European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes tuesday february 21,1989 latest Fri report on Tower delivered to Capitol Hill Washington a the White House sent the latest Fri report on Secretary of defense designate John Tower to Capitol Hill on monday and a presidential spokesman said officials hoped the report would Clear the Way for Tower s Senate confirmation. We feel that the report has nothing in it that would preclude sen. Tower s nomination going Forward said Deputy White House press Secretary Alixe Glen. White House counsel c. Boyden Gray headed to Capitol Hill to deliver the report to sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., and sen. John Warnerr a. Nunn is the chairman and Warner the ranking Republican on the Senate armed services committee which May vote on the nomination this week. Charges surfaced that Tower drinks excessively and is a Womanizer. Many senators also expressed con Cerns about their former colleague s close ties to de sense contractors. Tower received More than $1 Mil lion As a consultant for major defense firms since he left the Senate in 1985. Also on Capitol Hill this week the Senate veterans affairs committee is to take up president Bush s nomination of Edward j. Derwinski to head the new department of veterans affairs. 10 die when fog causes major car pileup in Italy Piacenza Italy a nearly 200 cars and trucks piled up on fog shrouded highways in Northern and Central Italy monday killing 10 people and injuring at least 80, police reported. Police said two major pileup occurred near the Northern City of Piacenza and near Imola and Ferrara in Central Italy. Visibility was reported near Zero be cause of thick fog. The highways from Milan to Modena and Bologna to Ferrara two major and Busy Road links were closed to traffic for about five hours after the Acci dents. Large parts of Italy have been plagued by fog an smog in recent weeks after three months without rain. Ousted parishioners vow to continue fight Bridgeport Conn. A dissident polish roman catholics who have been ousted from the Church they occupied for nearly a week say they will continue their fight until they get some sort of sat  diocese officials closed St. Michael the archangel Church until further notice Early saturday after they summoned police to remove about 80 parishioners who had occupied the Church since feb. 11. We be heard nothing from the Bishop since Friday night Halina Chmiel told about 100 protesters out Side the closed Church on sunday. The dissidents have pressed for the Rev. Roman Palaszewski a popular polish priest to be retained and for the Church pastor the Rev. John Bambol to be replaced. Palaszewski is being transferred Back to Poland. The protesters charge that officials Are diluting the polish traditions of the Church which is located in a predominantly hispanic neighbourhood. Korea from Page 1 South Korea fight the 1950-53 korean War against the North and keeps 42,000 troops stationed in the South under a Mutual defense pact. Radical students and dissidents believe the presence of . Troops stands in the Way of unification talks with North Korea and have demanded the withdrawal of All . Forces. A More realistic relationship is needed Between the two governments say both protesters and some politicians a relationship that recognizes South Korea s economic potential and place in global politics. The United states is South Korea s leading Trade partner. South Korea sold America goods Worth $8 billion More than it bought from the United states last year. Considerable pressure has been placed on the South koreans to liberalize their import regulations to help balance the deficit. Shevardnadze making rounds on Middle East peace Missioni Cairo Egypt a soviet foreign ministered Uard Shevardnadze spearheading Moscow s deepened interest in the Middle East peace process on monday invited Egypt s president to the soviet Union and scheduled meetings this week with palestinian and israeli leaders. Shevardnadze is scheduled to meet israeli foreign minister Moshe Arens on wednesday at the soviet embassy in Cairo. The soviet minister said he would also hold talks in Cairo with Yasser Arafat chairman of the Palestine liberation organization. Arens flew monday to an egyptian military base near Cairo to prepare for meetings with Shevardnadze and egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The major topic was a three stage soviet blueprint for convening an International conference on Arab israeli peace. Shevardnadze disclosed the plan saturday in Syria the first Stop in his five nation Middle East tour. Under the plan the five Security Council members Britain China France the soviet Union and the United states would organize a peace conference within six to nine months that would include the Plo. On monday Shevardnadze met privately for two hours with Mubarak at the