European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 news briefs the stars and stripes thursday february 23,1989 no credited with saving life of injured belgian chevres Belgium is an air Force staff sergeant has been credited with saving the life of belgian Man after the Man s Van turn Dover in a Field a nato shape support group spokeswoman said wednesday. Staff sgt. Jesse c. Stollings was on his Way to work monday when he noticed a Van turn Dover and saw two Drivers pull to the Side of the Road Marielise Banetown said. Stollings a fireman assigned to det 1, 52ndtac fighter Wing at chevres a noticed that the Driver of the Van appeared dazed. Stollings with the help of belgians at the scene was Able to instruct the injured Man to sit Down. He told another american who arrived late to Call for an ambulance. In the interim military police arrived and placed the injured Man in their Van while Stol Lings administered Mouth to Mouth resuscitation seven times Banetown said. A belgian ambulance arrived a few Mintu Slater and transported the Man to a local Hospital. Banetown said the Man is recovering. Witness to bus fatality sought by German police Mainz West Germany West German police Are seeking a Young Black Man believed Tobe an american Soldier who witnessed a bus Accident that killed a 10-year-old West German boy in Mainz on monday. The Accident took place at 8 11 . At the Kaiser Wilhelm ring and Goethe Strasse bus Stop. The boy was killed when he Fel underneath the wheel of a City bus while running alongside it police said. Passengers in the bus told police that a Black English speaking Man saw the incident from the Street. Police Are seeking the Man for help i conducting their investigation. Anyone with information concerning the Acci Dent can Contact Mainz military police at ets 334-7112 or Mainz City police at West German civilian 06131-652540. Crews working to get to site of c-141b crash Hurlburt Field Fla. A worker wednesday were building a Bridge so vehicles could get to the Remote swampy site of a Jet cargo plane crash that presumably killed eight people officials  bodies have been removed from the wreckage of the c-141b Star lifter that went Down on a military reservation in the Florida Panhandle said staff sgt. Robert Pfenning a spokesman at Norton fab at san Bernardino,calif., where the plane departed monday. Pfenning identified the plane s crewmen As capt. Mark j. Chambers 30 capt. John f. Young 30 master sgt. Robert e. Wright jr., 37 tech. Sgt. Ronald d. Grubbs 29 staff sgt. Karl m. Kohler 32 airman 1st class Scott d. Craig,22 and staff sgt. John w. Remerscheid 33. Remerscheid was assigned to the 14th Mili tary Airlift so at Norton. The others were As signed to the 52nd military Airlift so at Norton. No hometowns were  eighth Man was identified As retired air Force capt. John g. Galvin of Jacksonville. Consumer prices Rose 0.6 percent in january Washington a consumer prices propelled by higher costs for food fuel and a variety of other items Rose 0.6 percent Las month for the biggest jump in two years the government reported wednesday. The Rise in the labor department s consumer Price Index followed moderate increases of 0.3percent in both november and december. The january Price increase which is seasonally adjusted would amount to an annual inflation rate of 7.2 percent if the Pace for the first month of 1989 held throughout the year. Higher prices for gasoline poultry fish and eggs coupled with a Sharp Advance in tobacco prices accounted for nearly All of the acceleration. Consumer prices advanced 4.4 percent Las year the same rate As in 1987, but analysts Are expecting the Pace to quicken this year. North lawyers May Call Europe officers to testify from Page 1 and one other colonel who has since retired were never forwarded to the Senate for confirmation. There was concern expressed by some members of the Senate armed services committee Over questions surrounding Steele s involvement with North Rixo said. Because a promotion list goes to the Senate As one entity the army decided it would submit Steele name at another time rather than hold up the other 48 colonels Rixon said. He could not predict the Mili tary s plans for Steele s promotion or when action might be taken since a new administration is in place. Asked if Steele s promotion was on hold pending the outcome of North s trial he said certainly the trial is a  Jim Wieghart a spokesman for the special prosecutor had no comment on whether Steele May be prosecuted at a later Date for his role in the resupply opera Tion. The Tower report s chronology first mentions steel after North already had set up the framework of his resupply operation and was seeking Host nation sup port to build an Airstrip at Santa Elena Costa Rica. The plan also called for a military air base in Honduras or Al Salvador from which to launch resupply flights. To do that North needed the help of other  officials one of whom was Steele. He is first mentioned in connection with an aug. 10, 1985,meeting with North to discuss possible locations for a resupply base the report said. On sept. 16, 1985, North s notebooks said steel asked if an Excia operative named Felix Rodriguez at the time a private . Citizen should be used to maintain aircraft. Steele was not mentioned in the report again until the resupply operation got off the ground. By january 1986, aircraft