European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 17, 1993 . The stars and stripes 0 in get 5bush releases Iran Contra transcript diaries indicate he feared political backlash by Michael wines la he new York timed washingtonian a final Effort to Clear the main of the Iran Contra scandal from his career president hush made Public Friday a sheaf of personal ruminations about the affair dictated As the scandal unfolded six years ago. It suggests that he was indeed unaware of crucial aspects of the arms for Lio stage episode. The extraordinary Stream of consciousness monologue totalling 31 double spaced pages was excerpted from reels of tape recordings that the president made to document his emerging Campaign for the presidency the White House which did not release the actual tapes said the excerpts contain All the thoughts on the Iran Contra affair that hush recorded at the height of the scandal in 1986 and 1987. However hush s private lawyers said that the judgment of the relevance of the released excerpts was theirs and that More detailed transcripts As Well As later ones also had been Given to Lawrence a Walsh the Independent counsel investigating he matter. The lawyers said that nothing in the transcripts Given to Walsh alters hush a Basic account of his role in the affair. The Iran Contra scandal involved the Clandestine Sale of . Arms to Iran in Exchange for . Hostages. Proceeds from the arms sales were secretly diverted tit is Elko blood in Tho water and Tho Sharks Aro homing in Vico Prosl dont ooh nov. 20,1060 nicaraguan rebels despite a congressional ban on . Aid to hem. The transcripts released Friday portray a vice president who stayed blindly Loyal to president Reagan even As it became apparent the revelations of secret arms sales to Iran anti a secret War in Nicaragua were becoming what he called Quot a real  in hush s familiar Choppy Patter the transcripts offer a Fly on the Wah look at the panic and Quot groping no ssh that hush said permeated the White House As the nation was swept up in the scandal and senior officials began scurrying for cover hush also comes across As an ambitious and calculating politician who fretted More and More about the news Media s focus on his conduct the similarity of the Iran Contra affair to the watergate scandal and the Likely effect on his chances for the presidency Quot it is not Good a lie said nov. 20, 1986, near the Peak of Public outrage Over the affair. Quot it is like blood in the water and the Sharks Are homing in Quot hush repeatedly expressed his determination to secretly Lake a Lic Detector lest so he could produce evidence of his honesty should critics question ins role in the scandal. A senior a while House aide said Friday Lylial hush eventually decided not to take the test although the reasoning behind that decision is not known. Quot i am More Ilian Ever determined to try to take n polygraph a to have it in the Bank just so that it will be known that i have gone the extra mile Quot he is quoted As saving nov. 27, 1986. Quot Marlin says that is explosive a he at ded referring to his press Secretary Marlin  Ter Quot but i Don t see anything wrong with doing that kind of thing in a confident i have told the truth seconds later he expressed an ironic conviction that the Best Way to put the burgeoning scandal to rest is Quot too the special prosecutor  that occurred weeks Ater Wincn Walsh a former Federal judge was Given Road leeway to investigate accusations of criminal conduct in the arms sales and the arming of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua against the wishes of Congress. Walsh s inquiry Stilt continuing Long ago became a colossal Burr under the Saddle of hush s presidency. Indeed it was Walsh s nationally broadcast accusation lust month that the president was guilty of Quot misconduct in the Iran Contra affair that prompted hush s decision to make Public his musing. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan 17,1983 a a $169 million bailout plan designed to keep social Security solvent through 1989 won endorsement from president Reagan a congressional leaders and a majority of a special bipartisan study commission. 20 year Sago Jan. 17,1973 a a bilateral ceasefire will be declared by the United states and South Vietnam on Tho eve of president in ones inauguration to pave the Way toward Tho signing of a peace agreement sources in Saigon said. 30 years ago Jan 17,1963 a Winter tightened its icy fingers Over most of Western Europe bringing Snow cold and Slippery roads with no Relief in sight. 40 years ago Jan 17,1953 a British authorities searched Northern Germany and Tho Ruhr Region for or Karl Friedrich Bornemann who slipped through the net that caught seven other High ranking sex nazi plotters. L would War ii 50 years ago today Jan. 17 1 a 9 a 4 3 Aust a a gift a a pc e,1 Foj saw it an Jan huh inc a. 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Were to Lake a five hour spacewalk the first of several planned to Kielp Nasa improve its skills for building the proposed space station Ide Ciumei in 1996, Quot we will be huffing and puffing because we re going to be working hard All of the five hours that we re out there a Harbaugh said. Earlier saturday endeavour s five astronauts awakened to a John Denver song and got in a few More words of Praise for their new $23 million toilet. On Friday the missions third Dav the astronauts chunked a nerf basketball sent a car speeding inside a circular track and played with Windup toys at the bidding of pupils Back on Earth. Children from four elementary schools a the astronauts Alma maters a offered playtime suggestions via a live television Hookup. Endeavour astronaut Susan Helms releases a toy fish Friday during a demonstration conducted via live television Hookup with elementary school pupils. Oscar winning lyricist Sammy Cahn Dies los  Farj a Sammy Cahn the prolific lyricist who won oscars for the songs Call me irresponsible three coins in the Pountain High Hopes and All the Way died Friday lie was 79, Cahn who lived in cleverly Hills died of congestive heart failure at Cedars Sinai medical Center Hospital spokesman Ron Wise said. Cairn had been hospitalized since dec. 30. A Cahn collaborated with Saul Crapim Jimmy Van Heus Cri arid Jule Slyne on hundreds of popular songs. Frank Sinatra immortalized Many Cahn tunes including hive end mar nag now heard on television s married. With children. The song Vas awarded a special emmy from a musical Sersion of 7 Horn ton Wilder s our town. Sinatra also Sang Calm s come Idy with me my kind of town the tender trap three coins in the Pountain High Hopes Lime after time and saturday night is the Ison elicit night of the  Sang his own songs too in a j963 interview Cairn said he considered himself the most expensive Singer in the world a i sing a song once and if you like what you hear you owe me $12,500, he said. In 19/4, tie took the stage in the Broadway show words end music a reminiscence of his musical career. He played on the in Mon stage in a show of the same name in 1987, but illness forced him to Cut Short its  s first International hit Carne by Accident. He heard a Lack duo singing the yiddish song Liei Mir Hist he Schon. Fee translated the song it Means Quot to me you Are Beautiful a reworked the tune and gave it to bandleader Tommy Dorsey. Dorsey said no but a few weeks later the Andrew Sisters spotted the song at calms House and made it a 1937 smash. Among his Best known works were Lih thin is our i his Ness  it Snow let it Snow let it Snow i la walk alone second time around Toeko Toul of mini Eles and All shut hive went to waste. As a film composer calms works include anchors aweigh april in tans meet me in Las vegas the a Lender trap it happened in Hook ten to trance on the High seas Peter pan High time How the West was won to bin and the seven hoods a touch of class paper Tiger the Duchess and the Hitt water pox Ami thoroughly modern Mil lie