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North documents could endanger lives
WASHINGTON — Secret docu
ments seized from former Lt. Col.
Oliver L. North’s office could ex
pose, “people in very difficult situ
ations to torture and death” in the
Middle East if publicly disclosed, the
prosecutor in the Iran-Contra case
said today.
At a hearing on providing classi
fied documents to the defense, inde
pendent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh
told U.S. District Judge Gerhard A.
Gesell that some of die documents
contain information so sensitive that a
person known to have seen it would be
endangered by travel to the Middle
East
“There were documents found in
Col. North’s safe he shouldn’t have
had,” under government security
regulations, Walsh said.
The material included compila
tions of highly sensitive information
that is usually scattered in bits and
pieces throughout other documents.
“Why he had them, I don’t know,”
Walsh said.
Gesell has ruled that the defense is
entitled to see 300,000 pages of clas
sified material collected by Walsh so
that lawyers for North and three co
defendents, businessman Albert
Hakim, Walsh said.
“As advocates we have no interest
in this whatever,” Walsh said, indi
cating a rift with the Reagan admini
stration over disclosure.
But government security experts
are concerned about giving full ac
cess to Hakim, a security consultant
who deals with governments in the
Middle East and Asia, he said.
I don’t see why he would like to
have in his possession that type of
information when he is traveling in
the Middle East,” Walsh said.
“He’s put in jeopardy by that kind
of information.”
The restriction sought by govern
ment security officials would also
apply, at least temporarily, to retired
Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Sec
ord, another defendant charged in the
case, according to court papers.
Lawyers for Hakim and Secord,
however, could sec the material.
Walsh said the government had no
objection to North and his former
boss, one-time national security ad
viser John M. Poindexter, examining
all the documents being placed in a
secure facility for defense lawyers to
work with the material.
North and his three co-defendants
are charged with consorting to ille
gally divert profits from the U.S .-Iran
arms sales to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Gesell said resolving the issue
might involve a month of secret hear
ings.
According to court papers filed
this week by Hakim’s lawyers, the
sensitive information the government
seeks to protect includes documents
that would expose hostages in the
Middle East to death if released.
Disclosure would also compro
mise U.S. intelligence gathering mili
tary planning and sensitive foreign
policy initiatives, according to a letter
Walsh’3 office sent to the defense
earlier this week.
Jackson: Dukakis ‘managing Reaganomics
Jesse Jackson charged Thursday
that Democratic presidential front
runner Michael Dukakis had tried to
“manage Reaganomics” rather than
reverse it. Dukakis called on Presi
dent Reagan to drop plans to veto
trade legislation.
All was quiet on the Republican
front, where Vice President George
Bush gained a mathematical lock on
his nomination with the delegates
earned in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania
primary. The vice president was in
Washington, with his next campaign
trip set for Friday to Indiana.
Massachusetts Gov. Dukakis
spent most of the day in his siatehouse
office in Boston, where he met with
Spanish President Felipe Gonzalez
Marques while his campaign organi
zation welcomed a trickle of addi
tional delegates to the fold.
The converts included tw'o dele
gates formerly backing Sen. Albert
Gore Jr. of Tennessee and one sup
porter of Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois.
Both men have suspended their cam
paigns, but have said they intend to
hold onto their delegates until the
party convention.
Dukakis leads Jackson by more
than 400 delegates in the Associated
Press count, and holds more than
1,250 of the 2,081 needed to win the
nomination. Aides say they hope he
will command a nominating majority
by the time the primary season ends
on June 7.
Dukakis released a letter he sent to
Reagan urging him to sign the trade
bill, which contains a provision re
quiring a 60-day notice to workers
before a factory can be shut down.
“Mr. President, I believe that our
record trade deficit requires that we
put partisan politics aside and take
action that will be in the best interest
of all Americans,” he wrote.
Later, in a statehouse news confer
ence, Dukakis said he would make die
trade bill an issue in his campaign
against Bush.
Old drug may be effective against AIDS
wA«uiMr,TON — A drug that can be purchased over the counter
In M«ko and Japan has been shown in laboratory tests to be a potent
agent'against theTlDS virus, a group of National Cancer Institute
reSTl!c drug'caHed dextran sulfate, was found to prevent the AIDS virus ;
from*infecting and killing the body’s T-cell lymphocytes, the main
target of ihe virus, a researcher said Thursday.
