| Show J 2A The Salt Lake Tribune W Friday December 12 1986 Casey Says Khashoggi Associate Told Him of Contra Funding Continued From l ridor in the Capitol after his appearance before the House committee i Asked when he learned about the arrangement Casey responded “I first learned about this when Meese told everybody” It was on Nov 25 that Attorney General Edwin Meese III disclosed that between $10 million and $30 million in arms sales profits were diverted to the Contras “Before Meese informed you did ypu start asking questions?” Casey was asked t “Oh I had questions about it yeah” he replied "When you had questions was that because of your conversations with A-- Mr Furmark?” "That did precipitate the questions sure” The sources said that on Oct 8 the day after Furmark talked to Casey the CIA contacted Adm John M Poindexter then national security adviser to President Reagan about the Canadian threat Casey they said was told that such a disclosure through a lawsuit would “blow the cover" on the Iranian arms deal and jeopardize chances of winning the release of Arne icans held hostage in Lebanon by extremists One House Foreign Affairs Committee member who spoke only on condition that he not be identified said that sometime after Casey’s conversation with Furmark the CIA director summoned Marine Lt Col Oliver L North a member of the National Security Council staff who was coordinaung the administration’s efforts to aid the Contras The House member said Casey testified that he asked North whether he knew of any third-partsupport for the Contra rebels and that North replied that he did not Meese has said that North who has refused to testify before congressional committees on grounds of possible was the only administration official who knew “precisely” of the diversion of arms profits to the Contras Cohen said the Senate panel after two weeks of hearings still lacks suf- y Loner Charged in Killing Of Popular Iowa Mayor MOUNT PLEASANT Iowa (UPI) Iowa man described as an e ball” was charged with — An "odd- first-degre- murder Thursday while stunned townspeople mourned the death of their popular mayor and prayed for two critically injured City Council members also felled by the assassin’s bullets Ralph Orin Davis 69 who neighbors said was a loner who kept to himself and liked to drink his own home-mad- e beer was held in lieu of $700000 bond in Henry County Jail after his court appearance He was accused of killing Mayor Edward King 53 and critically wounding Joann Sankey 39 and Ronald Dupree 44 after he walked into Wednesday night’s council meeting armed with a handgun and cursing over a reoccurring sewage problem and opened fire Witnesses to the shooting said Davis entered the chamber’s east entrance as the council was meeting in open session shortly after 9 pm He walked to the council table shouted an obscenity and allegedly fired shots that struck Dupree City Attorney Bill Dowell made an unsuccessful attempt to sub due Davis who moved behind the council rostrum and allegedly fired shots that struck King and Sankey Some of the one dozen people in the chambers fled to summon help and police arrived to find Davis had put down his weapon and was seated in the front row of the audience-seatin- g area Davis who lived alone in a somen y what house had on several occasions asked the council to help him pay to repair damage caused when sewage backed up into his basement in heavy rains in late September One neighbor who described the suspect as "an oddball” who liked to shoot birds with a pellet gun said Davis talked about his sewage problem Neighbor Lowell ‘Red’ Spicer said “I told him I’ve got the same problem but there’s nothing you can do about one-stor- run-dow- it” “It's like somebody pulled a trigger on the whole town” said former Mayor Jim Green who gathered with other townspeople who awoke Thursday to the news that one of the city’s foremost leaders had been gunned down Rep Jim Leach a friend of the mayor said King “was one of the finest mayors in America” Pregnant Women on Drugs: Burgeoning US Dilemma A-- medical world and government largely unprepared Most health-car- e professionals get little training in identifying pregnant women or in treating addiction and pregnancy in tandem drug experts say Even though prevention and treatment programs clearly have helped produce healthier mothers and children in many communities such proor at grams are either drug-addicte- d best underfunded and Maternal alcohol use remains probably the biggest danger Experts say that about 6000 children annually are born with syndrome which was recognized in 1973 and is characterized by distinctive facial and body malformations mental retardation and inhibited growth Another 36000 infants are born each year with more subtle forms of elated damage “Many people still do not realize the harm cocaine can cause” said Dr Ira Chasnoff director of the Perinatal Center for Chemical Dependence at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago "We’re beginning to understand the magnitude of the problem” said Vivian Weinstein a retired associate professor of pediatrics at Martin