University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 25, 1988
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North, Poindexter and others plead not quilty to all charges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former national security aides Oliver North and John Poindexter and two businessmen pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that they ran the Iran-contra affair as a vast criminal conspiracy and defrauded the government of $17 million.
One by one, the defendants were called before U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell at their arraignment and asked by courtroom clerk Barbara Montgomery, "How do you wish to plead?"
"Not guilty," replied Poindexter, President Reagan's former national security adviser, and North, a top assistant to Poindexter.
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"Not guilty, your honor," responded retired Air Force Maj. Gen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim, who controlled the money and procured the arms for the once-secret Iran-contra operation.
All four defendants were released
on their personal recognition and to tell report weekly by telephone to a pre-trial agency. Although criminal defendants are often asked to surrender their passports, Gessell said he would not impose that condition.
Dressed in conservative business suits, the four men made their first appearance in court since a federal grand jury, convened by Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh 14 months ago, handed down a 23-count indictment March 16.
The defendants are charged with conspiring to defraud the United States "by deceitfully . . . organizing, directing and concealing" a program of support for the Nicaraguan contrasts at a time such assistance was banned.
North, retiring as a Marine lieutenant colonel May 1, and Poindexter, a retired Navy rear admiral, embraced before the judge entered the crowded courtroom.
IRAN-IRAQ WAR CONTINUING: Iran and Iraq fired missiles into each other's capitals yesterday, and Teheran threatened to use chemical bombs in the war unless the United Nations punishes Iraq for using poison gas.
EXECUTIVE USED ALIASES: A former Wedtech Corp. executive, vice chairman Mario Moreno, testified yesterday that he gave at least $30,000 to Sen. Allore D'Amato, R-New York, to evade election law contri
CHARLESTON 'FLU': In West Virginia, nearly all of Charleston the police officers and firefighters called in sick yesterday to protest a 2 percent pay raise, then ignored back-to-work orders from a judge and the city council.
OKLAHOMA BANK FAILS: State bank regulators yesterday closed Cashion Community Bank in Oklahoma City, citing severe loan losses and a lack of capital. It was the fourth bank failure in Oklahoma this year and the 42nd nationwide.
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FIRE CONJUNCTION UPHELD: A federal appeals court yesterday uphold the convictions of two men found guilty of setting a hotel fire that killed 97 people in Puerto Rico, Jimenez Rivera and Rivera Lopez, both workers at the Dupont Plaza Hotel, admitted that they set the fire on New Year's Eve 1986 as part of a labor dispute with hotel management.
CHUN LEAVES U.S.: Former President Chun Doo-Hwan of South Korea decided to cut short a visit to the United States after prosecutors linked his brother to a growing government corruption scandal involving embeblement, officials said yesterday.
JESSICA'S STORY? For 58 hours after Jessica McClure tumbled into an abandoned well, hundreds of rescuers worked together to free her, but now an effort to bring their heroism to television has divided them. Two groups are negotiating separately with different TV producers for a movie.
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