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...fraud began to unravel last January when, following a warehouse fire, police discovered falsified bank orders in Agrokomerc's records. Newspapers, relying on government leaks, began running stories on the scandal in August. Earlier this month the entire governing boards of both Agrokomerc and the Privredna Banka branch were fired, while Abdic and seven others were jailed on charges of "counterrevolutionary activities." Following demands for a purge of the Bosnian hierarchy from Communist leaders in Belgrade, the capital, 50 functionaries were expelled from the republic's party organization...
According to North, Casey also thought up the "fall guy plan," in which the ever loyal Marine would take the "hit" if any of the many secret operations were exposed, thus protecting higher officials -- especially the President. When the Iran-contra scam did unravel, the trail led quickly to North. A private U.S. aircraft carrying supplies to the contras was shot down over Nicaragua last Oct. 5, and the downed airmen were carrying telephone numbers that linked them with Robert Owen, North's personal courier to the contras. Two days later Casey learned that angry middlemen in the Iran arms...
...limit their questioning of the Marine lieutenant colonel, at least initially, to four days. Yet ten times four days would scarcely suffice to explore every secret scheme in which North is said to have put his finger during his five years on the National Security Council staff, to unravel all the private networks he hammered together to carry out secret policies, to track down the sources of the authority that enabled him to order around Ambassadors, CIA agents and Government officials who outranked...
Over the next three or so months, the congressional committee investigating the Iran-contra affair will hear from 35 to 50 witnesses as it struggles to unravel the worst foreign policy scandal of the decade. Major congressional hearings are never predictable; during Watergate a minor witness revealed the White House taping system. As the hearings open, these are the key witnesses...
...take long for the agreement to unravel. Barely two days after the 60-day cease-fire lapsed, heavy fighting erupted in Lupao, a village 90 miles north of Manila. Eighteen people, among them twelve civilians, died in an early morning fire fight between an army patrol and a band of heavily armed Communist insurgents. Witnesses later charged that seven civilians had been massacred by government troops during the clash. By week's end, the unofficial death toll had grown to more than 70, including 41 civilians. With each new report of violence, any hope of reconciliation between the rebels...