Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 4, 1989

You are currently viewing page 4 of: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 4, 1989

   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes tip Buday april 4.1989 Kelley says pressure kept North in Csc Washington a the former head of inc Marine corps testified Mon Day that he reluctantly extended Oliver North s Lour Al the National Security Council Afler High level administration officials persuaded him Hal North s work was too important for him to leave. Former Marine corps commandant Gen. Paul x. Kelley Lesi Ifird at North s rial that in Spring 19s4 there were a number of people who intervened in inc North matter including Cia director William Casey and . Ambassador canc Kirkpatrick. They urged that Nonh be permitted to remain at the .nsc.-. Also monday the supreme court re fused to scuttle North s Iran Contra trial or Block the trials of two of his co defendants. The court without comment rejected arguments aimed at dismissing the Case because of testimony the defendants gave to a congressional committee. Contacts Wilh Casey and Kirkpatrick followed a plea from Robert Mcfarland then National Security Council adviser that North was engaged in extremely important work and should stay on said Kulcy y the former Marine commandant said he was concerned hat a delay in return ing to inc corps would Hurt North s Mili tary career but he acquiesced to the re quest. While Kelley was on the witness stand prosecutor John Keker presented a series of messages Between North and Mcfear Lanc showing thai North did not want to return to the Marine corps base a Camp  to command a battalion. A major private contributor to the Contra cause Ellen Garwood testified that North never asked her for Money and that at no time did she make out a Check in his presence. She said that a s 75.000 Check she wrote to a fund Rais ing organization was drafted after she Lefi a briefing by North in his office. He said this is a desperate situation for the Freedom fighters i m not asking you for Money. As a member of the government and the National Security Council i cannot ask for Money " said Garwood an Austin Texas heiress who has said previously that her contributions to the Contra cause totalled $2.2 million. On sept. 12, 1985, Garwood said she. Wrote out a Check for 132,000 after a briefing from North at a dal Las Airport. Kellcy became the first witness for the defense following a six week presenta Tion by the prosecution which formally concluded its Case monday Kelley said that in february 19b5 Mcfarland asked in a breakfast meeting that North s Csc tour be extended again. " i was not favourably disposed to Grant inc Extension but again did so said Kelley by february i9b5. North was deeply involved in a secret Effort to ship arms to inc contras. Congress had banned Mili tary Aid to inc nicaraguan rebels As of october 1984. A third request to Ellenj North s Lour came in the Spring of 1986 and was granted through the Normal channels said Kelley. Cities get of to ban adults in teen clubs Washington a the supreme court ruling there is no general i de right of social association Mon Day Lei communities protect Young teen agers by Banning anyone Over 18 from dance Halls catering to minors. The justices unanimously upheld such a Dallas ban saying to does not violate Young people s right to associate with wham they please. These opportunities might be described As Assoc a supreme court Roundup Tiona in common parlance but they simply do not involve inc sort of expressive association that inc first amen Domeni Lias been held o protect chief Justice William ii. Rehnquist wrote for the court. It is  he said that dance halt patrons who May number i top on any Given night Are not engaged  son of intimate human relationships the court previously has protected. Although inc Ward association does nol App at in the Constitution a Long series of supreme court duct Sioni has a Cofini i d such a right including political and familial associations. But inc court never has Jaid that such constitutional Protection extends to social or recreational associations As Wail in other actions monday the court made it significant easier for Law enforcement officials to question and arrest air travellers suspected of being drug couriers. The court ordered the reinstate ment of a drug Possession conviction of a Man carry ing 1.000 Grams of cocaine when he was slopped by authorities in Honolulu who became suspicious of his onions. Agreed to dude whether defense contractors Vio late a  of in Ernst Law when paying sevc Ranee to employees who quit to Lake important govern ment jobs the court said iiwil1 hear appeals by the Heine co and five former employees who received 1485,000 in Severance when they left to Lake jobs in the Reagan administration ruled state courts Lack authority to permit the adoption of Indian babies by non indians even when the natural parents leave the reservation to give up the children the justices said tribal rights and Indian culture Lake precedence in such circumstances Over individual rights let Sund a ruling that City police officers May to required to  drug tests and tests that Are part of annual physical Crami nations the justices without comment turned away arguments in behalf of Washington township n a police officers. In the dance Hall Casc the state court had struck  Pallas  licenses certain dance hulls on the condition Only teens aged 14 to 18 be admitted As patrons the ordinance makes exceptions for parents Legal guardians and dance Hull employees. The Dallas ordinance was challenged by Charles m Slang in who operates the Twilight skating rink. Stanglin has a to Cal cd class e dance Hall License issued to those that Cater to minors. He divided the floor of his skating rink so that a trons dance or skate to the same music in full View of one another. People Over 18 can be admitted to the skating rink but not the dance Hall. Toll und trouble in Shakespeare s witches weren t Reft bring to no Avis of identical twins Nhuc they intoned those ominous Nords in Muc Bolh and certainly any tall and trouble inc proud and Hupps parents i Al und Bill Tysee will experience double double. Lic through the cars Are like to be outweighed by the Hen Joys of bringing up the two ads of twins a lice year ih.". Olds Benjamin left and Adam Are holding new horns Kate left and Carolyn bom lust wednesday at Oak Forest 111. Chess player says he defected because of soviet discrimination new York a Gata Kamsky a leading Sorf. It chess player who Sefc coed lust week monday said he wanted to escape the restrictive soviet chess establish ment and discrimination be allegedly suffered As a crimean tatar. I decided to leave the soviet Union because i can t play in chess tournaments so i can t grow in chess. Here i can play in All the tournaments every year inc i4. Car old Kamsky said to English at new York s Marshall chess Hub in his Kirbt Public appearance since defecting last tuesday. His father Lusiam Kamsky who defected with his son pleaded for help to win his wife s emigration from the soviet Union. Reading in faltering English from a prepared statement the father said now a get the Freedom. My son can play in different cities in All the nor id please help Rny wife later speaking through an interpreter rus Lam said his second wife Bella who is galas Stepmother knew in Advance of their decision to  the United stairs when they came Here Foru chess tournament last week yes they discussed it All together As a family and they jointly came to this decision that they would slay i arc said lev Albert a grandmaster who defected from the soviet Union in 1979 and translated for the Kamsky. Rustam Kamsky said discrimination against the family because hey were ethnic crimean tatars also had some bearing on their derision tatars Don l have their Homeland Moscow is like an occupying Power he said. Organisers in the other republics arc Able to support their players. But because there is no such thing for the tatars they Are in an underprivileged position compared with other chess  the elder Kamsky said soviet officials had been holding his son Back for three years. Garry Kasparov was trying to tight against this group of chess officials which controls soviet chess but even Kasparov is often unsuccessful be said. Kamsky said his son s position was far weaker than Kasparov s and in the end they decided we could t do anything Here last tuesday the Kamsky asked for political Asylum in the untied states before the last round of the new York open tournament the Young Kamsky won his final round game and was spirited away to an undisclosed address in new Jersey  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade