Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Iran-contra fiasco, the President moved last week to head off congressional efforts to restrict his power to conduct covert activities. In a formal announcement made in the Oval Office on Friday, Reagan promised that he would notify Congress of such initiatives within 48 hours, barring the "most exceptional circumstances...
...public hearings this week will give the White House relief from the almost daily battering of adverse headlines and dramatic TV testimony. But the damage inflicted on Reagan's credibility and his conduct of foreign policy cannot be readily repaired by a few motorcades down the main streets of mid-America. Any President heading into his waning months and faced with a hostile Congress would have an uphill struggle against becoming irrelevant. The nation's living-room view of the strange doings in the Oval Office adds to Reagan's burden...
...believe one way of assessing problems is through questionnaires sent periodically to tenants to evaluate the performance and conduct of their janitors. No tenant should have to tolerate the presence of a janitor who is unwilling to work for him/her. I have learned that there are tenants in other buildings who are dissatisfied with this janitor. We should not be compelled to solve our problems through Tenants' Unions...
...future relations with Iran. Casey and Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost worked out an agreement under which U.S. contacts with a "second channel" (a relative of a high-ranking Iranian official) would be used only for intelligence gathering and State Department officials rather than CIA operatives would conduct the conversations. Without telling Shultz or his deputies, Casey then went through Chief of Staff Don Regan to get the President to let the CIA retain an operational role in any policy toward Iran. Shultz termed this move "deceptive...
Afghanistan. One clear-cut case is Afghanistan, which Ridgway calls a "symbol of what is troublesome to the West about Soviet conduct." Gorbachev has proclaimed a desire to withdraw from what he called a "bleeding wound," and the Soviets have even hinted that a national unity government might involve inviting back King Mohammed Zahir Shah, deposed in 1973. Yet their highly publicized pullout of 6,000 troops from Afghanistan last fall was an ill- disguised sham. Other soldiers soon took their place. The crucial test is not whether the Soviets will agree to a cease-fire, which would merely ratify...