European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tex Schramm promoting new football league Page 21 the stars and tripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 48. No. 39 Friday. May 26, 1989 Goodr Momma 25 dirty and sunday d 8593 a new evidence in Iowa blast Defon for Book on bombs found in Sailor s car by new Day Federal agents investigating whether the fatal blast on the battleship Iowa was deliberately set have Dis covered a crude detonating device and a Book How to get even without going to jail in the abandoned car of a Sailor who commanded the gun Turret that exploded on the ship sources close to the investigation said wednesday night. The car owned by gunner s mate Clayton Hartwig who died in the april 19 blast along with 46 other sailors was found by Federal agents monday in the parking lot of a Mcdonald s restaurant near the nor Folk naval base in Virginia. In the Back scat of the car was what appeared to be a homemade detonating device and a copy of the Book which authorities said is a volume with instructions on constructing Booby traps and other deadly devices according to the sources. For the past month the probe into the blast has entered on the possibility that a murder or suicide linked to the breakup of a Friendship Between two sailors assigned to the no. 2 Turret was involved in the the explosion aboard the Iowa. The blast occurred while the ship was on Maneu vers in the Atlantic. The targets of the Iowa investigation arc the 24 year old Hartwig and gunner s mate 3rd class Ken Dall l. Truitt 21, who survived the explosion and was hailed by the Navy As a hero for helping Stop further damage after the blast. The two had been Best friends according to family members and friends. Hartwig had taken out a $50.000 double indemnity life insurance policy a year ago. Entitling Ruilt to a see Iowa on Back Page Gorbachev overwhelmingly elected Moscow a Mikhail s. Gorbachev was overwhelmingly elected president thursday by the coun try s new Congress winning More than 95 percent of the vote. The sole candidate. Gorbachev received 2,123 of the 2,210 votes cast Yuri a. Osipyan chairman of the commission that counted the ballots reported during nationally televised proceedings of Congress of peo ple s deputies. Eighty seven deputies voted against the communist party chief Osipyan said. Gorbachev who was unanimously elected president last oct. I by the supreme soviet replacing Andrei a. Gromyko secured 95.6 percent of the votes cast by deputies in thursday s secret balloting Osipyan said. Earlier thursday the Congress the first competitively elected soviet parliament nominated Gorbachev As the sole candidate after rejecting demands he first re port on his accomplishments and failures. Maverick communist Boris n. Yeltsin withdrew his nomination bid. A Little known Leningrad Deputy Alexander obo Lensky offered himself As an alternative to Gorbachev but two thirds of the 2.250-Mcmbcr Congress of peo ple s deputies rejected him. Obolonsky who is not a member of the ruling communist party said he knew he had Little Chance of winning the nomination but wanted to set a Prece Dent fan  Yeltsin whose anti establish mint Campaign garnered. 90 percent of the vote in an election in Moscow too himself out of the running saying simply i m with drawing  he said thai As a member of the party s Central commit acc. He was bound by the com Mittee s decision to support Gorbachev s election. Before the vote human rights activist Andrei  said he would not take part in the secret balloting for the presidency. We can t let these elections just be a formality the 1975 Nobel peace prize Winner said. Sakharov was one of four deputies who abstained when the Congress Mikhail Gorbachev addresses the soviet parliament on thursday dwarfed by a Hure statue of . . Voted to place Gorbachev s name on the ballot. No one voted against Gorbachev s nomination. Estonian activist Marju Lauriston olt Rcd Gorbachev her vote on condition that he answer some Tough questions first. For instance she wanted to know who in the ruling politburo knew of plans to use troops to break up a pro Independence demonstration in soviet Georgia and now soon Gorbachev Learned of the plans. Ollius demanded explanations of privileges enjoyed by soviet leaders and of a decree Banning statements that discredit authorities. As the inaugural session opened the Congress immediately plunged into spirited debate Over its Agenda and Powers. The Lack of parliamentary experience showed. Gorbachev led the proceedings sitting behind two microphones with a giant statue of . Lenin at his Back. He arbitrarily called for votes on some procedural issues while ignoring others. Only a few deputies objected. At one Point the soviet president took the Micro phone for 20 minutes and in one of his most impassioned political speeches pledged not to abuse Power if re elected. Gorbachev vowed to pursue the line of democracy until the very end so that what has happened in this country will never again be  his remark was an obvious reference to past authoritarian soviet re Gimes. One of the first deputies to take the floor was sakha Rov who was banished from Moscow until december 1986 for human rights activities. Sakharov praised Gorbachev for changing the face of soviet society and said he should be re elected presi Dent but he demanded that Gorbachev first give the Congress an account of the mistakes and achievements of his Reform efforts. Gorbachev Cut Sakharov off after five minutes set a time limit on subsequent speakers and moved to end a debate on the Agenda. The Agenda was adopted by a wide margin. Premier i denies he ordered troops into Beijing Beijing a Premier i Peng de Nied thursday that he called troops into Beijing to crush a pro democracy student movement. China s Cabinet ordered local officials to use forceful measures to quell the Campaign. Earlier thursday More than 100,000 workers and intellectuals marched to join students in demanding i s ouster. An intense Power struggle within the political leadership appeared unresolved. I s statement on state run television broke a silence that began saturday when he imposed martial Law in Beijing. He said the army had not yet entered the City because our government is a people s government and our army is a people s  Over the weekend Lens of thousands of people built Street barricades to Stop the army s Advance on students occupy ing Central Tiana men Square. The television news quoted Lias say ing that the thousands of troops sur rounding Beijing would Only enter the City once local citizens understood their purpose. He denied claims the army was called in to crush the monthlong student move ment the largest in communist China s 40 years. A foreign ministry spokeswoman de Nied thursday that either communist party chief Zhao Ziyang who had shown sympathy for the students cause see Beijing on Back Page