5 We found in the test tube that this agent is a very powerful inhibitor
nf the HIV virus ” said Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal, a NCI researcher and
CO authorof a study on dextran sulfate. HIV, for human immunodefi- j
cicncy virus, is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency ;
Wong-Staal said the drug has been used for more than two
decades in Japan and elsewhere as an anticoagulant and has demon
strated that it has no significant toxicity. „
“This drug may be very promising against AIDS, said Dr. Wong
Staal “ because it is already in use and because it has been shown to be
ve^ poSgamst HIV-1 'and HW-2 viruses that eta* AIDS)." j
buther coinvestigator, Dr. Samuel Broder, cautioned: This is not |
3 b“HeSidUthat although the drug “is a potent agent against HIV-1 and
HIV-2” in the test tube, it is not at all clear dial the drug can be given
to AIDS patients in sufficiently strong doses to affect the course of the
disease in the body.
Politburo member visits strikebound plant
WARSAW, Poland — A member of the ruling Politburo went to a
strikebound steel mill Thursday, but there was no sign of progress
toward settling Poland’s worst labor unrest in six years.
Authorities moved to block a second strike called for Friday in
another city by reportedly detaining an organizer, but activists said their
The high-level visit to the Lenin steel mill near Krakow by Politburo
member Alfred Miodowicz came on the third day of a stnke by
thousands of workers for higher pay.
FAA finds no ‘grossly unsafe’ conditions
WASHINGTON—The special inspection of Eastern and Continen
tal airlines has uncovered no “grossly unsafe” conditions so far,
although planes were ordered out of service briefly because of safety
infractions about 5 percent of the time, officials said Thursday.
The Federal Aviation Administration began its plane-bv-plane ramp
inspections April 13 and so far has made more than 2,000 inspections -
at the two airlines,FAA Administrator Allan Me Artor told reporters. He
said inspections would continue through mid-May.
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OF THE
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AND
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(USUHS), located near the nation’s capital in Bethesda, MD,
is looking for students interested in combining two
distinguished career roles—physician and military officer.
USUHS trains students to become physicians for the Army,
Navy, Air Force and the U.S. Public Health Service. The F.
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excellence, professionalism and humanism. Facilities at the
Bethesda campus are state-of-the-art, containing a carefully
balanced and orchestrated program of medical education and
student-focused support, leading to the degree of Doctor of
Medicine. USUHS students are commissioned as reserve
officers on active duty, and receive full pay and benefits of
their rank. USUHS charges no tuition or fees, and provides
all books and supplies throughout the four year program. In
return, graduates must serve seven years as physicians in
their particular service.
For more information about the F. Edward Hebert School
of Medicine, the necessary prerequisites, and the
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Attn: Director of Admissions
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| Karnes leads in campaign contributions
I Raising twice as much in campaign contri
butions as Rep. Hal Daub has since the first of
the year, Sen. David Karnes has widened his
funding advantage over the Omaha congress
man in the latest Senate campaign finance
reports.
j Karnes raised another $102,955 between
April 1 and April 20, bringing his total cam
paign funding to $1,033,339.
Daub added $76,823 to his campaign war
I chest during the latest reporting figure, boost
ing his total funding to $837,582.
An additional $8,500 flowed in after the
reporting period, the Daub campaign said in a
B statement dated April 25.
I
Since Jan. 1, Karnes has raised $496,063 lo
Daub’s $250,375.
However, Daub had $130,174 in cash on
hand al the end of the latest reporting period as
compared to $73,991 for Karnes.
Karnes reported $66,559 in campaign debts
as compared to none for Daub.
Karnes’ newest receipts brought his total
contributions from political action committees
to $196,800 compared to $244,881 for Daub.
In a report filed Thursday with the Federal
Election Commission, Democratic Senate
candidate Bob Kerrey listed $113,652 in con
tributions for the period April 1 through April
20. The year-to-date total of Kerrey contribu
tions was $355,005.
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Bird sounds inspire unhatched chick
J>AN DIEGO — A California condor
chick, inspired by recordings of vulture
hisses and grunts, was slowly chipping its
way out of us shell today, San Diego Wild
Animal Park officials said.
“Everything is proceeding fine,” park
spokeswoman Martha Baker said this morn
ing. “The chick is moving around inside the
shell and the condor keepers can hear the
chick tapping.”
Meanwhile, keepers are playing record
ings of bird noises and gently lapping the egg
with a light metal rod every two hours to
simulate what condor parents would do to
encourage the youth, he said.
The egg is being watched on a remote
television monitor but keepers are reluctant
to help the chick because of the danger that
blood vessels linked to a surrounding
membrane will rupture, which could cause
fatal bleeding.
The egg was laid March 3 at the park’s
“condorminium” after its parents engaged
in the first captive mating in the history ot a
15-year program aimed at saving North
America’s largest land bird.