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A24 The Sioux City Journal, Friday, January 9, 1987 Rpo arms-hostaaes swai says neagan WASHINGTON (AP) Contrary to President Reagan's assertion that he was not swapping arms for hostages, a Senate committee report says Reagan authorized resumption of arms shipments to Iran last January with the understanding all U.S. hostages would be released, NBC News reported Thursday. The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee said the president gave his approval in January 1986 with the understanding that if the hostages were not released, there would be no more shipments, the network reported. And while the report found no evidence the president knew about the diversion of money from Iran arms sales to Nicaragua's Contra rebels, it raised questions about the roles of key administration officials. For example, the report was critical of CIA Director William Casey, saying he had been less than candid with the Intelligence Committee when he appeared before the panel last November.

The report indicates Casey had been aware of the possibility of the funds diversion as early as Oct. 7, 1986, several days earlier than he had contended, NBC said. The report said the committee never established how much if any money was actually diverted from the arms sales to the Contras or whether Lt. Col. Oliver North, the White House aide who was the purported engineer of the diversion, was acting alone or with orders from above, NBC said.

But the report portrayed former National Security Adviser Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, and North as frequently acting on their own and misleading or ignoring their White House superiors. As for the president himself, the report drew only the conclusion that he seemed surprised when told that money had been diverted to the Contras, NBC said. The report said the committee could not prove or disprove whether Poindexter or North ever told the president that the Contras were being funded with the Iranian money.

The White House issued a statement saying the report "will underscore the fact that the president knew absolutely nothing about the diversion of funds from Iran to the Contras and that no such policy was ever approved by the president." Dan Howard, a White House spokesman, said: "The White House does not have a copy of the report and therefore it is difficult to respond to questions on its contents. It is essential that the full report be made available to the public rather than selected details. The report should be released immediately." Sen. David Boren, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, issued a statement saying "I want to make it clear that the draft staff report which was inappropriately leaked to the press today was never adopted by the committee." He reiterated that the panel will continue to review the data it collected during a month-long investigation and put together a new version which he hoped could be released next week. The report was obtained as probes into the affair moved forward on several fronts.

Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel, was said to be readying a grand jury investigation, and the senator who is heading a Senate investigation said his committee may question foreign leaders about the affair Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, said his select committee may send investigators to Israel, Switzerland, Brunei, and possibly Iran, as part of its quest to get a complete picture of the Reagan administration's arms sales to Iran and financial dealings involving the Nicaraguan rebels. rt Nelson-Berger sold to Houston company Grandy, Johnson win ag panel seats Johnson Grandy ty's Scottish Rite bodies. Behr said Nelson-Berger was selected in Sioux City "because of its excellent reputation in the community.

We plan to perpetuate it for another 100 years." The merger will provide the business not only with increased financial stability but also with access to the facilities of a nationwide operation in making long distance funeral arrangements, Behr said. The fact that Nelson-Berger will be part of the company that owns Memorial Park Cemetery will enable it to offer complete funeral packages, he added. The business was founded in 1891 by Nels Nelson, the maternal grandfather of the present operators. He called it N. Nelson, Undertaker, and later N.

Nelson and Son when his son, Clarence, joined him. It became the Nelson-Berger Funeral Home in 1925 when Lester Berger, the father of Tom and Paul, joined the business. It now operates two chapels, one in Morningside and one on the north side. Nelson-Berger Funeral Home, Sioux City's oldest funeral service, has merged with a company that operates funeral services and cemeteries throughout the United States, it was announced Thursday. The business, operated by brothers Tom and Paul Berger, is now part of Service Corporation International of Houston, Texas, which owns 350 funeral services and 100 cemeteries nationwide.

The company has owned Memorial Park Cemetery here for the last two years and also operates 16 funeral services in Iowa and five in Nebraska, according to Charles Behr of Denver, the company's midwest regional vice president. The local firm, founded here in 1891, is approaching its 100th anniversary. Behr said the merger agreement was completed Dec. 30. Tom and Paul Berger will continue to operate the business and there will be no change in personnel or in the operation, he said.

