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Former Ohio legislator arrested
by Nicaraguans for espionage
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) —
i American said to be the brother
a U.S. congressman was arrested
an air base and told authorities he
orked for a group specializing in
try espionage, Nicaragua’s gov-
nment said Sunday.
The leftist Sandinista government
Unified the man as Sam Nesley
Hand said his case would be
Hd like that of U.S. mercenary
ugene Hasenfus.
Officials said that when Hall was
Kted, at 10 a.m. Friday at Punta
uete air force base, about 13 miles
Heast of Managua, he was carry-
[iaps and sketches of military
i stuffed in his shoes.
Reports in the United States said
is the brother of Rep. Tony
[Hall, D-Ohio, and is himself a for-
er Ohio state legislator and a one
time Olympic diving medalist.
Government officials said Hall’s
presence could be seen as a prepara
tion for a U.S. attack on Nicaragua.
Angela Saballos, a spokeswoman
for the Foreign Ministry, said, “He
(Sam Hall) said he was working for
an organization that . . . was special
ized in intelligence and espionage on
military objectives . . . and that he
was working for the U.S. govern
ment interests.”
State Department spokesman
Bruce Ammerman said in Washing
ton he had no confirmation of Hall’s
arrest.
“We hope that the government of
Nicaragua will allow us access to the
person arrested,” he said.
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in
Managua could not be reached im
mediately for comment.
In a statement released in Wash
ington, Rep. Hall said, “I am sur
prised and concerned over press re
ports about my brother, Sam. I have
received no confirmation from the
State Department.
“I do not share the same views on
U.S. policy in Central America as my
brother does, but I love him and
pray for his safety.”
Foreign Minister Miguel D’Escoto
said Sam Hall would be investigated
in the same manner as Hasenfus,
who was sentenced to 30 years in
prison last month.
Hasenfus, of Marinette, Wis., was
on a weapons supply flight for U.S.-
backed Contra rebels which was shot
down.
Saballos said Hall’s case was being
investigated by the Interior Min
istry’s state security office, the same
agency that investigated Hasenfus.
She said Hall probably would be
brought before journalists this week.
D’Escoto told the official Barri-
cada newspaper Hall came to Mana
gua on a commercial flight from
Honduras Wednesday and went by
taxi to Punta Huete.
The base, on a peninsula jutting
into Laka Managua, accommodates
“all types of miltiary aircraft,” the
Defense Ministry said.
Reagan administration officials
have said the base was built for So
viet-made MiG jet fighter planes.
D’Escoto said, after his arrest.
Hall first identified himself as a
writer, but then said he was an ad
viser to Miskito Indians fighting to
oust the Sandinista government.
:raft damaged
luring takeoff
ied : ° r/ l0-day flight
\ EDWARDS AIR FORCE
BclD)' iASL Calif - (AP) — The aircraft
gfl pager took off Sunday in the
aoosed to B attempt to fly around the
ppuncu nonstop without refueling,
a ® es ^ fat dragged and damaged the
verythmg Kible wing on the runway.
Respite the damage, mission
Krollers told co-pilots Dick Ru-
|| and Jeana Yeager to con-
B, and they flew the ungainly
■lane over the Pacific Ocean to
Bi what is expected to be a 10-
lay flight.
Voyager took off a few minutes
■ 8 a.m., using 14,000 feet of
115,000-foot dry lakebed paved
[Bay before it lumbered into
feair at 106 mph, its first take-
Ifwith a full, 9,750-pound load
jffuel and supplies.
“In good spirits,” Yeager re-
Itfd from the bathtub-sized
pit after Voyager got off the
Jpd. “If it were easy, it would
■been done before.”
The spindly twin-winged plane
ras loaded with 1,090 gallons of
Bor the 27,000-mile trip. It
*'2S that huge load in the plane’s
ting anks that apparently
aused both tips of the main wing
0scrape the runway during taxi
ng-
Tie attempt to fly around the
torld nonstop, without refueling,
| feat regarded as one of the
ast great goals in aviation.
“We’ve been waiting about six
ears for it,” Rutan said Saturday.
This is the last first in aviation —
tmospheric flight.”
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Dole urges Reagan to use
new adviser for Iran affair
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate
Republican leader Bob Dole urged
President Reagan on Sunday to let
someone other than Chief of Staff
Donald Regan advise him on the
Iran-Contra affair, and a Demo
cratic congressman accused the pres
ident of “stonewalling” the congres
sional investigation.
The pressure on Reagan to act
more decisively in the crisis came
amid reports that fired White House
aide Lt. Col. Oliver North helped a
conservative group’s advertising
campaign to gain support for Rea
gan’s Nicaragua policy and target
members of Congress on the Contra
aid issue.
While others on Capital Hill have
called for Regan’s ouster. Dole rec
ommended that former Sen. How
ard Baker of Tennessee or another
respected lawyer be appointed as
White House chief of staff on the
Iran-Contra issue.
“What the president needs is
someone to keep him advised,” he
said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Dole said he had talked with Re
gan again Saturday and quoted the
chief of staff as saying, “I’ll tell you
one thing — I’m not leaving the
White House.”
White House spokesman Peter
Roussel said there had been no deci
sion on whether to appoint a White
House counselor to address the cri
sis.
Roussel said there had been no re
quest for Regan to testify before the
Senate Intelligence Committee or
other congressional committees.
White House communications di
rector Patrick Buchanan, appearing
on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” de
fended Reagan’s description of
North as a “national hero,” saying, “I
think the motivation of North in di
verting those funds to Central
America . . . certainly is superior to
the motivation of some of the people
who want to use this episode to
cripple this president.”
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Senate
Intelligence Committee vice chair
man, told reporters after appearing
on ABC’s “This Week With David
Brinkley,” he was not surprised to
hear of another American being de
tained in Nicaragua.
“We’ve been conducting the Cen
tral American policy with a wink and
a shrug from our government, send
ing money down to the soldiers of
fortune,” he said.
Sen. David Durenberger, R-
Minn., chairman of the intelligence
panel, said he has more information
about the Iran arms sales and pay
ments to Contras than Reagan has.
Poindexter’s predecessor, Robert
McFarlane, said on CBS’ “Face the
Nation” that the United States “got
taken a little bit” in the Iranian arms
deal because he found after person
ally delivering arms to Iran that the
“moderate element” he was to nego
tiate with was “not yet strong enough
to be able to act, to change policies,
to really deliver.”
Democrats push strong defense platform
WASHINGTON (AP) — Demo
cratic elected officials who banded
together after the party’s disastrous
defeat in the 1984 presidential elec
tion are trying to turn national de
fense into the issue that wins the
White House for them in 1988.
The Democratic Leadership
Council, created by moderate South
ern and Western Democrats, is
pushing a platform of strong de
fense and arms control as the solu
tion to what they see as the party’s
image of weakness on defense.
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., chairman
of the House Armed Services Com
mittee, said, “Clearly, a party that is
perceived to be weak on defense is
not going to elect a president.”
Aspin’s comment came last week
in Williamsburg, Va., at a seminar
on defense policy that was part of
three days of council meetings
aimed at forging a new message for
the party as it heads toward 1988.
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., said,
“We’ve got to figure out a way to get
more effective defense . . . out of less
money and that is not going to be
easy.”
The council outlined its new ideas
in a report written by Nunn, Aspin
and Sen. A1 Gore, D-Tenn.
The report called for devel
opment of a new military strategy
that would play to Western strengths
and exploit Soviet weaknesses, re
quire increased defense spending by
American allies, and apply Ameri
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