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DESPITE OBJECTIONS FROM SOME OF HIS STAFF, IRAN-CONTRA independent counsel LAWRENCE WALSH plans to end his six-year investigation into the scandal and thus leave a number of key questions unanswered. The special prosecutor favors closing out the inquiry before it becomes a partisan issue in the presidential campaign. But Craig Gillen, Walsh's deputy, wants to pursue allegations that former Secretary of State George Shultz was regularly briefed by a top aide on secret intelligence material about hostage negotiations. Walsh's decision also means it is unlikely that any legal action will be taken against Donald Gregg...
...wasn't until 1989 that an Iran-contra connection to the tragedy was revealed. Arrow Air, the charter company, turned out to be one of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's regular arms shippers. Although most of the crash victims belonged to the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, returning from six months' duty with the multinational peacekeeping force in the Sinai, more than 20 Special Forces personnel trained for counterterrorist missions were also on board. Suspicions have recently deepened that they, like Charles McKee and the members of his hostage-rescue team on Pan Am Flight 103, were the target...
What does this have to do with Reed, a 43-year-old pilot and machine-tool salesman who now lives in Moorpark, Calif.? He claims that in 1983 North recruited him to go to Mena to work with Seal and help train contra pilots. He also says North asked him to donate a Piper airplane to the contras and then report the plane as stolen so that insurance would cover his loss. Later that year, Reed and his wife Janis received a $33,000 insurance payment for the Piper. He says he quit the contra effort in August 1987 after...
...whispers, never substantiated, that Bush had had an extramarital affair -- she had a point. Why has Bush not been questioned incessantly about his son Neil's involvement with a savings and loan association that failed because of unsound banking practices? About his knowledge of possibly illegal and unconstitutional Iran- contra activities? About his flip-flops on abortion, taxes, Saddam Hussein and many other issues? About the widepread impression that he has no strong beliefs about anything except his own ability to fill the Oval Office? The answer, probably, is that Bush has been around long enough for people to feel...
...deeply disappointed with the political leadership of America. The Iran-contra affair and the Savings and Loan scandal have shaken my confidence in the ability of the Washington establishment, as currently constituted, to give America the leadership it deserves in the 1990s...