Iran-Contra Inquiry Extended
A federal judge today gave the grand jury investigating the Iran-Contra affair an additional six months to complete its work, after federal prosecutors apparently indicated that they want to continue investigating Contra resupply operations in Central America.
U.S. District Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. ordered the jury, which would have been dissolved July 28, to continue its work through Jan. 27, 1989. That would extend its original 18-month authority into the term of the next President. Robinson’s order referred to a sealed request from independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh.
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