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...wildly successful Roberts campaign encounters a few obstacles along the way, the most successful of whom is Bugs Raplin (Giancarlo Esposito), a reporter for Troubled Times. Raplin uncovers a scandal linking Roberts, drugs, Iran-Contra and the HUD fiasco. The effect is to give this campaign comedy the elements of a suspense thriller...
Former CIA Director William Webster believes that most agency staff members have learned the lessons of the Iran-contra debacle, and is against retrying George on practical grounds. If punishment is required, he argues, Clair George has already suffered profoundly. If it's a warning to other CIA officials that is needed, the messa
BILL CLINTON DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO DODGE the draft, and George Bush was up to his neck in the Iran-contra affair. Assume these conclusions (as most people do) because available evidence and common sense effectively refute the candidates' denials. Now what? Leave aside the actions themselves; they are less troublesome than the dissembling designed to conceal them. Is one lie somehow worse than the other? Does one reflect more negatively than the other on a politician's fitness to serve as President...
...this campaign Clinton's obfuscations demand greater attention. Bush's lies, which stretch beyond Iran-contra and embrace the continuing distortion of his opponent's record and proposals, play a smaller role in determining our judgment of him; the President has a first-term record voters can consider. Clinton is another matter simply because he has yet to serve. We just don't know if the character flaw his dissembling reveals is a significant indicator of how he would govern or a jumble of white lies the country can safely ignore. So the search for clues continues...
Whenever George Bush is asked about his role in the Iran-contra affair, his standard reply is that he has said all there is to say. In fact, Bush has said little on the subject -- and much of what he has said is not true. A newly released memo by former Secretary of State George Shultz directly disputes a key Bush claim: that he had no idea Shultz and former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger had bitterly opposed arms deals with Iran. "It's on the record," says the 1987 memo, which recaps an angry telephone call Weinberger made...