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Thursday, May 7, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 ed— —■' at^ World and Nation Record: Reagan was informed pof secret shipments to Contras ■WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard ' isible v V. Secord testified to Congress 1 that coulBdnesday he was told by President 1 eye," ||;Reagan’s key aides that the president llor fori>,«w of, and appreciated, his work examine in arranging secret arms shipments e-houraJ Iran and Nicaraguan Contra re- ^Bs. I In his second day of testimony to a 1 due and; House-Senate hearing, Secord den- ' hut rts.Je| suggestions that he himself had expected benelitted from his role in the Iran- id. ^ntra affair. ials and [ Record quoted fired White House acksono; national security aide Lt. Col. Oliver lie you:. North as saying North had men- i A ntr tioned to Reagan the irony of profits Specialtnftfm die Iranian arms sales being di- crsitv cai; veile d for use by the Contras. '■White House spokesman Marlin heve Sin,Th/water told reporters in response, lomThei I refer you back to our original iBement that the president was not i*- ■ne of the diversion. There is no r ■oul that he did and it is hearsay n Ho Secord’s testimony.” Secord said that North made the remark in a “humorous vein” but that he had not thought North was joking. As the retired Air Force major general spent the day at the witness table, Richard R. Miller, 34, a for mer State Department employee who now heads International Busi ness Communications, a Washington public relations firm, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to illegally use a tax-exempt foundation to raise money to arm the Contras. Conservative fund-raiser Carl R. “Spitz” Channell pleaded guilty last week to a similar conspiracy charge and named Miller, who was a staffer on President Reagan’s 1980 cam paign, as well as North as fellow con spirators. Asked by U.S. District Judge Stan ley Harris to identify the govern ment official he dealt with, Miller re plied, “Lt. Col. Oliver North.” Early Wednesday, one of the cen tral characters in the unfolding story, ex-CIA Director William J. Casey died of pneumonia which de veloped during his recovery from surgery for a brain tumor. The sur gery had forced him to resign from the CIA earlier this year. Investiga tors had doubted he would be able to testify at these hearings because of his illness. One committee member, Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, who also is vice chairman of the Senate Intelli gence Committee, said Casey’s in volvement can be pieced together without his testimony but that it may take “several months or longer.” In a full day of testimony, Secord continued to give a joint House-Sen ate hearing the most detailed public accounting to date of the Iran-Con tra affair, concentrating Wednesday on various aspects of arms sales to Iran, including the transfer of U.S.- made weapons from Israeli stocks. He also spoke about the presi dent. “I have no direct first-hand know- lege about what the president knew or didn’t know,” Secord said. “As I think everyone knows I never spoke with the president on this. “I was told on a number of occa sions, and I even recorded it once in a December 1984 memo to myself, that the president was informed of my participation in the Contra and later in the Iranian operations. “I had talked with the director of the CIA, who is a close confidant of the president. I assumed that he was passing information to him. “I talked with two different na tional security advisers during the two years in question here. I vetted all the projects I was working on with Oliver North and I was told by (then-National Security Adviser) Adm. (John) Poindexter in January of ’86 that not only was he pleased with the work that I had been doing, but the president was as well.” e South African National Party scores victory as blacks go on strike against white elections ■OHANNESBURG, South Africa "I'T '(AP) Piesidenl P.W. Botha’s Na- iuend tional Party scored an overwhelming round: Aiictory * n Wednesday’s whites-only election, crushing liberal parties i a rov which had hoped that support for s long! ■rtheid was waning, ason. I' 1 ®; skein ■lore than 1 million of the coun- 11>i v. ,ili: try’s voteless blacks joined a nation- the wile strike to protest the election, in which far-right parties opposed to illas ;he government’s slow-paced re- iiiston" forms outpolled an informal anti- Lister apartheid alliance, the amj • e Kevin Hi he last hope for a dramatic tri ed ina umph by the alliance vanished when ■ependent Denis Worrall, the for- ^.ime-fcjnei ambassador to Britain, lost by id he saiip9jvotes to powerful Constitutional tionalnwtB'elopment Minister Chris Heunis n the Cape province wine-growing c Rocketslislrict of Helderberg. dd her 'With returns compiled from 130 incident’ff|l66 parliamentary races, the Na- r [sack adfl tional Party had captured seven seats from the liberal Progressive Federal Party, or PFP, and three from its moderate ally, the New Republic Party, while losing one seat to the PFP. It broke even with the far-right Conservative and