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Last week, four key participants in the Iran-contra affair, including Lt. Colonel Oliver North and former National Security Advisor John Poindexter, were indicted for their role in the secret maneuverings that led to selling arms to the Ayatollah and funneling funds to the rebels in Nicaragua. The indictments, one hopes, will do what the dramatic hearings on the affair failed to do: make it clear that crimes were committed and that the Constitution was bypassed...
...despondent over his Iran-contra role that he tried to commit suicide. Last week the troubles of former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane continued. He became the first Reagan Administration official to plead guilty to crimes in the scandal. After negotiations with Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, McFarlane, 50, admitted that on four occasions in 1985 and 1986 he unlawfully withheld information from Congress about the National Security Council's secret military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...frail hope was that Illinois voters, in a sporting mood, would choose to prolong the contest by propping up a fellow Midwesterner. Another thin reed: the possibility that indictments flowing from the Iran-contra probe would somehow slow Bush. Dole was all the more frustrated by his conviction, shared by more disinterested pols, that Bush was winning the nomination for the wrong reasons, that beneath the new veneer of strength old weaknesses festered, waiting to undermine Republican prospects in the fall. Nonetheless, Bush had finally achieved real political momentum, more substantial than his preppie and premature pronouncement in 1980 that...
Just hours before the indictment, Reagan was asked if he still stood by his assertion that no laws were broken in the Iran-Contra affair. "I have no knowledge of anything that was broken," he replied...
Outside the U.S. Courthouse, Iran Contra Independent Counsel Lawrence F. Walsh told reporters the investigation was continuing but declined to say whether there would be any more criminal charges brought in the case...