The 27-year-old part-time model added pointedly: "I can type."

Under questioning, Hall said she did not recall ever hearing North say that proceeds from the sale of arms to Iran were going to aid the Contras.

However, she described retyping several drafts of a memo that mentioned the diversion of profits. She said she could not recall if a final version was seen by anyone other than herself, North and then-National Security Adviser John Poindexter.

At another point, Hall told of asking North for a small loan for a weekend trip to the beach in June 1985, and said he gave her three $20 traveler's checks, drawn on a Central American bank.

"He said, `Make sure you pay back the money; it's not mine,"' Hall said.

She said she found it unusual that the checks were Central American, but said she didn't ask North why and he didn't volunteer an explanation.

Earlier yesterday, a Reagan administration lawyer was questioned closely by the committees about his 1985 legal opinion that has been used by some in the administration to justify secret aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.

Bretton Sciaroni, counsel for the president's Intelligence Oversight Board, acknowledged that he was working in his first job as a lawyer and that he wrote the legal opinion after conducting two brief interviews and without seeing memos showing North's direct role in aiding the Contras.

Still, he stood by his opinion that congressional limits on military aid to the Nicaraguan Contras did not apply to North and the National Security Council.