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...Administration finally took action, new charges suggested that Noriega played a role in the Iran-contra arms deal as well. Jose Blandon, until recently Panama's consul general in New York City and a close political adviser to Noriega, disclosed that the general had conspired with Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, the former National Security Council aide, to dispatch, then intercept, a shipment of East German arms to El Salvador's leftist guerrillas. The motive: to blame Nicaragua for supplying the weapons, thereby supporting the charge that the Sandinistas are exporting their revolution...
...year both prosecutors accepted backup appointments from the Justice Department. Prosecutor Morrison refused similar protection. Earlier last week the Supreme Court put to rest for now questions about the validity of such "parallel appointments" by leaving intact a lower-court decision that turned aside a challenge brought by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North...
...Alamo -- The Price of Freedom is to run in a giant-screened theater near the fort. Hispanic leaders claim the film demeans the role of nine Tejano (Texas-born Mexican) defenders in the siege. Also "inaccurate and uncalled for," they say, is a scene that shows Mexican soldiers bayoneting Colonel Jim Bowie to death...
...government arrested 328 dissidents, including Revolt Leader Aldo Rico, 44, a cashiered lieutenant colonel who was embittered by the prosecution of officers for human rights atrocities committed during the 1976-83 period of military rule. He had fled authorities two weeks ago while awaiting court- martial for his part in the earlier rebellion. Declared a jubilant Alfonsin, after receiving the support of the army's high command: "Democracy in this country has been consolidated." But discontent in the armed forces simmers...
...patrol the city of Nablus and its outskirts. The soldiers have been instructed to keep main roads open to traffic and to disperse small threatening crowds on the spot. If the group is large, they are under orders to call in a high-ranking officer. Their commander, Lieut. Colonel Yisrael, detests this assignment. "It's against everything we teach them," he says. "We train them to use their guns when they are attacked. Here it's forbidden." Here the aggressor, more often than not, is a woman, child or student...