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Ex-aide says North asked Meese for a delay in Iran-contra probe
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Oliver North asserted he had not been read his rights against self-incrimination last fall before acknowledging to Attorney General Edwin Meese the diversion of Irian-contra profits, according to testimony released yesterday.
Marine LI. Col. Robert L. Earl, who worked as North's aide on the White House national security
staff, also said North had told him of asking Meese for a delay of 24 to 48 hours in Meese's initial investigation last November.
Iran says it will press for victory over Iraq
Earl also described helping North destroy documents crucial to the Iran-contra affair. Earl's testimony suggests North was mindful of potential criminal ramifications of his role in the diversion.
Iran accepted a cease-fire.
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iran said yesterday that it would press the 7-year-old war with Iraq to final victory, dismissing a threat by Arab countries to break relations with Iran.
After a special meeting, the Arab League threatened Tuesday to break relations with Iran unless
But Tehran radio quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman yesterday as saying the Arab League meeting Tuesday was a failure in what Iran described as a U.S.-led effort to isolate Iran. Another broadcast denounced Britain and France for sending warships to the gulf.
Proxmire will not seek re-election in 1988
MADISON, Wis. — Sen. William Proxmire, a 30-year veteran Democrat with a reputation as a critic of excessive government spending, announced yesterday that he would not seek re-election in 1988.
decision, believe me," Proxmile, 71, told a packed news conference. Proxmile, who succeeded the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, is third in seniority in the Senate. He is chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Sewage plant scent smells scrumptious
HULL, Mass. — A whiff of the local sewage treatment plant smells more like a bakery these days, thanks to a vanilla-scented deodorizer.
The plant switched to vanilla
from a deodorizer described by its maker as t tutti-frutti or bubble gum. The vanilla scent is more expensive, said plant manager Norman Rogers, but fruit scents "left a funny taste in my mouth."
From The Associated Press.
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Aquino OK after coup attempt
MANILA, Philippines — Mutiniois troops attacked the presidential palace compound early today in an attempt to overthrow the 18-month-old government of President Corazon Aquino. She was unharmed and appealed for calm.
The Associated Press
Armed forces spokesman Col. Honesto Isleta said the mutineers were led by Col. Gregorio Honasan, a former aide to Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, whom Aquo fired as defense minister after another coup attempt last November.
At least six people were killed and 57 wounded in the uprising, which occurred a day after militant leftist unionists began the biggest strike of Aquino's administration. It was not clear whether the two events were related.
Honasan told reporters at armed forces headquarters that the operation was aimed at "unification of the
"All we are fighting for is the children, our children and the children of the Filipino people," Honasan said.
people, the concept of justice and true freedom" and claimed it was not a military coup.
Gen. Fidel Ramos, the chief of staff, said that about 300 men attacked about 1 a.m. and that there were reports that the mutineers were supporting him and Enrile. Ramos said he remained loyal to Aquino.
Enrile and Ramos helped lead the civilian-military revolt that drove former President Ferdinand E. Marcos into exile and brought Aquino to power.
Red tracer bullets crisscrossed the sky during the pre-dawn attack. Firing was reportedly continuing about four hours later in a commercial area a few hundred yards east of the palace and around the government radio-television center in Que
As fighting continued around dawn, soldiers at the television station took cover behind press buses and cars. Reporters were forced to scamper away as the troops drew fire.
zon City.
An Associated Press reporter said the bodies of at least six people lay in the street close to the Nagtahan Bridge near the compound of the Presidential Security Group, Aquino's palace guard, in a commercial and middle-class area in the heart of Manila.
Aquino said over the private radio station DZRH, "I want to tell you, all my countrymen, that I am safe and the Presidential Security Group is here and prepared. I want to tell our people that, first of all, I am all right and Gen. Ramos is on top of the situation and is in constant touch with me.
Thousands fired in S. Africa strike
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The nation's largest mining company yesterday fired more than 18,000 striking black miners, including 3,000 who staged a sit-in a mile underground, after their union voted to continue an 18-day walkout.
The country's largest black labor federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said it was considering a national strike and other "solidarity action" unless the mineworkers' wage demands were met.
fired about 18,400 gold and coal miners for defying back-to-work ultimatums. Anglo fired 7,000 strikers last week, and it said 2,000 more faced dismissal if they did not return to work tomorrow.
Among those dismissed were 3,000 men who staged an 18-hour sit-in inside Anglo's Western Deep Levels gold mine. Anglo did not say why the men staged the protest, but the National Union of Mineworkers said the men were forced underground Wednesday night by mine security
The strikers were brought to the surface yesterday afternoon, given their final paychecks and driven off
Anglo American Corp., the company worst hit by the strike, said it
the mine compound in buses, some of the miners said.
The mass dismissals came after union members voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to reject an industry proposal that offered slight improvements in benefits but no additional pay. The union said it would accept a 27 percent pay raise, instead of its previous demand of 30 percent, but the Chamber of Mines refused to alter its already implemented increase of 15 to 23 percent.
The 1.2 million pound rocket was scheduled to burn for about two minutes in a ground test of four redesigned joints in its steel hull, changes in design that are expected to correct the flaws that caused the Challenger accident.
The redesigned rocket has been tested in sub-scale firing, but yesterday's test was to have been the first involving the full, 126-foot rocket booster.
Officials of Morton Thiolok Inc., manufacturer of the rocket, said the test firing would be postponed until 1 p.m. tomorrow.
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — A critical full-scale test of the new space shuttle booster rocket engine was called off yesterday after a series of delays including two final countdowns halted with less than 15 seconds to go.
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Thursday, February 11, 1988
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Tuesday, September 22, 1987
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Wednesday, October 28, 1987
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Wednesday, January 27, 1988
New York City Opera
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Thursday, February 18, 1988
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Tuesday, April 12, 1988
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Canadian Brass Christmas Show
Wednesday, December 2, 1987
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Sunday, November 15, 1987
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Sunday, January 17, 1988
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Orpheus Ensemble **
Sunday, April 24, 1988
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Thursday, October 1, 1987
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