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...smaller publications, on marginal stories and in indirect ways like excessive editorial scrutiny that can discourage reportorial enterprise. After repeated libel suits (which he has almost always won), Irvin Lieberman, publisher of a group of suburban Philadelphia newspapers, has "emasculated" his papers' investigative zeal. "I'm a hell raiser, and I think a lot of hell needs to be raised," he says. "But I can't jeopardize my family business just to exercise my First Amendment rights...
Secord was not the only middleman who saw opportunities for profit in the Reagan Administration's private foreign policy ventures. Saudi Arms Merchant Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian Manucher Ghorbanifar earned lucrative commissions on the sales of U.S. weapons to Iran. Fund Raiser Carl Channell reportedly kept 35% of the private donations he solicited for the contras to bankroll his plush Washington offices, stretch limos and hefty payments to friends and associates. Even Oliver North, the superpatriotic National Security Council aide who ran the Iran-contra initiatives, cashed $2,000 worth of traveler's checks received from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero...
...host to the third International Conference on AIDS, a five-day colloquium for 5,000 scientists and researchers and hundreds of journalists. On Sunday, the day before the AIDS conference was to begin, the President was expected to unveil the Administration's new policy at a glitzy fund raiser for the American Foundation for AIDS Research...
...explosive this investigation could be was revealed last week, when Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh secured the scandal's first guilty plea, one that led uncomfortably close to the Oval Office. Conservative Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell admitted he had conspired to defraud the Government by using a tax-exempt "charitable" foundation to send military supplies to the contras. He named former National Security Council Aide Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as his "co-conspirator." North had not only helped persuade donors to give to Channell but had also successfully urged Ronald Reagan to thank many...
...made only a cursory check of public sources about the Saudi royal family. Even though he could find no Prince Ibrahim, North did not pursue the matter. Rather than deal with the prince directly, however, he steered him to Richard Miller, a public relations agent and associate of Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell. Last week Channell pleaded guilty to conspiring with North and Miller to raise money for the contras through a fraudulent tax- exempt foundation...