NATION : Bored by North, She’s in Jury Pool

WASHINGTON —  The judge at Oliver L. North’s Iran-Contra trial selected four more people as prospective jurors today, including one who said she doesn’t pay attention to news because it’s “depressing” and thinks the controversy over North is “boring.”

The woman, a secretary to a hospital director, said her mother, who lives with her, pays such close attention to current events that “I call her ‘news media.’ ” When her mother approaches her about the news, “I always tell her to get out of my room. I don’t want to hear it,” the woman said. U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell qualified her for the jury pool.

Three people were rejected for the pool, including a businesswoman who said North was involved in “money and arms . . . on an international scale.” She said she knew that North had “a boss named (John M.) Poindexter” and “he had a blonde secretary,” a reference to Fawn Hall.