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FD-350{Rev.58-81} dicate page, name o1 newspaper.cy and state } Mount Cupping in Space 8elow) iDate: 5/3c/s6 Journalists'-suit claimss. j E aition: yhlam jesal Tille ring tried to kill contra. Characte Q-705 or Cassilication Submatting Oftice Me am By JAY DUCASS! And CHRISTINA CHEAKALOS Herd Swter Indexing novel. two fournalists filed a $23.8 million lawsuit in Mlami Thursday.blaming a ring of former CIA officlals, Cuban exiles, Nicaraguan contra leaders, international arms dealers and cocaine smugglers for a bombing in which both reporters were injured. The lawsuit claims the ring sold cocaine the United States to fund its activitie including arming Nicaraguan contras, attempt? Jng ta bomb U.S. embassies in Costa Rica and Honduras, and hiring a Libyan assassin to kill Lewis Tambs. U.S.ambassador to Costa Rica According to the su!t, filed by the husband- and-wife seporting team of Tony Ayirgan and Fool's joke,but it's too lateKlein said.This is the best erample of the misuse ot the couris On the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. 1've ever seen.It shows what sonecne can do Avirgana stringer ior National Public 1 flling fee. Even as a dime-store noveli The suit ames as defendants Ted Shackley, Nicaraguan contra leader Eden Pastora on May former assoclate deputy director for operations 30.1954 for the CIA Tom Clines, a former CiA training The suit claims the detendants planted the more than 25 others. The group's operations were tinanced by nglaub,a former Army major-general who s major tnd-raiser for the coniras. Also named are four members or the Cuban exile organization Brigade 2506 and the hoads domestlc and offshore banks, the suit alleges. Ede PastoraTargetof Tea Klein,a Miami attorney who represents of several small businesses, includlng the Tantami Gun Shop. 198bombattack one or the 30 detendants, Tamiami Gun Shop spokesman Charles Redman called the charges ridiclous and absurd." *My first reactlon is that this is an April "patently ridiculous.' / b6 SEARCHED DL b7C SERIALIZEO JUL 2 2 1986