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...some Western diplomats in Central America say senior contra officials have been known to keep private bank accounts around the world. The accounts have been used, these sources say, to deposit funds from private supporters, most of them right-wing Americans, but including such diverse sources as the Saudi Arabian government and right-wing groups in Europe...
North's entangling alliances and their implications will be investigated by federal agencies and congressional committees alike. The trail promises to lead through the Middle East and Central America, and from private citizens to Government officials. But no matter how much mystery surrounds North's dealings now, there seems to be a consensus on one issue: the cast of characters believed to have aided Oliver North is sure to keep growing...
...director of Central Intelligence, Casey has known of the Iran arms initiative at least since the NSC proposed the idea in June 1985. On Jan. 17, when Ronald Reagan signed a secret Executive Order lifting the ban on arms shipments to Tehran, the CIA officially became the middleman for the weapons sales. Casey reportedly told congressional investigators that his agency had set up a Swiss bank account to receive Iranian payments, but insisted he had no knowledge of where the money was going. Meese asserted at last week's press conference that Casey had no prior knowledge of the contra...
Reflecting the importance that Moscow attaches to its relations with India, Gorbachev was accompanied by his wife Raisa and a high-level delegation that included Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Central Committee Secretary Anatoli Dobrynin and Military Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Soviet leader was welcomed as a "crusader for peace" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and cheered by schoolchildren and villagers who lined the route from the airport into New Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While...
...Republique since World War II showed a more recklessly phara- onic commitment to changing the face of Paris than Pompidou. By a curious irony, the political consequences of this urge are what saved the Gare d'Orsay. Pompidou had ordered the razing and redevelopment of the vast central food market known as Les Halles -- Zola's "belly of Paris." The market, which had formed a bolus of stalled, honking traffic, was shifted to Rungis, near Orly Airport. In its place Paris received, among other things, a giant structure that looked like an oil refinery and was to be the biggest...