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...start of last week Baker did. Though Reagan claims that Fahd offered his contra contribution voluntarily, Baker asserted that the President would have been within his rights to ask for the money outright. "I've been absolutely astonished to hear people say that it was illegal for . . . the President to solicit funds for the contras," the chief of staff declared on NBC's Meet the Press. The Boland amendment, he said, "never mentioned the President...
Baker's remarks signaled a surprising new White House strategy in coping with what has emerged as a central question posed by Congress's hearings about the Iran-contra affair: Did Ronald Reagan violate U.S. law? Reagan and his aides have begun freely admitting that he was deeply involved in encouraging private support for the contras during the period when the Boland amendment barred "direct or indirect" U.S. aid. But they argued that the amendment simply did not apply to the President -- and if it had, it would have been unconstitutional...
WASHINGTON--Former U.S. Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs testified yesterday that in 1985, while U.S. aid to Nicaraguan Contra rebels was banned, White House aide Oliver L. North ordered him to use his post in Costa Rica to help the rebels open a military front in Nicaragua...
...North was working for the National Security Council and obviously my assumption was that any instruction he gave me came from...his superiors," Tambs said in responding to a question at the Iran-Contra hearings about why he followed orders from the Marine lieutenant colonel...
Nonetheless, Tambs said he avoided official contacts with Contra leaders because of the congressional ban. Instead, he said, "I aided the private, patriotic Americans" who were supporting the Contras...