European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday May 9,1988 Moscow police detain members of new party Moscow up police have detained 47 Mem. Bars of the newly formed democratic Union who ignored Kab intimidation and decided to press ahead Wilh the formation of the opposition political party to Challenge the limits of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev s Reform policies a Union spokesman said Sun Day. Related Story on Page 8. While scores of police and plaint ohcs Kab agents remained mostly on the sidelines during saturday founding meeting of the democratic Union in a Jam packed Moscow apartment sunday they stepped up the harassment detaining and questioning Al least 47democratic Union representatives during the second Day of the party s three Day founding conference. Democratic Union spokesman at Ander Kharkov said 25 of the 47 taken to police stations were release within hours because they could show proof of Resi Dence in Moscow. However 12 dissident delegates almost All from out of town were expected 10 be held overnight and then possibly sent Back Home. Kharkov supplied � list of the delegates being Helmand said another four delegates had barricaded them selves inside one of he three apartments used for Sun Day s meetings. He said thai despite the harassment the conference would conclude As scheduled monday. On sunday More than 100 democratic Union  from 14 cities split up into three groups to discuss a party manifesto they said would be made Public monday a National Holiday marking the 43rd anniversary of the defeat of nazi Germany in world War ii. The groups met at three apartments in Moscow to Hammer out position papers on the Economy Law and order and democracy representatives of the party  kept a close watch on All three places question ing participant As they left the buildings but stopping Short of making wholesale arrests and shutting Down the conference. Regan from Page 1 the president to speak out on the Iran Centra affair idling her we need a press conference Public appearances  full month after the president s release from the Hospital his schedule was still a dead letter because mrs. Reagan s Friend had not provided a list of auspicious Days. The whole month appeared inauspicious for the president Regan wrote. After consulting Wanh her Friend the first lady provided some possible dates Regan wrote. Bui her advice was not always heeded. Regan wrote that  appeared to want 10 delay the president s july 198 f surgery for suspected cancer of the Colon because of her astrological concerns but the president Over ruled any  quoted the president As saying Why Wail do the test and de ahead with the operation but mrs. Reagan s influence hardly stopped it such in War mailers is scheduling trip or speeches Regan said. In his account she was the one who decreed thai vice 1 Reid Cal George Bush and National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane he barred from Reagan s hos Pital bed for Days following his cancer surgery. And the president s longtime Friendship Wilh Cia director William j. Casey did nol prevent the first lady from pressing for his ouster even As he Lily recuperating from brain cancer surgery at christmastime 1986, Regan contended in one of his Many de Scop Lions of their Telephone conversations. Mrs. Reagan who had already shown signs of irritability now became angry. You re More inter ested in protecting Bill Casey than in protecting Ron Nie she cried. He s Gol to go he can t do his Job he san embarrassment to Ronnie. He should be Oul Regan quoted the first lady As insisting. And Regan asserted the first lady not Only chose the speechwriter for such vital addresses As the state of the Union but also heavily edited them. "1 Don t give a Damn about the right to lifers he quotes mrs. Reagan As saying when she demanded that passages referring 10 abortion be  contended he was ousted by an Effort organized at the hands of mrs. Reagan and several of her close associates and he barely has a kind word for the first lady in the 3t9-Page  portrayed Reagan As a president who Laid Down no rules and articulated no  Al the same time he told of instances in which Reagan held lengthy discussions Wilh aides on complicated legit Lalion Bills or administration efforts to push budget cuts through Capitol Hill. But mrs. Reagan emerged in the Book As Regan s Foremost target. He paint her As an easily irritated constant Telephone presence who constantly meddled in administration affairs. Regan said he told Bush about mrs. Reagan s dependence on astrological advice while they were discussing the president s schedule Jusi after the Tower commis Sion report was issued in february 1987. He says Bush listened with Surprise and consternation on his face and exclaimed Good god 1 had no  portrayed Reagan As a reluctant decision  listened encouraged deferred he wrote. But it was a rare meeting in which he made a decision or issued  did he Issue a direct order although i at least so climes devoutly wished that he would Regan added he listened acquiesced played his role Ana waited for the next act to be written. In the four years that i served As Secretary of the Treasury i never saw president Reagan alone and never discussed economic philosophy or fiscal and monetary policy with him Man to Man. From first Day to last Al Treasury i was flying by the seat of my pants. The president never told me what he believed or what he wanted to accomplish in Thefield of economics. I had 10 figure these things out like any other american by studying his speeches and Reading the newspapers White critical of Ibe president s Handi off style Regan also commented that such a Laid Back presidency created an atmosphere of Confidence and political  Regan stressed that in the president s mind there was never a Swap of arms for hostages at the Lime the United states was sending weapons to