European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 31, 1992 . The stars and stripes b Page 5 . Treasurer s Home raided in pay probe by the Washington pos Washington the Fri has raided the Home of . Treasurer Catalina v. Villalpando to investigate allegations that she collected payments from a former employer after president Bush named her treasurer sources said. Villalpando requested and was placed on administrative leave Claire Buchan a Treasury department spokesman said thursday. Villalpando has not Bee charged. Sources said the treasurer is under investigation for criminal violation of Federal ethics Laws. The Fri also is investigating at least one official of the company Alleg edly involved the sources said. Fri agents conducted simultaneous raids wednesday in suburban Atlanta atthe offices of communications International inc. And at Villalpando s Home in the Washington  . Treasurer a separate Job from the Secretary of the Treasury is essentially the banker for the Federal government. Villalpando was senior vice president and partner of communications International in the District of Colum Bia from 1985-89 before Bush nominated her in april 1989. Communications International helped set up communications equipment in saudi Arabia during the persian Gulf War according to the associated press Atlanta Bureau. An Atlanta to station filmed Federal agents hauling materials from the company s office following the raid the a reported. Web to quoted Joe profit who identified himself As the Man in charge at communications International s Atlanta Branch As saying Federal agent told him that the allegations May involve influence peddling. But profit said there is no influence peddling by his company. I Don t have that much influence the a quote profit As saying. We work very hard. We re a very Small , who said the agents told him the company is not a target of the Federal investigation was the Atlanta fal cons first round draft Choice in 1971. In addition to Villalpando several employees and former employees of the company have Strong ties to the Bush administration. George Armstrong now chief of West coast operations for the company once was assistant personnel director in the White House. Ernest Olivas took leave from the District office of the firm to become director of hispanic outreach for the Bush Quayle , who worked in the Reagan White House from 1980-81 in the office of presidential personnel and again from 1983-85 As special assistant to the president for Public Liaison stirred controversy on the eve of the Republican National convention in a gust when she raised the Issue of Democrat bh1 Clin ton s marital Fidelity. In a meeting with the new Jersey delegation Villal Pando a native texan linked Clinton and former san Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros who withdrew fro political life three years ago after acknowledging he had an extramarital  you imagine two skirt chasers campaigning to Gether Villalpando said of Clinton and Cisneros who had joined the Clinton Campaign shortly before she made the  next Day she retreated from the remark apologizing "deeply."Villalpando, who coordinated voter groups for the Republican party in Texas from 1981-83, had been Vic president of mid South Oil co. From 1979-80 after working for the Texas department of Commerce from 1973-79. _ in the stars and stripes 10 years ago oct. 31,1982 John Delorean indicted on charges of arranging a $24 million cocaine Deal to save his failing Auto company was released on Bond after 11 Days in prison. 20 years ago oct. 31,1972 forty five people were killed and More than 200 Hurt in Chicago when a commuter train travelling in reverse overshot the Sta Tion and was rammed by another train during the morning Rush hour. 30 years ago oct. 31,1962 u Thant acting Secretary general of the United nations arrived in Cuba to arrange for a  dismantling of soviet missile bases. 40 years ago " oct. 31,1952 an official with the democratic National committee was fired for allegedly helping negotiate a $9 million government con tract while working for the commit tee. 50 years ago oct. 31,1942 the War against the Axis Powers heated up in the african desert and in the Pacific s so Lomon islands. Meanwhile the icy threat of the russian Winter seemed Likely to Force the nazis to plan for a Long siege. World War ii 50 years ago today oct. 31 f-9-4 2 Australia s 9th div und Germany s 90th Light div Battle fiercely North and East of Tell Eleisa in Egypt s we Ign desert As general Bernard Law Montgomery prepares to launch the British 8th army at the weak Southern flank of the afrika Korps. Off the coast of Africa British East african troops move against the last pockets of Vichy French troops on Madagascar. Source 2 94 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a aging Hiss says russian evidence proves he was innocent of spying by the Baltimore Sun new York shaking leaning on a Cane but speaking with conviction 87-year old Alger Hiss presented evidence thurs Day that he says exonerates him from accusations that he was a soviet spy. Unable to stand to address a throng of reporters Hiss spoke in a quavering voice of the 42 years he spent trying to prove his innocence and overturn his 1950 conviction on perjury charges. I believed that eventually the matter would be cleared up but i must admit that in recent years i had a sense of my mortality. And i have to say that i feared that it would not be in my life time he said. Hiss was a key government official in the 1930s and 40s, holding a top state department Post during world War ii and helping to found the United nations. During the cold War belief in his innocence or guilt became a litmus test for political correctness. But he said people should now try to objectively study the new material and put the hates of the past behind them. At a news conference he released a videotaped interview with Gen. Dmitri a. To Logonov a respected soviet historian who said a thorough search of soviet intelligence archives showed Hiss was not a spy for the soviet Union. I have prepared an opinion on the basis of a careful study of the documents Alger Hiss the former state department lawyer accused of spying in the Mccarthy Era talks thursday. A russian general has said he found no evidence that Hiss had spied. Archive materials in the Light of which ican make a firm conclusion that Alger Hiss was not Ever or anywhere recruit Edas an agent of the intelligence services of the soviet Union said to Logonov chairman of the russian government s military intelligence  resolutely maintained his inno Cence in the face of charges levelled by Whittaker Chambers a communist party member that he had been a spy. He was convicted in 1950 of perjury. New indictment contradicts Bush Washington a president Bush s account of his role in the Iran Contra affair was contradicted Friday Ina second indictment of former defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger. The indictment based on Weinberg or s Handwritten notes said that Bush at tended a Jan. 7, 1986, meeting where president Reagan and his top aides Dis cussed a straight Swap of arms for hos tages with Iran something Bush says he did not know about. Bush has always maintained that he knew the Reagan White House was Send ing arms to Iran and knew that some hos tages were being freed from Lebanon but did t realize the . Was engaging in arms for hostages deals. Bush said he did t know until mid december 1986 about the arms for hos tages trades. The indictment also reveals that Bush Riew from the same meeting that Wein Berger and Secretary of states Georg Shultz opposed the Iran arms sales. Weinberger s notes directly contradict Bush on that Point met with president Shultz National Security adviser John a Poindexter Cia director Bill Casey attorney general de Meese in Oval office. Pres ident decided to go with israeli iranian offer to release our 5 hostages in return for Sale of 4000 tows to Iran by Israel George Shultz and i opposed Bill Casey de Meese up favored As  Bush told the Washington Post on aug. 6, 1987 if i d have sat there and heard George Shultz and Cap express it opposition strongly maybe i would have had a stronger View. But when you Don t know something it s hard to react. We were not in the  Bush added in the Post interview that head no idea there had been anything like a raging fight Between Shultz and Wein Berger on the one hand and on the other top officials of the National Security coun cil and then Cia director Casey. White House counsel c. Boyden Gray has written two articles in recent weeks at tacking the news Media s coverage of Bush s role in the arms for hostages Issue. Weinberger was charged in the new grand jury indictment with one felony count of making false statements to con Gress about whether he took notes Rele vant to its investigation of the Iran con tra affair. He faces trial on three false statement and two perjury charges. Each carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $250,000 in fines