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were injured, some permanent
ly crippled, and eight, in
cluding Portland reporter Linda
Frazier, were killed in the
bombing.
While perhaps few people
have heard of the Christie In
stitute. many will be familiar
with its work. The Institute suc
cessfully represented the Karen
Silkwood estate in its suit
agonist the Kerr-McGee nuclear
corporation, proving employees
of Kerr-McGee entered
Silk wood's home and
deliberately contaminated it
with plutonium, a toxic
radioactive substance used to
make nuclear weapons.
The Christie institute also
won a lawsuit against the Ku
Klux Klan for violating the civil
rights of several demonstrators
whom the Klan shot to death at
a rally in Greensborough. N. C.,
in July 1984.
The Institute won an appeal
in the defense of Catholic
workers in the Sanctuary Move
ment charged with violating im
migration laws in Brownsville.
Texas, in March 1984.
It also represented victims of
the Three Mile Island nuclear
disaster.
The institute’s current
lawsuit generates some skep
ticism. The Reagan Administra
tion calls it a "minor
nuisance." Defendant Richard
Secord called the it "pure
fantasy."
In the meantime, however.
Secord has spent $130,000 of
the money from the sale of arms
to Iran to have operatives "dig
up dirt on the people doing the
lawsuit." Davis said. The
federal court in Miami refused a
defense motion to dismiss the
suit, and two Congressional
comittees, the Senate Foreign
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Bill Davis
Relations Committee chaired by
John F. Kerry, D-Mhss., and a
House Judiciary Subcommittee
chaired by Congressman Bill
Hughes. I)., N.J., are looking in
to the Institute's allegations.
They will be holding hearings
on Contra drug smuggling
within a couple of weeks, Davis
said.
This case is a watershed and
could go either way, Davis said.
It could be a chance to "take our
democracy back," or it could
become "the biggest cover-up
yet," he said.
A lot depends on the media,
which have given scant
coverage to the lawsuit so far.
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to flight insurance for the Con
tras at U S. taxpayers' expense.
Defazio went on to praise the
Contradora and Arias peace
plans. He said he believed
Reagan never wanted to deal
peacefully w'ith the Sandinistas.
"In early September (1984)
we hailed this (peace plan) as a
tremendous breakthrough. Two
weeks later, unexpectedly, the
Nicaraguans agreed to accept
the Contradora proposal.
"Suddenly the next day we
found it to be totally objec
tionable. The United States
turned 180 degrees. . . . We
were not able to satisfactorily
explain why ..one day we
found it acceptable and when
the Nicaraguans agreed to it, it
wasn’t." Defazio said.
Although he said he didn't
wholly support the Sandinistas.
citing suppression of public
meriting and press freedoms, he
applauded them for making
concessions — in some cases
going beyond those made by
neighboring countries.
Defazio said the Contra aid
vote before the House Feb. 3
will be close, but expects the
House will succeed in killing
funding of the insurgents once
and for all.
Defazio explained the vote
will hinge on the votes of con
servative southern Democrats
who are afraid of being labled
pro-communist and are thus
easy prey to administration
political pressure.
When a member of the au
dience asked why Defazio
thought Reagan was so "freaked
out" about the Sandinistas, the
congressman rubbed his eyes
and joked. “1 don't know,
maybe it was something from
his childhood."
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