Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 83, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 December 1986 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC. December 8.1986

Secretary testifies before House panel

Shultz: No role in arms deal

WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today he advised President Reagan against selling arms to Iran, but said, “I knew nothing about” the “illegal” diversion of profits from those transactions to rebels battling the Nicaraguan government. “My role in that was zero,” Shultz told the House Foreign Affairs Committee under oath in an unusual, nationally televised morning hearing delving into the Reagan administration’s worst crisis. Asked about President Reagan’s weekend statement that mistakes were made in the affair, Shultz said, “It was a mistake to get involved in the illegal ... funds transfer.” He said he didn’t want to appear to be speaking as a judge, but added, “From what I have seen and what the attorney general said some things took place that were illegal.” Shultz said that not only was the diversion illegal, but served to confuse American foreign policy toward Nicaragua. Shultz was limited to two hours of testimony because he was committed to greeting President Seko Mobutu of Zaire, and also was

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GEORGE SHULTZ 'My role was zero'

scheduled to depart later today for Brussels, Beligium, to speak with European allies. Shultz said he was prepared to cooperate fully with the committee in its probe into the Reagan administration’s foreign policy controversy, and said he already has been interviewed by Justice Depart-

U.S. will provide airlift for Honduran troops

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON President Reagan has authorized United States Army helicopters to ferry Honduran troops into action against 1,000 Nicaraguan soldiers reported to have crossed into Honduras in pursuit of Nicaraguan rebels, State Department officials said on Sunday. They said President Jose Azcona Hoyo of Honduras requested the American airlift late Saturday, after the Nicaraguan troops clashed with Honduran forces on Thursday and Friday. State and Defense Department officials conferred on the request Saturday night, they said, and the decision to help Honduras was sup-

ment. “lam firmly in support of what is taking place, namely the president’s determination to make the facts available to the appropriate committees of Congress” and investigators and to “deal with any wrongdoing,” he said. The secretary reiterated President Reagan’s statements of the weekend, in which Reagan acknowledged that “mistakes were made” in connection with the decision to seek contacts with moderates in Iran. But Shultz said the uproar stemming from disclosures of funds transfers to Nicaraguan rebels should not be allowed to uproot the basic foundation of the administration’s foreign policy. “President Reagan is a freedom fighter, and the world knows it, and I stand with President Reagan,” Shultz told the panel. “ ... Let us show the strength of our free institutions by showing every detail of this Iran episode .... but as we do so, let’s keep this country moving ahead” to meet the dangers and challenges in the world. Under questioning by committee

ported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Secretary of State George P. Shultz telephoned Reagan at Camp David on Saturday night to secure his approval, which was given immediately, the officials said. They said the Nicaraguan government troops had crossed into Honduras in a region called the Las Vegas salient, in pursuit of Nicaraguan rebels, known as contras. In response to the Nicaraguan clashes with Honduran forces, Azcona on Saturday ordered A-37 fighter-bombers to attack the Nicarguan forces, the State Department officials said. At the same time, Azcona asked for U.S. help in ferrying his troops from western to eastern Honduras,

JACQUES CHIRAC French Premier

Murder charge is filed

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An Indianapolis woman whose 16-month-old son drowned in a bathtub that had overflowed with water has been charged with murder, police said. Benita Abernathy, 22, was being held at the Marion County Jail on

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members, Shultz denied that he had personally appealed to the sultan of Brunei for money to help the Contra counterrevolutionaries who are opposing the leftist Sandinista government in Managua. “It would not be proper for me to talk about any particular third country, so I will not do that,” Shultz said. “I did visit Brunei. It was the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) country that I had not visited.... But there were no conversations (the sultan) ... by me on this matter.” Shultz quickly added, however, that the law Congress passed barring direct or indirect U.S. military aid to the Contra rebels “did not preclude activities of the Department of State to solicit humanitarian assistance” for the resistance. ... There was nothing illegal about it. There was nothing improper about it It was the policy of the United States. ... We went about it very carefully...” Shultz made no secret of his opposition to the president’s decision to sell arms to Iran at the time the policy became known.

