
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 17, 1993                   TAG: 9306180395
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-14   EDITION: METRO 
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TECHNICALLY, IT'S CALLED THE FIFTH

REGARDING the convictions in federal court against Col. Oliver North, you state: "These convictions were eventually overturned on a technicality."

That "technicality" is known as the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. JOHN S. REPASS SALEM

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