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■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.
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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.
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