European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday february 23,1990 news Brief Altwasser fixes problem Stuttgart. West Germany is the dirty bottle problem that caused Altwasser to be pulled from military stores has been solved company official said thursday. The 7lh medical come recalled All alphas seawater wednesday from commissaries and cafes stores because of unsanitary conditions at the bottling Plant in the Southern bavarian town . Company co owner and director Siegfried gut Brod said thursday that the company Hopes to resume deliveries to commissaries and army and air Force Exchange service outlets next week. Ciu Brod said inc dirty appearance that prompted the recall developed because the bottle manufacturer had kept a pallet of disposable hollies in storage for seven months before they were filled in november. Atmospheric conditions caused flakes of Iron sulphate to accumulate on inc bottles he said. We did t know that and neither did the Glass  Gutbrod said. We re getting a delivery of fresh blown Glass thursday he said the bottle producer plans to solve the problem by wrapping the new bottles in foil before deliver to the bottling Plant. As a further safeguard bulb Rod s employees will examine each bottle with lights As it passes along the bottling line. Bulb Rod said he will meet . Officials today and present them with a report from the Glass producer about the storage problem. The . Military Market accounts for about half of the company s business. Trial from Page 1 recruiting spies at Usa eur As Well As v and Vii corps. The second pan of inc plan was to Purchase sophisticated video equipment for use in copying military documents. Williams said Conrad also wanted the hungarians to finance off base video stores. These stores said Williams were to have been run by con Rad s stepdaughter and used to gain personal information on . Soldiers. Williams testified that Conrad s main hungarian connection went by the cover name of Mike and that two hungarian born physician Brothers Sandor and Imrch Korcsik. Acted As couriers. According to Williams. Conrad and the brother discussed torture and murder in connection with a scheme to steal a . Military pharmaceutical product that the ring hoped to sell for $ 1 million. It was their plan to sell the formula to a Swiss pharmaceutical  said Williams. The person with the information was to be tortured and killed in a Way that would make it appear it had been an act of terrorism. Imrch seemed More excited about the Money and said his brother Sandor had got him into spying Williams said. Sandor debated the Best Means of torture and Dis cussed the use of a special drug for killing enemies. The pc Rasiks. Who became naturalized swedish Citi Zens in the 1960s, were sentenced in 1988 to prison terms of 18 months each for carrying nato defense secrets allegedly supplied by Conrad to the hungarian intelligence service. According to the West German Federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe. Conrad is the first foreigner to face treason charges in West Germany. He is accused of receiving $1 million from the hungarians and $100,000 fro the czechs for spying for them from 1975 until his arrest aug. 23.1988. His trial began last month. Nato presents its proposal for verifying arms troop cuts by David Tarran Brussels Bureau Brussels. Belgium nato has put Forward an extensive proposal for verifying weapons and troop cuts at arms talks in Vienna. Austria. . Officials said thursday. The verification package outlines the Western approach to the complicated task of conducting inspections and exchanging information on the locations and numbers of weapons and troops covered by a treaty said an official with the . Delegation to the talks. Negotiators for the 2.1 nations in nato and the Warsaw pact have been meeting for a year to reach agreement on reducing conventional forces in Europe. Although both sides submitted draft treaties in Decem Ber much of the treaty language including verification still has to be worked out. The Warsaw pact has not yet submitted its own verification package the official said. Ronald Lehman director of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency said the new package out lines How both sides can report information and in Spect military facilities. We re talking about not Only inspections on the ground by personnel from each Side we re also talking about Aerial inspections and we re talking about extensive data Exchange and reporting on movements Lehman said. He made the comments during a world not inter View that linked him with journalists in London Brus Sels Paris Helsinki Finland Hamburg. West Ger Many and Sweden. Some aspects of the verification package still have to be worked out among the allies. Lehman said. One area concerns the question of How to Monitor weapons production plants in Europe. Another concerns How weapons will be destroyed. On other issues. Lehman said the United states and the soviet Union have begun informal talks for a Sec Ond round of negotiations on limiting strategic arms. Both sides Hope the talks known As Start will Lead to a treaty this year that reduces strategic arms by 50 percent. In addition Lehman said he believed the allies want the United states to remain in Europe because of the great distance that would have to be travelled by troops based in the United states. However he said it is possible that soviet troops could withdraw from Eastern Europe. It is becoming increasingly Clear that soviet forces Are in a new world in which their presence is not viewed As essential he said. And Lehman said the United slates