Did Reagan Know? Did Poindexter Tell?

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LEAD: A raging, rain-swollen river in central Texas swept away a bus and a van full of teen-agers leaving a church camp today. Two of the 43 people in the vehicles died, and 8 were missing tonight and feared dead.

Texas River Engulfs Bus and Van; Two Are Dead and 8 Are Missing

LEAD: Despite Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter's testimony supporting the President's account, a majority of Americans still say that President Reagan lied when he said he did not know that money from the Iran arms sales was channeled to the Nicaraguan rebels, a New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.

A Majority in New Poll Still Find Reagan Lied on Iran-Contra Issue

LEAD: A Federal grand jury found that Lyn Nofziger illegally ''profited from the political reputation and influence'' he gained as a senior White House aide, according to an indictment unsealed here today.

DENIES WRONGDOING

LEAD: Senator Daniel K. Inouye, the Democratic chairman of the Senate investigative committee, today openly challenged the believability of Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter's testimony on the Iran-contra affair.

PANEL'S CHAIRMAN SAYS POINDEXTER LACKS CREDIBILITY

LEAD: France severed relations with Iran today, and each country prohibited the other's diplomats from leaving.

France Breaks Iran Ties and Isolates Embassy

LEAD: Anthony R. Ameruso, New York City's Transportation Commissioner from 1978 until his resignation last year, was convicted yesterday of lying under oath to a panel investigating governmental corruption.

Ex-New York Commissioner Is Convicted of Lying to Panel

LEAD: New, rebuilt and graffiti-free subway cars are luring people underground in numbers not seen in more than a decade, the Transit Authority reported yesterday.

Subways' Ridership Rises to 3.6 Million, Highest Since 1974

LEAD:  International 2-7  The believability of John Poindexter was challenged by the chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Iran-contra affair. But the Republican vice chairman of the committee said he believed the admiral. Page 1  Many people think the President lied when he said he did not know that money from the Iran arms sales went to the contras, despite Rear Adm.

NEW SUMMARY: SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1987

LEAD: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, bolstered by her recent election victory in Britain, made a one-day visit to Washington today and appeared to offer a message of reassurance to the American public about its President's stature.

Thatcher Visits Washington And Hails Reagan Leadership

LEAD: ''If the independent counsel wants my scalp, he will have to get it the old-fashioned way.''

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: In a major legal victory for the Vatican, Italy's highest court today annulled arrest warrants accusing an American Archbishop and two other Vatican bank executives of fraudulent complicity in the billion-dollar collapse of Banco Ambrosiano.

Top Italy Court Annuls Warrants Against 3 Vatican Bank Officials

LEAD: Economic good times have increased the chances of the right-of-center Social Democratic Party to gain a majority in general elections here Sunday.

SOCIAL DEMOCRATS LEAD IN PORTUGAL

LEAD: The Market Place column in Business Day on Thursday, about companies that distribute electronic parts, overstated the earnings that most analysts expect for Avnet Inc. Their consensus is that Avnet earned about 68 cents a share for the fiscal year, which ended June 30.

CORRECTIONS

LEAD: The chances are that for the nearly 200 silent, sweating competitors who passed through this little mountain hamlet on today's leg of the men's Tour de France, Valleraugue was just another village, barely glimpsed as a strip of asphalt between two rows of narrow old stone houses on the long and arduous route of the world's most famous bicycle race.

For One Day, Cyclists Put French Village on Map

LEAD: In 1967, a Soviet film director told a tale of Jewish life, Jewish suffering, Jewish bravery and Jewish fatalism in a movie about a Red Army commissar who found herself living with a small-town Jewish family while civil war raged around them.

Soviet Gives Glimpse of Banned Film About Jews

LEAD: An article on Tuesday about New York State's legislative budget, and a related picture caption, incorrectly described the Legislature's television operation. The Legislature finances and maintains its own television-taping studios out of its operational budget. It is separate from Nyscan, a cable television channel that provides coverage of state government hearings and other proceedings.

LEAD: Two Americans and a Hong Kong businessman were indicted today for illegally exporting to Pakistan sophisticated instruments and advanced computer equipment that can be used to make nuclear bombs.

U.S. Indicts 3 in the Export Of Equipment to Pakistan

LEAD: A report in the Company Briefs column of Business Day on Tuesday incorrectly characterized the ownership of the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation. The company is no longer a subsidiary of Metromedia, having been sold to a group of private investors in 1986.

LEAD: A dispatch from Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday about American reaction to the Australian election incompletely described New Zealand's status in the Anzus alliance. The United States announced last August that it was suspending military obligations to New Zealand under the Anzus treaty because New Zealand refused to allow port calls by

LEAD: The Israeli Government has set up a committee to look into American complaints that some black Americans and Arab-Americans face discrimination when they try to enter Israel, a senior Foreign Ministry official said today.

Israel to Study Protest About Discrimination

LEAD: Peruvian rebels shot dead a police officer in Lima today after a night of violence in which 10 bombs exploded in the capital and part of the country was blacked out. The police said that nine people were wounded in the attacks and that 500 people suspected of rebel activity, 10 of them believed to be members of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group, had been detained in the capital.

Peru Rebels Kill Policeman

LEAD: A planned joint brigade of French and German troops will be headed by a French officer and kept outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's integrated military command along with the rest of France's armed forces, the French and West German Defense Ministers announced today.

French-West German Brigade Is to Be Kept Outside NATO

LEAD: Every morning around 9:30 a Jordanian soldier in a powder blue uniform carrying a small bundle under his arm walks to the middle of the Allenby Bridge, which spans the Jordan River.

A 15-Yard Span Over a Great Divide

Tontowi Ahmad is a retired Indonesian badminton player. He plays for PB. Djarum, a badminton club in Kudus, Central Java and joined the club in 2005. Tontowi Ahmad rose to prominence in the world badminton in 2010 when he paired with the established mixed doubles star Liliyana Natsir. With Natsir he won the 2016 Olympic gold medal in the mixed doubles category.

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Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife. Considered one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century, his best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala.

July 18, 1987

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Did Reagan Know? Did Poindexter Tell?

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Texas River Engulfs Bus and Van; Two Are Dead and 8 Are Missing

A Majority in New Poll Still Find Reagan Lied on Iran-Contra Issue

DENIES WRONGDOING

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