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THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 18.1992

Reagan’s role in an Iran-Contra cover-up probed

WASHINGTON (AP) n prosecutors have turned their attention to Ronald Reagan’s role in a possible coverup, but they’re having difficulty getting cooperation from two of his former Cabinet secretaries, according to sources close to the investigation. Lawyers for former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and ex-Secretary of State George Shultz told the prosecutors last week that their clients have no information suggesting a coverup involving Reagan or anyone else, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. WEINBERGER and Shultz have been under investigation for several months. The focus of the prosecutors’ interest who knew what, and when, about a CIA-assisted shipment of 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles from Israel to Iran in November 1985. ; Reagan has given several different accounts of how much he knew about the shipment first Saying he’d objected to it, then shying he didn’t recall the event at all and finally saying he had a vague recollection of it HE NEVER formally approved

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it ahead of time, but the document he signed ratifying the delivery af-ter-the-fact described it as a swap of arms for U.S. hostages held in Lebanon. Reagan said on national television in November 1986 that he would never do such a thing. National security adviser John Poindexter destroyed the only signed copy of the document on Nov. 21, 1986 amid the public uproar over the Reagan White House’s Iran arms sales. Investigators later found copies of it “The prosecutors’ theory is that in the midst of this political crisis, the Reagan White House decided to limit the political damage and conceal the most troubling aspects of the Iran arms deals,” said one of the sources, who is outside the government. WEINBERGER’S lawyer, Robert Bennett, refused to say Sunday whether his client had been offered any kind of a deal in exchange for testimony against the former president Seven people have pleaded guilty to lesser crimes than initially charged with in exchange for their testimony about others in the scandal. “Mr. Weinberger will not plead guilty to anything because he is not guilty of anything,” said Bennett Several sources say independent counsel Lawrence Walsh is weighing whether to seek a felony indictment against Weinberger, who maintains he didn’t find out about the Hawks shipment until after the Iran initiative was publicly exposed. LLOYD CUTLER, one of Shultz’s lawyers, said through a secretary last week that he would not comment on his client’s status. Shultz said in April that he is a subject in the investigation, meaning his actions fall within the scope of a grand jury probe. Prosecutors went to the Library of Congress late Last year, took pos-

Five are found slain in Okla. City crack house

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The home where four women and a teen-age girl were found slain was a known crack house, and police were investigating whether some of the victims were informants, a newspaper reported today. The victims, ranging in age from 14 to about 40, were found Saturday in a bedroom. A POLICE officer quoted anonymously by The Daily Oklahoman said some were shot, all were stabbed and some had had their throats slashed. The officer said the bodies were tied together. The newspaper quoted an unidentified law enforcement source as saying the bodies were nude, and one victim was four to five months pregnant.

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session of some of Weinberger’s notes from various White House meetings and sre using those in their investigation, the sources said. One meeting that Iran-Contra prosecutors are focusing on, according to the sources, is a session of the National Security Planning Group on Nov. 24, 1986. The participants were Reagan, then-Vice President Bush, Weinberger, Shultz, chief of staff Don Regan, Attorney General Edwin Meese, CIA Director William Casey, Poindexter and retired CIA employee George Cave. THERE, Poindexter implied that his predecessor, Robert McFarlane, was the only one with much information about the 1985 Hawks shipment, according to Meese’s notes of the meeting. But McFarlane testified during a congressional investigation in 1987 that he had informed Reagan, Regan and Shultz of the impending Hawks shipment. Reagan’s lawyer, Theodore Olson, said late last week that he has cooperated with various document requests from Iran-Contra prosecutors over a long period of time, but has had no contact with them recently.

Police had bought drugs at the house, in a quiet, largely black neighborhood whose residents call it Christian Valley, unidentified police sources said. THE POLICE officer quoted by the papw said some of the victims may have been informants, but police were not sure because the bodies had not been identified. Police said Saturday they had no suspects or motive, and wouldn’t comment Sunday. Bobby Stevenson, 53, who discovered the victims and believed his girlfriend was one of them, said police asked him for a photo of the 34-year-old woman. Stevenson said he was told the woman’s face “was messed up.”

