European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday May 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 diaries Ink Bush to North Washington apr excerpts from Oliver North a notebooks linking him to George Bush apparently never got to Capitol Hill and investigations May be warranted says the former chairman of the House Iran Contra committee. Portions of the diaries released tuesday renew questions about whether then vice president Bush was More deeply involved in assisting the nicaraguan Contra rebels than he has acknowledged. One entry suggests North met with Bush hours after the National Security Council aide lied to the House committee on aug. 6, 1986, by testifying that he Wasny to supplying military Aid to the contras. After meeting with the committee North fielded a complaint about Felix Rodriguez a former Cia operative working in North a resupply network. Rodriguez is a longtime Friend of Donald Gregg then a National Security adviser and now ambassador to South Korea. Rep. Lee Hamilton d-ind., who led the House Iran Contra inquiry said he did no to believe Congress had seen the entries referring to the aug. 6 meetings. North turned Over censored portions of his notebooks in 1987 and the White House released Many of those to Congress. But full copies weren to provided to the government until North was forced to give them to prosecutors at his trial last year. He retains the original notebooks. The 1,400 pages of newly released entries were obtained by a private research organization the National Security Archive As the result of a lawsuit filed against the government. Intelligence agencies still Are reviewing the remaining 1,200 pages of North a diaries. Marlin Fitzwater White House press Secretary said a the vice presidents role in the Iran Contra affair was completely examined in the congressional inquiry and we have nothing to Sunshine reflects off the water in Lake Michigan at Pere Marquette Park in mus laced with Sunshine Keg on As Mark Schneider 7, of North Muskegon laces his Tennis shoes after playing in the Sand. A Bare footed Mark had been digging holes in the warm Sand. Soviet arms expert warns Congress of threat to negotiations in Europe by the Washington Post Washington a a top soviet military adviser declared tuesday that negotiations to reduce strategic nuclear weapons and conventional forces in Europe Are threatened. Soviet marshal Sergei f. Fakhr Omeyer told the Senate armed services committee the negotiations will come to a standstill unless the Bush administration agrees to discuss limitations on tactical nuclear weapons at sea and reduction of naval forces by both superpower navies. Fakhr Omeyer warned Congress that soviet leaders will not tolerate indefinitely . Refusal to engage in naval arms control talks while other issues of East West military balance Are on negotiating tables in Vienna and Geneva. Fakhr Omeyer is a senior military adviser to president Mikhail Gorbachev and a member of the supreme soviet. A we think this policy is unjust and aimed at undermining Security and gaining military superiority Over the soviet Union a Fakhr Omeyer said adding that if . Officials defer the Issue a it will be impossible to achieve Radical reduction of armed forces and arms in the pressed on whether he was speaking for Gorbachev and the soviet leadership Fakhr Omeyer said he was expressing Bis personal View which he said was shared by a a millions in the soviet Union. But a testimony was regarded by administration officials As a reflection of Gorbachev a views on naval arms control. When sen. John w. Warner. R-va., pressed whether the soviets would insist on naval arms negotiations As a a a prerequisite to the follow on talks Fakhro my cd replied a a you be just said that 100 percent Breslin suspended for racial incident new York apr new Day has suspended its Star columnist Jimmy Breslin for two weeks without pay following an incident in which he screamed insults at an asian female reporter. A last fridays outburst by Jimmy Breslin was ugly and outrageous and in a sorry that it took place a the newspapers editor Don Forst said Early wednesday. A we have suspended him without pay for two Breslin spouted off after reporter i Yeon Mary Yuh in an in House computer message criticized his May 3 column As sexist. After Reading Yulius message Breslin screamed that she was a a yellow cure and a slant eyed in a newsroom outburst that left fellow reporters stunned. A group of new Day reporters asked for Bres links suspension or for the newspaper to print a column about Bias against asian women. Yuh a korean american said she and others who met with management tuesday night had threatened a byline strike. Breslin wrote in the May 3 column that his wife City councilwoman Ronnie Eldridge devoted too much time to government duties and not enough time to him or the Home. In his monday column the 61-year-old pulitzer prize Winner described that article As a conscious Fri testimony links Imelda Marcos to secret Bonk account in Manila by new Day new York a the fraud and embezzlement trial of Imelda Marcos was adjourned tuesday after the former philippine first lady broke Down and was led from the courtroom in tears. The forced adjournment came after an Fri agent testified that financial records linked Marcos to withdrawals from an Anonymous Bank account in Manila. . District court judge John f. Keenan recessed the Manhattan trial in late afternoon and told jurors who looked on As the former philippine first lady quaked with emotion and wept that Marcos a took ill and she a unable to continue it was the second time in two weeks that the trial has been recessed for such reasons. Court officials said that Marcos who was escorted out of the building and taken to a doctor was suffering again from High blood pressure. Marcos 60, is charged with conspiring with her late husband former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos in a scheme to steal $222 million from their Homeland and invest it in new York real estate Art and jewelry. Earlier Fri special agent James Trimbach testified that Marcos her Secretary and her three children were referred to in records that listed withdrawals from Anonymous accounts. The agent also identified a Handwritten document that referred to a $5 million Deposit Marcos allegedly made in a Swiss Bank account sometime before 1977. The defense contends that Marcos did not know about the Complex financial deals involved in buying four Manhattan properties with Money prosecutors say was stolen in the Philippines. Prosecutors tried to undermine that argument by getting Trimbach to identify a document that he said outlined deposits and withdrawals from an Anonymous account at the traders Royal Bank in Manila in 1981. He recounted withdrawals in philippine pesos for Marcos daughter Lee. In an amount equivalent to about $23,000. Imelda Marcos is listed in the same document As withdrawing pesos in an amount equivalent to More than $100,000. Marcos son Ferdinand jr., and her Secretary also Are listed As receiving withdrawals. Under questioning by assistant . Attorney Debra Livingston Trimbach also identified a note Handwritten on the stationery of Roberto s. Bencdicto a close associate of Ferdinand Marcos. The note dated october 1977, appeared to be a list of assets. It included the notation a not included Here a mrs. Marcos Deposit a Aribas of $5 m a according to previous evidence in the trial Marcos opened an account at Banque Aribas in Switzerland. Trimbach a testimony about Marcos role came after her attorney Gerry Spence sought to suggest that his client had no involvement in the Transfer of More than $50 million through a Maze of Bank accounts to new York in september 1981. The Money was used to buy the Crown building located at 5 7th Street and fifth Avenue Trimbach said. The agent detailed the movement of the Money with the Aid of a four color 6-foot by 12-foot Chart
