NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Jurors Selected in Hasenfus Case
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A jury in Miami was selected to decide a lawsuit that blames retired Air Force Major Gen. Richard V. Secord and a CIA-linked airline for the 1986 plane crash in Nicaragua that helped trigger the Iran-Contra probe. Cargo handler Eugene Hasenfus, who was captured and held for about three months after Nicaraguan troops shot down the plane, and the family of the plane’s co-pilot, Wallace Sawyer Jr., contend in the suit that Secord and Miami-based Southern Air Transport used unsafe aircraft in the Contra resupply effort.
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