Wednesday, February 11,1987/The Battalion/Page 11
World and Nation
Reagan refuses to order formeraides
to testify before investigation board
homeini declares
Iran will continue war
ith Iraq until victory
NICOSIA, Cvprus (AP) —Aya
tollah Ruhollan Khomeini de
clared Tuesday that Iran’s long
conflict with Iraq is a holy crusade
and his fundamentalist regime
will make “war until victory.”
The 86-year-oid Shiite Moslem
tatriarch delivered his first pub
ic speech in nearly three months
on the eve of the eighth anniver
sary of Shah Mohammad Re/.a
Pahlavi’s fall from power.
There have been rumors that
Khomeini is in poor health, but
his voice was strong and steady
during the 17-minute address
broadcast by Tehran radio.
Khomeini said Iran was bat
tling for a “divine cause” in the
war, which began in September
1980 with an invasion by Iraq.
Iraq and Iran have pounded
each other’s cities with air raids,
artillery and missiles recently.
Thousands of civilians have been
reported killed or wounded.
Mass rallies are planned for to
day to mark the anniversary of
the dissolution of Parliament on
Feb. 11, 1979, less than two weeks
after Khomeini’s triumphal re
turn from a month-long exile.
Tuesday’s speech was the first
public address by Khomeini since
Nov. 20, when he condemned
Iranian officials who wanted con
tact with the United States, a ref
erence to the Iran-Contra arms
deal.
Before Khomeini spoke on
Tuesday, President Ali Khamenei
said Iran does not want to widen
the war and seeks to expand “bro
therly relations with its neigh
bors.’’
“Iran is interested in assuring
the security of the region in coop
eration with all Persian Gulf
countries,” the official news
agency quoted him as saying at an
anniversary ceremony in Tehran.
He also issued this warning to
countries that provide arms or
other aid to Iraq: “We identify
our enemies and our friends, es
pecially in these fateful days.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan has refused to order
former aides John M. Poindexter
and Oliver North to appear before
the board Reagan named to review
the National Security Council’s role
in the Iran-Contra affair, the White
House said Tuesday night.
Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said
presidential counsel Peter Wallison
told former Sen. John Tower, R-
Texas, that commanding appear
ances by Poindexter and North be
fore the panel would compel the
pair “to testify against themselves.”
Tower had written Reagan on
Feb. 4, asking the president to use
his authority as commander-in-chief
to order Poindexter, a vice admiral,
and North, a Marine lieutenant colo
nel, to testify to the three-member
panel. Both Poindexter and North
have returned to active military
duty.
Fitzwater disclosed the refusal not
long after the White House made
available to members of the Tower
commission a series of typewritten
transcripts of notes that Reagan kept
on meetings involving the secret
sales of U.S. arms to I ran.
In his letter to Tower, dated Feb.
6, Wallison said that Fitzwater said in
a statement that both North and
Poindexter “have a constitutional
protection against self-incrimination
under Article 31 of the Uniform
Code of Military J ustice.”
Poindexter resigned and North
was fired last Nov. 25 — the same
day that Attorney General Edwin
Meese III revealed on national tele
vision that millions of dollars in
profits from the sales of U.S. weap
ons to Iran had been diverted to the
Nicaraguan rebels known as Con
tras.
Subsequently, both North and
Poindexter returned to active duty
roles in the military, and both re
fused to testify before congressional
committees, invoking their Fifth
Amendment rights against self-in
crimination.
firmed earlier oral advice on this
matter when similar issues were
raised in December.”
In his reply to Tower, Wallison
noted that Reagan recently had
“made clear his desire that both
Poindexter and North cooperate
fully with all ongoing inquiries, con
sistent with their rights.”
The presidential counsel also re
minded Tower that Reagan had pro
posed last month that the Senate In
telligence Committee grant limited
use immunity to Poindexter and
North “so the facts woidd be known
without precluding prosecution
based on other evidence.”
Meanwhile, Reagan met with Wal
lison and with David Abshire, his
special counsel on the Iran-Contra
matter, in preparation for a ques-
tion-and-answer session the presi
dent is scheduled to have today with
members of the panel.
ings and so forth.” He said the presi
dent “provided the excerpts which
were typed up and presented to the
(board’s) staff.”
Reagan “made the initial selec
tion” of what notes to provide to the
panel, Fitzwater said, adding that
the president did not decline to pro
vide anything that was requested.
The White House said late Tues
day that Reagan’s staff and the
Tower panel had reached “a nego
tiated agreement” in which the notes
would be delivered to the board and
then returned.
That scenario was played out
Tuesday, the White House said. It
also said in a statement that “the
notes will undoubtedly be discussed
in the Tower board report, but they
will not be published.”
In another development Fitzwater
said McFarlane, after leaving the
White House in December 1985,
continued to have use of a computer
terminal in his home linked to the
White House. His home also was
equipped with a White House tele
phone and a safe for storing the key
board and any printed material run
off from the computer, the spokes
man said.
Fitzwater said that in rejecting In describing the arrangement
Tower’s request to produce Poin- through which the White House
dexter and North, “the White House made Reagan notes available to the
counsel relied upon a written opin- commission members Tuesday, Fitz-
ion from the general counsel of the water said the board “gave the dates
Department of Defense, who con- that they were interested in, meet-
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