European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Re Oncley january 20, 1993 . The stars and stripes d Pogo 6card shows Bush role in Contra Effort Washington apr a document in the hands of Iran Contra prosecutors indicates George hush asked president Josts Azcona Homo of Honduras in 1986 to help secretly move guns to the nicaraguan contras the opera lion Quot can he done with Dynin Billy Quot the document shows it has been known that than Prosl Dent Keagan made hush then vice president an emissary to Honduras in 1985 and 1986, hut it Wasny to known that hush s Mission in 1986 was to get Azcona to Quot assure a supplied front Quot that allowed Aldrict to reach the contras in their Battle with be leftist nicaraguan government. That message was inscribed on a note card titled Quot special talking Points Zeona Quot that summarized the instructions Keagan administration officials gave hush the memo shows that hush who has maintained he was Quot out of the Loop Quot for All of the Iran Contra scandal was deeply involved in the Reagan administration s Effort to film secret ways to help the contras militarily after Congress banned such help Iran Contra prosecutors have had the document for years and questioned hush about it extensively when they took his deposition fan 11,1988. Hut its existence was not Madem bloc until hush released a transcript of the deposition five Days before he left office wednesday. At the time of hush s meeting with Azcona Congress had banned . Military Aid to the nicaraguan rebels. Hut it was later Learned that White House aide Oliver a North had been operating a Clandestine arms pipeline to the contras through Honduras a a key element of the Iran Contra scandal. Hush lists denied knowing about North s resupply operation until it was exposed. And the document that came to Light this month does not mention the Marine lieutenant colonel or his network. I3ut in the deposition prosecutors quote from the card. It said a Quot Supply of the democratic resistance forces contrast Quot internal resistance in Nicaragua needs support and  a Quot armed resistance and their Supply. So we Hope in your Early Days As soon As possible you can take a took at Supply for the dry talk to your military and Tell the military to work out ways to assure a supplied front Quot the card also said Quot we president Reagan and i Hope we can work very quietly and discreetly with you. It can be done with deniability Quot hush told Iran Contra prosecutors and an i agent that he did no to recall the card although Quot i can to deny i received Quot it. Lie said he had several conversations with Azcona during the Jan. 2627, 1986, trip to Honduras and acknowledged that lie May have discussed re supplying the contras he also defended the message he was to deliver to Azcona on behalf of the Reagan administration. Quot i done to think that i should be prohibited from telling a Guy that i d like to see him help somebody else Quot hush told investigators. Hush is under criminal investigation by Independent counsel Lawrence 12. 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Liitt a new evidence too late to consider if i. A t appeals Are used up High court says Washington Al death Row inmates generally May not make new claims of innocence in Federal court after exhausting other appeals a divided supreme court ruled monday. In a 6-3 opinion that Drew a stinging dissent the court said executive clemency is the Quot historic remedy Quot to protect the truly innocent from being put to death. The court ruled in the Case of a Man convicted of murdering a police officer and its opinion limited the roles of judges in sparing innocent people from death. Quot we cannot say that Texas refusal to entertain Petitioner s newly discovered evidence eight years after his conviction transgresses a principle of fundamental fairness rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people a Quot chief Justice William h. A Ahnquist wrote for the majority. In a dissenting opinion Justice Harry a. Lac nmn said Quot the execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple  Iii other cases monday the justices a struck Down a comparatively lenient system of figuring tax Breaks for investors in Oil and Gas exploration. The ruling was expected to boost government revenues by at least $1 billion a year. A upheld the death sentence of a convicted Texas killer ruling he cannot Challenge a now discarded state Law that limited a jury s consideration of mitigating evidence a ruled in an Illinois ease that Crimi Nal co defendants who Point the blame at each other arc not necessarily entitled to separate trials. In the Texas ease a conc Herrera was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 killing of los