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...live to Capitol Hill. Investigators are armed with several cartons of papers turned over last week by the witness to guide their questioning. This week, after seven months of claiming his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, Oliver North at last appears before the congressional committees probing the Iran- contra affair and begins to talk in public...
...grant of limited immunity, which ensures that nothing truthful he says this week can be used against him, he can still be prosecuted on the basis of other evidence collected by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. In the view of legal experts, the testimony of witnesses to the Iran-contra committees has provided more than enough evidence to support indictments on such counts as conspiracy to defraud the Government and conspiracy to obstruct justice...
...hopes that the University administration will draw such lessons and learn something more from the Iran-contra hearings than crafty measures for deceiving its constituency...
Administrators would reply, "How would you have us listen to students? They can't approve every stock transaction we make." One thing the Iran-contra scandal seems to reveal is the fact that Congress cannot meddle in the minutiae of foreign policy. However, Congress most definitely has a role in setting larger policy boundaries. In much the same way, students could not and should not attempt to involve themselves in the day-to-day management of the University. But they can help formulate the larger goals of tenure, investment, and other policies which they now have no influence over, perhaps...
Moreover, the parliamentary idea might dramatically shift the ballast and introduce considerable instability. Even in the stable British system, governments can be voted out of office by Parliament. Would Americans in the midst of a crisis -- the Iran-contra scandal, for example -- wish to subject the Administration to no-confidence votes...