European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday november 6,1990 stateside disturbed passenger s note delay s flight for 2 hours Cedar rapids Iowa api a a note written by a disturbed passenger delayed a United airlines flight for two hours while the Jet was evacuated so Fri agents and bomb sniffing dogs could search the plane officials said. Thirty passengers were evacuated from the Chicago bound plane after the note was mistakenly interpreted As a bomb threat. A it was t a threat a said Art Kollias Airport operations manager. A if anything it was a Kollias said an elderly immigrant with a history of mental illness wrote the note to express a concern for his personal safety to the flight Crew. The note was written in broken English and included the word a sabotage a so inc Crew thought it was a threat he Saint authorities did not identify the Man or release the full contents of the letter. The flight originated in Cedar killed on Road when hit by stolen car Dallas apr a police officer was killed when he was run Over by someone driving a stolen car Early sunday authorities said. The officer was placing flares around an Accident on an expressway when he was killed about 1 30 ., a police spokeswoman said. Sunny a love 39, a native of Cambodia had been on the Force two years said spokeswoman Vicki Hawkins. The stolen car was found but the Driver fled and was being sought sunday Hawkins said. Reagan s Book insists he s still Cloudy on Iran Contra Washington apr former president Reagan acknowledges the Iran Contra affair Hurt his effectiveness in the last two years of his term but he defends his actions in his new memoirs. Reagan also says he is a still ignorant about All the facts in the scheme in which weapons were sold to Iran and the profits diverted to the nicaraguan Contra rebels. In his Book a an american life a Reagan said that if he could relive the past he would bring former National Security adviser John Poindexter and his then aide Oliver North to the Oval office to explain the Iran Contra affair to him. Excerpts of the Book made available sunday appear in this weeks Issue of time Magazine. Quot of John and Ollie level with me a Reagan wrote about what he would say. A Tell me what really happened and what it is that you have been hiding from me. Tell me everything. A if i had done that at least i be sitting Here writing this Book still ignorant of some of the things that went on during the Iran Contra affair a he wrote Poindexter and North were most involved in the diversion. Reagan insisted that the Sale of weapons to Iran was not intended to Swap arms for american hostages held in Lebanon. A but i know it May not look that Way to some people a he said. Reagan said he was Hurt by the scandal the most serious of his eight year administration. A the Cloud that descended Over my credibility during Iran Contra undoubtedly affected my last two years in office a he said. Although his standing with americans Rose after he appointed a presidential commission to investigate the Case and reorganized the National Security Council Reagan said a that never made me feel As Happy As some might think it was As if americans were forgiving me for something i Hadnot Reagan said he and other officials relied heavily on information from israeli officials in deciding to sell weapons to Iran in mid-1985. A once we had information that we could Trust the people in Iran i did no to have to think 30 seconds about saying yes. I was told the few missiles would not significantly change the balance in Iran a War with Iraq so i said of one Small shipment from Israel to allow the israelis to prove they were talking with the highest Levels of the . but Reagan said he insisted the iranians use their influence to get american hostages in Lebanon freed. The hostages were held by pro iranian shiite moslem. Over a 15-month period three american hostages were released but three More were captured. Six americans remain in Captivity in Lebanon. Terry Anderson the chief Mideast correspondent for the associated press who was seized in March 1985, is the longest held american. A no problem was More frustrating for me than trying to get the hostages Home a Reagan said. Reagan said his greatest regret As president was sending marines to Beirut where a suicide bomber attacked the Marine Barracks on oct. 23, 1983, killing 241 servicemen Reagan said he was convinced it was a Good idea to deploy marines in War torn Lebanon As peacekeepers. But he said american officials did not realize How vulnerable the servicemen were in the Barracks on a wide open space. A in any Case sending the marines to Beirut was the source of my greatest regret and greatest sorrow a Reagan wrote. Saiu mat us vol Tiauw inv Iwvin no Mvi chinese immigrants Aren t forgetting ins station san Francisco api a the 50th anniversary of a Ami a i Summ Mumm san Francisco apr the 50th anniversary of inc closing of Angel Island Gateway into the United states for thousands of chinese immigrants wont be marked with the flourish that celebrated the restoration of Ellis Island. Both islands were immigration stations Ellis Island in new York Harbor and Angel Island in san Francisco Bay. But no statue of Liberty greeted the 175,000 chinese who immigrated via Angel Island Between 1910 and 1940. Angel Island is regarded by Many chinese not As a Gateway but As a prison where Many were held for months before being allowed entry to the United states. In fact it is near Alcatraz the former Island prison. For them the closing of the station on nov. 5,1940, represents a Quot first step toward the Healing process a said Paul Chow whose father was kept on Angel Island for six months. No big event was planned to commemorate mondays anniversary but neither does the chinese Community want to forget. A i think it would be a big mistake to forget a said Phil Choy a san Francisco architect whose father immigrated from China. A Small Celebration was planned on the Mainland to remember the islands place in . Immigration history Chow said. Chow has led Volunteer Tours of the Angel Island Barracks for 18 years and has been the Leader of a historical advisory committee that has fought to restore the site. The Island is maintained As a Park and is accessible by ferry. This 1920s photograph shows a group of chinese and japanese immigrants waiting inside a holding room at the Angel Island immigration St. Helens comes violently alive Vancouver Wash. Up mount St. Helens rumbled to life Early monday shaking violently and spewing Ash to a height of 30,000 feet. Scientists could not make direct visual observation of the event because it occurred during darkness but said it was comparable to a minor eruption that occurred last Winter. Chris Trisler a spokeswoman at the University of Washington geophysics lab in Seattle said seismographs monitoring seismic stations set up All around the volatile Volcano began to fluctuate with an explosive Type signal at 2 07 A it is an explosion Type signal a she said. A the seismic signal books very similar to a couple of explosions last december and about eight minutes later the Federal aviation administration said commercial pilots began reporting sighting a plume of Ash at an Altitude of 30,000 feet. The volcanic event occurred without warning Trisler said. She added there was no sign of magma moving up inside the 8,365-foot Volcano prior to this event. The National weather service issued a Flash flood watch effective until 8 For people along the Toutle River in Lewis Colwitz and Skamania counties. It also warned people living to the Southeast in Klickitat Yakima and Benton counties to be aware of the possibility of Ash fallout. However a spokesman described the watches As precautionary saying it was highly unlikely that mudflows or Ash fall would be As Large As those that occurred on May 18, 1980, when the Volcano blew off a cubic mile of its Summit destroyed 250 Square Miles of forestland sent an Ash plume circling the Globe and killed 59 people. Trisler noted that still intact after mondays event was a seismographic monitoring station atop the lava dome a Mound of molten material pushing up into the mountains huge Crater created by the 1980 fast. That she said was a Clear sign that a major eruption had not occurred a the seismic site at the top of the lava dome has continued to transmit so the top of the lava dome seems Fine a she said. A the two stations that were lost were North of the dome a
