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...said he did not question the legality of his instructions, which came from a small group that included North, then a member of the National Security Council staff, the head of the CIA's Central American task force and Elliott Abrams, who was awaiting Senate confirmation as assistant secretary of state for Central American affairs...
Some of the toughest grilling may be inflicted on Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, who had insisted publicly that "nobody in this building had any idea of any contributions coming from a foreign government" just days before it was disclosed he had solicited $10 million for the contras from the Sultan of Brunei. Worse yet, the money deposited into a Swiss account provided by North has disappeared. Says an Administration official: "Aside from the question of whether he did anything indictable, he will at the very least be sacrificed. Elliott knew most of the essential...
Meanwhile, the former ambassador to Costa Rica said Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams '69 and other senior officials ordered him to assist Nicaraguan rebels, according to a report published in yesterday's New York Times...
...engaging It's Garry Shandling's Show on Showtime, an unexpected hit that has just won a renewal for three more years. Meanwhile, the Cinemax Comedy Experiment has served as the umbrella for an array of inventive comedy specials. The best so far this year: Chris Elliott's Action Family, which skewered the cliches of two TV genres, private-eye dramas and sitcoms, by yoking them into one ludicrously mismatched half hour...
...democratic reforms within the rebel movement, never had much power, but his presence was a symbol that the contras were more than just a collection of embittered former supporters of deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Cruz's absence creates greater doubts about the caliber of the contra leadership. Elliott Abrams, the State Department's point man on the contra issue, disagrees. "The reform process," he argues, "will go on with or without Arturo Cruz...