Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week the congressional committee will hear from Albert Hakim, an Iranian-born businessman who worked on both the Iran arms deal and the contra- arms network. Meanwhile, David Kimche, a former official of the Israeli Foreign Ministry who has been identified as the originator of a plan to sell U.S.-made weapons to Iran, successfully resisted an attempt by Walsh to compel him to testify before a grand jury...
...that the only real beneficiary was "undecided," which went up twelve points while Hart lost nine. The other seven who have been campaigning there -- Jackson, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, Illinois Senator Paul Simon, former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore -- made negligible gains or none at all. Among Democrats and independents questioned in a national TIME survey, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a non-candidate, ran second to Hart and well ahead of anyone else. When Hart supporters were asked whom they would favor for a second choice...
...weapons was spent to assist the contras. Another $1 million was spent on other covert activities that Secord would not fully describe, and $2 million is still unaccounted for. Nearly $8 million is sitting in frozen Swiss bank accounts controlled by Secord's business partner, the Iranian-born Albert Hakim. What will eventually happen to this money is uncertain...
...Albert L. May, chairman of the Nieman awards committee said that "Zwelakhe Sisulu is an activist and a leader in a struggle. His weapons are ideas and the printed word against an opponent who answers with force...
Secord said on ABC-TV's "Nightline" news program that he and Iranian-born business partner Albert Hakim arranged to bring the Iranians to Washington to convince them they were dealing with real U.S. officials...