Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House, the situation proved even more frustrating for Correspondent Barrett Seaman. "Just about everybody with any connection to Iran-contra matters is no longer working at the White House," he says. "Revisiting events from even six months ago is a bit like playing Where Are They...
Only 22% think North's actions in diverting Iran arms profits to the contras were legal; 58% say he acted illegally. Nevertheless, 69% answered no when asked whether North "should be sent to jail for his role in the Iran-contra matter...
...ears of our nation's leaders and businessmen that "anything's okay as long as you can get away with it." This attitude, which pretends that the government and social standards exist only when they 're convenient, is the same attitude that has led to both the Iran-contra and the insider trading scandals. Shocked at such blatant disregard of the law and professional standards of conduct, some of the nation's more liberal educators, such as Bok, have apparently joined Bennett and gang to call for ethical instruction by colleges and universities...
During 1984, after Congress cut off funds for the contras, North became obsessed with the men he referred to as freedom fighters. He kept a shoe box filled with pictures of contra leaders and talked about how he did not want to lose Nicaragua the way he saw the U.S. lose Viet Nam. North had been in the NSC longer than many of his superiors, and he began to believe in his own indispensability. "Being in the White House is heady," says a colleague. "You start carrying the cross by yourself, and if you don't do it, democracy falls...
...relishing the time at home with his three children and Max, the family's Labrador retriever. Like any suburban dad on a weekend, he can be seen cutting the grass and barbecuing in the backyard. During the day his wife Betsy keeps the kitchen television tuned to the Iran-contra hearings...