European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 20, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 3u.n. Efforts at Sarajevo Airport thwarted Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr fighting forced two . Vehicles to Retreat from Sarajevo a serbian held Airport Early Friday delaying work to open up runways for Relief flights. Sarajevo a 300,000 hungry people have been reduced to eating grass Nettles and weeds to stay alive. They Are under siege by yugoslav backed serbian forces fighting muslims and croats who voted 2vt months ago to secede from Yugoslavia. Rocket and machine gunfire jarred residents North of the old City Center before Dawn Friday. Serbian attackers and the City a Muslim led defenders traded fire around the fiercely contested marshal Tito Barracks which the yugoslav army abandoned two weeks ago. Shelling also echoed around the Muslim old town in the bosnian capital. . Officials were optimistic about carrying out a 2-week-Ola agreement to reopen the Airport after 80 peacekeepers entered the Airfield thursday said Adnan Abdel Razek chief . Civilian officer in Sarajevo. But fighting continued Friday near the Airport in the suburb of Dobrija and two vehicles carrying . Liaison officers were turned Back because of fighting Razek said. In Central Sarajevo air raid sirens wailed shortly before noon sending some people running for cover while others kept walking. A a it a not that in a not afraid i just can to run any More a a woman who identified herself Only As Klara said As she walked were heard Over the next with her son. No planes hour. Meanwhile in the serbian capital of Belgrade 55 . Diplomats and their family members left in a Convoy for Hungary. The embassy staff has been Cut from 90 to 35 to protest Serbia a involvement in the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. . Ambassador Warren Zimmermann was recalled last month along with the ambassadors from the european Community and other nations. In Geneva on Friday a major International Trade group suspended Yugoslavia a membership. Serbia and Montenegro the Only republics that remain in the former yugoslav federation had demanded to succeed Yugoslavia in the 103-nation general agreement on tariffs and Trade. But some Gatt members did no to feel the diminished yugoslav federation was representative of the country. Sarajevo has been under a tightening siege since Early april when fighting intensified throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina after Bosnia a Independence was recognized by the United states and Western Europe. More than 5,700 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands made refugees in Bosnia since fighting started after muslims and croats who form a majority in the Republic voted feb. 29 for Independence. Ian Kelly head of the . Information Center in Belgrade Yugoslavia attaches a tag to a suitcase held by his son. Will As . Envoys and their families left for Hungary on Friday. Weinberger pleads innocent trial nov. 2 Washington apr former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent Friday to charges he lied to Congress and prosecutors about the Iran Contra affair. He was ordered by a Federal judge to stand trial the Day before election Day on five counts of perjury making false statements and obstruction of Congress. Weinberger who served As defense Secretary under president Reagan requested a Quick trial. A this is a tremendous Cloud Over him he is a Kublic figure his Liveli Ood depends on his maintaining his reputation a defense lawyer Robert s. Bennett said. Weinberger now is publisher of Forbes Magazine. . District judge Thomas f. Hogan set a tentative trial Date of nov. 2, the Day before Weinberger election Day. Hogan added that the trial Date was a optimistic but we will attempt to keep Weinberger 74, who was released on his personal recognizance declined to talk to reporters As he left the court. The indictment this week raised the possibility that pre trial mane vering could produce political embarrassment for president Bush who As vice president attended some of the meetings at Issue in the Case against the former defense Secretary. The indictment raises again the question of what Bush knew about the Iran Contra affair and arms sales to Iran. Bush has steadfastly maintained that he had Only limited Advance knowledge of the Iran initiative and that he did not know the arms sales were intended to be a Swap for . Hostages. Special congressional committees that investigated the Iran Contra affair reported in 1987 that Bush attended the meetings which took place with top Reagan administration officials in 1986. The congressional report said Bush also attended an initial August 1985 meeting where the arms Sale proposal was broached. The indictment handed up tuesday by a Federal grand jury said Bush attended a Jan. 7,1986, meeting of president Reagan and other members of his inner Circle Weinberger who was defense Secretary attorney general Edwin Meuse Secretary of state George Shultz and Cia director William Casey. A at the meeting the president favored the plan to sell missiles to Iran through Israel in Exchange for the release of american hostages a said the indictment. Prosecutors said the indictment was based on extensive notes Weinberger kept in 1985 and 1986. Bush also was among those attending a White House meeting nov. 10, 1986, after initial news reports of the Iran arms sales the indictment said. At that meeting National Security adviser John Poindexter discussed the Iran initiative the indictment said. But he omitted mention of the november 1985 shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran and did not acknowledge any . Role in 1985 shipments it said. Bush also attended a nov. 24, 1986, meeting in which Meese told the group the november 1985 Hawks ship ment May have been illegal but the president did not know about it at the time according to the indictment. No one at the meeting disputed Meesey a statement about Reagan Slack of knowledge although several knew it was not True the indictment said. Two Days earlier on nov. 22, 1986, Shultz told Meese that Reagan had said head known about the Hawks shipment according to a document prepared for the 1987 Iran Contra congressional hearings. In 1987, Shultz told Congress that he Reagan and White House chief of staff Don Regan met nov. 20,1986, in the White House family quarters and that the president a corroborated things like the Hawks shipment. The Weinberger indictment Only listed Bush As being among those who attended those three meetings and did characterize anything he might have said at the meeting. Weinberger and Shultz opposed the arms Sale but the congressional report said a none of the witnesses recalls the vice presidents Bush also travelled in mid-1986 to Jerusalem where he was briefed about the Iran arms sales by Amiram Nir an israeli official who worked with National Security Council officials on the Deal. Bush was asked repeatedly during the 1988 presidential Campaign about what he knew about Iran Contra and what advice he gave to Reagan. He said in january 1988 he did not recall objections raised by Shultz and Weinberger two years earlier. A a in be told the full truth a hush said. A a in be said i do not approve of arms for hostages and neither docs the months later when he was asked on Abc in about his meeting with Nir Bush said �?o1 did no to say that 1 never knew anything about Quayle on Mark with Twain quote aide says a a a. A Tua poll it get that Rac it or Rhio is in Ivy to it Washington up a vice president Dan Quayle put a Light hearted spin on his misspelling of the word potato thursday by paraphrasing Mark Twain. Despite reports to the contrary Quayle May have known what he was talking about. In an interview with san Francisco a Kron television station Quayle said a i should have caught the mistake on that spelling Bee card a a reference to the error earlier in the week when he directed 12-year-old William Figueroa to add an a be a to the word potato. Quayle added a but As Mark Twain once said a you should never Trust a Man who has one Way to spell a a in fact Twain who did not mince words for political digestion said �?o1 done to give a Damn about a Man that can spell a word Only one original press accounts of Quayle a remarks including the United press International dispatch from san Francisco quoted Twain scholars who said they found no similar citation to the remark offered by the vice president. Quayle a press Secretary David Beckwith armed with three books of humorous quotations called up to say the vice president was inc teed right. But Richard Bucci editor of Mark Twain project at the University of California at Berkeley said he has been unable to find the quote in his archives. The closest that researchers have been Able to come to a source for Quayle a quip he said was a May 12, 1875 speech Twain gave in Hartford con after he himself lost a spelling Bee. Twain lost the Bee after misspelling a a caldron a a unit of measurement by leaving out the a a a a Bucci said. According to Bucci Twain told an audience after the contest a i done to see any use in spelling a word right a and never did. I mean 1 done to see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary Way of spelling words. We might As Well make All clothes alike and Cook All dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome variety is
