Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Howard Baker, President Reagan's newly-appointed chief of staff should move quickly to control the damage from the Iran-Contra affair, a panel of four former White House officials said last night at the Kennedy School...
After an event like Watergate or the Iran-Contra affair, there is a tendency for critics to lay the blame on the White House organization, said Richard B. Cheney, who, when he was chief of staff to President Ford, was critical of his low-key approach to government in the post-Watergate...
Several former White House officials said last night that the 1988 Presidential campaign will hinge on how President Reagan and his new chief of staff handle the damage of the Iran-Contra affair...
...question of contra support, however, poses a different problem. It asks / whether the U.S. has the right to support a 15,000-man peasant army that wants to overthrow its own government. That army believes that its country has been taken over by Leninists who have shut down the opposition, destroyed a free press, repressed the church and run a secret police "advised" by Cubans and East Germans. As the President of Costa Rica put it, the "Nicaraguan people . . . have fought so hard to get rid of one tyrant, one dictator, and seven years later they have nine...
...melancholy moment in the Reagan Administration. The old magic is gone forever, lost not so much to a single shock, the Iran-contra affair, as to the thousand and one arrows that constantly assail leaders, causing them to falter as the wounds accumulate. The Reagan nerve ends, so exquisitely conditioned by the long years of struggling to get to the top, are dulled by the isolation and the sycophancies of ultimate power...