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No pardon for North, Poindexter other options that might achieve that objective, but he again discounted the possibility that Reagan would call the two former aides to the White House in the hope of gaining additional facts on the clandestine operations. The president has said that he knew nothing of the diversion of Iranian arms sale profits to the contras. Speakes also held out little hope that Reagan would appear before Congress to answer questions or make an address, which had been suggested last week by a close political confidant, Sen. Paul LaxalL believed that Poindexter and North should go before Congress and tell what they know about the Iran-contra affair to provide the public and the Congress with answers. "The president feels strongly that these two men hold the key to resolution of this matter, that they should speak out consistent with their constitutional right," he said.

"They should consult their attorneys and seek a way to be able to speak out on this matter so that tile nation can put it behind us." Speakes would not discuss whether Reagan was considering That could make it more advantageous for Poindexter to testify out of concern that North could tie him to possible wrongdoings. At the time of Ford's pardon of Nixon in 1974, some legal experts and congressional officials speculated that the pardon would make it easier for the former president to testify in forthcoming trials of aides, who were accused of obstruction of justice in the Watergate scandal. Nixon, however, never had to appear as a witness in the court proceedings. Speakes said the president still Continued from Page Al pardon or narrower pardon, which I'm not sure is possible, he'd have to word it in such a way that in that case then, they only would be able to testify within that narrow range that the pardon covered and would not be able to testify outside of the pardon. So, we just don't think it works." White House officials have said that Reagan was not considering at this point asking Congress in effect to play Poindexter off North by asking immunity for only the latter.

BSO wants to buy land near Tanglewood purchase price in exchange for his agreeing to several restrictions on the use of his property designed to ensure that he would not be a disruptive neighbor. However, in 1976 and 1977, Harding complained vigorously about the sound levels coming from Tanglewood's summer series of Popular Artists Concerts. He sued Tanglewood, asking for an injunction regulating sound levels and for monetary damages for problems cause by young trespassers who cut through his property to sneak into the concerts. The suits were later withdrawn. money he makes on the sale.

Hibbard indicated that he had not considered the possibility of conflict of interest and said he would ask Smithers to explain Harding's position. When Beacco complained that Smithers acted as town counsel, Hibbard said he and Smithers would attend next Monday's meeting to make their case. Complained about noise Harding bought the land abutting Tanglewood in 1960. The BSO, perceiving him to be a sympathetic neighbor, loaned him part of the ter said Cook would not represent the BSO in this matter. About 20 minutes later, as the Selectmen continued to express their dissatisfaction with the amount of information they possessed, Hibbard telephoned.

His remarks, also aired on the conference line, addressed the need for speed. The new federal tax law that goes into effect Jan. 1 is the reason for expediting the matter, he said. The new law in-. creases the capital gains tax.

Thus, it is in Harding's interest to sell his property before Jan. 1 in order to avoid an raise in the tax on the Task force urges cutting fuel standards A10 The Berkshire Eagle, Tuesday, December 23, 1986 In the Nation Voyager logs last lap of global journey United Press International The globe-spanning Voyager and crew yesterday headed up the coast of Mexico toward a landing early today on the desert east of Los Angeles. The experimental aircraft, pushed by favorable winds, was expected to arrive at Edwards Air Force Base about 1 a.m. EST today, completing an unprecedented 10-day around-the-world trip without refueling. "We can't slow him down, so he'll circle overhead and come down once the sun is up," said Burt Rutan, designer of the aircraft and brother of pilot Dick Rutan.

Rutan and co-pilot Jeana Yeager were expected to be met by hundreds of reporters at Edwards Air Force Base on the same runway used by several space shuttle missions. The pilots were cruising yesterday up the coast of Mexico with less than 1,600 miles to go. They had planned to land at 7 a.m. PST today (10 a.m. EST).

