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...sensitive hostage negotiations." Some on Capitol Hill have charged that the content of Meese's request suggests that he had some idea of the connection between the Iran deals and the contras almost a month before he revealed it publicly. But Meese says he made his appeal at the behest of Poindexter, who told him that Southern Air was involved in carrying out a secret U.S. mission in the Middle East but who did not mention the diversion of funds to the contras...
...A.N.C. are hardly going to disappear. When Congress finally passed new U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa three weeks ago, it ordered President Ronald Reagan to issue a report early next year detailing any Communist influences on the A.N.C. The provision was inserted in the bill at the behest of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, who had been given access to unpublished CIA files on the A.N.C. Helms contended that the evidence shows A.N.C. leadership to be "fully penetrated and dominated by members of the S.A.C.P." As the group's exile continued into the 1970s, its influence among South African...
...conglomerateur is now far and away the company's largest shareholder, with 24.9% of its stock (Paley is next with 8.1%). The irony of Tisch's sudden rise to dominance was considerable, since the soft- spoken, bald executive first purchased CBS shares last year largely at Wyman's behest, in an effort to buttress the network's anti-takeover defenses...
...Gorbachev that during the 7 1/2 years before deployment is allowed, the U.S. reserves the right to proceed with the research, development and testing of SDI, "which is permitted" by the ABM treaty. Earlier this year Reagan touched off a storm of protest by declaring, at the Pentagon's behest, that the U.S. would no longer be bound by the unratified SALT II limits on offensive weapons. Now he has called into question how much longer the U.S. will feel bound by the ABM treaty...
...response to questions, Whitehead also said FBI surveillance of Libyans in the United States was being stepped up after last week's raid on Libya. He said there was concern over the possibility some of the Libyans might carry out terrorist raids at the behest of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy...