Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should tell your friend Oliver North to send arms to the good guys" in Beijing, quipped Boston Globe Publisher William O. Taylor '54 to Chief Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee Arthur L. Liman...
...tenor of Japan-bashing is often xenophobic, and can border on the racist. Two years ago, when Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who is of Japanese descent, chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
Hamilton epitomized the Democratic anguish. He starred with his morality lectures during the Iran-contra hearings and has continued to be a scold about virtue in public life. He has been oddly silent on Wright, his own leader, while admitting the questions he gets back home in his district are becoming more unsettling and more numerous. "Letting the process run," as he puts it to his constituents, obviously has its limits. We may be close this week...
Some questions are so fraught with political ambiguity that a criminal trial cannot answer them completely. One such conundrum: Who should be held accountable for the Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
Accepting defense claims that he was following orders from higher-ups, the jury convicts the retired Marine on only three of twelve charges in the Iran- contra affair. -- A TIME poll finds most Americans want a pardon for North. -- A coal strike in Virginia that would astonish John L. Lewis. -- The strange career of a top congressional aide...