European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and step feb Raftry 10,1993 challenger debris an unidentified Man left photo looks Over the aft Bulkhead Section of the space shuttle challenger s Crew Cabin in a photo a closed sunday by Nasa. A wooden scaffold holds up a reconstruction of the Bulkhead. At right the Airlock Hatch window Frame from the challenger s Crew Cabin is surrounded by debris from the Hatch. The photos were taken after the Crew Cabin was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean follow ing the shuttle s explosion on Jan. 28,1986. British told . Of Iraq arms deals sources say by r. Jeffrey Smith the Washington Post Washington the . Intelligence Community knew that a Britain based company was buying military related equipment for Iraq As Early As 1987,nearly three years before the firm and its .-Bascd subsidiary were ordered shut by Export authorities i both countries according to . Government sources. Washington was told by the mis and mi6 British intelligence agencies during the three year period about what the matrix Churchill corp., based in Coventry was doing on Iraq s behalf the sources said. London had recruited senior company officials As informants. The disclosure confirms suspicions voiced by opposition lawmakers in both capitals last year about these Cret .-British Exchange of data on Iraq s arms procurement network before the 1991 persian Gulf War. It also again raises questions about Why officials in Washington and London stood idly by As matrix Churchill supplied Baghdad with machine tools of value to Iraq nuclear weapons program. Sources said the information Given to Washington bythe British initially consisted of finished intelligence re ports that generally described matrix Churchill s activities. As Early As March 1989, the information also included raw reports derived from secret interviews by British agents with Paul Henderson the firm s Man aging director and Mark Gutta Ridge its Export Sale manager. The Cia disseminated this information to policymakers in the Reagan and Bush administrations be ginning in december 1987, just two months after matrix Churchill was purchased by an iraqi controlled company the sources said. Previous reports had traced the Agency s information Back Only As far As june 1989. The secret data Exchange was hinted at in a feb. 5report by the Senate select committee on intelligence about the Bush administration s mishandling of Intelli gence information about Iraq. The report said multiple raw intelligence reports received by the Cia de scribed the activities of matrix Churchill As part of the iraqi worldwide procurement network but Britai was not identified As the source. Rep. Henry b. Gonzalez a Texas the banking committee chairman who for several years has investigated . Ties to Iraq cited the Senate report s disclosures in alleging that the Cia misled Congress last year about the extent of the intelligence Agency s knowledge about matrix Churchill. The Agency told Gonzalez in a november 1991 letter that it had located Only two classified reports on the firm. A Cia spokesman sunday declined to comment on Gonzalez s criticism. But a report completed last month by Frederick p. Hitz the Agency s inspector Gen eral said that sloppiness and inattention had botched other Cia responses to the congressman s request for information. The Senate committee reviewed . Intelligence on matrix Churchill in an attempt to resolve allegations by Gonzalez and other democratic lawmakers that the Bush administration knew about Iraq s arms procure ments during the late 1980s but failed to act. One alleged motive in the intelligence Community was a desire to keep an Eye on iraqi activities at the expense of Actu ally halting the leakage of Western technology another was Washington s Overall desire to assist Iraq As a deterrent to iranian ambitions in the Region. The committee s inquiry also was prompted by suspicions that the Cia knew of illicit Loans matrix Church ill had obtained from the Atlanta Branch of an italian government owned Bank Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro bal before the Branch s operations were halted by Federal authorities in August 1989. The Agency s mis handling of other intelligence related to the bal Bank had fanned suspicions that the Cia was trying to hide Covert . Military Aid to Iraq. Seeking to Lay these suspicions to rest the committee said its four month inquiry turned up no proof that the Cia had been operationally involved in assisting the iraqis. The conclusion was based on a review of Agency documents that fell Short of the Independent probe sought by some lawmakers including the com Mittee s new chairman sen. Dennis Deconcini a Ariz. In its unclassified report the committee Only roughly sketched what the Cia and other . Intelligence agencies knew about the iraqi network but said there was no evidence that the Cia unlike the British Agen cies had operational sources inside matrix Churchill. I said the Cia was never asked for assistance in Monitor ing the firm or even told the names of intelligence informants inside it. 6 slain execution style in Bronx by Robert d. Mcfadden the new York times new York three adults an three teen agers All residents of a build ing notorious for drug sales and gunfire were lined up face Down on the living room floor or an apartment in the Bron Early sunday and shot to death execution style with one Bullet to the head of each victim. The killers escaped police said. The motive was unclear but police found $4,400 in the apartment and ruled out robbery. And neighbors said one Vic Tim May have been a Small time drug dealer and perhaps was the intended tar gel while the others apparently were in Nocent bystanders. They probably just did t want to leave any witnesses said Jose Luis Rivera the brother of one victim. We live Ina drug infested society. Even the inno cent fall victim to these people. We seethes every Day but when it happens to immediate family members it s  citing accounts by neighbors who saw nothing but heard gunfire and footsteps running Down a Hall the police said the slayings apparently occurred at about12 30 . In a sixth floor apartment on Prospect Avenue near East 152ndstreet, in a predominantly hispanic neighbourhood of the South Bronx that bustles with Street life and struggles for survival against heavy Odds. Some residents Call it the Mott have Section and others Call it Morrisania but virtually everyone agrees it has been on of the deadliest most drug Ridden neighbourhoods of the City a place where More than 80 people Are murdered every year and where robberies fires poverty an addiction Lead the Catalon of misery. In an area where gunfire is common no one called the police until nearly nine hours later when an Anonymous Man told a 911 operator that the door of the apartment was ajar Ami that bodies could be seen inside. The police went to the four room apartment and found the Vic Tims. All were fully clothed had not been bound and were lying face Down in dragged Row on the living room floor. Three of the victims were members Ofa family that lived in the apartment Julia Santana 40, who had been disabled by stroke last year and was living on Public assistance her son Edwin Santiago 17, student at South Bronx High school and Santana s daughter Maria Santana 26 who worked in a Bronx factory printing logos on to shirts. 6 the other victims also residents of thesis Story red Brick building were identified As Miguel Camacho Rivera 23, Handyman who was dating Maria Santana Annette Medina 17, a Friend who lived Down the Hall and Christopher Hernandez 15, an eighth Grade Pupil a Public school 62. All but one of the victims had Bee shot in the Back of the head at close Range the police said while Julia Santana had been shot through the right Eye suggesting she had turned her head atthe last moment As her killer fired. There were no signs of forced entry into the apartment and none of the victims was tied up but the police said they had Al been lined up and executed. Man guns Down wife Mother then kills himself by the new York times new York after luring his estranged wife to his Mother s apartment sunday with the Promise of a Valentine s Day gift a Brooklyn Man shot an wounded her killed his Mother and an other Man and stalked out of the build ing where he turned his .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol on himself police said. Officers found the victims in the East Flatbush building at 12 40 . After receiving a Call from a  gunman Vernon Bristol 27, was found on the sidewalk a Short distance from the Entrance to the building with a wound to his head and a pistol in his hand. He died later at a Hospital. It was unclear whether Bristol was hoping for a reconciliation with his wife Edwina Gray 23, or whether he intended from the Start to shoot her. Gray was shot in the Chest and leg. She was reported in critical condition