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Tower report suaggests cover-up by presidential aide
WASHINGTON - The Tower com
mission suggested Thursday that the
president's men tried to cover up the
full story once the arms-to-Iran deal
began unraveling.
Its report cited what it said was a
misleading account of events by former
National Security Adviser Robert Mc
Farlane, indications of concealment
efforts by Lt. Col. Oliver North, and a
lack of notes from meetings at which
McFarlane's successor, John M. Poin
dexter, was official note-taker.
The commission said it did not
believe President Keagan himself in
tended to cover up unlawful conduct,
that he wanted the full story told.
But its critical report said those
around the president who prepared his
supporting documents "did not appear,
at least initially, to share the presi
dent's ultimate wishes."
Although there have been reports
that North, the fired National Security
Council aide, may have destroyed,
altered or removed documents from the
White House, the commission provided
the first official suggestion that Poin
dexter had a hand in the missing
documents.
In a section devoted to actions of the
administration in the aftermath of the
first disclosures of the arms deal, the
commission said it was "concerned
about various notes that appear to be
missing."
The commission said it lacked the
evidence to confirm or refute that
North destroyed documents. But it said
there was "considerable reason to
question the actions" of North in the
aftermath of last November's first pub-
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lie disclosure of the arms sales.
"The board found indications that
Lt. Col. North was involved in an effort,
over time, to conceal or withold impor
tant information," the commission said.
It recounted efforts by the White
House, after the first revelations in a
Lebanese magazine last Nov. 3, to
reconstruct the events in a chronology.
It said the NSC, assisted by former
council chief McFarlane, put together
the events in a way that was inaccurate
and misleading.
"Mr. McFarlane described for the
board the process used by the NSC staff
to create a chronology that obscured
essential facts. Mr. McFarlane contrib
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which did not, he said, present 'a full
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Soviets resume
nuclear testing;
end moratorium
MOSCOW The Soviet Union deto
nated its first nuclear explosion in 19
months Thursday and said it was forced
to resume testing because the United
States refused to go along with a Krem
lin moratorium on weapons tests.
The explosion under the steppe in
remote Kazakhstan was announced by
the Soviet news agency Tass. The rapid
announcemnet was highly unusual and
appeared intended to underscore the
Kremlin's contention that continued
American testing required a resump
tion of Soviet tests.
"I want to stress once more that the
termination of the maratorium was a
forced measure dictated by security
interests only," said Maj. Gen. Gely
Batenin, a Defense Ministry spokesman.
In Washington, the U.S. government
had no immediate official comment on
the Soviet test.
During the 19-month freeze, Mikhail
S. Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders
have repeatedly called on the United
States to halt testing and accused
Washington of being unwilling to work
toward arms control.
The United States has maintained
that U.S. tests were needed to ensure
the reliability of existing weapons and
to modernize the nation's nuclear
arsenM.
Soviet officials stressed that the
Kremlin was leaving the door open for a
superpower test ban.
Tass said the blast, the Soviets' first
since July 25, 1985, had a yield of less
than 20 kilotons, the force of the U.S.
atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima,
Japan in 1945. The explosion occurred
at Semipalatinsk test range, about
1,700 miles southeast of Moscow near
the Soviet-Chinese border.
the events and left ambigous the presi- Casey had received information about
dent's role," the commission said.
"This was, according to Mr. McFar
lane, done to distance the president
from the timing and nature of the pres
ident's authorization" of weapons
shipments, it said.
The report said McFarlane knew his
account was "misleading, at least, and
wrong, at worst." It said McFarlane
maintained -that he did provide an
accurat e account, however, to Attorney
the diversion of proceeds to aid the
Nicaragua Contras almost a month
before the story broke but did not raise
the subject with the president.
The commission said Casey and
Poindexter "did not fully relate the
nature of events as they had occurred"
when they met in private with the con
gressional intelligence committee on
Nov. 21.
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General Edwin Meese III, who directed chronologies concerned the question
an inquiry into the Iran initiative of when the president gave his authoii-
beginning Nov. 20. zation for the sale of arms either
The report also was critical of Poin- Erectly or by the Israelis,
dexter and former Director of Central "At worst, they suggest an attempt
Intelligence William Casey for failing to limit the information that got to the
to inform the president about the president, the Cabinet and the Ameri-
dimensions of the Iran affair. It said can public."
In Brief
United Nations food aid hits record level
HOME The United Nations shipped a record 2.25 million tons of food
aid around the world in 1986, the director of the World Food Program
announced Wednesday.
"The quantity shipped exceeds the previous record we set in 1984
during the height of the African crisis," said James Ingram, executive
director of the program, which is the food aid arm of the United Nations.
The World Food Program provides about a quarter of the world's food
aid. Roughly 70 percent of this food aid is used in "food for work" and
other development projects.
The rest is devoted to emergencies such as drought relief, largely in
sub-Saharan Africa, and assistance to refugees from Afghanistan, Cambo
dia and Somalia.
Nebraska, Iowa may form tax compact
LINCOLN Nebraska and Iowa may form a compact aimed at getting
tough on people who are delinquent in their tax payments.
Tax Commissioner Don Leuenberger says Nebraska loses revenue when
Nebraskans buy things in Iowa without having to pay the Iowa sales tax,
and then fail to pay Nebraska use tax.
If a compact were formed, Leuenberger said, each state would have
access to the other's tax information. The two states could help one
another with tax collections.
Leuenberger said the idea was put forth by an aide to Iowa Gov. Terry
Branstad during the National Governors' Association meeting in
Washington.
Leuenberger said he will meet with Iowa's tax commissioner within the
next week to discuss the idea
Leuenberger said a comparable compact has been signed by Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
NASA launches weather satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A powerful Delta rocket roared skyward at
twilight Thursday and boosted into orbit a $55 million weather satellite
intended to fill a critical surveillance void in the coming hurricane
season.
It was the sixth straight space launch success for the United States.
The three-stage rocket blazed aloft on schedule at 6:05 p.m., briefly
illuminated the sky and quickly disappeared behind a low cloud bank.
Thirty-five minutes after liftoff, NASA launch commentator George
Diller reported the rocket had done its job and propelled the GEOS 7
satellite into a highly elliptical transfer orbit ranging from about 140
miles to 26,150 miles above the Earth.
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