to augment his helicopters. The United States has about a half dozen Chinook helicopters in Honduras. They can carry about 40 soldiers each. The Chinooks are under orders, the officials said, to stay at least 25 miles from the battle scenes. They are taking the Honduran troops to an airfield at Jamastran, which is 17 miles from the HonduranNicaraguan border. From Jamastran, the Hondurans will make their own way to the battle areas. A senior State Department official said the United States was ferrying hundreds of Honduran soldiers. The action is sure to raise questions again about U.S. military

University bill withdrawn in wake of French rioting

PARIS (AP) Premier Jacques Chirac today announced the withdrawal of the university reform bill that had brought hundreds of thousands of protesting students into the streets in violent confrontations. The announcement was made to journalists at the premier’s office after a meeting with his main Cabinet ministers. The abandonment of the legislation followed the call Sunday by the Communist-led General Confederation of Labor, France’s largest union federation, to join the students in mass demonstrations on

neglect charges when the new charges were filed, police said. Another inmate told Indianapolis police last week that Ms. Abernathy told her “that she did it on purpose, but she wanted police to believe it was neglect and not murder,” said homicide Detective Danny Ralph.

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Toddler rescued from burning home

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Two Fort Wayne firefighters felt their way through dense smoke to rescue a faintly breathing infant from the upstairs bedroom of a burning home. One-year-old Sebrina Hart was listed in fair condition at Lutheran Hospital here after Friday’s fire destroyed the house on the city’s westside. Her mother, Barbara Hart, 32, was treated for smoke inhalation and shock, and was released Friday. Two other Hart children and a friend of Ms. Hart escaped unharmed. Authorities said Capt. Barry Jacobs and Pvt. Rick Nahrwold found the baby in her crib after scaling a ladder and climbing

involvement with the contras. By law, American forces are not supposed to be involved in combat operations in support of the contras. And to prevent American military advisers from straying into Nicaragua, they are prohibited by law from being within 20 miles of the Nicaraguan border. Though the Jamastran airfield is 17 miles from the border, a State Department official said that this operation was in support of the Hondurans, not the contras, and that therefore the 20-mile limit did not plyThe U.S. action comes at a time of growing consensus in the Reagan administration that the contra forces are becoming ineffective. Policy

Wednesday. Some brief work stoppages were occurring today to mourn the death of a 22-year-old student killed Saturday. Chirac said he had decided to withdraw the draft legislation, which the students claim would create an elite university system, and asked Education Minister Rene Monory to “engage immediately in a wide consultation.” Monory went on nationwide television Friday night to announce that the three most controversial

Colorado toll road?

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through a bedroom window. Several neighbors had tried to enter the home and rescue the baby shortly before firefighters arrived, but were driven back by dense smoke. Fire officials said the blaze began as the two other chldren, Jerry Hart, 4, and Robert Hart, 3, were playing with a cigarette lighter near a coach on which their mother was sleeping about 9 a.m. The four-year-old boy told firefighters he accidentally set fire to the couch, then tried to smother the flames with a blanket, which covered his mother, said Steve Hinton, chief fire investigator.

makers have been examining other strategic options for dealing with the leftist Sandinista government. The Associated Press reported that a Honduran military spokesman, Capt. Carlos Quezada Aguilar, said in a nationwide broadcast Sunday night that the fighting along the border “is of considerable proportions.” He added that Gen. Humberto Regalado Hernandez, the armed forces chief, “has ordered the air force to attack groups of Sandinista troops that have entered our territory, and these actions will not cease until the invading forces abandon Honduran territory for good.” The spokesman called the incursion “an open provocation.”

parts of the measure would be withdrawn for further study and consultations, but that parliamentary debate would go ahead as planned on the rest of it. The students, however, continued to push for killing the entire plan and conducted another demonstration on Saturday. The death of Malik Oussekine shortly after midnight, after what witnesses said was a severe beating by three policemen, dramatically changed the mood of the protest.

The toll road idea comes from several Colorado investors who say it will cost SBOO million and could be built by 1991. The group has already raised S2OO million and acquired several pieces of property. Officials of Colorado’s Highway Department are interested in the idea, but said several problems must be met before it becomes reality. They want to know who would enforce safety regulations on the toll road, who would be responsible in case of lawsuits and whether there would be Federal sanctions against the state for allowing motorists to drive over 55 miles an hour.