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NSC overrules objections from Weinbergei
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan’s National Security
Council has approved the sale of a
$900,000 computer system to Iran,
industry and administration officials
said Tuesday.
The approval represents the first
major U.S. transaction involving
Iran since disclosures in late 1986
that the administration had been se
cretly selling arms to Iran.
Analysts suggested the move un
derscored a growing sensitivity on
the part of the Reagan administra
tion to problems faced by U.S. man
ufacturers of high-technology goods
as they seek to compete in overseas
markets.
The NSC had been asked to ref
eree a high-level dispute within the
administration over the sale.
Administration officials said the
council ruled late last week in favor
of Commerce Secretary Malcolm
Baldrige and Secretary of State
George Shultz — and against De
fense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.
Approval of the sale of the com
puters, described as relatively unso
phisticated devices to be used in an
electric power grid, had been op
posed by Weinberger on grounds
the United States should not l>e pro
viding any aid to the Iranian regime.
Spokesman Robert Sims said
Weinberger feels “it is not in our in
terest to sell Iran any equipment ex
cept for humanitarian grounds.”
Baldrige and Shultz contended
the computer involved — the PDP-
11 manufactured by Digital Equip
ment Corp. of Maynard, Mass. —
had no military application.
A spokesman for Digital. Jeffry
Gibson, said the company was noti
fied last Friday of the NSC action.
I le said a second projKised sale in
volved in the dispute, a $30,000
computer add-on memory system
intended for the Iranian news
agency, apparently still is awaiting
NSC action.
It was requested by an affiliaid
Swiss company, Brown, Boverii
Co., which has incorporatedtheDf
ital units in a system it planstoseli
Iran lot monitoring electric pom
generation.
The computer units are alreadtii
Switzerland, Gibson said.
But under various tradt
agreements, the equipment a*
not he shipped from Switzerland
Iran without approval of the It]
government.
Last month, Baldrige told aSti
ate Banking subcommittee he t;
baffled In Weinberger's opposilit
to the sale, saying the computtn
issue "have technologies that u
eight to 10 years old.”
Baldrige said in an iiuervbtlu
“we should not put the very comp
nies that we’re counting on foratii
i t ease in te< hnology at a disathat
(age by unilaterally control
products that the rcstol thew
doesn’t.”
Senate panel OKs
limited immunity
for former adviser
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate panel investigating the Iran-
Contra affair voted Tuesday to
grant limited immunity to President
Reagan’s former national security
adviser, Rear Adm. John M. Poin
dexter, opening the way for him to
break his silence.
Poindexter, 50, one of the key fig
ures in the affair, resigned as Rea
gan’s national security adviser last
Nov. 25 after Attorney General Ed
win Meese III disclosed that profits
from secret arms sales to Iran had
been diverted to help the Nicara
guan rebels.
Because Poindexter, in his job,
had been seeing Reagan each day,
he has been regarded as the prime
witness concerning what the presi
dent may or may not have known of
the apparent diversion of the
money.
Meanwhile, a top Pentagon offi
cial said the Defense Department
now believes a secret Army unit, es
tablished and shut down in 1983,
opened a hidden Swiss bank account
that could have been used later to
support the Contras.
leged diversion of profits from those
transactions to the Contras.
The Pentagon disclosures fol
lowed a report by CBS News Mon
day night detailing what the network
said was a secret account maintained
at the Credit Suisse Bank in Geneva.
The network reported that in 1985,
during the period when U.S. mili
tary aid to the Contras was banned
by Congress, $2.5 million was with
drawn from the account and
$75,000 of it used to charter a ship
that ferried arms to the Contras.
Rollert Sims, the Pentagon’s chief
spokesman, said neither Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger nor
Secretary of the Army John Marsh
“approved or authorized anything
remotely like the activities described
in the report."
New Shipments Daily
The official, who commented on
condition he not be named, said the
Pentagon suspects Lt. Col. Oliver
North and retired Air Force Maj.
Gen. Richard Secord might have
had access to the account.
North and Secord are already un
der investigation for their roles in
the sale of arms to Iran and the al-
As for Poindexter, Reagan’s for
mer national security adviser repeat
edly has invoked his Fifth Amend
ment rights against self-
incrimination in declining to testify
before congressional committees.
The limited grant of immunity
from prosecution would compel
Poindexter's testimony in exchange
for a guarantee that his words could
not he used against him in a later
criminal prosecution.
Poindexter still could be pros
ecuted on evidence Walsh gathered
independently.
The House committee investigat
ing the matter is expected to vote to
grant him limited immunity today.
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Editor applicants
Application forms: Available 8 a.m. 5 p.m. Journalism Department office.
Room 230, Reed McDonald Building.
Deadline: Return to Room 230 by 5 p.m. Monday, April 27.
Suggested strengths: Widespread and up-to-date interest in campus®
and all activities at the University; experience and/or training in managemeo
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Requirements: Must have strong interest in video and be currently en
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job tenure from June 1, 1987, through end of Spring Semester 1988. Current
GPR of 2.0 both overall and in major, and necessity of maintaining that aver
age throughout job tenure. Willingness to devote time and effort necessary to
plan, staff, and produce a master videotape of a year's campus life at Texas
A&M University, which can be used to reproduce saleable tapes for students
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Responsibilities: Will include but not be restricted to selecting andhiS
student staff; planning year's shooting schedule; setting budget (within pie
set limits) for staff and other activities; overseeing shooting of all film net
essary for a tape of 60-90 minutes; overseeing editing of raw tape
necessary background sound and technical devices for finished film.
Technical assistance: As available. Journalism Department faculty
staff and Student Publications staff will assist in all management and technic?
operations as requested.