European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2sff the stars and stripes wednesday april 19,19b9 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 Hii tight for life and brought the death toll to 95. Taylor a lord Justice of Appeal said he wants to ensure that similar tragedies never 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 the actions of South Yorkshire police i would respectful say o All those who arc Dis posed to comment on this terrible disaster that it would be better for us to Wail to ascertain the facts before proposing any solutions Taylor said he promised trial n s i flu by will coverall aspects of the tragedy including the behaviour of fans outside the match policing sports ground safety crowd control and government plans to require soccer fans to carry identity Cardi the focus of the inquiry Wilt be to find out what happened and make a commend ions Aslo How his situation can be avoided in the future Taylor said evidence from fans of could form an important part of the inquiry which will include Public hearings he said t Dir said evidence from the police inquiry will be passed to Taylor und he Coroner this inquiry is seeking Lac Ruth and to Cut away Llic mythology that is beginning to Erow he said in Switzerland Europe s chief Sokir executive apologised for comparing English fans told animals. But Jacques Georgies president of the Euto can Union of football associations also has indicated that fans be Havior at the club semifinal in Sheffield May keep a Felish club barred from european despite a recent vote to readmit them in i9w. Of 17.0 people injured saturday 25 being treated in Sheffield. Nineteen arc in intensive re. A Coroner was to Start an inquest tuesday to deter mine the Cav of Sis of the deaths. Police hive re leased the names of All the victims except the boy who died tuesday. Newspaper Typo Rte indicated thai tic deaths drily have been mused by a police officer s attempt so pr6 vent a fatal Accident among fans pressing to get old Sheffield s Hillsborough stadium. A Large Ami at Liverpool s an fold so ditch is catered with a Wirs and other tributes from grieving fins. Of fans into the stadium late and then responding too slowly when latecomers crushed fans against the 10 foot High Fence there also arc charges some fans had forged tickets or had no tickets at All for the sold out 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. He also said the police officer s decision to open the outer Gale will be a Central question for Taylor s in Quiry survivors say 4,000 fans were pushing at the turnstiles trying to get inside. In Liverpool nine injured fan filled 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 Sec be of the tragedy. The disaster occurred Satu Flay at an English foot Ball association cup Semi Izil Between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Vall the victims were Liverpool fans either crushed again1 a crowd control Fence in front of a standing room Only Terrace or ramp cd or suffocated by the i panicked crowd officials and fan accuse police of letting thousands North i Opaga 1 interview with then attorney general Edwin a Csc he would have seen these words inscribed in Stone where Law ends tyranny pc scr 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 Nicaragua n rebels. In preparing the letters North was shutting Down obstructing halting fouling up the congressional in quiries. Keck said. North made similar denials a year later in a meeting with the Home intelligence committee. / when he took the witness stand in his own defens North cried in describing the false statements he mane to the committee on aug. 6.1986. / were inc i in Lears or were they Crocodile wars i said Keker. Wefun he lied o them he did t shed any Teah. He was thorough and Notti acknowledged that he did t Tell the committee the truth by said he did n t know he was breaking he Law pc for dismissed North s suggestions that he was Fol lowing golfers from top Reagan administration officials such As me Farlance and Casey. Such claims arc no More a defense than the Devil made me do the prosecutor said. / \ riling me truth is something you Learned at your m diner s or icis kicker told the jury deception is not a free government kick or said. Government by deception is not a democratic government. A Emmam by deception is nol ago firn / mint under the Rule of / he said that in contrast to North s portrait of himself1 As a Marine who simply followed orders. The former a Lional Security Council aide also described himself As a Man of great Power who said nol hesitate to Power by saying this is the flute House calling whether the Call was to Cabinet official or a car news briefs 1 time Magazin filed by Gree new. York a 1 test a libel suit filed by c Dicou Over an article Rcpt revived millions of dollars f the lawsuit was tiled new York on monday by j to fight suit Premier me Magazine says it will con Eek Premier Andreas Papan Ting an accusation that he re Mabank. I London and announced in a Androu attorney Leonard Wright from Pagel s he said. Filing of the charges on monday made Wright the first speaker in . History to be confronted with forma House Harjes of ethical wrongdoing although some of Hui predecessors have been tainted by scandals. The voluminous report of Ihor f i Hies committee included new details about Hoy he sold thousands of copies of Hii Book. Reflections of a Public Man to special interest groups. Several colleagues called those deals the most troubling of the charges against the Texas 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 Hiorth of books yielding the congressman s1. 112 in Royalty income. House members arc the rules to accepting no More than 30 percent of Cir salaries in outside speaking fees. The House ethic panel found reason to believe that Wright circumvented that limit by con vening speech Honor aria into Book royalties which Are exempt from the limits. \ in two of her cases a speech to he Ocean Spray Cranberry organization in the fall of j985 and a speech in March 1986 to the mid-conlinont0il & Gas association Wright sold books instead of collecting speaking fees and was Given the boo Jjo distribute As tit1 saw Fil. The cd his committee saw those As Urc ported gifts to the speaker. % my View is that count one dealing with the Book sates is the most serious Issue said rep. Steny Hoyer d-md., vice chairman of the in caucus the organization of All 261 House Dent craps it s a bad Day. It looks Rotten. But at some Point in time the facts do make a difference and will help the speaker he said. Boudin said the amour will seek has not yet been the lawsuit cites the of edition March 13. A s was not on the cover the articles quoted George Koskotas who ing he passed millions Dicou and other figures Papandreou Primi Salon. Of damages that the Premier Csc ruined. 1 Story in time s inter nation Lilar article in the . Edition former greek Bank president jailed in Massachusetts As say in the Bank of Crete to Papan the Premier s government since 1981, has denied the acc Doudin said that if using Koskotas time was relying on a Man whose Chi radar and reputation for truth is questioned by time ill Elf in the article Walesa Jaruzel Sld meet after Solidarity legalized Warsaw Poland a Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and communist party chief Wojcicch Jaru Zutski met tuesday for the first Lime in More Len seven years a Day after the Trade Union to legalized. I feel satisfaction. We have come a very difficult and Long Way Januc ski said after the meeting. Re lated Mary Page 3. Reconciliation is a process not an he said citing the Broad agreement on political and economic Reform reached Between communist authorities and the opposition. Walesa and Jaruzelski began the meeting with a handshake inside a reception room of the parliament building near downtown Warsaw said an official Pho the speaker s problems were the no. I topic of con log Apher who was present at the meeting. He request versa Ion on the House floor.1 cd anonymity