Luther King Jr Hospital in Los Angeles and a member of Los Angeles County’s Council on Perinatal Substance - public serva-’and Secretary State Geo Miultz ’ f"' placed Stoessel among the "giants of American public service Moessel bb a Career f oreign Service officer1" w L alter Stoessel no served as am- bassador to the Soviet Union and as No 2 man in the State Department during a diplomatic career of more 11 an 40 years died Tuesday of leuke- mia yuiet and unassuming the specialist in Soviet affairs was regarded by colleagues as a "top professional’ ments” Durenberger said he doesn’t believe Reagan was involved in illegal activities but by allowing his former national security advisers to refuse to testify the president “is making it look a lot more like he’s guilty” The senator said Reagan made a mistake in allowing a secretive environment in which a few close aides were “using a bunch of rug merchants” to conduct sensitive foreign policy operations To prevent similar future occurrences Durenberger said “you don’t restrain the National Security Council you restrain the president” Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane in a speech here Thursday said he believes the policy of making overtures to moderate elements in Iran was “sensible apparently feasible and perhaps still a valuable course to pursue” But McFarlane who left the government in December said government officials charged with responsibility for foreign policy must be fully involved and “you must rely on the support of Congress and the American people” He added that “I was never party to a deception nor would I be” In other developments: — Rep Peter W Rodino Jr said his House Judiciary Committee was starting an investigation of the Justice Department’s handling of the connection He asked Meese in a letter to outline whether he had provided legal advice to the president the National Security Council the CIA or any other government officials on arms sales to Iran or diversion of funds to the ConY Iran-Cont- ra tras a Rep Stephen Solarz member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he was “very comfortable with the conclusion that the president must have known about the decision to divert these resources” based on testimony of witnesses who said it was virtually inconceivable that Poindexter and North would have acted without higher authority Y Tribune Wire Services WASHINGTON — A judge on the special court looking for an indepen- dent prosecutor to investigate the Iran arms-Contr- a aid scandal said Thursday the panel has narrowed its search but the short list is “changing day to day” Meanwhile The New York Times reported Thursday that the leading candidates to head the two special congressional committees that will also investigate the Iran arms deal are Rep Lee H Hamilton of Indiana and Sen Daniel K Inouye of Hawaii according to senior Democrats on Capitol Hill But a Democratic lawmaker involved in the selection said no final decision had apparently been made The two Democratic leaders in Congress Sen Robert C Byrd and Rep Jim Wright are being buffeted by considerations of political ambition institutional rivalry and personal preference as they weigh a decision that could seriously affect the outcome of the Iran investigation as well as the course of the 100th Congress which convenes next month However legal sources identified a leading candidate for the massive job of probing the snarled affair is Lawrence Walsh 74 a former federal judge in New York deputy attorney general in the Eisenhower administration and a former president of the American Bar Association In a telephone interview US Appeals Judge George MacKinnon of the District of Columbia said the decision on the appointment of a special prosecutor would not come Thursday Another judge on the panel Lewis Morgan of Atlanta said the appointment would not be made this week The third member of the panel is Walter Mansfield of New York MacKinnon said he would “not confirm that any candidate is being considered or not considered” “I wouldn’t make any comment on the status of it because it changes day to day” MacKinnon said Walsh a naturalized US citizen born in Canada is one of several prominent lawyers who are possible candidates for appointment to investigate the secret arms sales to Iran and subsequent diversion of up to $30 million to Nicaraguan rebels Now a partner in the Oklahoma City law firm of Crowe and Dunlevy Walsh was a federal judge in New York from 1954 to 1957 and a deputy attorney general in the Eisenhower administration under Attorney General William Rogers From 1961 to 1981 he was a partner in the New York law firm of David Polk and Wardwell jVTCL Paul Newman Robert Bedford walked out of the Betty Ford drug rehabilitaweek of treatment because he hates to get up a tion center after only his manager said Thursday chores like doesn’t and early “You can’t deal with him like you do any other person” JW Written said in Memphis Lewis 51 was admitted to the center last week for what was supof treatment for addiction to posed to have been four to six weeks in good shape and left he said Wednesday