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News Editor for this Issue: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Night Editors: Andrew J. Bates '90 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Ross G. Forman '90 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Photo Editors: Mihail S. Lari '89 Brian J Williams '89 Features Editor: Evan O. Grossman '87-'88 Sports Editor: Jennifer M. Frey...
...shrinking spy scandal baffled one high White House official, who asked in frustration, "What's up here?" Sighed Maine's William Cohen, ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee: "We may just never know for sure...
...three Senate Republicans who signed the majority report are Rudman, Maine's coolly independent William Cohen and Virginia's Paul Trible, whose unrelenting pursuit of the arms-money trail surprised Administration loyalists. But other Republicans felt the final product was, in Utah Senator Orrin Hatch's words, "too political." Claims Henry Hyde, the fiercely partisan Illinois Congressman: "The majority report is polemical in the extreme. It is impossible to sign." He argues that the report ignores what he believes was the true intent of the arms deals: to seek better relations with Iran. The majority report, in fact, cites various...
...Cohen concedes that in the weeks of hauling and tugging by the two committees' 26 members, much that was political got into the report. "Some House Democrats tried to put everything in the worst possible light." He told them, "You can make a point without pulverizing it." After dozens of drafts and revisions, a compromise was reached that was able to attract the three Republican Senators...
...Cohen credits the committee with having traced the arms-sales money, something neither the Tower commission nor the Senate intelligence committee was able to do. He notes that the committee discovered the "off-the-shelf" covert operations directed by North and revealed the extent of Administration efforts to fund the contras after Congress had refused further...