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North Trial
Bush denies dealing aid }
for Honduran assistance !
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush denied emphatically
Thursday that he took part in any
scheme to swap U.S. aid for Hondu
ran assistance to the Nicaraguan re
bels, saying he wanted an end to
“needless, mindless speculation’
about his role.
“The word of the pi'esident of the
United States — George Bush — is.
there was no quid pro quo,” he de
clared moments before a federal
jury convicted fired White House
aide Oliver North on three criminal
charges in connection with the Iran-
Contra affair.
Speaking of a meeting he had as
vice president in the spring of 1985
with then-Honduran President Rob
erto Suazo, Bush said, “The records
of the meeting demonstrate there
was no quid pro quo.”
Bush had said several times in re
cent weeks that he would await the
conclusion of North’s tiial before
considering a definitive comment on
questions that have arisen in connec
tion with that meeting.
But Thursday Bush seemed eaget
to talk about recently disclosed docu
ments that placed him at a meeting
with Suazo, in Honduras, at a time
when internal Reagan administra
tion memos suggested a plan to link
continuing U.S. aid to Latin Ameri
can countries to their willingness tc
help the Contra rebels.
The so-called “findings of fact,” a
42-page document presented in the
North trial in early April, suggested
that Bush as vice president had
played a role as an intermediary in
assuring Suazo that his country’s as
sistance to the Contras would be re
warded with expedited U.S. finan-
George Bush
cial aid. However, the document did
not say directly that Bush discussed
the deal with Suazo.
It did say that Bush explained to
the Hondurans that they were to re
ceive a great deal more U.S. aid and
that that statement was a part of the
purported quid pro quo policy of the
administration at that time.
The government did not dispute
the facts as presented, although
State Department officials sub-
squently said that the document pre
sented a distorted picture of U.S.
policy and actions in the region dur
ing a period in 1985 and 1986 when
the U.S. government was barred
from directly or indirectly aiding the
rebels.
“Everybody that attended the
Jurors decide case
after deliberation,
argument, prayer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ju
rors in the Oliver North trial did a
“lot of bickering and arguing” but fi
nally agreed to convict the former
White House aide on three counts
after a “strong prayer,” one juror
said Thursday.
“It was tough to. come up with a
decision,” Earl F. Williams told re
porters.
North was convicted of altering
and shredding documents and of
two other charges in the Iran-Contra
affair. He was acquitted on nine
other counts.
Most of the jurors declined to dis
cuss the deliberations, saying they
were tired and wanted time with
their families. The jury had been se
questered since April 20.
Juror Justine Newell Parrish said
that reaching a verdict was the hard
est decision she ever had to make.
Now, she said, “I just want to be
with my family.”
“I’m going to take my shower and
catch the next flight out of here to
Jamaica,” juror Jean Johnson said.
Williams, a former security guard,
said the jury did not agree on the
guilty counts until Thursday, the
12th day of deliberations, although
some of the acquittals had been de
cided earlier.
“The jury was split a while on
some of the counts, and in a case
such as this there is a lot of bickering
and arguing,” he said.
“It was touch and go all the way,”
he said.
“But,” he added, “with God’s help
we prayed a lot and made a deci
sion.”
Williams, said the breaking point
came Thursday when one of the ju
rors said “a strong prayer, and it
seemed to get everybody together
and we came to a decision.”
The juror said North was a credi
ble witness. “1 believed him,” he said.
“No, I don’t think he should go to
jail.”
North, who was at the center of
the secret Reagan administration ef
fort to aid the Nicaraguan Contras,
could face up to 10 years in prison
on the convictions.
meeting says that there wasnoquii
pro quo,” Bush said Thursday."Ami
for those who suggest there was,ik
onus is on them,” he said.
“Thank you for asking that que
tion.”
The president declined toansw
specifically when asked whetherk
had discussed Contra aid will
Suazo. Asked whether he ha:
kne >wn of any quid pro quo arrangtl
ments between the U.S. governmer
and Honduras, he replied, “notii
my knowledge.’’
1 he president complained th
“there has been much, needles
mindless, speculation about i
word of honor. And I’ve answered:
now, definitively.”
I bis came a little more than:
week after Bush told reporterstk
“mv conscience is clear” on the Iran
Contra affair.
Bush had said last week thatk
had had no discussions with amort
about a possible pardon for North.
The former National Secunr
Council staff deputy was acquitter
on nine charges. Bush last yeai
called North a “national hero,”bn
later refined that to say he wasallud
ing to North’s record of heroismir
military combat.
Guilty verdict
causes North
to lose pension
W A S H INC TO N (A P) - Oli-
vet North lost his pension as are-
tired Marine officer when he was
convicted Thursday and he won't
get it back unless the verdict isi
overturned on appeal, a Penta
gon spokesman said.
North, who retired as a lieuten
ant colonel in the Marine Corps
with 20 years of active-duty serv
ice, has been drawing an annual
military pension of roughlfl
$23,100 since leaving the corps
almost exactly a year ago.
At the time of his retirement.
North said he was leaving the
service in order to better prepare
his defense against charges of
misconduct stemming from the
Iran-Contra affair.
On Thursday, the former Na
tional Security Council aide was
convicted on three felony counts
and cleared of nine others. The
jury found North guilty of shred
ding documents, accepting an il
legal gratuity and one count of
aiding and abetting in an obstruc
tion of Congress.
North had been receiving his
pension since he retired, said
Army Lt. Col Linda Dumoulin.a
Pentagon spokesman.
But once the conviction be
comes legally effective — when
the secretary of the Navy is for
mally notified of it and the paper
work is completed — North will
lose his pension, she said.
If North wins on appeal, he;
will get the pension back and will
be given pay retroactively, she
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