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...actually do something about substance abuse--the President reaped the benefits of a popular tax reform bill with which he had little to do and, in fact, the concept of which he long had opposed. Then, during the first week of October, the cargo plane of one Eugene Hasenfus, an American mercenary, was shot down inside Nicaragua trying to deliver supplies to the contras. The bid Ronald Reagan was making for an honored place in the history books went down with...
...retrospect, all of the Reagan Administration's dirty laundry so far revealed in the various inquiries looking into the Iran-contra shenanigans should have come as little surprise. In fact, in the two weeks before the Hasenfus plane was shot down alone two Administration actions were made public which neatly capture all that is wrong and odious in the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and the diversion of profits from that sale to the contras. First, there was the case of journalist Nicholas P. Daniloff '56, arrested in Moscow by the Soviet Union on trumped-up espionage charges...
...enigmatic character from Ohio, Hall, 49, was arrested Dec. 12 in a restricted military area 13 miles northeast of Managua. Sandinista officials claimed last week that he had been carrying maps in his socks of military installations at the time of his arrest. The Nicaraguan government announced that, like Hasenfus, Hall would be tried before a revolutionary court. But where Hasenfus' mission had been clear from the moment of his arrest, Hall's purpose in Nicaragua remained murky. He was permitted brief visits with a U.S. embassy official and with Connecticut Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, who helped secure Hasenfus' release...
With Carr gone, Hasenfus is certain to be grilled all the more intensively by congressional investigators. As he headed home last week, Hasenfus sounded weary: "I'm just going to settle down and be a father for a while." It may be a very long time until Sam Hall sees his own three children. The rumor mill in Managua suggests that, with some hard-line Sandinistas piqued by Hasenfus' early release, Hall will have a far harder time securing a pardon...
...investigation into such matters will inevitably dredge up revelations about the links that North and others had with the private effort to help the Nicaraguan rebels. During much of the past two years, there was a congressional ban on direct or indirect U.S. military assistance to the contras. Eugene Hasenfus, the American mercenary who was released last week, is expected to be among those called by Congress to testify next year. When asked if he would do so, Hasenfus replied...