European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 30,1990 Fri scrambled to keep Barry in hotel room lawyer says Washington apr the Fri frantically tried to keep Marion Barry in a hotel room with sex Model Rasheeda Moore to avoid the collapse of its undercover sting operation against the mayor barrys lawyer said Friday in Federal court. R. Kenneth Mundy zeroed in on the Fri videotape which was played thursday at barrys cocaine and perjury trial showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine Jan. 18 at the Vista hotel. On the tape when Barry announces that he was preparing to leave Moore a hotel room a female Fri undercover agent telephones Moore. A you told the agent you were coming downstairs and the agent said a no no done to a suggested Mundy. A a that a Correct a said Moore. A the plan was to keep or. Barry in the hotel room a said Mundy. A that is Correct a said Moore. After the agents Call the undercover agent known As Wanda Moore delivered crack to the room and Barry smoked it. Wanda was posing As a Friend of Moore a. Mundy suggested Rasheeda Moore a testimony against Barry has been bought and paid for by the Fri. Mundy brought out that even the clothes on her Back used in the sting operation were purchased by the government. A was a Model you know what a wardrobe is done to you a inquired Mundy. A clothes for the operation were provided by the Fri a admitted Moore. Assistant . Attorney Judith Retchin objected several times to Mundyk a questioning saying the defense attorney was interrupting the witness before she could answer. . District court judge Thomas pen Field Jackson overruled the objections. In the videotape played thursday in court the female Fri agent posing As Moore a fiend brings a bag of crack cocaine to the hotel room. Barry told Moore a i done to smoke no More Honey a and the undercover agent left the room. But Barry told Moore to Call her Back. A go get some. Go get it a the mayor told Moore and the Deal was consummated with Barry paying for the drugs. Barry and Moore each wanted the other to be the first to smoke the crack. Quot i thought you bought this because you wanted to take a hit Moore told Barry on the videotape. A Law naw you do it a the mayor replied. A if you done to do it in a not going to do it a said the mayor who finally walked Over to a Dresser and inhaled twice deeply from an Fri supplied crack pipe. Moments later As Barry and Moore prepared to go downstairs Fri agents burst into the room and arrested the mayor. Barry 54, has pleaded innocent to 10 Misdemeanour cocaine Possession charges one Misdemeanour cocaine conspiracy charge and three felony charges of lying to a grand jury about his alleged drug use. One Possession charge stems from the night of his arrest on Jan. 18. Space shuttle Fleet grounded after second Craft shows leak Page 28 a a the stars and stripes news briefs a Sfanjani rebukes radicals critical of earthquake Aid Tehran Iran apr president Hashemi a Sfanjani challenged anti Western radicals in the government fonday and said Iran should be thankful for foreign Aid for earthquake victims even if it comes from Iran a foes. A i done to think we see the people who Are under the debris saying a no we done to want foreign Aid a a the president said at a moslem prayer gathering at Tehran University. His comment rebutted an editorial that appeared last week in the newspaper Jom Huri Island. The newspaper said people buried under rubble from the june 21 quake would still chant a death to America a and refuse Aid from Iran a enemies such As the United states. A logic says if our people have no tents and the weather is bad we should accept foreign Aid a a Sfanjani said. A the response and activities of the foreigners were really Good and  parliament oks delaying its Independence Vilnius .s.r. Apr the lithuanian parliament agreed on Friday to put a moratorium on its declaration of Independence in return for an end to the soviet economic blockade and the Start of negotiations on secession. The Resolution accepting a proposed Compromise was approved by a vote of 69 to 35, with two abstentions. It called for a 100-Day moratorium to begin simultaneously with the Start of negotiations with the soviet government. The Deal was worked out at two meetings Between soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and lithuanian president vytautas Landsbergis this week according to lithuanian officials. There was no immediate comment from soviet authorities on whether the lithuanian vote would be sufficient to end the embargo and Start talks. It also was not Clear when those negotiations could begin because Gorbachev was expected to be tied up with a National Congress of the communist party starting on monday. A we had hoped that it would end today. But i done to think anybody is there to adopt it a prime minister Kazmiera Prunskiene said of the  communist party clears Way for key Parley Washington apr americans space shuttle Fleet has been grounded until engineers can Correct a Hydrogen leak that has been found on a second spacecraft officials said Friday. William Lenoir the National aeronautics and space administrations space flight chief said the Agency has no Choice but to Stop space shuttle launches and allow engineers to study the leak problem and fix it. A we