Alfonso Chardy, journalist who helped expose Iran-contra affair, dies at 72

Alfonso Chardy, a Miami Herald journalist who anchored Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting that helped expose the Iran-contra affair, a covert Reagan administration network to aid rebels in Nicaragua that brought riveting televised hearings in Congress, died April 9 at a hospital in Miami. He was 72. The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Siobhan … Read more