Paul will remain on a part-time basis because he is taking over another job as secretary of Sioux Ci ByMikeGors Journal staff writer Siouxland's two newest congressmen Republican Fred Grandy of Iowa's 6th District and Democrat Tim Johnson of South Dakota Thursday received hoped-for assignments to the House Agriculture Committee. In addition, Grandy was chosen for the Education and Labor Committee and Johnson for the Veterans Committee, assignments which pleased both freshmen representatives. During their campaigns, both Grandy and Johnson said they would lobby for agriculture seats. Their predecessors retired Democrat Berkley Bedell of Iowa and Democratic U.S. Sen.

Tom Daschle of South Dakota held seats on the Agriculture Committee. With Grandy's appointment, Iowa holds both its seats on the Agriculture Committee. On Wednesday, the 3rd District's new representative Democrat Dave Nagle won appointment to the committee. Nagle replaced retired Congressman Cooper Evans in the House and on the committee. The final say on House committee assignments in the 100th Congress were made by committees comprised mostly of representatives in positions of leadership.

Each party had its own selection committee. According to John Devereaux, Johnson's press secretary, all committee assignments must be ratified by the full House when Congress reconvenes Jan. 20, but he said the TV vr.i ratification process generally is a mere formality and assignments are virtually certain to stand. "We figured we had the votes we needed for the agriculture committee," Grandy said from Washington, D.C. "I lobbied hard for education and labor, but I didn't think a freshman would get two major committees." Devereaux, also contacted in Washington, said Johnson's first two committee choices were agriculture and veterans, and he said Johnson was "very pleased" he got what he wanted.

Because South Dakota has three veterans hospitals, the Veterans Committee was "awfully important" to Johnson, Devereaux said. It's rare, Devereaux said, for a freshman to get both his first two committee choices. Congress begins a brief recess today. Grandy today will begin a weeklong series of meetings with constitutents across the district. Johnson will use the recess to move his family to Washington.

4 -V Car crashes through office wall; 23 hurt John P. Duffy of Spear, Leeds Kellogg, gives a for victory sign Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after the Dow Jones topped 2,000 for the first time. (AP Laserphoto.) Dow Jones tops 2,000 for first time Orr brings 'optimism tempered with realism' from page one had a linoleum floor that allowed the back tires to spin rather than grip, because the car easily would have gone through that second wall," and exited the building. Poff said charges probably would not be filed against Medina. Seventeen people were taken to hospitals and six others were treated at the scene and released, said Ed Guzman, a paramedic supervisor for an ambulance service.

Maria Morfin, 31, of Tijuana, Mexico, was run over by the car and taken by Life Flight helicopter to UC San Diego Medical Center, Two of Morfin's sons, 8-year-old Richard and 11-year-old Edward, also were hospitalized, said Morfin's husband, Hector, who was standing in line to get a new license when the car burst through the wall. "All of the sudden I heard a big bang," Hector Morfin said. "I turned around and saw my wife and kids were all over the place, laying on the floor. My wife was dragged underneath the car all the way from one side to the other side (of the room). One of my kids ran came over to me crying, 'My mama! My mama!" Hector Morfin said he ran over to the car and put it in neutral, and with the help of a couple of other patrons, eased the car back slightly to pull his wife out.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) A motorist who suffered a stroke crashed his car through a wall of a crowded Department of Motor Vehicles office Thursday and plowed into a group waiting in line, injuring 23 people. The accident left the building's registration section in shambles and sent a wave of confusion and panic through the office, where about 200 people were waiting. "I heard a big boom, and I looked over and saw the car," said Duval Cross, who was at the office to get an auto sales license. "It came directly through the wall, and made a right turn.

People just scattered. It ran people over. "Once the car stopped, everybody started screaming and running because some people thought it might have been a bomb. I just froze," Cross said. The driver of the car, Augustine Medina, suffered a slight stroke and pressed his foot on the accelerator, said Randal Poff, a traffic investigator.

Medina, 64, of Chula Vista, was listed in serious condition at Scripps Memorial Hospital. He had just been inside the office completing his registration and was driving away when he suffered the stroke, Poff said. The car was "under full acceleration," he added. "Luckily, the office sionate leadership" in return for the trust and confidence of of ice. "Today I bring you a message of optimism tempered with realism, a message of hope, leavened by pragmatism," she said.

