European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 12, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 North invokes fifth in withholding notes Washington a Oliver l. North invoked his fifth amendment right against self inti Minalio tuesday in refusing to turn Over to congressional investigators nearly 1,000 pages of notes he made while a key White House operative in the Iran Contra affair. North s refusal to turn Over the dozens of spiral bound notebooks was made through his lawyer Bren Dan Sullivan before the Senate foreign relations committee. North a recently retired Marine Lieuten ant colonel did not appear. Congressional investigators have been Given portions of the notebooks which Are sprinkled throughout with references to drugs drug trafficker the drug enforcement administration and the Cia. But Large segments committee aides said about half the con tents have been blacked out by Sullivan or by White House censors. It s the first time i Ever heard of in history that an attorney who is no code cleared classified cleared or even has any Security clearance what Soever sits at the custodian of documents that have been walked out of the workplace of the most highly sensitive government Agency thai we  said sen. John Kerry. A mass. It s unheard of and i think it s inappropriate said Kerry Chaliman at the foreign relations com Mittee s narcotics subcommittee which is investigating links Between the Aid network for Nicaragua s con tra rebels and drug trafficking Sulli Van in a closed door meeting of the committee presented on affidavit from North acknowledging the subpoena for his notebooks hut citing his Constitution Al tight not to incriminate himself As justification fur withholding them. Kerry said the committee will meet again soon to review its options. These include issuing a new subpoena directed at Sullivan who presumably could not use the fifth amendment defense and granting limited immunity from prosecution to North in Exchange for Access to the classified documents. Kerry said the panel also might seek to enlist the help of administration authorities who properly Texas death Row inmate who says he wants to die gets last minute stay Huntsville Texas a a death Row inmate who requested a Lump of dirt for his final meal and insisted he wanted to be executed Early wednesday was Given a reprieve tuesday by the u.5. Supreme court in an Appeal by his Mother. The High court granted the stay for James Smith about six hours before the scheduled execution. No Vole among the justices was released. Alexzene Hamilton of Indianapolis filed the Appeal with la supreme Courton monday contending her son was mentally incompetent. Her attorneys also contended mitigating evidence was not allowed to be considered by jurors who sentenced Smith to death. The order just says a stay was granted assistant Texas attorney general Dill Zapalac said. It s anybody s guess what they mean i m praising god right now mrs. Hamilton said. That s All i can say i just thank  Smith was informed of the development As he waited in a holding cell next to the death chamber when they told him about the stay. He gritted his Teeth and said something unintelligible said Texas department of corrections spokesman Charles Brown. Rioth Smith Smith would have been the 2sth Pris Oner executed in Texas More than any other stale and the 99th nationally since the supreme court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. Smith 37, convicted of the 1983 Tob cry staying of a Houston insurance of fice manager has no attorney and has resisted attempts for Legai help from Cap ital punishment opponents i Don t understand All this clinging to life Smith sail in a recent interview. Life is a temporary situation. The spirit moves on. Death is like eating a prune in the morning. It s a natural  on tuesday he requested Rhae Akun a dirt for i final meal a request Texas department of corrections officials said would no be honoured. Officials could not immediately explain what was meant by the Type of dirt. Texas am University soil experts said it was not an identifiable soil but believed it May be a Din used in voodoo rituals. In such rituals the dirt is eaten school spokeswoman Mary to Powell said. Smith a former Larol card dealer in new Orleans who was working As a Houston taxi Driver at the time of his arrest was convicted for the 1983 shoot ing death of Larry Rohus should have custody Aflfe notebooks. The senator said he does not know what the notes might reveal of importance to his investigation but Beti Evo his subcommittee must have the documents in order to be sure it has danc a thorough Job. He prom ised thai if turned Over the documents would be kept secret. Why docs the name of someone involved in narcotics appear in Ollic North s notebook he asked. These Are unanswered questions that still Tell me there is a lot that has not yet come to  North a former National Security Council Stalf member directed much of the operation thai sent arms to Iran and raised Money to Supply the contras 01 a time when Congress barred such Aid he