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Filling out the picture will be some lesser-known field agents who helped create the private network that kept the contras fighting despite the official cutoff. Among them: Robert Owen, who as North's roving envoy in Central America allegedly arranged weapons shipments, and Contra Leader Adolfo Calero, who will be asked about what help the rebels actually received...
...another conflict with the Administration. Last week he revealed that he had secretly flown to Hanoi in March, at the invitation of the Vietnamese government, to discuss the MIA issue. He presented the Vietnamese with a proposal from Reagan to appoint retired Army General John Vessey as a presidential envoy to negotiate about missing Americans. The Vietnamese were receptive. But the State Department, Perot says, then jumped the timetable agreed upon for announcing Vessey's pending appointment. The Administration, he charged, was "taking a piece of fine china and smashing it on the sidewalk." Perot added that he would...
...prospect was raised of an all-out economic war between the two nations. Last week, with the $300 million worth of sanctions in place, Japanese and American officials were scrambling to defuse tensions. As a prelude to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's visit to Washington this week, Special Envoy Shintaro Abe was dispatched to the White House to outline a plan to reduce Japan's $59 billion trade surplus with the U.S. Meanwhile, a U.S. delegation in Tokyo urged the Japanese to lower barriers to American goods...
...Industry (MITI), prepared to hie to Washington. His job: to convey dismay at the bombshell U.S. decision to retaliate with some $300 million worth of tariffs on a wide range of Japanese electronic goods. In addition, former Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe has been named as a special envoy by Tokyo to help deflect the trade collision. But the sanctions will almost certainly go into effect as scheduled on or about April...
...Robert Anderson, his Treasury Secretary, succeed him as < President. "Boy, I'd like to fight for him in 1960!" Eisenhower said. Anderson, who had also served as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, never ran for office. He became a businessman, an unofficial diplomatic envoy for President Johnson and chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty for President Nixon. Last week Anderson, 76, was again in the limelight, but for a different reason. He pleaded guilty to felony charges of tax evasion and illegal banking operations...