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O ’Neill is likely to prevail / page 4 In Bolton: ‘Castle- suits firefighters British Open: Azinger gives title away / page 11 just fine / page 3 iMaurlirBlrr) Mddchfister A City ol l/illdqf! Chnnii HrralJi Monday, July 20.1987 30 Cents Secrets for hostabes Poindexter By Lorry Morgosok eral Edwin Meese last Nov., 26, that The Associated P-ess Poindexter was generally aware of the diversion, the rear admiral Hamsterfng WASHINGTON - Former Na said; ” I didn’t suggest that Mr. tional Security Adviser John Poin Meese say that. You’ll have to ask It up dexter tesUfied today that adminis him about i t . ... I don’t plan to.” tration officials “ weren’t telling Poindexter Insisted throughout Raymond Hodgdon, everything that we knew’ ’ last fall that he sought to inform members as the Iran-contra affair became left, watches 10-year- of Congrees accurately once offi public, in hopes that the hostages cials decided last November to old Michael Shannon remaining in Lebanon might still be inform them of the facts behind the freed. as he holds Joseph, a Iran-contra affair. But he denied that he deliberately But he conceded it was ’’inartful” pet hamster brought misled members of Congress after to say that all the weapons shipp^ In for the recreation the decision was made to go public. to Iran would have fit inside one Testifying for the fourth day. aircraft. He said North was the one department’s Pet Day Poindexter listened while several who provided that detail for him, on Friday at Nathan lawmakers expressed irritation at and ” I didn’t sit down and do the the way members of Congress were Hale School. calculations.” informed last fall, ‘"rhe reason for Reagan, however, picked up that not misleading the Congress is a point and repeated in bis Nov. 13 Herald photo byTuckar very practical one,” said Rep speech to the nation on the Iranian Richard Cheney, R-Wyo. initiative. "It’s stupid. It’s self-defeating,” Poindexter said he didn’t recall Cheney said, ” ... Eventually you at the time he made the stsitement destroy the president’s that 18 HAWK missiles had been Truce resolution won’t stop fight credibility.” shipped to Iran, and then later Poindexter also said he was returned. By Barry Schweld dule to see Secretary-General Jav old Persian Gulf war. aware that Lt. Col. Oliver North But Cheney and other lawmakers The Associated Press cuse for American intervention in helped conduct a secret resupply ier Perez de Cuellar immediately The Security Council has adopted made clear their dissatisfaction as the gulf. He was quoted as saying program for the Nicaraguan reb after arriving in New York instead several cease-fire resolutions in the the subject turned to a president’s UNITED NATIONS - Secretary the U.N. draft was defective els, but said he didn’t consider of going straight to the United past, and Iran has rejected all of requirement to keep Congress of State George Shultz met with the because it failed to punish Iraq as elements of that to be an "act of States U.N. mission across the them. The preliminary draft of the informed about covert activities. United Nations secretary-general street. the aggressor. war.” resolution now under consideration "In the effort to win the struggle today In advance of a Security After Vernon Walters, the U.S. He said he periodically informed Shultz and Western foreign min lacks the teeth U.S.‘ officials have of the moment damage may have Council meeting expected to adopt ambassador to the United Nations, isters were expected to take part in pressed for, but U.S. officials hope President Reagan of certain as been done long term,” said Cheney, a cease-fire resolution in the flew to Moscow and Beijing, U.S. pects of the resupply effort. He said the Security Council meeting, sche to win passage in late summer of a who is a supporter of contra aid and Iran-Iraq war. officials said last week the ^ v ie t Reagan knew that North was the duled to begin at 3 p.m. foliow-up resolution calling for an who served as chief of staff under But the diplomatic victory the Union and China had given their principal National Security Council All five permanent members of arms embargo against either com President Gerald R. Ford in the United States won by garnering approval in principle to the pro aide on the project. the Security Council — the United batant that breaks the cease-fire. mid-1970s. support for the. resolution was posed arms embargo. Poindexter showed flashes of States, the Soviet Union, China, Iran’s foreign minister, Ali Ak- The morning also produced a marred by an Iranian threat to keep As permanent Security Council combativeness as questions arose Britain and France — were ex bar Velayati, said Sunday on moment of humor when Poindexter fighting. members, the SovieU and China about his credibility. pected to’ support the resolution to Tehran Radio that the U.S.