European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes g soviets Back in space Page 2 d special oktoberfest guide stripes Magazine d classified ads today stripes Magazine d Graf Sabatini reach . Open semifinals sports Page 17 the stars authorized unofficial publication fool the . Armed forces vol.48, no. 144 Friday september 8, 1989 d 8693 a Iowa probe to blame Sailor Harow a probably caused deadly blast sources claim Washington a the Navy has concluded the explosion aboard the battleship Iowa that killed 47sailors in april was probably caused by gunner s mate Clayton Hartwig who died in the blast congressional sources said wednesday. The sources who were briefed by Pentagon officials said the Navy investigation into the april 19 explosion in the battleship s no. 2 gun Turret found foreign mate rial in the immediate area of the declined to specify the nature of the material. But they said an unlawful and illegal act by Hart wig which they declined to specify is pinpointed in the Navy s report on the explosion As the probable cause of the blast. The report was to be formally re leased thursday. The Navy was hampered in its four month inquiry by the absence of any seamen who had survived the explosion at close quarters. But Navy sources had said in May investigators were looking into the possibility of homicide or suicide resulting from a falling out Between Hartwig and another Sailor. Members of Congress received details on the Nav investigation the Day before the scheduled Public re lease of the 1,100-Page report. Navy cmdr. Mark Baker declined to comment wednesday night on the reports from congressional sources. I do the said they ruled out any specific mechanical cause for the blast. The explosion occurred As the no. 2 gun the Middle see probe on Back Page . Envoy evacuated from Beirut from staff and ire reports Beirut Lebanon . Am Bucsa Doffe Ohn Mccarthy and his Stalf Werc Eva itch by helicopter wednesday and on Tfir Way Home after Huw rods besieged the . to press feb action against syr Adf to Flo diplomats were pwn to Cyprus acc we Circum stances Ofeno longer Perm cd the embassy to fun Eton Mccarth after an we . Arrival at Rhein i wednesday possible for Mon that the the sudden Lebanon where syrian troops Havi months came of christians Surro Pound tuesday United states against the Syi Gen. Michi Christian government by his of ii Cain Coul lebanese Keith . Elthe Eva acc Satin am ii Germany in was no longer Intoc to washing my staff was scion to pull out Ofir Istian forces and in battling for of angry the embassy com a macs of forcing the Takra tougher stand presage in Lebanon. Heads the anon s dual nent released american Marc of the inc Inid in a Stit seems endure in so he left son a spoke by in Nicosia cation temporary. Is that the Radil lebanese Christian recent Days he St a cd states of Amarii Jing ambassador said the Sta n As those questions of Fety can be resolved it Ihal it would be important me the work that we vein Bruit Mccarthy said. A . Embassy is in the count Christian enclave where some i Mill christians have been trapped for months ringed by the hostile syrian and their allies and angry that the Welfl see envoy on Back Page in for the called a missing pro c re that not ire president Bush smiles at u baby while siting a Washington Hospital Ward for infants abandoned by drug addicted mothers. Bush says drug Bathe plan won f require fax increase by the conc a Sonia Washington president Bush wednesday snapped Back at democrats who suggested his $7.9 billion drug control policy will Force an in crease in jumped up and said hey. Please tax me More " in last year s election campaigns said Bush As he launched an intensive round of administration appearances to win bipartisan support for the program and quell talk of a tax a visit to a Washington Hospi Tal during which he cuddled a baby abandoned by its drug addicted Mother Bush told a news conference he had heard no substantive attack on his Overall drug strategy from democrats. So then you come to the question of whether it s enough or How Are you going to pay for it Bush said. And there s a wide array of reflexive people in Congress who say More taxes for anything. And 1 Don t think that s what the american people the country is fed up. They Don i want it to be a Republican answer or a democratic answer or a Liberal or a see Bush on Back Page
