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FBI spokesman Paul Miller in Miami said Thursday he had not seen the docu ments. “I doubt we will be able to comment because it concerns a matter before the courts,” he said. He did, however, say that the Miami police intelligence report which told of drug money going to Contra supporters. and said dynamite was shipped to them on commercial airliners, had been inves tigated and found vague. air strips the Contra supporters were working from,” he said. The FBI, Miami police. National Se curity Council and Defense Intelligence Agency reports were contained in a mo tion by defense attorney John Mattes ac cusing the government of selectively prosecuting his client, Jack Terrell. Terrell and six other men, including CMA founder Thomas Posey and his Mi ami coordinator, Jose Coutin, were in dicted in Fort Lauderdale in June on charges of violating the U.S. Neutrality Act in 1984 and 1985. They are accused of illegally recruit ing mercenaries and shipping weapons to aid the Contras in their plight against the government. “The documents clearly show the FBI acquiesced in all this conduct,” Mattes said. “They detail the exact persons, their names, their property and even the exact A declassified report from military in telligence agent Franklin Camper showed the D1A not only knew of the ac tivities in April 1984, but outlined for Posey and a Contra official a plan for deep penetration raids into Nicaragua by U.S. volunteers and Nicaragua»v:| As early as January 1985 Po«J Coutin were both reporting regili FBI agents in Miami, Birair:^ Ala., and other places,advising their plans to aid the Contras, tacts in Washington and their fej trips to Central America, accortl the documents. World Briefs House incumbents entitled to pocket campaign funding ASHINGTON (AP) — The 58 House members facing no major party chal lenge to re-election have raised $14.4 million for their campaigns, and nearly half of them will be entitled to keep any unspent money when they retire, a pri vate study said Friday. The list includes such House lead ership figures as Speaker Jim Wright, D- Texas, and Reps. Claude Pepper, D- Fla., chairman of the Rules Committee; John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, chairman of the Agriculture Committee. Forty-one of the 58 unopposed law makers are Democrats, who control the House, according to the study compiled by the watchdog group Congress Watch. The $14.4 million includes $7.3 mil lion from political action committees. “That these PACs feel compelled to contribute to lawmakers who have no op ponent shows that what’s being sought is access and influence, not compatible candidates or good government,” said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citi zen, the parent organization of Congress Watch. The legislators or their aides who were questioned defended the fund raising, ar guing that campaign funds must be col lected before they know whether they will have an election opponent. “If you had a crystal ball, you wouldn’t enter into one of these fund raising strategies,” said Cliff Gibbons, who is campaign finance manager for his father. Rep. Sam Gibbons, D-Fla. Congress Watch said the elder Gib bons has raised $309,537 from PACs, second highest total among the unop posed incumbents, and $503,340 over all, the third highest mark after Rep. Martin Frost, D-Texas. and Dingell. Gibbons is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee subcommittee on trade. U.S., Soviets at odds over definition WASHINGTON (AP) — The ex pressed intention of the Soviet Union to release all political prisoners by the end of the year may refer only to a small group of people, perhaps as few as 20, the State Department said Thursday. Spokesman Charles Redman said the two superpowers continue to dis agree on the definition of exactly what constitutes a political prisoner. He said Moscow insists the term fits only those actually charged with political offenses, while Washington says it also should include Juj jailed on “trumped-upcharges “We’ve long pressed for tie k. lease of Soviet political pn®-' Redman told reporters. “TheSc^ finally accept that there are suck [it oners, but we continue todisagisi a definition.” He said Soviet Foreign Me? Eduard Shevardnadze told U.S. 4 cials during a visit to the luj* States last month that there werei about 40 such pnsoners, allohla had been convicted for violati* the political and religious artiefcj the Soviet criminal code. Released whales slow to leave ice flow BARROW, Alaska (AP) — Two whales freed from a tiny breathing hole in the Arctic icc by Eskimos us ing chain saws and Soviet icebreakers made progress ‘ITmrsday but were still in the channel the ships created. “1 thought they’d be gone (to the open sea) by now,” said Ron Morris, coordinator of the massive effort to free the leviathans. “I want them