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"You should tell your friend Oliver North to send arms to the good guys" in Beijing, quipped Boston Globe Publisher William O. Taylor '54 to Chief Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee Arthur L. Liman '54.
In a discussion of the Iran-Contra affair, the panel--which included President of the Ohio State Senate Stanley J. Aronoff '54--agreed that Lt. Col. Oliver North should be imprisoned for his role in the diversion of Iranian arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan contras.
"There still are Oliver Barret IV's who have grandfathers who give whole buildings to Harvard...and unfortunately there are still very few of them," Bok said. "And the Harvard hockey team still beats everyone in sight."
INDICTED. Richard Secord, 56, former Air Force major general who was Oliver North's chief intermediary in selling weapons to Iran and diverting the profits to the contras; on nine counts of lying to and obstructing congressional investigating committees; in Washington. Each charge upon conviction carries a maximum sentence of...
NATION: The trial of Oliver North ends with an equivocal verdict -- and plenty of questions for George Bush