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Senate scrutiny of Robert Gates had barely begun when an aide handed intelligence-committee chairman David Boren a slip of paper. Its message: all charges against Oliver North, the former White House aide who carried out the Iran-contra affair, had just been dismissed by a federal judge. As Boren read the bulletin aloud, some of the air went out of the long-awaited hearings on Gates' appointment to head the Central Intelligence Agency. The North dismissal, dimming any prospect of further immunity deals for key Iran-contra players, all but ensured that the Senate may never fully learn what...
...Senate committee has been assured by Walsh that so far his investigation has not turned up any evidence that would lead to Gates' indictment. Bush once again reiterated his support for the nominee last week, and Administration strategists hope that with the help of Oklahoma Democratic Senator David Boren, the committee chairman and another Gates supporter, the nomination will reach the floor of the Senate anywhere from two weeks to six months from...
...resistance to the Shah among the people of Iran. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait last year also caught the U.S. by surprise. "The war might have been avoided if the President had been told six months earlier that this man is thinking of invading his neighbors," says Senator Boren...
...Iran-contra role, most Senators predict that he will be confirmed this time, barring some unexpected new evidence of wrongdoing. "Bob Gates was an exceptional deputy to Webster, an honest liaison to the congressional committees and an invaluable aide to the President in the White House," says Senator David Boren, the Oklahoma Democrat who chairs the intelligence committee. "I think he could be an outstanding CIA director...
Senator David Boren, back from an Intelligence Committee trip to the Soviet Union, is brandishing a unique souvenir.General Vladimir Kryuchkov, chief of the KGB, gave the third-term Oklahoma Democrat a newly issued series of stamps honoring some of the spy agency's biggest heroes. Included in the set: Kim Philby, the notorious mole in the British intelligence service who defected to Moscow in 1963 and joined the KGB's inner circle. In jest, Senator Boren asked his Soviet host why Philby's equally famous fellow double agents, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, had not been given their own stamps...