Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's self-inflicted Iran-contra wounds will not heal quickly. He will try to put the events behind him later this month by giving his own post- hearings perspective in a brief televised speech. But more blows seem likely. The final report of the Senate and House select committees, due in early October, is certain to be highly critical...
This potentially scary scene occurred not just once last week but twice. At 9:34 a.m. on Tuesday, a primary computer at the control center at Leesburg, Va., which handles flights in the greater Washington area, lost electrical power for 30 seconds. Another brief outage, lasting 1 minute 40 seconds, occurred at 9:08 that night in the New England control center at Nashua, N.H. Both operations quickly switched to their emergency backup systems, and officials at the Federal Aviation Administration maintain that safety was not seriously compromised. But the disruptions delayed flights along the busy East Coast corridor...
...sure, TV viewers cannot expect any rerun of North's theatrics. The balding, pipe-puffing Poindexter is the exact reverse of a dramatic figure. He speaks, when he must, in a soft monotone, and the sentences are brief and colorless. But it was Poindexter who received North's voluminous memos, and Poindexter who talked to Ronald Reagan every day. So it is Poindexter who can answer some central questions: How much did the President know about North's secret activities to aid the contras? Did Poindexter ever tell Reagan about the diversion of Iranian arms-sale profits to the Nicaraguan...
Poindexter rose steadily at the NSC, finally taking over day-to-day | operations as deputy to National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. The Admiral won some brief glory, at least within the White House, for coordinating the U.S. capture of the terrorists who had seized the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Though North claimed credit for devising and executing the operation, colleagues say Poindexter deserves the greater honor. They vividly remember him sitting coolly at his desk munching a sandwich from the White House mess and sipping a glass of red wine while directing the interception by Navy jets of the Egyptian...
...American visitor, the strange and exhilarating result of the British coverage was to see the candidates plain, without distractions. When they held press conferences, the camera was on the candidate; the questioning reporters were only heard, not seen. Every night during the mercifully brief three-week campaign (ours, tedious already, still has 16 months to go), each major candidate got four or five minutes on the air, which is a lifetime on American news. He or she had enough time to make and develop a point. If the speech was boring, that was the candidate's problem...