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Costa Rica has barred former White House aide Oliver L. North and former U.S. National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter from entering its territory after a yearlong parliamentary probe into arms and drugs smuggling, Information Minister Jorge Urbina said in San Jose, the nation's capital. Also banned from the country were ex-U.S. Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs, arms dealer Richard V. Secord and former CIA Costa Rica station chief Joseph F. Fernandez, Urbina said.

Costa Rica has barred former White House aide Oliver L. North and former U.S. National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter from entering its territory after a yearlong parliamentary probe into arms and drugs smuggling, Information Minister Jorge Urbina said in San Jose, the nation's capital. Also banned from the country were ex-U.S. Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs, arms dealer Richard V. Secord and former CIA Costa Rica station chief Joseph F. Fernandez, Urbina said.

Following are excerpts from testimony Thursday before the congressional committees that are investigating the Iran-contra affair: (Sen. George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) questioned retired CIA agent Felix Rodriguez about meetings in Washington with Donald P. Gregg, the national security adviser to Vice President George Bush.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica Lewis A. Tambs on Thursday accused high-ranking Administration officials of sacrificing their subordinates' careers to save their own, and disputed Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams' claims of ignorance about Tambs' assignment to assist Nicaragua's contras .

Former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica Lewis A. Tambs on Thursday accused high-ranking Administration officials of sacrificing their subordinates' careers to save their own, and disputed Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams' claims of ignorance about Tambs' assignment to assist Nicaragua's contras .

In July, 1985, as Lewis A. Tambs moved into his new job as U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, he told colleagues: "I really have only one mission: to open a southern front for the contras ," the rebels fighting Nicaragua's leftist government. At the time, Congress had prohibited all U.S. material aid to the contras.

U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs and at least two CIA officials in Central America assisted private efforts to equip the Nicaraguan resistance with weapons at a time when the U.S. government was strictly prohibited by Congress from providing military aid, a key operative in the supply network testified Tuesday. Robert W. Owen, who served as a go-between with the rebels for then-White House aide Oliver L.

Lewis A. Tambs, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, said individuals suspected of being drug traffickers tried to bribe U.S. Embassy guards to assassinate him. Tambs, 57, who is apparently being assigned to another diplomatic post, told a television station in Bogota that presumed drug traffickers planned to kill him because he defended an extradition treaty that has sent four Colombians to the United States for trial on drug-related charges.

A bomb exploded in front of the U.S. Consulate in the Costa Rican capital Thursday night, injuring three people, authorities said. Police said three people, including a Panamanian, were detained in connection with the 9 p.m. blast. They were not identified. The three injured, believed to be passers-by, were taken to San Juan Adios Hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known.

The congressional Iran- contra committees questioned former CIA Costa Rica station chief Joe Fernandez in closely guarded secrecy today on his role in aiding Nicaraguan rebels during a two-year ban on U.S. government military assistance. One committee member, Rep. Henry J. Hyde ( R-Ill.) said Fernandez generally confirmed testimony by former Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs on Thursday that officials in Washington ordered assistance for the contra rebels during the congressional ban.

Following are excerpts from testimony Thursday before the congressional committees that are investigating the Iran-contra affair: (Sen. George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) questioned retired CIA agent Felix Rodriguez about meetings in Washington with Donald P. Gregg, the national security adviser to Vice President George Bush.

U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs and at least two CIA officials in Central America assisted private efforts to equip the Nicaraguan resistance with weapons at a time when the U.S. government was strictly prohibited by Congress from providing military aid, a key operative in the supply network testified Tuesday. Robert W. Owen, who served as a go-between with the rebels for then-White House aide Oliver L.

In July, 1985, as Lewis A. Tambs moved into his new job as U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, he told colleagues: "I really have only one mission: to open a southern front for the contras ," the rebels fighting Nicaragua's leftist government. At the time, Congress had prohibited all U.S. material aid to the contras.

Edwin G. Corr, U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, met several times with then-White House aide Oliver L. North last year when North was directing the Nicaraguan rebels' secret airlift operation at a Salvadoran air force base, State Department officials said Thursday. However, Corr has told colleagues that he and North discussed only the delivery of non-military aid to the contras, not weaponry, the officials said.

U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Deane R. Hinton, who was head of the American mission in El Salvador during some of the most turbulent years there, has been chosen by the Reagan Administration as the new ambassador to Costa Rica, according to U.S. sources in Washington and Central America. If confirmed by Congress, Hinton will take over the post at a time when relations between the United States and Costa Rica are strained over the U.S.