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...should tell your friend Oliver North to send arms to the good guys" in Beijing, quipped Boston Globe Publisher William O. Taylor '54 to Chief Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee Arthur L. Liman...
...symposium was informal, and the alumni interjected jokes into the conversation, which spanned the protests in China, elections in Poland, the resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tx.) and the Iran-Contra affair...
...discussion of the Iran-Contra affair, the panel--which included President of the Ohio State Senate Stanley J. Aronoff '54--agreed that Lt. Col. Oliver North should be imprisoned for his role in the diversion of Iranian arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan contras...
...tenor of Japan-bashing is often xenophobic, and can border on the racist. Two years ago, when Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who is of Japanese descent, chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
Hamilton epitomized the Democratic anguish. He starred with his morality lectures during the Iran-contra hearings and has continued to be a scold about virtue in public life. He has been oddly silent on Wright, his own leader, while admitting the questions he gets back home in his district are becoming more unsettling and more numerous. "Letting the process run," as he puts it to his constituents, obviously has its limits. We may be close this week...