then presidential Counselor Edwin a Csc Iii in an attempt to influence him on behalf of we tech corp. Meuse now attorney general is the subject of a sep Arate investigation of his own links to the growing we tech scandal. Independent counsel James Mckay alleges that Nof Ziger wrote the Teller to urge Mack to Contact army Secretary John o. Marsh or. About wed tech s bid for a defense contract. A month later a Csc s Deputy James Jenkins convened a meeting of army and Small business administration officials at which Wedlich was tentatively awarded the 132 million no bid contract for minority firms. Wedlich ultimately won the contract to build Small engines. In an interview with Abc news that was to be aired later Nofziger defended i lobbying for Wedlich. We worked very hard for those people. And they wound up getting the contract they had hired us to help them gel he said. Clearly we did t think we were breaking the  said Nofziger whose lawyers lost a pre trial motion to fora the prosecution la prove their client intended to violate Ilic Law. The Bruit. N.y., company went from being a Small tool and die maker to a giant defense contractor due to a series of lucrative set aside contracts for minority firm. It is now the focus of an influence peddling scandal that has ensnared two associates of Mcnese. More than a dozen businessmen and political figures have either been indicted convicted or remain under investigation. Babbitt supports strikers former cur. Bruce Babbitt of a Iione i candidate fur the democratic presidential nomination uses a bullhorn o address nurses outside Lennox Hill Hospital in new York. The nurses have been striking since Jan. 4, Jet forced to land to eject drunk Kansas City. To. A a us air jetliner made on unscheduled Slop in Kansas City Early saturday to put off an intoxicated passenger who tried unsuccessfully to open the cockpit door and an outer door during flight officials said. The Fri look custody of the Man. Said Mai Gaiman n spokesman for the Fri s Kansas City office. The Man identified Only As a 24-year-old san Diego resident was being held Ai the a Yandolli county jail in Kansas City Kan. The flight bound from san Diego to Pittsburgh had 79 people aboard and was not in danger said us air spokes Man Dave Shipley. The Man tried to open die door to inc plane s cockpit during the overnight flight and when he could not he tried to open the outer service door in the plane s Galley. Geiman said the Man probably would be brought before a . Magistrate on monday and charged with interfering Willi a flight Crew in their duties. The door was not open and the plane was not in danger Gaiman said. If he had been successful there would hate been extremely rious  the Man was restrained in a scat and was turned Over to authorities when the flight made the unscheduled Stop in Kansas City. Man convicted of sabotage at Navy s Trident radio site Ashland wis. A a jury convicted a War protester saturday of sabotage for damaging equipment at a radio transmitter site for inc Navy s Trident submarine Fleet. The Ashund county circuit court jury deliberated about three hours before convicting George one risen 32, on one count and acquitting him on a second count of sabotage. The charge carries a maximum penalty of a j10,000 Fine and 10 years in prison. The Elf or extremely Low frequency transmitter sends coded signals that pro vide worldwide communications with underwater trip Cal submarines. The Antenna network at Clam Lake when the sabotage occurred has been operating since inc 1970s. Oslyn san formerly of Baltimore and West Hampton n.y., admitted cutting Down transmission poles and damaging electrical boxes causing $ 11,000 damage at the site. Biblical references and quotes were Spray painted or Hung throughout the com Pound during the three Day trial Ostensen Testi fied tin acts were aimed at forcing the Navy to shut Down the facility. He said he chose the Date of aug. 16 for his action to coincide with the harmonic convergence a time said by believers to be the Peak of a period when the Earth moved into an Era of peace and Harmony. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 11, 194s Republican presidential hopeful Harold e. Stassun charged before Congress that administration insiders gambled $20 million in the food markets since inc end of world War ii. 30 years ago today. Jan. 11, 19ss John Gates a top . Communist Leader quit inc communist party saying it had ceased to be an effective Force for democracy peace and social ism in the United states. 20 years ago today. Jan. 11. S68 lout. Block a retired firefighter who became the world s fifth bean transplant recipient died about 10 hours after his surgery in Brooklyn n. Y. 10 years ago today. Jan ii 1978 thousands of panamanian demonstrators marched into the canal zone and heard a student Leader demand that the . Senate ratify inc Panama canal treaty within three months