"My optimism is based on an abiding faith, in the inherent strength and resilience of Nebraska's people." She noted Nebraska was carved from the Louisianna Purchase and "peopled by Westward-facing travelers, who crossed the Missouri River to settle along the overland routes of the Oregon and Mormon trails. "Those were hardy people, those pioneers, and we are their rightful heirs, with a rich legacy of fortitude in the face of adversity, and self-confidence in our ability to manage and control our own destiny," she Orr cited a variety of statistics relating to health, education and other areas. "But most special of all are Nebraska's she said. dicator that has declined in importance. Most analysts look to broader indexes such as Standard Poor's 500-stock composite index for a reading of the market's strength.

Analysts also noted the market has enjoyed an unusually strong advance so far this month, with many smaller secondary stocks rising even more sharply than the blue chips in the Dow. The upsurge has been widely interpreted as a sign of new life in the bull market that began nearly 4 years ago. The new high underscores the progress the stock market has made in recent years. It came only about 13 months after the average first reached 1,500, in December 1985j NEW YORK (AP) The Dow Jones industrial average struggled past the 2,000 level for the first time Thursday as Wall Street saw the early-1987 rally extend through its fifth consecutive session The Dow Jones average of 30 blue-chip stocks was down much of the day, but then began edging up in midafternoon and finally crossed above 2,000 shortly before the end of trading. It finished up 8.30 points at 2,002.25.

Stocks rose strongly across a broad front. Issues rising in price outnumbered declining stocks by 2-to-l on the New York Stock Exchange. Analysts minimized the significance of the Dow's rise above 2,000, portraying it as a largely symbolic event for an in ed her left cheek. History was made and repeated as Orr became governor and the Legislature recognized the 50th year of the non-partisan, unicameral Legislature. The 90th Legislature First Session, convened Wednesday to open the Unicameral's golden anniversary year.

In her inaugural message, Orr said Nebraskans still have the spirit that gave their pioneer forebears the vision and courage to come to the plains and make a new life. "I take this oath with a deep sense of humility and somber awareness of the heavy responsibility it imposes," she said. She said her oath amounted to a covenant with Nebraskans, a pledge to provide "honest, able and compas IBP employee's home vandalized Jaspersen wants boat registration changed from page one "scab," on note paper found in the home. Police said a dead pigeon also was found on the front sidewalk of the home. Wednesday morning, police responded to a call at the Morningside home after the couple's 3-month-old dog became ill and died.

A veterinarian is looking into the cause of death. Another incident involving an IBP employee occurred Dec. 23, when a plant supervisor returned to his Riverside home to find his dog dead and written next to it in a mustard-like substance, "Yellow Hats Suck." IBP supervisors wear yellow har-dhats while on duty. In response to the incidents, IBP spokesman George Spencer said Thursday: "It is getting nasty, ap make the union look bad," Schmitz said. "Everyone's got enemies and apparently they are trying to take advantage of the labor dispute.

"It doesn't make any sense for us to be doing the union representative continued. "Why would anyone want to take it out on a dog? Our members have been instructed not to do anything like that and that it would be dumb if they did." He said the locked-out workers don't blame the supervisors for the ongoing labor dispute. They realize upper management is charged with which action to take in the contract negotiations with the union, he said. "Our members know that the foremen did not create the situation and they don't dislike the supervisors," he said. By Kathy Hoeschen Massey Journal staff writer Sioux City police Thursday investigated a second incident in as many days at the Morningside home of an IBP inc.

employee. Meanwhile, a union spokesman said he had no reason to believe recent incidents involving damage to property belonging to IBP workers were related to the lockout at the Dakota City plant, now in its fourth week. The management employee had gone out to dinner with his wife at about 5:30 p.m., and when the couple returned, police said, they found someone had entered their home and left "derogatory" messages, including ones containing the word parently." However, Bill Schmitz, business agent for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 222, said he believed the incidents were not connected to the labor dispute. "Every time something happens to a supervisor in Sioux City they can't blame it on the union," he said. "There are 300 to 400 (IBP) management employees and there's vandalism in Sioux City every day." On the contrary, Schmitz said, the dispute provides an ideal opportunity for people to commit such acts as a way to hurt the people involved or harm the union by making its members appear to be the perpetrators.

"I don't believe for one minute a member of Local 222 is doing it. It is a possibility that someone's trying to Akron hospital owned a boat. "The hospital does not own a boat," Dykstra said. When confronted with a copy of the boat registration, Dykstra said he had bought the boat at a government surplus auction but had to buy it in the hospital's name. Records at the Plymouth County Courthouse, however, showed that a 19-foot, nine-passenger boat was purchased in 1979 and has been registered in the hospital's name since that time.

