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That mentality is one trial right at the moment, with Lt. Colonel Oliver North serving as the Eliot Ness stand in. After lecturing the congressional commitee for days on patriotism, Senator George Mitchell reminded him that others love America just as much as he does. Mitchell's point was that it is destructive to concentrate on labelling people as patriots or traitors, good men or bad. What is valuable is to understand what it means to love one's country, or to stand for justice. Such an understanding requires more complex thinking, but results in a more humane world...
Kattke, 38, a self-described anti-Communist and American patriot, had befriended a band of Grenadian exiles plotting to overthrow the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Seeking help in planning a coup, Kattke called on retired Army Colonel George Morton, an employee of the Vinnell Corp. in Washington, which for years has supplied military special training to Saudi Arabia. According to Kattke, Morton turned him over to Gadd, who was then working for Vinnell. But Kattke's coup plans were aborted when the Prime Minister was killed by his rivals in the government. When North began planning...
...became the "world' s most powerful lieutenant colonel" and a central figure in covert operations that in turn were a keystone of the Reagan Doctrine. -- On his route from all- American boy to reckless zealot, he always seemed to be the hero of his own movie. -- A look at Ollie' s army and his oddly assorted collection of private operators. See NATION...
...hamlet in the rolling hills of the Hudson Valley, about 30 miles south of Albany. His parents, Ann and Oliver Clay North, moved to Philmont shortly after World War II to help in the family wool-combing mill. North's father had won a Silver Star as an Army colonel in World War II, and he imbued his son with a fervent sense of patriotism. Family, God and country were the watchwords in the modest, yellow frame house on Maple Avenue...
...June of last year, in a memo to Poindexter about the contras, North actually seemed lost, demoralized. "What we most need is to get the CIA re-engaged in this effort so that it can be better managed than it now is by one slightly confused Marine Lieut. Colonel . . . At this point I'm not sure who on our side knows what. Help." Yet North seemed aware of the consequences of his actions. "He said it often enough and to everybody around him," says a colleague, "that if anybody was going to be a fall guy, Ollie North was going...