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Newsmakers Compiled from the AP wire Nixon calls Iran situation a sideshow PARSIPPANY, N.J. ? Former President Richard Nixon today described the Iran-Contra controversy as "a sideshow" and said it was time for critics of President Reagan to "get off his back." Nixon's comments were made during a closed-door meeting with Republican governors that lasted more than an hour. The session with Nixon was arranged before the disclosures of the secrct armi ClllfC t n Iran ar?^ ? " f U ~ ' " . tv/ nuu uuu uiv luiiuciiii^ ui inuiicy iu me contra forccs fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government. Gov. Richard Thornburgh of Pennsylvania said the former president indicated he thought Reagan was doing a better job handling the current controversy than was done in the Watergate scandal. Gospel singer's money, bracelet stolen BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ? Gospel singer Shirley Caesar had $3,000 in cash and a diamond and gold bracelet stolen while she performed in Birmingham. I he Urammy Award-winning singer said when she went on stage Sunday night at Boutwell Auditorium, she placed her purse on a ^ riser next to a drum set used by several bands during the gospel music concert. After the concert, Caesar reported the purse missing. She said it contained $3,000 in cash, a 14-carat gold bracelet with her name engraved in diamonds, which she valued at $3,000, nine credit cards and other personal and sentimental items. Caesar, 48, said part of the cash was intended for food for needy families in Durham, where she operates her own ministry. The entertainer said she viewed the theft as a test of her faith. Man executes 6 people to get dog back OAKLAND, Calif. ? A man who had threatened to "do some shooting" if he didn't get his dog back from his ex-girlfriend walk* ed through her house with another woman and "executed" six sleeping people, police and neighbors say. i-J -- ..... .iiiv/11vwuuiu appear iu uc so scnscicss ana trivial tnat most of us couldn't even understand it," homicide Lt. Richard Brierly said Monday. David E. Welch, 28, and Rita Mae Lewis, 29, were arrested less than nine hours after the shootings Monday, following a standoff with police at another house in south Oakland. Brierly said they would be charged today. "It looks like they just walked through the house and murdered people," said Brierly. "These people were executed. They didn't have a chance to defend themselves at all." Legislative drug abuse investigated I The State newspaper has quoted unidentified sources as saying some state legislators use drugs and that the solicitor and State Law Enforcement Division arc looking into allegations against one lawmaker in particular. "As far as use on the floor of the House or Senate, I don't know, but as far as legislators using, yes, there are legislators using and there have been legislators who have sold," said a law enforcement investigator the ncwsDaDer did not identify in TnpsHnv'c /?HWinn The newspaper quoted unidentified sources as saying a separate inquiry into alleged drug use by one legislator is being conductcd by Solicitor Jim Anders and SLED. But SLED spokesman Hugh Munn said neither he nor the head of the ageny's narcotics division know of any such probe. "It must be some other agency (that's investigating)," Munn said. ' | IlfsmrZ ) I Positions Available: j | Summer Conference Manager ? Risii I i student. 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