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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...
Reagan benefited considerably from Baker's stature on Capitol Hill. During the Iran-contra hearings, Baker helped keep relations between the White House and the Congress from getting too testy. After the crisis passed, Baker turned the President's attention to superpower relations, and was instrumental in ensuring Senate ratification of the INF treaty...
...Carlucci, who has been lobbying with a reluctant Congress to sustain the defense buildup, the scandal will make his task more difficult. Nor will it help Vice President George Bush, whose campaign for the Oval Office has already been saddled with the Iran-contra affair, implications of widespread impropriety among Reagan appointees and the investigation of Attorney General Edwin Meese. The Vice President could be further embarrassed by his close association with former Navy Secretary John Lehman. One of the principal targets of the investigation is former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems Melvyn Paisley...
...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...
...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...