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...inflicted on Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, who had insisted publicly that "nobody in this building had any idea of any contributions coming from a foreign government" just days before it was disclosed he had solicited $10 million for the contras from the Sultan of Brunei. Worse yet, the money deposited into a Swiss account provided by North has disappeared. Says an Administration official: "Aside from the question of whether he did anything indictable, he will at the very least be sacrificed. Elliott knew most of the essential details of what Ollie and his boys...
Billionaires may not need to carry change for the parking meter, but that does not mean they are totally out of touch with their money. The Sultan of Brunei, for one, is evidently not the sort to delegate bill paying to a cadre of briefcase-toting accountants. When he recently bought a Boeing 727 jet from financially strapped Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the Sultan stunned bankers on the scene at his palace by pulling out an ordinary checkbook in a tattered plastic folder. He proceeded to pen neatly a check for $18 million, then slowly wrote down the check number...
Hong Kong Bureau Chief William Stewart did the major reporting for the story, with the assistance of Manila Reporter Nelly Sindayen. Stewart rates his long interview with Aquino this month as the "best I've ever had in a series of such talks with Presidents, Kings, an Emperor, a sultan, guerrilla chiefs and a gaggle of Prime Ministers." Though Stewart believes Aquino has made mistakes as President, he insists "there is no doubt that the Philippines -- and the rest of the world -- is a better place because...
Although it is not clear what came of the Brunei suggestion, U.S. officials said last week that the State Department persuaded the sultan of the oil-rich Asian kingdom to donate millions of dollars to Nicaraguan Contra rebels this year. The Los Angeles Times said the money went through a Swiss bank account controlled by North...
...December 28, 1984, "personal and confidential" memo from Fraser to North notes that the sultan of Brunei had given $500,000 to a drug program favored by first lady Nancy Reagan and states: "Naturally, it has been recommended that he might kick in a million dollars of that for the refugees for Central America...