European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A pagaf2b in stars and stripes sunday. April 9,1989 dockworkers at 5 ports in Britain strike in protest London the government Friday moved to abolish labor regulations thai guarantee Dock workers jobs for life prompting strikes by thou Sands of employees at five big British ports including Liverpool and Tilbury. One Union Leader warned abolition of the 42 year old National Dock labor scheme May pro Voke a nationwide 41 like. More than 2,200 dockworkers at Liverpool in Northwestern England and the East coast port of Tilbury two of Britain s biggest ports walked out after mass meetings Friday. Another English port Southampton was Al a standstill and smaller walkouts disrupted Bristol and the scottish port of Glasgow Britain s other newer 29 main pods employ ing another 4,000 dockworkers arc not covered by the scheme. Bui the Union Leader said he believed they would also walk off the Job if a National strike was called. National docks strikes in 1972 and 1975 hit Large parts of inc British Economy. Alaska Oil spill spreads 100 Miles outside Valdez Valdez. Alaska for the first Lime since the nation s worst Oil Tanker spill two weeks ago Oil Slicks have hit Shore outside Prince William sound and forced a major shift of cleanup re sources to communities along inc environmentally fragile Kenai Peninsula More than 100 Miles Southwest of here.". Exxon corp official said 30,000 feet of containment Boom and five Oil skimming devices Are being moved into the Gulf of Alaska As state officials reported that Oil has appeared on part of the Chiswell islands and the Mouth of resurrection Bay. Federal fish and wildlife service officials said they had shelved plans to open a new Rescue station for sea otters in Cordova on the sound and were considering a Center for otters and Birds at Seward off the Giitl of a Aska coast. North from Page 1 answer any questions about the matter saying he was concerned about endangering the  North in defending himself against charges of lying to Congress said that he had preferred to Deal with congressional queries about his role in the Contra Aid operation by refusing to Tell Congress anything. He said he argued thai congressional committees should be told bluntly we Don t have to answer these questions because to do so would interfere with the presi Dent s constitutional Powers. Mcfarland rejected his suggestion after talking with the president. North testified. He said my approach was far too confrontational. He knew How to Han dle this.". North also shifted to Mcfarlane the full blame for incorrect replies to then rep. Michael d. Barnes d md., when Barnes House foreign affairs subcommittee was trying to Check up on North also in 1985. And he accused Mcfarlane of directing him to alter five National Security Council documents that Barnes had demanded to Sec. V. These documents clearly showed whal i was doing in Central America All the things i d been sent to do. Consulate from page.1/ " make the chancery secure. A Trade group headed by Dwayne. Andreas chair Man of Archer Daniels Midland co., offered to buy the building for use its business offices. The soviets would have to approve any Sale because inc building was intended for use As a new embassy built under a 1972 agreement Between the two coun tries. A study done for the Reagan administration by for Mer. Defense Secretary James r. Schlesinger recommended last year that the top Throe floors be Dis mantled and rebuilt while an Annex also was put up next to the chancery. Soldier gets 20 years for drug distribution Fulda West c Many is a 24-year-old private convicted o two counts of wrongful distribution of heroin and no count of conspiracy introduction of drugs was Nten cd to 20 years in prison a Community spoke so Mirrian said Friday. Pvt. I Warren. Pcs of he troop 3rd so 11 the army Cav regt Al received a s15,000 Fine. He will serve an additions 24 months if the Fine is not paid Ronale Slicer Sai j after the court marital wednes Day Jones also i ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances and Gici a bad conduct discharge she said. Jones was found o be conspiring with other soldiers at Mph Celers Bai Acks in dad Hersfeldt to distribute illegal drugs to Othi Sec members Slicer said. Throughout la two Day trial testimony was presented linking Joi s to an ongoing distribution ring within Hii troop hich from May to August 1988, made hashish Coc be and heroin readily available to soldiers in his Trio she said. On aug. 11 and 6 Jones also sold drugs to an undercover drug sup ression team agent at a bar two blocks from the no Jones will begin s sentence at the army confine ment facility in Manheim before being transferred to fort la Vanworth an. And that was directly contrary to what Mcfarlane s earlier tetters to Congress had said North recalled. Mcfarlane he said told him these need to be  although North said he protested that that does t make sense his Boss insisted that they be changed. North said he responded Aye Aye sir. But he did not alter the documents until a year later he told the jury. Then he said he did so after Mcfarland again asked whether the alterations had been made. I went Back and altered them consistent with whal he had asked North  one Point in his testimony however North did admit that he lied to members of a congressional com Mittee who had come to inc White House in 1986 to ask about his role with the Contra. That too is the basis of charges against him. I had Given the commitment of the president of the United states to foreign governments in 18 or 19 nations that there were things that should not be revealed he said. So he did not Tell he truth when he was asked about such things he said. At several Points in his testimony North sought to buttress his lawyers1 repealed argument that  simply been caught in a bitter political conflict be tween the White House and Congress Over . Aid for the Contra. I Felt like a Pawn in a chess game being played by giants North ild the jury. Gorbachev i Pagat  Force reduction talks meanwhile Britain s Queen Elizabeth ii accepted an invitation to the soviet Union from Gorbachev political heir to the communist revolutionaries who murdered her Grandfather Cousin the last russian Czar. The invitation was made Over lunch at Windsor Castle. The Queen thanked Gorbachev and said she hoped it oui us possible  to visit the soviet. Union in due cowse.". On the soviet dab Islic front Gorbachev ended his two Day trip to Britt Wilh a confident Progress report on his plan to restructure soviet government saying that although the difficulties he faced were More serious than he at first eni aged. There was no turning Back for anyone  v to his speech  these Points on uranium production s of this year production of enriched weapons Granvi Ranquin in the soviet Union will cease in addition l he 1987 shutdown of an Industrial  the production of weapons Grade plutonium two similar reactors would be closed Over the next two years and not reply  a Risbourg director of a International Institute for Sira Egic studies told  this is not As significant As it might sound Fol cause there is plenty or weapons Grade uranium arum which the soviets could use to produce new  if they wish to. But it s a new  i on nato s nuclear modernization plans objectively speaking in our Century everything is linked. So of course there can be no doubt that of Lor instance nato goes ahead with its Prog Arnof modernizing tactical nuclear weapons this is Bond to affect the Vienna Force reduction talks of incidence building measures and the situation in Europe in  disputing the Allied Contin Jpn that the soviet Union has its own modernization program he said we strongly oppose any plan Fror the modernization of nuclear weapons. We  not modernizing nor do we intend to Modco tic them unless we Are forced  