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...that North may have done more than just rally the right to the contra camp. The Lowell (Mass.) Sun charged last week that $5 million from the sales of U.S. arms to Iran, which North had helped engineer, had been funneled to right-wing groups that included the relatively unknown National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty. The money, said the Sun, was used "to boost conservative candidates in the U.S. and to oppose critics of the Reagan Administration's Central American policy." No other news organization has confirmed the story, which the endowment's director, Carl ("Spitz") Channell, denounced...
Such attitudes are not altogether unknown in the 3,000-member Mustang Club, an S.M.U.-based organization whose dollars have helped underpin S.M.U.'s record as a jock palace (three Bowl games and a No. 2 national ranking in the past six years). Says one faculty member: "Only being No. 1 counts for anything . . . getting there is all that counts as long as you don't land in jail." Advocates of this hard-line boosterism hoped that S.M.U. could skate past the death penalty and be back to business as usual in '88 after the probation ends...
...wrong times. Flying at night on auto-pilot, the plane was lost mostly because of the crew's laziness and trust in their equipment. Probably confused by the jet's similarity to U.S. spy planes, the Siberian commander decided to play it safe and bring down the unknown plane...
...Southern Air Transport, formerly a CIA proprietary airline. CIA Director William Casey told Congressmen two weeks ago that he had approved the use of the plane but thought that the cargo would be oil-drilling parts. As it turns out, the shipment was returned to Israel in February for unknown reasons...
...rumors of documents being destroyed (by North and Poindexter). Once again the White House was resisting demands for a special prosecutor (now called independent counsel) put forth by Congressmen who did not trust the Administration to investigate itself. Once again congressional hearings were getting ready to launch upon their unknown and potentially damaging course. Worst of all, there was a revival, before last Tuesday's press briefing was over, of the quietly poisonous question so well remembered from 1973: "What did the President know and when did he know...