--- Wednesday, January 19, 1994 NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7 Prosecutor says Reagan set stage for illegal acts The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Reagan acquiesced in a cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal that was spearheaded by Attorney General Edwin Meese and carried out at the top levels of the Reagan administration, the prosecutor concluded in his final report yesterday. In two volumes that were immediately denounced by Reagan, Meese, former President Bush and others, the Iran-Contra prosecution declared that Reagan's aides withheld information on the scandal from prosecutors and Congress. Impeachment of Reagan "certainly should have been considered" by the congressional committees investigating the Iran-Contra affair, prosecutor Lawrence Walsh said in a news conference. But Walsh would not say whether he had favored impeachment and added that the cover-up made it hard for Congress to consider such a step. Reagan called Walsh's report a "vehicle for baseless accusations that he could never have proven in court." Walsh's report portrays Bush as more fully informed about the scandal than he has acknowledged. And it reveals that prosecutors wanted to question Bush about entries in his diaries suggesting a high-level effort in November 1986 to coerce Secretary of State George Shultz into following the administration line on Iran-Contra. Walsh also criticized Bush's pardons of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-Contrafigures as either "an act of friendship or an act of self-protection." The pardons were issued on Christmas Eve 1902, two weeks before the scheduled start of Weinberger's criminal trial — in which Bush was a potential witness. "President Reagan, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and the director of central intelligence and their necessary assistants committed themselves, however reluctantly," to security arming the Nicarara guan Contras and to dealing arms to Iran to gain release of Americans held hostage in the Middle East, Walsh's report said. "They skirted the law; some of them broke the law, and almost all of them tried to cover up the president's willful activities," Walsh's report concluded. Walsh's portrait of misconduct at the top of the administration rewrote the history of the seven-year-old scandal that was originally dismissed by the Reagan administration as involving illegality and later portrayed by congressional investigators as the product of a handful of uncontrolled aides. Walsh's report said there was "no credible evidence that President Reagan violated any criminal statute. "Nevertheless, he set the stage for the illegal activities of others by encouraging and in general terms ordering" military aid to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua at a time when Congress banned such aid, the report said. Peace accord could face vote The Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israelis on both the left and right objected yesterday to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's plans for a referendum on a possible "painful" land-for-peace deal with Syria. "A significant withdrawal might also include dismantling of (Jewish) settlements, and I want the decision on this to be made by the entire people." Rabin told reporters. But some members of Rabin's center-left government and the conservative opposition said any accord on the Golan Heights should be decided by calling early elections and putting the governing coalition's fate in the hands of voters. Syrian President Hafez Assad recommitted Syria to the peace process after a meeting in Geneva on Sunday with President Clinton. Press reports in Israel said Assad had mentioned a year-end deadline for an agreement. Rabin said the price of peace with Syria might be higher than expected by Israelis hoping for something less than full withdrawal from Golan, a key highlands captured by Israel in 1967. "If and when we come to a draft agreement between Syria and Israel and it demands a painful price — perhaps more than the residents of Israel expected — then we will need to bring it to a referendum," said Rabin. Jewish settlement leaders in the Golan welcomed a referendum and asked opposition parties to cancel plans for a parliament motion reaffirming Israel's 1981 annexation of the area. Israeli commentators suggested that a referendum would put Assad on notice that he would have to persuade the Israeli public he was sincere about peace. In Taba, both the Israeli and PLO sides reported progress on the details of handing over civilian authority in the Gaza Strip and Jericho on the West Bank. 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