European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                W. Germany Genstner we have. The last  Back Page the Sims and trope authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 48, no. 18 Friday May 5, 1989 d.,.� s., d 8693 a North convicted guilty on 3 counts acquitted on 9 Oliver North could be facing 10 years in prison and a total of $750,000 in fines. Washington a former White House aide Oliver North was Pound guilty thursday of illegally falsify ing and destroying documents accepting an illegal gratuity and aiding and alien Ingin the obstruction of Congress in the first trial resulting from inc Iran Contra affair. North the sex Marine who was at the heart of the Reagan administration Effort to Arm Nicaragua rebels was acquitted on nine other counts involving lying to Congress or personally profiting from the deals involved. He sat impassively As . District judge Gerhard a. Gesull read the ver dict. The jurors announced the verdict on their 12th Day of deliberation. Gesull scheduled sentencing for june23. The maximum possible sentences for the convictions total 10 years in prison and $750.000 in fines. North could have faced up to 60 years in prison and finest Otaling $3 million if convicted of All counts. One congressional supporter of North Kep. Dana Rohrabacher. R-calif., a for Mer White House aide for whom North campaigned last year said the jury found North guilty of Only cutting Corners and not by caking the  however prosecutor John Keker told reporters. Colonel North has been Eon a cited of three very serious charges. The jury has spoken after a Long and difficult trial and the principle that no Man i above inc Law has been  spokesmen for former resident Rea Gan in California and for president hush Al the White House said the two men would have no immediate comment on the verdict. Documents introduced in the trial had suggested Bush was More involved in the affair than previous investigations indicated. One document a government approved stipulation said Bush had me with honduran president Roberto Suazo after Reagan approved a quid quo pro Trade of increased . Aid in Exchange for Honduras help for the , who had previously declined to comment on that Issue declared thurs Day. The word of the president of the United Stales George Bush  was no quid pro  North a Marine lieutenant colonel de tailed to the National Security Council was the key figure in the two year Effort to help the rebels fighting Nicaragua leftist government after Congress banned official . Aid. He was involved too in arrangements under which the United Stales secretly sold arms to Iran and he also helped divert some profits from those sales to help the  jury convicted North of falsifying and destroying documents in november1986 to hide Nis role in the affair As it was about to become Public and of accepting an illegal gratuity a $13,800 Home Security system from Iran con tra co defendant Richard Accord. In addition to the nine counts on which he was fully acquitted the jury found North innocent of obstructing Congress by falsifying a chronology of events in the affair. However he was found guilty of aiding and abetting in that  was acquitted of five other charges of lying to or obstructing con Gress of lying to then attorney general Edwin Meese Iii in Meese probe of the affair of converting traveler checks to his own use and of conspiring to defraud the internal Revenue service by using a tax exempt foundation to raise funds forthe contras. Shuttle thunders off launch pad Cape canaveral Fla. A the Atlantis found a Hole in the Clouds and thundered into orbit thursday sailing 184 Miles above Earth and five astronauts prepared to propel Nasa state of the Art Magellan probe on a map making journey to Venus. The first attempt to launch Atlantis was halted Las Friday when fuel pump and fuel line Haws were detected. They were remedied in time for thursday liftoff. In a spectacular Start the winged Spac plane vaulted away from its Seaside launch pad at 2 47 . After being delayed a Cliff hanging 59 minutes by shifting Clouds and winds that had threatened a second postponement in six Days. The Atlantis departed just five minutes before its 64-minute launch window for the Day would have expired a window dictated by a requirement to have the shuttle in the proper position in orbit to dispatch the Magellan to Venus. The launch team had advanced the countdown tothe 5-Minutc Mark and held there waiting for a break in the Clouds that obscured a runway near the Launchpad where the Atlantis would land in an emergency. Chief astronaut Dan Brand Enslein flying a weather scout plane found a break and signalled the go ahead and the count was started and carried Down to the blazing liftoff. It was another Cliffhanger. I m glad you stuck within the acting Nasa administrator. Dale  Myers said As he congratulated the launch team. It was the 60th . Man in space flight the 29th forthe shuttle and the fourth since the challenger explosion More than three years ago. Four of us Are very Happy to be Back in space an the fifth one is very Happy to be Here radioed Astro naut David Walker Mission commander. Walker Pilot Ron grab and Mission specialists Mary Slevc and Norman Thagard have flown on pre Vious shuttle flights. Mission specialist Mark Lee is Rookie. A it.  a Arev ,1,-.". A.