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These are just some of the strands that have been woven together in a bizarre tapestry of intrigue that stretches across two continents and several years. As each day brings fresh revelations about the scheme to skim profits from secret U.S. arms sales to Iran and channel them to the contras in Central America, the tale assumes the drama and sweep of an epic thriller. Some chapters are still murky, and the ending remains to be played out over the next few months, even years, but the story already rivals the most intricate of spy novels...
That this should be happening now is not without its irony. The need for a new covert channel is hardly obvious in an administration that has mounted large numbers of secret schemes under CIA auspices. The development is ironic in another sense, as this NSC staff has been widely faulted for not meeting its primary responsibility of effective policy coordination...
...their machines for telecommunications. "The American market is potentially enormous," says Jean-Louis Fourtanier, whose Paris-based CTL Telematique has formed a partnership with Baseline, a New York City data service, to provide a selection of Minitel offerings in the U.S. Earlier this month, Baseline hooked up a 64-channel telephone link to France that for $10 an hour will permit stateside subscribers to tap into news reports from Liberation and feature stories from the magazine L'Evenement du Jeudi. Says Fourtanier: "Once operations begin, they could start rolling like a snowball...
...band, which is already a mainstay at Boston clubs such as Paradise, Jack's, and The Channel, entertains high hopes for its future. "We're very optimistic. We're young, good-looking and always ready to party," said Rousseau, who worked in the Union from...
...soon resume contacts with Iranian officials of any rank concerning geopolitical questions. Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi sneered last week that renewed contacts between the U.S. and Iran would be like "relations between the wolf and the lamb." Later Rafsanjani said the U.S. was "using every channel to beg Iran to accept establishing a dialogue with...