Whitten But painkillers ’n’ roll” “ready to rock “He walked out” Whitten said “His days start at about 4 in the afternoon Their the center’s days start at 6 in the morning Lewis also did not like doing the chores that are a part of the facility’s rehabilitation program Whitten said — to perform” he said “Jerry has only one job to do treatment he needs and is no the all had has Lewis said Whitten longer addicted “He’s stronger and quicker than anybody” he said Jerry Lee Lewis is the United States’ cinematic ambassador to a delegation of film makers to Tokyo in April will lead Redford Japan 1987 to present some contemporary American independent films to Japanese audiences e winner Among the 11 movies going to Japan will be the grand-prizfrom Redford’s US Film Festival next month in Park City The festival starts Jan 16 and features 35 films including “Square Dance” with Jason Robards Jane Alexander and Rob Lowe “Seize the Day” with Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller and “84 Charing Cross Road” with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins For the third consecutive year Woody Allen is sending a new movie 5 to the festival “Radio Days” will premier sometime between Jan Robert Redford 16-2- Paul Newman broke ground Wednesday on the Hole m the Wall Gang summer camp — the camp that popcorn salad dressing and spaghetti sauce built The camp will focus on recreation and medical care for seriously ill youngsters and Newman is providing half the estimated $8 million cost through his Newman’s Own food company g Newman was joined at the ceremony in Ashford Conn by his wife actress Joanne Woodward and Gov William A O’Neill The actor said he hopes the camp will provide “the kind of experience I remember when I was a child” “It is his best idea” Woodward said “probably the best one he’s had in a long time and he’s had many” Shop Monday through Saturday 9 ground-breakin- —Tribune Wire Services r ( IW JUG (J Tf i MIN MR AIR H C KlOO A Of SAIT SOIL fARDM THE UNO ( ALl GET RESULTS CLASSIFIED 237-200- WANT-AD- S am 0 to 10 pm fetal-alcoh- alcohol-r- Abuse Candies' sweetest savings around! Climber 2439 A Reg $32 W arm and colorful ny Ion boots t with rubber bottoms and fleece insoles Choose from yellow aqua navy fuchsia or grey water-resistan- "But we haven't figured out a system of how we are going to serve the families and the children involved ” In November the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation launched a nationwide public awareness campaign on the dangers of drinking smoking and drug use by pregnant g women The act signed into law by President Reagan late in October identified pregnant women as a target group for prevention and treatment activities anti-dru- Diplomat W Stoessel Dies at 66 Reagan Praises Him for Service WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan praised the late diplomat Walter Stoessel Thursday as a "dedicated and talented David Durenberger chairman of the Senate intelligence panel said in Omaha Neb Thursday that Poindexter North and retired Air Force Maj Gen Richard Secord another key figure in the arms deal should “either take off their uniforms or take off their Fifth Amend- — Can Addicts Care for Children? Continued From l society intervene to protect a baby from its parents? Should both the mother and child be considered victims of a disease? Or should a mother be held legally accountable for not following sound medical advice during pregnancy? The uncertainty about how to proceed has raised concern that many infants are being sent home to drugusing environments where their health and developmental problems either are ignored or provoke abuse by parents incapable of coping with the strain of caring for damaged children Though maternal drug and alcohol use has begun in the last year to attract the attention of policy-maker- s and health providers the growing numbers of pregnancies affected by substance abuse have caught the ficient evidence to conclude where the arms deal money went to whom and under what circumstances “It’s possible the money may never have left the Swiss bank accounts” Cohen said pro-Irani- Spotlight Panel of Judges Narrows Picks For Prosecutor Mammouth 2939 B Reg $ 36 The repeat ot a sellout' Mammouth nlon boots also base rubber bottoms and are lined with soft acnlic pile Taupe or black in fashion W omen s Shoes and was one of the key players in President Nixon s opening to Com- munist China "Ambassador Walter J Stoessel was a dedicated and talented public servant" the president said ‘He earned the respect and admiration of those with whom he worked and he was an effective and articulate advocate of our foreign policy goals "Walter Stoessel served his country with distinction ana a deep sense of patriotism He was motivated by tne goal which all diplomats share — making the world a better place for their fellow men Shul’z called Stoessel one of the "giants of American public service’ and ordered all flags ai the State Department and US embassies abroad to be flown at half staff f ndav in his memory Stoessel joined tht Matt D'part ment in 1942 and friends 4 |
