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diversion of payments to the Contras
fighting the Nicaraguan govern-
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A major question of the long hear-
ings. Inouye said, will be who knew
what about the private fund-raising
effort to get money and arms to the
Contras after Congress cut off aid to
the rebels
Inouye said Reagan "was aware
that monies were being raised to
provide arms for the Contras "
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Tambs was ordered by senior U.S.
officials to help the rebels He iden
titled those officials as Lt Col
Oliver North, who had since been
fired from the president's National
Security Council, Assistant
Secretary of State Elliott Abrams
and Alan Fiers. who was head of the
CIA's Central American Task
Force.
Newsweek magazine reported
this week that friends of retired Air
Force Maj Gen Richard Secord w ill
testify that less than $1 million from acknowledged
Reagan knew about the diversion of
money from the Iran arms sales to
the Contra cause
Inouye said lie has found no
evidence "whatsoever' that the
president knew about the diversion
of that money, considered to be
public funds
In other developments
—Lewis Tambs. former U S am-
bassador to Costa Rica, was quoted
Sunday in The New York Times as
saying that during the time U.S aid
to the Contras was legally banned.
Nixon's papers
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That was done. Inouye noted, "at a
time when the Congress of the
United Slates had expressed its in
tention that funds should not be
spent to purchase arms for the Con-
tras "
Sen Warren Rudman. R-N H ,
vice chairman of the Inouye panel,
said on the NBC program. "There s
a difference between public and
private funds and that's, of
course, the one issue that we have
yet to hone in on ."
Another question
release of 15.imm> documents Ar-
chivists have removed specified
documents from the papers opened
today and w ill release others as they
are cleared
"There is no objection to any item
that has remotely to do with
Watergate." said R Stan Morten
son. one of the Nixon lawyers "We
have informed the archives that if
we have, by oversight, listed a docu
ment they believe has the remotest
relevance to Watergate, that they in-
form us immediately and we will
come in and withdraw our
objection."
The challenged documents will be
put before an archives review board
for a decision Six percent of the
documents have been withdrawn for
reasons of national security, per-
sonal privacy, federal statute or
other reasons, said Jill Brett of the
archives Nixon objected to 5 per
cent
"Under no circumstances would
we make any claim against the
release of a Watergate item,"
Mortenson said "We have been say-
ing that for 14 y ears and we continue
to say it If anyone suggests that
Nixon is in a position to delay
Watergate documents, it is wrong."
The release marks the end of a
long and sometimes bitter fight the
former president ha-, waged for con-
trol of the papers which were seized
under a law passed b_, Congress in
1974
Nixon resigned as president on
Aug 9 that year, before the mid
point ol his second term, after the
House Judiciary Committee recom-
mended his impeachment
ARLINGTON. Va AP) Nearly
13 years after Richard Nixon resign
ed the presidency , the first of his
Watergate papers were readied for
public view today, purged of
documents he thinks involve per
sonal privacy
The first release includes the
White House files of John
Ehrlichman. who spent 18 months in
prison as a Watergate coverup con
spirator, and of John Dean, who
gave the first detailed information
about the affair to federal pro-
secutors and served 127 days
; The documents chosen for today 's
release at a National Archives
warehouse total 252,000 pages, one
sixth of the 15 milhon-page cache
the Nixon administration itself set
aside as "special files " The special
files contain the most sensitive
documents, those involving
Watergate
There are 58,000 pages compiled
by Ehrlichman. Nixon's chief
domestic adviser, 97,000 of Dean s.
Nixon's White House counsel The
others opened today are 70,000 pages
amassed by Egil Krogh,
Ehrlichman s assistant, who served
137 days for civil rights violations in
the White House "plumbers case
17,000 pages of the files of Gordon
Strachan, who won dismissal of
coverup charges, and 10,000 pages
of the files of Harry Dent, a special
counsel, who was sentenced to a
month of unsupervised probation
after pleading guilty to a campaign
contribution violation
After the archives gave a required
90-day notice that the files would Im1
made public, Nixon s lawyers filed
3.100 pages of objections to the
hearing is
set to begin
W ASHINGTON < AP) The stars
of the Iran-Contra hearings begmn
mg Tuesday will be the witnesses
who break their silence and till in the
blanks of the complex story aliout
secret deals and clandestine opera
tions.
But the featured players will be
the interrogators: 26 legislators,
nearly all lawyers, serving on the
special House and Senate commit-
tees probing the affair, along with
the counsels to the panels
The hearings into the secret U S
sale of arms to Iran and diversion of
payments Io the Nicaraguan Con
tras is being conducted jointly by the
two panels They will begin in the
Caucus Room of the Senate Russell
Office Building, site of the 1973
Watergate hearings on abuses of
power during the Nixon administra
tion.
