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2The Daily Tar Heel Monday, December 1, 1986 AdlveFtnning9 fund made Price's wtomiig recipe By DONNA LEINWAND Assistant State A National Editor The recent congressional elections are a much truer indication of the direction politics will take in the future than the 1980 and 1984 elections were. Representative-elect David Price (D-4th District) told about 35 people at a UNC Young Democrats meeting Tuesday night in the Union. "The Democratic performance nationally was very encouraging," he said. lt points to a Democratic resurgence all over the country." He said many "relatively weak" Republican candidates who were elected in 1980 on President Ronald Reagan's coattails ran for re-election in 1986. Price said five election "ingre dients" contributed to his win. He said although getting out to meet the people is effective, television advertising is a necessary ingredient. NSC aide From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON A fired White House aide apparently used profits from Iranian arms sales to build a small, American-manned air force that delivered weapons to Nicara guan Contra rebels this year, accord ing to U.S. government officials and documents from the operation. Lt. Col. Oliver North, fired last week for his role in diverting as much as $30 million through Swiss bank accounts, had managed a broader Genesis junior who took his place near the end of the line early Sunday. Diodati and others felt some ground-rules should be established to prevent "some 350-pound guy from just walking up Tuesday and taking a place at the front of the line." The complicated rules were agreed to by mutual consent, although some were feverishly argued by different fac tions in line, he said. The rules, which are based on "simple respect for the person next to you" hold that people can occupy their spots in shifts, and can wander around the area to dry areas with the consent of others near you, but campers can't leave. There will be a roll-call one hour f before tickets go on sale Tuesday and i only those present will be eligible to i buy them. A pending resolution held that people in line could add friends to the list before Tuesday, but the "TV is important," he said "I could go to barbeques from now until Doomsday." A second concern for Price was name recognition. "(Former Rep. Bill Cobey) could send out free mail," he said. Price said he countered with television advertisements beginning with biographical spots and pro gressing to issue-related commercials. "Early in the general election (television advertisements) closed the name recognition gap," he said. Price was nine points behind Cobey on Oct. I. Money also played a big part in his election. Price said. "Cobey was in a better position to raise money," he said. "We raised a large amount of money from small contributors. It wasn't mainly PACs (political action committees). It wasnH mainly large contributors." ran air force to supply Contras Contra aid network for two years with President Reagan's approval, despite a congressional ban on U.S. military aid to the rebels. White House officials have said. Although that assistance enabled the Contras to continue fighting, the rebels still had trouble supplying troops operating inside Nicaragua. One government source said Sunday that problem may have led North to create an air supply wing for the Contras and turn to money from from page 1 issue was still being hotly debated Sunday afternoon. The conflict between the desire to get tickets and outside responsibil ities created by the three- to five-day ticket vigil was also discussed. Swing felt he could get back to ASU Tuesday afternoon, missing only three or four classes. Diodati felt missing Monday's classes would be offset by the opportunity to catch up on exam readings. Howie Huffines said his employ ers in Raleigh, "will just have to understand." Near the middle of the line, Jack Ellis, of Marion, N.C., sat on a vinyl Tar Heel cushion in the cold drizzle, protected only by an umbrella. The 24-year-old said he was glad to do his part for prime Genesis tickets. "But they didnt say anything about sitting in the rain," he added. raise! Price said he contacted all the people who contributed to Jim Hunt's campaign for senator in 1984. "Once people are on that list, they never get off," he said. Price said the elections cost about $800,000 and Price raised about $700,000. "To raise that much money for a House race in this district was unheard of," Price said, "lt appalls me that campaigns cost this much. I would like to sec reasonable limits t set." Party and campaign organization also contributed to the win, Price said. Phone banks were especially effective, he said. Finally, his handling of the issues helped him win, Price said. "It was a campaign theme that came to me naturally and that was a positive campaign," he said. "Politics ought to be something we are proud of. The other side kept the Iranian arms sales to pay for it. In explaining North's firing from the National Security Council staff last Tuesday, Attorney General Edwin Meese said only North "knew precisely" about the Iran-Contra connection and his boss, National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who resigned, "did know that some thing of this nature was occurring." But congressional investigators have begun examining how an operation as large as the Contra air supply mission, based at El Salva dor's Ilopango airport in clear view of U.S. military advisers, could have been funded from Iranian arms sales without Reagan and other top officials knowing. U.S. government officials, famil iar with the North operation and insisting on anonymity, said that although the Iranian-Contra line was a closely held secret inside the White House, North's management of the air operation was known to officials in the State Department, the Pen tagon, the CIA and the council. "Everyone knew something was going on down there and that Ollie (North) was doing it," one official said. The air operation came to light Oct. 5 when an American-manned C-123K cargo plane was shot down over southern Nicaragua while flying guns to the Contras. Two Americans were killed, and one crewman, Eugene Hasenfus, is now a prisoner Making the Right Decision: THE PHILIP MORRIS PERSPECTIVE The right career decision is always an informed decision. You are invited to explore opportunities with America's largest consumer products company, and learn about our perspective on corporate and individual growth. 