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...session with reporters that blended international affairs with the domestic presidential campaign swirling around him, the President confirmed anew that Vice President George Bush expressed reservations during the Iran-Contra affair. But he refused to say precisely what Bush had told...
...hoped Reagan would cut out the graft and corruption on Capitol Hill. But Reagan's buddies--Lyn Nofziger, Michael Deaver, Edwin Meese, and a couple dozen others--have been less than ethical. She wanted honesty in government--instead she got the Iran-contra scandal. She wanted a hands-on president--instead she got one who slept through Cabinet meetings and delegated decision-making to junior staff members...
George Bush is pledging to continue the "Reagan Revolution." Mom doesn't want four more years. And she doesn't think Bush is telling the truth about the Iran-contra affair...
Blandon outlined a series of deals and double-deals involving Central American conflicts. In 1985, he said, Noriega met twice in Panama City with Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, a principal figure in the Iran-contra affair. North asked Noriega, Blandon said, to train contra rebels in Panama at a time when the U.S. was forbidden by law to do so. Noriega agreed, Blandon said, though he was at the same time selling arms to Marxist insurgents in El Salvador. North could not be reached for comment...
...drug-trafficking operation that has spread corruption throughout Central and South America. The latest victim is Honduras, where top army officials are said to have developed close ties with drug dealers. The U.S. fears that the drug lords will undermine Honduras' status as a staging area for the contra war and a future democratic bulwark against Sandinista expansion...