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Iran-Contra report
President Reagan contributed to deception
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan contributed to a massive dc
m ception of Congress and the public in
the Iran-Contra affair and bears re
sponsibility for thwarting the law by
allowing zealots to seize policy con
trol, congressional investigators con
cluded Wednesday.
“These committees found nodirect
evidence suggesting that the president
was a knowing partic ipant in die effort
to deceive Congress and the American
public,” the Senate and House inves
tigating panels wrote. “But the
president’s actions and statements
contributed to the deception.”
“The ultimate responsibility for
the events in the Iran-Contra affair
^ must rest with the president,” the
Brian Barber/Daily Nebraskan
panels’ 690-page final report con
cluded. “If the president did not know
what his national security advisers
were doing, he should have.”
The report conies three months
after the conclusion of summer-long
hearings into the secret sales of U.S.
weapons to Iran and the diversion of
some profits to the Nicaraguan rebels
known as Contras.
The repoit, in one new disclosure,
indicates the administration was de
ceived when after concluding that
middleman Manuchcr Ghorbanifar
was untrustworthy, it switched to
what it saw as a more reliable “second
channel” for dealing with Iranian
“moderates.”
The report said American opera
tives were dismayed to discover that
the second channel represented the
same Iranian leaders as did the first
channel, that some U.S. weapons
destined for so-called moderates in
factwcntto Iran’s radical Revolution
ary Guards, and that one of the
“moderates” may have masterminded
the kidnapping of at least two of the
Americans then being held hostage in
Lebanon — educator Frank Reed and
William Buckley, the Beirut CIA sta
tion chief who was killed while in
captivity.
One treaty issue is solved
WASHINGTON — American
and Soviet negotiators have re
moved a major sticking point in the
way of a treaty to eliminate inter
mediate-range nuclear missiles
and are close to settling a second
problem, Reagan administration
officials said Wednesday.
But two tough verifications is
sues remain on the table less than
three weeks before the scheduled
arrival on Dec. 7 of Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev for talks
with President Reagar..
Two officials, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said the
negotiators in Geneva had decided
against language in the treaty call
mg for further talks on nuclear
weapons in Europe.
In Brief
Continental official defends pilots’ records
DENVER — A Continental Airlines official on Wednesday de
fended the relatively short experience the crew of the crashed Flight
1713 had with that model aircraft, saying it was not an unusual situation
l0r fhcpnoLCapt.Frank Zvonck,and co-pilot, Lee Bruecher. had only
been certified to fly DC-9s in October. The plane they were flying
nipped over on takeoff Sunday at Stapleton International Airport,
killing 28 passengers.
Subway tire traps, Kins rusn-nour lunmimu *
LONDON — Fire broke out Wednesday evening below a wooden
escalator in one of London’s busiest subway stations, killing 32
commuters and injuring about 80 others, fire and transport officials said.
Dense smoke billowed from the mammoth King’s Cross station,
w here five lines of the Underground system connect with British Raii
inter-city services. Ambulances w'ith sirens blaring ferried the dead and
injured to hospitals.
Cigarettes cause half of female heart disease
BOSTON - - Smoking causes about half of all heart attac ks among
young and middle-aged women, and con three or lour cigarettes a day
sharply increase the t!;’:, research concludes.
Until a few years ago, many expert believed that cigarettes did not
contribute to heart disease in women. But recent studies have concluded
that smoking is an important hazard for women, as it is for men.
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$9 billion tax increase cited
for budget-balancing agreement
WASHINGTON — White House
and congressional negotiators
struggled Wednesday to cement a
two-year, $75 billion budget deficit
reduction agreement and saw their
still-unfinished work coming under
attack even from within their own
ranks.
“It’s pretty weak. A pretty weak
package unless you like taxes,” said
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole
of Kansas, who s»id many of this GOP
colleagues would have trouble voting
for it.
The package would reduce the
deficit in fiscal 1988, which began
Oct. 1, by about $30 billion and cut
fiscal 1989 red ink by more than $45
billion. That would more than meet
the minimum goal of the Gramm
Rudman law, which requires $23 bil
lion in fiscal 1988 deficit reduction.
A draft agreement obtained by The
Associated Press on Wednesday in
cludeciunspccifiedtaxincrcasesof$9
billion, plus $400 million in new fees
for government services in fiscal
1988.
Bishops O.K. fund drive
for impoverished nuns
WASHINGTON — America’s
Roman Catholic bishops have voted
to raise funds to aid thousands of the
nuns who taught young Catholics in
past decades and now have grown old
with little or no money to live on.
“It’s a matter of justice, not merely
of a matter of charity,’’ Bishop Mi
chael Sheehan of Lubbock, Texas,
said before the National Conference
of Catholic Bishops voted 156-10 to
launch the national fund-raising
drive.
Numerous other bishops made
similar comments, all praising the
work of the nuns in parochial schools,
hospitals and other m in istries. Several
bishops emphasized the word “jus
tice,” noting dial women in Catholic
religious orders have traditionally
worked for low wages, a fact has
contributed to their current problems.
Bishop John R. McGann of
Rockville Centre, N.Y., head of a
committee sponsoring the proposal,
dec lined to specify a goal for the drive.
An accounting firm estimated the
eventual need might reach S2.5 bil
lion.
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