Wednesday, March 18, 1987
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Daily Nobraskan
By The Associated Press
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Poindexter cites fifth again
WASHINGTON Former National
ecurity Advisor John M. Poindex
it, a key figure in the Iran Contra
investigation, citied his constitu
ional protection against self incrim
uil ion Tuesday in refusing to answer
ongrossional questions about com
uler security.
Poindexter, citing the same Fifth
mendment protect ion, had refused
l December to answer Senate and
ouse committees' questons about
is role in the sale of arms to Iran
ud possible diversion of some prof
s to the Nicaraguan rebels.
On Tuesday, Hep. Jack Brooks,
Texas, asked four questions nar
iwly focused on a directive issued
y Poindexter on Oct. 29, 1980,
dating to security. The questions
ade no reference to the Iran-
CStamneH admits ties
WASHINGTON Conservative
ctivist Carl "Spitz" Channell met
vith Lt. Col. Oliver North as many as
4 t imes, always at the White House
nd in the presence of private eon
i ibutors to the Contras, a Channell
pokesman says.
The contributors, from whom
'hannell raised millions of dollars
or the private pro-Contra effort,
were anti-communist, predisposed
) support the president's policy
nd, frankly, people who trusted
pitz," said Jared Cameron, a pub
U.S. still debt leader of
VASHINGTUN America's deficit in the broadest mea
su i' of foreign trade soared to a record $140.57 billion in
1!) li, pushing the United States further into the hole as the
wo Ail's lavftesl debtor nation, the government reported
Tu sday.
he imbalance in the nation's current account jumped
1!). ') percent above the previous record of $117.08 billion,
sei in 1985. Last year ended on an especially gloomy note as
tin quarterly deficit from October through December hit a
ret ord as well, $;Mi.84 billion, primarily because of a further
deterioration in merchandise trade.
"he current account measures not only trade in mer
ch ndise but also in services, w hich includes such items as
in 'stment earnings, tourism and foreign aid.
While the United Stat es has run a deficit in merchandise
tr; le for 15 of the past 10 years, the current account was in
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Contra investigations being con
ducted by an independent counsel
and separate House and Senate
committees.
Still, Poindexter answered each
time:
"On the advice of counsel, I
decline to answer that question
pursuant to my constitutional rights
under the Fifth Amendment."
"Admiral, is it your intent to
exercise your Fifth Amendment
privilege in regard to all questions
we might ask you?" asked Brooks,
chairman of the Government Opera
tions Legislation and National Se
curity Subcommittee.
"That is correct," Poindexter
answered.
In barbed comments during the
healing, Poindexter's lawyer sug-
lic relations spokesman through
whom Channell this week answered
some questions that have arisen
about his connection with North
and the private Contra aid network.
Cameron said that, although money
was not solicited at the sessions
during which North spoke, North
was "a resource" for Channell's
efforts to help the Contras.
The characterization was the most
direct tie to North that Channell
has publicly acknowledged since
surplus as recently as 1981 as Americans' earnings on
overseas investments were enough to offset the merchan
dise deficits. But in recent years, a flood of foreign goods has
wiped out the cushion once provided by investment
earnings.
Deficits in the current account have made the United
states the world's largest debtor country as foreigners now
own more in U.S. investments than Americans hold in
foreign investments.
America became a debtor nation in 1985 for the first time
since 1914 with a total figure owed to the rest of the world of
$107.44 billion. The new figures on the current account for
1986 indicate that the U.S. debt has now soared to more
than $220 billion, putting American far ahead of the pre
vious debt leader, Brazil, which owes $108 billion to
foreigners.
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gested the former presidential ad
viser had been called to testify only
in order to create a spectacle, and
congressman called Poindexter's
refusal to testify "a perversion" and
said he was the one putting on a
show for the news media.
to Norilii
news stories and the report of a
presidential investigative commis
sion linked him to the Iran-Contra
affair.
The way in which Channell's rela
tionship with North, the fired White
House aide, was described differed
from a version Channell gave in an
interview with The Associated Press
in December. Then he said he had
met North "several times" over the
past year, and that North had briefed
his contributors twice.
world
Sheriff Deputy Dodge buried
remembered as devoted to duty
LINCOLN Lancaster County She
riffs Deputy Craig Douglas Dodge will
be remembered as a man who kept his
brass shined and his shoes polished, a
man whose strict devotion to duty
should serve as an example for the
entire community.
The Rev. Wallace Easter commemo
rated Dodge with that praise Tuesday
at Dodge's funeral at Westminster Pres
byterian Church. Dodge, 42, was the
first Lancaster County deputy to die in
the line of duty, he was shot when he
responded to a domestic disturbance
call in Hickman early Saturday. He
died a short time later.
More than 1,400 mourners, many of
them law enforcement officers from
throughout the state, crowded into the
In Brief
Attempt to fulfill suicide pact fails
BERGENFIELD, N J. A young couple was found dazed but conscious
after breathing car fumes today in the same garage where last week four
youths, including a teen-ager they knew, died in a suicide pact, police
said.
A suicide note was found, but the couple's car had been turned off,
police said.
The car's motor was not running, but was warm when police discovered
the two, the police said. The two told rescuers they had turned off the motor
when they heard someone outside the garage, Goetting said.
Hair drug doesn't ruffle bald men
NEW YORK You can entice them with all manner of pills, potions
and promises, but many a chrome dome out there is proud of his pate.
Consider the passionate response of John Capps III, founder of Bald
Headed Men of America, when he heard that a government advisory panel
Monday recommended approval of the first drug shown to make hair grow
on bald men.
"We believe that skin is in," Capps explained in a telephone interview.
"If you don't have it, flaunt it."
55 mph a joke, senator says
RENO, Nev. Nevada's senior sena
tor calls 55 mph a joke. And the man
charged with seeing that motorists
abide by the federally mandated speed
limit admits he occasionally inches up
to 60.
Nevada was the last state to post a
speed limit on outlying highways after
the federal government told it to. But it
sued the government, accusing it of
unconstitutionally coercing Nevada to
follow the mandate.
The Legislature has taken a cavalier
approach to speeders, passing a law
that give motorists caught driving up to
70 mph in a 55 mph zone a $15 wrist
slap for wasting energy.
Sen. Chic Hecht, R-Nev., a vocal
backer of the measure pending in Con
gress to allow states to let motorists
kick it up to 65 on rural interstates,
says the maximum was a good idea in
1974, when motorists were lined up at
the pumps.
"Today, the roadside double-nickel
is a symbol of how the federal govern
ment continues to trample on rights
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church. Latecomers stood in the aisles
and in the back of the church.
Many state and local elected offi
cials also attended.
Gov. Kay Orr, a member of West
minster, arrived about 10 minutes before
the service began and was escorted to a
seat in the front with the Lancaster
County deputies.
Former Gov. Bob Kerrey arrived a few
minutes later and sat in the rear of the
church.
Several seats were reserved in the
front opposite members of the sheriffs
department for Dodge's wife, Barbara,
his parents, Hale and Ethel Dodge of
rural Waverly, his two sons, Allen, 18,
and David, 13, two stepsons, Nick, 12,
and Joe, 7, and other family members.
better reserved for the states," he said.
"Let's face it, the 55 mph limit is an
unenforceable joke. The national aver
age speed is clocked at 66 mph. We're
not seeking a total repeal of the 55 mph
limit. . . .We merely want to give every
state the opportunity to review its own
rural highway system and determine if
a higher limit might be appropriate."
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