Project officials yesterday stopped giving precise locations for the spindly aircraft, fearing that a flock of aviation buffs and news crews would try to intercept the plane, possibly threatening the last leg of its journey. 9 die as station wagon strikes truck HILLJE, Texas (LTD A station wagon carrying 10 people home to Illinois from a funeral in Mexico smashed into a parked truck, killing nine people and injuring one, officials said yesterday. Authorities said the driver, Alvaro Sanches Gil, 22, of Cicero, 111., may have fallen asleep at the wheel after driving all night. In addition to Gil, the dead were identified as his wife, Juanita Gil, 26; their daughter, Christina Gil, Marino Vega, 29; his wife, Laura Vega, 28; Maria Rodriguez, 36; and her daughters, Gracie, 10; Laura, 2, and Melissa, 4. Rodriguez' son, Luis, 7, suffered a broken shoulder and was in stable condition at El Campo Memorial Hospital.

Department of Public Safety spokesman Mike Cox said the station wagon veered off U.S. Highway 59 at 11:50 p.m. Sunday and plowed into the rear of the truck, which was legally parked on the highway shoulder. The truck driver, Roberto Martinez Saenz, 24, "of San Antonio, was unhurt. One family returns to lava-damaged area KALAPANA, Hawaii (LTD Residents were allowed yesterday to return to the lava-ravaged Kalapana Gardens subdivision, but only one family immediately moved back.

Paul Beasley, his wife and young daughter were back in their two-story home yesterday. "I have nowhere else to go right now," Beasley said. "It's kind of expensive to live anywhere else. This is all we can do for now." More than 150 people were evacuated from the coastal hamlet where 17 homes were destroyed last week by lava from Mount Kilauea. Another lava flow four weeks ago wiped out 12 nearby The volcano was still pumping lava, scientists said, but the flows were not threatening populated areas.

Kilauea is on the island of Hawaii, 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. Alcohol use down 4, survey shows NEW YORK (UPD Americans have cut their consumption of alcohol by 4 percent, with Washington, D.C., the highest and Utah the driest state in the nation, a survey released yesterday showed. The new report, based on previously unpublished 1984 data from the National Institutes of Health, also confirmed that 10 percent of the population drinks half of all liquor and that Americans are starting to drink at an increasingly younger age. Margaret Mushinski, an epidemiologist who prepared the report for Metropolitan Life Insurance said two-thirds of American adults drink alcohol on a regular basis, but overall consumption is falling. From 1980 to 1984, per capita consumption" of alcohol dropped from 2.76 gallons to 2.64 gallons, a 4 percent decline, she said.

In the nation's capital, consumption declined by just .04 percent during that time, leaving the district with the highest rate of 5.34 gallons of alcohol consumed per person. Most of it was wine, the survey said. New dads have doubts, survey says NEW YORK (UPD More than half of expectant and recent American fathers sometimes doubt their paternity, a study revealed yes-terday. Jerrold Lee Shapiro, a psychologist at the University of Santa Clara, based his study on interviews between 1981 and 1985 with 227 men. He reported yesterday in Psychology Today that more than half the men he interviewed expressed "nagging doubts" that the babies their wives were expecting, or had already delivered, were really their own.

"For most of them, such fears were based less on any real concern that the wife had been unfaithful than on a general insecurity brought on by being part of something as monumental as the creation of life," Shapiro reported. He also said some fathers feared that their babies had been mixed up at the hospital. the 27.5 mpg required for model year 1985 cars. Chrysler Corp. took issue with the task force proposal, saying: "Throwing out fuel-economy standards just a day after OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries unilaterally raised the world price for oil means we are setting ourselves up for a third oil shock.

the minimum standards, it has to pay stiff penalties. The task force recommendation came three months after the Transportation Department decided to relax the fuel economy standards for 1987 and 1988 model year cars. The department, through its National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, relaxed the standards to 26 miles per gallon, down from Billboard ermits WASHINGTON (LTD A presidential task force said yesterday the administration should, consider recommending to Congress that fuel economy standards for passenger cars be eliminated to protect jobs in the domestic auto industry. The task force on regulatory relief, created by President Reagan, said the current legislation places U.S. "automakers in a competitive disadvantage, createsjeconomic distortions and causes the exports of jobs abroad." Given the "dramatic improvements" in fuel supplies and lower prices, Reagan should consider recommending to Congress that these mileage standards be abolished, said the task force directed by Vice President George Bush.

