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Thursday, January 29, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 n si 5P0I= World and Nation Federal judge calls grand jury to unravel Iran-Contra mystery — Seij "') lav- tee rep., tee crisi. 'talc ir; ; Ktuld It; and in- isls. I'd Plir.lB wsconMVVASHINGTON (Al>) — A fed- ulaiion era! judge empaneled a grand jury n Liabi Wednesday to piece together the aw, || Irin-Contra puzzle, while Secretary of State George P. Shidtz said people responsible for channeling Iranian s m arms sales proceeds to Nicaraguan jtiu rebels should be prosecuted, landed^■'Vnswering questions during an o andj appearance before the House Bud- .nam g el Committee, Shultz acknowl- edged that U.S. anti-terrorist policy around the world has been thrown makin; Hp P ai attorn tlfwav," Muni' aritv cop »age -t" ’ ia»si ecotm criug at I*™ >00 pop Study: Eating vegetables cuts stroke risk I BOSTON (AP) — Eating an extra helping of fresh fruit or' vegetables each day could cut the disk of stroke nearly in half by in- . measing the body’s supply of po- ""^^“issium, a study concludes. Potassium is found abundantly in many kinds of food, especially Iruits and vegetables. The new desearch suggests that even a small increase in the daily intake 6t this element can significantly Seduce the hazard of stroke. I Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Gonnor, a co-author of the study at the t’niversity of California, San Diego, said the research is the first to find that people with rela tively high levels of potassium in flieir diets have fewer strokes. I “The results indicate that one extra serving of fresh fruits or vegetables each day may decrease the risk of stroke by as much as 40 percent, regardless of other known risk factors,” she said. I She cautioned that her find ings must yet be duplicated by other researchers. Strokes are the nation’s third leading cause of death after heart attacks and can cer. This year, they will take an estimated 155,000 lives in the ilnited States. '0i\ cl in 1 exas 9 percti rally M uate. Ht ire dost v hat you “slightly off stride” by the reve lations of recent weeks, while the White House said President Reagan is sending national security adviser Frank Garlucci on a Central Ameri can fact-finding tour. While there were continuing re criminations about a series of clan destine sales of American weapons to Tehran, the former commander of U.S. military forces in Central America painted a bleak picture of chances that the Contra counterre volutionaries will topple the leftist Sandinista regime. “You’re not going to win a cam paign against the Sandinistas in a year, two years or three years,” re tired Army Gen. Paul Gorman told a congressional committee. At the same time, a Senate push to cut off U.S. aid to the Contras opened with Sen. Jesse Helms accus ing supporters of “bashing Ronald Reagan and blaming America first.” “I don’t hash my country,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., a principal sponsor of legislation to cut off Contra aid. “I just think it’s unfortuate we disagree about how to advance freedom in Central Amer ica.” The legislation under consider ation by the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee would block the re maining $40 million of the $100 million in Contra aid approved by Congress last year. During his Capitol Hill appear ance, Shultz, when asked to assess the impact of the Iran-Contra furor on American foreign policy, said, “it has thrown us slightly off stride, but I think our policies are clear and strong and have great support around the world because they’re right.” Under sharp questioning, Shultz reiterated that he knew nothing of purported transfers of arms sales profits to the Contras, saying, “It happened. It’s illegal and it should be prosecuted.” Amid continued partisan bicker ing in Congress over the question of whether Reagan should tell what he knows about the arms-and-money connection, the chairman of a House select investigative committee re vealed that his panel is issuing doz ens of subpoenas and will soon com mence taking depositions. When asked about the wisdom of the Iran arms deal, Bush replied, “I think it is debatable, and I think on the surface, you can make the case that it’s wrong.” Iranian official shows Bible reported to be from Reagan TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Parlia ment Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani on Wednesday flourished a Bible he said was sent by President Reagan as a token of goodwill, but he said Iran is not ready to help free American hostages in Lebanon. The speaker, Hashemi Rafsan jani, called on the United States to release $507 million in Iranian assets frozen by President Jimmy Carter after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. “The Americans must release our assets, and when they give the orders for their release, we are prepared to help them,” he said. The United States and Iran have been negotiating over the assets at a special tribunal in The Hague, Ne therlands. Rafsanjani displayed the leather- bound “Open Book Bible — Ex panded Edition” at a news confer ence, holding it open to the page which bore Reagan’s name and a handwritten New Testament verse: “And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentile by faith, preached the gospel before hand to Abraham, saying, ‘All the nations shall be blessed in you.’ Gala tians 3:8, (signed) Ronald Reagan, Oct. 3, 1986.” Abraham is regarded as the com mon ancestor of both the Arabs and the Jews and the great unifying fig ure of theJudeo-Christian and Mos lem religions. 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