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It was an urgent call from the White House. National Security Council Aide Oliver North asked Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot for $200,000 fast to rescue two American hostages in Lebanon. The billionaire immediately dispatched an associate who handed over the money to North in cash.
Coniston was less than impressed with Allegis' move. Said Partner Augustus Oliver: "We are currently evaluating it." Translation: a further battle is possible. Allegis stock, meanwhile, closed the week at 86 1/2, up 15 from the previous week. Said Robert Joedicke, an airline analyst for the Shearson Lehman Bros. investment...
This new "Yes, but it wasn't illegal" tack is part of a broader White House attempt to shift the focus of the Iran-contra drama. As long as Reagan and other top officials were pleading ignorance, each new disclosure about their ties to Oliver North's secret contra-supply...
There are, to be sure, some parallels. F.D.R. was hamstrung by a congressional ban on gifts of military equipment to foreign nations. But Roosevelt put together the destroyer deal with an openness totally at odds with the actions of Oliver North and Richard Secord. The plan was debated in a...
WASHINGTON--Former U.S. Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs testified yesterday that in 1985, while U.S. aid to Nicaraguan Contra rebels was banned, White House aide Oliver L. North ordered him to use his post in Costa Rica to help the rebels open a military front in Nicaragua.