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There was none of the crackling tension of Army v. McCarthy or Iran-contra, yet last week's hearings of the Senate ethics committee were almost as historic. Never before had five Senators faced the judgment of their peers in such a public tribunal. Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, the five were fighting to regain reputations earned in a lifetime of public service. Their common challenge, as described in the gravel tones of committee chairman Howell Heflin of Alabama, was to erase the perception that...
...Republican labels to repackage themselves as independents. Same soap, new box. Connecticut's Lowell Weicker Jr., a three-term G.O.P. Senator who lost his seat in 1988, made a name for himself as a party maverick who battered Richard Nixon during Watergate and stood up to Ronald Reagan on contra aid, Star Wars and tax policy. With their state in a recession, Connecticut voters were calling for change but looking for experienced leadership. Weicker took 40% of the vote...
EXCERPT: Big trouble with the Middle East and Iran-contra...
...together. Says Emilio Alvarez, a longtime friend of the Chamorro family's: "If she could reconcile her own family, she could do it for the country as well." Nicaragua remains in severe economic crisis, but so far Chamorro has stymied the Sandinistas with her motherly style. She ended the contra war in less than a month and quelled riots without bloodshed. "The Sandinistas are used to violence and confrontation," says Alvarez. "They didn't know how to react...
...both of them were beyond the reach of infamy. The 74-year- old Casey died of a brain tumor just before he was to face the Iran-contra committee. Presidential aide Michael Deaver wrote that the director thus became "the logical candidate to be fingered as the evil genius behind Iran- contra. The secrets would be buried with him. And the President would be protected...