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Friday, Decembers, 1986
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WASHINGTON Senate investiga
tors quizzed the CIA's No. 2 man for
four hours and subpoenaed documents
around the country Thursday in an
expanding probe into the secret sale of
arms to Iran and transfer of profits to
Nicaraguan rebels. President Reagan
said Cabinet officers are free to decide
whether to' invoke the Fifth Amend
ment when their turn comes to testify.
A long-distance disagreement sur
faced within the administration over
the roots of the president's controver
sial Iranian arms policy. White House
spokesman Larry Speakes said "we
don't agree with" Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger's contention that
Reagan acted on bad advice when he
decided there were responsible offi
cials to deal with in Iran other than the
"lunatics" who run the country.
Reagan, embroiled in the most serious
crisis of his presidency, has defended
his decision to sell arms to Iran as part
of a secret diplomatic initiative to re
establish ties with the strategically
placed Persian Gulf nation. But he says
he was unaware that money in connec
tion with the sales was being funneled
through a Swiss bank account to Con
tra rebels battling the Nicaraguan
government.
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The money was made available at a
time when direct and indirect govern
ment military assistance to the Contras
was prohibited by law, and there was
evidence that the Justice Department
was looking into the operations of a
privately financed support program for
Contra febels in Nicaragua.
The president announced Tuesday
that his administration would seek
appointment of an independent coun
sel to probe the issue, although the
White House disclosed that Attorney
General Edwin Meese III is still at work
on the formal application.
Senate Republican and Democratic
leaders met privately to discuss estab
lishment of an ll-member "supercom
mittee" to take over the investigation
in January, but in the meantime, the
Senate Intelligence Committee pursued
its own probe.
Sen. David Durenberger, R-Minn.,
chairman of the committee, said the
witnesses were providing a "very can
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of helpful information."
The information, he said, is "open
ing more doors that we have to send a
subpoena through to order to (com
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in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Honeywell Inc. will sell its
small operation here to a local
firm and join the exodus of
American companies from South
Africa, a company executive said
Thursday.
The sale to South African
owners follows a pattern set by
General Motors Corp., IBM and
dozens of other U.S. companies
which bowed to disinvestment
pressure from the anti-apartheid
movement and to poor economic
conditions.
A major South African indus
trial group, Murray and Roberts,
is to purchase the Honeywell
operation for an undisclosed
amount and all 175 employees
probably will keep their jobs,
said Markos Tambakeras, Honey
well's local managing director.
At Honeywells's Minneapolis
headquarters, spokeswoman Su
san Eich said: "I think it's
generally acknowledged that the
business environment in South
Africa is volatile.
The Honeywell affiliate, which
sells and services electronic
control systems for buildings and
industries, accounts for less than
1 percent of Honeywell's revenues,
which totaled $6.6 billion last
year.
Last month, Eastman Kodak
Co. announced not only that it
would leave, eliminating the jobs
of its 466 employees, but also
that would bar the sale of its
products in South Africa.
The American companies re
maining in South Africa
including Mobil Corp. and Caltex, .
a joint operation of Texaco Inc.
and Chevron Corp. have
investments totaling an estimated
$1.3 billion.
Scientists make AIDS vaccine progress
WASHINGTON Scientists have
taken what they think is an important
step toward producing a vaccine against
AIDS; showing for the first time that
only a fragment of protein from the
responsible virus is necessary for
developing antibodies against it.
A team of industry, government and
university researchers says the seg
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Omaha mayor to fight recall
OMAHA Mayor Mike Boyle said Thursday he would stay on the job
and face a recall election launched by a citizens group after he fired the
police chief in a dispute over the arrest of his brot her-in-law.
Boyle said he had been on the verge of resigning a few weeks ago but
decided to face a January recall after receiving cards and calls of support.
Citizens for Mature Leadership launched its recall drive against Boyle
in October. Group spokesman Jim Geary, who runs a public relations
business, said Boyle had "shown himself to be irresponsible, petty and
sometimes downright childish."
The group said its campaign was partly in response to Boyle's firing of
Police Chief Robert Wadman on Oct. 3. Wadman was fired for insubordina
tion after he refused to sign papers to discipline officers involved in the
arrest of Boyle's brother-in-law, John E. Howell.
Speakes resigns White House post
WASHINGTON Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes announced
today he is resigning his White House post after 5 12 years to join the
giant Wall Street investment firm of Merrill Lynch & Co.
Speakes, who has been President Reagan's principal spokesman since
press secretary James S. Brady was critically wounded in the assassina
tion attempt against Reagan on March 30, 1981, said he would remain in
his job until his successor is ready to take over. He was reported two weeks
ago to be on the verge of resigning to take the Merrill Lynch job.
He joins Merrill Lynch in New York as a senior vice president Feb. 1,
1987. Sources close to the firm have said Speakes will earn about $250,000
a year in salary and benefits.
Administration sources, asking to remain anonymous, have said inte
rior Under Secretary Ann Dore McLaughlin is Speakes' most likely succes
sor. If picked by Reagan, she would be the first woman to serve as the
president's chief spokesperson.
Scientists to brave beasts
in study of Amazon isle
LONDON British and Brazilian
scientists will brave jaguars, wild boars,
snakes, wasps and fever on an uninha
bited Amazonian island in a year-long
study of the steamy habitat, expedition
members announced Thursday.
Dense rain forest shrouds the study
site, 37-by-l 5 mile Maraca Island on the
Uraricorea River, an Amazon tributary
in Brazil' northernmost Roraima ter
ritory. The Royal Geographical society said
more than 50 scientists half of them
ment of viral protein spurs high levels
of antibodies that neutralize the virus
in test animals such as goats.
In addition, the researchers say they
showed this protein can be inexpen
sively mass-produced in large, pure
quantities using genetically engineered
bacteria.
However, they cautioned, it remains
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British, about 20 Brazilians and a few
from other nations will catalog and
collect flora and fauna and study soils,
diseases and forest regeneration through
out 1987.
Maraca Island was declared a nature
reserve several years ago, and a research
station was built on the east end of the
island, from where scientists venture
into the jungle depths.
One research group will study the
cycle of jungle regrowth by clearing
small plots of forest.
to be proven whether the protein seg
ment can produce sufficient neutraliz
ing antibodies in humans to protect
them against acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome.
Even if effective, a practical preven
tive vaccine still is years away because
of the extensive safety and effective
ness tests that would be required
before approval, experts say.
AIDS is an infectious disease that
wrecks the immune system and leaves
victims open to numerous fatal infec
tions. The condition, spread through
close contact with blood and other
bodily fluids, has been diagnosed in
more than 28,000 Americans, half of
whom have died.
The protein fragment work was con
ducted by Dr. Scott Putney and col
leagues of Repligen Corp., a biotech
nology company in Cambridge, Mass.
Other researchers involved in the pro
ject were at Centocor Inc., a Malvern,
Penn., genetic technology company,
Duke University Medical School and
the cancer institute.
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