European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 17, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 at the controls sen. Lloyd Bentsen the democratic vice presidential nominee sits at the controls of the space shuttle Trainer at the Johnson space Center in Houston. Bentsen a world War ii bomber Pilot told space officials that if Michael Dukakis is elected he would propose a full time manned space station. Aide claims he saw letter for Reagan on Iran funds diversion by the los Angeles times Washington a former Whitehouse aide says he saw a letter addressed to president Reagan attached to a key White House memorandum describing the diversion of funds from iranian arms sales to the nicaraguan contras Accord ing to court papers filed monday by in dependent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh. The existence of such a cover letter would make it More Likely that Reagan saw the memorandum in which Oliver. North at the time a White House aide asked for authorization to Send the contras $12 million in profits from the president s secret arms sales to Iran. However no evidence has come tonight to indicate that Reagan actually did receive the memorandum Walsh s filing indicated. The president has consistently denied knowing of the diversion offends and Walsh revealed last month that he has found no evidence that Rea Gan was aware of North s action. The memorandum in question a five Page paper written by North in april 1986, was the key document that exposed the diversion of funds when department of Justice officials discover edit in North s office in november 1986. The copy of the memorandum that the found bore no cover letter or other Indica Tion of whether the document had gone to Reagan or any of North s other superiors. In testimony before Congress Las year North said that he intended the memorandum for the president and believed that Reagan was aware 9f his diversion plan. But North s Superior then National Security adviser John m. Poin Dexter testified that he never passed the memorandum on to the Oval office. Walsh in a letter to North s lawyer that was filed monday in . District court Here said a former National Secu Rity Council official James r. Radzimski has told investigators that he saw a cover letter from Poindexter to Reagan attached to one copy of the memorandum. Attached to the memo was a letter from Poindexter to the president Walsh wrote. According to Radzimski the memo from North to Poindexter made reference to $12 million going tothe  Radzimski s account of the cover let Ter also appears in a recently released transcript of his closed testimony Las year before congressional committees investigating the Iran Contra scandal. He told the investigators that he remembered seeing two memorandums one addressed to Poindexter from Olive North and a second memorandum from Poindexter to the  when asked whether the memorandum had been delivered to the president Radzimski testified i do not  North has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the . Govern ment and other counts in connection with the diversion of funds and his trial is expected to begin late this year. Missing Navy documents worry congressman san Diego up the unexplained loss of 158 secret documents from a Navy electronics command Cen Ter Over five years prompted a Congress Man monday to Call for tightened Security procedures. Rep. Jim Bates a Calif said the Navy has been playing Down the disappearance of intelligence messages an publications some detailing Ultra Sensi Tive electronic warfare devices. Bates said Navy investigators discovered last year that nearly 1,300 documents had vanished at the naval elec tronic systems engineering Center in san Diego Between 1979-84. An unreleased Navy report on the los said a massive search turned up All but 158 documents which include manual son sea Nymph submarine sensors used to Monitor soviet transmissions Dat about anti missile Early warning devices and material for encoding and decoding naval communications Bates said. Not Only were these documents miss ing but the Navy did not know they were missing he said. Acting Navy Secretary h. Lawrence Garrett confirmed in a letter to Bates that the 158 documents have not been accounted for calling the loss a serious  in the letter Garrett blamed a Host of factors for the loss of the classified mate rial including improper accounting an control procedures. Poor bookkeeping missing records poor training poor supervisory oversight and Lack of com Mand  we re seeing a pattern Here Bate said. It s not just one person it s the system. They be got to upgrade the sys tem to provide the right controls and the right  Bates said he will ask the House an Senate armed services subcommittees to hold hearings on naval procedures for handling classified documents. Fires continue to bum in West by the associated press firefighters tuesday moved toward reopening the West Entrance of Yellowstone National Park where blazes involved More than 240,000 acres and battled wind whipped Forest fire in Montana to keep it from some evacuated Homes. Fires also continued to Char parts of Colorado Utah Oregon and Idaho. It s kind of a helpless situation fire information officer Jerry Chapman said in Montana. At lame Deer mont., a rash of thunderstorms wit winds up to 50 Mph hit the fire on the Northern Cheyenne Indian reservation on monday night Caus ing the Blaze to Rush three to four Miles northward in a few hours Chapman said. It just blew the fire in about every direction imaginable he said. Chapman said pumpers were stationed at Homes near lame Deer and at other Homes near the fire. At Yellowstone firefighters tuesday planned to Usea special aircraft known As a flying fishbowl to get a Good look at the fires. The Interior department arranged with airborne surveillance a Sarasota fla., company for a flight by the optical scout Over the Park the British built aircraft has a Range of vision of270 degrees vertically and 340 degrees horizontally. Park spokeswoman Amy Vanderbilt said officials hoped to open the two roads tuesday a Day after the were closed by a 53,000-acre fire. Winds gusting to 40 Mph pushed the fire toward the Road to the old Faith Ful Geyser area. In Colorado a 50-acre Brush fire started by an errant Bullet at Stone Canyon was contained monday night As about 50 firefighters battled the Blaze. The fire that had threatened a residential area an Indian burial ground. Jim Busse 44, of Boulder said he and his 17-year-old son Bryan were target shooting on his land when a Bullet from his .22-caliber pistol ricocheted off a Rock sparking the Blaze. Busse and his son tried to put out the Blaze with shovels but failed then called for help. Crews completed fire lines around a 900-acre blazon Eastern Utah s Ute Indian reservation but winds hampered efforts to contain a 600-acre Blaze on Pri vate land in Northern Utah. A wave of thunderstorms brought the threat of More fires to parched Central and Eastern Oregon officials said. High winds and no precipitation prompted Nezperce National Forest officials to postpone the control of a 2,175-acre fire on the main Salmon River fro monday to wednesday. And lightning was expected to ignite even More blazes at the Nez Perce and the Payette forests in West Central Idaho. Every night we can count on getting hammered said Mary Zabinski Nez Perce information officer. Anti nuclear group quizzed Butler to. Up Twenty people who held very peaceful anti nuclear demonstrations at 11 minuteman missile silo Sites in three american counties were taken into custody and released monday officials said. All of the protesters were released after being questioned. No charges were filed against them authorities said and a Bates county sheriff Deputy confirmed charges would be dropped. We picked them up and held them for Theair Force and they released them Deputy Wil Liam Fortner said in describing the group As very  they were an easy Bunch to get along  were no problems he said but added it was the largest group of protesters Ever to enter the silos which have become a regular target of nuclear freeze activists. There Are an estimated 150 minuteman ii missiles los in Western Missouri All of which Are oper ated by the Whiteman fab in Knob Noster. The protesters had anticipated being charge with trespassing said Kansas City s miss9uri peace planting 88, which claimed responsibility for the three county demonstration