European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday april 7.1989 in full Bloom the american cancer society has its own variety of lower children and a grinning Shalla while 4, is one of them. This week she served is a Daffodil during the Prudential Center s Daffodil festival a springtime Salute to the society in Boston the festival included a Barbershop quartet a 300-Pim cuke and the Sale of More than 5,000 daffodils the proceeds from which will Benefit the Siw Cly North says he followed orders from White House Washington a Oliver North firmly de fended his Iran mantra role thursday from the witness. Stand at his criminal trial declaring he was merely a Marine following White House orders. I was not step Ping in i was brought in he said.  1. In one riveting moment. North was stopped before he could respond to his lawyer s suggestion that then presi Dent Reagan had designated him for the role. Asked directly who told him to secretly help the nicaraguan rebels. North named former National Security adviser Robert Mcfarland Mcfarland s then Deputy John Poindexter and the late Cia director William Casey. North s testimony came shortly after his lawyers read the jury a lengthy statement agreed Toby prosecutors that said George Bush had played a Rale As intermediary in Reagan s secret Effon to Aid the nicaraguan rebels after Congress banned official . Help. As rapid fire developments replaced the sometimes Lan guid Pace of the trial now in its seventh week the jury heard that Bush personally told the president of Honduras in 1985 that extra Aid was being tunnelled to his country. In earlier testimony Mcfarian Hud said the Aid was part of a secret agreement calling for Honduras to help inc Coulm. At the White House Deputy press Secretary Stephen Hart said i have no comment on the statement adding this is part of an ongoing trial.". North who faces 12 felony charges including lying or misleading Congress and then attorney general Edwin a Csc Iii about Hisco Foresto help the contras testified that he Hod been ordered by his superiors to keep silent about his role in keeping the rebels Bomgar Lerche Cuttito official Aid. " " " v -. I was told not to Tali anybody North said. I was particularly admonished to keep secret that another country was providing millions of dollars to help the con iras.". .-.-. That was an apparent reference to saudi Arabia which supplied some $32 million in Aid to the contras beginning in mid-1984. North described himself is an orders obeying Marine who had planned to return to Camp la Jenc to command a battalion when top officials in the Reagan administration enlisted him to run the secret Contra operation in 1984. Was there a time when you were stepping in to help the contras asked North lawyer Brendan Sullivan i was not stepping in 1 was brought in North replied. Sullivan asked whether North understood that Reagan had designated him As the contras new provider. Prosecutor John pc scr objected . District judge Gerhard a. Go sell sustained the objection and North did t answer. After the congressional ban nit off official . Aid North said Hen Jed up handling everything that had been coming from the Cia to the contras. North dressed in a dark suit finally Sal Down in the witness Box nearly two months after inc jury began hearing testimony and nearly two years after he told his Story in televised congressional hearings. The congressional Testi Mony was Given under a Grant of immunity from prosecution and jurors in the Cunt it Case have had to avoid seeing or hearing anything about thar much publicized appear Ance. ,.  _ -. Before his testimony defense lawyers spent nearly an hour Reading into the record the admission of facts concerning the Reagan administration s efforts supporting the Contra struggle against the leftist government of Nicaragua. In addition to the statements about Bush s involvement the document also said that a representative of panamanian Leader Manuel Noriega offered in a meeting with North to assassinate sandinista leaders in Nicaragua but that North replied the United Stales wanted no part of that. In return for the assassination according to the statement read to the jury Noriega wanted a Promise from the us the . Government to help clean up Noriega s image and a commitment to lift the us ban on military soles to the panamanian  Etc tells Kraft to Stop Washington up a Federal Trade commission judge thursday or dered Kraft inc. To Stop misrepresenting the nutrient Cunt Cal of its Chi Csc slices ruling the company falsely advertised they contained As much Calcium As five ounces of milk. Kraf unc. Falsely advertised thai its Kraft singles clip Csc slices contained As much Calcium As five ounces of milk and contain More Calcium than do most imitation slices said Lewis f. Parker the  Coin Mission s administrative Law jul tic. Parker ordered the Glen View 111.  