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McFarlane disputes previous accounts of weapons shipments
WASHINGTON Robert C. McFar
lane, President Reagan's former national
security adviser, contradicted previous
accounts from administration officials
on Monday, testifying under oath that
the president approved an "indirect"
shipment of arms to Iran in August
1985.
As the public accounting of the Rea
gan administration's foreign policy
fiasco began on Capitol Hill, Secretary
of State George P. Schultz also
under oath before the House Foreign
Affairs Committee denied involve
ment in the transfer of Iranian arms
sale profits to Nicaraguan rebels, say
ing he had "zero" knowledge of the
"illegal" diversion of money.
As Shultz and McFarlane appeared
separately before the committee, the
Justice Department released the text
of its application to a federal appellate
court panel in Washington, seeking
appointment of an independent coun
sel to probe possible criminal activity
in the affair.
The request raised the possibility
that the granting of immunity from
prosecution may be necessary to get to
the bottom of the affair. It was not
immediately clear when the three
member panel would act to name the
counsel.
Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, fired
as a top National Security Council aide,
and "other U.S. government officials"
were mentioned as likely targets of the
investigation.
McFarlane, who had testified last
week in secret before Senate Intelli
gence committee, testified publicly
Monday before the House panel, saying
the president gave his authorization for
the indirect shipment of "small levels
of arms to Iran for the purpose of
strengthening elements against ter
rorism." Attorney General Edwin Meese III,
who made a preliminary inquiry into
the matter at Reagan's request, said on
Nov. 25, "Our information is that the
president knew about it probably after
the fact."
Kikuxca Volcano continues destruction
KALAPANA, Hawaii A new. lava flow from Kilauea Volcano on
Monday burned down another house in this southeastern Hawaii Island
coastal community, where 10 homes already have been destroyed in the
past two weeks.
The house burst into flames as it was touched by lava at 5:30 a.m., said
Hawaii County Civil Defense Director Harry Kim.
Three other houses are threatened by the latest lava flow, which
reached the Kalapana Highway around 10 p.m. Sunday and began crossing
the road around 3 a.m., Kim said.
The new flow, about 120 feet wide, is moving atop a flow which crossed
the highway and destroyed 10 houses on its way to the ocean.
Molten lava took an eight-mile path from a vent in the volcano's east rift
zone to the ocean, adding about 10 acres of land to the island. The flow
into the ocean stopped during the weekend because of a blockage in a
lava tube.
The recent flows are from the 48th phase of an east rift zone eruption
which began on Jan. 3, 1986.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Honduran troops, flown by
U.S. helicopters, hunted for stragglers Monday of a Nicara
guan force that Honduran officers say crossed the border
during the weekend and burned three deserted villages.
A military intelligence source said the troops also were
acting as a guard 'against further incursions.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said
about 20 Honduran air force planes had bombed and strafed
retreating Nicaraguans, who he said were pursued by three
Honduran infantry battalions.
Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government denied that an
incursion took place and claimed that warplanes from the
Honduran side of the border bombed two villages inside
Nicaragua, killing seven soldiers and wounding 1 1 people.
Honduras said that 18 of its soldiers were wounded in
intense fighting in the border area over the weekend and
that its troops inflicted undisclosed "heavy" casualties on a
force of 700 Sandinista raiders.
U.S. Embassy and Honduran military sources, who spoke
on condition that they not be identified for security reasons,
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said 14 U.S. helicopters ferried hundreds of Honduran
troops to the border site on Sunday after the Nicaraguan
force crossed into Honduras the day before.
The helicopters, all unarmed, provided transportation
from Palmerola, an air base where U.S. forces are
headquartered 30 miles northeast of Tegucigalpa, to an air
strip called Jamastran, about 90 miles east of the capital,
they said.
The Jamastran air strip is 30 miles from the border, in
iine with standing instructions to American troops to avoid
possible clashes with the Nicaraguans.
Honduran officials said residents of about 40 villages fled
to safety elsewhere when the Nicaraguan force penetrated 3
miles inside Honduras on Saturday and set fire to three
deserted villages near the town of Cifuentes, about 70 miles
east of Tegucigalpa. The villages, Mitingale, Buena Vista
and La Esperanza, all were in El Paraiso province.
Capt. Carlos Quesada Aquilar, spokesman for Honduran
armed forces, said heavy fighting raged Sunday around
Cifuentes but subsided Monday moming as the Sandinistas
began withdrawing to the Nicaraguan side of the border.
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West Bank clashes continue;
Israeli university closes
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank Israeli troops fired on demonstra
tors in a Palestinian refugee camp Monday, killing a 12-year-old boy and
wounding four other people, Palestinian news reports said.
Soldiers also shot and wounded two other Palestinians, and stone
throwing Arabs injured two Israeli women in a fifth day of clashes in more
than a dozen cities, villages and refugee camps in the territories Israel
captured during the 1967 Middle East war.
Monday's death brought to four the number of Palestinian youths killed
by Israeli soldiers since Thursday in the occupied territories, where about
1.4 million Palestinians and 50,000 Jewish settlers live.
More than 25 Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli gunfire, and at
least 14 Israeli policemen and civilians have been injured by stones. Army
and Palestinian reports say at least 100 Arabs have been detained.
In Monday's bloodiest clash, at the Balata refugee camp near Nablus,
troops fired tear gas and opened fire on Palestinian youngsters who pelted
them with stones, the army said. ' '
Ramadan Mohammed Daoud Zeitun died of gunshot wounds in the
head, said the Palestine Press Service, whkh monitors events in the
occupied territories. They army said four protesters ranging in age from 14
to 20 were shot in the feet.
Although the army confirmed that a Palestinian boy died of gunshot
wounds in the head, it said it could not describe the circumstances
immediately.
The Israeli government closed one of two Bir Zeit University campuses
near Ramallah until Jan. 3. Bir Zeit, financed by Arab governments, has a
student body of more than 2,000. - - :' .;
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