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Some questions are so fraught with political ambiguity that a criminal trial cannot answer them completely. One such conundrum: Who should be held accountable for the Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
Accepting defense claims that he was following orders from higher-ups, the jury convicts the retired Marine on only three of twelve charges in the Iran- contra affair. -- A TIME poll finds most Americans want a pardon for North. -- A coal strike in Virginia that would astonish John L. Lewis. -- The strange career of a top congressional aide...
Delays in making appointments have hurt foreign policy efforts. Your administration was caught completely off-guard when leaders of five Central American countries met in February and agreed to close down Contra military bases in Honduras in exchange for holding free and open elections in Nicaragua next year...
...longer than many lawbreakers imagine, and last week it reached around the world to seize two very different suspects. At the request of the U.S., Swiss authorities went to the posh Schweizerhof Hotel in Bern and arrested Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi millionaire and arms dealer implicated in the Iran-contra scandal. Khashoggi is wanted in New York City on racketeering charges stemming from real estate dealings involving former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos...
North is accused of embezzling $4,300 in traveler's checks that was intended to aid the contras. He claimed that he financed some of his activities from the family fund, then reimbursed himself by dipping into the contra donations. North's credibility was further damaged by former NSC administrator Mary Dix, who testified that several times in 1984 and 1985 North was so hard up for money to buy lunch and gasoline that he railed at secretaries who claimed that the agency's petty-cash fund was too low to reimburse his out-of-pocket expenses. He stopped badgering...