had been secured and construction of the Santa Elena Airstrip had begun in Earnest. The report said that on Jan. 15, North gave special secure communication devices to the principal members of the Covert  the report said the principals included Steele re tired air Force maj. Gen. Richard Secord Secord s Deputy Rafael Quintero and William Langton presi Dent of Southern air transport the private company that operated the resupply  january 1986, North s notebooks Indi Cate a series of phone Calls to Steele about obtaining permission of Central american officials for the resupply aircraft to operate from ill Pongo air base in Els Alvador the report said. It is at that Point in the Tower report that Calvin name appears. The report said North wrote to then National Security adviser . John Poindexter tha Galvin was cognizant of the activities under  according to North s notebooks he Poindexter an others met with Galvin Jan. 16 to discuss among other items Covert strategy training planning and sup port for the contras. During the Tower investigation Galvin testified that he knew of the air resupply operation but believed it was being financed and run by private individuals not the National Security Council the report said. Steele is then mentioned in a series of april 1986communiques Between North Secord and Quintero regarding the first resupply Mission out of illop9ngo.the report said Steele was deeply involved in help ing coordinate logistics for the Mission. Steele told the Southern air transport Crew flying the Mission How to avoid sandinista radar and also personally checked the cargo Load it said. According to the report Steele also flew to washing Ion in August 1986 to resolve a dispute Between Rodriguez and  final mention of Steele in the report says he returned to Central America and took a More Active role in overseeing  Steele testified in the Iran Contra congressional in Quiry but was not asked about his activities mentioned in North s notes because the notebooks had no yet been made available to the committee. He was not recalled for further questioning once the notebooks had been turned Over to investigators. The resupply operation unravelled in october 1986when a resupply flight was shot Down in Nicaragua and Eugene Hasenfus a . Citizen was taken prisoner bythe sandinista eventually leading to the congressional investigation of North s  went from his Post in Al Salvador to the 2nd army Cav regt in november 1986. Bush from Page 1 and make a five hour Stopover in Seoul South Korea on the Way Home monday. Bush s Marathon Day began at 5 . Wednesday in Washington and was to last until after 7 30 . Thurs Day. Bush planned a full Day s work including a lunch Eon with French president Francois Mitterrand a Courtesy Call on prime minister Noboru Takeshita and separate face to face meetings with the leaders of Jordan Israel Egypt Portugal and Thailand. Fitzwater said Bush did paperwork in his Cabin in route to Alaska and spent some time going Over Brief ing books with Secretary of state James Baker. Fitzwater also hinted Bush might have time during the trip to make a few phone Calls to senators to lobby for his nomination of John Tower As defense Secretary. However he said Bush had no specific plans to do so immediately. Also travelling with Bush were his wife Barbara National Security adviser Brent scowcroft and White House staff of chief John Sununu. In his Airfield remarks Bush noted that the late japanese emperor had visited the base 18 years before. It was Here at hangar 5 at Elmendorf that he became the first emperor in Japan s Long history to set foot outside his  Bush a combat Pilot who fought against Japan in world War ii was to join 10,000 other foreign and japanese officials at the funeral. Hirohito died in Jan uary at age 87. Bush said his visit to Japan was also a measure of our respect for a valued  of other stops on his journey Bush said in China a nation whose path i have Long found fascinating i Hope to build on the Friendly stable and enduring relationship that now  Bush was envoy to China in 1974 and 1975. In Korea he continued ill meet with leaders of a nation that is rapidly joining the ranks of the world s first tier economies and one where democratic institutions Are gaining strength each  he praised his armed services audience saying you Are the Forward Edge of our National defense. We rely on you to keep the watch to hold the  North from Page 1. Whether or not the contras should be funded by the United states  that became a very controversial debate Hamil ton said culminating in the passage of the so called Boland amendment in 1984 that prohibited . Intelligence agencies from using Money to help the contras. Accurate answers to congressional inquiries Are needed Hamilton said because we can t fulfil our responsibility unless we have accurate information from the executive  in his questions Keker tried to undercut the claim in tuesday s opening argument by defense lawyer Brendan v. Sullivan or. That Congress could t be trusted with secrets because it leaked like a  Hamilton said the White House shared secrets with the intelligence committee throughout his two year tenure As its chairman. Those secrets were carefully guarded by the 16-member panel Hamilton said. I am not aware of any information that i was not permitted to see Hamilton said. I was never refused a request for