European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse North jury hears final arguments Glim North by the Chi news service Washington jurors were asked tuesday to decide whether Oliver North is a liar and a thief the Joe Isuzu or the innocent victim of & sick. An twisted attack by prosecutors. In closing Nijiu Mesils of. His 9-Wcck-old criminal trial the former while House aide was described into vivid but Sla tingly contrasting verbal porn aids. I. After of witnesses and Reading reams of evidence much of it on nerdy Dassi fied Intelli gence document the 12 juror were to begin deliberating North s Fate by thursday.1 summing up his Case Keker Pond Raymd North the Central character of the Iraq con Ira drama As a sch Cirico and profiteer who followed Adolf hitter s strategy that Llic Victor will never beaked if he told the f Ruth Keker compared North a Security Council staff member to the comically Sleazy Salesman used in television commercials for a japanese car manufacturer. He called North the Joe Isuzu of defense a Lorn to Brendan Sulli Van angrily protected that the pros or Union had Pursi Jed North with a phony Case from Start to they la do anything to get Colo Nel North Sullivan said. To have colonel North s Nam and Adolf Hitler linked in his court room. he said. This Man is riot Adolf Hitler and he does t do things like Adolf Hitler there was to be another round of arguments wednesday. The Case was expected to go to the jury thursday. The Silzars and stripes authorized unofficial . Aruelo forces i Good morning vol. 48, no. 3 thursday april 20. 19 � 8683 a to Cloe Washington a the House voted overwhelm Loback a plan to close 86 military bases and scale Back five More despite complaints in Faithe move will not save As much As advocates had promised. By a Vole of 381-43, the House a Cocci cd a Resolution to disapprove the recommendations of the commission on Das realignment and closure giving the Green Light for defense Secretary Dic Cheney to follow through on inc panel s proposals beginning in january. It is incumbent upon All of us to make sure this base closing list is implemented. Said the chairman of the House Ann cd services chairman rep. Les Aspito d wish.-,. The commission s recommendation affect is Domestic military by closing some reducing turf operations of others and changing the missions of still others. The Law establish hindi fhe commission the base closure and realignment act requires that once approved by the Secretary of defense the commission s recommendations proceed unless bathhouses of Congress Vole to disapprove them in which Case none of the proposals would arc Cut Sci. The Vot Mearis the changes proposed by the Cor Mission will proceed. In it Feal before the vote opponent said the plan would not save As much Money As the commission projected. Backs ar6posal o6 bases this list is Rophy does not save Money said report to Aston a no. He was join dry representatives fro Illinois and Ca Nornia in saying that the plan would Ryjoi save 1694 million in inc Firel Acari of j5.6 billion Over 20 years As a copy Mission projected. The Ftp Kew Jersey representative also nol Chihai a general accounting office re poit had Pund that the soft Mission fied data. In its anal a army training Cen ters including per this no had accurate data been used fort Dix would have been ranked first Sasto said. Rep. Terry Bruce d-ll., said the is Imail in savings rely on a Tutor de sense policy changes including Induc. Tons in personnel and not on the closing and realigning of bases. All but 12 of the Voles for the came from representatives of Lulli Nois California and new Jersey. Hep. Pai sdiroedcr/d-cab., a Mem Ber of the House armed services com Miia a said the Gao had found som errors in inc commission s work hut the Bottom line was still the savings. Mambu we Doh l save As much Money. On some of the Bancsi maybe we Dis agreed with the models thai were used bul they never said on one of these bases that it was going to Cost Money to close them if you look at it Over .-.a. Six year. Period Schroeder said. Last month the armed services com Mittee voted 43-4 10 support the com Mission report. Schroeder also said that she Andrea. Drian Donnelly d-mass., will introduce legislation next week to Clos and realign bases overseas. Schroeder said that total Basing costs overseas have Schrode increased nearly 500 percent since 1974 and thai leaving those installations oui of the Domestic base closure Bill was a glaring our allies have insisted on higher and higher payments Forth permission to operate bases on their soil . In essence we Are being forced to pay More for the privilege of defending Griir allies $2 billion a year up from a million in 1974," Twenty six democrats and 17 re pub Licano Voled for the Resolution and 229 democrats and 152 republicans voted against i four democrats and five re publicans did not vote. / intend to fight says Wright Washington a House speaker Jim Wright a Texas opening his defense against a string of ethics com Mittee charges,1 sought tuesday to rally democratic colleagues and told them i intend to fight and 1 intend to. Win he said that while he May have made mistakes in judgment " have never done anything o Dishonour this ins Litu lion and i never will. At the same time. Democrats agonized Over the political decision if Ivy me on whether to keep Wright As speaker and one said it my be that he toughest political Vole of our lives will be the Oneto save f related Story i Agi 6. In a 30-Minutc speech to a private ses Sion of the democratic caucus in the House chamber and later in press re leases Wright chose to concentrate his defense on one Issue the charge that his wife Betty did to substantial work for the 571,000 she received from a ,Texas,.friend from 1980 to 1984. But More troubling to Many of his col leagues were charges thai Wright sought to evade House limits on outside earned income through seven bulk sales of his Book reflections of a Public Man most of them made in lieu of accepting speaking fees from interest groups. Wright received a stand my ovation at the end of his , which included an admission that he had made some errors in judgment and May have made some mistakes in my lift Accord ing to participants. He also told his fellow democrats who re Clicc cd him As speaker just. ago that he did not want to continue to hold the Post if he could t bean effective Leader of the parly according to one member present. Emerging from the chamber he told reporters i told them i intend to fight and i intend to win. I told them 1 never done anything in Dishonour this in Stjulion and Neve by Ace would like to foment letter. a by Joseph Owen i staff writer Brunau am inn Austria the cheery paste coloured houses gothic churches and Stone carvings Are it feast for the eyes in this riverfront town bul the. Drub House at sat Iburg a Vorstadt 15 guts most of the attention a Stone Tablet Over the first floor identifies it As a Library but it has t held books for years. At other times in was a school and a youth Center. Lube Richute Oberosler Rich a crafts program for physically and mentally Handi capped children has rented the House since 1977,. But the House s varied uses belie in most significant role in history. Adolf Hiller who Sivad Power in Ger Many in 1933 and unleashed world War 11 on Europe i there 100 years ago Loday when inc Gasthaus Zum Pommer. Hitler s Rathet customs official in inc vast Austro hungarian Empire moved his family away from Turau Nau in 1892 to Lake u Job to the German City of assay. And Braun a residents anxious disassociate them selves from the horrors of Hitler s Are Quick to Point thai oui neither fascism nor National socialism wcffchjui.,Here," said the Rev. Stefan Hoffr the roman Catholic pastor of Saint Stephen s Church where Hitler was baptized two Days after his birth. He really had very Lille to do with Brunau Hofer said. He surely did t love Hoffr said he docs not make the baptismal registry available for Public inspection because Loo Many re porters have inquired about in. He said some past International press reports portrayed Brunau in an unflattering tight so local residents Are wary of the renewed attention this year however mayor Gerhard Skiba has decided to confront the at nation head on. At his Ilire see Hitler on Page 3
