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...offer by Secord's partner Albert Hakim to "do something for my family" if he failed to return from Iran. North said he knew that Hakim was wealthy, and he was grateful for his assistance as a translator in the Iran negotiations. That is why, when Willard Zucker, one of Hakim's lawyers, asked Mrs. North to visit him in Philadelphia, the colonel advised her to do so. Hakim had testified that North would be the beneficiary of a $2 million will if both Secord and Hakim were to die; Hakim had also sought a "proper way" to funnel...
Though North returned safely from Tehran, the Button account remained open. Last fall, Hakim claims, he attempted to get some of the money to North's wife Betsy. Hakim's financial adviser, Willard Zucker, met with "Mrs. Belly Button" in Philadelphia and told her that an anonymous admirer of her husband's "wishes to help out with the university and educational expenses of the children." Zucker and Betsy North discussed an abortive plan to funnel money to the Norths through their relatives...
Hakim at first contended that North remained ignorant of the bank account despite his wife's discussion with Zucker. But under questioning from Senate Chief Counsel Arthur Liman, the businessman admitted, "Eventually, I would have found it impossible for him not to know." Congressional investigators have already uncovered evidence that North used $2,000 worth of traveler's checks obtained from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero to buy groceries, snow tires and gasoline...
Indeed, a few Carol Burnett Show writers, or just one of the Zucker brothers (whose movie Airplane! was a funnier and more freewheeling spoof), might have turned Fresno into the definitive takeoff it aspires to be. Fresno seems oddly overqualified: a parody that is better plotted, acted and directed (by Jeff Bleckner) than most of the shows it satirizes. Six hours without one ludicrous cliff-hanger or evil twin? This is a mini-series that could have used a bit less taste and a little more Fresno...
...CUNHA Associate Editor Penn 28-21 Brown 15-14 Cornell 34-3 Yale 14-13 5-1 36-8 .818 GEOFF SIMON Staff Writer Penn 31-6 Dartmouth 28-27 Cornell 24-3 Yale 14-11 6-0 34-10 .773 JEFFREY A. ZUCKER Former Crimson President Guest Selector Penn 35-7 Brown 21-3 Cornell 21-17 Princeton 99-0 DAHLIA WEINMAN Business Manager Guest Selector Penn 21-7 Brown 14-3 Cornell 37-3 Princeton...