Students get rave reviews in creativity competition

LYONS, Ind. (AP) Playing a character called Door Hinge isn’t a very exciting role for Ophelia Davis, but it’s enough to earn her a spot in an international competition. She and a dozen other Greene County students will be in Boulder, Colo., later this month for the world finals of the Odyssey of the Mind competition. THE ACADEMIC contest will ask the third-, fourth- and fifth-

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Doctor shortage focus of lawmakers, IU physicians

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Lawmakers and physicians are alarmed about a new report that shows only half of the 247 students who graduated from Indiana University Medical School last year stayed in Indiana to start their residencies. The report being prepared by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education shows taxpayer dollars are producing fewer family doctors and more physicians who enter specialized practices. INDIANA taxpayers put a $212,000 investment into each physician who graduated from IU medical programs last year, but the number of doctors for Hoosiers continues to decline, the report on medical education says. In nine Indiana counties, there is only one physician for every 3,500 people, the report says. In 89 counties, the doctor-to-patient ratio is well below the national average of4l6toone. Eight years ago, 20 percent of lU’s graduating medical school seniors went into family practice. This year, only 11 percent chose that field. TALMAGE BOSIN, program director of the Bloomington Medi-

Garrison blasts NAACP, NOW for lack of support for Tyson’s victim

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) The special prosecutor in Mike Tyson’s rape trial says the boxer’s victim deserved more support from women’s rights groups and the NAACP. “It looked pretty clear that during the Tyson trial it was the NAAMCP the National Association for the Advancement of Male Colored People,” Greg Garrison said. “THEY CAME IN thinking only of Mike Tyson. The most vicious form of racism I can imagine says that black females have no rights,” Garrison told a meeting of the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors Sunday. He also said the NAACP blundered badly by speaking to the few blacks in the jury pool for the trial of four Los Angeles policemen accused in Rodney King’s videotaped beating. The acquittal by an allwhite jury touched off three days of rioting and looting in Los Angeles. “They were stuck with a change of venue out in Ventura County (California), which is about 99 percent white,” he said. “As far as the

Wash, fungus is largest living thing

SEATTLE (AP) A fungus in Washington state has seized the title of world’s largest living thing from one in Michigan, scientists say. Armillaria ostoyae, which feeds on pine trees in Washington’s forests, covers about 1,500 acres and might be even bigger if the state and a timber company hadn’t been trying to eradicate the stumps

graders at Lyons elementary school to use creativity and teamwork to solve problems and think on their feet In Ophelia’s winning performance, the nine-year-old actress recites the lines “Eeek” and “Bang” in a skit called “Alice in OMerland.” It requires a team to create and present a performance set in a fantasy land. The fantasy land must include Alice; music; poetry; something or

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cal Sciences program, predicts more medical students would choose family practice, pediatrics, obstetrics and internal medicine as opposed to higher-paying specialties if they had more contact with primary care physicians. “Let them see the ups and downs,” Bosin says. “Let them see the rewards. Let them see the frustrations, and let them see the outstanding role models.” The Bloomington program, based at Indiana University’s campus there, offers that kind of contact, Bosin says, but only for two years. AFTER THE first two years of medical school, the students must go to IU Medical Center in Indianapolis for their last two years of training. The same applies to students at seven IU regional medical training centers around the state. Bosin said students tend to meet higher-paid specialists in Indianapolis and decide to join those fields. He would like to see all thirdand fourth-year students spend three months working with the Bloomington Hospital staff. One

racial composition of that jury was concerned, that was a travesty.” TEN WHITES AND two blacks were on the jury that convicted Tyson in February. Officials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People weren’t available Sunday to comment on Garrison’s speech. Garrison also criticized the National Organization for Women, saying they should have shown more support for Desiree Washington. Tyson is serving six years at the Indiana Youth Center in Plainfield for raping Miss Washington when she was an 18-year-old contestant last summer in the Miss Black America pageant “BACK ON CAMPUS at the college she’s attending now, Desiree Washington is being called names,” Garrison said. “She can’t go out with her friends. She’s just sick inside and really hurt by what she went through. They (women’s groups) should have been carrying this child on their shoulders,” Garrison said.

