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...describing the bungled attempts by the NSC staff, using private citizens in amateurish bargaining to develop a dialogue with Iran and get American hostages released by selling arms to that outlaw nation, Shultz made no effort to conceal his scorn. "Our guys . . . got taken to the cleaners," he said. ". . . It's pathetic that anybody would agree to anything like that. It's so lopsided. It's crazy." At one point he was shown a chart found in North's office safe, outlining a way of using arms-sales profits to set up a privately controlled fund for covert operations. Disdainfully...
...better than 2 to 1 (64% to 28%), those surveyed disapprove of selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and also object (by 63% to 23%) to diverting funds to the contras. Moreover, 62% think it was wrong "for the Reagan Administration to conceal its secret operations in Iran and Nicaragua from the Congress." But most respondents are also cynical about the congressional hearings: 57% say the proceedings are motivated more by politics than by the evidence...
...Nields managed to sketch some broader themes than North's more limited view of how a democracy functions. Nields pounced on North's complaint that his contra support role had been publicized in Moscow, Havana and Managua. "All our enemies knew it," replied Nields solemnly, "and you wanted to conceal it from the United States Congress...
...adversely affect the profession's service orientation. ((We)) commend the spirit of public service with which the profession of law is practiced . . . But we find the postulated connection between advertising and the erosion of true professionalism to be severely strained. At its core, the argument presumes that attorneys must conceal from themselves and from their clients the real-life fact that lawyers earn their livelihood at the bar. We suspect that few attorneys engage in such self-deception...
...then you do very tough negotiations, watching at each stage that everything you do is verifiable. You don't take anything on trust. The Soviet Union is a closed society and it's much bigger than the United States, so it would be much easier for them to conceal things...