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...intervening forcibly in the affairs of foreign states. In that area, the agency's history has often been one of blunders and worse, from Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s through the Bay of Pigs fiasco under John F. Kennedy to the Nicaraguan war that led to the Iran-contra debacle in the '80s. Some longtime intelligence watchers are wondering whether a reinvigorated paramilitary wing of the CIA could be a mixed blessing for America once again. And the military itself is not too pleased. It believes its special-ops forces are perfectly equipped to handle these jobs. Defense Secretary...
...House, Cheney displayed a strong bent - atypical in that chamber - for Executive privilege. In the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress had moved aggressively to trim back presidential powers and expand its own. Cheney was opposed. In 1987 he was the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, which concluded that Ronald Reagan had overstepped his powers as President. Cheney's minority report was a full-throated rejection of that view...
...could be said of many of Cheney's ideological opponents today. He tends to disarm them by genially listening to what they have to say, even though they almost never change his opinion. "He doesn't have a mean streak," says Lee Hamilton, the Democrat who chaired the Iran-Contra Committee. "He deals with issues, not personalities. And he doesn't run to the cameras." Cheney's reputation during his days on the Hill was for blandness. In his book The Ambition and The Power, John M. Barry recounts the time a group of House members visiting the Soviet Union...
...cons. In 1996 Carlsbad, Calif., toy marketer Leslie Crouch packaged its components under the title It's Bunco Time!!! and started marketing it to women. Now, on any given night, groups all over the country gather together in what has become the female bonding experience of the moment. In Contra Costa County, Calif., women's bunco games rival bridge parties in popularity. In Garden City, N.Y., 10 new bunco groups have started in the past two years, with waiting lists of women eager to get in on a monthly game. Like reading groups, Tupperware parties and quilting bees before them...
DICK CHENEY Was: Wyoming Congressman Role: Friendly Iran-contra committee member Now: Vice President...