European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday May 11,19bb missile pact put on Back Burner from Page 1 unlit these problems arc resolved la is obvious thai not Only have the problems hat had previously surfaced not been resolved bul thai new problems have Ari  Byrd Saidi think in behoves the so vices to come Forward with solution and permit the Senate to open the a Balc with our eyes open. We Don t want to walk off a  Byrd said he will not reschedule de Bate until he in assured by the Senate intelligence armed services and foreign relations committees thai satisfactory on site inspection procedures have been agreed to by the soviet in writing and thai other problems also have been re solved. Byrd acted after a meeting among senators and while House chief or Naff Howard h. Baker and National Security adviser Colin Powell. Leaving the meeting Powell expressed approval of the decision saying not a bad course of  tie pact the product of difficult negotiations dating to the beginning of the Reagan administration in 1981, assigned amid widespread Celebration at last december s Reagan Gorbachev Summit meeting Here. It requires the elimination of All ground launched missile with a Range of from 300 to 3,400 Miles. The verification dispute centers mainly on Access of . Monitors to soviet missile plants and Sites. The soviet Are trying to restrict inspection of missile containers to those Large enough to carry an entire rocket. The United states wants the right to examine smaller containers that could carry a missile stage. A , official said the soviets ire also trying to place off limits parts of areas designated for inspection. Funds from Pagan having drinks with a couple of female acquaintances. Since 1984, when internal inquiries into the operations began the army has court Martiale three spy chiefs found to have misused More than 1160,000 Ana sought to recover funds from More than 500 personnel who received 11 million in excess travel Money. United press International Learned of the army s financial abuses in a four month inquiry that included interviews with dozens of army and congressional officials and a review of thousands of pages of internal report on the army s spy and Caudle terrorism units. Tie units were strengthened and centralized to improve . Intelligence ath Cring capability after the disastrous hostage Rescue Mission in Iran in Panl 1980, later the units attempted numerous operations in Central America and the Middle East and some in the United states that were directed at the soviet Union. Up has reported that with the approval of the army s lop military officials the spy units dipped into off limits accounts to improperly obtain $170 million in additional Money nearly five times their original budget. The unlit were allotted about 136 million be tween 1981 and 1983, an army official said the search for missing funds began in the Spring of 1984, Art army spokesman said most of the unt raced Squirrel led away in secret overseas accounts by free Wheeling . Agents. The army Legal review last year reported that is 1.75 million could Mill not be traced. In the last year. Army auditors poring through duplicate Bank and contractor records have been Able to Trace Only 1250,000, an army spokesman said. The army does not expect its auditors Ever to be Able to discover the destination of More than an additional 13 million or $4 million a spokesman said. A detailed look Al the spy units financial abuses according to army officials reflects an operation plagued by carelessness greed and Loose controls Joubert a custodian of intelligence command re cords shredded in million in accounting records for a .-faased project in 1995, More than a year alter allegations  were made and army investigations begun. Joubert acted alter two army investigators specifically instructed him not to destroy any records then retired from the service shortly afterwards. Army auditors have found duplicate records that have enabled them to Trace most of the Money but 1856,322 remains unaccounted for. The army Allied the Justice department six months ago to con Sider prosecuting Joubert. Why he destroyed the re cords remains a baffling mystery an army spokes Man said. Joubert could not be reached for comment. Chief warrant officer Tracy Perry a bursar lost �4,300 in Cash and a 540,000 receipt no a Georgia hotel on july in 1982, army documents show. Perry who remains on Active duty after 18 Yean service lot investigators that the briefcase he lost also contained All the Cash receipts for advances he provided to opera Tives Between feb. 24 and july 19, 1982. He lost the briefcase after having four drinks at the hotel lounge with two women he knew casually and several male colleagues. A witness said Perry was toting the Brief Case late that night when he walked a nursing student to her car in the parking lot ferry said he then re turned to m s hotel room and discovered the next morning that the briefcase was missing the army reprimanded him and is seeking reimbursement of 14,800 a request he is contesting. Bursars Autmer Ackley and Edward Malpass and a supervisor chief warrant officer Henry Cook could not account for 156,575 that was stored As Cash in their safes. Army investigators determined thai the missing Money was Tost stolen or simply the result of an administrative error compounded Over time. Ackley and chief warrant officer Richard Sands Are being held responsible for the theft of 13,879 by undetermined army personnel who had Tycen to the Money. Ackley distributed the Money and three or four army people