European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 the stars and stripes saturday. February 28, 1987 Reagan Hurt badly scowcroft says Washington Al l Hront Seow Riihl. One of llu1 i rec members of the Tower commission Hal investigated he  arms Cannim Aid scandal i riday sail 1 resident Reagan i is been him had Hui Noi mortally a in affair. Tin1 to War commission made in of scowl gift. Former sen. John Tower k Texas. Ami former Secretary of a fitly  Niue i Muskie concluded president a canards foreign policy with ran was run in ideological cowboys negotiating a Arnis for hostages Swap. All three appeared Friday on National Lee is inn shakeup at the while House arc can sulcus All hut certain As critics raise questions Ahful Reagan s ability to Lead the Iii Triin and Deal with Congress in Tilths years of his presidency. Reagan trimmed in respond to the timer report in a nationally televised speech nem wee k. Send Scrofi was asked nil an Nhuc morning news program How much the  has damaged Reagan. "1 think the president has been Kurt Bailly but not mortally scow cml said the real problem is that Ronald Rea Gan s image is a president who was standing tall and who made the Ameri can people feel they were standing tall especially wih respect to terrorism and hostages now what americans have seen. Is the president behind inc scenes doing exactly what he said he would never do. 1 think that has deeply shaken the  Tower also interviewed on a morning news show said the commission believed Reagan approved he initial salt1 report of the president s special review Board february 26,1987 flu1 Ciner of Llie f finer  s report on the Iran arms Den. Of arms to Iran through Israel in order 10 have a strategic opening to  Loloi Vyver n a Marteil  Tower said in very quickly became an arms for hos tages Deal. Llu i did run my much counter to established Public  asked Why Reagan continues to insist 11 was not a straight arms for people Deal Tower said i think that the presi Dent has convinced himself there is a difference Between Selling arms nol giving but Selling arms to Iran and Ransom ing hostages from captors in Lebanon. In the Board s View that s something Ofa distinction without a difference questioned about Reagan s compe tence in Light of the renegade opera Lions of his subordinate it. Co. Oliver North Tower said the president should t have to Monitor people that far Down in the bureaucratic machinery in the National Security Council staff. That s the Jonh. With one British newspaper say ing the verdict on president Reagan was found to be guilty inn  Ali . Repon harshly criticised Rea Gan s direction of National Security aides in connection with the Iran Ron Ira Case. The German government said the re port commissioned by Reagan and made Schlic thursday raised questions about a Eiman role in shipping , missiles to Iran and demanded an explanation. The iranian parliament speaker Hashemi Raf Sanjam said Iran was Happy and proud about the report on . Arms sales to Iran. He Lold worshippers during noon prayers Friday at Tehran University. Or. Reagan has lied a Sfanjani said the same things which the White Louse had denied at the beginning have now been con  his remarks were carried by Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia Cyprus. Israeli officials expressed Relief hat the report did not make Israel a scape goal. The report said . Decision Mak ers had to Bear responsibility for inc arms sales however much Israel encouraged sue ii dealings. Our impression is Hal indeed in turns out Israel was not the focus and thai a is mostly an internal american matter Yossi Ahi Meir a spokesman for israeli prime minister Pinhak Shamir said Friday. The so vice government newspaper in a Celia said the to incr report lacks conclusions on inc precise role in the affair of Reagan and lop while House officials. The commission admitted itself that it had Only touched the lip of the iceberg in investigating the sales the paper said in a report from Washington. In said the report spread the blame in such a Way that in would not touch inc  one cannot Call in inc report exhaustive or  the paper said. In det Giulii. T in Independent Brussels newspaper i e sir wrote if Cagan acts quickly. If lie publicly accept the lesion. Ins last Twu years in the while House maybe won t be the real hell for which even his aides seemed to  Swiss newspaper comments Friday Rosity ii Ink the i if i hat the Tower commission report confirms that the Iran Contra controversy has sapped Rea loin s president. In Zurich. Swu Erland. Ilie Independent Taij Irvan l i Jer said the report showed in president could one been More informed if Only he had wanted  will never quite recover from this politically. His Good limes Are  the tiring. M  newspaper in London unite the report. Pre Sells a  of the conduct of foreign policy in president Reagan s Sec Ond term. His reputation. For being a Good delegates who is As Well in formed As he needs to be has been permanently damaged. In Juse his honesty and Good intentions hau1 nol been impugned however he can tight another  the Liberal a British daily guardian said the urdu is i novel one. Cuilty but asleep. Kinali Reagan according to Tower was no Weaver of watergate style plots. Nor did in1 knowingly participate in a Euver up. No the president had nil grasp of and of Hie detail of the Iran arms debacle me could t Tell a plot from a Hole in the  at a news and rence in Bonn German foreign ministry spokesman Jucar gun Chrobot Friday said the government has asked the United Stales for an explanation Ofa passage in the Tower commission re port that Siu the United slates shipped missiles to Iran by . He said the of germans had asked the Reagan administration if this account was Correct. One German of r Rual. Speaking on condition of anonymity Lold the associated press of course this would be a prob Lem for us. We Are Neutral in the War Between Iran and  Nader says Reagan will resign by end of year  Angulus us l consumer Adu Caie Ralph Nader predicts resident Keagan will Resi uti by the end of inc Star because of the Iran arms a in Nora Aid scandal "1 think Piv Siik Rii Kunal Kcal an will Olu inane resign his office before lit end of the year Belauh us the Diu closures and implications of Wihib massive scandal that is beginning to unfold at a Geometric rate As a Resuli of congressional Inu Sti nations special prosecutors and Media probes Nader said thursday. Nader made the prediction Al the end of a news conference to announce his supp Tiri fief proposed statewide legis lation in limit insurance Rale increases. Tin1 immunity Given this month to Fawn Hall the former Secretary of it. Col. Oliver North is us inc beginning of a whole series of lower level employees in the basement of he White House and elsewhere divulging More information to the special prosecutor in Clum for  Nader said. And that is when the spotlight pcs up the ladder until it reaches the presi Dent Nader said. Nader said embattled White House chief of staff Donald Regan has been taking the heat for the president. The moment Donald Regan goes the president1. Lightning Rod goes. And then the focus is going to a into the Oval  Nader said. Vice i Sci Ideal George Bush May have to resign too. Because Bush is involved. In s hard to distinguish How thai is going to  Nader said it s just going to go All the Way up. There is no Way All these top of Agar officials work ing every Day in the while mouse did t know what  cuing