Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-contra fiasco and Bork's defeat in the Senate have given the President strong incentive to play up the significance of the forthcoming agreement. Add the stock market instability, and the President's last claim to fame is in jeopardy. So Reagan has abandoned his avowed realism in order to distort the agreement's utility...
...Cloud, TIME's deputy Washington bureau chief. "Reporters usually follow the news. You've worked it out so that the news follows you." Indeed, no sooner had Cloud taken on the job in June than the biggest stories of the year rushed out to welcome him, including the Iran-contra hearings and the stock-market crash. With Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, Cloud was responsible for deploying 17 correspondents to cover those events, as well as the unfolding 1988 presidential sweepstakes...
WASHINGTON--The congresssional Iran-Contra investigating committees approved the final draft of their report on the affair yesterday as House Republicans unanimously voted against it and voiced complaints that it is laced with "unsupported conclusions and innuendoes...
...also complained that at least, by implication, the report accuses the administration of a "cover up" after initial disclosures that money from secret arms sales to Iran was slated for diversion to Nicaragua's Contra rebels...
...dangerous invitation to its students to commit acts of racial harassment with ever greater intensity until they find the limits of impunity" (The Crimson, October 13). Here at Harvard it is anti-racist and anti-imperialist protestors who are punished, while apartheid ministers like Duke Kent-Brown and contra murders like Adolfo Calero who are welcomed with open arms. Following last year's protest of arch-racist South African vice-consul Kent-Brown, 14 students were placed on probation. While the administration makes a frontal assault on antiracist protestors, their message to racists is "play ball...