and Sullivan also have declined to provide the notebooks to Lawrence Walsh the Independent coun Sel who is prosecuting North and others on charges stemming from the Iran affair. Kerry said he has spoken to members of Walsh s staff about the matter and it s Clear they Don t know As much As we do about the Case. French surgeon transplants pieces of divided liver Pittsburgh a a French sur Geon said tuesday that he had divided a donor liver and transplanted the pieces into two patients at his Paris Hospital earlier this month. The operation believed to be the first of its kind Wai corf owned May i by or. Henri Bismuth of the Paul Brousso hos Pital. Bismuth said both recipients were alive one in highly critical condition. He reported nil results at the three Day Pitts Burgh liver conference which ended tuesday. This is definitely a significant step Forward said liver transplant Pioneer or. Thomas a stand of the University of Pittsburgh. Bismuth said he divided a liver from a 40-year-old brain dead Man and trans planted half into a 40-year-old woman and half into a 54-year-old woman. Both women were suffering from liver failure. . Surgeons have trimmed donated livers so the organs can fit into trans Plant patients particularly children for whom there Are the fewest donor organs. Bui Bismuth s Effort is believed to be the first in which a liver has been halved and both pieces transplanted. The liver is the Only Organ in the human body that can regenerate itself. Sailor claims he told woman he had aids virus san Francisco a a Navy Man accused of an ads related assault against his former Fiancee insisted he warned her he was carrying the aids virus before they Hud Sun in ills Barracks room. In the second Day of his court martial tuesday Petty officer 2.c, John a Crawford also said he wore a condom to protect Jeannie Elmer on the night of april 15,1987. The Case is the first of its kind in the Navy Accord ing to it. Cmdr. George Farrar a spokesman at trea sure Island is. An army private is charged in another aids re Latch assault Case. That Case was being tried this week at fort Hua Chuca. Ariz Crawford is charged with having unprotected sex with Elmer without telling her he had tested positive for the aids virus. He is also charged with adultery because Elmer was separated but not divorced from her third husband Ai the Lime. If convicted Crawford 27, could be Dis honorable discharged stripped of rank and sentenced to 10 years behind oars. Elmer 28, has tested negative three limes for anti bodies to he Sims. The lest tells if a person is carrying the virus bul scientists Don t know what percentage of those infected will eventually develop the deadly Dis ease. Crawford said Elmer reacted calmly when to told her he had tested positive. She did t ask no questions. She just sat there Crawford said. The Magnolia ark., native said Elmer watched Tele vision for a few minutes Ali n came Over to him and Sal in his Lap. She said she d Lake care of me and that everything would be All right Crawford said. They undressed he donned a condom and they had sex he said. But a few Days later he said she confronted him denied he told her about the aids test and accused him of trying to kill her and her two children. I did t know what to think i was afraid. I knew she heard me. 1 know 1 said it Crawford said. She said i can Burn you " Crawford said Elmer then repeated that she loved him and wanted to Lake care of him and have his children. Then he said he proposed marriage because i thought it would keep her from turning me  he broke off the engagement a few weeks later but she continued to pursue him Crawford told the Mili tary judge and the seven member jury. Firefighters Cut Hole in House to get fat Man out am1tyville. . Up a Man weighing one half ton was Laken to the Hospital by 24 firefighters who had to Cut a Hole in his bedroom Wall and carry him out on two Queen sized mattresses officials said tuesday. John f i Neily 45, hoisted by Hydraulic lift onto the Back of a flatbed truck for he trip monday was admitted to Bruns Wick Hospital Center for treatment of a breathing problem police said. Hospital officials declined to com ment except 10 say Finney was in the intensive care unit. Copiague Volunteer fire department chief Bob Odell said 25 volunteers helped remove Finnerty from his one Story ranch Home in Amity Harbor . Police estimated his weight at 1,000 pounds. The firemen arrived at the House monday evening to find Finnerty lying in a homemade bed with a special Frame supporting it Odell said. Trie bed look up about three quarters of the  we railed for a Babylon town High Way department flatbed truck equipped with a Hydraulic lift and while we waited for it some of my men Cut a Hole 5 feet High and s feel wide in the Man s bed room Wall at the rear of the House a Dell said. We put him on two Queen size mattresses and he look up almost the whole space of both of Ihm. Then Twenty of our volunteers pushed and pulled and we Slid the mat tresses along the floor to the opening in the Wall and onto the truck s Hydraulic lift he said