European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 1989 the stars and stripes vote on first a Secretary delayed Derwinski s past ties to South koreans questioned rms 4ln � a a  to. N by the los Angeles times Washington the Senate veterans affairs committee has called off a hearing on president Bush s nomination of Edward j. Derwinski to be the nation s first Secretary of veterans affairs after new questions were raised about Derwinski s leaking Sensi Tive intelligence to the South korean embassy. A committee spokesman said Sens. Alan Cranston,,alif., the chairman and Frank h. Murkowski r Alaska ranking minority member decided that the panel did not have adequate time to review All of the information before monday s scheduled hearing. Jonathan r. Steinberg the committee s chief coun Sel said there had been no decision on when to re schedule the hearing and declined comment on Why Thad been postponed. However another source said that sen. Arlen spec Ter r-pa., told Cranston in a meeting Friday he did not think written questions submitted by committee investigators and answers Given by Derwinski which were to be released at the hearing had resolved the matter. The hearing was then postponed. Specter would say Only through a spokesman that he had not finished reviewing the Fri s report on the episode. At Issue is a 1977 incident in which Derwinski then a member of a House subcommittee investigating korean influence peddling including payoffs to Congress men alerted Republic of. Korea embassy officials that Sohn Hoyoung a korean Cia operative was going to defect to the United states. Fri agents rushed to the defector s House and took him away Only 30 minutes before korean intelligence arrived at the Home. He later provided what House committee investigators said was valuable information and is now understood to be living under an assume name after being a protected . Witness. Derwinski initially denied tipping off the South koreans and a Federal grand jury and the House ethic committee examined the matter. However a key piece of evidence was understood to involve electronic eavesdropping conducted by . Intelligence that picked up Derwinski s Contact with the koreans about the imminent defection. The grand above the crowd the ground. But that s the Case for two Park in Sandusky Ohio. They re putting largest fastest roller Ter Poce Szefc evidence of misconduct in raid on offices of debt Ridden City c a it Ott t it of �11 � East St. Louis 111. A police have raided City government offices in East St. Louis reportedly looking for Evi Dence of official misconduct in a Community so broke it can Tafford toilet paper in City Hall. Illinois state police served warrants at City Hall and spent Friday seizing boxes of financial records a newspaper reported saturday. The raid by agents of the state s division of criminal investigation followed months 9f allegations that East St. Louis officials were improperly using tax Money the St. Louis Post dispatch reported. The government of the impoverished City has found it increasingly hard to function. City Hall restrooms have been without toilet paper and soap Tor months. When Light bulbs Burn out they Are not replaced. Employees wait Between four and seven weeks for their pay checks and vendors routinely sue the City for non payment. Mayor Carl e. Officer has acknowledged he has diverted some tax Money collected for specific purposes including pen Sions to pay routine City Bills. He defends the action saying he has no Choice. Some officials at City Hall appeared almost panicked when the state police arrived Friday the Post dispatch reported. According to complaints attached to the search warrants the investigation centers on allegations that the City has been diverting Money collected for its employees pensions to its general fund. A j16 pity owes More than $3 million to the pension fund this debt has endangered the pensions of City employees who will retire in the future. The City has been diverting motor fuel tax Money that it gets from the state. In october the state Cut off the Money and ordered the City to repay about $3 million that state audit determined the City had misused. Someone has been forging the signature of City treasurer Charlotte Moore on sewer Lien releases. Thousands of dollars that should have been paid to the treasurer s office and put into the City s coffers have never arrived Moore told state police. Legality does not seem to be a concern Here at City Hall Moore said after the raid. It s a great concern of mine when people Are using my signature and it s not my  no arrests were made and no target of the investigation has been identified. The investigation May continue for month the newspaper said citing sources it did not identify. The mayor was attending a meeting in Atlanta and could note reached for comment an aide said. St. Clair county state s attorney John Baricevic who re Quested the three search warrants refused to comment on the investigation. Jury and House committee took no action with officials explaining that intelligence sources and meth ods could not be disclosed. In 1983, after president Reagan named Derwinski to the first of two state department posts he has held Derwinski admitted in Senate foreign relations com Mittee hearings that he had warned the koreans that defection was taking place. The hearings were not published however and received no press coverage. They were found in the archives after Bush picked Derwinski to be the veterans Secretary and seemed to raise the Issue of the Nomi Nee s Candor because of the change in his stories. Derwinski could not be reached saturday but he told the Washington Post that he was certain the delay in his hearings goes Back to the korean thing. That s 12 years. Nothing s happened since then. How Many times do you go around that merry go round c. Boyden Gray counsel to the president took similar position contending that the matter had been reviewed when Derwinski was nominated and con firmed for the state department posts. More Boeing jets found misfired Seattle a inspections of Boe ing co. Jetliners ordered by the Federal aviation administration have turned up five More cases of misfiring in twin Jet Boeing 737s, a Federal official said sat urday. The latest findings included wrong connections on fire extinguisher bottles in engines on four Boeing 737s operated by australian airlines and a problem with an indicator Light for an engine on a 737-300 operated by us air. The indicator Light problem involved an incorrect Light going on in the cockpit not a wrong switch being activated the Seattle times reported in saturday s editions. Mitch Barker of the Faa s Seattle office said no More details about the miss rings or the australian airlines involved were available. The inspection of about 740 Boeing 737s, 747s, 757s and 767s built since 1981 was ordered by the Faa to put to rest concerns about misfiring of fire warning and fire suppressant systems in engines and cargo areas. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 6, 1949 the Shah of Iran. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was slightly wounded when a newspaper reporter fired at him while travelling through the streets of Tehran. 30 years ago today. Feb. 6, 1959 president Eisenhower called on Congress to strengthen civil rights Laws by making it a Federal crime to use Force or threats of Force to obstruct court orders in school desegregation cases. 20 years ago today. Feb. 6, 1969 after two seasons As assistant coach for the Oakland raiders John Madden was named to succeed John Rauch As head coach becoming at 33 the youngest coach in professional football. To years ago today. Feb. 6, 1979 thousands of farm ers driving their tractors trucks and other farm vehicles caused major traffic jams when they arrived in Washington to protest the amount of government Price supports for their crops