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...forbid Administration solicitation from other countries or private individuals of funds to buy arms for the contras? By specifying that "no funds available" could be used, the Boland amendment seemed to prohibit such a ruse. Assistant Secretary of State Langhorne Motley told Congress in 1985 that the Administration interpreted the law to prohibit "soliciting and/or encouraging other countries to contribute funds." He said, "We have refrained from doing that." In fact it was being done -- without his knowledge, says Motley...
...response from American companies was short of nyet, but it was a decided not yet. Not only does federal law prohibit the transfer to the U.S.S.R. of the high-tech electronics used in spacecraft, but no one seems willing to accept Soviet assurances. Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham spoke to the Soviet group and later dismissed the proposal. Said he: "We'd be naive to think they're not going to peek under the covers to look at our hardware...
...week's end the President revised his argument, contending that even if he had solicited funds from Saudi Arabia, the law did not prohibit him from doing so. "There is nothing in the Boland amendment that could keep me from asking other people to help ((the contras))," Reagan told a group of newsmagazine reporters. "The only restriction on me was that I could not approve the sending of help myself out of our budget money...
Meanwhile the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology will decide next week whether to prohibit the National Security Agency (NSA) from controlling certain kinds of scientific information, a House aide who spoke on condition of anonymity said yesterday...
...House bill, entitled the "Computer SecurityAct of 1987,' would prohibit NSA and the DefenseDepartment from exerting control over electronicinformation...