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Documents recovered from the plane and interviews with principals show that the Ilopango operation was a major supply effort, involving more than 100 flights dating back to early 1986. Reagan secretly authorized U.S. arms sales to Iran in January. Over several months early this year, the air wing obtained two C I23K cargo planes, two DHC-4 "Caribou" supply planes and one light Maule plane, particularly effective on short runways, accord ing to Hasenfus, and documents on two planes. Other documents, obtained by The Associated Press, show South ern Air Transport of Miami, a onetime CIA-owned company, pay ing for repairs and installation of electronic gear aboard the planes. Southern Air spokesman William Kress said the company was re imbursed for costs related to the program, but he would not say who ultimately paid the bills. "We just don't divulge those practices," Kress said. Southern Air, which the CIA sold in 1973, also appears to have been involved in the transfer of weapons to Iran, flying four missions in the first half of 1986-from Kelly Air " Force Base in Texas, where some of the Iranian weapons originated, to Tel Aviv, U.S. Transportation Department records show. Reagan begins 'secret' plan to th wart foreign espionage From Associated Prats reports i ; WASHINGTON - President Reagan is secretly implementing a sweeping overhaul of the nation's defenses against foreign spies that calls for more than 100 security changes from the doors of defense plants to communica tions satellites in space, White House and congressional officials said. The 4.2 million Americans with access to secret data will face tougher and more frequent back ground investigations. New res trictions may be placed on the ability of Soviet bloc diplomats to buy computers and telecom munications equipment on the open market in this country. The changes are the product of studies begun by Reagan's National Security Council staff in 1981 and consultations through out the government and Congress. Aquino has last word MANILA, Philippines President Corazon Aquino told the women's club of the Asian Development Bank Sunday that the men who doubt her ability to govern are just big talkers and called her predecessor, Ferdinand E. Marcos, "not the last to pay" for underestimating her. She called others who have challenged her in recent weeks "a crop of garrulous men with better and brighter ideas on how to run my government. ... I would like to think that 1 have managed to have the last word and the last task of having to put things back in order after these men were finished." In other developments, the Communist Party said that des pite a cease-fire agreement with the government, "revolutionary armed struggle" remains its main goal, and the armed forces chief called on his troops to remain vigilant during the truce. Police stopped about 3,000 leftists en route to the presidential For ihe In Friday's article, "Student Con gress rejects referendum on vice president," The Daily Tar Heel incorrectly reported the vote on the Project Uplift bill. Actually, Jim Wooten, not Paul ' Winter, voted against the bill Also, Neil Reimann made the motion to table the bill indefinitely, not Jaye Sitton, as was reported. News in Cricf palace to demand justice in the slaying of their leader, Rolango Olalia. Drunk drivers evading test WASHINGTON - National statistics on drunk driving and fatal accidents are inaccurate because police let most drivers leave the scene without being tested for alcohol abuse, accord ing to a new study released Sunday. The report by the Crime Con trol Institute, a non-profit research organization of law enforcement officials, found that many drunken drivers in fatal accidents are escaping prosecu tion because they aren't given a blood-alcohol test. Of the 32,000 drivers who survived accidents involving fatalities in 1984, more than 75 percent left the scene without being tested for alcohol abuse, said the report. More than 25 percent of drivers who were killed in fatal accidents were not tested for blood alcohol concentration. Overall, only 45 percent of all drivers in fatal accidents were tested for alcohol abuse. Pope condemns abortion PERTH, Australia Pope John Paul II lashed out at abor tion as an "unspeakeable crime" at his final Mass in Australia on Sunday and reiterated the Roman Catholic church's opposition to contraception and sterilization. 44 As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live," he told 60,000 people during a service in this city on the Indian Ocean. "Can the pope come to Aus tralia and fail to ask Australian couples and families to reflect in their hearts how well they are living their Christian love?" the pope asked. Record Also, the DTH incorrectly reported in an article on wedding gifts Nov. 25 that the Chinaberry Craft Gallery was located on East Franklin Street. The shop has recently moved to Kroger Plaza on East Elliot Road. The Daily Tar Heel regrets these reporting errors.
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