Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many ways, Baker's tenure at the White House was a strange interlude. He succeeded the tyrannical Donald Regan at the height of the Iran-contra scandal. With his easygoing manner and lack of administrative experience, Baker at first seemed an odd choice for the job. But his steady, conciliatory style proved to be perfectly suited to restoring stability in a besieged Administration...
...tries to ensure a fair trial for the four Iran-contra defendants, Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell has criticized the congressional committees that investigated the affair for vastly complicating his chore. The committees "were interested much more in what the President knew," Gesell growled last month. "They were chasing a rabbit they never caught." Last week he hinted that some of the smaller quarry -- Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim -- may also elude the criminal snares set by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...
North, Poindexter, and two businessmen--Richard Secord and Albert Hakim--are charged in a 23-count indictment with conspiring to illegally divert profits from sale of arms to Iran to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Other counts involve obstruction of presidential and congressional investigations of the Iran-Contra affair, and theft of U.S. government property...
Beckler said the Iran-Contra case, unlike Watergate, saw the public exposed to massive amounts of information from Congress and the Reagan administration that would not be admissible at trial...
...result of the plan, the Contra rebels and the Sandinistas government agreed to cease fire early this year, and they are engaged in negotiations. Additionally, the Nicaraguan government has allowed the previously shut down newspaper La Prensa to begin publishing again...