European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes red gun Hurt badly scowcroft says Washington up Brent scowcroft one of the three members Orthe Tower commission that investigated inc Iran arms Contra Aid scandal Friday said president Reagan has been Hurt badly but not mortally by the affair. The Tower commission made up of scowcroft former sen. John Tower r Tenas and former Secretary of site Edmund Muskie concluded president Reagan s foreign policy wild Iran was run by ideological cowboys negotiating an arms for hostages Swap. All three appeared Friday on National television. Shakeup at the White House Are considered All but certain As critics raise questions about Reagan s ability to Lead the nation and Deal with Congress in the last two Yean of hit presidency Reagan promised 10 respond to the Tower reporting a nationally televised speech nut week scowcroft was asked on an no morning news program How much the scandal has damaged Reagan. I think the president has been Hurt badly but not mortally scowcroft said. The real problem � thai Ronald Rea Gan s image is a president who was standing tall and who made the Ameri can people feel they were handing tall especially with respect to terrorism an hostages. Now what americans have seen. Is the president behind the scenes doing exactly what he said he would never do. I think that Bas deeply shaken the  Tower also interviewed on a morning news show said the commission believed Reagan approved the initial sate report of the president s special review Board february 26, 987 the Cuiter of the to or commission s report on the Iran Arras Deal. Of arms to Iran through Israel in order to have a strategic opening to  however it started out Tower said it very quickly became an arms for hos Lages Deal that did run very much counter to established Public  asked Why Reagan continues to Insi stil was not a straight Anis 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 Tram captors in Lebanon. ,., in the Board s View that s something of a distinction without a  questioned about Reagan s i tence in Light of the renegade tons of his subordinate. It coup River North Tower said the  t have to Monitor Peatie that far Down in the bureaucratic Jour winery in the National Accuri Council staff that s inc Job of Ujj f National Security  Tower decl Natlo second guess the president for appointing his chief of staff.  who was criticized by the a omission for being responsible for chaos he while House. He Skregan had a Good record of Man ariment in business and As Treasury wry. I Don t think you can fault inc part Deal too much on perhaps making Leal some might consider an error in it on personnel Tower said. Muskie told lbs news he had never seen a president so detached in Bis management style As Reagan. He agreed Rea Gan has Only a few Days in which to show the nation he has taken the reins of government into his own hands in the Wake of the commission s report. Europeans Call report severe blow to Reagan f the associated press l reaction in Europe Friday was dal the Tower commission report " a body blow to the Reagan presi a with one British newspaper say the verdict on president Reagan was hound to be guilty but  the . Report harshly criticized Rea fan s direction of National Security aides in connection with the Iron Contra Case. The German government said the re port commissioned by Reagan and made Public thursday raised questions about a German Rote in shipping . Missiles Toiran and demanded an explanation. The iranian parliament speaker. Hashemi a Sfanjani said Iran was Happy and proud about the report on .arms sales to Iran. He told worshippers during noon prayers Friday at Tehran University or. Reagan has  a Sfanjani said the same things which the White House had denied atthe beginning have now been con  his remarks were carried by Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia Cyprus. Israeli official expressed Relief that the report did not make Israel a scape Goat. The report said , decision Mak ers had to Bear responsibility for the arms sales however much Israel encouraged such dealings our impression is that indeed it urns out Israel was nol the focus and that it is mostly an internal american matter Yossi Ahi Meir a spokesman for israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir said Friday. The soviet government newspaper in a Celia said the Tower report lacks conclusions on the precise role in the affair of Reagan and top White House officials. The commission admitted itself thai it had Only touched the tip of the inc big in investigating the sales the paper said in a report from Washington. It said the report spread he blame in such a Way thai it would nol touch the president one cannot Call in the report exhaustive Orall embracing the paper said. In Belgium the Independent Brussels newspaper la soil wrote if Reagan acts quickly. If he publicly accepts the lesson his last two years in the Whitehouse maybe won t be the real hell for which even his aides seemed to  Swiss newspaper comments Friday mostly took the View that the Tower commission report confirms that the Iran Contra controversy has sapped Rea Gan s presidency. In Zurich Switzerland the Independent Tagis Anz Cigar said the report showed the president could have been More informed if Only he had wanted  wit never quite recover from this  Good times Are  the times on Independent newspaper in London wrote the report. Pre Sunli a thorough indictment of the conduct of foreign policy in president Reagan s Sec Ond term. His reputation. For being a Good Dele Galor who is As Well in formed As he needs to be has been permanently damaged. Became his honesty an Good intentions have not been impugned however he can fight another  the Liberal Uri Riih daily guardian said. The verdict is a novel one. Guilty but asleep. Ronald Reagan according to Tower was no Weaver of watergate style plots. Nor did he knowingly participate in a cover up. No the president had nil grasp of any of the detail of the Iran arms debacle. He could t Tell a plat from a Hole in the  Ai a news an Ferenec in Bonn. German foreign ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobot Friday said the government has asked the United slates for an explanation of a passage in the Tower commission re port that says the United slam shipped missiles 10 Iron by Way of Germany. He said the germans had asked the Reagan administration if this account was Correct. One German official speaking on condition of anonymity told inc 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 los and fees up consumer advocate Ralph Nader predicts president Reagan will resign by the end of the year because of the Iran arms Contra Aid scandal hink resident Ronald Reagan will voluntarily resign his office before the end of the year became of the disclosures and implications of this massive scandal that is beginning 10 unfold at a Geometric Rale As u result of congressional investigations special prosecutors and Media  Nader will thursday Nader made inc prediction at the end of a news conference to announce his support for proposed statewide legis lation to Listl insurance rate increases. The immunity Given this month id Fawn Hall the former Secretary of . Oliver North is just the beginning of a whole series of Tower level employees in the basement of inc White House and elsewhere divulging More information to the special prosecutor in return for immunity Nader said. And that is when the spotlight goes 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 heal for the president. The moment Donald Regan goes. The president s lightning Rod goes. And then the focus is going 10 be into the Oval office Nader said. Vice president George Bush May have to resign Loo because Bush is involved. It s hard to distinguish How that is going to  Nader said. It s just going logo All the Way up. There is no Way All these lop Reagan officials work ing every Day in the White House did t know what was going on