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...Administration officials more striking than in the testimonies of McFarlane and Regan. Their disagreements begin with the first time McFarlane mentioned to the President the subject of arms sales to Iran. The then National Security Adviser visited Reagan at Bethesda Naval Hospital shortly after the President underwent surgery for colon cancer in July 1985. According to Regan, the President questioned the credentials of Ghorbanifar, the contact with Iran. Says the Senate report: "Regan testified that McFarlane defended Ghorbanifar on the basis of Israeli assurances, and the President authorized McFarlane to explore the channel...
...Rafael Hernandez Colon has said tense labor-management relations may have been a motive for the fire, but he has not blamed the Teamsters union--which had planned a strike for midnight New Year's Eve--or hotel management or non-Teamster employees...
...rubble, looking for clues about how the inferno started. Fire officials labeled the blaze suspicious and raised the possibility that it had been set by disgruntled union members engaged in a bitter wage dispute with the hotel. But the latest evidence, according to Puerto Rico Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, has led investigators to speculate that hotel security guards may have set the fire in an effort to discredit the union. Said Hernandez Colon: "We suspect there may be arson because of the very tense labor situation that existed...
...sprinkler system; it is not required under local law. Puerto Rico is hardly alone in its failure to insist on the devices. In the U.S., guidelines vary greatly from city to city; Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts are the only states that make installation in all hotels mandatory. Governor Hernandez Colon has now promised to seek a law directing the island's hotels to install sprinklers...
...Casey -- ironically, at about the time when Reagan, in a July 8 speech, was listing Iran as being first among a "confederation of terrorist states." In mid-July McFarlane, accompanied by Shultz, broached Kimche's ideas to Reagan in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the President was recuperating from colon surgery. Reagan saw the dangers of an arms-for-hostages swap, but also appreciated the value of new contact with Iran. He bought the idea that arms shipments would be intended to strengthen a group that might eventually be able to wean Iran away from support of terrorism. McFarlane called Kimche...