University Daily Kansan / Thursday. March 5, 1987
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House, Walsh not cooperating
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Members of the House committee probing the Iran arms scandal said yesterday that special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was refusing to share important documents with them but voted to turn over some of their own evidence to Walsh.
"We want to be cooperative," said committee chairman Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., told reporters after a closed meeting. "We do not want to impede any criminal investigation."
"It is in our interest to have as much cooperation with him as we can, said committee member Rep. Harley Hyde, R-III, referring to Walsh.
The committee voted to turn over
to Walsh transcripts from closed hearings by other committees that first heard witnesses in the Iran arms-contra aid scandal.
Walsh, however, has prevented the committees from obtaining Justice Department records reportedly performed in connection with documents to the contrasts in Nicaragua.
"I do not consider us to be at an impasse with the independent counsel at this point in time," Hamilton said. "But neither can I tell you that we expect to receive those materials very quickly."
The committee staff, he has, has "conversations with Walsh every day to try and resolve the situation promptly."
Hamilton said the committee had also been thwarted in attempts to
obtain Swiss bank records that may document the flow of profits from the arms sales to Iran for other purposes, including contra aid, but is pursuing "several different paths" for obtaining them. He would not elaborate.
"The major unanswered question is what happened to the money." Haiti
Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo., the top GOP member on the House committee, said earlier he believes the panel and Walsh could work together but, "I am concerned that the special prosecutor gives the appearance perhaps of not being as cooperative as we might hope."
He said "at some point" there might be a conflict with Walsh over granting at least limited immunity
for the committee's purposes to key witnesses, including Lt. Col. Oliver North, fired National Security Council official his boss, Admiral John Poindexter.
Hamilton said the committee had issued about 100 subpoenas for individuals and corporations.
"If you're willing to wait two or three years until the independent counsel has done everything he may want to do then you can ... grant authority." Cheney said. "But we don't want to wait two or three years."
Hamilton also revealed that the first public hearing since the select committees were formed in early January would be jointly held by the House and Senate panels and would probably occur in late April.
Religious leaders arrested after protesting in Rotunda
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WASHINGTON - Capitol police arrested five Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders after they knelt in "gentle trespassing" to say Ash Wednesday prayers in the Rotunda of the Capitol to protest U.S. policy in Central America.
The five were arrested for violating a ban on demonstrations inside the Capitol building. They are among leaders from 19 churches and religious agencies that mark the beginning of the Lenten season with protests. Protests are planned for each Wednesday of the Lenten season.
"If, in offering our prayers today, some of us choose a gentle trespassing in a revered area of our nation's Capitol building, thus breaking the law, we do not do so defiantly against the nation, but in broken-hearted penitence that we have joined in defying the God of in many of our national policies"<sup>1</sup>, in "the Post, president of the United Church of Christ and one of the five arrested.
Besides Post, Capitol police arrested the Rev. John Humbert, president of the Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ); the Rev. Arie Brouwer, general secretary of the National Council of Churches; the Rev. Joseph Nangle of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men; and Doris Anne Younger, general director of Church Women United.
"In witnessing for justice and peace in Central America, we are asserting that the policies of this administration in Central America are a betrayal of our own American Revolution and the denial of our American heritage of liberty and justice for all." Brouwer said.
Brouwer made his remarks at a news conference shortly before protesters, carrying 150 white crosses bearing the names of those killed in the attack on San Salvador, gathered on the steps of the Capitol for a prayer service.
When the service ended, the five leaders entered the rotunda, kneeled in silent prayer and then offered their gifts and donations on Central American policy.
"We are here today to bear in our bodies the humiliation of a nation that has misused power," Post said.
"We declare our complicity with policies that are inhumane; that
having eyes, we no longer see the poor, and, having ears, we no longer hear the cries of the oppressed and of hungry children. We confess that we make war, as one of our poets said, like people anointing themselves."
The Roman Catholic Church and all mainline Protestant churches have long opposed U.S. policy in Central America, calling instead for a stronger administration commitment to the Contadora peace process, an end to aid to the contras seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan government and a stop to military and war-related aid to the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala.
"But our appeals have gone unheeded, our information dismissed by the Rougan administration andigned by 22 leaders from 19 groups.
Gordon Sommers, president of the Provincial Elders Conference of the Northern Province of the Moravian Church in America — the denomination to which most of Nicaragua's Miskito Indians belong — called for a negotiated settlement of the conflict in Nicaragua.
Baby M's grandparents want visitation rights
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HACKENSACK, N.J. — Baby M's maternal grandparents asked a judge yesterday to let them help raise the infant no matter who won a landmark legal battle over custody of the child.
Joseph and Catherine Messer, parents of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead, asked the judge to grant them visitation privileges even if he shakes Whitehead of her legal rights as Baby M's mother.
"The baby is so remarkably like my other grandchildren." Joseph Messer, a father of eight and grandfather of four high superior Court Judge Harvey Sorkow.
"I feel the same way about her as I do the others," he said. "I certainly would like to have some kind of friendship with my granddaughter."
Sorkow is hearing the final week of testimony in the unprecedented Baby
M case and is expected to rule late this month. William and Elizabeth Stern, both 41, of Tenfly, N.J., are seeking a ruling enforcing the $10,000 contract in which Whitehead agreed to bear them a child.
They have asked for sole custody of Baby M and termination of Whitehead's legal rights as a parent. The $10,000 fee is in escrow.
Whitehead 29, of Brick Township, N.J., is the first surrogate mother in the United States for trying to bear her contract with a childless couple.
Joseph Messer, 67, a retired teacher from Eatontown, N.J., who lives with his wife in Holiday, Fla., testifies that he was an important role in Rabbi Nim'el's life.
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