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When Hart tried to confront the escalating crisis at a Wednesday press conference in New Hampshire, he winced visibly as reporters asked blunt questions about whether he had ever committed adultery. At one point Hart responded, "I don't have to answer that." Afterward, in the car heading toward a political dinner, Hart mused that maybe he should have said, "Adultery is not a crime. It's a sin. And that is between me and Lee, and me and God." Lee Hart added supportively, "That's exactly what I would have said...
Wherever the complicated trail of the Iran-contra affair leads, it seems at some point to intersect with retired Air Force Major General Richard V. Secord. The blunt, no-nonsense West Point graduate has remained aloof and silent since the scandal broke last November. But beginning Tuesday, when he appears as the joint congressional committee's opening witness, the mysterious Secord may become a household name and perhaps the first man to piece together the complex puzzle of Iranscam...
...just come to Europe's defense but would do so with nuclear weapons. The independent deterrents of Britain and France by definition cannot function as an American trip wire, and U.S.-based strategic weapons might sit out a war in Europe. U.S. short-range and battlefield weapons might blunt a Soviet blitzkrieg but cannot carry the war to the Soviet homeland. In the jargon of nukespeak, some Europe-based, intermediate-range American weapons are necessary to serve the cause of "coupling" between the U.S. and its allies...
Onscreen, John Wayne was a blunt talker and straight shooter. "Duke," who died in 1979, was also good at firing off angry letters to friends, including Ronald Reagan. In November 1977 Wayne blistered Reagan for a fund-raising letter that the Duke considered full of false statements about the Panama Canal treaties. "I'll show you point by God damn point where you are misinforming people," wrote Wayne, who supported the agreement to cede U.S. control of the canal to Panama. If Reagan persisted in making "erroneous remarks," Wayne continued, "someone will publicize your letter to prove that...
...actions of Jonathan Jay Pollard, who two weeks ago was sentenced by a U.S. district court in Washington to life imprisonment on charges of spying in Israel's behalf against the U.S. This week a delegation of some 65 American Jewish leaders will arrive in Jerusalem with a blunt message for Prime Minister Shamir and other Israeli leaders: that the Pollard affair threatens to do long-term damage to Israel's vital relationship with the U.S. Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, provided a fair sample of what the Israelis can expect...