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Arthur L. Liman '54, chief counsel to the Senate's committee on the Iran-Contra affair and a Harvard Overseer, last night detailed the virtues and drawbacks of Congressional investigations at a Harvard Law School froum...
...contrast, Liman said, an effort was made in the Senate's Iran-Contra proceedings to reduce partisanship and deal with question of legality, not policy...
Seaman brings unusual qualifications to his latest assignment. As senior White House correspondent during most of Ronald Reagan's second term, he covered the Iran-contra affair, speaking often with North's colleagues in the West Wing and on the National Security Council. He never succeeded in cornering the elusive lieutenant colonel himself, although he did once glimpse the infamous paper shredder. Firsthand knowledge of the players did not prevent Seaman from being surprised by some of the revelations in Under Fire, however. One disclosure was the extent to which the late CIA director William Casey "ran" North, schooling...
...central Iran-contra figure says in a new book he is convinced: "Reagan knew everything...
...American soldier of fortune named Jack Terrell, who once worked for the contra rebels in Nicaragua, created a political storm in the Philippines last week when he implicated Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus in a bizarre plot to murder a handful of President Corazon Aquino's opponents, including rebel Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan...