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Deaver indicted for perjury WASHINGTON (AP) Former White House aide Michael K. Deaver says he is innocent of perjury charges contained in an indictment that gives new details on his use of government connections to lobby for corporate and foreign clients. The former deputy chief of staff faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of five counts of lying about his lobbying activities to Congress and to the federal grand jury that indicted him Wednesday. A longtime friend of President Reagan and wife Nancy, Deaver professed his innocence to reporters as the president issued a public statement wishing him well. The indictment alleged, among other things, that Deaver lied to a federal grand jury when he denied contacting anyone in the government on behalf of Trans World Airlines, the first client he got after leaving the White House in May 1985. According to the indictment, Deaver contacted “Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole in connection with TWA’s efforts to block or delay a bid by Carl Icahn to gain control of TWA." The charges said Deaver also contacted Dole’s deputy and a White House official on the same matter. The indictment said Deaver made the contacts “in an attempt to involve the Cabinet Council on Economic Policy in blocking or delaying the Icahn takeover bid.”

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High atop London's Trafalgar Square, restoration expert Len Pope checks a statue of Lord Nelson as it undergoes its first major facelift in 20 years. The 170-foot monument was built to

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mark Admiral Nelson's 1805 victory over the French at Trafalgar. Pope is seeing to it that the statue is being cleaned of city grime from the base up. (AP Wirephoto).

House approves 65-mph limit

WASHINGTON (AP) speed limit for many rural highways and an $88.6 billion highway bill, both approved by the House, face a minor hurdle in the Senate but a possible brick wall at the White House. The House approved a measure Wednesday that would allow states to increase speed limits to 65 mph on interstate highways outside urban areas with populations of at least 50,000. The 217-206 vote was seen as the final meaningful congressional test of the speed limit proposal because the Senate has gone on record repeatedly as overwhelmingly favoring it. That tally came shortly after the lawmakers passed, 407-17, the highway measure, which will distribute assistance to states and communities for road and bridge projects and for mass transit systems. “I think people realized the troops out in the rural areas of our country

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Reagan hopes to 'clear it all up' at news conference

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, facing public questioning for the first time on the Iran-Contra affair, says he hopes “to be able to clear all that up” when he meets reporters tonight. The president, posing for pictures with a group of senators Wednesday, declined to answer most questions from reporters, saying with a grin, “Then I won’t have anything to surprise you with tomorrow night.” A reporter got a response from him, however, by asking about a story in The New York Times quoting U.S. and other sources as saying several million dollars in profits from Iran arms sales were paid to an Iranian group that financed the kidnappers of Americans in Lebanon. “I’m not supposed to answer any questions here but I will answer that one,” Reagan said. “As I’ve been saying for a considerable period of time, I am waiting for all the investigations to bring out the truth of what did happen there because I don’t know any more than I’ve already told you.” “Tomorrow night, I’m hoping to be able to clear all that up,” he said. The news conference is scheduled for 8 p.m. EST in the White House East Room and will be broadcast live tonight by ABC, CBS, NBC and the Cable News Network. Reagan’s last news conference was Nov. 19, after he had acknowledged secret arms sales to Iran, but before reports surfaced that some of the money had been diverted to assist rebels fighting the leftist government of Nicaragua. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, asked Wednesday if he thought this would be Reagan’s

weren’t abiding by the law,” Rep. Kenneth Gray, D-111., an active supporter of the 65 mph proposal, said after the vote. “The American people have spoken.” The measures were expected to be passed and combined into one package by the Senate as early as today. But a note of warning was coming from the Reagan administration, which for months has said the spending levels of the highway bill would invite a veto. “A veto will be recommended by the Department of Transportation,” said H. Joseph Rhodes, special assistant to the chief of the Federal Highway Administration. The main problem, he said, was a provision that would provide SB9O million in federal assistance in addition to the money distributed to states under aid formulas to help pay for about 120 so-called demonstration projects. These road and bridge projects were sought by

