NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Federal grand jury indicts Weinberger on five felony counts in Contra inquiry The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted yesterday on felony charges of perjury and obstruction of the congressional investigation into the Iran-Contra affair. Weinberger is the most senior Reagan administration official to be charged in the arms-for-hostages affair — an initiative he repeatedly said he opposed. At a news conference at his attorney's Washington office, Weinberger said, "Tan innocent and will be convicted." A federal grand jury charged Weinberger with two counts each of perjury and false statements and one count of obstructing the congressional Iran-Contra committees. The former defense secretary was charged with lying to Congress about his knowledge of arms sales to Iran and Saudi Arabian contributions to the Nicaraguan Contras. He was also accused of concealing extensive personal notes on high-level Reagan administration discussions about the arms sales and aid to the Contras. Weinberger headed the Department of Defense from 1981 to 1987. The indictment comes 5 L2 years into an independent counsel's investigation that has led to eight guilty pleas by former Reagan administration officials and others. But the two most high-profile defendants — former National Security Advisor John Poindexter and his aide, Oliver North — saw their convictions thrown out because they were ruled to have been tainted by testimony the two had given Congress under grants of immunity. Sources knowledgeable about the investigation said earlier this spring that independent counsel Lawrence Walsh's investigation was concentrating on former President Reagan's possible role in an Iran-Contra cover-up. However, the sources said lawyers for Weinberger and former Secretary of State George Shultz told prosecutors their clients had no information suggesting a cover-up involving Reagan or anyone else. Prosecutor Craig Gillen told reporters yesterday, "I don't want to say that we are trying to get closer to President Reagan. That's not what this indictment is about. "Our investigation has been significantly narrowed by the events today. I didn't say that it's pointing in any direction or focusing on anyone." At his news conference, Weinberger said, "At no time did I ever knowingly misrepresent the facts or deceive Congress or anyone else. "I was not willing to accept an offer by the Office of Independent Counsel to plead to a misdemeanor offense of which I was not guilty, nor was I willing to give them statements which were not true about myself or others." He would not elaborate on that last point. Weinberger characterized the indictment as unfair and unjust and said "a terrible injustice has been done to my family and to me." In a statement released in California, Reagan said, "Caspar Weinberger has served his state and his country honorably and with great distinction for more than a quarter of a century. I know him to be a man of the highest integrity and am confident he will be fully vindicated of the charges against him." Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas said that Weinberger had been targeted because of "Everyone in this town knows that Mr Weinberger was one of the Reagan administration's most vocal opponents of Iran-Contra and that he played no role in its advancement." Dole said. "Still, Mr. Walsh and his highly paid assassins saw Mr. Weinberger as a way to get at their ultimate target — President Reagan. They threatened Mr. Weinberger that unless he testified that President Reagan violated the law, they would see that he was indicted. To his credit, Mr. Weinberger refused to buckle under this blackmail." Each count against Weinberger carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $250,000 in fines upon conviction. In the indictment, Weinberger told prosecutors he usually did not take notes on his meetings with the president or other high-ranking officials. But Gillen said prosecutors discovered 1,700 pages of Weinberger's notes from 1985 and 1986 in the Library of Congress. The indictment states that those notes indicate that in November 1985 — before the CIA-assisted shipment of 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Iran — National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane told Weinberg that Reagan had authorized the shipment through Israel to gain the release of U.S. hostages. In July 1987 Weinberger testified before a Senate committee that he did not have advance knowledge of the shipment. A few days after the arms shipment, Weinberger told Reagan that such arms shipments were illegal, the indictment stated. The indictment also charged Weinberger with falsely telling a House panel that he was not aware of payments to the Contras by Saudi Arabia. It said he had been told of the payments in March 1985 by Gen. John W. Vessey, who headed the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Weinberger also was accused of lying when he told congressional Iran-Contra committees in July 1987 that he did not know of an Israeli request to replenish stocks of Israeli weapons that had been sent to Iran. The statue of limitations on two of the counts would have run out today. Gillen noted. If prosecutors had had access to Weinberger's notes earlier, the investigation would have proceeded more quickly he said. Man recovers from crossbow shooting, ex-lover charged Wednesdav, June 17. 1992 ★Poi Dog Pondering ★GWAR... 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Doctors are astounded by Ekvall's recovery since June 8, when he was admitted to the hospital in critical condition SAN DIEGO — A man who survived being shot in the head with an arrow said Thursday that his former live-in boyfriend accused in the case tried for months to rekindle their romance before attacking him with a crossbow. Arthur Ekvall, 29, said his former roommate, 25-year-old Jesse Solis, began following him when Ekvall decided in December to move out of the apartment they had shared for six months. The arrow traveled through Ekvall's head and leded in his forehead over his left eye. ways. Solis pleaded innocent last Wednesday to attempted murder and auto theft. Bail was set at $250,000, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for June 23. If convicted, Solis faces a maximum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. Police have characterized the shooting of June 8 as stemming from a long-brewing lovers' quarrel between the two men. Sols told police he acted in a trivial struggle, said Bill Robinson, police representative. Elkvall told police he awoke with a piercing pain in his head and saw his attacker reloading a crossbrow. He said he disarmed the assailant, who ran from the apartment and fled in Ekvall's pickup. Solis was arrested two hours later in suburban El Cajon, Calif. For all your party supplies "Now I think he planned the whole thing," said Ekvall, a parking lot attendant. "When I lived with him, I don't remember him having a crossbow." 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