Friday, February 20, 1987
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Senator: Eeatfan siioniM stick to first version i aims s awry
WASHINGTON' The former chairman of the
Senate Intelligence 'Committee said Thursday he
believes President Reain 'ave advance appro
val to an Israeli arnjH ship'mvnt to Iran in August
1985, and "ought to stick1 with" that story he
reportedly once told investigators but later
retracted.
Sen. David Durenberger, R Minn., al.so said
embattled White House Chief of Staff Donald
Regan was "just making problems" with some of
his actions in the unfolding Iran-Contra
controversy.
Meanwhile, members of the presidential review
board on the affair conducted a hospital-room
interview with former National Security Adviser
Robert C. McFarlane.
And inside the White House, spokesman Mar
tin Fitzwater announced that Reagan stands
ready to veto any legislation halting aid to the
Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan govern
ment. The Democratic-controlled Senate For
eign Relations Committee approved such a bill
on Wednesday, and Reagan's spokesman said the
intent of the legislation "is simply to abandon all
Nicaraguans struggling to bring democracy to
their country."
In Congress, meanwhile, Secretary pf State
George Shultz offered no response when Rep.
Robert Torricelli, D-NJ., told him during a hear
ing that U.S.-provided weapons were having a
"dramatic" impact in Iran's favor in its war with
Iraq.
Torricelli, just back from a trip to Iraq, said,
"The security of our country and of the entire
western world is very much at issue today. There
is a very real threat to Arab world could be
united under this (Iranian) fundamentalist revo
lution," the congressman said.
In another development in the widening
investigation into the Iran-Contra controversy,
visiting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
said in an interview that Israel would provide
"necessary information" to congressional com
mittees conducting their own review.
But he said his government would resist any
attempt to force Israeli officials to testify about
the country's particiapation in arranging seven
U.S. weapons shipments.
Reagan himself said nothing during the day to
reporters on the continuing investigation into
the secret sale of arms to Iran and apparent
diversion of profits to the Contra rebels in Nica
ragua. He has repeatedly defended the arms
sales, but said he knew nothing of the alleged
iiversion of funds.
Mountaineers continue search
for skiers lost in avalanche
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BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. More than 250 mountaineers
using long poles to probe the deep snow across an ava
lanche recovered two more bodies Thursday and continued
searching for at least one more missing skier, authorities
said.
All three victims of Wednesday's snow slide were men,
and their bodies were found in one area of the steep slope in
the central Rockies.
The first body was found Wednesday, less than three
hours after the avalanche. The other two were found in 4 to 6
feet of snow Thursday.
"We have developed information that a fourth victim is
involved in the slide. We have shifted our emphasis to the
other side of the slide," said Summit County Sheriff Delbert
Kwoldt. He said the missing man was skiing with his step
brother and was not with the other victims.
A helicopter dropped explosives to release loose snow
that could cause more avalanches on Peak 7, a steep slope
north of the Breckenridge ski area, before the searchers,
aided by dogs, headed out Thurday.
Tim Kirk land, an Australian, outran the avalanche and
identified three others in his party who apparently didn't
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"We were sitting in the snow when one guy right away
yelled, 'Avalanche!' "
"It looked like a huge cloud coming down," he told
reporters in a hoarse whisper.
"All we could do is stand up and try to ski out of it. I'm
the only one who did," Kirkland said.
In Brief
Cuomo says he won't seek presidency
NEW YORK Gov. Mario Cuomo said Thursday that he would not be a
candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988.
"I will not be a candidate," said the New York governor at the end of a
call-in show on WCBS radio in New York City.
The 54-year-old governor said that he had "no desire to increase the
speculation" about a possible run for the White House.
"This decision is the best thing for my state," said Cuomo, adding that
it was also "the best thing for my family" and "the best thing for my
party."
Recent nationwide polls had place Cuomo as a strong second to former
Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado as the choice among Democrats for his party's
nomination.
Political prisoners arrive in Miami
MIAMI Two former Cuban political prisoners have arrived in Miami
to begin new lives as free exiles.
Aracadio Peguero Ceballos, 45, and Sixto Nicot Sosavila, 43, arrived
Wednesday. They were among 20 prisoners released from prison by Cas
tro's government last May. The prisoners have been leaving their home
land in pairs.
Peguero, who leg was amputated in prison, has no family. He will share
a house in Miami's Little Havana with four other disabled former Cuban
political prisoners.
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plans continue for Jewish activist's release
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Koryagin came home Thursday after
five years in a labor camp, and officials
said Jewish activist Josef Begun would
be out of prison in 24 hours, nearly a
week after his release was first announc
ed. Begun, 55, was still at Chistopol
Prison on Thursday.
An Interior Ministry official tele
phoned Begun's wife Inna on Thursday
night and told her to go to the prison;
5C3' miles east of Moscow, fpr her '
husband's release foS&y.
. "I was told my hitsband will be freed
tomorrow, in the, ficci; half of $e
dey," she told The Associated Press by
telephone. . ,
Begun, a teacher of Hebrew, was
pardoned Tuesday by a decree ef the
Supreme Soviet, the nominal national
parliament. He was sentenced in 1983
to seven years in prison for anti-Soviet
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Chistopol has held many of the
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Soviet activity. At least 150 dissidents English- and Russian language services,
have been released in the past three Similar reports ef previous releases of
weeks, and officials have said an equal other dissidents have not been reported.
Reagan reconcileo with Waroow;
lifts Poland's economic sanctions
WASHINGTON President Reagan, president of the Chicago-based Polish
responding to pleas from church and American Congress and a guest at the
trade union leaders, lifted economic White House for Reagan's annoucemcnt.
sanctions against Poland on Thursday The last remaining U.S. sanctions
but warned the Warsaw government against Poland were the denial of
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not to retreat on political reforms.
"We will be watching to see that
further steps are taken toward national
reconciliation in Poland and that the
progress made is not rtversec" Reagan
said in a statement. '
"most favored nation" tariff treatment
and a ban on U.S. credits and guarantees.
Poland already ov.es the United States
more than $2 billion in guaranteed
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