University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 5, 1989
Nation/World
Bush denies role in Iran-contra deal
The Associated Press
The trail of Iran-contra affair
With the October 1984 Bolaid Amendment, Congress prohibited all military, financial and intelligence aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. These events followed:
WASHINGTON — President Bush today heated denied that he ever told the president of Honduras there would be expeditioned American aid in exchange for that country's aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Feb. 19, 1985:
President Reagan secretly approves third-party aid to contrains
Mar. 16, 1985:
George Bush visits Honduras
Nov. 3, 1986:
Lebanese magazine reports secret contact between U.S. and Iran
Dec. 19, 1988:
Lawrence Walsh makes independent counsel to investigate affair
May 6, 1987:
CIA director William Casey dies
March 25, 1988:
Reagan calls North "a hero"
April 21, 1989:
Jury begins deliberation
May 25, 1986:
Oliver North and Robert McFarlane fly to Iran with arms to negotiate release of hostages.
Nov. 13, 1986:
President Reagan denies arms-for-hostages deal
Nov. 26, 1986:
Reagan sets up Tower Commission
July 7-14, 1987:
North testifies before Iran-contra committee
March 16, 1988:
North, Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim are indicted
Sept. 5, 1985:
North and McFarlane letter to Congress denies funds going to contrains
Nov. 25, 1986:
White House admits Iran arms funds sent to contrains. North is fired, adviser John Poindexter resigns
Bush for the first time publicly addressed head-on the question of whether as vice president he participated in a purported Reagan administration plan to make quid pro quo (something given in exchange for something else) deals with Latin countries to get help aid for the contrais.
Nov.18,1987:
In a spin-off from the trial of Oliver North, the House Intelligence Committee yesterday began investigating why Congress did not get White House documents on a secret deal with Honduras to aid the contras.
Feb. 21, 1989:
North trial begins
Documents that surfaced during the North trial showed that former President Reagan approved a deal in which the United States would expel Iran and impose sanctions on Houthis in return for that country's continued help for the contrais.
The documents, combined with testimony given during Nora's trial, suggest that senior officials up to and including Reagan and then vice-president Bush were more involved in the congressional committees knew
Now that Oliver North's iran-contrial trial is over, independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh can focus on trying the next major case, against North's former boss, John M. Poindexter.
Poindexter, who was national security adviser to President Reagan, not only is charged with obstructing
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congressional inquiries into the Iran-conflict affair; he also faces the central conspiracy counts that were dropped against North when the Bush administration refused to disambiguate documents needed by the defense.
Because Poindexter, unlike North, had daily contact with Reagan, his trial could shed new light on how closely the former president might have been involved in the secret plan to sell arms to Iran and to keep the contrains going after official U.S. aid was banned.
expected to go to trial in September.
The independent counsel told U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. that release of secret documents during North's trial and a softening of the sentencing to further disclosures could enable the prosecution to proceed
Walsh has expressed determination to press forward against Poindexter with charges that were dropped against North. That the two men and arms dealers Albert Hakim and Richard V. Secord conspired to divert $1 million in U.S.-Iran arm-sale profits to the contras.
The case against Poindexter is
with those charges against Poindexter.
Walsh also said that some of the most sensitive documents a judge ruled were needed in North's trial not relevant to Poindexter's case.
Many of the documents the government kept out of North's trial dealt with covert operations to free U.S. hostages in the Middle East and other secret activities in Central America.
As a participant in covert operations, North persuaded U.S. District
Judge Gerhard A. Gesell that he needed the material to help his defense. When it was kept secret, the charges against him. North were dropped.
Because North testified that Poin-dexter knew of his role in the Iran-contra affair, prosecutors may force the former National Security Council a to testify against his former boss.
Pindexter, 52, is also charged with obstructing 1986 investigations of the House and Senate intelligence committees into the Iran-confair affair.
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rejected more ambitious proposals to "freeze" government spending and cut further into the deficit. The House also soundly defeated a proposal to cut red ink by taxing imported oil, a day after the Senate went on record against a gasoline tax boost.
HOUSE PASSES BUDGET: The House approved yesterday a $1.2 trillion budget which upholds a much-criticized agreement with President Bush to reduce the deficit without spending or significantly raising taxes.
in Thailand to "call the attention of the world" to their plight.
In a dramatic finale of the Asian leg of his 12-day trip, Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, traveled for two hours — by military transport plane, helicopter and limousine — to reach this camp of bamboo and thatched houses just six miles from the Thai-Cambodian border and some 250 miles from Bangkok.
The Senate also moved toward passage of its version, as each chamber rejected several attempts to overreach the blueprint for the 1980 reorganization in fiscal 1980 as they approached final votes.
of students marched through Beijing yesterday and occupied Tiananmen Square to mark the 70th anniversary of China's first student university. The other display of urging for democracy.
The House approved its plan 263-157, after budget committee chairman Lean Panetta, D.Caffr., called it "the only choice for us to finish our budget responsibilities and avoid
Quayle, the highest-ranking American to visit a refuge camp in Thailand, was given a hero's welcome by villagers, many of whom have lived at Site B for a decade awaiting word as to when they can return to Cambodia.
As laid out by the White House agreement, the budgets claim to shrink the federal deficit to just below $100 billion, as required by the Gramm-Rudman law. They would defer federal programs to grow especially at the Pentagon, at less than the rate of inflation.
QUAYLE VISITS REFUGEES: Vice President Dan Quayle visited thousands of Cambodian refugees at the Site B Refugee Camp
About 100,000 people, more than half of them students, defied police and peacefully gathered in the huge square for a festive rally to seek greater freedom, cleaner government, a free press and official recognition. The student union that authorities say is illegal.
80th chambers yesterday overwhelmingly
Something of a celebrity, Koop has appeared often on television talk shows and is easily recognized by his silver beard and the gold-trimmed uniform of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.
The rarly ended 4 p.m., when the students began the exhausting walk back to class.
Koop says he will quit in 2 months
CHINESE STUDENTS PROTEST: Legions
During his seven year tenure, Koop lived up to his reputation as a tough-minded professional and made what had been a figurehead position into a pulpit from which he hammered at the ills of smoking and became the nation's No.1 promoter of condoms in the fight against AIDS.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — C Everett Koop, the surgeon general whose straight talk about smoking, AIDS and abortion made him a lightning rod for errites from the right and the left, told me yesterday that he would resign in July.
In a brief letter delivered yesterday to President Bush, Koop said he notified the president in February that he would not serve out his full term and instead be replaced by Koop; his letter said he would leave the job July 13 and retire Oct. 1.
Bush credited Koop with "tackling some of the toughest public health issues facing our country" and said he had been "a genuine leader, an example to all Americans, whatever their profession or responsibility."
Louis Sullivan, secretary of health and human services, applauded Koop's work, saying he had been "a genius." He said the compassion and plain good sense.
Koop said in his letter to Bush that James Mason, assistant secretary for health, would name an acting surgeon general once the office was vacant. The surgeon general heads the 6,000-member Commissioned Corps of the health service, which is part of the health department.
Koop, 72, did not say what he planned to do, but has said in interviews that he wants to write books and work in television on health issues. He now earns $91,200, including housing and uniform allowances.
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President Reagan's 181 nomination of Koop, then surgeon in chief of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, set off a bitter, nine-month battle for Senate confirmation.
Koop is the nation's 13th surgeon general.
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By Herb Gardner
Starring Moses Gunn
Moses Kuhlke
Presented by The University of Kansas Theatre
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