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Show Page A4 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, June 14, 1990 Lawyer says U.S. hid secret Noriega files from defense The U.S. governMIAMI (AP) ment has illegally hidden from Manuel Noriega's lawyers thousands of secret intelligence documents seized in Panama, a defense attorney charged Wednesday. e A list found by a private investigator shows that during the U.S. invasion in December, the irmy confiscated dozens of file cabinets, said Michael O'Kane, attorney Daniel Mifor Noriega randa. O'Kane said the file cabinets contained Panamanian G-- 2 intelligence five-pag- files, weapons import-exporecords, confidential correspondrt he cooperated with the CIA and the Drug Enforcement A(lministration. The prosecution's shortened list violates an order by U.S. Magistrate William Turnoff for the government to provide the defense with a complete list of documents seized during the invasion, O'Kane said. O'Kane said there was no indication the U.S. attorney's office in Miami knew its list was sanitized. He said prosecutors also may have been misled by U.S. officials in Washington or Panama. Diane Cossin, spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, said she would not have any immediate comment on the motion. Jon May, an attorney for Noriega, said the general's defense was eager to examine the lists and documents. ence and files on Noriega foes who plotted a coup. The list is far more extensive than an inventory turned over to the defense by the U.S. attorney's office, O'Kane said. "This (government) inventory is a fabrication," O'Kane said before he filed a motion Wednesday in federal court to force the government to hand over a revised list. He called the government inventory "a coverup effectuated in Panama by unknown elements within The disputed records are in the custody of the U.S. Southern Command's 470th Military Intelligence Group at a warehouse in Corozal, Panama. O'Kane said he sent a private investigator to the warehouse to rummage through boxes of documents listed by the government. States.". Noriega is being held on charges. Attorneys for the ousted Panamanian dictator have insisted that many of his activities were sanctioned by the United States. They have said that U.S. and Panamanian intelligence records would show "We found wadded up in one of the boxes as garbage what we think is the real inventory," O'Kane said. e The list submitted with the motion included about 40 items taken to the warehouse. Most of the items were file cabinets apparently packed with secret documents, he said. the government of the United drug-smuggli- - flected the family's reaction Colombian guerrillas holding their son wanted 10 times more than the $60,000 ransom paid. upon learning Heimdals were stunned Wednesday at news their son, Heimdal, was only a down payment "to guarantee his life." Scott would not be released until 350 million pesos, paid. or $612,000, is "We understood that $60,000 is what they wanted," Roy Heimdal said. "There's no way we could raise $612,000. That's impossible." "It's just like a see-sathat keeps going up and down," he added. w Heimdal said there has been confusion about the various demands, and he blamed poor translations from the kidnappers' Spanish. Scott Heimdal was working as a gold miner for the Ecuadoran company IMINCO when he was abducted by armed men April 28 while traveling by boat in the jungle near the Colombian border. The boat driver was killed in the attack. The guerrillas have identified themselves as members of the People's Liberation Army. The elder Heimdal said the family had done everything possible to convince the kidnappers it doesn't have any money. The family raised the ransom during a furious, four-dapublic appeal. Donations came in from around the country. y "We sold everything we had V I and had to get help from strangers to raise $60,000. We don't have anymore," Mrs. Heimdal said. "I'm on the verge of losing my sanity. I'm a nervous wreck. This added pressure is overwhelming." Jeffrey Fino, IMINCO general manager, said from his office in Quito, Ecuador, that the $60,000 The (AP) - The Bush faced with administration, growing furor over what some consider offensive art, has begun talks with congressional Republicans on restricting grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, a congressman said Wednesday. said Hep. Paul Henry. after a meeting with NEA Chairman Paul Frolinmayer that the administration had dropped its previous strong opposition to any type of content restrictions or standards in a bill to extend the life of the agency. The chanpe comivs as congressional concern is increasing over federal subsidies goin to arts projects that some consider obscene, pornographic or sacrilegious. "I think we've reached a point that if you're going to rescue the NEA, you have to speak forthright-l- y about what receives public support," Henry said. "The members nave gotten so much mail on this that they're tired of the political baggage of it." House Seaker Thomas S. Foley said he expected a bipartisan agreement on the issue and a House vote by mid-JulBoth House and Senate subcommittees considering NEA bills sent the legislation to the full committees Wednesday without making a decision on restrictions. II rtiSU V ALWAYS IN Fino said a meeting with rebels Monday ended in failure. The guerrillas were upset because the had tried to deliver the payment in dollars instead of Colombian pesos even though they originally demanded dollars, Fino said. 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I WKJSSi V 7X35 BINOCULAR "To make clear how irrational and unlogical these guys are, they told our intermediary to take the dollars from the middle of the jungle and be back within three hours with Colombian pesos or they were going to kill Scott," Fino said. The Bush administration originally proposed a five year reauthorization, or extension of the life of the NEA, without any restrictions on what types of art may or may not receive public support. Faced with growing Republican sentiment for some kind of restrictions, the administration last week proposed as an alternative an interto three-yea- r extension im one-yewhile an independent commission studied the problem. Henry said the latest development was a recognition that leaving the matter to NEA officials would not satisfy Congress. The NEA said in a formal statement that it would not comment on the deliberations or any proposals for content restrictions. 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