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...Nicaragua, the Sandinistas provided no reception for opponents who had flown to the region from the U.S. In fact, they never allowed them into Nicaraguan territory at all. Contra Leaders Alfonso Robelo and Maria Azucena Ferrey tried to reach Managua last week to present counterproposals to the cease-fire conditions that the Sandinistas had drawn up to fulfill the terms of the peace plan. The contras had planned to hand their proposals directly to Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, who is expected to mediate between the guerrillas and the government. Forbidden to enter Nicaraguan territory unless they accept amnesty from...
...Special U.S. Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh probes the intricacies of the Iran- contra affair, he is receiving invaluable help from Switzerland. Among the potentially incriminating documents he is studying are thousands of pages of Swiss bank records relating to Geneva accounts once controlled by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and other alleged conspirators. The relative speed and alacrity with which Switzerland turned over the records may have surprised many Americans, who have always considered the Swiss bank account to be synonymous with anonymity and protection. Is money held in the vaults of Zurich and Geneva no longer safe from the prying eyes...
...associate, who was not identified, works closely with Tribe and had helped the liberal constitutional scholar do research for a May 22 article that Tribe wrote in The New York Times in which he argued that President Reagan may have committed impeachable offenses in his handling of the Iran-contra affair, according to the Globe report...
...midst of the political fracas over President Reagan's Supreme Court nominees and the Iran-Contra scandal, a dangerous attack is being mounted on the Constitution's guarantee of free speech and access to information, while much of the national press, The Crimson included, remains silent. At this very moment, two attempts are being made to close offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization with the intention of unconstitutionally silencing the supporters of that organization. This miscarriage of justice must be resisted if Americans wish to maintain their justifiably proud claim to freedom of politicial expression...
Similarly, the report relates how the private fund raisers Carl Channell and Richard Miller collected some $10 million for contra support but spent only $4.5 million on the rebel forces. The rest of the money went into lavish offices, fancy limousines and high salaries. The two have pleaded guilty to tax fraud for claiming that their operations were entitled to an IRS exemption...