The Nation - News from May 30, 1986
A New York magistrate set $750,000 bail for a retired Israeli general implicated in a plot to sell U.S.-made arms to Iran. A lawyer for retired Brig. Gen. Avraham Bar-Am, 52, argued against a request by federal prosecutors that he be jailed without bail. Bar-Am was among five men deported Wednesday to the United States from Bermuda. They are accused of plotting to sell an estimated $2.1-billion worth of weapons to Iran in violation of a U.S. arms embargo.
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