European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thes fats 1942-1992 50 years of service vol. 61, no. 253 500 sunday december 27,1992 b d 8693 presidential pardons president Bush granted presidential pardons which wipe out both guilt and punishment to a Caspar w. Weinberger former defense Secretary is Robert c. Mcfarlane former National Security adviser b Clair George former Cia official b Duane r. Clarridge former Cia official b Alan Fiers former Cia official b Elliott Abrams former assistant Secretary of state Bush May be grilled on Iran Contra notess amps Washington a Iran Contra prosecutors plan to question president Bush and other administration officials about Why they failed to turn Over relevant notes he took As vice president six years ago officials familiar with the investigation say. Bush who pardoned former defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger and five other Iran Contra figures on Christmas eve began keeping the notes in november 1986 As the Iran Contra scandal was erupting said the officials speaking on condition of anonymity. The while House did not Tell Iran Contra Independent prosecutor Lawrence e. Walsh about the material until two weeks ago the Law that authorizes Independent counsels expired dec. 15, but there was a provision that permits finishing up any ongoing investigation. Before going out of business the office had planned to try Weinberger beginning Jan. 5, and Duane r. Dewey Clarridge former head of the Ciao a Western european division. Bush also pardoned Clarridge. Others pardoned were former National Security adviser Robert c. Mcfarlane Eliott Abrams a former assistant Secretary of state for inter Anterica affairs and former Cia officials Clair George and Alan Fiers. The biggest scandal of the Ronald Reagan presidency the Iran Contra of see Bush on Page 2u.s. Convoy returns f i re on key Road Mogadishu Somalia apr a somalian gunman fired on marines on the Road from Bairoa where a food riot left one person dead a child maimed and several other people injured on Christmas. The difficulty of the  Mission in Somalia becomes More apparent the farther the troops see related stories on pages 8 and 9 hundreds of somalis converge on . Marines unloading wheat at a Bard Cra feeding Center on Christmas. Food riots were reported in both Barbera and Bairoa where one woman was killed. Penetrate the country. On saturday an Armorel Convoy of italian troops went North to seize the town of Gail Alassi. Capt. Joe Davis an air Force officer speaking saturday in Mogadishu said a somalian Man Riding with at least seven others in a pickup truck opened fire with an ak-47 assault Rifle on a Marine Convoy of 12 vehicles returning to Mogadishu from Bairoa on Christmas. Marines in the Lead vehicle returned fire at the approaching pickup hit at least three of its occupants and saw it veer off the Road As the Convoy sped by Davis said. No marines were Hurt. Davis said the attack took place half a mile South of see . On Page 2 deadly leak on soviet sub reported 14 died after averting nuclear explosion in 1961 inside today Moscow a one of the first soviet nuclear submarines suffered a radioactive leak in 1961 on its inaugural voyage and at least 14 sailors died following a dramatic repair operation a newspaper revealed saturday. The military newspaper Krasnaya zvezda said a piping system carrying the Cooling liquid Durst open in one of two reactors powering the k-19. Only the efforts of a repair Crew kept the reactor from exploding it said. It is Likely the Accident was a blow for the fledgling soviet nuclear Fleet. The soviet Union and the United states were locked in a fierce race for nuclear superiority at the time and the soviet Union had launched its first atomic powered sub Only two years earlier according to Jane a fighting ships. Krasnaya zvezda said the k-19 was built As a soviet counterpart to the first american nuclear subs the Nautilus class. It said the k-19 was 416 feet Long displaced 6,600 tons had a cruising Speed of 26 knots and could remain at sea for two months at a time. The newspaper said the submarine carried a Crew of 139, several nuclear torpedoes and three ballistic missiles each with a 1.4-megaton warhead. The Accident happened on june 18, 1961, shortly after the k-19 set sail for the Atlantic Ocean and its first War games dubbed Polar Circle. Once in place it was supposed to launch a ballistic missile Krasnaya zvezda said. But in the afternoon when the submarine was at the depth of 660 feet capt. Nikolai v. Matey eve received a report of a Sharp drop in pressure in the piping system on reactor no. 1 a which meant that radioactive Cooling liquid was leaking. Later the Captain Learned that it happened because of a poor welding Job on the pipes the newspaper said. It gave this account of the events Matey eve went to the reactor and raised the Hatch leading to the hold. A dense Cloud of steam came out and radioactivity increased at once in several sections of the submarine. The k-19 now faced the possibility of a reactor explosion similar to the one that happened at the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant 25 years later. Matey eve placed the Crew on combat Alert and ordered it to prepare to surface the sub. After consulting with technicians he see leak on Page 2 Dave barrys Wacky review of 1992sundaymao a 2 t n k