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Bush Administration officials are seriously considering freezing a $300 million aid package to Violeta Chamorro's government in Nicaragua. Reason: Nicaragua refuses to withdraw a suit filed in the World Court charging that the U.S.-backed contra war violated international law. The cautious Chamorro doesn't want to offend the powerful Sandinistas, who filed the case in 1984 and continue to hold control over the people's army...
...accuse Iran-contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh of lacking perseverance. Last week Walsh petitioned a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to set aside the conviction of Oliver North on the grounds that the evidence might have been tainted by his televised testimony to Congress. If the earlier ruling stands, it could jeopardize the conviction of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter...
...reputation as being pretty blunt. You characterized the Republican report on the Iran-contra affair as "pathetic," for example...
...Sunday Bush narrowed the field to five. They included Souter, Jones, Solicitor General Kenneth Starr and two judges on the federal appeals court in Washington -- Lawrence Silberman, who two weeks ago joined in a ruling that threw out one of Oliver North's convictions in the Iran-contra scandal, and Clarence Thomas, the black former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Not having met Jones and Souter, the President asked to have them invited to Washington...
...ghost of the congressional Iran-contra hearings has long hung over the cases of key figures in the scandal. Last week the ghost was haunting the prosecutors of Oliver North. A three-member appeals court in Washington overturned one of North's three convictions. The court sent the other two back % to federal Judge Gerhard Gesell for him to determine whether North's testimony at congressional inquiries into the scandal had in effect been used against him by the grand jury that indicted him, by the staff of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh or by any of the prosecution...