can to Fly until we can get Hydrogen in the tank and we re having a problem with that right now a said Lenoir at a news conference from the Kennedy space Center in Florida. The announcement came after engineers conducted a leak Check on space shuttle Atlantis which is on the launch pad awaiting a planned mid july launch. The test involving pumping up to 200,000 Gallons of liquid Hydrogen into Atlantis giant external tank was intended a to establish Confidence in the hardware a Nasa spokeswoman Lisa Malone said. Malone said a concentration of Hydrogen was found near a 4-Inch disconnect valve in the area of a 17-Inch-diameter valve the same that appeared responsible for the leak that grounded  from Page 1 Are a a make or break Effort at responsible  he said the negotiations Are going Well and expressed Hope there could be an agreement within a few weeks. Without a deficit reduction agreement Bush said automatic spending cuts totalling $100 billion could take effect oct. I with a a draconian reductions in defense and Domestic programs such As student Loans. The deficit for next year could total $150 billion not counting the Cost of covering losses by the collapse of the nations savings and loan associations. Bush was asked How he could have made his no tax pledge in 1988 when the deficit was already at record Levels. A the budget deficit is bigger far bigger. I thought i could do a better Job of getting spending Down a he said. Bush refused repeatedly to discuss specific tax increases. Bush a decision earlier this week was embraced by congressional democrats who longed argued the need to boost taxes but were sharply criticized by Many Republican members of Congress. In the budget talks democrats have proposed cuts the leak was detected by one of two sensors mounted Between the orbiter and the tank about 18 minutes after the test began. An additional 21 sensors had been installed in the orbiters aft compartment to sniff for leaks. Before the leak was discovered Nasa had hoped to launch Atlantis on a secret military Mission in mid july. The leak Check was ordered As a precaution after a similar Hydrogen leak stopped the countdown for the shuttle Columbia six hours before its intended launch May 30. Columbia is now grounded until at least mid August. The leak was spotted moments after the slow filling of the tank was switched to fast pumping at precisely the Point in the tanking where columbian a leak was discovered. Nasa officials including launch director Bob Sieck and Kennedy space Center director Forrest Mccartney were monitoring the test from the firing room. The tank Only about 5 percent full at the time the leak was discovered was to be filled further in an Effort to isolate the leak Malone said. In the 1991 defense budget five times greater than Bush a original proposal. The two sides also have discussed cuts in politically popular Benefit programs such As medicare and social Security according to officials involved in the talks. The president will meet with defense Secretary Dick Cheney and other advisers from Washington on monday for strategy sessions before the nato Summit. He also is expected to meet on july 7 with japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu before the economic  Barracks Blaze damages Utility building Heidelberg West Germany a amps a a fire caused extensive damage to a Utility building at Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg Early Friday. Firefighters received reports about 5 40 . That a fire was burning in the building which serves As a switching station for electricity Community spokesman Michael Mowrer said. No injuries were reported although residents of a neighbouring family housing building were temporarily evacuated. Campbell Barracks is the Headquarters Cavern for . Army Europe. The cause is unknown at this time Mowrer said. No Dollar estimate of damage was available Friday. Moscow apr the communist party Central committee Friday cleared the Way for an important party Congress on monday the Tass news Agency indicated. Tass also warned of a a disaster if the party ousts Mikhail Gorbachev As its Leader or derails his reforms. The policy making Central committee tentatively approved a report Gorbachev will deliver at the 28th Congress of the soviet communist party. However the 249-member committee ordered the politburo to a rework it taking into account the discussion that took place during a five hour closed door meeting in the Kremlin said Alexander Kaputo head of the Central committee ideological department. Boris n. Yeltsin the president of the russian Republic and some fellow reformers had urged the committee to postpone mondays party Congress until autumn to a stabilize the political  Oil workers join walkout at Chiquita Tegucigalpa Honduras apr about 2,000 workers at the nations Only Oil refinery Friday joined banana workers in a strike aimed at pressuring the . Banana giant Chiquita into paying higher wages. Tens of thousands of other workers also threatened to join the walkout in what could be a crippling labor stoppage in this nation of 4.8 million people. Chiquita a 10,000 Union members including banana cutters railway workers and administrative personnel struck for a 60 percent salary increase paralysing operations. They now receive an average of $15.32 a Day