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...Grenada invasion was the occasion for North's involvement with a particularly amateurish group of private agents. Senate investigators have learned that North used a Macy's department store maintenance engineer named Kevin Kattke in covert operations in Grenada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marine's Private Army | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...stung one of North's associates for $250,000, and the colonel himself interceded with the FBI on his behalf in July 1985. The bizarre incident, which outgoing FBI Director William Webster disclosed to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, offers yet another example of North's overreaching, amateurish operations. More significantly, it indicates that North told Reagan at least once of his efforts to raise money for the contras, despite the official ban on U.S. Government aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Contra Con | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Being a celebrity mayor has its drawbacks. Local Merchant Paul Laub, an unsuccessful candidate against Eastwood last year, has renamed the basement of his store Clintville and sells a dizzying array of Eastwood schlock, including a brief, amateurish video at $19.95 and women's underpants inscribed with a suggestive message. "I've asked him to stop," says Eastwood. "Unfortunately, it's been a gold mine to him." Crows Laub, who says he will embark on a two-month vacation in England after a three-month stay in Hawaii: "Who do you think really won the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Baby Kissing | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...FAIR to criticize an amateur production for being amateurish? It wasn't a good sign that I began to ponder this question but a few minutes into the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. At least I had a long time--the rest of the play--to come up with an answer...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...HANDLINS' BOOK offers flashes of insight and occasionally masterful prose. As a pure, academic history book, however, it has major faults. At times the writing is amateurish. For example, some passages are so breathy and frothily silly that it is difficult to believe they were written by an historian...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: The Pitfalls of Heroic History Writing | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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