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...direction. The man with the tinted spectacles said, ''You have listened to the mountain of evidence against you. Your crime against the Chinese people is extremely serious. You can only be reformed by giving a full confession telling us how you conspired with the British imperialists in their scheme to undermine the People's Government. Are you going to confess?'' ''I have never done anything against the Chinese people and government. The Shell office was here because the Chinese government wanted it to be here.'' Everything I said was drowned by angry shouts and screams of ''Confess! Confess...
...Cambridge City Council has already voted to encourage restaurants to voluntarily decrease the use of trans fat in their cooking, but when New York City officials tried a similar scheme they found it futile. Only the threat of legal action can persuade restaurants to eliminate trans fats from their menus...
...Iran. The Jewish state has tried for years to maintain good relations with non-Arab nations in the Middle East. But Jerusalem was dismayed at the Administration's allegation that Israel was also involved in the transfer of funds for the contras. Fearful that any association with the contra scheme could undermine Israel's strong support in Congress, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last week took the unusual step of publicly disputing a high U.S. official and denied that Jerusalem was in any way involved in that part of the operation...
...President's Men. As the intricacies of the Reagan Administration's Iran-contra supply line were probed last week, the money trail became a source of innumerable leads for reporters (including the Washington Post's Woodward) and investigators for congressional committees who were scrambling to uncover a financing scheme that coiled across three continents. The path led through a complex maze, replete' with international intrigue, conflicting claims by governments and shadowy diversions of funds by mysterious middlemen. There were straw companies set up precisely to obscure the paper trail, and private individuals who acted as "cutouts" to shield the government...
...parties to this alleged scheme, including Khashoggi, Saudi officials and the CIA, deny this was done. Any CIA effort to enlist the Saudis in support of the contras would have violated the Boland Amendment, originally passed by Congress in 1982 to stop the use of any U.S. funds to overthrow the government of Nicaragua, and tightened in 1984 to prevent the Administration from using any other country to provide military help to the contras. Many close observers of Saudi affairs doubt the royal family would take the risk of a potential public exposure of dealing with either Iran...