European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 11. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 somber Tower teary staff accept rejection quietly by the new York times Washington minutes after the Senate rejected him for the Job he had sought for most of a decade. John g. Tower blood for the first and last Lime behind a lectern emblazoned with the Seal of the Secretary of defense of the United slates. A with a photographer a television camera Crew and two reporters As his Only audience in a room at the Pentagon Tower read in a somber voice a statement Chad drafted in a Day marked by emotional farewells and a final Telephone Call from his old political ally and Friend president Bush. There is no finding that i have Ever breached established Legal and ethical standards nor been derelict indy duly Tower declared defying even in defeat those who had rejected him for the Pentagon Job. It is my intention to return to private life in my beloved  Tower said. Bui i shall speak out from time to Lime on National issues when my knowl Edge experience and insights May contribute to Public debate ,.his statement finished. Tower unzipped a Micro phone from the Lapel of his pin striped suit strode out the door and Rode an elevator Down to a ear that waited to take him away from the Pentagon and Back to his Suile at the Jefferson hotel. There was no military pomp or ceremonial farewells for the 63-year-old Texas Republican who fought his Way to the Senate from a democratic state spent 24 years in that body and then waited More than eight years to be nominated Secretary of defense Only to be turned Down by his former colleagues. Throughout the Day Tower s lieutenants secretaries and other Well wishers trooped into his temporary of lice a fourth floor Suile overlooking the Potomac River to have their pictures taken with him. La was an emotional Day of the kind thai is played pm at the end of an administration when aides and associate take leave of a senior official whose duties have come honorable to an end this time it was at the beginning of a presidency and the tears thai some aides choked Back were ones of disappointment and frustration not nostalgia. -.-. / Tower bolstered by a visit from his three daughters maintained the stoic Calm he has presented throughout his three month ordeal aides said obviously no one is Happy with the situation but the senator has been such a pillar of strength in the office that no one else really wants to let him Down befalling apart one official said. You Sec sometimes that someone s on the verge of tears but they hold them Back and icy go  with the Pentagon finishing its seventh week with out a Secretary of defense the uncertainty and political anguish that have pervaded the building where some 25,000 people work intensified. The 16 members of Tower s transition staff began a tense wait to find out what the future holds for them. And there also was doubt whether some top officials with close ties to the former senator including William l. Ball he Secretary of the Navy and James f. Mcgovern the acting Secretary of the air Force would be kept on with Tower gone. Of the 44 presidential appointments in the defense department that require Senate confirmation 36 Are filled by holdovers from the Reagan administration and eight Are vacant. There Are also scores of lower level posts filled by officials who do not know How Long they will retain their positions. Tower began his Day at 9 30 a.m., a Tower aide said driving to inc Pentagon in his official car about a hour later than usual. He was accompanied by his three grown daughters Penny Tower Cook Jean Tower Cox and Marion Tower who ate breakfast with their father in the Jefferson his Washington residence. His daughters stayed with Tower for about an hour the spokesman said posing for a picture in his office which in itself is a Symbol of the political limbo in which the Pentagon has Enisley for so Long. The suite formally belongs to undersecretary of defense for policy a Chili Carport that has been vacant for More than a year. But since Bush s inauguration the office has been the Headquarters of the Pentagon transition team a modest sign stencilled onto White paper identified it As Tower s temporary official Long.  " during the Day. Tower received Calls from will John Tower Speaks to reporters after the Stenle vote. Wishers on Capitol Hilland elsewhere the aide  one Point he talked to Bush who has made an intensive personal Effort to save Tower from Strong opposition among Senate democrats a Pentagon photographer stood by taking pictures of Tower with members of his transition team and others who worked with him and As he ale a lunch of fruit tuna salad and iced Tea in his office while he drafted his Farewell statement. At the Jefferson Cook said she and a sister were staying in Washington to help their father pack to re turn in Texas sometime in the next few Days. We re All doing great 1 Cook said. We had All sort of prepared ourselves.". Warrant officer gets 40 years in spy Case -. Washington a an  warrant officer who admitted receiving More than 1100,000 from 1983 to 1988 to provide classified military information to East Germany and the soviet Union has been sentenced to 40 years confinement and fined $50,000. Warrant offer James w. Hall i 30, of Sharon Springs n.y., showed no emotion As he was sentenced thursday by col. Howard c. Eggers the military judge who presided at the court martial at fort Mcnair. Eggers also sentenced Hall to a dishonourable Dis a charge from the  and ordered him to forfeit All future pay and allowances. ,. Hall who had pleaded guilty monday to 10 counts of espionage attempted espionage and failure to obey  regulations will be eligible for parole after cry. Anglo years. Most of the government s ease against Hall including the details of his espionage activities was outline for Eggers during closed sessions of the court martial. Hall an intelligence analyst with a top secret Security clearance was arrested dec. 21 near Savannah on., and accused of delivering film and documents dealing with communications intelligence and War plans to Warsaw pact nations. At the time of his arrest Hall was assigned to the 2n the Tennessee state Penitentiary j 0 years ago today. March 11, 1979 tens of thousands of iranian women walked off their jobs in Tehran to protest air tempts by the new iranian regime to curtail their free Doms under a proposed islamic Republic