- assured Cheney that he had not Shultz switched his original sche stop fighting in the nearly 7-year- could block the resolution with a Asked about a news conference engineered resolution was an ex veto. statement........ made byj Attorney v»cii-Gen Ploeee inm to page 10 Fobs of dooth ponolty turn to Congross oftot loss In court By David Pace not sufficient to prove the law a landmark voting rights case in Prior to that 1980 decision, election system is unlawful If it The Associated Press violated the Constitution’s guaran ing racial discrimination In the use which blacks challenged the at- hundreds of at-large election sys results in racial discrimination, tee of equal protection to all large system of election used by the tems across the South had been of the death penalty. WASHINGTON — Death penalty citizens. regardless of whether it was opponents are drawing on the Mobile, Ala., city commission as invalidated by Judges who ruled the created or maintained with a The Justices said a capital racially biased. systems were biased simply be McDuff’s testimony to the House history of the voting rights move discriminatory intent. Judiciary subcommittee on crimi defendant must show direct evi In rejecting that challenge, the cause they had resulted in the ment to develop strategy for their nal Justice fell on receptive ears. dence of intentional discrimination court ruled that blacks must show exclusion of blacks from public next attack on capital punishment. Robert McDuff, an attorney with The chairman of the panel. Rep. by Judges, Juries or prosecutors intentional discrimination in the office for decades. The Supreme Court ruled in April the Lawyers Committee for Civil John Conyers, D-Mich., already before his death sentence can be adoption or maintenance of an But the Mobile decision effec that statistical evidence of racial overturned. Rights Under Law, told a House has drafted legislation that would election system before that system tively ended such lawsuits until discrimination in the application of Seven years earlier, the Supreme panel last week that the voting permit the use of statistical evi Georgia’s death penalty law was c a n b e struck down as 1982, when Congress amended the rights movement provides a m ^ e l Court had used similar reasoning in unconstitutional. dence to prove racial discrimina Voting Rights Act to declare that an for congressional action in address- tion in death sentencing. Game ordinance Postal unions cut will air tonight wage hike request By George Layng Herald Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) - Leaders Biller said, “ It would be of the Postal Service’s two largest counterproductive.” Opponents and supporters of the controversial unions said today they have cut Strikes by postal workers are Laserquest amusement center planned for East Middle their wage requests and called on illegal under federal law. ’Turnpike will gather once again tonight, this time to the Postal Service to respond with a The negotiations resumed Sun debate a proposed ordinance that would prohibit the “ fair and decent offer.” day after a four-day break cau s^ business from opening. The no-strike contract with the by a dispute over the earlier The measure would prevent all amusement centers American Postal Workers Union setUement with the mail handlers. from opening within 1,000 feet of schools, senior citizen and the National Association of That agreement has been at the housing, convalescent homes and hospitals, group Letter Carriers expires at midnight center of much of the dispute homes and churches. The proposed Laserquest site, the tonight. The pact covers 580,000 between the Postal Service and the former Mott’s Shop Rite building at 587 E. Middle workers. larger unions, with Biller and Turnpike, is a few hundred feet from senior citizen The two sides held lengthy Sombrotto charging that the agree housing and a group home. sessions Sunday. If they are unable ment is being used as a club in their At previous public hearings held on the issue by the to agree before the expiration of the contract talks. town Board of Directors, opponents presented most of contract, a complex arbitration They contend the Mail Handlers the testimony to town officials. Led by the citizens’ procedure could come into play. pact includes a “ me too” clause group LOOM, which stands for Lasergames Out of Presidents Moe Biller of the which would bring that union up to Manchester, residents andclergy have complained that postal workers and Vincent R. the same level of benefits achieved Laserquest would create traffic, noise and crime Sombrotto of the letter carriers later by the other two unions. problems for neighbors.