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Walsh disclosed that both former White House chief of staff Donald Regan and former Secretary of State George Shultz would have testified at the trial that President Reagan knew about a possibly illegal arms-for-hostage shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran in November 1985. Walsh's report, peppered with newly released notes, insisted that Weinberger helped cover up the truth. Not so, said Weinberger's lawyer, who labeled the report "a work of fiction...
...modern life. Something quite different happened when severe food poisoning struck hundreds of people in Washington, Idaho and Nevada who had dined at Jack in the Box restaurants. Doctors are blaming a savage strain of E. coli bacteria first identified 10 years ago. Somehow the germs infected a shipment of hamburger meat, which was then undercooked in restaurant kitchens. Two children died, only one of whom had eaten at Jack in the Box. This suggested that the bacteria could in some cases spread to people who did not visit the chain...
After the radio messages were picked up in Belgrade, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees dispatched a truck convoy with an 80-ton relief shipment. But there was no certainty it would arrive, since earlier U.N. attempts to reach the town had been turned back by Serbian militiamen and mines on the snowy mountain roads. Officials said they were negotiating with the Serbs for permission to enter the area. Meanwhile, in a warm and comfortable hotel in Geneva, Bosnia's government tentatively agreed with Serb and Croat forces last Tuesday to establish a decentralized federation of 10 provinces. The complex...
...SPECK OF it too small to see would mean certain death. So the 58-day voyage of the Akatsuki Maru, which exposed a 1.7- ton cargo of plutonium oxide to treacherous seas and possibly even to pirates lusting for nuclear booty, made plenty of people nervous. When the hot shipment finally completed its journey from Cherbourg, France, to Tokai, Japan, 140 km (90 miles) northeast of Tokyo, it was greeted by 1,000 protesters, some of whom had painted the universal radiation warning symbol on their faces. The crowd eventually dispersed and the cargo was nestled safely in an ultrasecure...
...were deported for allegedly inciting Muslim fundamentalist violence. Both Israel and Lebanon, which refuses to absorb the exiles, said no. Israel said it would let the Red Cross ferry relief supplies to the group through Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon if the Lebanese would permit a simultaneous shipment through their territory. Beirut said no. Visiting U.N. Under Secretary-General James Jonah wasn't even allowed to go to the camp of the deportees because neither side was willing to grant him passage...