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- <title>
- Mar. 13, 1989: Sentenced:Robert McFarlane
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 13, 1989 Between Two Worlds:Middle-Class Blacks
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 70
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- <p> SENTENCED. Robert McFarlane, 51, former National Security
- Adviser, on charges of withholding information from Congress; in
- Washington. McFarlane, who last year pleaded guilty to
- misleading Congress with his assurances that Oliver North
- abided by its ban on aiding the Nicaraguan rebels, is expected
- to testify for the prosecution at North's trial. He was placed
- on probation for two years and fined $20,000. The first former
- Government official to be punished for involvement in the
- Iran-contra scandal, he could have been sentenced to one year in
- prison and a $100,000 fine on each of four counts.
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- </body>
- </article>
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