European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 27, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 military Roundup planes arrive from Sac for exercise mighty Warrior Raf Fairford England strategic air come air planes and personnel began arriving tuesday to practice their wartime role of conventional bombing in Europe. Seven b-52 Strat fortress bombers four pkg 135 Strat tankers and some 350 people will be at Fairford for exercise mighty Warrior Accord ing to air Force officials. The exercise in part will test the 8th air Force s and Sac s wartime role in supporting european based nato troops. The two week exercise beginning aug. 1 involves the entire 8th air Force according to a 3rd air Force official. He said the b-52 missions will include Dummy bomb drops at ranges in the Netherlands and Belgium but mostly will involve simulated at tacks on targets in Western Europe. The exercise was similar to other b-52 deploy ments in Europe except that the people involved will operate under Field conditions. Twelve other units at As Many bases in the United states also will be involved in the exer Cise. Hahn s Lank captures chess Crown by 1 Point hell Nikon a Greece a chess player from Hahn a captured the 1988 . Air Fores Europe chess championship title beating the tournament favorite by one Point. James a. Lank won the championship with a total of 13 Points. Tournament favorite Leroy Hill of Torrejon a Spain came in second with 12, followed by Kim Walton of Raf Mildenhall England who had 11 Points. Nineteen players from the Continental United kingdom and Mediterranean sports conferences vied for the title june 25 and 26 at Helle Nikon a base spokesman sgt. John Hancock said. Maj. Rory Cahoon assigned in Ankara tur key earned the distinction of having played the longest and shortest matches of the tournament with a five hour tie match against Lank and an eight move loss to Hill. North trying to use politics to delay trial Walsh says Washington a Iran Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh says that Oliver North is trying to turn his trial from a criminal to a political one and that he should not be allowed to use politics to win a six month delay. Walsh urged . District judge Gerhard Gesell monday to reject North s motion for a delay until after the presidential election. Having failed in several attempts to avoid completely the trial of this Case while proclaiming his in Novence in speeches the defendant Oliver l. North is now grasping at the criminal defendant s Man Euver of last resort delay Walsh said. This trial in particular should not be held hostage to a Media which the defendant himself has strenuously sought to inflame Walsh said in a Brief filed with . District judge Gerhard Gesell. Walsh also rebutted North s Contention that his actions had been approved. The government knows of no presidential decision that North can Point to As authorizing his activities Walsh said and dog the government also is not aware of any Superior except North s co conspirators Rob Ert a Mcfarlane and John a Poindexter who knew enough about North s activities to have conveyed even informal or implicit  had Walsh found Reagan responsible for authorizing North s activities the prosecutor would have been unable to charge North in March with defrauding the United states because North would have been acting with the necessary presidential approval. The prosecutor included 15 newspaper clippings re porting North s recent speeches about his Case and in support of Republican congressional candidates. He quoted North s own statement after his indict ment last March i have now been caught in a bitter dispute Between the Congress and the president Over the control of foreign policy. It is a shame that the new Battleground for such a fight will be a  delaying the trial would give court approval to North s transparent attempt to transform this trial from a criminal into a political one Walsh argued. A retired Marine corps lieutenant colonel and for Mer White House aide North is the first of four defendants scheduled to be tried on charges that include a conspiracy to defraud the United states by illegally diverting profits from .-Iran arms sales to the nicaraguan Contra rebels. Last wednesday one of North s attorneys Barry Simon told the court that no fair minded person could argue that this trial should be started seven North Walsh a file photos weeks prior to the presidential election. The intense publicity generated during the final seven weeks of a presidential Campaign would deny North a fair  but Walsh said to the extent that North s trial May become a political Issue in the upcoming elections North bears at least a substantial measure of responsibility and therefore has Little credibility in  North has made Many pretrial speeches and statements in which he had claimed that the charges should be evaluated in a political context Walsh said. North s trial could begin sept. 20, As planned Walsh said with an impartial jury despite the presidential Campaign. The prosecutor urged Gesell to reject North s motion for a six month delay which Walsh said was filed simply As a stalling  Walsh said courts in the District of Columbia Are Well trained by their experience with watergate and other political scandals to conduct trials in cases which receive a lot of publicity. He said that the trial would draw Media Atten Tion no matter when it occurred and that much of this publicity has been favourable to the defendants. Of the 16 counts against North Walsh said those involving false statements and obstruction of Justice personal enrichment and tax fraud could easily be tried sept. 20. Most Mediterranean beaches Safe official says Geneva a a senior . Environmental official said tuesday that the condition of the Mediterranean beaches has markedly improved under a Multi billion Dollar .-sponsored program committing coastal states to protect the sea. He said about 80 percent of All beaches now offer clean and Safe Bath ing for the 100 million tourists expected to flock to the Mediterranean this season one third of world tourism. Aldo Manos head of the Athens based Mediterranean Headquarters of the . Environment program told a press con Ference that this compares with about 65 percent of the beaches considered Good at the time the Mediterranean action plan was launched in 1975. Manos said More sewage treatment facilities and better control of dumping of waste contributed to the trend. We Are confident that the deliberate dumping by ships of chemicals into the Mediterranean has been brought to a standstill he said crediting a protocol on dumping signed by coastal states. He said last week s chemical disaster at Massa Italy that polluted about 12 Miles of Tuscany beaches was a Small blemish when related to the 27,000 Miles of Mediterranean coastline. Manos said coastal outlets of chemical Factor cities and extreme pollution of the four major Rivers the Rhone to Nile and Ebro still pose a  but he said Italy s decision last year to set aside $3.5 billion for cleaning up the to signalled a growing determination to Cope with this. Manos noted that France and Italy have embarked on campaigns to inform the Public of the state of their beaches. He said this was because they realize that too Many tourists fall for those an Nual scare stories about the Mediterranean being one great polluted  his Overall optimistic assessment seemed to contrast with a world wildlife fund report on what it said was the de Clining state of the Mediterranean s environment. Bremerhaven editor s note if your name is on this list your car is waiting to be picked up at Bremerhaven. You can use this list As the written verification the Pov contractor requires before a pickup appointment can be scheduled. The list is issued to the stars and stripes by the Bremerhaven terminal and comes on a computer disk based on information pre pared in the United states. Stars and stripes will normally have this information before it is available to local trans Lui Ratihn  a Lull Wlla to. 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