it eats, two scientists said. AS IT IS, the fungus is nearly 40 times bigger than armillaria bulbosa, the 38-acre Michigan creature that was acclaimed Earth’s largest living thing when scientists announced its discovery last month. The scientists who measured the Washington fungus said they doubt it is the last word in large. “I would suggest there are still

someone that increases in size; a plant, flower or tree that comes to life; an eccentric character, a humorous invention and a manufactured item that becomes animated. Hence the hinge. IN THE LYONS rendition, Alice slips through her television screen into a Nintendo game, where the eccentric King Omer locks her up in a jail with a noisy hinge on its door. That version of the Alice story beat about a dozen other entries at the state level.

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month would be in obstetrics, one in pediatrics and one in family practice. HE ALSO suggested IU School of Medicine consider changing its basic science curriculum in the first two years to give more exposure to primary care medicine. Both the IU School of Medicine ano the Bloomington program alone have begun making changes to their programs to address the doctor shortage. Beginning this fall, all Bloomington first-year students will spend at least two hours per week with a primary care doctor. In their second year, students will continue the primary care mentoring program. Rep. B. Patrick Bauer, a South Bend Democrat who requested the report, said university officials have also told him they are developing programs to reduce costs. Bauer, who heads the House Ways and Means and State Budget committees, said both will be holding hearings on the problems this fall. The meetings are the first step in determining the makeup of the state’s 1993-95 budget

But Marion Wagner, president of Indiana NOW, said Garrison apparently wasn’t aware of her group’s presence during the trial since NOW wasn’t in the courtroom. She said Indiana NOW was asked by Miss Washington’s lawyer to lend support to the victim. “We were very willing to show support for her if she wanted it,” Ms. Wagner said. “We did not want to subject the victim to more harassment We don’t want to exploit victims. It would have been very hard for us to get into this courtroom.” MS. WAGNER said Indiana NOW believed Miss Washington’s rights would be protected, based on the record of Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gifford. “We chose not to engage in lots of face-to-face confrontations with folks from the other side,” she said. “We were not down there everyday with big NOW signs squaring off with Don King. We have been concerned with rape for a long time.”

bigger ones to find,” Terry Shaw, a forest pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service, said Saturday. He said one candidate was near LaPine, Ore. MONSTER FUNGI like those in Michigan and Washington state are visible at the surface only in the decaying wood and tiny mushrooms they produce.

Another team of Lyons elementary students also won a blue ribbon for “Elvis Presley and the Indiana Raisins,” a skit that solves a different problem: creating a monument to any person, place or thing. STUDENTS WERE also judged on their ability to answer an open-ended question spontaneously. The Elvis team’s question at the state contest was “name two things that go together.” Bread and butter, a common answer, got them just one point But creative ones, such as “Bobby Knight and towels,” were good for three. “It gives these kids an opportunity to use their creativity,” said Dee Williams, who directs the OM program for Lyons. “They have to organize their thoughts. They have to discipline themselves as far as time goes. It gives them a chance to perform. It gives them an opportunity to do what they can with their brains.” BUT SHE SAYS the OM competition teaches cooperation above anything else. The children, all enrolled in the school’s accelerated reading program, are used to being “the head honcho” in their regular classrooms, Williams says, and teamwork has been a challenge for them. “We’ve had some arguments,” she says. “We’ve had some tears.” The world competition will take place May 29 in Boulder.