European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes g Odds teachers raises to average 4,9-5.2 percent Page 2 d spy hot Tine to continue operation Page 9 d Irving Berlin music that touched America. Pages 14-15 d oilers beat wings to take 3-1 Lead sports Page 21 vol.47.na.2-l wednesday May 11. 19b8 Senate puts off inf on sife inspection dispute cited Scenic fatten on monday new Rob lems have  Byrd old reporters. The three committees thai debate Washington a Senate lenders on monday indefinitely postponed debate on inc  medium Range missile Irray. Filing a serious superpower dispute Over the pact s on site inspection provisions. The decision puts in double whether the Senate will ratify the incr medial Range nuclear forces treaty before president Reagan s Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev begins May 29. Reagan had appealed to the Senate u act on the treaty before then. Senate majority Leader Robert c. Byrd of West Virginia cancelled the debate opening set Tantal in Civ for wednesday Anil said lie will not Call up the Ini for debate until the dispute is satisfactorily resolved. It s obvious that nol Only have the problems which had surfaced earlier nol been resolved but that some be problem Tol "1 think in behoves the soviets to come Forward with solutions and permit inc Senate to open the de Bate with our Eves open Byrd said. We Don t want to walk off a  Senate Republican Leader Hob Dole of Kansas said he agreed with inc decision. Byrd and Dole announced the derision to postpone the ratification debate after a bipartisan meeting with other Senate leaders and with White House chief of staff Howard h. Baker and National Security adviser Colin Powell. Powell in response to questions from reporters said after the meeting not a bad outcome not a bad course of action. He did nol elaborate. The three committees that have been evaluating the treaty armed services foreign relations and intelligence will continue to Monitor the situation and Byrd said he will nol schedule ratification debate until All three committees report that All outstanding serious issues have been resolved satisfactorily. The senators involved in the decision to delay the debate declined to Diu uss the specific problems stand ing in inc Way of ratification other than to say they involve Impleman Lalion of on Silc inspection agreements. Dole told reporters i think it was a bipartisan Deci Sion. It s a joint understanding. Until these issues arc resolved there s nol going to be an inf debate on Sec Senate on Back Page Nancy upset by vindictive9 Regan Book by Helen Thomas l i White i Inuse reporter Washington first lady Nancy Reagan is very upset by vindictive revelations in Donald Regan s Book that she consulted an astrologer to shape her husband s schedule but aides said monday she has nol abandoned the practice. In i come through to me thai Don Regan does t really like me mrs. Reagan was quoted As saying by her press Secretary Elaine Crispen. The Book for the record from Wall Street to Washington by Regan the former Merrill Lynch chairman Treasury Secretary and while House chief of staff was published monday and its most prominent  is a scathing portrait of mrs. Reagan. Elbowed out of his White Hob Uipi by the first lady in february 19b7, Regan paints mrs. Reagan As a spouse so obsessed with protecting her Hus band she sought an astrologer to Kielp select Days and times for presidential activities news conferences speeches and meetings with foreign Heads of state. Reports circulated last week about the Book and its descriptions of a White House deep in a Long established floating seance but publication of enc rats sunday by time Magazine Donald Regan s Montroit Siil Book goes on display at i Washington , store. And of the Book itself monday sparked fresh interest especially in the Sharp responses from the Reagons. President Reagan who said Friday i Don t look kind on kiss and Tell books by former aides expressed anger Aboul the Book to syndicated american columnist Carl Kowan when the two Hud lunch monday. He said to me i la be damned if i la just stand by and Lei them Railroad my wife Rowan said in an interview an american television. The columnist said he asked the presi Dent what recourse he might have unit Reagan answered Well i guess i just got to Sil and Lei things coot Down and make a decision As to How to Deal with this  Reagan and Regan both of Irish Heri Tage once shared a figures in the Iran Contra scandal until their criminal trials run their course. Syndicated columnist Carl Rowan who had lunch with Reagan in the Oval office on monday said Rea Gan described his policy As you Don t Pardon people before they be been convicted of  Rowan told an american television audience that Reagan then smiled and suggested he will nol have to make such decisions because he will be out of office by the time trials in the Case arc concluded. For months Reagan and Bis aides have been careful to sidestep questions about possible pardons for John Point cuter his former Nali ortal Security adviser and former National Security Council staffer Oliver North masterminds of the Sale of weapons to Iran and the Transfer of Sale profits to the Cia backed Contra rebels fighting the government of Nicaragua. Reagan has insisted the time was not right for such discussions while being careful not to close the door on his Legal options. White House chief of staff How Ard Baker has said Reagan wants the Legal process to run its course but has not specified How far. The lunchtime remark attributed to Reagan appeared to be the first Lime the president has All but ruled out preemptive pardons for j find Coler and North. White House spokesman Marlin Fiu Wala con firmed inc Gist of Reagan s comments to Rowan but said i would t interpret Ilas a definitive decision on to e president s  Poindester s predecessor As National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane has pleaded guilty to four mis Demeanour counts of withholding information from Congress in the scandal. Reagan did not appear 10 address Mcfarlane s Case in his comments monday. Poindexter North and two other operatives Albert Hakim and Richard Secord were indicted March 16 on charges of conspiracy to defraud he government and obstruction of Justice. Conservatives have urged Reagan to Pardon poin a tar and North Rowan however quoted Reagan As saying pardons before a trial would leave a Cloud of guilt Over the defendants despite the guilty pleas from Mcfarland and weeks of revealing testimony before Congress last summer Reagan has said on repeated occasions that he does not believe his aides broke any Laws in the parallel schemes to sell arms to Iran to free american hostages in Leo anon and secretly Channel arms and other assistance to inc nicaraguan Contra rebels