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UNDENIABLY, the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is a military mistake. Yet it is also an overpowering political necessity, a much-needed opportunity for the US to restore credibility lost in the Iran-contra affair. And so far America has met that challenge...
Woodward visited Casey in the hospital "and asked, almost rhetorically, whether he knew all along about the Contra diversion," the U.S. News & World Report article says...
...critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist, some evil Neanderthal, is going to be in deep trouble," says Republican Committee Member Alan Simpson of Wyoming. Many hopeful conservatives, remembering the turnabout in public opinion during the Iran-contra hearings, envision Bork as "Ollie North without the medals...
...prevent a replay of the surge in sympathy for North, Biden has ordered that the table for the committee members be placed at the same level as that of the witness. In the Iran-contra hearings, where the congressional members sat on a dais, the television cameras made it seem that they were lecturing and hectoring the witnesses from on high...
Talk of peace worries the U. S.- backed contra rebels. -- Libya loses a base and a plane in its war with Chad. -- Sad whispers in Cuba...