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July 23 4-- Ti 282-1535 1 324-4444: 985-3118 35cents A dj i I formal papers were sighed Shultz said that it until he relayed some disturbing information involving Middle East terrorists to Reagan at a private White House meeting last December that finally felt that the president deeply understands that something is radically wrong Shultz spoke in a somber voice that belied the astonishing nature of his testimony but he occasionally allowed a wry sense of humor to show through hardly know Col (Oliver L) North although like everyone else in America I feel like I know him well by Shultz said of the former National Security Council aide who was the star witness at the hearings later He said he know of the direct sale of US arms to Inn until pearly a year after the facL He also said he didn't know until afterwards that former National Security Adviser Robert McFartane went secretly to Tehran in May 1986 and it was even later that he learned that McFarlane had taken weapons with him The secretajy said he learn until June UdRaM Saudi Arabia had provided $31 milion to the Contras in 1984 and 1985 AM he said he know until it surfaced in the congressional hearings that Taiwan contributed f2 million to the Contras in 1985 Poindexter testified earlier that he never withheld information from Cabinet officers that they want kept from them Shultz quarreled with testimony as well saying that he was unaware of North's secret efforts to funnel arms to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels during a congressional ban on direct or indirect US military aid to the insurgents Belnick read testimony that Shultz in sufficiently elegant terms of what I had and asked the secretary of state if statement was true Shultz replied Shultz said he was disgusted when for a week Under questioning from Senate lawyer Mark Belnick Shultz denied repeatedly that his ignorance about the Iran arms deal stemmed from a desire not to know the facts as former National Security Adviser John Poindexter testified earlier He said he once told Poindexter be wanted to informed of the things I needed to to carry out his responsibilities as secretary of state He said he told Poindexter that he want to know ail the operational details but mean I Just bowed out insofar as major things in our foreign policy is con-' cerned To assume that I be informed of things like that is he learned many months after the fact that key Iran-Contra middlemen had discussed efforts to release terrorists being held in a Kuwaiti prison as part of a complicated deal that would send arms to Iran and win the freedom of American hostages In Lebanon Shultz said it me sick to my stomachy that anybody would talk about that as something we would consider doing The list of details that Shultz said he know about was a long one He disclaimed knowledge that Reagan had formally approved the sale of arms to Iran until many months By JOAN MOWER Associated Pren WASHINGTON Secretary of State George Shutts testified today that other Reagan adminis tration officials kept him in the dark about key events in the Iran-Contra affair and said he was "sick to my when he learned some of the details In riveting testimony at nationally televised congressional hearings Shultz said he first learned that thfc United States had add weapons directly to Iran when he read about it in news reports published many months after he transaction took place He said he told that President Reagan authorised any sales until about a year after the State seeks additions to waste list It' r-ti Actor Martin Everall sits in 4' -1 if i-' 4 -V-iJ Photo by Scott DanMs the theater where Sanford Maine Stage Company is presenting 'Patience' "I v'-ViA' i VV business cautiously optimistic well be able to turn a Forbis said Forbis 25 and Bleakley 22 both of Boston are promising to offer family-oriented entertainment at the 500-car theater which will be renamed Tom and Saco Drive-In trying to make it place for the family to conje said Forbis who owns three flower shops in Boston -r Besides VCRaud multi-screen movie houses Forbis said the drive-in business has been cripled by rising poetry Everall laxatives for the maid we would Keller been said closely The opener weeks miracle must go on By JOHN GOLD Staff Writer SAGO State Department of Environmental Protection officials are urging residents to report suspected hazardous waste dumps and are offering a toll-free number to do so DEP Commissioner Dean Mar-riott announced the twO-month-long Hazardous Substance Site Discovery Program this morning during a press conference tied to Gov John for a program in York County Using funds from a federal grant the state is making an effort to identify sites where toxic chemicals may have been dumped in the past Once identified the sites will be investigated by hired consultants who will determine how serious a threat -they pose according toMar-riott If the threat is great enough the site will be placed on a growing list of sites being studied by the DEP like to be sure in September we know where all those sites Marriott said while displaying a picture of cleanup operations at the Union Chemical site in South Hope Marriott said he is hoping the effort win encourage residents who know of past dumping