University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 11, 1989
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North defends Iran-contra cash use
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Oliver North, who seemed to be struggling to keep his temper, on Monday defended his stewardship of an Iran-contran cash fund and insisted that the money he paid for a used car came instead from a $15,000 cache in a metal box bolted to a closed floor.
At the start of cross examination at his trial, North said he kept track in a spinal-bound notebook of every penny he disbursed from the bank. The money which totalled betweer $240.00 and $300.00
"the ledger is still around?" asked prosecutor John Keker.
"It was destroyed." North said.
"Do you know who destroyed it?"
"Yes." he said. "I did."
Earlier Monday, North testified that former President Reagan and his attorney general, Edwin McCain, concealed U.S. involvement in a bombing equipment of Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran.
In a meeting on Nov. 12, 1986, Reagan clearly "had made a decision not to disclose" the fact that he was the subject.
The president told a news conference on Nov. 19 — a week after that meeting — that the government had not been involved with other nations in shipping weapons to Iran and that the United States had shipped none before he signed a January 1986 authorizing document. Immediately afterward, the White House put out a statement in which Reagan said a third
North testified that he assumed Reagan had known of the diversion of Iran arms sale funds. He also said that the U.S. would
country had been involved.
The former National Security Council aide was asked by his own lawyer about NSC documents North and his former secretary, James O'Reilly, who was in house complex about the time North was fired
North, who destroyed stacks of other documents around that time in November 1966, said he wanted the papers so "that I would have something to show if necessary, to show I had authority from my superiors for activities that I was engaged in."
The papers, some taken out by North in the days before the Iran-contra affair became
public and some by Hall after the firing, totaled 196 pages.
Asked about one note, which he had written to superiors on Dec. 9, 1985, North said it "clearly articulates what process the United States was up to" — the process North was involved in — in approaching Iran in hopes of gaining release of hostages.
But North said he shredded the financial accounting notebook, page by page, on orders of the late CIA Director William Casey, because it had names and addresses of people whose lives would be in danger they to become public. The shredding took place, he said, in the October-November 1986 period as the iron-corb affair began to unravel.
EPA gives lead-testing guides
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency today issued guidelines to school officials on how to test for lead in water fountains, saying more than a million still being used in schools have lead components.
A law enacted last year required the EPA to issue the guidelines as well as develop a list of what brand and models of school water coolers have lead components. The goal is to eliminate those coolers or correcting the problem.
Lead is a toxic metal that is harmful to health even at low levels of exposure. It can cause damage to the brain and nervous system and lead to learning disabilities, which can result in the formation of red blood cells, according to the EPA.
Mike Cook, director of the EPA office that deals with drinking water contamination, said lead in school drinking fountains was only one of many sources from which children might be exposed to lead.
A greater source of lead in drinking water often was the pipe systems that carried the water.
Nevertheless, the EPA said three manufacturers of drinking fountain coolers in schools had estimated that more than 1 million coolers in use contained some lead components.
Young children are of particular risk from lead even with only short-term exposure. According to the EPA, lead in drinking water typically accounts for about 20 percent of the total lead exposure in young children.
Alaska oil slick halts drift toward key port
VALDEZ, Alaska — The slick of thick crude oil spilled by the Exxon Mobil stalled yesterday in its movement toward the nation's No. 1 fishing port and was breaking up the coast and high wind. U.S. Coast Guard officials said
The Associated Press
Small-craft advisories and gale warnings were posted along the central Alaskan coast, where 10.1 million gallons of crude oil oozed in Prince William Sound. The wind was out of the northeast, which kept oil from
washing ashore in untainted inlets.
As of yesterday morning, 13.00 barrels of crude oil had
been recovered, or 7.5 percent of the 240,000 barrels spilled.
At the fishing port of Kodiak, which led the nation last year with its $166 million catch, preparations to battle the oil continued, despite the good news. Fishermen covered logs with fish nets and strung them together so they would act as booms and keep oil out of vital areas. Town broadcast boom making techniques on local television.
Oil was still at least 60 miles from Kodiak's fishing areas and appeared to have stalled in its drift toward the
MIAMI — Two gunmen, apparently Haitian soldiers, yesterday hijacked a twin-engine aircraft carrying a missionary group from Haiti in midday and surrendered after diverting to the plane to Miami, FBI officials said.
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TOPEKA — An expert hired by the Citizens' Utility Ratepayers Board filed testimony yesterday, alleging that Kansas Gas and Electric Co. customers will pay for electricity during the life of the Wolf Creek plant because it is nuclear powered rather than coal fired.
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The gunmen, armed with a 38 caliber revolver and an assault rifle, three the weapons to the ground as they approached the officials said. No one was injured.
Koerper said that since the plant had started its commercial operation in September 1985, it has saved customers $112 million in fuel costs, $25 million more than previously estimated.
Lyle Kopeer, KG&E spokesman, said the company had not had a chance to study Komanoff's estimates. However, he said its reading of CURB's announcement of its filing led the company to think Komanoff's calculations were highly speculative.
Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril, Haiti's military president, appeared yesterday to have quelted the sporadic acts of rebellion by officers and troop units that began on April 2 with a failed military coup.
The hijackers were scheduled to appear in federal court today, where they could face charges of air piracy and possible possession, said FBI spokeswoman Rachel Spiegel.
The hijackers were identified as Guillaume Berlioze, 21, and Fahaed Milord, 30, both of Port-au-Prince.
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The KCC will have technical hearings May 1-4 on the show-cause order.
An FBI news release said Berlioz and Milord reportedly were soldiers who brought a 40-mm anti-tank shell aboard the plane.
Linda Weir-Eneger of Wichita, chairwoman of CURB, was quoted by the KCC as saying she hoped the commission would agree to the $40 million award. She adopted the incentive performance standard proposed by Manonoff.
The expert, Charles Komanoff of New York City, an authority on electric utility economics, said his estimate was conservative. KG&E customers could pay as much as a billion more for their electricity.
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A Fellowship spokeswoman, Donna Burna, said the plane held four Hawaiians and three U.S. citizens, whom he and the pilot, Duer Smedley.
His testimony was filed in a hearing on a Kansas Corporation Commission show-cause order. The order would require KG&E to respond to a commission proposal that would reduce the million in excess energy costs to its customers because of unscheduled outages at the Wolf Creek
Burns said the men burst into the departure ramp at the Cap Haitien airport, fired weapons into the air to take over the plane, and ordered the pilot to飞 immediately without filing a flight plan.
The Fellowship is an international Christian aviation group founded in 1945. It operates 145 aircraft in Third Nation airfields and rural airviation and radio service.