European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 15,1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 Reagan gives up Iran Contra fight Washington a attorneys for former president Reagan say he s ending his Legal fight to suppress key parts of a report by Iran Contra prosecutors that is highly critical of him. President Reagan is confident that the american Public will evaluate the re port. Only in the context of the full re Cord of Iran Contra and president Rea Gan s response to the report Reagan attorney Theodore Olson said thursday. Court objections by Reagan former attorney general Edwin Meese Iii and sex White House aide Oliver l. North have delayed the report s release for the past month. On Jan. 7, a special panel of three fed eral appellate judges denied their re quests to withhold much of the document. The judges have said they will release the report next week unless those who have sought to suppress it Appeal to the supreme court. President Reagan will not seek supreme court review Olson said. It could not be determined whether Meese and North plan to seek supreme court review. The attempts to delete portions of the report were filed in secret. But sources identified the three As the key Irah con tra figures who filed court motions for suppression. It could not be determined if others have filed objections. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity. The Iran Contra affair involved the Sale of arms to Iran in Exchange for its help in freeing . Hostages held by terrorists in Lebanon. Profits from the sales were diverted to pay for illegal arms ship ments to the contras a group that was fighting to overthrow the leftist govern ment of Nicaragua. The report by Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh the culmination of a seven year criminal investigation found that Reagan set the stage for the scandal s illegal activities and that me Csc concocted a false account of one of the arms for hostages deals with Iran said sources who have read portions of the document. The report also found that North regarded comments Reagan made urging support of the contras As an invitation to break the Law said the sources. Rea Gan made the comments in 1984 in the face of a looming congressional ban on . Military assistance to the contras. Marine Pilot killed in crash of Raf Jet from staff and wire reports London the american Pilot of a single seater Royal air Force Trainer Jet died Friday when the air Craft crashed in Western England a ministry of de sense spokesman said. The harrier or. My 7 Jet slammed into the country Side near the Village of Aston Somerville in Worcestershire 30 Miles South of Birmingham shortly after midday. The Pilot was identified As . Marine capt. . Hearney who was on an Exchange program with the Royal air Force. Hearney 29, was from Santa Ana Calif. No one on the ground was injured. An Raf inquiry has been launched into the Acci Dent.  /  Soldier 24, Dies of injuries suffered in car crash Jan. 3 Kitzinger Germany is a 22nd signal brigade Soldier died in a German Hospital thursday from injuries suffered in a traffic Accident earlier this month a military Community spokeswoman said. Spec. Lionel Barragan 24, was driving to work Jan. 3 on Highway b-8 near Wurzburg when his car apparently Slid on Black ice into the path of an oncoming car driven by a German said Gabriele Drake a spokeswoman for the 4.17th base support , assigned to the 57th signal co underwent emergency surgery at Wurzburg s University clinic where he was pronounced dead late thursday. Memorial services Are scheduled for 3 . Wednes Day at Kitzinger s Larson Chapel. A x x a v1 its in vex \ n v v x \ \ v \ \ a a  xxx is a n a u was \ Mesnil x \ a s v \\4 x. A few a i x to 2 circus workers killed train cars belonging to Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus lie Askew thursday in Lakeland fla., after the train jumped the tracks Between St. Peters Burg and Orlando. An elephant Trainer and a Clown were killed and 14 circus workers were injured. None of the animals aboard was harmed. The National transportation safety Board is investigating the crash but officials had ruled out sabotage. Wife says she can t recall mutilating Bobbitt Manassas a. A though she did t deny doing it Lorena Bobbitt tearfully insisted Friday that she does t remember cutting off her husband s Penis contradicting her testimony at John Wayne Bobbitt s sexual assault  testified that her head swirled with images of past abuse that night but As for the wounding itself she said no i Don t remember  the ecuadorean born manicurist charged with Mali Cious wounding said she was awakened around 3 . June 23 when her husband returned Home with a Friend from a night of  went Back to sleep she said but woke up with her husband on top of her forcing her to have sex. He denied attacking her and was acquitted of a sex Ual assault charge last november. Lorena Bobbitt sobbing and wringing her hands testified that her husband grabbed her wrists and pushed off her underwear with his foot As he pressed his Shoul Der into her face. ,."i said i Don t want to have sex. He would t listen to me she said haltingly. I was just crying crying loud but i could t breathe. I just could t breathe. It was hurting me. He Hurt  paused and slumped Forward clutching the Cross on her necklace. Regaining her composure she Testi fied that her husband pushed her away afterwards and she demanded of him Why do you do this to me again and again and again she said she tried to Calm herself going into the Kitchen for a Glass of water. It was there that she saw the knife m the dim Light cast by the open refrigerator. Defense attorney James Lowe asked if she remembered cutting her husband. No i Don t remember that she  her husband s trial last year she did describe the moment saying i lifted the sheets and i Cut  Lorena Bobbitt fled the apartment with the severed Penis in her hand. I was driving and i could t make the turn. I could t turn my hands were Busy and i saw it and i screamed and i just threw it  the Organ landed in a Grassy area beside the  was later recovered and reattached surgically. During Cross Examina Tion prosecutor Marygrace o Brien challenged Lorena Bobbitt s memory noting she had told to Bobbit lice i pulled Back the sheets and then i did it. Cut him As he  Bobbitt insisted that was simply what she had assumed happened. Holding the red handled 9-Inch knife used in the mutilation o Brien said what were you thinking when you picked up the knife the pictures came out Lorena Bobbitt said refer ring to images of her troubled marriage flashing through her  you think about cutting John the prosecutor asked. No i just think of the pictures Lorena Bobbitt responded. She also admitted taking Money and supplies from her employer and shoplifting from a department store. She said she took the Money because Bills were piling up and her husband would not help her pay them. I had a lot of payments to do and i could t do them by myself she said. I knew it was  the trial was in recess thursday. On wednesday Lorena Bobbitt said the couple s storybook Romance had descended into a Stormy marriage marked by beatings and rapes at the hands of her husband. Lorena Bobbitt 24, claims the abuse drove her to mental illness and an irresistible impulse to harm her husband. John Bobbitt 26, has denied Ever striking his wife and claimed she often lashed out at him. He claims his wife Cut him because she was jealous and angry that he planned to leave the marriage. Both bobbins have filed for divorce. Lorena Bobbitt faces up to 20 years in prison and possible deportation if convicted. In earlier testimony Friday she said her husband forced her to get an abortion when she got pregnant in the first year of their marriage and then made fun of her at the abortion clinic