does t believe soviet forces need to remain in Germany after reunification. Frankly we Don t think they need to be there. Maybe the soviet Union thinks they need to be there. But this is a matter for either inc Cdr East Germany now or a United Germany in the future he said. Corps from Page 1 lion in that we charge for our services Harrell said. The division charges defense department custom ers a Small variable percentage to pay for engineers lawyers computers or whatever it takes to get projects designed contracted and built. We Don t depend on anybody else in any other organization to provide technical assistance for what we do Harrell said. The work pays army civilians and local nation als employed in the Divi Sion the Pentagon s sole design and construction agent in eight european countries from the North sea to the Mediterranean. And that work has been falling off recently. The division which completed $558 million in work during fiscal 1988, estimates its work Wilt drop to Between $470 million and $500 million by the end of fiscal 1990. The estimate for fiscal 199 i is $400 million. Employment has dropped As a result. During fiscal 1988, 1,125 army civilian and local nationals were employed throughout the european division. Today it s 970. By the end of fiscal 1991, it could be 689. Talk of proposed troop withdrawals has raised More concern Over new construction Harrell said. Members of Congress and senior military leaders arc reluctant to Harrell i with for the Start any new projects until we come to grips i definitive plan of what we re going to look like Foi future he said. The defense department s three month moratorium on new construction contracts also has clouded the division s role. The moratorium which will expire May i. Has thrown into limbo 119 design projects and construction on 23 other completed designs. In the past during tight budget times the division relied on attrition to reduce the payroll Harrell said. During fiscal 1988, the division lost Iso workers through  Hope Harrell had of seeing attrition help again was taken away by the Jan. 11 hiring freeze. It said we could t brine in any new people. So that should help with the problem right wrong. The freeze also meant that the division s workers even those due to move within the system could t be shifted to other defense jobs. Like Many other commanders Harrell is seeking exceptions to the freeze that would let people move within the department of  the meantime the division is looking to Cut costs in order to meet its payroll. Those cuts Range from possible Early retirements to using an at to calling card for Calls to the United  division also has postponed equipment Pur chases and reduced stateside training and temporary duty. In addition it May introduce Job sharing under which people would share the duties and salary of one  said that increasing the division s business can ease some of the financial  one thing he sees the corps becoming More Active in maintaining military facilities. Although Bil Lions of dollars have been spent building new facilities our customers still have Many that need to be  the division has the expertise to handle the Job he  Are Tough but they Are not  testimony from Page 1 Iran Contra affair or to destroy  former president said repeatedly under Cross examination by Webb that Poindexter never told him that he planned to lie to Congress or to destroy documents sought by Iran Contra  any Lime did John Poindexter Ever Tell you that he had in fact obstructed or impeded any congressional committee inquiry into events relating to the Iran Contra affair Webb  Reagan replied. At any time did he Ever Ell you that he had actually destroyed any records or documents related to the Iran Contra affair Webb  inc former president said. Reagan said he was never told that North had destroyed Iran Contra documents an act for which the former National Security Council aide was convicted of a felony last  about his dealings with North Reagan said i did t Ever have any extensive Contact with him. Heard about him a great Deal and reports on Liim and so  acknowledged that he supported the solicitation of donations from foreign governments and other who could help finance the Contra Effort. Although the Law banned direct . Military Aid tothe rebels Reagan said there was t any restriction on. Informing others As to How they could help things of that kind. And that i did  Reagan also testified that i want aware that Money was being diverted from the Iran arms sales to the  was Only aware finally that we got our 12 million 2," Reagan said referring to the Money the . Government received for providing weapons to Iran. May i simply Point out that 1 had no knowledge then Ornow that there had been a diversion and i never used the term the former president said. And All i knew was that there was some Money that came from some place in another account and that the appearance was that it might have been part of the negotiated  Webb asked to the extent that there was in fact diversion of proceeds did you in any Way approve or authorize that while you were president of the United states for heaven s Sake no Reagan replied. And when i was once asked about that extra Money an said if it was an added sum to the Purchase Price what would i do. I said i would have Given it  former president added no one has proven to me that there was a  this Day All i know is that some sum of Money Over and above the $12.2 million Purchase Price appeared in a Swiss Bank account in which it was said that account had been used on another occasions sic to provide help to the contras Reagan said