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I WASHINGTON (AP) — A com-
rtiission investigating U.S. arms sales
to Iran and National Security Coun
cil operations on Wednesday nailed
down an appointment with Presi
dent Reagan and won three more
weeks to finish its work.
I While the panel headed by former
Sen. John Tower interviewed for-
rher President Jimmy Carter in
Plains, Ga., White House spokesman
Larry Speakes said Reagan will meet
with the commission next Monday.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
AP) — A woman is suing Burt
ha; - Reynolds for $52,000 after an en-
hcsj :ounter with a goose at the actor’s
jetting zoo that she says left her
11 a fractured vertebra.
Selma Binderman, 67, accuses
Reynolds of negligence in a civil
oudj suit, which went to trial Tuesday
in Palm Beach.
Binderman was hospitalized
lj|| | ^B'or five days in December 1984
after she tried to escape the at-
acking goose at the zoo in Jupi
ter, about 15 miles north of West
Palm Beach, the lawsuit said.
“The goose kept coming, and
she kept backing up,” her lawyer,
George Vogelsang said.
But Alan Espy, attorney for
Reynolds, calls that gander
slander.
"The evidence will show that
the goose was the attackee, not
the attacker," Espy said.
"By her (Binderman’s) own ad
mission, she is not very fond of
animals," Espy told jurors.
Reynolds, who is not expected
to attend the trial, offered to set
tle out of court for $.86,500.
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Speakes said Reagan is expected
to review White House files with
counsel Peter J. Wallison before the
session with Tower and two other
panel members, former Secretary of
State Edmund S. Muskie and former
national security adviser Brent
Scowcroft.
Reagan is expected to answer
questions about his recollections of
how the program of clandestine
arms sales transpired, Speakes said.
The three-member board was
named by Reagan on Dec. 1 — less
than a week after Attorney General
Edwin Meese III revealed that some
E roceeds from the arms sales had
een diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
It was directed to report by Jan. 29
on the role of the National Security
Council staff in carrying out sensi
tive diplomatic and intelligence mis
sions such as the secret arms deals.
Speakes said the deadline was ex
tended to Feb. 19 at the board’s re
quest “due to the large amount of. . .
documents that the White House
and others have provided them” and
the need to interview more wit
nesses.
Spokesman Herbert E. Hetu said
the panel plans meetings later this
week with former presidents Rich
ard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.
Reagan held his second meeting
Wednesday with David Abshire, the
retiring U.S. ambassador to NATO,
whom he called home to serve as his
special counselor on the arms sales
issue. Abshire was scheduled later
Wednesday to meet privately with
Sens. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii,
and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., the
chairman and vice-chairman of the
Senate select committee probing the
Iran-Contra affair.
In response to questions, Speakes
said White House chief of staff Don
ald T. Regan did not attend Rea
gan’s separate meetings with Walli
son and Abshire.
Some members of Congress have
questioned whether Regan played a
role in the behind-the-scenes Iran
arms operation, and there have been
some calls for his resignation. But
the chief of staff has remained on
the job with the backing of Reagan.
Spe
me
>eakes said no decision had been
whether the president
would have a lawyer or other aides
with him in the meeting. He said it
would be up to the board whether to
include a transcript of the meeting
in its report. Hetu said the board
does not plan to include transcripts
of its interviews.
Reagan maintains that the arms
shipments to Iran, despite an em
bargo on arms shipments to that
country during the Iran-Iraq war,
were an effort to encourage good re
lations with Iranian moderates who
were also being encouraged to work
for the release of American hostages
held in Lebanon.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — Assailants burst into a home
in a black township near Durban on
Wednesday and opened fire with au
tomatic weapons, killing 12 people.
Seven of the victims were children.
Officials of the United Demo
cratic Front anti-apartheid coalition
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of attacking the home of Willie
Ntuli, father of a prominent UDF
member, in revenge for recent kill
ings of Inkatha followers.
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Inkatha and chief minister of the
KwaZulu homeland, said in a
statement the deaths were probably
a continuation of the violent feuding
between rival black groups in the
Natal province. Much of mat fight
ing has been between Inkatha and
the UDF.
Durban police spokesman Chari
du Toil said Ntuli, 50, was among
the victims and five of the children
killed by the unidentified gunmen
were aged 7 or younger.
Maj. du Toil said two people were
wounded by the spray of fire from
AK-47 assault rifles.
A 10-year-old boy escaped injury
by hiding in a closet, but four of his
brothers and sisters were killed, du
Toil said.
He said police were using tracker
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Amanzimtoti, 15 miles south of Dur
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Joseph Gumbi, an official of the
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said Ntuli’s son Vincent is a leading
member of the Kwa-Makhuta Youth
League, which is affiliated with the
United Democratic Front.
He said Vincent probably was the
main target, but he went into hiding
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