gone.” Morris, who made an observation flight over the whales during the morning, said the ^alifomia gray whales were 1.5 miles seawardfo the point at which they were talk served Wednesday night. Eskimos with chain sawstadoti' series of breathing holes that allots the w hales to swim well away the original hole to which the; a been confined. I hc Eskimos eventually wt#! the marine mammals to withiaaffl ter-mile of a channel caned ita the 18-anch-thick icc by two M icebreakers late Tuesday ai Wednesday. Rio Grande refuge rated among worst p PACs are formed by corporations, la bor unions and other interest groups to funnel money to candidates, with incum bents the long-favored recipients. For the 1986 elections, according to Federal Election Commission records, PACs sent 88 percent of their contribu tions to lawmakers seeking re-election. WASHINGTON (AP) — A wild life corridor along the Rio Grande is so threatened by agricultural pesti cides and encroaching development that the Wilderness Society ranks it among the 10 most endangered na tional wildlife refuges. The society said it is particularly concerned about the impact the pro posed Playa del Rio resort would have on the Lower Rio Grande Na tional Wildlife Refuge. Stretching 200 miles along the Kio Grande from Falcon Dam to Boca Chica Beach, biologists say the area’s plant and wildlife diver® rivaled in this country by only i southern tip of Honda, the soos said. That unique habitat, however.! shrinking because of real estate) vclopmcnt and is threatened by»» ew ater from both sides of the 111- Mcx ico border, industrial diseta and proposed dams, the societysai The Wilderness Society sinjkiid the Rio Grande sanctuary asdns others from the 445 national refuges managed by the U.S. Fa and Wildlife Service. Bush still holds edge over Dukakis, garners national labor endorsement BEIT (AP) - Palestn cials ai Associated Press George Bush pocketed a labor en dorsement Thursday and said his drive for the White House was “all about cre ating jobs and opportunity.” Underdog Michael Dukakis accused his GOP rival of airing negative campaign commercials to “divert attention” from Reagan-Bush administration failures. The pollsters’ daily tidings were good once again for Bush, who was reported leading 51 percent to 42 percent in a na tionwide survey taken for NBC and the Wall Street Journal. New polls also showed a tight race in New York, one of the country’s most Democratic bastions. Dukakis made his way toward Harry Truman’s home town of Independence, Mo., likening himself to the “feisty little guy” who won the White House four de cades ago in a storied upset. “Harry Truman was a tignter and so am I,” he said. In a 14-minute live interview on the CBS “Evening News,” Dukakis said again and again he wants to put the gov ernment on the “side of average Ameri cans.” The Democrat also conceded that Bush commercials depicting him as weak on crime, defense and the environ ment had done him political harm. Dukakis said they were also intended to “to divert public attention from the fact that this administration has probably had more corruption and malfeasance than any in recent memory if not in his tory.” “This is not about who puts together the best commercials or best advertis ing,” he said. “It’s about which one of us, Mike Dukakis or George Bush, has the strength and the values to run this country.” Bush continued his week-long em phasis on economic issues as he made his way down the Pacific Coast from Wash ington to California. Along the way he accused Dukakis of trying to “fan the flames of protectio nism” in comments on trade and of “try ing to scare the American people by put ting Japanese flags on these American commercials of his.” Bush won the endorsement of the 50,000-mcmber Marine Emgincers Bene ficial Association at a rally interrupted by protesters. Four were hustled away, including one whose nose was bloodied, and Bush paused in his speech long enough to remind them of the high inter est rates that prevailed at the end of the Carter administration. “This election is all about creating jobs and opportunity,” he said, prom ising to keep the economic expansion al ive. Palestii fire in l Extr; out the Iona: knee fflovinj khem. The He briefly added an enderv / FOW 111 the Columbus, Ohio, NAAdt hoi. umcmi support, hut that «.:■ Umi i*timp's prevalent reluctant; •./Wiled course under pressure flora s c 'de v he.uk|u.liters. Melanie i. V . Wdth she was acting to avoid jeopati^Vgi chapter's tax-exempt status asiW' profit organization. I The I'he nine-point lead found fotfe Cypru the NBC- Wall Street Journalt keeping with what sources saidvtffflpni: vatc soundings taken for the twwF dates. Only 35 percent of tfitK't I'shed ing to the public survey saidtk; 1 pleased with their choices, aixl!;||§| cent said they wished other c were running. 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