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WASHINGTON (AP) — An at torney for former White House aide Oliver North argued in court Mon day that investigators for the inde pendent counsel are acting without authority, as “a group of vigilantes” in the Iran-Contra affair. Attorney Barry Simon, seeking to block the investigation, said the court-appointed independent coun sel has unconstitutionally assumed “a breathtaking mandate” to con duct a criminal investigation. Such powers are reserved under the Con stitution for the executive branch. North, a central figure in the in vestigation of arms sales to Iran and possible diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan Contras, sat behind Si mon at the defense table. U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker took the case under advise ment after hearing oral arguments from Simon and from lawyers for in dependent counsel Lawrence Walsh and the Justice Department. One of Walsh’s attorneys, Guy Struve, argued it would be an “ex traordinary and unusual thing for the court to enjoin an ongoing crimi nal investigation” — one that the president and attorney general said should proceed. In other Iran-Contra devel opments Monday: • The president’s daughter called for the court-martial of Marine Lt. Col. North and his ex-boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. • A member of the Senate Iran- Contra panel said grants of immu nity to North and Poindexter could come soon, though other officials said it was too soon. • One of the Nicaraguan Con tras’ leaders, Arturo Cruz, resigned his post as a director of the United Nicaraguan Opposition, according to his son, Arturo Cruz Jr., who said the elder Cruz was fed up with the “whole mentality” of the rebel movement. North, who was fired from his Na tional Security Council post in No- ‘ fil ' vember, has filed two separate law suits. The first, on Feb. 24, attacked the independent counsel provisions of the Ethics In Government Act on grounds that they violate constitu tional rules concerning separation of powers. Subsequently, Attorney General Edwin Meese III appointed Walsh a special Justice Department prosecu tor. He said this was an insurance policy in case the first North suit in terrupted the investigation. On Friday, North filed a second suit contending the arrangement was still unconstitutional. In court papers Monday, Walsh said the sec ond suit should be dismissed as a desperate effort to derail a criminal investigation. The Iran probe is still at an early stage and vulnerable to interruption, Struve said. He noted that Congress is considering granting North lim ited immunity, which would prevent a prosecution based on congressio nal testimony. Walsh’s investigators are trying to delay such a congressional action so they can try to develop their own case first. Struve argued, “The isd plaintiff is seeking to raisetj raised alter an indictmerl quickly added, “an indictmetj a f orgone conclusion.” Justice Department jiJ James Spears avoided thee tional argument, saying i action should be dismissed!) would interfere with a cri vestigation — the type partment lawyers conduct eel ■ ■ II Document PR firm sent! Contras ai< hnist. High court ruling eases eligibility for illegal aliens seeking asylum WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su preme Court on Monday made it easier for illegal aliens to seek politi cal asylum in this country, ruling they need only show “a well-founded fear” they will be persecuted if forced to return home. The Reagan administration had argued that applicants for asylum should have to show “a clear proba bility” of persecution. It remained unclear, however, whether the 6-3 ruling will lead to the granting of asylum for more ille gal aliens because the ultimate deci sion remains with the attorney gen eral. The verdict means only that more refugees are eligible for asy lum consideration by him. The court ruled in the case of a Nicaraguan woman living in Nevada who says the leftist Sandinistas would persecute her if she is forced to return to her native country. In other actions, the court: • Ruled, by a 5-4 vote in a New Hampshire case that criminal sus pects sometimes may be asked to give up the right to sue authorities in return for having the charges against them dropped. • Said, in a new relaxation of the so-called “exclusionary rule,” that evidence need not be excluded from a trial when police act under a state law subsequently declared unconsti tutional. The court’s 5-4 ruling re instated evidence seized by Illinois officials seeking to prosecute the theft of cars and auto parts in Chi cago. The Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service declined comment until officials read the decision. Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the court, said “a well-founded fear” of persecution is easier for ille gal aliens to demonstrate than “a clear probability” that persecution will occur. “To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country,” Stevens said. “It is clear that Congress did not intend to restrict eligibility for (asy lum) to those who could prove that it is more likely than not that they will be persecuted if deported," he said. Monday’s ruling is a preliminary victory for Luz Marina Cardoza- Fonseca, who came to this country from Nicaragua in 1979 and re mained in the San Francisco area, overstaying her visa. Mill lob' I Cardoza-Fonseca, 38, conceded in 1981 that she could be deported law fully. But she applied for asylum on the ground the Sandinista govern ment in Nicaragua would retaliate against her because her brother, a former ally of the Sandinistas, de nounced them and fled to the United States. Immigration officials said she failed to show a clear probability she would be persecuted in Nicaragua. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals overruled the immigration of ficials in 1985 and ordered the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals to hold further hearings to determine whether Cardoza-Fonseca had a well-founded fear of persecution. WASH INGTON (AP) relations firm that is emi key player in the Iran- tunneled money forO bills through three oi masking fund-raiser Channell as the original urnents and sources ind day. The total of $21,182 was spring to pay for treatmen ficial limbs for several woui caraguan rel>els, called C Contras apparently w« with former CIA officer out of El Salvador, accords documents provided by Kuykendall. The former man who is now a political tant to Channell said the ii, eluded a 2 percent fee forfe Both the public relatio Wash ington-based Inter Business Communicatiorc ChanneU’s operation areui vestigation by the ind< counsel and the congr mittees looking into the li sales to Iran and the alleged sion of profits to the Contras The Internal Revenue also is investigating Channel exempt groups. In another development Channell released documents pute a December report in ell (Muss.) Sun that quotedm sources as saying Cnannells got money diverted fromil arms sales to Iran. Audits tax-free and political orgat he controls indicated all receipts were from domestic from fallen lay. Mo econo “T1 lactor [nappe . ar cial pi analvs Th ber 1 Allied experts called to study arms details World Briefs WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, moving to complete a proposed treaty eliminating me dium-range nuclear missiles from Europe, summoned defense ex perts from five allied nations Mon day to help devise a verification system to present to the Soviets. Representatives from Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain, West Germany and Italy met at the State Department to study details of proposals the United States will make to the Soviets at Geneva arms talks. The five countries invited to the talks are those providing sites for the U.S. intermediate-range mis siles that would be eliminated un der the proposed treaty. Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said the participants discussed “verification provisions of an intermediate nuclear force draft treaty. These verification provisions obviously have a direct interest to the basing countries. “Given the importance of verifi cation we envision future meet ings, similar to today’s, as needed,” Redman said. He said the United States was represented at the meeting by H. Allen Holmes, director of the State Department’s bureau of politico- military affairs. The European delegates were identified as officials with exper tise in missile deployment and other technical problems. The delegate’s names were not given. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed in principle at their Reykjavik, Ice land, summit last October to elimi nate all but 100 U.S. Pershing 2s, cruise missiles and Soviet SS-20s. The remaining Soviet missiles would be deployed only in the Asian part of the country, and the U.S. weapons would be brought home from Europe. Scientists call for fast action in face of cancer threats WASHINGTON (AP) — Prompt international action is needed against widely used ozone-destroy ing chemicals that indirectly are causing skin cancers at an almost ep idemic pace, scientists warned a House hearing Monday. “At the current rate, about one in seven Americans will develop (some form of) this disease during their lifetime,” said Dr. Darrel Rigel, a re search physician from New York University Medical Center. The rate of skin cancer in the United States is increasing at a near epidemic pace, Rigel told an Energy and Commerce health and the envi ronment subcommittee hearing on depletion of the Earth’s strato spheric ozone layer. He said physicians believe the ma jor cause of skin cancer is the ultra violet rays of the sun, which are fil tered by stratospheric ozone. Other witnesses said that while there is still scientific uncertainty, it appears that the ozone layer is being destroyed by chemicals such as chlo- rofluorocarbons. Rigel said the estimated number of cases of malignant melanoma -— the skin cancer type most often proving to be fatal — has risen eight fold in the last seven years, making it the fastest rising type except for lung cancer in women. He said that five years ago New York University researchers esti mated that one in 250 Americans would develop malignant melanoma during their lifetimes and projected an increase to one in 150 by the year 2000. Prayers said for ferry accident vicfii ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium (AP) — Survivors and victims’ relatives joined in an ecumenical prayer service Monday for those who died when water rushed through a British ferry three days earlier and turned it on its side. Salvage crews prepared to right the partially submerged ves sel so scores of bodies can be re covered from inside. The Herald of Free Enterprise, which cap sized Friday night while leaving Zeebrugge harbor for Dover, rests starboard-side-up on a sand bar. More than 130 people are thought to have died in the ship wreck. Olivier Vannesta, goverut West Flanders province, said more survivor had been loa someone who escaped thedii ^ ter but did not report to aui ties immediately. T hat left 81 and presumed dead. VanM said 409 people survived and bodies had been recovered. Paul Ellis, spokesman for Townsend Thoresen line owns the ship, announcedap beginning Monday night, tt turn bodies to Britain by fa Most of the dead were Britisli Belgian officials said a pans maritime law experts hadlKf an investigation 2 teens charged in slayings of priest BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Two teen-agers have been charged in the stabbing deaths of two inner- city Roman Catholic priests who were slain 12 days and less than a mile apart. One of the young men con fessed, police said Monday. The deaths had prompted warnings that priests should not let strangers into their homes. Investigators arrested Milton E. Jones, 17, in Buffalo late Sun day, Police Commissioner Ralph V. Degenhart said at a news con ference. The second defendant, The odore Simmons, 18, also of Buf falo, was picked up early Monday in California by San Diegop® after information was ob from his family on his w bouts. Homicide Chief Richard Donovan said robbery was motive in the slayings ofthff ; A. Joseph Bissonette, 55, in 1 rectory of St. BartholoiJf Church on Feb. 24, and ofM® gnor David P. Herlihy, 74, in' rectory at St. Matthew’s Chut Herlihy’s body was founds* Sunday. After his arrest, Jones vided the homicide bureau W confession to both priest ders, Degenhart said. Buddhist lamas to enthrone boy, 2 KAPAN, Nepal (AP) — Ti betan Buddhist lamas are seeking an auspicious date to enthrone a 2-year-old Spanish boy they be lieve is the reincarnation of the leader of a major monastery. The Buddhist parents of Ozel Iza Torres brought him to India last month and are planning to take him to the Kapan monastery, where he is to take the seat of the late high lama Thubten Yeshe. But disciples in the monastery 10 miles northeast of Katmandu said they didn't know whet would arrive. Owen Cole, 37, a disciple Perth, Australia, said several mas would decide the dateof ceremony and apparentlv looking for an auspicious sion. The boy’s mother, Torres, 33, came to Katnrf three weeks ago with her other children to make sure® her youngest child, will havf problems adjusting to his home. “Aa There Sti “1 asin Uni' d year Sen: mini final Pai c mer ulty den Acai said pow plan ing< C atioi dim A&f “I on t are! Cl ernr ulty tion; A&Jr in tl wish tuall , Je the Affa been sue.