Tehran Iran. Regan recalled thai Mcfarlane first mentioned establish ing lies Wilh Iran during a fateful july in 198$, meeting Wilh Reagan following his Colon cancer sur Gery. The former chief of staff contended that contrary to Mcfarland s in Simony before the Tower commis Sion there was no mention of an arms for hot Iagas  fact. Regan called he meeting routine in Mem Ory and contended he might not even have remembered in if i had t Hod such a difficult time Persuad ing his Reagan s wife to let it take  there is nothing in my notes or memory to suggest that the idea of swapping arms for hostages was mentioned by either Man on this occasion. I am sure that any mention of such a scheme would have made me prick up my ears Regan wrote. The former chief of staff said he believes the presi Dent Contention that he knew nothing of the diver Sion of funds to the Contra rebels until told about in a Yaromey general Edwin Meese Iii on nov. 2i486. The president. Is a Ruddy Man with Bright red checks. He blanched when he heard Meese a words. The color drained from his face leaving his skin past White. Nobody who saw the president s reaction thai afternoon could believe for a moment thai he knew about the diversion of funds before Meese told him about ii. He was the picture of a Man to whom the inconceivable had  blamed Reagan s former aides for the debacle thai befell the president and ultimately engulfed him self. Much of what happened was hidden from the president and incidentally from me by Mcfarlane and his successor As National Security adviser adm. John pol Dexter and by the remarkable Young Marine who was a virtual stranger to both of us la. Col. Oliver l. North Regan wrote. As to the responsibility for the chaos that descended on the White House that appears to have been written in the  he wrote. He said thai he urged the president to counteract in effects of the Iran con Ira affair by undertaking an Active speaking schedule outside Washington out was walked by astrological advice to the first lady that harm would come to Reagan if he Well Oul of the White  hum Oring her we had Given her control he said of mrs. Reagan. Despise their difficult parting he wrote my Admi ration for Reagan As president remains very  but any Man who had men As much of the world As i had seen when 1 came to Washington knew better than to put his Trust in  do is briefs Pope John Paul visits Uruguay s Gaucho Region Melo Uruguay a Pope John Paul ii visited Uruguay s impoverished Gaucho country sunday and voiced Strong support Tor labor unions but he warned against group claiming to have All the answers to workers problems. The Pope Lold a crowd of about 50,000 that heft la close in word and heart to those involved in Union activities an apparent reference to the labor unrest in his native Poland. During nil flight from Rome to Uruguay on saturday the Pope gave approval 10 the polish strikes cowboys on horseback a suing Flat crowned Black Hati and blankets draped Over their Ghoul Den lined the route to the Pope prayer service at a red canopied altar erected in a Large Park. Christian democrats lose in Schleswig Holstein Kiel West Germany up the social democrats have ended a 38-year Rule by Chan cellar Helmut Kohl i Christian democrats in the stale of Schleswig Holstein. The Christian Democrat conceded defeat in the stale election in the northernmost of West Germany s 11 tales soon after the polls close Dat 6 . Sunday. The social democrats won 54 percent Othle vote and 45 seats in the 74-Membcr state parliament in Kiel a television projection showed the Christian democrats had 33.4 percent and 2bseals. One scat was reserved for the party of the danish minority. Terrorist was sighted before Netherlands attack Roermonde Netherlands a a know Irish Republican army terrorist was seen Here Only Days before a British airman died in a Hail of gunfire a week ago police said  dutch witness who was not identified old police last week thai he Taw Anthony Mcallister who escaped from Belfast s Maze prison in 19s3, in a cafe in the dutch Southeastern town of a Ormond police spokesman Louis Slac Essaid sunday. Last sunday one Raf airman was killed an two were injured in an ambush. One hour eater two More British soldiers were killed and another injured in a car bomb attack in Nicu Bergen. 30 Miles North of a Ormond. The victims were stationed at British bases in wot Germany. . Hostage s wife makes action Appeal to Reagan Nicosia Cyprus f a the wife of Ameri can hostage Terry Anderson has issued an Appe Alto president Reagan to help free Anderson from his captors in  Bassil made a televised statement saturday to Reagan saying or. President you probably have never heard of me but you certainly know that Terry Anderson hostage in Lebanon for Over three years has a , who is lebanese said their 2-year-old daughter Salome cannot accept my excuses any longer of Why her daddy is Only a , chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press was kidnapped in Beirut March 16,1985. He has never teen his daughter. Fossil s plea to Reagan comes four Days after three French hostages were released in Beirut bythe islamic jihad the same pro iranian group thai claims to hold Anderson. Iraq says its jets struck 2 tankers at Iran terminal Manama Bahrain up Iraq said Sun Day in jets swooped Down the Gulf and attacked two tankers near an important iranian Oil Load ing terminal but shipping sources monitoring events in the volatile waterway were unable Loim mediately confirm the strike. A military spokesman in Baghdad said the warplanes attacked two naval targets Iraq s Standard reference for Oil tankers or freighters in iranian service near Iran s Lavan Island Oil loading terminal but Cave no Lime for the strike. The spokesman said All the iraqi planes returned safely to base after scoring direct hits but did not give the registry or ownership of the stricken ships