Fresno police officer Enrique Enrri Walcz who had slopped him for speeding. I Lerr Cra also pleaded guilty to the shooting death of state police officer David Rucker earlier that night. State and Federal courts upheld he arc As. M k1�?T8 conviction and san Al / la la acc be Garri Walcz killing. Hut in 1990 he Slid Rob i a new a aim con a Niedt i lending that his brother in maj Raul who was killed in 1984, actually shot both police officers Raul Herrera s son Raul jr., swore that lie saw his father kill the two men. Raul Herrera s lawyer and two other men also said he had confessed to them. State courts refused to consider the claim citing a state Law that requires new evidence to be presented within 30 Days of a trial. A Federal judge granted Herrera a new hearing. Hut the 5th . Circuit court of appeals reversed saying that once courts have determined he received a fair trial a new claim of innocence does not warrant another look. Monday s ruling upheld the 5th circuit court s decision. Herrera argued that the constitutions Mill amendment guarantee of due pro Cess of Law entitled him to a new trial or at least a new sentencing. Hut a Ahnquist said Quot a claim of a actual innocence is not itself a constitutional  the supreme court has Quot found criminal process lacking Only where it offends some principle of Justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people As to be ranked As fundamental Quot actin quist said. Herrera s ease does not Racli that Standard a Ahnquist said. Quot this is not to say however that i Ler Rera is left without a forum to raise his actual innocence claim Quot the chief Justice said adding that the defendant could ask Texas governor for executive clemency Texas is one of 17 states that require requests for new trials based on newly discovered evidence to be fixed within 60 Days of judgment. Fifteen Stales allow such requests tube filed More than three years after conviction Justice Sandra Day o Connor said in a separate concurring opinion that Herrera Quot is not innocent in any sense of the word Quot because he was convicted in a trial that granted him full constitutional protections. Blackmun in a dissent joined by justices John caul Stevens and David ii. Souter said Quot nothing could be More contrary to contemporary standards of decency. Or More shocking to the conscience than to execute a person who is actually  Progress reported in Cabinet search washing Ion Al president Clinton and his advisers Are Quot making Progress Quot in their search for a new nominee for attorney general his press Secretary says. Clinton spent part of sunday afternoon in the Oval office meeting with personnel director Hrucz Lindsey White House counsel a Siqurd Nussbaum and Thomas Quot Mack Quot Mclarty his chief of staff. Casually dressed Clinton looked Over a Black notebook containing recommendations for the Post of top Law enforcement official lie would not answer reporters questions. On saturday be said he bad asked aides to develop More information on Quot three or four Quot prospects. A they re making Progress a said press seere taty dec Dee Myers. The search became  alter lawyer it Etc Haird of Hartford conn., asked Clinton to withdraw her Nomi nation last week because she had come under fire for hiring two illegal aliens to work in her Home the Wall Street journal reported monday that Patricia m. Wald chief judge of the . Court of appeals for the District of Columbia would accept the Post if Clinton offered it. Wald 64, had been Clinton s first Choice. She turned it Down however telling friends that she did t relish competing for the Post and would lose certain judicial benefits if she won it i he nod then went to Haird. Some people who know Wahl told 4 he Wall Street journal that site would now accept Clinton s nomination. Quot i do think Pat has changed her mind Quot according to an  lawyer quoted by die newspaper. A i tie Philadelphia no Lucr reported monday that Federal judge a Leon Higginbotham or. Of Philadelphia is also under consideration. Higginbotham 64, chief judge emeritus of the third . Circuit court of appeals had been considered a Prospect before Haird was nominated the newspaper reported. New York lawyer Susan Thomases a Friend of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has also been identified by Clinton aides As a Prospect. Other prospects for attorney general mentioned by transition White House and congressional aides in november included a new York slate appeals court judge Judith Kaye. A 2ml , circuit court of appeals judge Amalya Carse. A Stanford University professor Ami Burner Carter administration Justice department official  Habcock a Marian Wright a Dolman head of the children s defense fund and a close Friend of 1  Hutnan