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...subversion by the Soviet bloc." He called the contra guerrillas "freedom fighters," and lumped them with Duarte's army. While he refused to rule out direct U.S. military intervention in El Salvador, he raised good arguments against it. "President Duarte made it very plain that they would never request American troops," Reagan said, and added, "Look at all our friends and neighbors in Latin America. . . we'd lose all those friends and neighbors if we did that...
Betancur has agreed to a U.S. request for extradition of 23 narcotics suspects, many of them sought by authorities in Miami, which is becoming one of the world's major cocaine capitals. Most wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is Carlos Lehder, 33, who has been indicted in Florida for cocaine importation and distribution. He is rumored to be in Peru...
While Winans had earlier contended that he never compromised the Journal's news columns by deliberately planting stories, he admitted to investigators that he twice wrote favorable columns at Brant's request on companies in which Brant and his clients held stock: Chicago Milwaukee, a railroad holding company, and Digital Switch, a telecommunications manufacturer. Said Winans, who was fired from the Journal after the SEC began its investigation in March: "There is much in my conduct during the last months at the Journal which was wrong ... I stand in judgment of myself as having violated fundamental tenets...
According to one Ad Board member, the performance would not have been allowed if the show had required extensive rehearsal. Waters explained that the Ad Board honored Peck's request because the production was "quite polished...
...Reagan Administration has convinced the Republican-controlled Senate of the legitimacy of its request for $21 million for anti-Sandinista rebels based in Honduras. The President might also succeed in winning House approval--in defiance of Speaker O'Neill's political will--unless opponents, including private citizens, can show a more complete picture of violence by recipients of this aid. Very few details have been revealed about the CIA supported forces, known in Nicaragua as "Contras." Many are former Nicaraguan national Guardsmen, whom President Reagan extolls as "freedom fighters." This respectful characterization, however, has no basis in fact...