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...breaks for the rich and whose club affiliations include Yale's elite Skull and Bones society. There are few better national symbols of wealth and privilege than our president. And Bush still refuses to clarify his role in the best example of governmental lawlessness in the 1980s--the Iran-contra scandal...
...panel had heard allegations that as deputy director of the agency under William Casey, Gates ignored intelligence reports that did not conform to the political aims of the Reagan Administration. Also, some witnesses claimed that he may have misled Congress about his knowledge of the Iran-contra affair, a charge that Gates denied. Although some Senators shared Democrat Howard Metzenbaum's skepticism about the nominee's "uncanny ability to forget key events," those doubts were not enough to sink him. The full Senate, seeking to avoid another bruising fight over a presidential appointment, is expected to confirm Gates...
...doing in 20 years. But journalists aren't that normal -- and besides, how could Barrett Seaman have known in October 1971 that he would spend his 20th anniversary with our company in rural Wise County, Va., watching Oliver North, the ramrod Marine who mesmerized America during the 1987 Iran-contra hearings, campaign for Republican candidates? But for Barry, who excerpted North's autobiography, Under Fire, for this week's issue, getting a close-up look at the author in action was critical to understanding his enduring appeal. "We've all forgotten Olliemania," he says. "Liberals dismiss North as part...
That was the consensus view at the close of Watergate. Now, as the Iran-contra proceedings grind toward an end, it is less apparent. There was a moment of honor during the congressional debate at the time of the Gulf War. But as we survey the moral and political debris of the past three months, only a fool or a professional optimist could rejoice in such a consensus surrounding Thomas. What went wrong...
Among the personalities at the well-attended symposium were Arthur Liman, U.S. Senate counsel for the Iran-Contra hearings and legal adviser to convicted junkbond king Michael Milken. Assistant Professor of Law Charles J. Olgetree, who advised Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill at the Senate confirmation hearings last week, attended as well...