handled in before Sandi received and signed for the funds. The to Are contesting tie army s finding. Investigators attempting to track allegation of abuses have found the Trail shrouded because Vessey initiated his approval on a feb. 12, 19 2, memo pro posing the regular shredding of financial records the documents show a massive april 1987 report on the army investigation said Vessey clearly violated defense ind White House regulations barring destruction of government documents. The report on a 2 i year administrative fact finding inquiry into the spy units financial activities recommended that the army consider Legal or disciplinary action against Vessey and six other generals who condoned the funds transfers or the periodic destruction of accounting record. Bul a june 1987 Legal review of the report recommended that no action be taken against any of the Gener als concluding they acted without criminal intent and that the regulations they apparently violated were not punitive. The army accepted the lawyers recommendations. Others found to have approved the shredding were lop intelligence and operations officials it. Gen. William Richardson Brig. Gen James Moore and maj Gen. Wil Liam Rolya. Richardson who later became a four Star general and now is retired said he devoted Little attention to the Finan Cial aspects of the operations and did hot recall approving the destruction of records. Moore now a lieutenant Genera who commands the 6th army based in san Francisco declined to comment. Rolya who is retired did not respond to inquiries. Missing pistol leads to restriction of 105 soldiers by Janet Howells Tierney Start writer one Hundred five soldiers have been restricted to thei Ifopo ares with limited Access to thei r families since May 4 when a personal handgun was found to be missing from the unit arms room in Fulda West Germany a v corps spokesman said tuesday. The soldiers assigned to a troop 1st so Ullh army Cav Rygl were called to their unit about 10 . May 4 after a search failed to turn up a missing Colt .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol said capt. Robert Jones. The pistol belonged to a unit sergeant and was discovered missing about 5 . From the personal weapons area of the unit arms room. The soldiers were released saturday at 6 ., offering the person who took the weapon a Chance to return it Jones said. But by 3 . Sunday when it had not turned up they were ordered Back on restriction to the three buildings making up the troop area at Downs Barracks forty five of the soldiers Are married and their families were allowed to visit Over the weekend Jones said but visits Are not allowed during duty hours. A family member of one of the restricted soldiers said weekday visits of families Are allowed Between 5 . And 6p.m. They Are marched to Chow " the fam ily member said. Phone Calls arc limited to two minutes even if it s Long Dis Tance. They re fed up with it.1 while not commenting of restricted privileges Jones said the Soldier were working on inoperative vehicles and in other training programs during the lock up. They Are on controlled limited duly Jones said. Another unit has taken Over the Are of the Border normally patrolled by a troop soldiers he said. And new Sotniek Are continuing to be in processed. Military police Are investigating the disappearance of the pistol. Rolling quake shakes up Northern California area Salinas Calif. A a Sharp earthquake described As a rolling Jolt Shook pan of North Ern California tuesday but there were no imme Diate reports of damage. The earthquake hit at 5 32 . With an estimated magnitude of 3 on the Richter scale according to Willis Jacobs a Coph Yurist at the National Earth quake Center in Golden Colo. He said the epicentre was Between Salinas and Watsonville. Carol Jones a newspaper librarian at the Sali Nas californian described the earthquake As sort of a  "1 thought it was a Ruck going by but it kept going on. Said Jones who was Home at the time of the earthquake. The Richter scale is a measure of ground to lion As recorded on seismographs dutch court says . Must guarantee no murder suspect won t be executed the Hague Netherlands a a . Air Force sergeant accused of killing and dismembering his turkish born wife has won a dutch court order Banning his Transfer to . Authorities for rial unless they guarantee he will not be executed if convicted. Sol. Charles Donald Short 34, of Highwood til., had been serving with the air Force s 32nd tac fighter so for about a year before his March 30 arrest by . Military police at his base near the Central dutch . A Day later. Short was handed Over to dutch police who said he confessed to killing his 31-year-old wife Esin has Turk culling her body into pieces and dump ing the remains along a deserted Roadside near Monnickendam 37 Miles from a Oesterberg. No motive for the killing was disclosed. If a , military court convicts him of premeditated murder Short could face the death Penally however dutch Taw bans capital punishment and Short had requested an injunction in court Al the Hague to bar any Transfer to . Jurisdiction. In its monday ruling the court ordered the dutch government before handing Short Over to the Ameri can authorities to open negotiations about i guarantee that any death sentence which May be passed will not  without such a guarantee handing Short Over to . Police would be contrary to the principle of dutch Law that. Capital punishment. Must be avoided As much As possible the court ruling said. Air Force officials in Europe Are reviewing the court order and had no immediate comment