Word: congressmen
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...American-made F-4 jets and helicopters sailed from northern Italy to Israel. The cargo was transferred to a plane carrying Israeli-supplied Hawk antiaircraft missiles for shipment to Iran. The plane was provided by Southern Air Transport, formerly a CIA proprietary airline. CIA Director William Casey told Congressmen two weeks ago that he had approved the use of the plane but thought that the cargo would be oil-drilling parts. As it turns out, the shipment was returned to Israel in February for unknown reasons...
...Administration rather than forced out by the courts -- but they were there just the same. Once again there were rumors of documents being destroyed (by North and Poindexter). Once again the White House was resisting demands for a special prosecutor (now called independent counsel) put forth by Congressmen who did not trust the Administration to investigate itself. Once again congressional hearings were getting ready to launch upon their unknown and potentially damaging course. Worst of all, there was a revival, before last Tuesday's press briefing was over, of the quietly poisonous question so well remembered from 1973: "What...
...early explanations of the rationale and methodology of the shipments convinced hardly anyone. Briefings of the Senate and House intelligence committees by Poindexter, CIA Director William Casey and other officials on Friday, Nov. 21, failed to dispel congressional feelings that the full story had still not come out. The Congressmen did not know that Meese shared their opinion. The day before the briefings, Meese called his assistant, Charles Cooper, into his office for a long review of legal issues that Congressmen might raise. The more they studied what the Administration officials proposed to say, the more Meese became convinced that...
...over Washington last week there was a sickening feeling of "here we go again," a dread of another orgy of public self-flagellation, of deepening public suspicion that might undermine all governmental authority. Nor was that foreboding confined to the Administration's allies. Journalists could sense among those Congressmen most determined to investigate the Iran-contra scandal an unspoken fear of where the investigations might lead, a kind of silent prayer that it would not once again be straight into the Oval Office...
...Washington, Congressmen raised questions about the need for new regulation of the securities industry and promised lengthy hearings on the insider- trading issue. A more aggressive response came from Angelo Oriolo, 66, a retired businessman from Pennsville, N.J., who last week filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. district court against Boesky and others implicated in the ^ scandal. Oriolo alleged that he had been injured financially in September 1985 when he sold 100 shares of General Foods stock. According to the SEC's complaint against Boesky, he made illegal profits from insider trading on General Foods. The Oriolo lawsuit...