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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday april �1987 controls on Covert actions proposed Washington Hydu speaker Jim Wright saying the Reagan administration had shown Cicciu Sivc arrogance Loward Congress by keeping its inn arms dealing secret called wednesday for tighter controls on Covert activities. Wright told the House intelligence committee it is Lime for Congress 1o write into jaw a strict requirement in suits oversight panels be informed in writ ing of most Covert intelligence action before they take place and in no Case More than 48 hours after they begin. In the Case or the Iran arms sales the administration kept silent about he dealing Tor More than a year despite requirement in current Law for notice in a to moly fashion to responsible congressional officials. Thai after All is the Warp and woo of the makings of executive arrogance the idea Hal certain things arc Loo risky too important. To be shared with con Gross Wright a Texas. Told the panel that was t in the minds of the people who wrote the  on the other hand a Farmer director of the Cia testified hut the proposed restrictions sponsored by intelligence committee chairman Louis Stokes a Ohio were a Hasty reaction to the Iran Deal and would unduly tic the hands of future presidents and intelligence officials. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle made it Clear they believed inc administration s behaviour in the Iran arms Deal violated Ai least he spirit and perhaps inc idler of inc notification Law. I am personally offended by the fad that 1 was left out of the Loop so Long said House minority Leader Robert Michel a it. I m certainly not going to apologize to my own administration for having taken that  but he also said of the proposed new rules the 48 hours is just huf lying president. We cannot risk having our adversaries and indeed our friends perceive an american president As not being Able to move quickly and decisively because Congress has restricted his  adm. Stansfield Turner who was Cia director during the drier administration said congressional oversight of intelligence has suffered a breakdown Dur ing the Reagan administration because mistrust. Former Cia director Wil Liam Casey who Ted the Agency for the past six years was known far his. Reti Cence under questioning. Turner said information about at Lea Stone Type of Covert action in which agents lives Ore at risk could not be shared with Congress or anyone else without a strict need to know. He cited three examples All from . Effort to free americans held hos Tage in Iran in 1980, in one Case a Cia agent went int Tehran Iran to help get sit americans out of the Canadian embassy where they had taken Refuge in another a Small Crew new into the iranian desert to scout out a Landing and refuelling site for a Rescue Mission. And Agency personnel again entered Tehran to buy trucks that were to be used in the Rescue Effort. People who Are willing to Lay their lives on the line want to believe they Are working for someone who knows what heis doing not someone who May change his mind at some critical Point in the operation because of what his advisers Tell him Turner said. But rep Matthew f. Mchugh d-n.y., chairman of the intelligence legis lation subcommittee said Congress had tried to rely on rust and had been burned. We be Learned from bitter experience we were lied to he said. Public approval of Reagan up new poll finds new York a Public approval of president Reagan s handling of his Job has risen slightly since the Tower commission report on the Iran affair according to n new York times lbs news poll. The Survey also found the withdrawal of  Cuomo from the democratic presidential race for 1988 and of former sen. Howard h. Bakerjr. Fro the Republican Competition has bad no major effect on the Overall complexion of those contests the time reported wednesday. Pony five percent of the respondents said they approved of Reagan s performance on the Job and 43 percent said they d disapproved the poll said. In an earlier poll taken feb. 28 to March to just after the Tower commission released its report on Aims sales to Iran and financing of he Nicaragua rebels 42 percent of the respondents approved Rea Gan s performance and 46 percent said they disapproved. The later Survey interviewed 1,394 adults by Tele phone on March 28 and 29. The margin of error in a Sample of this size is plus or minus three percentage Points the poll indicated former sen. Gary Hart of Colora do the Early Leader among the democratic presidential hopefuls benefited most from Cuoma s withdrawal feb. 19. He was the Choice of 38 percent of the respondents who said they would vote in the democratic primary As opposed to 33 percent in a january poll. Cuomo then the second place contender was the Choice of 17 percent. The second Choice in the Bier poll was the  Jackson with 9 percent. Among republicans vice president George Bush remained the Early Leader although with a somewhat smaller Lead Over the party s no 2 contender Bob Dole of Kansas the Senate minority Leader. Bush was the Choice of 33 percent Dawn three percentage Points since january and Dole was the Choice of 19 percent up 4 percentage Points. The Birdman of. Glen Burnie my. Up photo Joann Rasm Ihsen of Glen Bumble hid lies a kit shaped like a person during the 21 is annual smithsonian Kite festival but weekend. Kite makers or All Ages showed up on the National mall nest of Theta Shleton f lying  Monument to lest their design and Kite Roberts descends prayer Tower says i m alive Tulsa okla. A Oral Roberts who said he faced a life or death Man Date from god to raise $8 million by inc end of March. Told a television  will it s april and i m  Roberts appearing on Richard Rob erts live his son s television program said lie came Down tuesday night fro the futuristic prayer lower on ii Oral Roberts University Cimi pus where i conducted a ill Day prayer Vigil. Roberts said the Vigil had rekindle the Healin i Pri Siwe in my right Hund like it was when 1 began in 1947. Myhand right now feels like it is on  Roberts said his Healing Powers had seemed to recede to some extent recently. The 69-year-old Roberts promised Logie details soon about his widely criticized Effort to raise Money for medical missionary scholarships. The $3 million goal for assisting Oral Roberts University students was reached earlier in the month. On March 23, a Sarasota f a. Dog track owner Jerry Collins presented as1.3 million Dollar Check that was de signed to put Roberts Over the lop in his fund drive. But inc evangelist had declared Dur ing a Remote Hookup on his son s Tele vision program that his ministry needs More. He indicated tuesday thai he still considered his life 10 be on the line Collins 79, is a former state  owns two greyhound tracts. Collins said he was not specific jul moved by Roberts claim thai he Wou lil die without the Money Bui the dog Erik k owner said i think he ads psychiatric treatment. He needs to rely and Jet Back on the main  Roberts received widespread criticism after saying Jan. 4 that god told him to raise so Mil lion by March 31 or he would fall i Home. Of has not said How much above the$8 million Mark bus been raised. You know inc Devil almost tricked us because inc news Media feel thai it s i hair Job to play up on the More sensational which was the so million to turn the medical school around by pulling Thi in under scholarship Roberts said tuesday that $8 million captured the Atten Tion of the world. But what they failed u bring uni was Hui i said was that Oad said to me you must raise thisse million above the regular needs of the ministry above the support base. Getting the a million is absolutely essential but it will not answer anything Gil the regular needs of the ministry Are nut met  
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