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Addressing the situation in Central America, Konnyu said that without contra aid several refugees would flee to the United States from Nicaragua and El Salvador. "The American people simply do not want thousands of people on welfare on their backs as we had to do with the Vietnamese folks," he said...
...There are now rampant allegations that the monies spent against me and other opponents of the president on Nicaragua by these ... groups may have come from the money we have now heard about (as being diverted) from the Iran arms sale," he said. He said he had no independent information other than reporters' questions about possible political use of Iran arms-sale proceeds that Attorney General Edwin Meese says was funnelled to the Contras...
Then the White House announced that profits from the arms sale had been sent to rebels in Nicaragua. We were assured that the President knew nothing of the extra-legal deal. I don't know whether the White House is telling the truth about that; even if they are, it's no great comfort to learn that covert multi-million dollar arms deals are approved routinely, without the knowledge or consent of the Commander-in-Chief...
North was fired from his position as an aide on the National Security Council after it was revealed that profits from U.S. arms sales to Iran were diverted to aid the Contras in Nicaragua...
Buchanan said the president had asked him Monday morning to attend the rally, which was billed by organizers as the first mass show of support since disclosure of the sale of U.S. arms to Iran and the diversion of funds to rebels fighting Nicaragua's government...