International Advisor says Reagan j. I 'I I • • . | saysai< to admit his mistakes covered WASHINGTON (AP) - President Ronald Reagan, who an adviser says is prepared to admit he made mistakes in the Iran-Contra affair, is giving his first detailed response to the Tower commission report in an address to the country today. Reagan, under increasing pressure to accept blame as he tries to shake off doubts about his ability to govern, will deliver the speech at 9 p.m. EST. On the eve of his speech, Reagan announced his selection of FBI director William Webster as the new chief of the CIA. Webster accepted the job after Robert Gates asked Reagan to withdraw his nomination and former senator John Tower (R-Tex.) turned down the job offer. Gates, who will remain CIA deputy director, pulled out when it became apparent his confirmation would be delayed by congressional investigations into the Iran arms sale and diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels. A senior adviser to Reagan said the president would say that there were a lot of things going on in the Iran affair that he did not know. The adviser, speaking on condition that he not be identified, said Reagan would say, “not only were mistakes made, but I made mistakes.” However, Reagan will not apologize for his management style or say that he will change dramatically, the adviser added. Justice Department sources said discussion was still under way over who would be nominated to take over the FBI from Webster but that the leading candidate was Judge Lowell Jensen of U.S. district court who had served as deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration before being appointed a judge in San Francisco. Also mentioned for the FBI job was John Simpson, head of the secret service. There is a widespread belief that Reagan’s speech tonight is critical to repairing his damaged presidency. House of Representatives Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.) said “it is essential that the president recognize and acknowledge not only errors in implementing that policy, but the fundamental errors inherent in the policy itself.” Wright said those mistakes included sending arms to Iran, doing so covertly in contradiction to stated U.S. policies and to Washington’s urgings of its allies, and violating numerous laws. He said the administration “flouted the clear legal requirements” for notification of Congress in several statutes. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) said: “It’s not going to be easy and he must ask the American people to help him to get back on top of the agenda.” Dole said Reagan must accept blame for the Iran-Contra affair and admit that mistakes were-made. Meanwhile, Pentagon officials said John Poindexter, a vice-admiral who resigned as Reagan’s national security adviser because of the Iran affair, has decided to accept a reduction in rank to rear admiral rather than leave the navy. He will be assigned to the long-range planning staff of the chief of naval operations in Washington. Under cover Three ambulancemen in protective gear wheel patient into hospital in Hong Kong. The 42-year-old African embassy employee is suspected to be suffering from AIDS. Ex-official says aides up WASHINGTON (AP) - Former presidential spokesman Larry Speakes acknowledged today that he and President Ronald Reagan misled the American people last November about U.S. arms sales to Iran, blaming three former administration aides for providing incorrect information. Speakes said two former national security advisers, Vice-Admiral John Poindexter and Robert McFarlane, as well as Lt.-Col. Oliver North drew up a false chronology of events. North is a former staff member of the National Security Council. “When we went into those press conferences and that nationwide address in November right after the story broke, the president did not have the proper information and that’s why we were misled,” Speakes said in an interview on NBC television. “Consequently,” Speakes said, “the president and I misled the public to a certain extent in that period. We were badly served by the very people that were involved in the Iranian crisis and running the show.” Asked who. misled him, Speakes replied, “Poindexter and North and McFarlane, who were working on that chronology that misled us into thinking we had all the facts at that time.” THE PRINCE GEORGE VICTIM SERVICES SOCIETY "A volunteer group who provide information and assistance to victims ot crime." • Temple killer jailed SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A judge sentenced former Peoples Temple member Larry Layton to life in prison Tuesday for his role in the 1978 murder of U.S. Representative Leo Ryan, but Layton will be eligible for parole in four years. “Although Larry Layton must be held responsible for his actions, a just sentence requires consideration of the environment in which Layton and other members were virtually imprisoned,” said Judge Robert Peckham. Layton, 41, the only temple member tried in the United States, was convicted Dec. 1 of conspiracy and aiding and abetting in the murder of Ryan and attempted murder of U.S. diplomat Richard Dwyer on an airstrip in the South American country of Guyana in November 1978. Hours after Ryan, three reporters and a Peoples Temple defector were shot dead, Rev. Jim Jones and 912 followers died by poison and gunfire in a mass murder-sui-cide at the temple’s jungle headquarters, known as Jonestown. Layton, a follower of Jones, went to the airstrip posing as a defector, shot and wounded defectors Monica Bagby and Vern Gosney on a small plane separate from the one Ryan was preparing to board. He was convicted of participating with Jones and others in a conspiracy to kill Ryan, along with the rest of his party, in order to make sure reports of conditions at Jonestown never reached the outside world. Before sentencing, Layton told the court, he felt “a tremendous amount of guilt and remorse.” In addition to the life sentence for aiding and abetting in Ryan’s murder. Peckham sentenced Layton to three concurrent 15-year terms for his two conspiracy convictions, which carry maximum life sentences, and his conviction for aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of Dwyer, punishable by up to 20 years. Extra Foods* California Canada #1 head \ *^1: ’. ... v/; j -;vjA cfcW’* • /. - , j,, h . each WAN BAYONETED WOMEN' From Reuters-AP JERUSALEM (CP) - An 85-year-old Israeli barber testified today that Second World War Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible used a bayonet to prod Jewish women into a hut where their hair was shorn before they entered the camp's gas chambers. “The women did not want to go in.” witness Gustav Boraks said at the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk. “They were frightened. Ivan would push them in with a bayonet. “They were wounded and whole chunks of their flesh would hang from behind. There was a lot of blood . . . They would cry because they knew they were going to their deaths.” Demjanjuk. a 66-vear-old native of the Ukraine, is accused of being the guard known as Ivan who beat and mutilated prisoners at the camp it Treblinka in Nazi-occupied Poland, then pushed them into the death chambers and turned on the gas. Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker who lived in suburban Cleveland after the war. insists he was never at Treblinka, where more than 850.000 Jews were killed in 1942 and 1943. Demjanjuk’s lawyers say he is a victim of mistaken identity and the real Ivan was killed during a prisoners uprising in August 1943. Boraks said he and another 15 prisoner-barbers at the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland cut womens’ hair. The Germans “would take the hair, sort it and put it in a heater that would clean it before packing it and putting it on the trains,” he said. Boraks also described how Ivan shot dead a 17-year-old prisoner who tripped and fell while carrying a log on a work detail in a nearby forest. Joseph Czarny. a survivor of the camp, testified Tuesday that he once saw the brutal death-camp guard gun down a girl who tried to escape over a fence. Demjanjuk was extradited from the United States in February 1986. EXCLUSIVE THIS WEEK Thurs. - Fri. - Sat Only ARNIE & AGGIE This is their premier visit with us at The Tabor Arms. Come out to hear the shows nightly. It's great country listening and dancing. ‘Good Luck Carl’ MARIA’S KITCHEN The days are getting longer and soon folks will be rushing off after work to play ball, golf or some outdoor activity. £££$ Maria invites you over for a solid meal. EAT GOOD - FEEL GOOD! Sun.-Thurs: 11 a.m. - Midnight. 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