Word: transfering
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Manhattan was led by junior transfer Bill Wheeler, who scored 33 of the quietest points in memory. Jasper center Pete Runge was awarded 23 points by the official scorer for winning the Billy Paultz play-alike contest. (For those who don't remember, Paultz is the former NBA player whose boorish and unimaginative play earned him the nickname "The Whopper...
Hatch said that the Democrats on the committee would probably bar granting immunity to the two, who have thus far been the only administration officials linked to the plan to transfer about $30 million dollars to the Contras...
Things have happened at the NSC all right, but not always the kind that the President can savor. Last week, in the wake of revelations that the agency had been involved in the transfer of Iranian arms sales profits to the contras, Reagan appointed a three-member "special review board" to study the role of the NSC in the conduct of foreign policy. Named chairman was John Tower, the former Republican Senator from Texas and more recently a U.S. arms negotiator. The other review-board members are former Senator Edmund Muskie, a Democrat, and Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald...
...control of representatives" of the contras. Presumably, the money was used to purchase weapons that the rebels need to wage their guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. North was, according to Meese, the "only person in the United States Government" who knew precisely of the money transfer. Poindexter knew vaguely about the transactions, and McFarlane learned something about them while pursuing diplomatic contacts with Iran as a special presidential emissary after he had resigned from the NSC. But neither seems to have told anybody in the Administration's chain of command. Later in the week, Meese added...
...denials. In Jerusalem, the three top officials of the Israeli government -- Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- met in a crisis session and drafted a statement. For the first time, the government admitted what everyone knew: Israel had "helped in the transfer of defensive weapons and spare parts from the U.S. to Iran." But the Israelis flatly denied funneling any money to the contras. According to the statement, "The payment for this equipment was made directly by an Iranian representative to a Swiss bank, in accordance with instructions from the American representatives...