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Last week, four key participants in the Iran-contra affair, including Lt. Colonel Oliver North and former National Security Advisor John Poindexter, were indicted for their role in the secret maneuverings that led to selling arms to the Ayatollah and funneling funds to the rebels in Nicaragua. The indictments, one hopes, will do what the dramatic hearings on the affair failed to do: make it clear that crimes were committed and that the Constitution was bypassed...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan's former national security adviser, John M. Poindexter, and fired White House aide Lt Col. Oliver L. North were indicted yesterday along with two arms dealers on charges they conspired to divert Iranian arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan contras...
...president's former national security adviser pleaded guilty to four counts of withholding information from Congress when questioned about news reports that members of his staff, particularly Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, were helping to raise money and ship arms to the Contra rebels...
...Pentagon officials identified the victim as Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, 43, of Danville, Ky., chief of an observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL...
WASHINGTON--Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, provided military training for U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels after he met twice in 1985 with Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, a former top Panamanian intelligence official testified yesterday...