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With the report due to be released tomorrow, a Republican member of the House panel, Rep. William Broomfield of Michigan, said it was possible that some former Reagan administration officials violated the law in secretly selling arms to Iran and shifting the proceeds to Nicaragua's Contra rebels...
...Neither Broomfield nor any of his GOP colleagues on the House panel signed the report...
...Broomfield, in a separate statement to be attached to the report, said: "We should not understate the range of potential improprieties and illegalities" committed by the late CIA Director William Casey, former national security adviser John Poindexter and fired White House aide Oliver L. North, "as well as certain other governmental officials...
...House committee that only 500 Marines would be moved offshore from Beirut by the end of February, the sense of congressional bewilderment and hostility rose even higher. When Secretary of State George Shultz appeared before the same committee to testify on the Lebanese political situation, Republican Congressman William S. Broomfield of Michigan warned, "We are wondering whether or not our policy [in Lebanon] is dramatically changing." Emerging from private briefings by Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam on the intended Marine redeployment, Democrats and Republicans alike expressed scorn and consternation. Said a Republican Senator after the meetings: "They...
...Administration's resolution, sponsored by Michigan Republican William Broomfield, supports the START negotiations and urges the US. and the Soviet Union to reach an agreement to freeze nuclear weapons at "equal and substantially reduced levels." But backers of the Zablocki resolution argued that Washington and Moscow are already roughly equal in nuclear arms and that a delay in freezing the arms race only increases the chance of nuclear war. Said New York Democratic Congressman Tom Downey of the Administration's approach: "That's a Hollywood freeze. It's not a real freeze...