Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A Senate committee investigating the Iran Contra affair could vote within three weeks on immunity for former White House aide John Poindexter, who--according to a published report--maintains he twice told the president that Iranian arms sales generated money for the Nicaraguan rebels...
...Tower commission, appointed by the president to investigate the Iran-Contra affair, said it found no evidence to dispute Reagan's contention that he had no knowledge of the diversion...
...this week's issue, Church wrote the lead story in our discussion of the Tower commission's findings. It is his 77th cover story in 18 years at TIME. "The Iran-contra affair is more sustained than any previous news event I've been involved in," says Church. "This will be the fifth cover related to the controversy that I've done in four months." In terms of writing, it presents a growing problem. "There is by now a very long and complicated public record that you must cite to put the new developments in context," says Church. "The question...
...press conference unfolded. National Political Correspondent Laurence Barrett tracked Nancy Reagan's conflict with Donald Regan. Correspondents Hays Gorey and Michael Duffy scoured Congress for reactions. Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst investigated CIA involvement. And Correspondents Alessandra Stanley and Ricardo Chavira concentrated on Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and the contra connection. "With all the details required for my stories," says Church from his New York City office, "I often wonder how the bureau ever manages to come up with the stuff we need." Then he grins. "But, you know, they always...
Weinberger praised the appointment of Frank C. Carlucci to head the NSC, and he said that William Webster's nomination for the top job at the CIA was "absolutely perfect." Both Carlucci and Webster will take over agencies implicated by Iran-contra controversy...