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...this whole thing ends with just the resignations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, I'll be disappointed," Attorney Daniel Sheehan declared after filing a $22.5 million civil suit in 1986 charging that former U.S. intelligence agents and anti-Communist crusaders -- including prominent figures in the Iran-contra mess -- had engaged in "political assassination, gunrunning and drug trafficking." Last week, just before the case was to go to trial, Federal Judge James Lawrence King ruled that Sheehan and his colleagues at the Christic Institute, a Washington public-interest law firm, had failed to prove their conspiracy theory...
...tall golf expert in a comedy tape called Dorf on Golf, and Shelley Duvall is the safety-minded host of Earthquake Survival. Anyone for instant history? There are video highlights of Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the U.S. and Oliver North's testimony at the Iran- contra hearings. Is the small print in those self-help books getting you down? Watch the books on TV instead, video versions of such titles as The Joy of Stress and Color Me Beautiful...
...greater familiarity with Bush may work to his disadvantage. He has been tainted by the Iran-contra affair and questions about his involvement with Panama's Manuel Noriega. "We're all waiting for the other shoe to fall," says Geri Elich, elementary-school librarian and a Republican. In fact, most people dislike Bush more than they favor Dukakis. Says Prineville Mayor Wally Boe: "People aren't enthusiastic about Bush. They haven't been exposed enough to become unenthused with Dukakis...
...knew it was coming," said Jorge Rosales, a press officer at the Nicaraguan Resistance headquarters in Miami last week. Word had just leaked that the contras plan to lay off many, if not all, of their civilian employees. "Everybody knows there has been a negative vote in Congress," said Rosales, referring to the bleak prospects for more U.S. aid to back the contra war effort against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua...
...contras' support staff comprises several hundred employees in many Latin American, U.S. and European cities. This week contra leaders will meet to determine the precise number of cutbacks, which will go into effect on July...