Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free Secord listed to testify Contra Cash to be subject Washington a the House of representatives Intelli gence committee has summoned a key player in the Iran arms t Itro Versy in an Effort to deter rank be fore Christmas whether any Money from the sales went to nicaraguan a congressional source said the committee want retired Richard Secord to appear before the panel behind closed doors to explain what happened to Money Iran paid for the sales and deposed in a Swiss although attorney general Edwin Meese said last month million to million us from the sales went to help nicaraguan members of the Senate intelligence committee said they cannot deter mine How if of the Money went to the Senate investigators said million to million might be a More accurate Secord is supposedly involved at both in Central America and said a congressional who spoke on condition of an played a role in negotiations that led to the shipment of arms to Tehran and the release of three hostages by lebanese groups with links to said Man Ucher an iranian who arranged the contacts with the Tehran congressional sources and court documents show Secord also played a key role in sending arms to the nicaraguan rebels during a period when Congress banned direct military Aid to Pivotal Man the Pivotal figure in both the Iran and nicaraguan connections was Oliver North who was fired from his Job on the National Security Council staff last North and his former White House a Tiona Security adviser Vic Admiral John declined to answer questions when they were give congressional Meese said Friday that North and Poindexter assured him president Ronald Reagan did not know until last month Money from the Iran arms sales was channelled to the nicaraguan rebels during the con Gressional ban on the diversion came to Light when a Justice department investigator uncovered an undated memo from North outlining the it is not Clear whether records schedule would allow him to testify before the House committee this said a source close to the Secord refused to answer questions during an earlier congressional behind the closed doors of the Senate intelligence committee in the democrats weekly radio senator Gary who is expected to run for the democratic presidential nomination in lashed the Reagan administration for cynical attempts to manage the secret attempts to bypass the arrogant attempts to substitute rigid ideology for democratic con All bring shame on our gov take no Comfort but Hart do who met last week in Moscow with soviet Leader Mikhail said no including members of my own can take Comfort in this unhappy process and no including those who wish us in another administration officials reacted Poliy to an offer by the speaker of he iranian Hojvat Geslain Hashemi to help Freo five More from Lebanon if the United states unfreeze iranian assets in the United in the has set As a condition the release by the United states of about million in arms purchased by Iran before the 1979 revolution but never administration officials have said Washington will not Send More arms to at least in the immediate after three weeks of testimony from key players in the arms Sale members of Congress have said they Are not sure How much the president or whether any Money went to the nicaraguan representative George Brown d a member of the House Intelli gence suggested Friday that Reagan May have been under pos surgical sedation in August 1985 when he was reported to have approved the arms to Reagan in Hospital july for in of a cancerous polyp from Hii White House spokesman Ben j in Ratt said congressmen Brown has misrepresented messes and the implication that president Reagan made any decisions under sedation is Lucia whose husband was helps Maria at shooting Man woman pistol whipped in robbery Miami a an 18yearold Man has been booked on murder and armed robbery charges in the Holdup of a liquor store in which the owner was shot dead and his Mother inlaw police at least two men walked into the the store belonging to Manuel Fernandez on they asked for then Drew guns and announced a police homicide Steve Vinson there was a shots were and Fernandez was shot in the his 61yearold Maria tried to intervene and was Vernon seen running from the scene by an of duty was pursued and arrested on charges of first degree murder and armed police said they Are still search ing for the other Montreal sikh trial goes to jury tomorrow Montreal up the Law yer for a Man charged with conspiring to blow up an Airliner argued yesterday his client should be acquitted because the Crown had not proven there was genuine intention to execute the Michael defending Kash Mir Singh said what went on Here was Mere negotiation that never crystallized in and Santokh Singh Are charged with three counts of conspiring to blow up an air plane leaving from an unspecified three charges of counselling an undercover Fri agent to blow up an aircraft were quashed late Friday by Madam Justice Claire Barrette Joncas of Quebec Superior court As the trial entered its fifth Barrett Joncas agreed with de Fence lawyers that the counselling charge Doest exist under Canad an Law because it refers to a crime that would have occurred in the United outside Canadian no Airliner was Ever blown in yesterdays final code conceded there was lots of discussion about crime in this including some talk of blowing up an taped conversations the crowns Case rests largely on tape recorded