European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 c the stars and stripes Friday july 19,1991af delays in Europe by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Germany the air Force is delaying the moves of about 5,000 service members assigned to Europe who were scheduled to leave for new assignments in August and september. The delay is due to a Money shortage in the 1991 military personnel appropriations account according to a july 14 message from the military personnel Center at Randolph fab Texas. Nearly 2,300 officers and enlisted members in Europe will be moving Dur ing the first two weeks of september rather than their original departure dates in August said Doug Moore a . Air forces in Europe spokesman. More than 2,400 members scheduled to leave in Early september will be delayed until the last two weeks of that month Moore said thursday. Affected by the delay Are most air Force members stationed overseas on Tours for 24 months and longer with reassignment dates of aug. 1 through sept. 30. Service members scheduled to report to overseas assignments in August and september will be delayed until october or later. It also affects people who Are already assigned to Europe and were scheduled to move elsewhere in Europe Moore said. Those service members scheduled to move because of a base closure or draw Down and those making humanitarian and exceptional family member program moves will not be delayed Moore said. Other exceptions would include airmen on assignment to or from the Philippines and from Hahn a Germany. Hahn is ending its flying Mission later this year. Some members will have their assignments cancelled and immediately reinstated with new reporting instructions. In some cases new assignments May be made. The updated information for assignments should be received by the affected members in about a week the message said. Those who Are retiring or separating from the air Force will return As scheduled. Another exemption will be granted for those scheduled for training schools in conjunction with their move the message  official arriving in Europe for visit with troops Lahr Germany a Mary Collins the Canadian associate defense minister is scheduled to begin a five Day official visit to Canadian forces Europe today. Collins plans to meet first with troops participating in the annual Nijm Egen marching Competition under Way in the Netherlands then travel to Lahr to present persian Gulf War medals to a representative group of about ,50 veterans monday at the forces Headquarters. The 9 . Medal presentation at Lahr Cavern and the subsequent Parade reception Are open to the Public. The minister also plans to attend an 11 . Ceremony and Parade marking air Force Brig. Gen. Tadde Thibault s Assumption of command of 1 Canadian air div from Brig. Gen. Jean Boyle. Boyle has been assigned to become commandant of the Royal military College of Canada at Kingston Ontario. Collins is scheduled to end her trip with a tuesday visit to the Canadian forces base at  Painter Dies Provincetown mass. A artist Robert Motherwell who helped shape the abstract expressionist movement died tuesday of a heart attack at age 76, Motherwell who lived in Greenwich conn., and had a summer Home in Provincetown was Best known for his elegies to the Spanish Republic paintings that exemplified the abstract movements Reliance on simplified colors and forms to express  Home in the Parks amps Dav Casey Jakob a Parrot belonging to Frank Trisna left seems quite at ease in the Prinz Emil Garden in Darmstadt Germany. The Bird sits on a nearby Perch As Trisna tutors Martin Schleussner and Uta Krimmel in  nominee is subject in probe sources say Washington a Iran Contra prosecutors notified Robert Gates Long before he was nominated to be Cia director that he is no Mere witness in their Long running criminal investigation government sources say. Gates the sources said got the word months before president Bush tapped him for the Cia Job that he is a subject in the investigation that is a person whose own conduct is subject to scrutiny by a grand jury. The White House the sources said was fully aware of Gates a a subject status in the criminal probe a yet cleared him for the Cia Job anyway. Gates was one of Many Cia officials questioned at length by Iran Contra prosecutors this Spring before a Federal grand jury the sources added wednesday night. The questioning took place before retired Cia officer Alan Fiers implicated three top officials at the Agency in knowledge of the diversion of Iran arms Sale Money to the contras. Fierst allegations last week raised a new set of questions about Gates role in the Iran Contra scandal. If Fierst accusations Are True people above and below Gates at the Cia knew about the diversion. Gates Deputy Cia director at the time says he did not know. In other developments sources outside the government say Jerry Gruner a Cia station chief serving in Europe is now a subject in the criminal investigation because of Fierst allegations. The office of Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh switched Gruner from the category of a a witness to a a subject last week said the sources when Fiers alleged he had told Gruner of the diversion in the late summer of 1986. Grunert a lawyer William Hundley refused to comment on his clients status As did Walsh a office. Mary Belcher a spokeswoman for Walsh refused to confirm Gates status or even say whether he had testified to the grand jury. White House counsel c. Boyden Gray knew Gates had  but believed Walsh a 4v2-year investigation was winding Down and would not pose a threat to Bush a nominee said a source familiar with Gates selection process. Gray received some Assurance from Walsh through an intermediary that the prosecutor a was not after Gates a and that a a Walsh a interests were elsewhere a the Washington Post reported thursday quoting an administration official. Prosecutor a a gave no such assurances to anyone the Post reported. The Senate intelligence committee is putting off considering the Gates nomination until sept. 16.photo of captive Anderson released with veiled threat from wire reports Beirut Lebanon a the kidnappers of Long held . Captive Terry Anderson released a photograph of him thursday and said they would seek revenge for the stabbing of a shiite activist imprisoned in Germany. Islamic jihad a group believed affiliated with the pro iranian Hezbollah organization said in the statement delivered to the office of a Western news Agency in Beirut that it was outraged at the perceived mistreatment of Mohammed Aji Hamadi and Abbas Ali Hamadi Brothers serving prison terms in Germany for terrorism. Attached to the statement was a close up photo in which Anderson Beirut Bureau chief of the associated press when he was abducted March 16,1985, appeared visibly distressed. A we have received information regarding the condition of the detained Brothers in German jails Mohammed and Abbas Hamadi a islamic jihad said. A we have also Learned that they have been subjected to maltreatment physical and psychological  islamic jihad in its statement thursday warned of a evil consequences for harming our detained Brothers and demanded their imme Diate release. German police said tuesday that Abbas Hamadi was stabbed by a fellow inmate at the Saar Brincken prison where he is serving a 13-year sentence for kidnapping. His wounds were not serious. German government spokesman Dieter Vogel said the German government was a not in the position to interfere with the Legal process and that the Hamadi Brothers had been tried and sentenced. A the German government will not be put under Anderson pressure a he said. Anderson is the longest held of 13 Western captives in the Middle East six of them american. Abbas Hamadi was sentenced to 13 years for complicity in kidnapping two Germanson Early l987  Hamadi is serving a life sentence for the 1985 hijacking of a Twa Airliner and the murder of a passenger . Navy diver Robert Stethem