SENATOR Robert Dole has called for a joint congressional hearing into whether any laws were broken by Mr Clinton's non interference with Iranian weapons deliveries to the Bosnian Muslims.
The Senate majority leader and unofficial Republican candidate for the presidency contest in November has requested four Senate committee chairmen to call the hearing on the alleged violation of a United Nations arms embargo.
The committees concerned are those on intelligence, foreign relations, judiciary and armed services. Mr Dole wants to know whether "laws were broken and a covert operation was conducted".
The CIA had requested an inquiry by the president's intelligence oversight board and the White House Counsel, which took place between November 1994 and May 1995, according to the Washington Post.
The board apparently said no and the Iranian arms supply was permitted to proceed.
The White House is now trying to persuade the Bosnian Muslim government to cut its ties with Iran before the US agrees to equip and train its army.
Meanwhile, President Clinton has signed into law a line item veto which authorises the chief executive to remove parts of, a spending Bill rather than rejecting it entirely, as heretofore. The law will not take effect until January 1997 with the new Congress.
The line item veto was a key demand of the Republican "contract with America" which Democrats opposed. After winning a majority in both houses of Congress in 1994 for the first time in 40 years, the Republicans vowed to put through the new legislation.
Most Democrats opposed the measure, arguing that it would give too much power to the executive, Mr Clinton on signing the Bill, said it protected taxpayers.
. Investigators found the names of some of the Unabomber's victims in documents seized during a search of the Montana cabin of the suspect in custody. Mr Theodore Kaezynski (53) a Harvard trained mathematician who led the life of a hermit the Washington Post reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted senior law enforcement sources.