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Call it latter-day Teflon if you will, but nothing seems to faze the Gipper on his unrepentant gallop into the Beverly Hills sunset. He answered about 150 questions in a Los Angeles court last Friday and Saturday, part of the leftover Iran-contra scandal that keeps snarling at his polished heels like a nasty attack dog. He had every right to repair to his bright Bel Air home, high above the smog, and have a little bit of the post-White House blues like Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter...
...years young contra leaders tried to topple their autocratic military commander, Enrique Bermudez. The former Somoza colonel, though, was the CIA's man in the jungle and invulnerable to rebel coups. So when Bermudez was removed two weeks ago, it was clear that he had lost the CIA's backing...
...move signals the end of CIA involvement in the moribund struggle against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, since Bermudez was the last contra on the payroll. By severing its sole known tie to the rebels, the CIA acknowledged that the contras are finished as a fighting force. The cutoff also signals a small victory for Secretary of State James Baker. He wants the contras to negotiate an end to their dispute with the Sandinistas...
Bermudez's departure leaves leadership of the 10,000-member contra force in the hands of Israel Galeano, 29. He and the new leadership recognize the futility of further armed struggle...
...Former President Reagan invokes Executive privilege to avoid revealing his personal diary in John Poindexter's Iran-contra trial. -- Father Bruce Ritter, founder of the nation's best program for runaway teenagers, is forced to step aside...