operations or may have been involved with them to come forward with their information they can remember where they deposited it (the waste) and what McKernan Continued on Page 14 Curtis to appear in county court By MICHELE VALWAY Staff Writer Dean Alton Curtis the 24-year-old Kittery native suspected of killing a Comfecticut man in Kennebunkport waived extradition to Maine at a Washington state court hearing on Tuesday He will be escorted here over the weekend by a Maine State Police detective and a Kennebunkport sergeant and is expected to be arraigned in York County Superior Court on Monday according to Maine State Police Lt- John -White CMrtis was arrested July 14 near ML Vernon Wash by a sergeant of the Skagit County office alter fleeing from UJL Customs Agefits at a Canadian border crouin He is being held without bail at the 'Skagit County Jail in ML Vernon on a warrant for first degree murder issued June 19 by Maine State Police in connection with file stabbing death Curtis Continued on Page 14 Insidestory 28 pages Abby 10 Classified 20-27 Comics il9 Lotteries 14 Movies 10 Obituaries 2 Opinions 12-13 Sports77 13-18 Television 10 WorldNational 4511 Weather: Partly sunny Details on Page 2- j-'- I I fOpening night the audience was cooking and it even that hot Elias Thomas People call us and ask you air said Maine Stage Board Chairman Elias Thomas Work on vents and other tinkering have helped cool off the theater after the season opened with Miracle "Opening night (of the the audience was cooking and" it even that hot he said The stage also had to be raised after the opening sat in the back row tor the and I see Thomag said Adding to the mechanical headaches an obscure show has also dampened sales Their current offering is a spoof of fads and fashion but (me of the least-known Gilbert and Sullivan shows Good nights at the show draw 120 people while sane matinees have had as few as 25 But a ait Beaver and has good reviews plays a poet who memorializes in verse rivaling another poet affections of Patience a milk had this to do over we probably have opened with two very familiar Thomas said Miracle telling the story of Helen was well attended blit should have followed up with a show such as or Pirates of would have boosted he board will be looking very at the choices for next choice for its season was appropriately named considering die troupe had no hone two before opening Thonas says a there is a season at all By TRACEY THOMAS Staff Writer SPRINGVALE While it is the fourth season lor Sanford Maine Stage Company the summer stock theateTgroup is starting from scratch in a new home The new location no air conditioning and an obscure play have conspired to knock attendance off by at least 10 percent over last year Leaving their three-year home at Nasson College for lower rent at the new Beaver Hffl Performing Arts Center the thespians are struggling to make a new home Large corporate and personal donations and a herculean effort by the company changed the abandoned Hilltop House into a new home just two weeks before opening But the troupe is finding more work to be done Bad weather boosted last sales summer has been sweltering Hill would have sold out the smaller Nasson College theater of the sudden you have this great gaping hole of 40 Thomas said Actor Martin Everall says the title has kept sane away think that? They think it will be some boring tract on the issues of patience a lecture on said Everall In reality the show celebrates bad breathe new life into dormant drive-in Partners By JOEL BARRETT Staff Writer -SACO Like the vampires that once filled its screen the Saco Drive-In has risen from its grave Two Boston businessmen both in their 20s have announced plans to reopen the Route 1 drive-in theater in less than two weeks When the theater closed last yearr it was among the last of a (tying breed left behind by the video cassefe te boom and the introduction of air conditioned-' multi-screened cinemas Property owner Richard Roberge a Biddeford developer bought the property last year and plans to build a business park there But for Eric Forbis and Thomas Bleakley this summer offers be a chance to resurrect the large-screen open-air theater The two were driving north on Route 1 on tiw Fourth of July when-they saw just the business opportunity been looking for a drive-in available for lease until the business nark is builL funny thing is that we had the idea for a couple of months When we saw it we stopped took down the telephone number and Even though the property is still slated for development Forbis said the drive-in offers a unique even if chance for the partners was the opportunity to get our feet wet in the he said This weekend the pair will be Interviewing workers for1 the 10 positions lined up two box office smashes and to open the season July -At 7 a carload Forbis said he hopes to tnrn a profit while gaining valuable experience in the drive-in land values and owners who willing to invest money in their theaters these things are true but we going to make an effort to market it differently and use promotions going to give them to come he said going to try and not com-' pete with the large cinemas going to try and attract the families and teeoegers like it used to be" be Drive-in Continued on page 14a --V- 7 i.