If Reagan agrees with the task force, he could draw up the congressional recommendations early next year, administration officials said. The current regulations the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards designate the average -mileage of an automaker's entire fleet. If an automaker fails to attain Continued from Page Al to be completed by Jan. 1. He said the BSO did not want to be saddled with the forest-management stipulations Harding had negotiated with the town in order to have his taxes reduced.

No development plans He said the BSO had "no time to think about plans" for the property. Harding's house is 500 feet from the Tanglewood Shed, and he said it was "terribly important to us to control that property." He added that the BSO had "no plans to develop" the site. Under the agreement negotiated, Harding would continue to live there until March 1988, though the BSO would have the deed. In response to Beacco's concern about three lawyers from the same firm being in potential conflict, Kit- Hall Continued from Page Al crowded room of reporters at government offices in central Managua. Two Interior Ministry agents stood behind him during the presentation.

One agent held a pair of handcuffs, but Hall was not bound during the time he was seen by reporters. He seemed relatively calm, though he clenched his fist occasionally. Hall, described by President Daniel Ortega as "mentally unbalanced," said he was involved in efforts to form an "American foreign legion" called the Phoenix Battalion that was conceived in a 1984 meeting at the Pentagon. He said he was interviewed at CIA headquarters in Langley, following the Pentagon meeting. But he said the group was to be independent.

Speaking Sunday on the CBS News program "60 Minutes," Hall said he began forming the Phoenix Battalion with the support of two retired U.S, naval officers, but the work was privately funded. He said he was the last remaining member of the group, which once had 540 members. The two retired naval officers, Capt. William Hamilton and Cmdr. Francis Fane, confirmed they had encouraged Hall's mission, "60 Minutes" said.

Hall also told the news conference he had been an "adviser" in Honduras to U.S.-backed rebels fighting the Managua government and an "observer" of the contras in Nicaragua. He claimed to have been trained as a commando in Israel and served as "a counterterrorist" in Africa and Central America, including in 'Nicaraguan rebel camps based in Honduras, the program reported. said, he favors increasing the Outdoor Advertising Board's budget so that it can1 hire inspectors to check that sign permits are obeyed. Hodgkins said he believes that many billboards across the state are illegal because they have signs on both sides, although their permits call for only one side to bear advertising. "It's a very common violation, but with no inspectors, the sign companies never get caught," he said.

Continued from Page Al Because of the cost of removing billboards, Hodgkins said, "the only realistic way" to go about reducing their numbers is a "piecemeal approach" of removing signs in particularly scenic or environmentally sensitive areas, while allowing them in other locations. He said he plans to file state legislation to create a fund to pay for gradual elimination of some billboards each year. In addition, he IT OPEN 'TIL TONIGHT 9 P.M. EAST ST. VIDEO would like to extend the warmest holiday wishes to you and your family.

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Lawyers for the neighboring nations of the Republic of Mali and Burkina Faso praised as equitable the court's decision, which divided roughly in half a disputed area known as the Agacher The former French colonies have waged war twice in 12 years over each other's claims to the strip of arid land. Mutual air strikes during the last conflict on Christmas Day 1985 caused hundreds of casualties. In its decision, a five-member panel of judges from the International Court of Justice, known as the World Court, painstakingly set a new border along the disputed zone relying on maps and documents from French colonial archives. The court, the judicial arm of the United Nations, has no power to enforce its decisions. Boy George in seclusion after arrest LONDON (UPD Pop singer Boy George remained in seclusion at his posh London mansion yesterday, "devastated" by his weekend drug arrest and the overdose death of a friend hours after their release from custody, the singer's family said.

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