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Bush's office last week issued a new account of dealings between two of his assistants and a former CIA agent working in Central America that revealed more extensive communications about the contras than were previously known. Donald Gregg, the Vice President's national security adviser, kept in touch % for years with his Viet Nam comrade Felix Rodriguez, who uses the nom de guerre Max Gomez. After helping Rodriguez in 1985 get a post advising the Salvadoran air force, Gregg talked periodically with him. Last August, Rodriguez informed Gregg that the efforts of the private groups supplying munitions...
...more information emerges on both the Iranian adventure and the contra military resupply, the names of former CIA agents and assets keep appearing. Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured by the Sandinistas after his C-123K cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, had performed similar work as a CIA "cargo kicker" over Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served...
...rate among inner- city black youth that far exceeds 50%. Some city leaders, however, point fingers at Young, who has long been hostile to gun control and has asserted that citizens need to be able to defend themselves. The availability of handguns, critics say, makes violence inevitable. Says FBI Agent John Anthony: "I remember when carrying a gun was pretty heavy stuff. Now you get 14- and 15-year-old kids carrying guns." Anthony and others claim that the widespread sale and use of crack has promoted warfare among young, heavily armed drug dealers. Notes Harry Hamilton, chief investigator...
...loved her." Danny wanted to direct his brother's first Broadway show, Come Blow Your Horn; after he failed to get the job, he refused to attend opening night. Danny lived the situation of one of his brother's greatest hits, The Odd Couple -- sharing an apartment with Hollywood Agent Roy Gerber, whose wife had left him -- and wrote 14 pages of a play about it before he stalled. Eventually Neil took over the concept and gave Danny one-sixth of the royalties. That concession has been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but to Danny's irritation Neil...
Chiarelli's athletic career isn't confined to hockey, however. He played football and baseball at Sir Robert Borden High School and even tried out with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a free agent camp before deciding that playing hockey and going to college in the U.S. was what he really wanted...