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...wake of the Iran-contra fiasco, the President moved last week to head off congressional efforts to restrict his power to conduct covert activities. In a formal announcement made in the Oval Office on Friday, Reagan promised that he would notify Congress of such initiatives within 48 hours, barring the "most exceptional circumstances...
...President unveiled a six-point agreement laboriously negotiated between National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci and the Senate Intelligence Committee. Key provisions: that all orders for covert operations be written and made available to National Security Council members, including the Secretaries of State and Defense; that Congress be told of all private individuals assisting in such activities; that all covert actions be subject to annual review. The House Intelligence unit is working on a similar agreement. But Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate committee, conceded that the new accord was not an "absolute, airtight insurance policy" against Iran-contra...
...month, more teenagers than usual are showing up at Marine recruitment offices. The less venturesome can rush down to their neighborhood video arcade -- to play Contra. For 25 cents players can pretend to shoot their way through treacherous jungles without risking their lives or getting caught up in a covert operation. Since Contra's introduction in the spring, it has climbed to No. 6 on the chart compiled by Replay, a prominent video magazine, of the most popular arcade games...
...There may be some efforts to refine the lawsthat govern covert actions, and someefforts--probably misguided--to force thePresident's hand on foreign policy," AssistantProfessor of Government Mark A. Peterson said...
...said. ". . . It's pathetic that anybody would agree to anything like that. It's so lopsided. It's crazy." At one point he was shown a chart found in North's office safe, outlining a way of using arms-sales profits to set up a privately controlled fund for covert operations. Disdainfully, Shultz tossed the paper on the witness table. "A piece of junk," he called it, adding, "It is totally outside the system of government we live by and must live...