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Secord pleas guilty to avoid trial,"
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Air Force
Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord pleaded guilty
Wednesday to one count of lying to Congress in
the Iran-Contra affair, agreeing to “cooperate
fully” with prosecutors in later cases.
He thus could become a government witness
against John M. Poindexter, national security ad
viser in the Reagan administration and Oliver
North’s White House boss. Poindexter, whose
criminal trial is to begin Jan. 22, is accused of
conspiracy, obstructing Congress and three
counts of making false statements.
Secord, the Iran-Contra middleman enlisted
by North, admitted to U.S. District Court Judge
Aubrey Robinson that he had made a false
statement on June 10, 1987, when he denied to
congressional investigators that he gave anything
of benefit to North.
Secord paid the bill in 1986 for a security sys
tem at North’s home, $7,000 in cash and $9,000
drawn on a U.S. bank from profits of “the Enter
prise,” the maze of companies and secret Swiss
bank accounts Secord and his business partner
Albert Hakim used in the Iran-Contra affair.
Prosecutors indicated in court papers they had
been examining possible criminal tax violations
by Secord and had been prepared to present evi
dence that he “personally received total profits . .
. in excess of $1.5 million” from the sale of weap
ons to the Contras and Iran.
Secord has over $170,000 in unpaid legal bills,
according to a recent fund-raising letter mailed
by supporters of a Secord legal defense fund.
The fund-raisers estimated a trial would have
cost him another $600,000.
The government will move to dismiss the 1 1
remaining criminal charges pending against Se
cord, who was scheduled to go on trial next Mon
day. Eight of the charges relate to allegations of
false testimony to Congress in 1987 focusing on
his profits in the Iran-Contra affair. He also is
charged with three counts involving gratuities
for North.
“We are satisfied that this is a fair, just and re
sponsible solution to a difficult case,” said asso
ciate independent counsel Reid Weingarten, the
head of the three-member prosecution team in
the Secord case.
To date, four people including Secord have
pleaded guilty to various crimes in the Iran-Con
tra affair. North is appealing his jury conviction
of three felonies and trials are pending for Poin
dexter, Secord’s business partner Hakim and for
mer CIA station chief Joseph Fernandez.
A pre-trial court hearing for Hakim is>—
tiled for Thursday before U.S. Districi 'ol
Judge Gerhard Gesell. H|
Pleading guilty in the affair in March**
mer National Security Adviser Robert \!J
lane, who was placed on probation and:
$20,000 for withholding information from(|
gress.
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Secord could face up to five years in pnv
the false statement plea. The judge, who.
both sides for court filings on whethermaxi^p
lines applicable under the law are $10,Of(Hp
$250,000, set no date for sentencing.
Secord told the judge that “I was
shield Ixnh of us” when he denied toconptjp
nal investigators that he gave anything to
Secord also helped set up a $200,0001:|<
ance fund for the education of North’schii®®
stated a prosecution document outlini!
dence in support of his guilty plea.
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day
the
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In his congressional testimony in 1987,\
said he knew nothing of the $200,000 be:-.
aside in the account. But prosecutors &
court papers that Secord informed North val ’
fund shortly af ter it was opened.
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but there are improvements which
need to be made.
“Wilder, who had an excellent re
cord as Lt; Governor, should have
won hands down according to polls
taken earlier in the race, but instead
the results were very close,” Hernan
dez said. “I believe this happened
because many whites chickened out
at the voter’s booth and didn’t vote
for him like they said they would in
polls.”
Nika Davis, a political science ma
jor from Waco, said he believes the
election of Wilder and Dinkins
proves that persons will usually vote
for the most qualified person run
ning for a position no matter what
race he may be.
“Issues, not race should be consid
ered,” Davis said. “Often times peo
ple vote for a person based on his
color which can be a problem be
cause skin color has nothing to do
with a person’s political abilities.”
Curtis Franks, an executive offi
cer in the Black Awareness Commit
tee, said he thinks the number of
blacks in office will increase if blacks
become more involved inpofcjf"
Franks, .i freshman jour^ j
major from Huntsville said. L.j
need to get involved in all elf:”
and not just in elections wilt o,
candidates. Many blacks voift^p
Jessie Jackson in the primarieH
txfcause he is black and IdoniillL
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first guy tried to take my flag,”
Danke said.
avoid a confrontation or block any
one’s view, he said. At the end of the
second game, which Houston won,
Danke again waved the flag.
After this, Danke said, a group of
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A&M now is that there is a
narrowmindedness, maybe
a blind devotion to your
school that overrides
important things like the
law and the constitution.”
Danke and his companion moved
to seats in the section by the
scoreboard, and sat behind every
one, he said. After he waved the
Houston flag again, the group of
students sat behind him. Danke said
he had invitations to “step outside,”
taunts “to go home” and obscenities
yelled at him.
“I’ll respect your traditions if you
respect mine. I was just trying to
support my team. My perception of
A&M now is that there is a narrow
mindedness, maybe a blind devotion
to your school that overrides impor
tant things like the law and the con
stitution. My First Amendment
rights were violated. Attempted rob
bery, assault and battery are crimes.”
The guys who go to volleyball By
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Michael Danke
A&M students surrounded him and
his girlfriend.
“They were yelling at me and the
“I have my own tradition of stand
ing up on my team’s last point of the
game,” Danke said. “When I stood
up I got hard taps on the shoulder.”
Danke said he was shaken by the
verbal and physical abuse he re
ceived.
“Who needs that?” he asked. “I
thought A&M had a tradition of
sportsmanship and patriotism, and I
respected that. Never once did I say
antning negative about A&M. The
only things I said were pro-Univer-
sity of Houston.
The same patrol officer that
warned Danke had to escort him and
his girlfriend from the premisis.
Danke said some A&M stuaents fol
lowed them as they left.
The next day Danke wrote a letter
to The Battalion saying that he “had
been wronged.”
Head Yell Leader Waylan Cain
said he asked Danke not to run
around the home side with his flag.
“I didn’t want him behind our
fans because I didn’t think it was
necessary,” Cain said. “I thought
that what did end up happening
might, so that’s why I warned him.
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