European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes tuesday february 16,1993 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 scar fold 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 .-based subsidiary were ordered shut by Export authorities in 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 s nuclear weapons program. Sources said the information Given to Washington by the 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 Gutteridge 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. 5 report 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 Britain 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  to Lay these suspicions to rest the committee said us 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 Trie com Mittee s new chairman sen. Dennis Deconcini d 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. Tyson lawyer argues for new trial Indianapolis up1 Mike Tyson believed the sex act that prosecutors called rape was consensual and the trial jury should have been Able to weigh that during its deliberations his appeals lawyer argued monday before the Indi Ana court of appeals. Appeals attorney Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Reuben the chief Deputy forthe Indiana attorney general presented arguments for two hours and 13 minutes before a three judge panel at the Indiana Lathouse. Judges v. Sue Shields Patrick Sullivan and Jonathan Robertson will Issue a Rul ing at an undefined later Date. If two judges believe Marion Superior court judge Patricia Gifford denied the former heavyweight Champion his constitutional rights he will get a new trial. If not Tyson can Appeal to the Indiana supreme court. The state can Appeal to the Indiana supreme court if the appellate decision goes to Tyson. Tyson was convicted on feb. 111992, of raping Beauty court stunt Desiree Washington then 18, at an Indianapolis hotel in july 1991. With continued Good behaviour Tyson is Likely to be released from prison in March 1995. Dershowitz who previously handled the appeals of millionaires Claus von billow and hotel Queen Leona Helmsley argued monday that Gifford failed to properly instruct the jury on How it should consider the conflicting stories Tyson and Washington presented during the trial. Gifford s instructions did not fully let the jury weigh the possibility that Tyson reasonably believed he had Washington s consent Dershowitz argued. Choose Dershowitz said. They still could believe that she s telling the truth and they still could believe that he s Tell ing the truth. It s just that Tyson and Washington see it  Many of the primary players in the jury trial attended the hearing including Box ing promoter Don King c Amille Lovald the woman Tyson considers his Mother and the trial s Deputy  Trathen. Dershowitz also argued that the conviction should be overturned because Gifford improperly disallowed three "11th hour witnesses from testifying that Tyson and Washington were kissing and holding hands in a limousine jus outside the hotel the night of the attack. Gifford improperly allowed into Evi Dence the 911 Call Washington placed to police about 24 hours after the attack Dershowitz claimed the playing of the tape in effect allowed Washington to testify twice. Gifford refused to allow into Evi Dence testimony that the Washington family might have hired attorneys to Han dle potential movie and Book right to Desiree Washington s Story. Marion county prosecutor Jeffre Modisett chose Gifford a former rape prosecutor to hear the Case. The appeals attorneys gave a great presentation. I m very optimistic the con victim to will be reversed King said 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 and wounded her killed his Mother and an other Man and stalked out of the build ing where he turned his .22-caliber Send automatic pistol on himself police said. It filers found the victims in the East mat Bush building at 12 40 . After receiving a Call from a neighbor. The gunman Vernon Bristol 27, was found on the sidewalk a Short distance irom the Entrance to the building with a wound to his head and a pistol in his hand. He died later at a Hospital. Was unclear whether Bristol was hoping for a reconciliation with his wife to Duma Gray 23, or whether he intended irom the Start to shoot her. Gray was shot in the Chest and leg. She was reported in critical condition