conversations be tween the accused and Fri agent Frank Miele obtained through elec tronic eavesdropping on two meet Ings on May 19 and Miele posed As a criminal with explosives experience who would blow up a plane in Exchange for heroin and but code insisted that while there were there was no agreement on a plan to blow up an an agreement and intent were the key criteria in proving he told the he also noted during meet Ings which Khela and Dhillon main Tain concerned the Purchase of a stolen car but which the Crown says focused on destroying a both accused insisted they did not have authority to approve pay the most essential part of an agreement or a contract is the pay code to discuss crime is not a youve got to have an the lawyer the accused Are members of the Babar a sikh group that wants to set up an Independent sikh state in India Punjab Crown prosecutor Claude Parent said in his summation he questioned the credibility of testimony Given by the two accused because their versions of events did not make Barrett Joncas began her charge to the jury after the lawyers closing she reviewed the facts of the Case and will conclude Tomor Row by instructing them on Points of syrians wage Tripoli Battle 30 people slain Lebanon spa at least 30 persons were killed and 60 wounded in the Northern lebanese City of Tripoli in 24 hours of heavy clashes Between syrian army troops and pro palestinian moslem Funda state run Beirut radio reported the radio said syrian backed by tanks and artillery have cordoned off the City and erected checkpoints at the major inter carefully searching cars and checking the syrians also turned Back All reporters who attempted to enter the Battle syrian army troops and sunni moslem fundamentalists from the pro palestinian Lawheed or islamic organization battled Friday with heavy machine rocket propelled and mortars in the Tabba Neh Dis the Headquarters of although fighting tapered off yes intermittent firing still could be heard across the which remained paralysed for the second straight Day shops remained closed yesterday and most of Tripoli inhabitants remained trapped in their Beirut radio said that syrian troops were still storming houses and searching Lawheed hideouts looking for militiamen accused of opening fire on the syrian statement the radio also broadcast a state ment released by the syrians late Friday saying syrian troops were in control of Tabba Neh and were currently operating to clean one last pocket of resistance in at least seven syrian soldiers Are among the 30 the radio Lawheed Leader sheikh Saeed Shaban yesterday denied his men were involved in the previous Days clashes against syrian Iraq demurs As open votes to squeeze the Washington Post Geneva the open Oil minis ters ended a Marathon 10day meet ing Here yesterday with an agree ment to Cut production to try to in West the Price of Oil to us a but Iraq refused to go threatening the open analysts said the 12 Mem Bers that adhered to the agreement believe they still will be Able to succeed in shoring up prices with or without Iraq hardly had the Oil ministers finished a final Al night bargaining session Early this morning than the iraqi Oil Qassem Ahmed announced that Iraq dissociates itself from the Taqi said that Iraq would hold firm to its which came close to sabotaging the the organization of Petroleum exporting countries 80th ministerial meeting since its founding 26 years the iraqi minister said that the production quota that had been suggested to him for the first two quarters of 198 was neither based on any logical criteria nor is it near to the actual level of iraqi which is far above the he said that the suggested cuts would mean a 25 percent drop in iraqi Oil in Iraq was temporarily released from its obligation to and Here to a quota meant to help open regulate production and the last time Iraq accepted a production quota was in december when it agreed to produce million barrels a while Iran was allotted a quota of million bar same As Iran Iraq steadfastly insisted during the meeting that any quota it was to be assigned during the meeting should be the same As the one As signed to the two countries have been at War with each other for six Oil revenues Are crucial to both countries ability to pay for their War after a year in which the Price of Oil has plunged from an average a barrel to its current Price of around open members have come around to the harsh reality that if they Are to boost prices once they will have to restrict production severely to below expected estimated global Oil consumption for 1986 was million barrels a which has seen its share of the Market drop Over the last 10 accounts for Only million barrels of that today All open except agreed to Cut production for the first half of 1987 by about percent across the Board for a daily production limit of million bar open officials said they hoped that Nono Pec producers would Fol Low their Lead to try and raise Oil prices by instituting voluntary production As a higher Price would Benefit them As the ministers agreed to the Cut so that the organization could return to the fixed pricing Structure that col lapsed a year ago because of their unwillingness to adhere to product Ion under the leadership of saudi specs major Oil pro the pricing policy was abandoned in favor of a Price War aimed at increasing specs share of the International Oil ironically it was saudi this time represented by a new 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