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KFenton Communications, Inc.. NEWS jE 1 MEDIA ADVISORY FOR 1O:30 AM Contact: 3eth Bogart THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1986 (202) -745-0707 FEDERAL LAWSUIT WILL CHARGE CONTRAS WITH DRUG AND GUN SHUGGLING, MURDER AND BOMBING U.S.'JOURNALISTS Press Conference Day of Filing, May 29th, in Washington WAshington,.DC -- A federal lawsuit charging 29 Anericans,. Nicaraguan contras (including FDn leader AdolfoAEalero). and others murder and the bombing of a press conference with American reporters will be filed in Miami Federal Court on Thursday, May 29th. The suit also names World Anti-Communist League chairman Jonn/Singlaub for violations of the Neutrality Act. Details of the lawsuit will be announced at a press conference on Thursday, May 29, at 10:30 am in the Bourke-White/Zenger Room, 13th Floor of the National Press Club in Washington, to be attended by the plaintiffs and their attorney. The lawsuit. filed on behalf of two U.s. journalists who. investigated the t984 bombing' of a press conference called by former -contra leader EdenAPastora (one of whom was crippled in the attack), charges that the contras and their Anerican supporters committed murder, trafficked in cocaine, plotted the unsuccessful. assassination attempt on Pastora and planned to kill u.S. Ambassador Lewis/ambs, laundered money, smuggled weapons, threatened. investigators and obstructed justice. The federal lawsuit naming Calero, Singlaub, and others. represents the first time that allegations of contra involvement in gun and drug smuggling, terrorist bombings and murder are united in a coherent case and presented in a U.s. court of law, with specifics and sources clearly identified. Speakers at the news conference will include the plaintiffs, 250 West 57 Street journalists Tony Ayirgan and Martha Honey, and their attorney. Daniel/Sheehan of the Christic Institute. Avirgan was injured while. Surte 1730 coverfng the bombed Pastora press conference for ABc. His wife, journalist Martha Honey (a stringer for ABc, CBc, and others) has Vew Yorx NY 10107 been threatened with death for investigating the Pastora bombing on behalf of the. Newspaper Guild.-. Attorney Sheehan was the lawyer in tlephone-212. 489 5630 the Karen/Silkwood and Greensboro Civil Rights cases. V F 30 807 Eghteenth Street NW rashington DC 20009 .pAA5Rcuip 67c 101?- 12.18