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Nowhere are the inconsistencies among Administration officials more striking than in the testimonies of McFarlane and Regan. Their disagreements begin with the first time McFarlane mentioned to the President the subject of arms sales to Iran. The then National Security Adviser visited Reagan at Bethesda Naval Hospital shortly after the President underwent surgery for colon cancer in July 1985. According to Regan, the President questioned the credentials of Ghorbanifar, the contact with Iran. Says the Senate report: "Regan testified that McFarlane defended Ghorbanifar on the basis of Israeli assurances, and the President authorized McFarlane to explore the channel...
McFarlane, however, told the Senators that he did not bring up Ghorbanifar at Bethesda, adding that he did not even learn of the arms merchant's identity until December of that year when he first met him in London. Yet McFarlane did mention Ghorbanifar in a cable to Secretary of State Shultz calling for renewed ties with Iran. The message was sent on June 14, 1985, a month before the Bethesda meeting. McFarlane explains that if he did use Ghorbanifar's name in the cable it was because he thought it was the identity of an aide to Iran...
EDITORIAL:Michael D. Nolan '88 of Winthrop House and Bethesda, Maryland, Editorial Chairman. Steven L. Lichtman '88 of Leverett House and Oceanside, New York, Deputy Editorial Chairman. Gary D. Rowe '88 of Lowell House and Los Angeles, California, Associate Editorial Chairman. Abigail M. McGanney '87-'88 of Mather House and New York, New York, Arts Editor. Jeffrey J. Wise '88 of Adams House and Tokyo, Japan, Assistant Editorial Chairman...
...goes as his doctors have forecast, Ronald Reagan will return to the White House from Bethesda Naval Hospital at midweek -- a month before his 76th birthday -- ready to face the challenges of his last two years in office. But with how much energy and effectiveness? The answer depends only partly on the outcome of the colonoscopy and prostate surgery scheduled for the President early this week. Even if those procedures turn out to be as routine as predicted and Reagan once again demonstrates his remarkable powers of physical recuperation, he faces a daunting task of political recovery. Almost immediately...
...Then how come Oliver North had no trouble winning a position in 1981 on the National Security Council staff, where emotional stability should be a prime requisite? Probably because hardly anyone knew, until the Miami Herald reported it last week, that North had spent three weeks in Bethesda Naval Hospital for emotional problems six years before he joined the NSC. Why no one knew is another question...