European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday april 19,1989 stadium probe expands As toll rises to 95 London a sir Peter Taylor broadened a government ordered investigation of Europe s worst soccer disaster tuesday As a 14-year-old boy loss his fight for life and brought the death loll to 95. Taylor a lord jul Isicc of Appeal said he wants o ensure thai similar tragedies new occur. Before heading to the Sheffield stadium Taylor held a news conference with Geoffrey dear West midlands chief Constable who is conducting a separate inquiry into inc actions of South Yorkshire police. I would respectfully say to All those who arc Dis posed to comment on this terrible disaster that it would be belter for us to wait to ascertain inc facts before proposing any solutions Taylor said he promised that his inquiry will cover Alt aspects of the tragedy including the behaviour of fans outside the match policing sports ground safely crowd control and government plans to require soccer fans to catty identity cards. The focus of inc inquiry will be 10 find out what happened and make recommendations As to How this situation can be avoided in the future Taylor said. Evidence from tans would form an important part of the inquiry which will include Public hearings he said. Dear said evidence from the police inquiry passed 16 Taylor and the Coroner. This inquiry is seeking the truth and to Cut away the mythology that is beginning to grow he said. In Switzerland Europe s chief soccer enc Culic apologized for comparing English fans to wild animals. But Jacques Georges president of the european Union of football associations also has indicated that fans be Havior at the club semifinal in Sheffield May keep British clubs barred from european cup tournaments despite a recent vote to readmit them in 1990. Of 170 people injured saturday 25 still arc being treated in Sheffield. Nineteen Are in intensive care. A Coroner was to Start an inquest tuesday of deter mine the cause of six of the deaths. Police have re leased the names of All the victims except the boy who died tuesday. Newspaper reports indicated deaths May have been caused by a police officer s attempt to pre vent a fatal Accident among fans pressing to get into Sheffield ii ill Borough stadium. A Large area at Liverpool s an Fidel stadium is covered with Lowers and other tributes from grieving fans. In Liverpool nine injured fans filed writs in the High court seeking damages for personal injuries. The writs allege negligence or breach of duty against South Yorkshire police and the Sheffield wednesday soccer club whose stadium was the scene of the tragedy. The tipster occurred saturday at an English foot Ball association cup semifinal Between Liverpool an Nottingham Forest All the victims were Liverpool fans either crushed against a crowd control Fence in front of a standing room Only Terrace or trampled or suffocated by the panicked crowd. Officials and fans accuse police thousands North from Page 1 interview with than Homey general Edwin Mccase he would have seen the civic words inscribed in Stone where Taw ends tyranny begins kicker said North responded to congressional inquiries in the late summer of 1985 by falsely denying that the staff of the National Security Council was assisting the nicaraguan rebels a preparing the letters. North was shutting Down obstructing halting fouling up the congressional in quiries. Keker said. North made similar denials a year later in a meeting with the House intelligence committee. When he took the witness stand in his own defense. North cried in describing the false statements he made to the com Millic on aug. 6, 986. Were they real tears or were they Crocodile tears said Keker. When he lied to them lie did t shed any tears. He As thorough and North acknowledged thai he did Tell lie committee the truth but said he did t know he was breaking the Law. Kicker dismissed North s suggestions that he was Fol lowing orders from top Reagan administration officials such As Mcfarlane and Casey. Such claims arc no More a defense than the Devil made me do it the prosecutor said. Telling the truth is something you Learned at your Mother s knee 1 pc scr told the jury government by deception is not a free government pc scr said government by deception is not a democratic government. Government by deception is not u govern ment under the Rule of he said hat in contrast to North s portrait of himself us a Marine who simply followed orders the former National Security Council aide also described himself As a Man of great he said North did not hesitate to abuse that Power by saying this is the while House calling w Hal her the Call was to Cabinet officials or a car of fans into inc stadium late and then responding Loo slowly when latecomers crushed fans against the 10 fool High Fence. There also Are charges some fans had forged tickets or had no tickets at All Tor the sold ouf match at the stadium which has a capacity of 54,000. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd the Cabinet member responsible for police told parliament on monday the government May ban standing room Only terraces at major soccer clubs. -. V v he also said the police officer s decision to open the outer Gale wit be a Central question for Taylor s in Quiry. Survivors say 4,000 fans were pushing at the turnstiles trying to get inside. News briefs Wright from Page 1 he said. Filing of the charges on monday made Wright the firm speaker in . History to be confronted with formal House charges of ethical wrongdoing although some of h is predecessors have been tainted by scandals. The voluminous report of the ethics committee included new details about How he sold thousands of copies of his Book reflections of a Public Man to special interest groups. Several colleagues called those deals Ihu must troubling of the charges against the Texas Democrat. In one Case a March 1986 speech to the fertilizer Institute the Trade group planned to give Wright a plaque or a Small gift in return for his appearance. But Wright s office arranged instead for the group to buy $ 2,023 Worth of books yielding the congressman $ 1,112 in Royalty income. House members Are limited by the rules to accepting no More than130 percent of their salaries in outside speaking fees. The House ethics panel found reason to believe that Wright circumvented that limit by converting speech Honor aria into Book royalties which arc exempt from the limits. In two other cases a speech to the Ocean Spray Cranberry organization in the fall of 1985 and u speech in March 1986 to the mid continent Oil & Gas association Wright sold books instead of collecting speaking fees and was Given the books to distribute As he saw fit. The ethics committee saw those As unreported gifts to he speaker. My View is that count one dealing with the Book sales is the most serious said rep. Stony hover d-md., vice chairman of the House democratic caucus the organization of All 26 House democrats it s a bad Day. It looks a pitch. But 31 some Point in time the facts do make a difference and Wilt help the speaker he said. The speaker s problems were the no. I topic of conversation on the House door. Time Magazine to fight suit filed by greek Premier new York a time Magazine says it will con test a libel suit filed by greek Premier Andreas Papan Dicou Over an article reporting an accusation thai he received millions of dollars from a Bank. The lawsuit was filed in London and announced in new York on monday by Papandreou attorney Leonardo adm Roujina said the amount of damages that the pre Mier will seek has not yet been determined. The lawsuit cites the corer Story in time s International edition March 13. A similar article in the . Edition was not on the cover. The articles quoted a former greek Bank president George Koskola who is jailed in Massachusetts As saying he passed millions from the Bank of Crete to Papandreou and other figures in the Premier s govern ment. Papandreou Premier since 1981, has denied inc accusation Boudin said that in using Koskotas time was rely ing on a Man whose character and reputation for truth is questioned by time itself in the article Abbie Hoffman killed self with drug Coroner says. Doylestown Paap Abbic Hoffman com muted suicide with a massive overdose of a prescription drug known As phenobarbital a Coroner said tuesday. The death was from the combined off cols of Pheno Barbilla and alcohol or. Thomas Rosko said at a news conference. Laboratory tests showed that two other drugs were present in Hoffman s system Rosko said but he added they were in Small amounts and had no connection1with Hoffman s death. Hoffman a 1960s activist who held to his anti establishment convictions was found dead april 12 at ins Home in new Hope. He wus 52, his body has been cremated 1