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toughest news conference, said, “No, I don’t think so . . . There were lots of other ones that were tougher.” Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas, on the other hand, said, “It’s very important to him. I think he needs to demonstrate that he’s the dominant political force in the nation’s capital, as he is. I think he needs to respond to the questions, as he will.” The assistant Republican leader of the Senate, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, said following the White House meeting Wednesday that the president was “ready to be absolutely forthcoming with everything he knows.” Simpson also told reporters, however, the president had indicated “there is no real honest way for him to respond at this time to any questions about Iran-Contra, no matter how much you would like to set that agenda.” Fitzwater has predicted 95 percent of the questions will be on the IranContra affair. The spokesman declined to go into details about Reagan’s preparations for the news conference, but told reporters, “You all know that we have a couple of sessions with the president where we

representatives and senators for their home districts and states. Most lawmakers were cautious in evaluating their chances of mustering a two-thirds vote in each chamber to override a veto. “I’m as big a Ronald Reagan supporter as there is,” said Rep. James Hansen, R-Utah, a prime supporter of the faster speed. “But if he vetoes it, I’m overriding it.” Added Sen. Steven Symms, RIdaho, author of the higher speed limit provision, “I see that as a problem, and I hope when we get this finalized, they’ll take a careful analysis of it before they decide to veto it.” Rep. James Howard, D-N.J., the leading opponent of the 65 mph measure but a top advocate of the highway bill, was more optimistic. “I’ve been here 23 years,” he said. “Every highway bill has been threatened by a veto, and none to my knowledge has ever been vetoed. ’ ’

go over Qs and As, and we’ll have that again this time.” In other developments Wednesday: —The Senate voted 52-48 against cutting off S4O million in aid to the Contras. Aid opponents see the narrow defeat as “an alarm bell” signaling an eventual end to military aid. Aid backers say they gained a new chance to win public support for Reagan’s Central America policy. —The CIA is giving the Contras detailed information on potential targets to attack during a spring offensive, including dams, electrical facilities and bridges, according to unidentified government officials cited in today’s New York Times. —Former National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane told investigators that Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, offered $1 million to the Contras in May or June 1984, The Washington Post reported today. Contra official Bosco Matamoros supplied bank records to The Associated Press showing anonymous deposits of $1 million monthly to a Contra account in the Cayman Islands. The Saudis have denied any involvement with the Contras.

Personal ads said used to harass gays CHICAGO (AP) A secretive group that ran a personal ad appealing to homosexuals may not have violated any laws by revealing the respondents’ sexual preferences to landlords and employers and warning against AIDS, a postal official says. The “Great White Brotherhood of the Iron Fist,” whose members have not been identified, has claimed responsibility for the Jan. 23 and Jan. 30 ads in the Reader, a weekly newspaper. At least 12 men have been targets of the mailings, which have included letters saying the individual may be a carrier of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, said Jonathan Katz, a spokesman for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance at the University of Chicago. The mailings, to neighbors, landlords and employers, included photocopies of the responses along with letters warning recipients to “avoid this homosexual at all costs,” according to the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper received a mailing from the group saying its efforts “would not stop until we have achieved the complete ruination of homosexuality.” Mark R. Grey, inspector in charge in the field division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, said Wednesday authorities planned to examine the letters and turn the matter over to the U.S. attorney’s office if any laws have been violated. However, Grey said prosecution in such cases is unlikely unless physical threats are made or a threat of injury to someone’s reputation is accompanied by a demand for payment. “It’s a terrible thing. It’s an example of the kind of hostility that exists in society,” A 1 Wardell, co-chairman of the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said Wednesday. “But they seem to know what they’re doing legally.” Wardell, who emphasized he is not an attorney, said the letters contained carefully wordec statements to employers saying. “Firing him is not advisable, as he will find employment elsewhere.” “Our hands are tied,” said attorney Robert Dachis, who is representing two respondents. Dachis said he is trying to determine whether the people who placed the ad can be identified and prosecuted. Katz said the group appears to be operating out of the Hyde Park neighborhood, which virtually surrounds the university campus.