It was the Watergate hearings that
disclosed President Nixon's role in
the cover-up and led to his resigna
tion from office
The second week of the Iran-
Contra hearings w ill convene across
Capitol Hill in the hearing room of
the House Judiciary Committee,
w here articles of impeachment were
voted against Nixon in 1974
The Watergate hearings made
stars of the late Sen Sam Ervin, the
Senate committee chairman Sam
Dash, the committee s Democratic
counsel; and Howard Baker, the
panel's top Republican who in-
cessantly asked what the president
knew and when did he know it
Unlike the Senate's freewheeling
Watergate hearings during which
the legislators were often surprised
by the information they gathered in
public, the Iran-Contra hearings will
be ca. etully orchestrated
Witnesses will be interviewed ex-
tensively in private before they are
questioned publicly, virtually assur-
ing that the committee members
will not be caught off guard
There also will be a structured
procedure for the public questioning
ol the w itnesses
Leaders of the committees have
said the hearings w ill tie divided into
three phases aid to the Nicaraguan
Contra rebels; secret arms sales to
Iran, and a final phase on respon-
sibhty for the activities and the
policy implications of the affair
The first witness to face the com-
mittees will be retired Air Force
Maj Gen Richard V Secord
The chief counsel for the Senate
committee is Arthur L Liman, a
New York attorney experienced in
complicated litigation such as cor
porate takeovers and white-collar
criminal cases
The chief lawyer for the House
panel is John W Nields Jr , a
W ashington attorney who has served
as counsel to the House ethic com-
mittee during its 1977-78 investiga-
tion of allegations of congressional
influence buying by Tongsun Park
of South Korea
the arms sales was diverted to the
Contras
The magazine also released a new
poll showing 49 percent of
Americans surveyed believe the
congressional hearings will simply
"prolong the affair." The telephone
poll of 615 people on April 29-30 also
showed 62 percent were convinced
that once all the evidence has been
presented, Reagan will prove to
have been more deeply involved in
the affair than he had publicly
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WASHINGTON (AP) Gary Hart
says a Miami Herald story claiming
he spent the night with a young
woman over the weekend isn't true
and his campaign manager calls it
character assassination, based on
"hiding in bushes, peeking in win-
dows and personal harassment "
But a Herald executive said the
newspaper stands behind its page I
story, published Sunday, which told
how its reporters followed a woman
from Miami to Washington and saw
her leaving a townhouse belonging
to Hart The newspaper said she
“spent Friday night and most of
Saturday'' with Hart
"The womanizing issue has
become a major one in Hart's cam-
paign tiecause it raises questions
concerning the candidate's judg-
ment and integrity,” Herald Ex-
ecutive Editor Heath Meriwether
said Sunday "That's why we are
reporting on this story ."
Hart, the front-runner for the 1988
Democratic presidential nomina-
tion. denied any personal relation
ship with the woman and denied any
impropriety when questioned by
Herald reporters Saturday night
"No one was staying in my apart-
ment," Hart told the newspaper "I
have no personal relationship with
the individual you are following."
Calhoun County E.M.S. in conjunction with
Victoria College is offering a 16 week/134
hour EMT Course to be held in Port Lavaca
beginning May 4, 1987. Upon completion of
this course the student will be certified by
the Texas Department of Health. For more
information contact H. J. Barber at
552-6713, Ext. 208
Moreover, Bush is making a big
deal on the campaign trail about his
decision to stand behind Reagan in
this time of political peril
LAXALT. the HIRED HAND
"There is nobody with better
Reagan credentials ," The speaker is
Orrin Hatch, senator from Utah He
might have been referring to George
Bush, but he wasn't He was talking
about Laxalt
Laxalt running for president
sounds like Reagan running for re-
election
“Do we build on our successes or
do we turn back the calendar and
reinstitute the failed policies of the
'70s." the Nevadan said Thursday
"It's my overriding conviction we
are on the right course and that to
turn back would Im* a terrible
mistake There is much unfinished
work to do,”
Laxalt said he's nobody's clone
("1 tend to tie a rather independent
Basque" i but if he had to be one, "I
don't know of anybody I would
rather be a clone to than Ronald
Reagan."
KEMP
TIONARY
"I'm in this for one reason — to
keep the cause alive." Kemp said
during an appearance in Dallas last
month He's pegged his campaign to
several of the classic Reagan issues
and. give him credit, at least one of
them (tax cuts to stimulate the
economy i was a Kemp issue before
it was a Reagan issue
Kemp may be running as the can
didate who can best protect "the
Reagan revolution." he may be
pushing harder for early deploy-
ment of the strategic defense than
even Reagan himself, but he has
never been a yes man
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Reagan's support
WASHINGTON <APi - Ronald
Reagan's endorsement might be a
curse or a blessing to a candidate for
the 1988 presidential nomination, but
we'll never know Like any father
asked which child he likes best.
Reagan's keeping his opinion to
himself
"The president will be neutral."
was the word from the White House
as presidential friend Paul Laxalt
entered the Republican field He
joins a GOP race already split into
two camps those who are cam-
paigning as heirs to the Reagan
political fortune, and those who
aren't.
Vice President George Bush, Rep
Jack Kemp of New York and laxalt.
a former Nevada senator, comprise
the first group Sen Bob Dole of
Kansas, former Secretary of State
Alexander M Haig Jr and former
Delaware Gov Pete DuPont appear
content to run on their own hook,
taking a poke at the president every
so often just to make a point of their
independence
Reagan's decision to stay out of
1988 GOP politics is probably neither
here nor there, except to the extent
that it is bad news for George Bush
BUSH, the LOYALIST
Perhaps the Iran-Contra affair
will kill Bush's chances of gaining
the GOP nomination anyway, but if
he still is a viable candidate next
spring, he would benefit mightily
from Reagan's support
Why? Because while Republican
conservatives don't doubt the
credentials of Laxalt or Kemp, they
need assurance from Ronald
Reagan that Bush is not a moderate
in disguise Bush's preppie image
and high-toned Connecticut lineage
do him no good among the majority
of GOP conservatives
PaReS—Port Lavaca Wave, Monday, Mav 4. 1987
Inouye: Reagan knew of fund-raising
WASHINGTON (AP > The chair
man of the Senate committee in-
vestigating the Iran-Contra affair
says President Reagan knew money
was being raised to provide arms to
Nicaraguan rebels
Sen Daniel Inouye. D-Hawau,
said Sunday. "I think the president
knew much more than what the
White House has intimated ’’
Inouye was interviewed on NBC-
TV’s "Meet the Press" as a commit
tee he chairs, along with a compa
mon panel in the House, begins joint
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