World IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Arms-to-Iraq Charge Denied by Official
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Former Atty. Gen. Patrick Mayhew denied that he suppressed evidence that the Thatcher administration shipped super-gun parts to Iraq. The charge was made by Hal Miller, a retired Conservative member of Parliament, who declared that Mayhew urged him not to produce documents that could have cleared business executives accused of illegally exporting weapons parts to Baghdad in 1988 in defiance of the arms embargo against President Saddam Hussein.
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