company no Lomis represent he nutrient Content of its individually wrapped slices of cheese in tie future the Etc said. The Etc issued its complaint against Kraft in 1987 charging false m isl Cading and unsubstantiated  according to the Etc one of the challenged ads said imitation slices use hardly any milk. But Kraft has five ounces per slice. So her Little Bones get Calcium they need to  Parker found that the ads reference to the precise amount of milk in a Kraft single and their reference to milk and Calcium can be  implying that a slice of Kraft singles contains the same amount of Calcium As five ounces of milk and that because there is no mention that Calcium is lost in the proc Essing of cheese the ads convey the milk equivalency  the judge also ruled thai language in the ads can be interpreted since they refer to Calcium and milk and emphasize the amount of milk in a slice of Kraft singles As implying that imitation slices which they state use hardly any milk contain less Calcium than Kraft  the milk equivalency claim was false. Parker said because a three to four ounce slice of Kraft singles has approximately 70 percent of the Calcium of five ounces of whole milk and less than 68.2 percent of the Calcium of five ounces of Low fat or skim milk. Thus the claim that a slice of Kraft singles contains the same amount of Calcium As five ounces of milk is false Parker said. Parker also ruled that the claim that Kraft singles contain More Calcium than do most imitation cheese slices was false because virtually nil non Dairy slices con Tain the same amount of Calcium As Kraft singles do. . Jails visitor from Holland who admits to having aids st1llwater, Minn a immigration officials on wednesday refused to free from prison a dutch visitor who soy saw has aids saying that allow ing him 10 attend a forum on the disease might endanger the health of others. Tom Schill Cri District director of he immigration and natural Alion service said a decision could be issued thursday on Hans Paul pc Hoefs request for a waiver from Laws denying . Entry to individuals with dangerous contagious diseases Schiltgen said  Grant a waiver the ins must verify that ver hours disease docs not pose a health threat and thai the . Government would no incur expenses for Var hocus care. Parole is an extreme item thai would be used Only in extreme circumstances he said. " Var Hoff 31, wants it attend it conference on acquired immune deficiency syndrome in san Francisco. Var Hoff was taken into custody at Minneapolis is. Paul internal tonal air on on sunday by customs officials who discovered the aids drug at in his bag Gage and then questioned him about the disease. Var Hoff an aids prevention worker in the Netherlands told officials that he has aids and was in route to Tri conference. " you can t get aids from seeing me or giving me a hand or something Var Hoff said. You Nave to do other things which i m not intending to do. So 1 Don t think there s any danger of me spreading the  the detention of the Rotterdam resident prompted denunciations from aids activists. But immigration officials said they were just allowing the Law Wear holding or verho Fasan excl Dable alien because he has a dangerous and contagious disease Schiltgen said Schiltgen said tests would be conducted to verify thai verhoef has the disease before authorities proceed with the Case. The tests should be completed within a few Days he said. For Yean immigration Laws have required people who want to enter the United states 10 establish that they have no dangerous contagious diseases. Congress added aids to that list in 19s7. Var hocus incarceration prov led protests at the slate Capitol in St. Paul and criticism of the ins s handling of the Case from sister Mary Madonna Ash Ion the suit to health commissioner. There was no need to treat or. Verhoef in this fashion while the Legal issues surrounding his Case were resolved Ashton said. Having this disease is not a crime and treating it has though it were can serve no useful  Nintendo to sell game by soviet Redmond Wash up Nintendo pea Mica announced thursday that a soviet de signed computer game thelris soon will be offered for play on the Nintendo entertainment system last month Nintendo entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with Elora the soviet for eign Trade association to Market the game created by soviet computer Wiz Alxey i Pathi nov. In predicting Shait Chris would be one of Nintendo s All Lime hits Nintendo president Minoru Arakawa rioted that a Zhitkov and Tetras had both been receiving a cat Deal of publicity including a March 20 Story in Newsweek Magazine. Arakawa said his Confidence in Tetras also was bolstered by the More than 100,000 copies of the game sold for Home computers in the United Stales and the numerous Industry prizes awarded to i worldwide marketing rights for the nes version of the gamer which challenges players to race the clock to arrange falling blocks of various shapes and colors into neat rows were attained after whirlwind negotiations Between Arakawa and senior soviet government officials. Nintendo of America is based in Redmond and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo co. Ltd. Of Kyoto Japan