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...Perot then took his case to George Bush. The Vice President's office has confirmed that Perot raised "what he considered to be evidence of wrongdoing" by Armitage. Bush told Perot to go to the "proper authorities." So the billionaire called on FBI Director William Webster. Perot has also made at least one visit to the White House carrying a pile of documents. Yet he has received no support from the Reagan Administration. In fact, National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci in January called him in to ask him to stop pursuing Armitage, whom Carlucci regards as one of the most...
...Lately, Perot and his investigators have been interviewing people who have also been questioned by the Christic Institute, a Washington public-interest law firm. Christic last year filed a suit in Miami against Clines, Shackley, Secord, Singlaub, Hakim and 24 others; Armitage is mentioned several times but is not a defendant. The suit charges that some of the defendants became involved in drug smuggling from Southeast Asia in the early 1960s and later in a series of shady weapons deals around the world, using the profits to finance covert anti-Communist activities...
...Perot's interest in the MIA situation has brought him into yet another conflict with the Administration. Last week he revealed that he had secretly flown to Hanoi in March, at the invitation of the Vietnamese government, to discuss the MIA issue. He presented the Vietnamese with a proposal from Reagan to appoint retired Army General John Vessey as a presidential envoy to negotiate about missing Americans. The Vietnamese were receptive. But the State Department, Perot says, then jumped the timetable agreed upon for announcing Vessey's pending appointment. The Administration, he charged, was "taking a piece of fine china...
Jobs, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, Carnegie Mellon University, and the employees of Next have invested in the company's effort to develop a microcomputer directed toward the needs of higher education...
When H. Ross Perot was forced off the board of General Motors last December, many people wondered where he would park his $700 million settlement. Some of the money showed up in Silicon Valley last week: Perot announced he was buying a stake in Next, the computer venture of Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former chairman of Apple Computer. For $20 million, Perot, 56, joins the Next board and gets 16% of a company that is at least a year away from shipping its first product. Jobs, 31, will keep 63% for himself. "We feel we can call...