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WASHINGTON--The congresssional Iran-Contra investigating committees approved the final draft of their report on the affair yesterday as House Republicans unanimously voted against it and voiced complaints that it is laced with "unsupported conclusions and innuendoes...
...dangerous invitation to its students to commit acts of racial harassment with ever greater intensity until they find the limits of impunity" (The Crimson, October 13). Here at Harvard it is anti-racist and anti-imperialist protestors who are punished, while apartheid ministers like Duke Kent-Brown and contra murders like Adolfo Calero who are welcomed with open arms. Following last year's protest of arch-racist South African vice-consul Kent-Brown, 14 students were placed on probation. While the administration makes a frontal assault on antiracist protestors, their message to racists is "play ball...
...Nicaragua, former Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro returned to Managua under a government amnesty. Chamorro had been expelled by the rebels in 1984 after he made public a CIA training manual that encouraged the guerrillas to assassinate opponents. More unsettling for the contras was Miskito Leader Brooklyn Rivera's decision to travel to Managua for peace talks. The Sandinistas, who have mistreated the Miskitos for their dogged pursuit of autonomy, are now offering the Indians a separate peace...
...crisis cause a recession? Or even a global depression like the one ushered in by the 1929 Crash? What would happen to the dollar, to interest rates, to world trade? What might Ronald Reagan do to calm the markets? Could a President who was so weakened by the Iran-contra affair and the impending defeat on the Bork nomination, and who was distracted by war in the Persian Gulf and his wife's cancer operation, possibly quell the financial turmoil? Did he even understand that he faced a first-class crisis of confidence in his leadership...
...yesterday's edition, the Boston Globe alleged that the idea for the media project had been largely formulated by Walter Raymond Jr., known in the Iran-Contra hearings as one of North's close colleagues. Previously, the conception of the project had been attributed to Sen. Gordon Humphrey...