Jaspersen said the boat registration would have to be changed to protect the city from a potential, lawsuit. now administrator of the care center, had told the council the Six-Plex would be selt-supporting. Dykstra replied that it is self-supporting, but Jaspersen disagreed. Jaspersen said he had a financial statement that indicated the Six-Plex is being supported in part by nursing home monies. "The nursing home is making the payments," Jaspersen said.

Henrichsen also asked if the Baker thinks tax rate cut safe KGB officer publicly rebuked Sen. Warren Rudman, that could not be achieved last year, when Republicans controlled the Senate. Now that Democrats are in control by a 55-45 majority, "What's your fallback position?" Rudman asked Baker. "If I told you our fallback position was with (raising) revenues, there'd be no effort to get that $18 billion" in spending cuts. Baker said.

But already the president's budget calls for increased revenues of more than $6 billion, Rudman said. If Congress comes up $18 billion short and needs to look at revenues, would increased excise taxes be acceptable? he "If you are assuming the administration would be agreeable to substituting for $18 billion spending cuts an increase in some excise taxes, the answer is Baker said. temporarily as part of a deficit-reduction effort. Few colleagues rushed to his defense and some members of Congress are downright hostile to the idea at least so long as Reagan is so adamant against any tax increase. Defending Reagan's proposed 1988 budget to the Senate committee, Baker repeated the president's view that any kind of general tax increase is unacceptable.

Instead, Baker said, the deficit should be reduced by cutting certain non-defense programs, selling some government property and by imposing selected user fees and stepping up tax-collection efforts. Reagan's latest budget plan, covering the 12 months that begin next Oct. 1, would reduce the deficit from a projected $173 billion this year to $108 billion in 1988, administration officials say. The budget calls for $18 billion in spending cuts. Those include some, WASHINGTON (AP) Treasury Secretary James A.

Baker III said Thursday he has no fear that Congress might accept a suggestion by House Speaker Jim Wright to delay part of a scheduled income-tax rate cut in order to reduce the budget deficit. "I frankly don't see it happening -politically," Baker told the Senate Budget Committee. "I really don't believe there's a two-thirds majority in both houses up here to delay the tax rate reductions, and there will have to be" because President Reagan would veto such a move. "The president has made himself very clear on that." Under the landmark tax overhaul enacted last year, the maximum individual tax rate dropped from 50 percent to 38.5 percent this year and is scheduled to fall to 33 percent in 1988. Wright raised the possibility last month that the top rate be frozen Security chiefs have been executed, including Genrykh Yagoda, Lavrenti Beria and Nikolai Yezhov.

But they were shot in secret or accused in show trials of counter-revolution or spying. The Pravda article also marked an extremely unusual admission that KGB officers violate the law to punish individuals who fight officialdom. Pravda said the reporter, Viktor Berkhin, had been writing critical articles in the newspaper Sovietsky Shakhtyor (Soviet Miner). The Pravda report appeared connected to the publicity campaign being conducted by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, making an example of the Ukrainian KGB officer to convey the impression that no one is exempt from discipline and that the political leadership is in control of the security organs.

There has been debate among Western analysts about Gorbachev's relationship with the KGB, especially since the arrest last year of American newsman Nicholas Daniloff There is little precedent for a member of the ruling Politburo like Chebrikov to answer publicly and personally for wrongdoing in his sphere of authority. MOSCOW (AP) In an unprecedented public rebuke of a KGB officer, secret police chief Viktor Chebrikov on Thursday announced the firing of one of his field commanders for arranging the false arrest of a journalist. The announcement, shocking for the average Soviet reader in its criticism of the powerful Committee for State Security, was carried on the front page of the Communist Party daily Pravda. It said that in response to earlier Pravda articles, a man identified only as A. Dichenko was fired as head of the KGB in the Ukrainian region of Voroshilovgrad and that the Ukrainian KGB chief, Stepan Mukha, was ordered to take disciplinary action against other security officers.

The KGB, one of the three centers. of Soviet power along with the party and the military, has always been considered virtually immune to public accountability. Except for changes in its top leadership, KGB personnel shifts and disciplinary action are conducted in secret. There is no known precedent for a KGB field officer being denounced in the official press for misuse of power or illegal activity..