Hestigte Nasionale (Reformed National) parties, gain ing eight seats and losing eight. The results vindicated the Nation alists’ campaign strategy, emphasiz ing the party’s commitment to crack ing down on black unrest and guerrilla activity. Botha promised to continue with cautious racial re forms but also pledged to oppose majority rule and maintain segre gated schools and neighborhoods. Partial returns showed the Na tional Party winning 98 races, the PFP 18, the Conservative Party 13, and one for an independent. The to tal vote for liberal candidates was less than 20 percent, compared with 27 percent in 1981, and was sur passed by the surprisingly strong 24 percent total for the Conservative Party, formed in 1982 by breakaway Nationalists who opposed any mod ifications of apartheid. Wynand Malan, a Parliament member who quit the National Party in January to protest the slow pace of reform, easily won as an indepen dent in the Johannesburg suburb of Randburg. But another Nationalist defector who joined Malan in an in dependent alliance, Esther Lategan, was beaten by the National Party in cumbent in Stellenbosch. The PFP, which had hoped to spearhead an advance by the anti apartheid alliance, suffered surpris ing losses in Cape Town and Johan nesburg districts which were consid ered its strongholds. Winners for the National Party in cluded powerful Cabinet members such as Foreign Minister R.F. Botha and Defense Minister Magnus Malan. The leader of the Progres sive Federal Party, Colin Eglin, also won. A record 480 candidates from five parties entered races for 166 seats in the House of Assembly following Botha’s decision to call the election two years early. Botha, 71, said he needed a mandate to continue grad ual reforms of some discriminatory laws and give blacks a limited role in national policy-making. He vowed during the campaign to resist majority rule and maintain segregated schools and neighbor hoods. Of the country’s 5 million whites, 3.03 million were registered to vote. With the National Party favored to hold most or all of its seats, analysts were looking toward the nationwide vote totals to see whether the party, in power since 1948, has lost support to the left or far-right, or both. Former PTL leaders lose church jobs for ‘bad conduct’ SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — For mer PTL Club leaders Jim Bakker and Richard Dortch have been dis missed as ministers of the Assem blies of God, national leaders of the Pentecostal denomination an nounced Wednesday. The 13-member Executive Pres bytery of the church announced its decision after meeting by telephone conference call to consider recom mendations from district officials in North Carolina. The Rev. G. Raymond Carlson, general superintendent of the church, said both Bakker and Dortsch were dismissed for “conduct unbecoming to a minister.” He said Bakker’s dismissal was for his admitted sexual encounter with Jessica Hahn in a Florida motel seven years ago and “for his alleged misconduct involving bisexual activ- ity-” Dortsch was dismissed for con cealing information about the immo ral activity of a fellow minister, Carl son said. Both Bakker and Dortch sub mitted resignations from the min istry March 19 when Bakker dis closed that he had a sexual encounter with Hahn, a former church secretary, in 1980. At the same time, Bakker re signed as head of his PTL Club tele vision empire. Dortch, a PTL executive, suc ceeded Bakker as host of the organi zation’s television show until re signing last week in the wake of disclosures that he had negotiated a financial settlement with Hahn. Under regulations of the Assem blies of God, resignations by min isters are not accepted immediately pending an investigation at the dis trict level. The national board, which heard allegations against Bakker during a regularly scheduled meet ing shortly after his announcement, referred the resignations to the North Carolina district, headed by the Rev. Charles Cookman, for fur ther study and a.recommendation. The district presbyters considered the mailer a second time during a meeting Monday and Tuesday in Fayetteville but did not make their decision public. Bakker turned over operation of his $172 million PTL ministry, based in South Carolina, to a new board headed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, a Southern Baptist from Virginia. At a meeting last week in the wake of further allegations of wife-swap ping among PTL leaders and that Bakker had engaged in homosexual acts and used the services of prosti tutes, the new board voted to banish him permanently from PTL. Bakker emerged from seclusion Friday to deny involvement in wife swapping, homosexuality or use of prostitutes. Senator puts hold on CIA nomination WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Er nest Hollings, D-S.C., said Wednes day he would hold up the nomi nation of FBI Director William Webster to be the CIA director until Webster assures him the Justice De partment will conduct a full investi gation of security problems at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. 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