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Some questions are so fraught with political ambiguity that a criminal trial cannot answer them completely. One such conundrum: Who should be held accountable for the Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
...foreign power. Afghans abhor foreign invaders, and now that the Soviet army has gone, Najibullah has begun harping on how much the rebels are run by Pakistan and the U.S. His case has been helped by recent news accounts that Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had ordered Lieut. General Hamid Gul, head of Pakistan's military intelligence organization (ISI) to launch the bloody Jalalabad assault. Gul and the ISI are unmistakably doing their best to direct the mujahedin operations, but it seems likely that he told Bhutto of the impending attack rather than the reverse. Although the mujahedin cause remains...
...cavernous Senate Caucus Room two years ago, a misty-eyed Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North dazzled millions of TV viewers. Imposing in his sharply creased uniform and Viet Nam combat ribbons, he confidently minimized his role in the Iran-contra scandal, insisting, "I was authorized to do everything that I did." Last week in a Washington federal courtroom, a more subdued North, now a blue-suited civilian with graying hair, took the witness stand and tried to convince twelve jurors that he had been merely a gofer, dutifully carrying out policy set higher in the White House. Surprisingly, the Government...
...precarious situation began on April 2, a few days after four high- ranking military officers were sacked, allegedly as part of a drug and corruption crackdown. That move sparked a simmering revolt within the military. Under the leadership of Lieut. Colonel Himmler Rebu, members of the army's elite Leopards corps took President Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family hostage in a coup attempt. Loyalist troops rescued Avril at the airport as the captors prepared to send him into exile. A second coup attempt was put down by the Presidential Palace guards, who killed eight rebel military soldiers...
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov denounced the expulsion as a "provocation" and "not in line with the spirit of peaceful cooperation." Five days later the Soviets responded in kind, ordering U.S. embassy employee Lieut. Colonel Daniel Van Gundy to leave Moscow. The charge: attempting to enter a closed area and take pictures of military facilities. As denials flew on both sides and the threat of further expulsions loomed, a Western envoy in Moscow predicted: "Relations aren't permanently hurt by this. It's just a shoving match...