European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday april is 1989 county prisoner misses Freedom us by a hair Billings Mont a a prisoner who escaped from a courthouse slopped two blocks away to get a shave and a haircut and was captured Slit wearing his Handcuffs and a Waist Chain. Cathy arc Kkt said the Man came into her Barbershop and was in a hurry to have his hair Cut and his heard and Mustache shaved off. He was sweating like a pig and would t Lake olt his jacket she said. He was real uncomfortable when he was jetting his hair shampooed. He told me he d been hit by a  arc Kkt said she did t notice anything unusual unlit he remained in the shop to use Lite Telephone after his haircut. She said she kept seeing something Metal though the Handcuffs were under his sleeves and the Chain around his Waist was inside his coat. She finally realized he was handcuffed and called police from a nearby restaurant. Police arrested Rick Savaria 33, who had escaped two hours earlier from a line of eight prisoners at the county courthouse said undersheriff Chuck Maswell. Head of joint chiefs of staff to visit soviet Union in june Washington a adm. William j. Crowe chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Friday said he will travel to the soviet Union in june the first mod Ern Day visit by Stich an officer. . And soviet officials arc still working on the exact Date and other details according to Crowe who made the announcement during testimony to the sen ate armed services committee. The visit is part of an Exchange in which marshal Sergei f. Fakhro Mayev the soviet Union s first Deputy minister of defense and chief of general staff travelled to the United Stales last july. Fakhr Omeyer visited North Carolina Texas. Oklahoma and South Dakota. This is a very positive development said sen. John Warner of Virginia ranking Republican on the committee. He noted that the panel has advocated More Exchange Between our senior military officers in terms of visits and meetings with. The senior soviet military -. In the past High . And soviet military officials have met in connection with world War ii conferences in Berlin and Yalta in the soviet Union Pentagon officials said. -.-. During Friday s hearing on a wide Range of issues Crowe also said defense Secretary Dick Cheney is facing some gut wrenching decisions on the budget. Meanwhile congressional leaders joined president Bush at the White House to announce a $24 billion to $28 billion deficit reduction plan. The agreement Calls for restraining Overall fiscal 1990 growth in military programs to below the rate of inflation. The Pentagon would be held id about $299 billion in outlays virtually the same As this year. Mill tary spending authority which includes commitments that Span More than one fiscal year would be about $305.5 billion. This is going to be a Tough Tough Puzzle for the defense department and it is going to require some reductions in some of the pillars Crowe old the com Mittee. Whether they Are Force reductions or not it this Early stage remains to be  Cheney hinted this week that the b-2 stealth bomber and other High tech weapons that Haven l Cyl gone into production May be prime targets As he tries to Cut about $10 billion from the fiscal 1990 budget proposed by former president Reagan. Defense sources who requested anonymity also said Cheney is considering a slowdown in production of Trident missile submarines building one every two years instead of font a year and might also order some cuts in troop strength. Cheney is facing an april 25 deadline for presenting the Bush administration s military budget proposal to congress"."". -. North s Money woes ended in 5r witness says Washington. A Oliver North was so pinched for Money that he complained about not having enough to buy lunch and gasoline but his complaints suddenly hopped in mid 1985, a former National Security coun cil official testified Friday. The appearance by witness Mary Pix who was the a pcs director of administration came on the final Day of testimony in North s Iran Contra  statements in the trial look place feb. 2l, find 48 people have Testi fied since Lhnn , District judge Ger hard a. Go sell said final arguments will begin tuesday with the jury to be sequestered  at the Carliest,.-".". The prosecution is seeking to portray North As a career military7 officer who became hungry for Money while working at the Csc where he controlled a Cash fund in his office Safe thai was intended to provide Covert Aid to the Contra re Bels in Nicaragua Dix testified that the Marine Lieuten ant colonel who is now retired complained on five occasions through mid 1985 that he was strapped for Cash in a few occasions in the hallway As she was going Home North ran after her Yelling Mary Mary she recalled. She said that he would need Cash to go Home complaining that he did t have enough to buy gasoline. In other instances colonel North would get very upset if the Petty Cash ban for paying cab Faro was empty Dix said. When North was t reimbursed rapidly enough for office expenses he would be pretty frantic in trying to get. Csc staff members to process his expense accounts to turn them around As soon As  Fie said his credit cards were charged to the limit she said. On a few other occasions while she was in her office he would run by. His face was red. He was very upset with my staff about not. Being reimbursed fast enough she said. I would Herd him from my area she recalled. North said at one Point that there was not enough Cash to go Home and not enough for lunch Money she testified. Prosecutor David Zynow asked whether North s complaining stopped. It slopped o the Best of my recollection in mid-1985," Dix replied. North testified monday thai the $3,000 balance on a used Csc suburban vehicle he bought in Ioctl bar 1985 was paid from Money he kept in a Metal Box in a closet Al his Home. But the Salesman who sold the vehicle William Howell testified Friday that North said he was going to get the Money from the White House credit Union. In testimony monday North said he. Paid off the 13,038 balance on the $8,038 vehicle four Days after making the Down payment. Prosecutor John Lieker asked North whether he got s3.000 in Cash that Day from retired air Force maj Oen. Rich Ard Accord whose  a mile or two. From the car lot in  -. North said he got a lot of Money from general Secord on a lot of occasions and did t remember that particular Day. From february to May 1985 Secord who had been enlisted by North to run weapons to the nicaraguan rebels arranged four private sales of arms for the contras v -. North is accused of accepting an Illis Gat gratuity from Secord a 113,800 Home Security system and converting to his own use $4,300 in traveler s checks from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero. The checks were run through a Cash fund that North kept in his office Safe r a about j90.000 to $ 100,000 from Ca Micro was funnelled through the office Safe. As Well As $150.000 to j200.000 in Cash from Accord. North said he destroyed the Ledger detailing How the Money was spent on orders from Cia director Wil Liam Casey who is now dead. As North s criminal trial draws to a close his lawyers Are trying to introduce evidence showing that in All his actions North was doing the bidding  Rea Gan administration official. One document shows that North and Casey met Al cast 26 times and talked by phone on Al least 157 occasions from Jan. 3, 1984, through nov. 24 1986. The defense also wants to introduce a document showing that National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane was in charge of responding to questions on North s Contra activities. North is accused of making false statements in connection with those responses which denied he was helping the rebels. The document is a computer note say ing Ihal Mcfarlane received congressional letters and he finally Send them to Ollie and asked for draft letters. My in Jane made himself the action officer on this. And think this is one Issue he wants to do his  the computer note was written by the a pcs Legal counsel. 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