Counts Against North Left Intact
A federal judge today rejected Oliver L. North’s six remaining motions for dismissal of charges in the Iran-Contra scandal, apparently leaving the threatened disclosure of national security secrets as the final unresolved pretrial issue.
In two orders, U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell left intact 14 criminal counts against North, who is accused of secretly assisting the Nicaraguan Contra rebels during a congressional ban on official U.S. aid. Meanwhile, Gesell conducted hearings for a third day on North’s challenges to deletions of classified materials in 395 documents that independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh proposes to submit as evidence.
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