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Tempers flared during last week's NSC meeting, which lasted more than two hours. U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills argued vehemently that Bush should scrap the agreement in favor of persuading the Japanese to buy standard F-16s, minus the instructions for putting their most sensitive components together. On the other side, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide...
According to the report of the three-man board (John Tower, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft), which interviewed Reagan twice, the President insisted "he did not know that the NSC staff was engaged in helping the contras" from 1984 to 1986, when Congress banned U.S. military assistance to the rebels. But North, a former NSC aide charged with lying to Congress about his efforts to keep the contras intact, hopes to persuade a jury in Washington that Reagan and other superiors fully approved his activities...
...hand, the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who oozed patriotism from misty eyes during the congressional hearings, threatened to reveal some of the nation's most sensitive secrets if the trial proceeds. President Reagan, who has declared North innocent, said last week that he will not pardon his ex-NSC aide in advance of a trial but neither will he allow many of the classified documents to be aired in court. If that means some charges against North have to be dropped, the President implied...
There is no meaningful answer. The combinations of events in possible tragedies are infinite and unpredictable; the rituals of Cabinet and NSC meetings, addresses to the Congress and the American people that must follow a transfer of power are an automatic part of the system. A President could not avoid doing these things, even if he wanted...
...administration officials disputed charges that the program involved a domestic information campaign. "The NSC has no domestic propaganda campaigns. We are not aware of this relationship," said Bill Harlow, assistant press secretary at the White House...