presidential office in Helio Polis a northeastern Cairo suburb. Shevardnadze said he delivered an invitation for an official and Friendly visit to the soviet Union. W. German firm linked to drug deals Lahr West Germany a a West German com Pany suspected of playing a key role in the building of an alleged Poison Gas factory in Libya has been implicated in International drug dealing officials said monday. Offenburg prosecutor Werner Botz confirmed that West German authorities had arrested an american for alleged illegal purchases of amphetamines from the Imhausen Cherie company of Lahr. In All four people have been arrested in the drug probe including two Imhausen employees Botz said. Botz said investigators were trying to determine whether the company s president Jurgen Hippenstiel Imhausen knew of the drug Deal. High born mrs. Rajapr Randhawa of new Delhi India holds her new daughter at London s Heathrow Airport after the 6-Pound girl got off to a flying Start in life at 30,000 feet. Randhawa was in route to Canada to join her husband when the baby was born. The Airliner s Crew nicknamed the infant  Botz said the substance which goes by the Nam Emma  ship Ped to the United states. Botz said it was unclear whether the employees were acting alone or if other company officials were involved. Meanwhile police in Lahr said the condition of an Imhausen official who apparently attempted suicide last week had improved. Lahr police spokesman Rudolf Wilkesmann said Imhausen executive Hans Renner was in stable Condi Tion after being treated for a drug overdose. Imhausen Cherie is the target of a Federal investigation into its involvement in the libyan Plant. Panama cuts Power forcing gis to move Panama City Panama a More than 100 . Soldiers and civilians have been transferred from off base housing because the panamanian govern ment s Power company Cut off their electricity a . Southern come spokesman said monday. The company had not been paid for $340,245 in electric Bills since last april because of . Sanctions Southern come spokesman Bill Ormsbee said. In Stead the Money was deposited in an account in new York. Sanctions imposed by former president Reagan for bid payment of dollars to the government controlled by armed forces commander Manuel Antonio Noriega who dumped president Eric Arturo Delvalle last year in favor of Manuel Solis Palma. The Southern come transferred the residents of 80 rented Homes in Balboa and Diablo onto a . Mili tary base near the Panama canal Ormsbee said. The housing in Diablo and Balboa was once part of the Panama canal zone controlled by the unite states but was among areas that have reverted to panamanian control under the Panama canal Accord of 1977. The United states still has about 13,000 troops i Panama but is due to turn Over its bases and full control of the canal at the end of 1999. Delvalle tried to fire Noriega As commander of the panamanian forces last year after Noriega was indicted on drug trafficking charges in Florida. Instead Noriega who holds the real Power in Panama got rid of Delvalle. Jury from Page 1 attorney general and that he destroyed documents in november 1986. North allegedly helped prepare false chronologies saying that no one in the government Learned before january 1986 that missiles had been shipped to Iran in november 1985. He also is accused of lying to the attorney general in testimony about the National Secu Rity Council s diverting Money from the arms sales to the contras and with falsifying documents showing his involvement with the contras. Witnesses against North include Many of his former colleagues at the National Security Council As Well As former military men who helped him keep the contras supplied with weapons. A key witness will be Robert Mcfarlane the former presidential National Security adviser who signed let ters to Congress in 1985 denying the Council s involve ment in assisting the contras. The government alleges that North prepared the letters. Mcfarlane pleaded guilty to four misdemeanours Andis cooperating with Walsh. Former attorney general Edwin Meese i is expected to testify about a weekend inquiry he conducted in 1986 that led to the discovery that proceeds from the Reagan administration s arms sales to Iran were diverted to the contras. North s Secretary Fawn Hall also will testify. She told Congress she altered at North s request documents indicating that he assisted the contras in 1984 and 1985, when . Military Aid was banned. Involved in the Contra resupply program and being called As prosecution witnesses will be Robert w. Owen North s eyes and ears in Cen trial America. John Singlaub the retired . Army major Gener Al who helped obtain funds from third counties to support the contras and who arranged some arms Pur chases for the contras. Carl Channell who established the tax exempt National endowment for the preservation of Liberty