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Daily Nebraskan
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Fund-raiser pleads guilty in Iran-Contira aSMr
Activist says North conspired in fund diversions to Contras
WASHINGTON Conservative acti
vist Carl R. "Soitz" Channell pointed to
former White House aide Oliver North
as a fellow conspirator on Wednesday
as he pleaded guilty to the first crimi
nal charge of the Iran-Contra affair.
Channell was formally accused of
defrauding the government by telling
contributors to his National Endow
ment for the Preservation of Liberty
that their gifts would be tax deductible
even though the money actually was
used to provide military aid to the U.S.
backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Channell pleaded guilty to a single
count and agreed to cooperate in inde
pendent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh's
investigation.
Walsh's formal charge, known as a
criminal information, said Channell
was involved with a government offi
cial, but the charge did not identify
that official.
However, when Channell was asked
in court by U.S. District Judge Stanley
S. Harris to name the persons with
whom he conspired, he replied simply,
"Col. North, an official of the National
Security Council."
When Walsh aide Michael Bromwich
was asked later if a similar charge
could be expected soon against North,
he said, "We're not prepared to do that
at this time."
Channell's guilty plea came as Mc
Farlane was testifying before the grand
jury empaneled by Walsh. McFarlane,
who traveled to Iran in lyao in an
attempt to close an arms-for-hostages
deal, declined to comment as he left
the grand jury room.
Wednesday's charge to which Chan
nell pleaded guilty carries a maximum
penalty of five years imprisonment and
a $250,000 five. The judge agreed to
delay Channell's sentencing until, in
Bromwich's words, "the completion of
his cooperation" with the investigation.
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Falwell: Scandal caused 'national distrust'
PTL board banishes Balckers
FORT MILL, S.C. The new PTL board of directors
banished television evangelist Jim Bakker and his top dep
uties from the ministry Tuesday and cut off payments to
Jessica Hahn, the former church secretary who had sex with
Bakker seven years ago.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell said the board decided at a four
hour meeting that Bakker and Bakker's wife, Tammy, no
longer will receive salaries or bonuses from PTL and that
Bakker will not be allowed to return a head of PTL He also
accepted the resignation of the Rev. Richard Dortch, a
board member who succeeded Bakker as president of the
ministry.
Board Chairman Falwell said the growing sex-and-money
scandal at PTL has caused "a national distrust of all who
preach the Gospel. A lot of faith has been shattered."
He said the board's executive committee will investigate
allegations that Bakker was involved with prostitutes and
homosexuals.
The Bakkers, who were co-hosts of PTL's daily television
show, reportedly were paid $1.6 million in salary and
bonuses in 1986. Those payments were made even though
the ministry is at least $50 million in debt, Falwell said.
Attorney Norman Roy Grutman, counsel for the board,
said PTL no longer would make monthly payments to Miss
Hahn, because her public talk about Bakker violated the
provisions of the payments.
Nicaragua:
U.S. blamed
for death
MATAGALPA, Nicaragua The
American colleagues of an Oregon
engineer killed by Contra rebels
on Wednesday blamed the Rea
gan administration for his death
and reaffirmed their commitment
"to stand alongside the Nicara
guan people."
The body of Benjamin Ernest
Linder, 27, of Portland, Ore.,
arrived in this provincial capital
early Wednesday.
Linder, who was slain Tues
day, was the first American volun
teer working on behalf of the
Sandanistas to be killed by the
Contras in their 5-year-old guer
rilla campaign.
Nicaraguan officials said the
Reagan administration is crimi
nally responsible for the death.
They said the Contras killed
Linder and two Sandinista mil
itiamen in the village of La Cama
leona, 85 miles northeast of Managua.
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Lincoln man hit by train, cut nearly in half
LINCOLN A Lincoln man was cut nearly in half at the waist when he
was run over by a Burlington Northern train early Wednesday as he sat on
the tracks in northeast Lincoln.
Willard E. Boquist, 37, an employee of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., was
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Police Lt. Lyle Roberts said Boquist apparently was intoxicated and sat
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Fisherman's body found in river
BROWNVILLE The body of a commercial fisherman believed to have
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near Brownville.
The body of Michael Dunn, 30, of Brownville was spotted about 11:30
a.m. by two Auburn men fishing from a boat in the river, Nemaha County
Sheriff Angelo John said. Don Norvell and Gary Oldfield saw the body
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