European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday May 10, 1992 october Surprise May be disproved Washington a Fri surveillance records turned Over to congressional investigators will deflate a theory that the 1980 Reagan Bush Campaign conspired with Iran to delay release of 52 american hostages according to a report broadcast Friday. The report on Cable news network said documents reflecting a five month surveillance of iranian arms dealer Cyrus Hashemi a together with accounts from an unidentified retired Fri agent a show Hashemi was in the new York area at the time of an alleged 1980 Paris meeting. Former Carter administration aide Gary sick contends in his Book october Surprise that Hashemi was among participants in the meeting in Paris on oct. 19,1980, where Iran agreed with Reagan Campaign officials to hold the hostages until after the november . Presidential election helping ensure Carters defeat. Sick in a Telephone interview took exception with the can report. He said the heavily censored documents made available under the Freedom of information act show Hashemi made a Telephone Call from his new York office on oct. 20 but do not account for the Days just before that. Hashemi flew on the supersonic concorde when he travelled to Paris and could easily have made it Back to new York from a meeting the previous Day sick said. Federal Law enforcement and congressional sources said attorney general William p. Barr has authorized the Fri to Grant Access to the surveillance records including video and audio tapes to investigators on a House task Force investigating the matter. V the material has been stored at a government warehouse at a military base in Newburgh . Sick said the tapes which have not been reviewed in years represent a major source of new information on the decade old  visit Presidio memorial former soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev Middle with his wife Raisa at his Side take part in a Wreath laying ceremony at the Presidio of san Francisco on Friday. The army bases memorial honors american serve remembers who were killed in the Pacific during world War ii. Gorbachev has said he Hopes to locate the . Office of his fledgling political research foundation at the Presidio after the base s scheduled closing in 1995.cancer survivor to finish Long comeback Trail Tell City ind. A before Mike Schank took his first step on the appalachian Trail he knew the Chance of finishing it was t great. But Schank who lost much of his digestive system to cancer is used to Tough Odds. Last year he hiked most of the 2,135-mile Trail and this month he plans to Start the final leg of his Odyssey. The Trail is arduous for anyone but especially so for Schank who lost his stomach and pancreas parts of his liver Colon Small intestine and other tissues in 1987. Too much or too Little water or food can leave him helplessly ill. A a Guy with multiple sclerosis finished it on crutches and we had a Blind Guy finish it nut we Haven to had anybody finish missing a stomach or vital Organ like that a said Brian King of the appalachian Trail conference which registers hikers and maintains the Trail. For two years after the cancer operation Schank 49, survived with a feeding tube. Doctors rearranged his remaining intestines so he could digest food but nausea kept him from eating for months. Eventually he got better and asked god Why he was saved. He said the answer came in a november 1990 television news Story about a Blind Man who had hiked the Trail. Quot i jumped up and pointed at the to and told my wife that a what in a supposed to do a a Schank said. Thirteen months ago he kissed his wife goodbye in Georgia where the Trail starts Quot and honestly thought i would never see her  during the journey he had to Stop eight times a Day for tiny meals. His wife mailed his special food to Post offices along the route. His weight dipped from 130 to 110 pounds. The two were reunited in october when Snow and bitter wind caught him in new Hampshire a White mountains. He had hiked through 13 states and 350 mountains surviving encounters with four bears and seven rattlesnakes. He expects to leave this month to take the trails final 330 Miles to Maine a mount Kathadin and Hopes to finish by july. King said up to 1,300 people Start the Trail each year with the Hopes of finishing it in a season but Only about 180 do it. Its taken Schank longer than a season but he does no to have regrets. Though he almost scuttled his plans when he Learned his daughter had thyroid cancer she encouraged him to go. A a she was right a he said. A was no to anything 1 could do there at Home so i dedicated this trip to my daughter and All the other people with cancer to show them its not the end of the world. Of droids medical clinic in Effort to Block use of unlicensed drugs Kent Wash. A a state official said Friday that armed Federal agents who raided a clinic run by a doctor of nutritional Medicine were looking for unlicensed drugs. Vitamins equipment and records were seized in the raid. . Food and drug administration agents and police broke Down the doors of the Tahoma clinic in suburban Seattle before it was to open wednesday. A clinic employee said one agent had his gun drawn. Or. Jonathan Wright the clinic director was detained briefly by Fra agents but Wasny to charged. Roger Lowell the of Day a District director in Seattle would not comment on the raid. But Don Williams executive director of the state pharmacy Board said officials believe unlicensed drugs were being made at the clinic. The pharmacy Board helped in the raid and in a 1991 seizure of dietary supplements at the clinic. The nearby for your health pharmacy associated with the clinic also was searched wednesday. Wright is a licensed physician who specializes in alternative treatments for allergies. He has written several books on nutrition therapy including the Best seller or. Wrights guide to Healing with nutrition. He said thursday that agents seized vitamins used to treat ailments ranging from premenstrual cramps to insomnia including an inject Able b Vitamin Complex he imports from Germany because its the Only form made without preservatives. A a in be got sick people to take care of a he said. Quot i cannot take care of them with what the establishment has to  in july agents seized the clinics Supply of the amino acid a tryptophan after it was banned by the Fra. Wright filed a lawsuit against the Agency to recover the Supply. In a search warrant for wednesdays raid the Fra said it was looking for liquid supplements from Germany including Vitamin b and extracts from animal adrenal glands. Agents also sought an allergy testing machine called Anterro and purchasing records. Cia head admits miscalculation on Iraq Washington a Cia director Robert m. Gates says . Intelligence agencies in a major miscalculation Tola the White House in the fall of 1989 that Iraq would not attack any of its neighbors for two to three years. Gates said that the intelligence agencies concluded that iraqi president Saddam Hussein would need that much time to rebuild his country a Economy in the aftermath of iraqis eight year War with Iran. A we provided them with a message of reassurance in terms of Saddam a intentions and we were wrong Quot Gates said in testimony Friday before the House banking committee. He said the National Security estimate drafted at the time a essentially said that. We believe that Saddam Wilt not launch any aggression against any of his neighbors that he will focus on rebuilding internally economically and so  the Cia chief said however that by the late Spring of 1990 the Agency Learned that Iraq had begun a Large scale military buildup and passed the information to the White House. The 1989 estimate was delivered to the Bush administration at a time when officials were divided Over whether to continue . Food credits to Iraq in the face of indications that Iraq was involved in defrauding the $1 billion program. The debate was settled after president Bush ordered closer economic and political ties with Iraq a course he said he decided on in Hopes of moderating iraqis  protester pleads innocent Las vegas apr an anti nuclear activist who barged onto a stage where former president Reagan was speaking pleaded innocent Friday to a Federal charge. Rick Springer 41, of Areata calif., entered his plea before . Magistrate Lawrence Leavitt who set a july 6 trial Date. Springer remains free. Springer ran onstage april 13 As Reagan was speaking to the National association of broadcasters. He grabbed a Crystal statue of an Eagle that had been Given to Reagan and smashed it on a Pedestal. Reagan was struck by flying Glass and shoved aside but was not Hurt. Secret service agents hustled the intruder off the stage. Reagan appeared shaken but finished his speech. Springer held a news conference on the Federal courthouse Steps after his arraignment Friday saying he had interrupted Reagan to Call attention to continued . Nuclear weapon tests. A i would like the Public at Large to be aware of Why in a Here a Springer said. A a in Man advocate of stopping nuclear testing a Springer is charged with interfering with the Powers and duties of the secret service and assaulting resisting or impeding . Officers or employees