Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shall be interested to read anything John Murphy writes about the issuing of pardons and the Iran-Contra affair. The connection between that subject, and Mr. Murphy's subject, is too obvious to need spelling...
...events that prompted the Irancontra scandal were illegal and undemocratic, said House Iran-contra Committee Counsel John Nields in a panel discussion last night...
Bush's weakest point on the drug issue may be his claim of ignorance about General Noriega's involvement in drug trafficking. On the subject of drugs, Bush is doing an Iran-contra have-it-both-ways tango. He boasts that he was a hands-on administrator of the antidrug efforts but was uninformed about Noriega's backhanded acceptance of drug money...
None of them has a commanding lead, although Inouye, 63, the no-nonsense insider who came to national prominence during the Watergate hearings, was once the favorite. But his fortunes fell last summer when his plodding, imperious handling of the Iran-contra hearings turned what should have been a Democratic triumph on national television into a showcase for Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. Inouye's standing slipped further in January, when he was found to have sponsored an unnoticed proposal to give $8 million to build schools for North African Jews in France. Even without these setbacks, Inouye...
Mitchell's stock has risen over the past year. During the Iran-contra hearings, he appeared judicious and intellectually rigorous. Under the glare of television lights, his wooden speaking style vastly improved. A Senator since 1980, Mitchell, 54, has been around long enough to have developed respect for tradition but not so long that he is inured to Senate logjams. "Tradition," he says, "ought not to be a justification for unreasonable delay and unconscionable deadlock," a sentiment that resonates loudly with the bloc of eleven freshmen Senators pushing a "quality of life" package to reform arcane Senate rules. As chairman...