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Battik rking k ■WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Reagan, silent for weeks on the Iran arms sale scandal, answered “all questions” Monday from an investi gative committee about authorizing Secret weapon shipments to Tehran, the White House said. ■ Reagan met for 76 minutes with the three-member committee he named Nov. 26 to probe the actions of the National Security Council fol lowing disclosure that profits from ferret arms sales to Iran were diver ted to Contra rebels in Nicaragua. ■ it was the first time Reagan had discussed the Iran initiative with any outside group. ■ “In the course of the meeting the president answered all of the panel’s questions,” a White House statement said. “The wide-ranging review in cluded the development of policy in relation to Iran, the factual history of the president’s role in the Iran ini tiative and the U.S. foreign policy process in general.” ■ The statement said the group, known formally as the Special Re view Board, will meet again with Reagan at his invitation. I It was not known whether the president cleared up confusion re sulting from contradictory statements by current and former ‘White House aides about when he first authorized arms shipments to Han. Robert C. McFarlane, Reagan’s former national security adviser, has told Congress that the president had given prior approval for the first Is raeli shipment of U.S. arms to Iran in August 1985. However, White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan has said Rea gan did not approve the shipment in advance, and Attorney General Ed win Meese III said the president ap proved it only when he learned of it after the fact. At the Capitol, meanwhile, Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, said there was a link between the latest kidnappings in Lebanon and Reagan’s arms sales with Iran. “When the administration en gaged in exchanging weapons for hostages it started down a very slipp ery slope indeed,” Pell said. “It showed if people took hostages they might get something beneficial to them for doing that.” Reagan has denied that the arms sent to Iran were part of a swap for Americans held hostage in Lebanon. Instead, he has argued that the ship ments were intended to help reopen contacts with a strategically impor tant nation and that release of hos tages was only a secondary goal. Reagan has made no public men tion of the Iran-Contra affair since before Christmas, and has not an swered any questions since a Nov. 19 news conference. The three-member review board, headed by former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, did not make a verbatim record of the president’s testimony, on grounds that would be beneath the dignity of the office. Board spokesman Herbert Hetu said the group’s report, due Feb. 19, probably would not contain details of Reagan’s comments, but instead would report findings, recommen dations and conclusions. Tower’s panel, also composed of former Sen. Edmund Muskie, D- Maine, and Brent Scowcroft, the na tional security adviser in the Ford administration, has interviewed 47 people, including former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon. Four people declined to talk with the panel, after invoking the Fifth Amendment protection against self incrimination. They are John Poin dexter, Oliver North, Richard V. Se- cord and Albert Hakim. In preparation for the meeting, Reagan and White House aides “dis cussed the reconstruction of events,” White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. “The president had an opportunity to refresh his recollec tions on it.” Stock prices Iclose lower in see-saw day NEW YORK (AP) — Stock prices finished mostly lower Mon day, suggesting that the wild gy rations of the previous session frightened many investors out of the market, at least temporarily. Wall Street analysts said some profit-taking, weakness in the bond market and fear of higher interest rates also played roles in the price decline. Behaving meekly, compared with its violent swings and 44.15- point loss Friday, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks see-sawed in a narrow range and closed 5.76 higher at 2,107.28. But it was the only major indica tor to show an advance and did not reflect widespread losses in the broader market. Losing issues outpaced gainers by a about a 5-3 margin on the New York Stock Exchange, where 968 issues fell, 599 rose jand 404 remained unchanged. |Volume totaled 138.80 million shares. Nicaragua to release imprisoned American WASHINGTON (AP) — Sam Hall, an American arrested last month in a restricted military area near Managua who later claimed he was on a spy mission, will be released to the custody of his brother, Rep. Tony P. Hall, the Nicaraguan em bassy announced Monday. The decision was made after a medical checkup and clinical reports on the 49-year-old prisoner deter mined he had a condition that could not be cared for properly in Nicara gua, the embassy spokesman, Sarah Porta, said. The ailment was not described. Hall, arrested Dec. 12, said at a news conference in Managua 10 days later that he was spying on mili tary installations for three men code- named Tinker, Evers and Chance. He also claimed in a CBS-TV in terview that he was the only remain ing member of the Phoenix battal ion, which he described as a counter terrorist paramilitary organization. Ambassador Carlos Tunnermann has been instructed to contact Rep. Hall, an Ohio Democrat, and “let him know he can travel to Managua as soon as possible so his brother can return with him to the United States and receive the needed treatment,” Porta said in a statement read to the Associated Press. The congressman feared his brother would be put on trial and sentenced to more than the 30 years given to Eugene Hasenfus, another American who was pardoned Dec. 18 and released in an act of clem ency last Christmas. Hasenfus, the sole survivor of an Oct. 5 airplane crash in which three men were killed, confessed at a trial that he was smuggling weapons to anti-government Nicaraguan rebels. Nicaraguan President Daniel Or tega turned Hasenfus over to Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., and to Hasenfus’ wife, Sally, at a cere mony in Managua. Ortega said the release was “a Christmas message from the Nicara guan people to the people of the United States, a very concrete mes sage of peace.” There was no immediate reaction from the State Department to the announcement that Hall could go free. ckage tte series of} ate. I to lav oil' it because P” Brow 1 e a vacati# ;t problem ,1 of the’ •hich sel force tbe prison a|- Reports of child abuse deaths up 1 CHICAGO (AP) — Reported deaths of abused and neglected chil dren increased 29 percent last year in 24 states, and the head of a group that compiled the figures said Mon day that state agencies were getting overburdened to cope. Anne H. Cohn, executive director of the National Committee for Pre vention of Child Abuse in Chicago, said child abuse may be on the rise in part because “that pocket of popula tion referred to as ‘the underclass’ Tas seen things deteriorate.” “We need to focus more on get- ing treatment (for problems of child abuse) early so it never gets to the oint that things are so bad that par ents lash out at their kids,” Cohn said. She said improved reporting of abuse-related deaths, due to greater recognition of the problem, may have contributed to the increase “but we don’t believe that explains what is going on.” The group said 498 child abuse or child neglect deaths were reported in 1986 in the 24 states that have re ported statistics, compared with 386 reported in the same states in 1985. Nationally, the non-profit group said it believes 1,300 children died last year due to child abuse or ne glect, compared with 925 in 1985. Cohn said the group found that reports of child abuse to state agen cies, which have increased 15 per cent to 16 percent annually since 1980, increased again last year, this time by 6 percentage points. “Caseloads are getting too high,” she said. “Some families who might have been helped by treatment didn’t get it. Death is one of the out comes.” Deborah Darro, director of re search for the group, agreed. “We are seeing the results of a child abuse system that has seen a dramatic increase in caseload but no comparable increase in budgets,” Darro said. ;tinj ise n 4r MSC All Night Fair Relives Prohibition Informational Meeting Tuesday, Jan 27th 7:00p.m. 401 Rudder Come learn about how your organization can have fun and make money by enter ing a booth in the All Night Fair Fair Date: February 21 Take a study break !! § Come to MSC Political Forum’s 1 GENERAL MTG 206 Rudder « Wednesday, Jan. 28 7:00 p.m. 1 All are welcome The Texas A&M Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Spring Rush 1987 lanuarv 27th ’ X) ' ~ Q Revenge of the Pink Panther ' cPS lanuarv 29th Break the Bank" All Parties Start At 8 00pm From the makers of the Chernobyl Punch Party! House: 418 College Main North Rush Chairman: John Keene 846-1838 693-1762 Member IFC . lM§Stiitti * -» ■■i ^ Z.. 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